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Assessing Diversity and Inclusivity is the Next Frontier in Mental Health Recovery Narrative Research and Practice (2023)
Journal Article
Kotera, Y., Rennick-Egglestone, S., Ng, F., Llewellyn-Beardsley, J., Ali, Y., Newby, C., Fox, C., Yeo, C., Slade, E., Bradstreet, S., Harrison, J., Franklin, D., Todowede, O., & Slade, M. (2023). Assessing Diversity and Inclusivity is the Next Frontier in Mental Health Recovery Narrative Research and Practice. JMIR Mental Health, 10, Article e44601. https://doi.org/10.2196/44601

Demand for digital health interventions is increasing in many countries. The use of recorded mental health recovery narratives in digital health interventions is becoming more widespread in clinical practice. Mental health recovery narratives are fir... Read More about Assessing Diversity and Inclusivity is the Next Frontier in Mental Health Recovery Narrative Research and Practice.

The Risks and Harms Associated with Modern Slavery during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United Kingdom: A Multi-Method Study (2023)
Journal Article
Such, E., Gardner, A., Dang, M., Wright, N., Bravo-Balsa, L., Brotherton, V., …Trodd, Z. (in press). The Risks and Harms Associated with Modern Slavery during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United Kingdom: A Multi-Method Study. Journal of Human Trafficking, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/23322705.2023.2194760

The COVID-19 pandemic has considerably affected global economies and societies, exacerbating existing social inequalities. This “syndemic” pandemic has placed people and communities affected by modern slavery and human trafficking at elevated risk of... Read More about The Risks and Harms Associated with Modern Slavery during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United Kingdom: A Multi-Method Study.

Effectiveness and implementation of interventions for health promotion in urgent and emergency care settings: an umbrella review (2023)
Journal Article
Adams, E. J., Morris, L., Marshall, G., Coffey, F., Miller, P. D., & Blake, H. (2023). Effectiveness and implementation of interventions for health promotion in urgent and emergency care settings: an umbrella review. BMC Emergency Medicine, 23, Article 41. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12873-023-00798-7

Background: Urgent and emergency care (UEC) settings provide an opportunity to prevent ill-health and promote healthy lifestyles with potential to screen and deliver interventions to under-served, at-risk populations. The aim of this study was to syn... Read More about Effectiveness and implementation of interventions for health promotion in urgent and emergency care settings: an umbrella review.

Understanding antenatal care use in pastoralist communities: a focused ethnographic study in Kenya (2023)
Journal Article
Barako, T. D., Spiby, H., Evans, C., & Konstantinidis, S. (2023). Understanding antenatal care use in pastoralist communities: a focused ethnographic study in Kenya. African Journal of Midwifery and Women's Health, 17(2), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.12968/ajmw.2022.0021

Background/Aims
The provision of high-quality antenatal care improves maternal and child health outcomes. Pastoralist communities face unique challenges in accessing healthcare associated with a nomadic, marginalised lifestyle, and have high rates o... Read More about Understanding antenatal care use in pastoralist communities: a focused ethnographic study in Kenya.

A Need for Grounded Mental Health Interventions to Reduce Cancer Stigma (2023)
Journal Article
Golbourn, L.-M., Colman, R., Uneno, Y., & Kotera, Y. (2023). A Need for Grounded Mental Health Interventions to Reduce Cancer Stigma. SN Comprehensive Clinical Medicine, 5(1), Article 114. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42399-023-01456-6

Nineteen million people were diagnosed with cancer, and almost ten million cancer deaths were recorded worldwide in 2020. The extent of cancer stigmatisation can be as prevalent as 80%. 24% of advanced cancer patients have been diagnosed with an anxi... Read More about A Need for Grounded Mental Health Interventions to Reduce Cancer Stigma.

Correction: Suzuki et al. Cross-Country Student Perceptions about Online Medical Education during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19, 2840 (2023)
Journal Article
Suzuki, T., Murayama, A., Kotera, Y., Bhandari, D., Senoo, Y., Tani, Y., …Ozaki, A. (2023). Correction: Suzuki et al. Cross-Country Student Perceptions about Online Medical Education during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19, 2840. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(7), Article 5330. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20075330

Who uses recovery colleges? Casemix analysis of sociodemographic and clinical characteristics and representativeness of recovery college students. (2023)
Journal Article
Bowness, B., Hayes, D., Stepanian, K., Anfossi, A., Taylor, A., Crowther, A., …Slade, M. (2023). Who uses recovery colleges? Casemix analysis of sociodemographic and clinical characteristics and representativeness of recovery college students. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 46(3), 211-215. https://doi.org/10.1037/prj0000532

Objective: Recovery Colleges support recovery for adults with mental health problems, through coproduction and education principles. This study aimed to determine whether students at three Recovery Colleges in England were representative of mental he... Read More about Who uses recovery colleges? Casemix analysis of sociodemographic and clinical characteristics and representativeness of recovery college students..

