All Outputs (42)

What’s up with everyone?’: The effectiveness of a digital media mental health literacy campaign for young people (2023)
Journal Article

Background: In 2021, the Arts and Humanities Research Council commissioned a mass-media mental health campaign called “What’s up With Everyone?” Here, innovative co-created messages were professionally storied and animated by an internationally recog... Read More about What’s up with everyone?’: The effectiveness of a digital media mental health literacy campaign for young people.

Young People’s Trust in Cocreated Web-Based Resources to Promote Mental Health Literacy: Focus Group Study (2023)
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Background: There is a pressing need to create resources to promote mental health literacy among young people. Digital media is one of the methods that can be used to successfully promote mental health literacy. Although digital mental health resour... Read More about Young People’s Trust in Cocreated Web-Based Resources to Promote Mental Health Literacy: Focus Group Study.

Exploring sustainable care pathways - a scoping review (2022)
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Background: Patients with mental health problems experience numerous transitions into and out of hospital. Aim: The review studies assessing clinical care pathways between psychiatric hospitalization and community health services. Methods: We used pu... Read More about Exploring sustainable care pathways - a scoping review.

The Mental Health Benefits of Religion and Spirituality in People Living With Bipolar Disorder in Malaysia (2022)
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Introduction: The taxonomy of spirituality is fraught with complexities in relation to mental health studies, due to contextual variables such as religion. While positive mental health outcomes have been reported by many studies in relation to spirit... Read More about The Mental Health Benefits of Religion and Spirituality in People Living With Bipolar Disorder in Malaysia.

“I Need Help”: A Study of Spiritual Distress Among People Diagnosed With Bipolar Disorder in Malaysia (2022)
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Introduction: Little is known about spiritual distress in people with bipolar disorder, where they are inclined to maladaptive coping. Given the contextual influence of religion towards Malaysians, this study is aimed at exploring the phenomenon of s... Read More about “I Need Help”: A Study of Spiritual Distress Among People Diagnosed With Bipolar Disorder in Malaysia.

Creative Long Covid: A qualitative exploration of the experience of Long Covid through the medium of creative narratives (2022)
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Background: Healthcare is witnessing a new disease with the emergence of Long Covid; a condition which can result in myriad symptoms, varying in frequency and severity. As new data are emerging to help inform treatment guidelines, the perspectives of... Read More about Creative Long Covid: A qualitative exploration of the experience of Long Covid through the medium of creative narratives.

Health Expectations Front Cover: Volume 25 Issue 4 (2022)
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The cover image is based on the Research Article What's Up With Everyone?: A qualitative study on young people's perceptions of co-created online animations to promote mental health literacy by Sachiyo Ito-Jaeger et al.,

What's Up With Everyone? A qualitative study on young people's perceptions of cocreated online animations to promote mental health literacy (2022)
Journal Article

Introduction: Adolescence and young adulthood are especially critical times to learn about mental health, given that 75% of mental health issues are developed by the age of 24. Animations have great potential to effectively deliver mental health info... Read More about What's Up With Everyone? A qualitative study on young people's perceptions of cocreated online animations to promote mental health literacy.

Depressive symptoms, social support, and health-related quality of life: A community-based study in Shanghai, China (2021)
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Background Depressive symptoms erode both physical and mental aspects of health-related quality of life (HRQoL). Social support (SS) may improve HRQoL through its direct effects or buffering effects. The association among depressive symptoms, SS, an... Read More about Depressive symptoms, social support, and health-related quality of life: A community-based study in Shanghai, China.

Inpatient Institutional Care: The Forced Social Environment (2021)
Journal Article

The landscape of mental health recovery is changing; there have been calls for a shift from the clinical expertise being the dominant voice within mental healthcare towards a more personalised and collaborative service that supports those in need of... Read More about Inpatient Institutional Care: The Forced Social Environment.

Digital video interventions and mental health literacy among young people: a scoping review (2021)
Journal Article

Background Mental health literacy is important as it relates to understanding mental illness, increasing help-seeking efficacy, and reducing mental illness-related stigma. One method to improve the mental health literacy of young people is a digita... Read More about Digital video interventions and mental health literacy among young people: a scoping review.

Editorial Perspective: Cabin fever – the impact of lockdown on children and young people (2021)
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This article debates the impact of the pandemic lockdown on the mental health of children and young people. It proposes that children and young people have been subject to the kind of psychological distress that has featured as the folk syndrome, cab... Read More about Editorial Perspective: Cabin fever – the impact of lockdown on children and young people.

Social, cultural and community engagement and mental health: cross-disciplinary, co-produced research agenda (2020)
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Background: There is increasing cross-disciplinary research on the relationship between individuals’ social, cultural and community engagement (SCCE) and mental health. SCCE includes engagement in the arts, culture and heritage, libraries and literat... Read More about Social, cultural and community engagement and mental health: cross-disciplinary, co-produced research agenda.

Discursive construction of the patient in online clinical cancer pathways information (2020)
Journal Article

Aim: To explore how the patient is constructed and socially positioned in discourses of web-based pathways information available to cancer patients in Norway. Design: Mixed qualitative and quantitative design, using Corpus-Assisted Critical Discours... Read More about Discursive construction of the patient in online clinical cancer pathways information.

Patients' perspectives on care pathways and informed shared decision making in the transition between psychiatric hospitalization and the community (2019)
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Rationale, aims, and objectives Patients with mental health problems experience numerous transitions into and out of hospital. This study explores former patients' views of pathways in transition between district psychiatric hospital centres (DPCs)... Read More about Patients' perspectives on care pathways and informed shared decision making in the transition between psychiatric hospitalization and the community.

The experiences of spirituality among adults with mental health difficulties: a qualitative systematic review (2019)
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Aims Despite an increasing awareness of the importance of spirituality in mental health contexts, a ‘religiosity gap’ exists in the difference in value placed on spirituality and religion by professionals compared with service users. This may be du... Read More about The experiences of spirituality among adults with mental health difficulties: a qualitative systematic review.

Characteristics of mental health recovery narratives: systematic review and narrative synthesis (2019)
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Background Narratives of recovery from mental health distress have played a central role in the establishment of the recovery paradigm within mental health policy and practice. As use of recovery narratives increases within services, it is critica... Read More about Characteristics of mental health recovery narratives: systematic review and narrative synthesis.

Mental health and the media: from illness to wellbeing (2019)
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The media are a main source of information about mental health for many people and an ever-growing body of literature is evaluating their coverage of the topic. To help keep track of such research, several comprehensive but now dated literature revie... Read More about Mental health and the media: from illness to wellbeing.

Stronger together: learning from an interdisciplinary dementia, arts and well-being network (DA&WN) (2019)
Journal Article

There is increasing interest in the use of arts and creative activity to enhance dementia care (e.g. Beard, 2012; Cowl & Gaugler, 2014; Young, Camic & Tischler, 2016), and to bring together and support professionals and those who use services, see Cr... Read More about Stronger together: learning from an interdisciplinary dementia, arts and well-being network (DA&WN).

Care pathways in the transition of patients between district psychiatric hospital centres (DPCs) and community mental health services (2018)
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Rationale, aims, and objectives: Patients with mental health problems experience numerous transitions into and out of the hospital. Primary care providers have mixed success in identifying and managing patients' needs. This study explores health pers... Read More about Care pathways in the transition of patients between district psychiatric hospital centres (DPCs) and community mental health services.