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.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
The purpose of this update is to provide an overview of the breadth of research studies published from April 2017 to April 2018 on mobile-based interventions for mental health, with a special emphasis on smartphone-based interventions.. MPFT staff can use the OVID link, or you can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
Did you know our libraries stock board games? These are educational board games (sorry, no Monopoly or Cluedo!) that can be used by teams to teach important concepts.
We have two already available – The Infection Control Game, and The Sepsis Game.
In addition, coming soon are…
The Drug Round Game
Game of Stools
The Nutrition Game
The Communication Game
The Hydration Game
The discourse in healthcare Knowledge Mobilisation (KMb) literature has shifted from simple, linear models of research knowledge production and action to more iterative and complex models. These aim to blend multiple stakeholders’ knowledge with research knowledge to address the research-practice gap. It has been suggested there is no ‘magic bullet’, but that a promising approach to take is knowledge co-creation in healthcare, particularly if a number of principles are applied. These include systems thinking, positioning research as a creative enterprise with human experience at its core, and paying attention to process within the partnership. This discussion paper builds on this proposition and extends it beyond knowledge co-creation to co-designing evidenced based interventions and implementing them.
Treatment effects differ across patients. To guide selection of treatments for patients, it is essential to acknowledge these differences and identify moderators or predictors. Our aim was to generate optimal search strategies (commonly known as filters) for PubMed to retrieve papers identifying moderators and predictors of treatment effects.
Open access. Health libraries contribute to many activities of a health care organisation. Impact assessment needs to capture that range of contributions..
Lurking at the back of report like a dusty first edition in the back of a bookshop is a chapter entitled “List of items from previous volumes” and anecdotal evidence has suggested that many of our readers are unaware of its existence.
This is an often overlooked feature of Trip, so it’s about time I highlighted it.
Latest and greatest takes a topic and looks at the latest evidence for the topic and also the ‘greatest’ – by that, the articles that have been clicked on most for the last 12 months.
Welcome to the second in our series of posts about the work of the library team. If you thought working for the library meant just stamping books or reading all day we hope this series of posts will show you otherwise and also make you think about what we can do for you and your team.