Mental health

School-based Evaluation Advancing Response for Child Health (SEARCH): a mixed longitudinal cohort study from multifaceted perspectives in Jiangsu, China

Background Schools play a crucial role in providing mental health services to children and adolescents. However, the vastness of the…

1 year ago

Relationship between severe mental illness and physical multimorbidity: a meta-analysis and call for action

Background People with severe mental illness (SMI) have a higher prevalence of several chronic physical health conditions, and the prevalence…

1 year ago

Tool to assess risk of bias in studies estimating the prevalence of mental health disorders (RoB-PrevMH)

Objective There is no standard tool for assessing risk of bias (RoB) in prevalence studies. For the purposes of a…

1 year ago

Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency

Over 200 health journals call on the United Nations (UN), political leaders and health professionals to recognise that climate change…

1 year ago

Count Me In: an inclusive approach towards patient recruitment for clinical research studies in the NHS

Background Participation in clinical research is associated with better patient outcomes and higher staff retention and satisfaction rates. Nevertheless, patient…

1 year ago

Predictors of transitioning to adult mental health services and associated costs: a cross-country comparison

Background Young people are at risk of falling through the care gap after leaving child and adolescent mental health services…

1 year ago

Brain capital, ecological development and sustainable environments

The importance of improving brain and mental health and developing sustainable environments is increasingly recognised. Understanding the syndemic interactions between…

1 year ago

Racialised staff-patient relationships in inpatient mental health wards: a realist secondary qualitative analysis of patient experience data

Background The current study is a secondary analysis of qualitative data collected as part of EURIPIDES, a study which assessed…

1 year ago

Adjunctive agents to antipsychotics in schizophrenia: a systematic umbrella review and recommendations for amino acids, hormonal therapies and anti-inflammatory drugs

Question This umbrella review and guidelines aimed to provide evidence to support the rational choice of selected adjunctive therapies for…

1 year ago

Individualisation, personalisation and person-centredness in mental healthcare: a scoping review of concepts and linguistic network visualisation

Background Targeted mental health interventions are increasingly described as individualised, personalised or person-centred approaches. However, the definitions for these terms…

1 year ago