Lucy Barrass considers a recent review, which suggests that understanding masculine norms is a key area for suicide prevention.
[read the full story...]‘Hearing Voices’ and self-help groups: hope and support for people who hear voices
Lorna Collins reflects on a systematic review exploring the benefits of Hearing Voices and other self-help groups for people with auditory hallucinations.
[read the full story...]Improving our understanding of the links between loneliness and mental health problems
Zuva Dengu summaries a review of longitudinal studies investigating the relationship between loneliness and new onset of mental health problems in the general population.
[read the full story...]Risk factors for suicide in men: new review highlights substance misuse, marital status and depression
Holly Crudgington summarises a recent systematic review and narrative synthesis of risk factors for suicidal behaviour in men, which finds that substance misuse, marital status and depression are the strongest risk factors.
[read the full story...]Involuntary psychiatric hospitalisation in children and young people: who is at higher risk?
Alice Wickersham summarises a recent review exploring the clinical and social factors associated with involuntary psychiatric hospitalisation. The review finds that intellectual disability, psychosis, risk of harm to self and/or others, Black ethnicity, and older adolescence were strong predictors of involuntary versus voluntary hospitalisation in children and young people.
[read the full story...]Bored on the ward: service user experiences of activities on acute mental health inpatient wards
Clair Le Boutillier looks at a recent qualitative review which asks what service users think of activities available on acute mental health inpatient wards.
[read the full story...]Involuntary admission for psychiatric care: a review of clinical and social risk factors
Alice Wickersham summarises a new systematic review and meta-analysis on the clinical and social risk factors for involuntary psychiatric hospitalisation, which has been published today in The Lancet Psychiatry.
[read the full story...]Social prescribing: we’re doing it more and more, but is there evidence that it works?
Stella Tsoli and Dafni Katsampa summarise a recent systematic review on the impact of social prescribing on service users, which suggests that social prescribing leads to improvements in health and wellbeing, health-related behaviours, self-concepts, feelings, social contacts and day-to-day functioning.
[read the full story...]Amphetamine-like stimulant use: what do we know about who uses them and how drug using careers develop?
Harry Sumnall considers a systematic narrative review, which looks at the individual, social and environmental influences that shape key phases in the amphetamine-like stimulant use trajectory
[read the full story...]Systematically characterising mental health recovery narratives? #RonR2019
Vanessa Yim writes her debut elf blog on a recent systematic review and narrative synthesis, which presents a conceptual framework of mental health recovery narratives.
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