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The Internet and mobile technology are changing the way people learn about and manage their illnesses. Little is known about online mental health information seeking behaviour by people with psychosis. This paper explores the nature, extent and consequences of online mental health information seeking behaviour by people with psychosis and investigates the acceptability of a mobile mental health application (app).
Soon after the inception of the evidence-based medicine (EBM) movement in the 1990s, the evidence pyramid rose from the sand.1 As more evidence resources and resources for finding evidence were developed it became necessary to provide guidance on their use. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details
Online medical consultation has recently become a more and more popular alternative venue for healthcare. It allows patients and caregivers to discuss their health problems and symptoms with qualified medical health professionals via the Internet.
This article is a practical guide for psychiatrists who want to apply basic and straightforward statistics in their research. It describes ways of summarising data and provides an overview of statistical tests for comparing patients’ characteristics. Measures of association such as correlation and regression are also explained, along with principal components analysis, a method for reducing the dimensionality of data. Explanations are clarified using data from the published studies. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
Patients at Whitchurch Hospital now have the chance to relive some great memories thanks to the hard work of our volunteers.
A new Memory Corner has been set up in the Day Room at the hospital that features a range of old items, such as books, pictures and tins and other household items, most of which have been kindly donated by the local community.
You may have seen in the news in the last few days that Google has launched a new tool called 'My Activity' and if you have a Google account you can take a look at it. Basically it's a history come timeline tool that gathers together all of your activity online that Google can see.
Following Britain’s decision to leave the EU, right now in terms of copyright, it is unclear about what this will mean for us, our member organisations and UK users of copyright works through library, archive and information services.
Shropshire Libraries, working with Ignition CIC and Scrappies, has successfully bid to Arts Council England to run a summer creative arts programme for 11-14 year olds.
The programme, called “Picture This”, is offering a fabulous opportunity for young people to take part in two day workshops in the larger libraries throughout Shropshire during the summer break.
Shropshire Libraries is joining in an annual campaign to raise awareness about health information available to everyone in the UK, in the first full week of July 2016.
Libraries will use their Health Zones and displays to highlight their health and well-being information and resources about a range of health issues, during a week-long information campaign.
Healthwatch, NHS Future Fit and People2People will be running drop in sessions in Shrewsbury, Oswestry, Market Drayton, Bridgnorth, Whitchurch and Ludlow libraries which will benefit the public and staff by raising awareness of the resources that are available to them. For more information about these sessions please follow the link to https://new.shropshire.gov.uk/libraries/library-events/.
We suggest another way of looking at the evidence-based medicine pyramid and explain how systematic reviews and meta-analyses are tools for consuming evidence—that is, appraising, synthesising and applying evidence. Open Access Article
Mersey Care NHS Trust have saved the historic Carnegie building at the former Walton Library and transformed it into the state-of-the-art ‘Life Rooms Walton’, a new centre for learning, recovery, health and wellbeing.
The stunning new centre has retained the historic exterior while the interior has been extensively refurbished into a state-of-the-art centre which will revolutionise the way people recover from and manage their mental health. It will also serve the wider community of Walton with a variety of new and exciting services that challenges stigma and promotes positive mental health and wellbeing.
Leading mental health trust Mersey Care have also retained some of the popular library services for the local community at the much-loved building on Evered Avenue, off Rice Lane, Walton, which was opened in 1911, with the £8,000 cost being paid by Scottish-American philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.
The building has become available as part of Liverpool City Council’s reduction in library services and Michael Crilly, Mersey Care’s Director of Social Inclusion and Participation, said: “People have been scared they’d lose their library so it’s good to be able to reassure them that some of those services will be retained, including an electronic ordering service for books that are not in stock.”
Victoria Treadway et al report on an NHS/public library partnership project between Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Wirral Council to support the wellbeing of people living with dementia, creating reminiscence boxes which are available in public libraries and in the local acute hospital.
Social care and health organisations across Shropshire can now take advantage of a new free directory to help promote their services across the county.
Shropshire Choices website has been launched to help Shropshire residents, particularly those who find they need support, make informed decisions to help improve their care and well-being.
So starting in the coming days, when you ask Google about symptoms like “headache on one side,” we’ll show you a list of related conditions (“headache,” “migraine,” “tension headache,” “cluster headache,” “sinusitis,” and “common cold”). For individual symptoms like “headache,” we’ll also give you an overview description along with information on self-treatment options and what might warrant a doctor’s visit. By doing this, our goal is to help you to navigate and explore health conditions related to your symptoms, and quickly get to the point where you can do more in-depth research on the web or talk to a health professional.
Conclusion – Individuals look for online health information to help manage their chronic illnesses, but their ability to do so is influenced by their levels of health literacy and other external barriers to effective online navigation. Consumers may prefer to receive recommendations from health professionals for high quality health websites rather than training in how to navigate and identify these resources themselves.
The study results suggest that regardless of format, library orientations and hands on lab session had positive effects on graduate students’ information literacy skills and knowledge.
To investigate ways in which educational comics might provide support in dealing with feelings and attitudes towards health conditions, as well as improving understanding of factual information and to identify potential weakness of comics as a medium for health information.
A newly-revamped social care website has been launched today (Wednesday 8 June 2016) as part of the national Carers Week 2016.
Shropshire Choices, developed by Shropshire Council’s adult services team, is designed to ensure everyone in Shropshire has access to information at a time and in a format which suits them
The combination search is back (for Pro users)!
It went missing when we moved to the new design and it’s taken a while to put it back and integrate it.
Medical images on Trip has just got even more useful! A Twitter user suggested a great feature would be to restrict the images to those that are freely available to use. In other words, those with liberal (or no) copyright restrictions. As you’ll see in the image below we have a new tick box, “Only show images that are free to modify, share and use”
ver the last week we've received questions about our autocomplete feature. I wanted to take the opportunity to clarify a few things. The autocomplete algorithm is designed to avoid completing a search for a person’s name with terms that are offensive or disparaging. We made this change a while ago following feedback that Autocomplete too often predicted offensive, hurtful or inappropriate queries about people. This filter operates according to the same rules no matter who the person is, as you can see in some examples here.
The PICO tool can help you to analyse your question into a clinical question.
Our new etutorial Using PICO will:
Explain what PICO is
Show you an example
Help you to use PICO to create clinical questions
This workshop is available to all nurses who are due to be revalidated
The aim of this training module is to support the nurse revalidation programme by providing an overview of NICE and Cochrane Library health databases and enabling delegates to obtain practical experience of conducting an effective literature search using a clinical database. Nurses are encouraged to bring a clinical question with them to the session which they can then investigate during the workshop.
The editors of TRIP Database are pleased to have just published a number of short videos highlighting some of the main ways of getting the most from the resource.
Did you know you can now follow the library on Twitter and Facebook too. Our Twitter account @CostelloLib has been up and running for a while and we have now set up a closed Facebook Group exclusively for staff. We are hoping you will share your views of our services and feedback to us about how we can be of help to you and your teams.