Ensuring quality healthcare practice for doctors and medical allied professionals through a digital interactive audit platform (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Papamalis, F. E., Cunningham, S., Hodges, P., Grochowska, A., Stefanowicz-Kocol, A., Poultourtzidis, I., …Bamidis, P. (2023). Ensuring quality healthcare practice for doctors and medical allied professionals through a digital interactive audit platform. In Proceedings of INTED2023 Conference 6th-8th March 2023 (5825-5831). https://doi.org/10.21125/inted.2023.1529

Internationally there are different requirements for measuring and monitoring health care practice and cross-border clinical placement. However, the quality of the clinical training settings has a significant impact on student experience and knowledg... Read More about Ensuring quality healthcare practice for doctors and medical allied professionals through a digital interactive audit platform.

Muss Rewind Therapy to alleviate symptoms related to some form of traumatic experience: A thematic analysis of participants' experiences and their perceived effectiveness of MRT (2023)
Journal Article
Hartford, L., & Horrocks, M. (2023). Muss Rewind Therapy to alleviate symptoms related to some form of traumatic experience: A thematic analysis of participants' experiences and their perceived effectiveness of MRT. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, https://doi.org/10.1002/capr.12644

Sometimes referred to as a memory reconsolidation treatment, Muss Rewind Therapy (MRT) is a brief psychological intervention which has shown promise in treating symptoms related to some forms of traumatic experience. This study aimed at adding to min... Read More about Muss Rewind Therapy to alleviate symptoms related to some form of traumatic experience: A thematic analysis of participants' experiences and their perceived effectiveness of MRT.

Learning analytics of TOTEMM virtual learning resources – transforming transnational intercultural sensitivity for midwifery students through an inclusive mobility model (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
PEARS, M., Henderson, J., Smit, A.-M., Van Oost, M., Borrelli, S., Walker, L., …Konstantinidis, S. .. (2023). Learning analytics of TOTEMM virtual learning resources – transforming transnational intercultural sensitivity for midwifery students through an inclusive mobility model. In Proceedings of INTED2023 Conference 6th-8th March 2023 (8021-8030). https://doi.org/10.21125/inted.2023

Equality, social inclusion, and participation of non-mobile midwifery students studying in England, Italy, Estonia and the Netherlands was of interest in this project. Five Virtual Learning Packages (VLPs) were created to address needs within materni... Read More about Learning analytics of TOTEMM virtual learning resources – transforming transnational intercultural sensitivity for midwifery students through an inclusive mobility model.

“We are experiencing pain on our own”: mental health care to prevail over impacts of cultural silence on HIV (2023)
Journal Article
Mwalabu, G., Evans, C., Redsell, S., Petruka, P., & Mapulanga, P. (2023). “We are experiencing pain on our own”: mental health care to prevail over impacts of cultural silence on HIV. International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare, 17(4), 463-474. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJHRH-08-2022-0089

Purpose: This qualitative case study aims to investigate how current services meet the emotional needs of young women growing up with perinatally acquired human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Young women (15–19 years old), caregivers and service provi... Read More about “We are experiencing pain on our own”: mental health care to prevail over impacts of cultural silence on HIV.

Eliciting Co-Creation Best Practices of Virtual Reality Reusable e-Resources (2023)
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Antoniou, P. E., Pears, M., Schiza, E. C., Frangoudes, F., Pattichis, C. S., Wharrad, H., …Konstantinidis, S. T. (2023). Eliciting Co-Creation Best Practices of Virtual Reality Reusable e-Resources. Virtual Worlds, 2(1), 75-89. https://doi.org/10.3390/virtualworlds2010005

Immersive experiential technologies find fertile grounds to grow and support healthcare education. Virtual, Augmented, or Mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) have proven to be impactful in both the educational and the affective state of the healthcare student’s... Read More about Eliciting Co-Creation Best Practices of Virtual Reality Reusable e-Resources.

Understanding living with tracheostomy ventilation for motor neuron disease and the implications for quality of life: a qualitative study protocol (2023)
Journal Article
Wilson, E., Turner, N., Faull, C., Palmer, J., Turner, M. R., & Davidson, S. (2023). Understanding living with tracheostomy ventilation for motor neuron disease and the implications for quality of life: a qualitative study protocol. BMJ Open, 13(3), Article e071624. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-071624

Introduction: Home mechanical ventilation can be used to manage symptoms of breathlessness and sustain life for people living with motor neuron disease (plwMND). In the UK, less than 1% of plwMND use tracheostomy ventilation (TV). This contrasts with... Read More about Understanding living with tracheostomy ventilation for motor neuron disease and the implications for quality of life: a qualitative study protocol.

