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Improving usability of Electronic Health Records in a UK Mental Health setting: a feasibility study
(2022-06)Electronic Health Records (EHRs) can help clinicians to plan, document and deliver care for patients in healthcare services. When used consistently, EHRs can advance patient safety and quality, and reduce clinician’s ... -
Vitruvian plot: a visualisation tool for multiple outcomes in network meta-analysis
(2022-05)Objective A network meta-analysis (NMA) usually assesses multiple outcomes across several treatment comparisons. The Vitruvian plot aims to facilitate communication of multiple outcomes from NMAs to patients and ... -
The social networks of hospital staff: A realist synthesis
(2022-05)Objectives: The social ties people have with one another are known to influence behaviour, and how information is accessed and interpreted. It is unclear, however, how the social networks that exist in multi-professional ... -
Mental health and wellbeing among Egyptian medical students: a cross-sectional study
(2022-04)Medical students are prone to experience high levels of stress during their studies, which can lead to burnout and mental health disorders such as anxiety and depression, that can affect their academic performance and ... -
Synthesizing cross-design evidence and cross-format data using network meta-regression
(2022-03)In network meta-analysis (NMA), we synthesize all relevant evidence about health outcomes with competing treatments. The evidence may come from randomized controlled trials (RCT) or non-randomized studies (NRS) as individual ... -
Reflecting Team Practices outside the therapy room: A thematic analysis of a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) away-day process with a team undergoing change
(2022-03)This paper evaluates whether Reflecting Team Practices (RTP) are a helpful tool to a team (i) undergoing change and (ii) to facilitate staff being heard across the hierarchy. We hypothesised that RTP would enable staff to ... -
A Systematic Review of the Reporting Quality of Observational Studies That Use Mediation Analyses
(2022-02)Mediation analysis is a common statistical method used to investigate mechanisms of health exposure and interventions. The reporting quality of mediation studies used in randomised controlled trials has been considered ... -
Implementation of significant mental health service change: perceptions and concerns of a mental health workforce in the context of transformation
(2022-02)Purpose – As part of an evaluation of the nationally mandated Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS)“transformation” in one foundation NHS trust, the authors explored the experiences of mental health staff ... -
Wellbeing, psychiatric morbidity and psychological distress amongst medical students in Denmark
(2022-02)Medical students in Denmark undertake a demanding 6-year course which is generally during a critical age for the development of psychiatric disorder and harmful substance or alcohol use behaviours. Previous literature has ... -
Validation of UK Biobank data for mental health outcomes: A pilot study using secondary care electronic health records
(2022-02)UK Biobank (UKB) is widely employed to investigate mental health disorders and related exposures; however, its applicability and relevance in a clinical setting and the assumptions required have not been sufficiently and ... -
Promoting inclusivity by ensuring that all patients with mental health issues are offered research opportunities in the NHS
(2022-01)Research-active clinical services have lower mortality rates and produce higher quality care outcomes, however, recruiting participants to clinical research in the National Health System (NHS) remains challenging.1 A recent ... -
Debate: If not us, then who?
(2022-02)Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists have stressful jobs and huge caseloads, and are ideally placed to play an influential and meaningful role in responding to 'the biggest global health threat of the 21st Century': the ... -
Closing the circle: a key collaborative opportunity for general practice and psychiatry
(2021-11)Two of the authors were general practitioners (GPs) in the 1980s, when there was much interest in consultation, stimulated by the psychoanalyst Michael Balint. Around one in five psychiatrists worked in consultation ... -
A descriptive study of mental health and burnout among Nigerian medical students
(2021-11)Increasing attention is being paid to medical students’ mental wellbeing globally due in part to their exposure to stressors inherent in medical education and the numerous reports of elevated rates of mental health conditions ... -
Burden of cancer trial participation: A qualitative sub-study of the INTERIM feasibility RCT
(2021-11)A qualitative sub-study was carried out within a larger phase II feasibility trial, to identify and describe the burden experienced by advanced melanoma patients participating in a clinical trial and the factors affecting ... -
Mental health and wellbeing of Indonesian medical students: A regional comparison study
(2021-11)Background:Our previous research found very high levels of burnout and mental health problems among medical students across Indonesia, in line with rates in many other countries. This study further analyses the data by ... -
Co-producing Human and Animal Experimental Subjects: Exploring the Views of UK COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Participants on Animal Testing
(2021-11)Preclinical (animal) testing and human testing of drugs and vaccines are rarely considered by social scientists side by side. Where this is done, it is typically for theoretically exploring the ethics of the two situations ... -
ROB-MEN: a tool to assess risk of bias due to missing evidence in network meta-analysis
(2021-11)Selective outcome reporting and publication bias threaten the validity of systematic reviews and meta-analyses and can affect clinical decision-making. A rigorous method to evaluate the impact of this bias on the results ... -
How to build a game for empirical bioethics research: The case of ‘Tracing Tomorrow’
(2021-10)It is becoming increasingly clear that the field of empirical bioethics requires methodological innovations that can keep up with the scale and pace of contemporary research in health and medicine. With that in mind, we ... -
Prediction models for child and adolescent mental health: A systematic review of methodology and reporting in recent research
(2021-09)There has been a rapid growth in the publication of new prediction models relevant to child and adolescent mental health. However, before their implementation into clinical services, it is necessary to appraise the quality ...