Professor PAUL CRAWFORD's Outputs (48)

Multimodal analysis of stories told by mental health influencers on TikTok (2025)
Journal Article
Crawford, P. (2025). Multimodal analysis of stories told by mental health influencers on TikTok. Health Expectations, 28(3), Article e70226

• Background Social media influencers are powerful storytellers who function as conduits of public health communication and may contribute significantly to young people's mental health literacy. Influencers who discuss mental health include Health Pr... Read More about Multimodal analysis of stories told by mental health influencers on TikTok.

Creative Arts and Eating Disorders in Men (2024)
Book Chapter
Bartel, H. Creative Arts and Eating Disorders in Men. In P. Crawford, & P. Kadetz (Eds.), Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Health Humanities (1-10). Palgrave Macmillan

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.

Young People’s Trust in Cocreated Web-Based Resources to Promote Mental Health Literacy: Focus Group Study (2023)
Journal Article
Ito-Jaeger, S., Perez Vallejos, E., Logathasan, S., Curran, T., & Crawford, P. (2023). Young People’s Trust in Cocreated Web-Based Resources to Promote Mental Health Literacy: Focus Group Study. JMIR Mental Health, 10, Article e38346. https://doi.org/10.2196/38346

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)
Journal Article
Sather, E. W., Iversen, V. C., Svindseth, M. F., Crawford, P., & Vasset, F. (2022). Exploring sustainable care pathways - a scoping review. BMC Health Services Research, 22, Article 1595. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-022-08863-w

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)
Journal Article
Shariff, N., Wright, N., & Crawford, P. (2022). The Mental Health Benefits of Religion and Spirituality in People Living With Bipolar Disorder in Malaysia. Malaysian Journal of Medicine and Health Sciences, 18(Supplement 19), 55-59. https://doi.org/10.47836/mjmhs.18.s19.9

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)
Journal Article
Shariff, N., Wright, N., & Crawford, P. (2022). “I Need Help”: A Study of Spiritual Distress Among People Diagnosed With Bipolar Disorder in Malaysia. Malaysian Journal of Medicine and Health Sciences, 18(Supplement 19), 38-42. https://doi.org/10.47836/mjmhs.18.s19.6

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)
Journal Article
Pearson, M., Allsopp, G., Bartel, H., Singh, P., & Crawford, P. (2022). Creative Long Covid: A qualitative exploration of the experience of Long Covid through the medium of creative narratives. Health Expectations, 25(6), 2950-2959. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.13602

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)
Journal Article
Ito‐Jaeger, S., Perez Vallejos, E., Curran, T., & Crawford, P. (2022). Health Expectations Front Cover: Volume 25 Issue 4. Health Expectations, 25(4), https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.13575

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
Ito-Jaeger, S., Perez Vallejos, E., Curran, T., & Crawford, P. (2022). What's Up With Everyone? A qualitative study on young people's perceptions of cocreated online animations to promote mental health literacy. Health Expectations, 25(4), 1633-1642. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.13507

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)
Journal Article
Wang, J., Zou, R., Wu, N., Fu, H., He, Y., Crawford, P., Kane, E., & Dai, J. (2022). Depressive symptoms, social support, and health-related quality of life: A community-based study in Shanghai, China. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 113, Article 152292. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comppsych.2021.152292

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
Joyes, E. C., Jordan, M., Winship, G., & Crawford, P. (2021). Inpatient Institutional Care: The Forced Social Environment. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, Article 690384. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.690384

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
Ito-Jaeger, S., Perez Vallejos, E., Curran, T., Spors, V., Long, Y., Liguori, A., Warwick, M., Wilson, M., & Crawford, P. (2022). Digital video interventions and mental health literacy among young people: a scoping review. Journal of Mental Health, 31(6), 873-883. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638237.2021.1922642

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)
Journal Article
Crawford, P. (2021). Editorial Perspective: Cabin fever – the impact of lockdown on children and young people. Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 26(2), 167-168. https://doi.org/10.1111/camh.12458

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)
Journal Article
Fancourt, D., Bhui, K., Chatterjee, H., Crawford, P., Crossick, G., DeNora, T., & South, J. (2021). Social, cultural and community engagement and mental health: cross-disciplinary, co-produced research agenda. BJPsych Open, 7(1), Article e3. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2020.133

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.

Florence Nightingale At Home (2020)
Book
Greenwood, A., Crawford, P., Bates, R., & Memel, J. (2020). Florence Nightingale At Home. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46534-6

Discursive construction of the patient in online clinical cancer pathways information (2020)
Journal Article
Margrethe Aasen, E., Crawford, P., & Misund Dahl, B. (2020). Discursive construction of the patient in online clinical cancer pathways information. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 76(11), 3113-3122. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.14513

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.

Introduction: Global Health Humanities and the Rise of Creative Public Health (2020)
Book Chapter
Crawford, P. (2020). Introduction: Global Health Humanities and the Rise of Creative Public Health. In The Routledge Companion to Health Humanities. Routledge

Health humanities is a fast-growing field of research, education, and practice that has generated a more inclusive, democratizing and applied approach to arts and humanities in health care, health, and well-being. Its rise over the past thirteen year... Read More about Introduction: Global Health Humanities and the Rise of Creative Public Health.

Poetry on Eating Disorders in Men (2020)
Book Chapter
Bartel, H. (2020). Poetry on Eating Disorders in Men. In P. Crawford, B. Brown, & A. Charise (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Health Humanities (248-254). Routledge

Poetry and male eating disorders (2020)
Book Chapter
Bartel, H., & Baker, C. (2020). Poetry and male eating disorders. In P. Crawford, B. Brown, & A. Charise (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Health Humanities (248-254). Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

Literary texts—from autobiographies and novels to self-help books and poetry—that explore experiences of illness can give unique and poignant insights into the states of mind and lives of individuals affected by physical or mental ill health. This ch... Read More about Poetry and male eating disorders.