[LD service user involvement in development of new residential facility] We've taken involvement to a whole new level; by enabling service users and their families to help decide who will be hired to care for them.
Implications for practice and research:
> Younger people with intellectual disability experience much poorer health and an increased risk of a mental health condition during transition to adulthood than those in the general population. This underscores their need for comprehensive healthcare and proactive mental illness detection and treatment during transition.
> Longitudinal studies of health-related outcomes are needed for younger people with intellectual disabilities. Future research could explore the impact of preventative strategies such as targeted mental health initiatives on the emergence of mental health conditions in younger people with intellectual disability during transition.
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We don't know for sure from this study why young people are increasingly turning away from drinking alcohol. However, the figures suggest a robust trend, which may or may not continue in future.
The decline in drinking could be due to increasing health awareness among young people and people making healthier lifestyle choices. From a public health point of view, this is probably good news, not least because the numbers of young people engaging in harmful binge drinking is also in decline.
Changes to the way young people with emerging personality disorders are diagnosed and treated are set to be introduced by Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) following a fact-finding visit to a world-renowned service in Australia.
Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist Dr Sarah Maxwell travelled to Melbourne earlier in the autumn to shadow clinicians from the award-winning Orygen Youth Service. During the month-long visit, which was funded by the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust, she looked in detail at the way young people with borderline personality disorders (BPD) are assessed, diagnosed and treated with the aim of bringing back learning to the UK.
The young people profiles bring together a range of indicators on the health of young people by local area and are designed to give commissioners and providers a context to help them prioritise action for young people.
Young people in Bristol and South Gloucestershire have launched a new resource sheet to help mental health professionals.
The resource sheet is designed to help child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) professionals understand how to help children and young people get the best out of CAMHS. It was designed by young people from the Bristol and South Gloucestershire CAMHS Forum.
A local occupational therapist is supporting young people to develop their interest in equine care with positive results for their health and wellbeing.
A group of young people from Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust’s (CWP) Pine Lodge have been learning about caring for horses, and the practical skills this requires, as well as developing their confidence and self-esteem. Pine Lodge provides specialist mental health care for young people.
The sessions, held at Wirral Riding Centre and made possible by CWP Charity funding, were planned and set up by Aeron Gates, specialist occupational therapist. She says, “The Equine Care group was set up in response to what young people at Pine Lodge said they would like to do.”
Dementia in people under the age of 65 is not well recognised and is generally treated in the same way as it is in people aged over 65. However, the evidence shows that these patients, and their carers and members of their family, experience dementia differently from people aged over 65. They need specific assistance from a range of agencies when receiving the diagnosis and through the progression of the disease. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens details 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 requesting.
Open access. The Saving and Empowering Young Lives in Europe (SEYLE) study brings attention to the special needs of adolescent migrants. Alternative data analyses could lead to improved service delivery and requisite education/training of health and mental health personnel. We advocate earlier identification by using SEYLE data to shape policy about youth suicidal behaviour and ideation in prevention efforts.
Overall, childhood involvement in teasing predicted serious adverse outcomes in adulthood, in some cases beyond childhood risks. Programs that prevent peer victimization and identify already involved individuals for additional services may have positive impacts on the diverse public health problems of suicide, crime, depression, and tobacco use. Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
The aim of the project is to listen to children and young people’s views on how health and care services could be improved. To do this, we worked with Youth Action Wiltshire to train 12 people, aged 16-18 years, in skills such as safeguarding, listening and communication. They can now go out into the community and speak to children and young people about their experiences.
Today we launch Leading my life my way, a new research report looking at young disabled people’s experiences of using support services to live independently.
We carried out this research because we wanted to find out what young disabled people expect from care and support services, what their experiences are and to what extent they are supported in different areas of their lives.
The hallmark of attachment is that contact, proximity and relief from stress are sought from specific individuals, laying important groundwork for healthy socioemotional functioning. This study investigated the extent to which differentiated attachment behaviour can be observed in young children with significant developmental delay (DD).. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Children aged 4 to 10 years are consuming more than double the recommended amount of sugar, although consumption of sugary drinks has fallen compared to 6 years ago.
