Ian Cummins considers a recent systematic review on the threat of home eviction and its effects on health through the equity lens.
[read the full story...]Home eviction and health inequalities
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Peer support for physical health improvement: recovering ‘stolen years’?
Lucy Simons discusses whether peer support interventions can help to provide physical health improvements for people living with severe mental illness.
[read the full story...]Mental health support for children with learning disabilities
In her debut blog, Christine Burke from the Mental Health Foundation considers what good mental health support should look like for children and young people with learning disabilities.
[read the full story...]Migrant mental health may improve with children’s educational success
John Moriarty’s debut blog investigates a recent cross-sectional study looking at whether the mental health of migrant parents is supported by the educational achievements of their children.
[read the full story...]The apples and oranges of social relationships: what are we measuring and how?
Farhana Mann presents a helpful summary of a number of different tools that have been used in the study of social relationships, as they relate to health and social service use and cardiovascular outcomes.
[read the full story...]By place or by case? Service reorganisation at South London and Maudsley
Sarah McDonald explores the findings of a mixed-methods evaluation of the effects of an organisational intervention on secondary mental health care for common mental disorder.
[read the full story...]Social participation interventions for mental health: do they work?
In this blog, Ian Cummins looks at a study, which seeks to examine the effectiveness of particular forms of intervention that focus on social participation for adults with mental health problems.
[read the full story...]What influences physical and mental health-related quality of life for LGBT older people?
Sarah Carr explores a US study on what is associated with physical and mental health-related quality of life for older LGBT people.
[read the full story...]New ways to engage with research evidence: 6 top tips for #NPNR2015
André Tomlin presents his 6 top tips for engaging with research evidence, taken from his #NPNR15 talk at the 21st International Network for Psychiatric Nursing Research conference taking place in Manchester on 17-18 September 2015.
[read the full story...]Why does area deprivation affect people with learning disabilities and mental ill-health more than people without learning disabilities?
Mental health problems are common in the population of people with learning disabilities. Previous research has also found a strong association between social deprivation and mental health problems.
Here, Leen Vereenooghe looks at a study, which sets out to look at what impact living in deprived areas might have on people with learning disabilities accessing community psychiatric services.
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