In her debut blog, Pooja Saini summarises a recent qualitative study that explored access to care for older adults who self-harm. The blog contains some excellent recommendations for primary care professionals and policy-makers.
[read the full story...]#chatsafe: helping young people communicate safely online about suicide
In her debut blog, Zoë Catchpole summarises a recent qualitative paper about the Australian #chatsafe project, which outlines how young people were involved in the development of an online campaign to support conversations about suicide.
[read the full story...]Patients as “domain experts” in artificial intelligence mental health research
Simon D’Alfonso summarises an editorial by Sarah Carr, which places the patient as a “domain expert” in artificial intelligence mental health research.
[read the full story...]Involving consumers and survivors in mental health policy making
Andrew Shepherd explores a paper that makes him ask: Does the language and implementation of evidence based practice essentially risk excluding different voices from mental heath policy making?
[read the full story...]Psychosis and physical health: listening to patients and family carers
Shuichi Suetani and Sharon Lawn explore a recent viewpoint article on physical health problems in psychosis, which asks: Is it time to consider the views of family carers?
[read the full story...]The benefits and challenges of involving older people in health and social care research: a systematic review
Caroline Struthers considers a systematic review about the impacts of older people’s patient and public involvement in health and social care research.
[read the full story...]Patients included? Twitter impact at health care conferences
Amy Price considers the impact that patient participation can have at health care conferences: increased information flow, greater reach and impact, and deeper engagement in the conversation of tweets compared to physicians or researchers.
[read the full story...]Involving and engaging forensic service users in the research process
Laura Hemming summarises a literature review of how best to involve forensic service users in research, which highlights a number of issues specific to the forensic setting.
[read the full story...]What does patient and public involvement feel like?
Alison Turner explores a recent study of patient and public involvement in clinical commissioning, which found that PPI representatives are often uncertain about their role and how their contribution is used.
[read the full story...]Building RAPPORT between researchers and lay people
Lucy Simons highlights the RAPPORT study and the importance of strong relationships between PPI (patient and public involvement) representatives and researchers, which are seen to be essential for PPI to become normal practice in research.
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