A creative workshop was held with the young people, and a Z’ style leaflet produced. It has information for young carers, or those who may not self-identify as young carers on one side, and information for staff on the other.
Young carers have told us they want to be treated as a young person first and an individual in their own right. They have also spoken of a need for a consistent approach for young carers in schools, to enable a better understanding of managing schoolwork and access to further support as needed. The new leaflet helps to address this and will be distributed in schools and colleges.
This paper reports findings from a qualitative study undertaken with twenty-two young carers across Northern Ireland aged between eight and eighteen. It focuses on their experiences as informal care-givers in households where at least one family member was living with an illness and/or disability. While much has been written about the quantifiable aspects of informal care including the number of hours spent caring and the physical nature of caring tasks, this approach has tended to subsume individual experiences within the category ‘young carer’ and fails to differentiate between sub-populations of children and young people whose caring relationships may be very disparate. Whilst there has been a tendency to focus on the vulnerability of young carers, explanations as to why some experience greater physical, emotional and psycho-social difficulties than others are underdeveloped. It has been suggested that differential outcomes may be attributable to a capacity for resilience, which can lessen vulnerability. The study examined the protective and risk factors, which might help to promote or challenge the resilience of young carers. It was found that knowledge of and response to both the nature and trajectory of illness or disability contributed to young carers’ capacity for resilience.To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details.
Student and artist Victoria Jenkinson has spent hours painting the walls of a side room set aside for the treatment of youngsters in order to improve their hospital experience.
Young people are being encouraged to make sure they have had both doses of the MMR vaccine before going on holiday to Europe where there are large outbreaks of measles. Cases of measles also continue to rise across England in unvaccinated people of this age, including the West Midlands region.
Dealing effectively with young adults while the brain is still developing is crucial for them in making successful transitions to a crime-free adulthood, says a report by the Justice Committee.
This research suggests that contrary to popular opinion delaying exposure to cannabis does not appear to reduce the chances of using more of the drug as an older teenager. However, it does suggest that there does not appear to be a strong relationship between developing psychosis as a trigger to stop using cannabis. Again, this won’t come as a surprise to those working with this age group in the mental health or drug field as they will have witnessed this with the young people they encounter as part of their work.
Psychology of Addictive Behaviors30.1 (Feb 2016): 39-51.
Social norms-based interventions have shown promise in reducing drinking behavior and the resulting consequences in young adults. Although most research has focused on young civilians (i.e., college students), some studies have investigated social norms-based interventions with active-duty military and veteran samples. Yet, research has not yet determined how to maximize the effectiveness of social norms-based interventions in this heavy-drinking population. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details
This session will examine: relevant aspects of Lord Harris’s review into self-inflicted deaths in prison of young adults and the Government response; the implications of Baroness Young’s review of how to improve outcomes for young black and Muslim men in the criminal justice system; and what can be learnt from the youth justice system to inform more appropriate responses to young adults.
Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is associated with mental health problems and functional impairment across many domains. However, how the longitudinal course of ADHD affects later functioning remains unclear.. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details. SSOTP (legacy account) - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
APA blogpost. Could increasing your physical activity or feeling more in control of your life be the secret to staying young? Employing these simple strategies may help older adults feel younger and that, in turn, could help improve their cognitive abilities, longevity and overall quality of life, according to research presented at the annual convention of the American Psychological Association.
“Research suggests that a younger subjective age, or when people feel younger than their chronological age, is associated with a variety of positive outcomes in older individuals, including better memory performance, health and longevity,” said presenter Jennifer Bellingtier, PhD, of Friedrich Schiller University. “Our research suggests that subjective age changes on a daily basis and older adults feel significantly younger on days when they have a greater sense of control.”
In this context, I am writing to provide some details of my YouTube channel called ‘Psychiatry Lectures’ (www.youtube.com/channel/UCVZhg8unEqo0XUm8cHAIwbA/videos). This is a free-to-access educational channel featuring videos on psychiatry topics targeted at health professionals who see psychiatric patients. So far, I have uploaded 19 videos covering most of the major psychiatry topics, for example, schizophrenia, mood disorders and anxiety disorders. The average duration of the videos is 50 min and most videos end with a set of five multiple choice questions. The videos are in the form of PowerPoint presentations with my narration.
