The coronavirus pandemic has inevitably led to more time spent online, which will have increased the risk of children and teenagers being exposed to cyberbullying and harmful content, among other issues. This article examines available data on the effects of the pandemic on children as a result of their online activity and looks at what schools and child health professionals may need to anticipate in terms of children's mental health following the pandemic. Read in full with MPFT ATHENS login.
Expert opinion article on vaccine hesitancy. Looks at questions such as whether vaccination should be compulsory for healthcare staff. Read in full with MPFT ATHENS login.
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has significantly affected people at the end of life who are being cared for in community settings, as well as their families and the nurses who provide care. This article explores the challenges generated by the COVID-19 pandemic in relation to community end of life care in the UK and reflects on the psychological and emotional consequences for nurses, patients and families. Free to read article.
Healthcare professionals need increased awareness and knowledge of the risk of perinatal mental illnesses among migrant women, and mental health should be routinely discussed in maternity and other healthcare services that serve women who are migrants.
The item concludes that, in children and adolescents with ERA and JPsA, secukinumab demonstrated significantly longer time to flare and number of flares versus placebo. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
Young people who present to services should be routinely asked about online self-harm image viewing behaviour; clinicians or other frontline staff working with young people should be aware of the potential for harm. The eight areas of impact identified could guide routine clinical assessment. However, the findings clearly point to the complex, fluid and individual nature of interaction and response, and that there are potentially important gains not least in terms of social connection, support and recovery that should not be overlooked. In fact, boundaries between positive and negative impacts can be blurred. For whom are they harmful or beneficial? When? Why? All impacts and functions should be explored in practice with a young person to identify vulnerabilities and protective factors.
This study suggests that ADEs post hospital discharge can be linked with identifiable medication clusters. This information may help clinicians and researchers better understand patient populations that are more or less likely to benefit from peri-hospital discharge interventions aimed at reducing ADEs. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
First, the good news. Vacancies in adult social care fell slightly in 2022/23, from a record 164,000 in 2021/22 to 152,000 in 2022/23.* The number of filled posts increased and there was also a small fall in staff turnover. Together, the figures demonstrate a small but significant release of pressure on the social care sector. Providers, and people who draw on services, will be desperate for it to continue.
Digging into the numbers, however, it’s clear that the fall in vacancies was due to a large increase in the number of care workers coming to the UK from abroad, from 20,000 in 2021/22 to 70,000 in 2022/23. These new overseas workers, while welcome, are not by themselves the answer to the long-term recruitment crisis in social care.
Even across such a broad group there was good agreement about both the challenges facing adult social care and the type of social care system people wanted to see.
There were also many examples of technology being effectively used to improve quality and ensure better choice and control, as well as generating efficiencies. These examples gave a glimpse of the potential for technology to benefit those that draw on services, carers, staff and organisations.
Medical libraries in Sweden are digitised to a large extent, technically advanced and developing rapidly. This paper investigates technological trends among Swedish medical libraries in the near and distant future and their application within different areas of library activities. The authors also present a roadmap to increase technological developments within medical libraries in Sweden. Current technological trends include digital collaboration tools, mobile technologies and visualisation. Artificial intelligence, big data and smart technologies are upcoming trends. Technologies are applied within all areas of library activities, but preconditions for academic and hospital libraries differ. To remain a relevant provider of information services, libraries must be able to monitor, test and adopt new technologies.
We focused the April 2023 column on the outdatedness and limitations of the widely used PICO question for development of a purpose statement. Now, we examine using PICO to search for the best evidence.
Fractures are common accidents for long-term hospitalized patients with schizophrenia (SZ) in psychiatric hospitals, and once they occur, patients usually endure the pain of fractures for a long time. Accumulating evidence has supported the implementation of dance/movement therapy (DMT) as a promising intervention for patients with SZ. However, no research has been conducted to investigate its role in balance ability in SZ. This study was designed to investigate the efficacy of a 12-week DMT intervention in bone mineral density and balance ability in patients with SZ using a randomized, controlled trial design. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
the advent of integrated care systems is being seen as an opportunity to work more closely with the communities they serve. And yet, despite all this, work with people and communities, can still feel like ‘a nice to have’ rather than being core to the business of the health and care system. For those of us working on this agenda it can feel like pushing a rock up a hill.
The authors concluded that the meta-analysis: 'revealed small to moderate positive effects of resilience training on resilience and other mental health outcomes immediately post-intervention (resilience, wellbeing) and in the short-term (anxiety symptoms, [perceived] stress), while there was a lack of evidence for training effects on depressive symptoms or any outcome at later follow-ups.'
Implications for practice and research
-While virtual wards are now an accepted model of care delivery for older people further research and evaluation of this model specifically focused on patient selection, the use of technology, impact on carers, and patient and carer satisfaction is needed.
-The use of virtual modalities of care for older people can be a viable alternative to face to face assessment and care.
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The aims of the study were to describe sleep quality among community-dwelling older people; determine the association between sleep quality (total and multidimensional), frailty and overall health; study frailty as a mediator in the association between sleep quality and overall health.
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This online study surveyed 103 caregivers of family members with 22q11DS to determine the barriers to accessing support that they faced, the kind of support they would value and whether an online intervention could meet their needs. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
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