A5028675778- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units
- Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Family Caregiving in Mental Illness
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Mental Health and Patient Involvement
- Nursing education and management
- Multisensory perception and integration
- Healthcare innovation and challenges
- Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions
- Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts
- Breastfeeding Practices and Influences
- Face Recognition and Perception
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery
- Action Observation and Synchronization
- Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Traumatic Brain Injury Research
- Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
2019-2025
University of Warwick
2025
Mental Health Foundation
2021-2024
University of Reading
2017-2018
Background and aims In the United Kingdom (UK), Black South Asian women are less likely than White British to access support from perinatal mental health services, despite experiencing similar, or higher, levels of distress. This inequality needs be understood remedied. The aim this study was answer two questions: how do experience (1) services (2) care received services? Method Semi-structured interviews were conducted with ( n = 37), including four who interviewed an interpreter....
Background Family and friends (family carers) provide substantial support to those with mental ill health, often affecting their own well-being. Subsequently, family carers have recovery journeys. Research highlights numerous benefits of attending Recovery Colleges, but whether these apply for remains unexplored. Aims We aimed explore carers’ experiences Colleges across England, understand current provision how this might better include carers. Method Together lived experience researchers,...
Abstract Aims and Objectives To explore newly qualified nurses’ support needs their perceptions of online peer support. Background The experience being a nurse is stressful isolating. Support from colleagues peers can enhance competence confidence in nurses, improve well‐being aid retention. However, despite initiatives such as preceptorship, may remain unmet busy clinical environments. Online has potential to offer partial solution professional isolation, but there lack research into how...
Parent-infant social interactions start early in development, with infants showing active communicative expressions by just two months. A key question is how this capacity develops. Maternal mirroring of infant considered an important, intuitive, parenting response, but evidence sparse the first months concerning conditions under which occurs and its developmental sequelae, including clinical samples where infant’s expressiveness may be affected. We investigated these questions comparing...
Abstract Background Perinatal mental illness affects one third of new and expectant mothers. Individuals from ethnic minority groups experience higher rates health problems suicide rates. Despite this, women minorities—Black South Asian in particular—are less likely to receive support services the perinatal period. Healthcare professionals (HCPs) who have contact with during this period a unique perspective, their views may provide insights understand remedy inequality. This study aimed...
Background Maternity outcomes for women from certain ethnic groups are notably poor, partly owing to their not receiving treatment services. Aims To explore barriers access among Black and south Asian with perinatal mental health problems who did services suggestions improvements, map findings on the care pathway. Method Semi-structured interviews were conducted in 2020 2021 UK. Data analysed using framework method. Results Twenty-three interviewed, various identified, including limited...
Relationships are at the core of recovery, particularly in secure services where patients have usually had difficulties with authority figures and can mentalisation deficits. Early indications that avatar-based virtual world software may help facilitate communication emotional expression.To establish feasibility using a medium hospital, adjunctive to standard staff-patient interactions during clinical interventions staff activities including reflective practice training; explore patient,...
In the transitional period following registration, newly qualified nurses may feel socially isolated and easily overwhelmed by increases in accountability, workplace pressures psychological demands of role. Such experiences place them at risk burnout leaving profession.To explore nurses' support needs their an online peer intervention.Eighteen participated groups. After 3 months participants took part interviews exploring Eight one-to one were conducted between October 2019 January 2020....