Evidence-based Recovery Colleges: developing a typology based on organisational characteristics, fidelity and funding (2023)
Journal Article
Hayes, D., Camacho, E. M., Ronaldson, A., Stepanian, K., McPhilbin, M., Elliott, R. A., …Slade, M. (2024). Evidence-based Recovery Colleges: developing a typology based on organisational characteristics, fidelity and funding. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 59, 759-768. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-023-02452-w

Purpose

Recovery Colleges (RCs) have been implemented across England with wide variation in organisational characteristics. The purpose of this study is to describe RCs across England in terms of organisational and student characteristics, fidelit... Read More about Evidence-based Recovery Colleges: developing a typology based on organisational characteristics, fidelity and funding.

A longitudinal study of mental health in healthcare workers in Japan during the initial phase of COVID-19 pandemic: comparison with the general population (2023)
Journal Article
Kotera, Y., Liu, G., Colman, R., Young, H., Ozaki, A., Miyatake, H., …Tanimoto, T. (2024). A longitudinal study of mental health in healthcare workers in Japan during the initial phase of COVID-19 pandemic: comparison with the general population. Current Psychology, 43, 12934-12937. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-023-04444-0

The COVID-19 pandemic negatively impacted the mental health of people in Japan. Healthcare workers (HCWs) especially suffered from poor mental health, engaging with COVID-19 patients while protecting themselves from infection. However, a long-term as... Read More about A longitudinal study of mental health in healthcare workers in Japan during the initial phase of COVID-19 pandemic: comparison with the general population.

Designing a library of lived experience for mental health (LoLEM): protocol for integrating a realist synthesis and experience based codesign approach (2023)
Journal Article
Lobban, F., Marshall, P., Barbrook, J., Collins, G., Foster, S., Glossop, Z., …Jones, S. (2023). Designing a library of lived experience for mental health (LoLEM): protocol for integrating a realist synthesis and experience based codesign approach. BMJ Open, 13(3), Article e068548. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-068548

Introduction People with lived expertise in managing mental health challenges can be an important source of knowledge and support for other people facing similar challenges, and for carers to learn how best to help. However, opportunities for sharing... Read More about Designing a library of lived experience for mental health (LoLEM): protocol for integrating a realist synthesis and experience based codesign approach.

What’s up with everyone?’: The effectiveness of a digital media mental health literacy campaign for young people (2023)
Journal Article
Curran, T., Ito-Jaeger, S., Perez Vallejos, E., & Crawford, P. (2023). What’s up with everyone?’: The effectiveness of a digital media mental health literacy campaign for young people. Journal of Mental Health, 32(3), 612-618. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638237.2023.2182412

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.

Ethnic Minorities’ Experiences of Cardiac Rehabilitation: A Scoping Review (2023)
Journal Article
Carew Tofani, A., Taylor, E., Pritchard, I., Jackson, J., Xu, A., & Kotera, Y. (2023). Ethnic Minorities’ Experiences of Cardiac Rehabilitation: A Scoping Review. Healthcare, 11(5), Article 757. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11050757

Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) can improve cardiovascular risk factors, decrease cardiac mortality, and promote healthy lifestyle behaviours. However, services remain underutilized by groups of ethnic minorities. The purpose of the study was to identify... Read More about Ethnic Minorities’ Experiences of Cardiac Rehabilitation: A Scoping Review.

Experiences and understanding of apathy in people with neurocognitive disorders and their carers: a qualitative interview study (2023)
Journal Article
Burgon, C., Goldberg, S., van der Wardt, V., & Harwood, R. H. (2023). Experiences and understanding of apathy in people with neurocognitive disorders and their carers: a qualitative interview study. Age and Ageing, 52(3), Article afad031. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afad031

Background
apathy, defined as reduced goal-directed activity, interests and emotion, is highly prevalent in neurocognitive disorders (NCDs). Apathy has important consequences for the individuals who experience it and their carers, yet the lived expe... Read More about Experiences and understanding of apathy in people with neurocognitive disorders and their carers: a qualitative interview study.

Cross-cultural perspectives on mental health shame among male workers (2023)
Journal Article
Kotera, Y., Jackson, J., Aledeh, M., Edwards, A.-M., Veasey, C., Barnes, K., …Kirkman, A. (2023). Cross-cultural perspectives on mental health shame among male workers. Journal of Men's Health, 19(3), 65-71. https://doi.org/10.22514/jomh.2023.018

Globally, awareness of workplace mental health problems has increased rapidly. Employees need to be able to reflect on their wellbeing and ask for help if needed. Previous research has indicated mental health shame (or shame associated with mental he... Read More about Cross-cultural perspectives on mental health shame among male workers.