Checklist questions about chronic physical illnesses were then asked, followed by 2 questions about perceived physical and mental health, 2 questions about role impairments because of problems with physical and mental health, and the CIDI diagnostic stem questions. A subsample of respondents was ...
Mental health concerns are common, and various evidence-based interventions for mental health conditions have been developed. However, many people have difficulty accessing appropriate mental health care and this has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pand
Ensuring equity of access was a fundamental principle when the National Health Service (NHS) was introduced in the UK some 50 years ago. Despite numerous political and policy changes, this aim remains today. For example, following a number of years of Conservative-led governments, the incoming ...
“The last few weeks have been anxious and unsettling for everyone,” the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge said in a joint statement via Twitter on March 29. “We have to take time to support each other and find ways to look after our mental health. It is great to see the mental...
Farmers and those involved in the wider agricultural industry have a high suicide rate. They are also a ‘hard to reach’ group who make less than average use of mental health services. There is therefore a need to understand how best to develop interven
The mental health of healthcare professionals is reaching a breaking point, and the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated current mental health issues to unprecedented levels. Whilst some research has been carried out on the barriers that doctors face when s
mental health serviceslearning disabilityaccess to servicesequalityBackground 1 1. please could you change corrresponding author email from rohit.shankar@nhs.net to rohit.shankar@plymouth.ac.uk People with mild intellectual disability (ID) experience a higher prevalence of mental health (MH) problems ...
Here we investigate the drivers of health and economic costs in mental health conditions based on large-scale real-world health-systems data that capture information about the treatment pathways, duration and clinical outcomes for a range of interventions. We use data from the NHS Talking Therapies...
Academic pressure is a potential contributor to adolescent mental health problems, but international evidence on this association has never been synthesised. Methods We conducted the first systematic review of the association between academic pressure and adolescent depression, anxiety, self-harm, suicidality...
Peer Review reports Background Understanding and improving patient safety is a growing concern, particularly following the publication of the Institute of Medicine reports “To err is human” [1], “Crossing the quality chasm” [2] and the NHS’s “Organisation with a memory” [3]. These ...