- Mental Health and Patient Involvement
- Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
- Family Caregiving in Mental Illness
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Qualitative Comparative Analysis Research
- Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Global Health Workforce Issues
- Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints
- Healthcare innovation and challenges
- Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management
- Management and Organizational Studies
King's College London
2022-2024
University of Huddersfield
2021
Recovery colleges were developed in England to support the recovery of individuals who have mental health symptoms or illness. They been founded many countries but there has little international research on and no studies investigating their staffing, fidelity, costs. We aimed characterise internationally, understand organisational student characteristics, budget.In this cross-sectional study, we identified all which exist. repeated a survey done for 28 countries. In both surveys, defined as...
Abstract Purpose Recovery Colleges (RCs) have been implemented across England with wide variation in organisational characteristics. The purpose of this study is to describe RCs terms and student characteristics, fidelity annual spending, generate a RC typology based on characteristics explore the relationship between fidelity. Methods All meeting criteria recovery orientation, coproduction adult learning were included. Managers completed survey capturing budget. Hierarchical cluster...
Recovery Colleges are a relatively recent initiative within mental health services. The first opened in 2009 London and since then numbers have grown. They based on principles of personal recovery health, co-production between people with lived experience problems professionals, adult learning. Student eligibility criteria vary, but all serve who use services, empirical evidence benefit. Previously we developed College fidelity measure preliminary change model identifying the mechanisms...
Recovery Colleges support recovery for adults with mental health problems, through coproduction and education principles. This study aimed to determine whether students at three in England were representative of service users.Gender, age, ethnicity, diagnosis, involuntary detention, inpatient admission extracted from clinical records. Data all user enrolled, those who had attended 70% a College course compared services caseloads, using chi-square goodness-of-fit tests.Clinical records...
Evidence suggests that the distinctive relational qualities of peer support-compared to clinical-patient relationships-can be eroded in regulated healthcare environments. Measurement fidelity trials support is lacking. This paper reports development and testing a index for one-to-one mental health services, designed assess principles characterise distinctiveness support.A draft was developed using expert panels service user researchers people doing support, informed by an evidence-based,...
During the COVID-19 pandemic, mental health problems increased as access to services reduced. Recovery colleges are recovery-focused adult education initiatives delivered by people with professional and lived expertise. Designed be collaborative inclusive, they were uniquely positioned support experiencing during pandemic. There is limited research exploring lasting impacts of pandemic on recovery college operation delivery students.
BackgroundRecovery Colleges (RCs) support the recovery of individuals who have mental health issues, using principles coproduction and adult learning. There has been little international research on RCs none investigating costs, staffing, or fidelity to these other principles. We aimed characterise internationally. MethodsWe conducted an observational study integrating two equivalent cross-sectional surveys, one within England in 2021 all countries 2022. included meeting orientation,...
Background: Acute crisis care is a difficult area in which to run randomised controlled trial.There interest alternative research methods.The setting of this project Mental Health Decision Units (MDHUs).They provide dedicated 24-hour facilities for enhanced mental health assessment, offering short-term support targeting people whom inpatient admission being considered with the aim putting treatment place.These have been developed response pressure on acute internationally.