The article discusses the importance of sensitive leadership. Topics include the significance of empathy, ways in which a symptom of a dysfunctional organizational culture can be expressed, and tips for sensitive leadership. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details
Families, Systems, & Health34.4 (Dec 2016): 317-329.
Background: Research suggests that 13–25% of primary care patients who present with physical complaints have underlying depression or anxiety. Objective: The goal of this paper is to quantify and compare the frequency of the diagnosis of depression and anxiety in patients with a somatic reason for visit among primary care physicians across disciplines. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
You can make a difference to how local health services are run – this was the message from NHS South East Staffordshire and Seisdon Peninsula Clinical Commissioning Group’s Annual General Meeting last week.
Discusses the common features of successful leaders, based on interviews with leaders. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
People who have been bereaved by suicide have used their experiences to lead the revision of a support guide to help others affected by someone taking their own life.
health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and mental well-being are associated with healthy ageing. Physical activity positively impacts both HRQOL and mental well-being. Yoga is a physical activity that can be modified to suits the needs of older people and is growing in popularity. We conducted a systematic review with meta-analysis to determine the impact of yoga-based exercise on HRQOL and mental well-being in people aged 60+.. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details. SSOTP (legacy account) - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
one-third of community-dwelling older adults fall annually. Exercise that challenges balance is proven to prevent falls. We conducted a systematic review with meta-analysis to determine the impact of yoga-based exercise on balance and physical mobility in people aged 60+ years. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - request a copy of the article from the library - www.sssft.nhs.uk/library
There is evidence that yoga could improve the symptoms of asthma and boost quality of life, but the effects on lung function and medication use are uncertain, new research has found. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details
The study didn't find any benefits from doing yoga at the end of the 10-week study period, but there were improvements in symptoms at a six-month follow-up review. Because of the mixed results, these findings need to be interpreted with caution.
Yoga is increasingly used as a therapeutic treatment and seems to improve psychiatric conditions such as anxiety disorders and depression. The aim of this systematic review was to assess the evidence of yoga for reducing symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Asthma is a common chronic inflammatory disorder affecting about 300 million people worldwide. As a holistic therapy, yoga has the potential to relieve both the physical and psychological suffering of people with asthma, and its popularity has expanded globally. A number of clinical trials have been carried out to evaluate the effects of yoga practice, with inconsistent results.
Blog post. People who suffer from depression may want to look to yoga as a complement to traditional therapies as the practice appears to lessen symptoms of the disorder.
Yoga has consistently yielded encouraging results in the treatment of generalised anxiety disorder and panic disorder, and has also been shown to improve mood and decrease symptoms of depression.
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Despite evidence of the physiologic impact of trauma, treatments are only beginning to focus on the impact of trauma on the body. Yoga may be a promising treatment for trauma sequelae, given research that supports yoga for general distress. The present study aims to systematically assess and quantitatively synthesize the effectiveness of yoga interventions for psychological symptoms (posttraumatic stress disorder [PTSD], depression, anxiety symptoms) following potentially traumatic life events.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Practice Innovations (Sep 13, 2018). DOI:10.1037/pri0000079
The practice of yoga and the use of its components (relaxation, meditation, and mindfulness) can be useful adjuncts in substance abuse treatment. As a primary treatment of substance abuse, yoga and its components achieve low success to mixed results. In contrast, these approaches have been applied more successfully to comorbid conditions, especially depression with low to moderate success and to a lesser extent, anxiety. The practice of yoga may be especially effective in the management of chronic pain for individuals who abuse alcohol or opiates because it focuses on psychological and physical characteristics. Yoga has demonstrated moderate success in treating chronic pain as it provides an alternative coping strategy for these individuals. It is important to note that these conclusions are based on limited data with a need for more controlled research. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: journal abstract). To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
A major review of existing data found there is "moderate-quality evidence" that yoga improves both symptoms and reported quality of life in people with asthma.
There was some evidence people doing yoga – compared with those doing no exercise – saw some improvement in back-related function at three and six months.
