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The WWHIDE Framework (Web-based Workforce Health Intervention Development and Evaluation): developing a guide for workplace web-based trials (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Blake, H., Chaplin, W., Hassard, J., & Thomson, L. (2024, September). The WWHIDE Framework (Web-based Workforce Health Intervention Development and Evaluation): developing a guide for workplace web-based trials. Poster presented at 7th International Clinical Trials Methodology Conference (ICTMC) 2024, Edinburgh, Scotland

Snakes and Ladders: The experience of being referred to and seen by Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (2024)
Journal Article
Newman, K., Sayal, K., Ewart, C., Lang, A., Bhardwaj, A., Dubicka, B., Marshall, T., & THOMSON, L. (2024). Snakes and Ladders: The experience of being referred to and seen by Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services. SSM - Mental Health, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmmh.2024.100343

Background: Referral processes in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) have been reported as stressful and inadequate by young people and parents/carers, who struggle during waiting periods for the referral outcome decision. The Covid1... Read More about Snakes and Ladders: The experience of being referred to and seen by Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services.

The relationship between line manager training in mental health and organisational outcomes (2024)
Journal Article
Hassard, J., Dulal-Arthur, T., Bourke, J., Wishart, M., Roper, S., Belt, V., Leka, S., Pahl, N., Bartle, C., Thomson, L., & Blake, H. (2024). The relationship between line manager training in mental health and organisational outcomes. PLoS ONE, 19(7), Article e0306065. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0306065

Background: Line manager (LM) training in mental health is gaining recognition as an effective method for improving the mental health and wellbeing of workers. However, research predominantly focuses on the impacts of training at the employee-level,... Read More about The relationship between line manager training in mental health and organisational outcomes.

Line manager training and organisational approaches to supporting wellbeing (2024)
Journal Article
Dulal-Arthur, T., Hassard, J., Bourke, J., Roper, S., Wishart, M., Belt, V., Bartle, C., Leka, S., Pahl, N., Thomson, L., & Blake, H. (2024). Line manager training and organisational approaches to supporting wellbeing. Occupational Medicine, https://doi.org/10.1093/occmed/kqae051

Background Employee mental health and well-being (MH&WB) is critical to the productivity and success of organizations. Training line managers (LMs) in mental health plays an important role in protecting and enhancing employee well-being, but its rel... Read More about Line manager training and organisational approaches to supporting wellbeing.

More absence, but less impact on business performance. What can we learn from Swedish approaches to managing workplace mental health? (2024)
Report
Wishart, M., Roper, S., Belt, V., Bourke, J., Hassard, J., Blake, H., …Leka, S. (2024). More absence, but less impact on business performance. What can we learn from Swedish approaches to managing workplace mental health?. Enterprise Research Centre

Using employer-level survey data, this report compares how firms in England, Ireland and Sweden are responding to the challenges of workplace mental health. The three countries adopt very different approaches to the funding and provision of healthcar... Read More about More absence, but less impact on business performance. What can we learn from Swedish approaches to managing workplace mental health?.

Typology of employers offering line manager training for mental health (2024)
Journal Article
Blake, H., Hassard, J., Dulal-Arthur, T., Wishart, M., Roper, S., Bourke, J., …Thomson, L. (2024). Typology of employers offering line manager training for mental health. Occupational Medicine, 74(3), 242-250. https://doi.org/10.1093/occmed/kqae025

Background Mental ill health has a high economic impact on society and employers. National and international policy advocates line manager (LM) training in mental health as a key intervention, but little is known about employer training provisions. A... Read More about Typology of employers offering line manager training for mental health.

Disclosing non-visible disabilities in educational workplaces: a scoping review (2024)
Journal Article
Hassard, J., Yildrim, M., Thomson, L., & Blake, H. (2024). Disclosing non-visible disabilities in educational workplaces: a scoping review. British Medical Bulletin, 150(1), 23-41. https://doi.org/10.1093/bmb/ldae004

a sizable proportion of the working population has a disability that is not visible. Many choose not to disclose this at work, particularly in educational workplaces where disability is underrepresented. A better understanding of the barriers and fac... Read More about Disclosing non-visible disabilities in educational workplaces: a scoping review.

Delivering web-based workforce training interventions: the WWHIDE framework and key considerations for health research (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Blake, H., Chaplin, W., Hassard, J., & Thomson, L. (2024). Delivering web-based workforce training interventions: the WWHIDE framework and key considerations for health research. In INTED2024 Proceedings: 18th International Technology, Education and Development Conference Valencia, Spain. 4-6 March, 2024. https://doi.org/10.21125/inted.2024.1529

The workplace is an important setting for raising awareness of public health issues and delivering interventions to promote health and wellbeing of working-age adults. The role of employers in supporting the physical and mental health of their employ... Read More about Delivering web-based workforce training interventions: the WWHIDE framework and key considerations for health research.

Supporting employers and their employees with mental hEalth conditions to remain eNgaged and producTive at wORk (MENTOR): A feasibility randomised controlled trial (2024)
Journal Article
Prudenzi, A., Gill, K., MacArthur, M., Hastings, O., Moukhtarian, T., Jadhakhan, F., …Marwaha, S. (2024). Supporting employers and their employees with mental hEalth conditions to remain eNgaged and producTive at wORk (MENTOR): A feasibility randomised controlled trial. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, 31, Article 100720. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcbs.2023.100720

Employees with mental health conditions often struggle to remain in employment. During the COVID-19 pandemic, these employees faced additional stressors, including worsening mental health and work productivity. In 2020, as part of a larger programme... Read More about Supporting employers and their employees with mental hEalth conditions to remain eNgaged and producTive at wORk (MENTOR): A feasibility randomised controlled trial.