A5071764681- Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Social Media in Health Education
- Social Media and Politics
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
- Focus Groups and Qualitative Methods
- Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
- Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Gender, Feminism, and Media
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Health, psychology, and well-being
- Psychiatric care and mental health services
- Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies
- Gun Ownership and Violence Research
- Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units
- Artistic and Creative Research
- Social Work Education and Practice
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
- Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse
Devon Partnership NHS Trust
2009-2023
Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry
2009
In this article we investigate the nature of problem presentation and responses on an online forum for young people who self-harm. Previous studies have raised concerns about peer encouragement self-harming behaviours in forums, analysis considers interaction a specific forum, ‘ SharpTalk’. This was research which explored potential communities to foster engagement shared learning between NHS professionals draws conversation methods study responses, advice given. Analysis highlighted both...
Objective To engage a group of people with relevant lived experience in the development text-messaging intervention to reduce repetition self-harm. Background Contact-based interventions, such as follow-up letters, postcards and telephone calls, have shown potential self-harm those who present at Accident Emergency departments. Text messaging offers low-cost alternative that has not been tested. We set out develop text-based intervention. The process is rarely reported little known about...
Older people admitted to hospital in an emergency often have prolonged inpatient stays that worsen their outcomes, increase health-care costs, and reduce bed availability. Growing evidence suggests the biopsychosocial complexity of problems, which include cognitive impairment, depression, anxiety, multiple medical illnesses, care needs resulting from functional dependency, prolongs by making treatment less efficient planning post-discharge more difficult. We aimed assess effects enhancing...
The internet is widely used for health information and support, often by vulnerable people. Internet-based research raises both familiar new ethical problems researchers ethics committees. While guidelines internet-based are available, it unclear to what extent committees use these. Experience of gaining approval a UK study (SharpTalk), involving discussion groups with young people who self-harm professionals described. During review, unsurprisingly, concerns were raised about the...
Aims and method To explore what young people who self-harm think about online discussion forums. SharpTalk was set up to facilitate shared learning between health professionals self-harm. We extracted themes illustrative statements from the asked participants rate statements. Results Of 77 participated in forum, 47 completed questionnaire. They said they learned more mental issues forums than information sites, found it easier talk strangers family or friends, preferred face-to-face on...
In this article we explore how young adults became members and sustained membership in an online self-harm support forum, SharpTalk. We take a discursive approach to consider resources people used establish themselves, others responded their attempts, categories were developed applied. Participants displayed expectations about appropriate ways of discussing self-harm, responses advice. New posters made reference other sites, provided biomedicalized narratives “story,” asked for help...
Background: Researchers using forums and online focus groups need to ensure they are safe tools make best use of the data. We explored metrics that would allow better forum management more effective analysis participant contributions.
Abstract Background Online communities are known to break down barriers between supposed experts and non‐experts promote collaborative learning ‘radical trust’ among members. Young people who self‐harm report difficulties in communicating with health professionals, vice versa . Aim We sought bring these two groups together online see how well they could communicate each other about its management, whether agree on what constituted safe relevant advice. Methods allocated 77 young aged 16–25...
Little is known about where suicides take place. We collected data from coroners' files on all and undetermined deaths in one large English county 2000 to 2004. The show that >30% of occurred public places. A quarter these involved jumping a height nearly car exhaust poisoning. Several sites were associated with multiple methods suicide. Identifying managing high-risk locations should be an important part overall suicide prevention strategy best tackled at local level.
Background Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder was previously seen as a childhood developmental disorder, so adult mental health services were not set up to support attention patients who became too old for child services. To our knowledge, this is the first in-depth study of transition from in UK. Objectives Our objectives explore how many young people with are need an adult, what available and stakeholders experience Design An interactive mixed-method design adopted three streams: (1)...
Within a context of concern about inappropriate advice-giving online, we examined how young people who self-harm behave and professionals might engage with them. We use Discourse Analysis to focus on participant interactions (posts) from forum’s crisis/support rooms, highlight the prevalence disclaimers, hedges, questions tags in people’s online interactions. concept facework as framework help understand forum SharpTalk. The findings demonstrate range mitigation devices, suggest that...
Professionals are interested in using e-health but implementation of new methods is slow. Barriers to include the need for training and limited awareness or experience. Research may not always convince mental health professionals (MHPs). Adding 'voice' service users (MHSUs) collaborative learning help. Involving MHSUs face-face education can be difficult. We had previously been unable engage MHPs online discussion with MHSUs. Here we assessed feasibility short courses involving MHPs.We ran...
This study set out to investigate whether there were disparities in service provision for people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities compared White British (WB) within a primary care led dementia the UK. Data extracted 30 cases three BAME (African-Caribbean, South Chinese) who had been referred between April 2016 December 2017. We then data WB matched gender, age (within 5 years) General Practitioner surgery. both samples around assessment, diagnosis post-diagnostic...
There is growing evidence that activities in nature could meet both health and conservation goals. Consequently, there interest collaborations between organizations. However, interdisciplinary teamwork risk failing through lack of common understanding awareness desired outcomes. For this project a multidisciplinary team was established used case study collaboration major organization to examine perceptions assess the interventions by people sectors. We found broad overlap nature. tendency...
Abstract Timely interventions have a proven benefit for people experiencing psychotic illness. One bottleneck to accessing timely is the referral process specialist team early psychosis (STEP). Many general practitioners lack awareness or confidence in recognising symptoms state. Additionally, referrals without apparent symptoms, although beneficial at population level, lead excessive workload STEPs. There clear unmet need accurate stratification of STEPs users and healthy cohorts. Here we...
Timely interventions have a proven benefit for people experiencing psychotic illness. One bottleneck to accessing timely is the referral process specialist team early psychosis (STEP). Many general practitioners lack awareness or confidence in recognising symptoms state. Additionally, referrals without apparent symptoms, although beneficial at population level, lead excessive workload STEPs. There clear unmet need accurate stratification of STEPs users and healthy cohorts. Here we propose...
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