Penelope Zoe Stavrou summarises a recent qualitative study exploring UK trainee doctors’ attitudes to mental illness among their peers and their access to support services.
[read the full story...]The rapid increase in global mental illness: fake news?
A group of UCL Mental Health Masters students summarise a systematic review and meta-analysis examining if the global prevalence rate of adult mental illness is increasing.
[read the full story...]Mental health research funding: we are still not getting our fair share
Louise Arseneault writes her debut elf blog on a new report published today by MQ Transforming Mental Health, which finds disparity between physical health and mental health research funding.
[read the full story...]Social care research and mental health: what lessons can be shared on #WorldMentalHealthDay2018?
Mike Clark considers what the fields of social care research and mental heatlh have to share and learn from one-another on #WorldMentalHealthDay.
[read the full story...]Digital inclusion: mental health technologies for people with learning disabilities #DigiMHweek
Leen Vereenooghe summarises a recent review paper that presents the state of the evidence and future directions for digital mental health and people with intellectual disabilities.
[read the full story...]Has Time to Change made it time to talk?
Aileen O’Brien publishes her debut blog on a recent study that explored the relationship between anti-stigma programme awareness, disclosure comfort and intended help-seeking regarding a mental health problem.
[read the full story...]Dual diagnosis guidance: money talks when it comes to drugs, alcohol and mental illness
Ian Hamilton shares his thoughts on the new PHE dual diagnosis guidance: Better care for people with co-occurring mental health and alcohol/drug use conditions.
[read the full story...]Quality of general hospital care through the liaison psychiatry lens?
Kirsten Lawson explores a recent study of liaison psychiatry professionals’ views of general hospital care for patients with mental illness.
[read the full story...]Ethics of digital technology for mental health: is this the end of the digital dilettante?
Mark Brown writes his debut Mental Elf blog about a recent paper that explores the ethical perspectives of recommending digital technology for mental health.
[read the full story...]Mental illness and emotional wellbeing: part of the same continuum?
Lucas Shelemy considers data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study which correlates mental illness with emotional wellbeing in children, and brings back some surprising results.
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