This article is part of the Catalogue of Bias series. We present a description of verification bias, and outline its potential impact on research studies and the preventive steps to minimise its risk. We also present teaching slides in the online supplementary file.
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CPFT specialist clinical psychologist Dr Kate Nurser has conducted the first UK research on how storytelling can help the recovery of people who have experienced mental health challenges.
Over the last 12 months library staff have been working with link leads and nurse links to standardise the STAR link folders located on the wards. The link topics we have completed so far are: Safeguarding and Dementia, Nutrition, Pain, Infection Control, Resus and Medicines Management. We aim to work with link leads to get the remaining topics completed over the next few months. We also plan to start a 12 month review of the previously completed topics as well as helping to improve what is available online.
MeSH (full name Medical Subject Headings) is a controlled vocabulary that is widely used in medical information systems. We’re actively exploring using it in Trip as we believe it can significantly improve our search results.
As far as I can tell it will improve them for two main reasons. Firstly, it’ll improve our synonyms function as MeSH is great for that. Secondly, and this is the most exciting aspect for me, is that MeSH is hierarchical. If you do a search for arrhythmia that maps to the MeSH concept of Arrhythmias, Cardiac:
Maureen Dobbins is the Scientific Director at the National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools and last year gave a webinar on the ‘Rapid Review Guidebook’, here it is
The potential of smartphone apps to improve quality and increase access to mental health care is increasingly clear. Yet even in the current global mental health crisis, real-world uptake of smartphone apps by clinics or consumers remains low. To understand this dichotomy, this paper reviews current challenges surrounding user engagement with mental health smartphone apps. While smartphone engagement metrics and reporting remains heterogeneous in the literature, focusing on themes offers a framework to identify underlying trends. These themes suggest that apps are not designed with service users in mind, do not solve problems users care most about, do not respect privacy, are not seen as trustworthy and are unhelpful in emergencies. Respecting these current issues surrounding mental health app engagement, we propose several solutions and highlight successful examples of mental health apps with high engagement. Further research is necessary to better characterise engagement with mental health apps and identify best practices for design, testing and implementation.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
The information contained in these documents has been developed in conjunction with public health colleagues (who have started to use the Framework) to support others in using the PHSKF. It is envisaged that these tools will support individual workers and teams; employers; and education providers; assisting colleagues in personal, career, or workforce development.
The second annual report combining data and knowledge with information from other sources to give a broad picture of the health of people in England in 2018.
London’s Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust has created the post of clinical professor to help nurses develop research skills
‘Undertaking research is an area that we don’t develop during our clinical careers – and that’s to the huge detriment of ourselves and our profession,’ argues the new clinical professor in nursing at London’s Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust Fiona Nolan. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details.
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