It was not clear if those undertaking yoga, compared with other exercise or adding yoga to exercise, was any better than exercise alone.
The study does, however, have some downfalls:
2018 saw a fall in reporting of suspected adverse drug reactions (ADRs) to the Yellow Card Scheme from key reporter groups, including GPs, pharmacists, and hospital doctors. Every Yellow Card report counts, and a few minutes taken by you or your patient to report can make a lifetime of difference for others – don’t delay, report today!
Several studies and meta-analyses have shown that mortality in people with schizophrenia is higher than that in the general population but have used relative measures, such as standardised mortality ratios. We did a systematic review and meta-analysis to estimate years of potential life lost and life expectancy in schizophrenia, which are more direct, absolute measures of increased mortality. Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
Journal Scan. Offering year-long programmes of weight loss classes could prevent hundreds of additional cases of hypertension, diabetes and heart disease.
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This is a reflection on Yammer, an enterprise social media system. It’s a kind of Facebook for corporations and organisations. Yammer works using your work eMail address. Register with Yammer using your eMail and you are in a space with your co-workers. Yammer is owned by Microsoft and run from their Office division, so you might reasonably expect Yammer to come to a Trust near you in the not too distant future. [copied through automatically]
X linked Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMTX) is a hereditary neuropathy caused by mutations in GJB1 coding for connexin-32, a gap junction protein expressed in Schwann cells, but also found in oligodendrocytes. Four patients with CMTX developing central nervous system (CNS) demyelination compatible with multiple sclerosis (MS) have been individually published. We presently sought to systematically investigate the relationship between CMTX and MS.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Book review. Writing to Improve Healthcare, edited and authored by David P. Stevens, is a timely and important book that is designed to help quality improvers publish their quality improvement (QI) work. (Dr Stevens was the previous Editor-in-Chief of this journal, when it was called Quality & Safety in Healthcare.) The book is unique in that it applies a healthcare improvement perspective to the traditional manuscript preparation and publication process. This is useful for the novice writer and for authors accustomed to writing more traditional clinical research studies or writing for other biomedical fields. Indeed, while some prospective authors of QI work may not be first-time writers, this may be the …...To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details. To read a copy of the book in this review, please contact the library
Open access. To explore if writing self-efficacy improved among first-year nursing students in the context of discipline-specific writing. The relationship between writing self-efficacy, anxiety and student grades are also explored with respect to various learner characteristics such as postsecondary experience, writing history, English as a second language status and online versus classroom instruction.
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The objective of this review was to present a comprehensive discussion of wound dressing adherence, including the mechanism of dressing adherence, adverse consequences, factors affecting adherence, tests to assess dressing adherence, and reduction of wound adherence. To read the full article, choose “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
The article discusses various issues related to wound debridement, and it mentions how to select the most suitable type of debridement for a patient, as well as wound healing and information about the removal of devitalised human tissue and slough. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
This document summarises the evidence-base on wound care products. It is a key therapeutic topic which has been identified to support medicines optimisation. It is not formal NICE guidance.
"An innovative new app might provide a more effective form of birth control than the contraceptive pill," The Sun reports.
The Natural Cycles fertility app combines the use of a thermometer to measure body temperature with calendar calculating methods – often referred to as the rhythm method – to work out the days when a woman would be at high or low risk of pregnancy.
More than 4,000 women were included in this Swedish study looking at how effective the app is at preventing pregnancy.
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Neuropsychology (Oct 18, 2018). DOI:10.1037/neu0000498
Objective: Symptoms of anxiety, depression commonly co-occur with cognitive decline in patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD). The directionality of this association is unclear, however, in that poor cognitive performance may lead to increased symptoms of anxiety and depression or higher anxiety and depressive symptoms may lead to cognitive decline. The purpose of this study was to elucidate the directionality of the association between symptoms of anxiety and depression with cognitive performance in newly diagnosed patients with PD.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Despite some media speculation, the study didn’t explore the reasons behind these trends. It could be that due to greater awareness of the help available, more teenagers are willing to report self-harming. But we cannot ignore the possibility that many cases of self-harm may also go unreported.
Overall, the heart rate patterns suggested that the high ruminators were less relaxed than the low ruminators in the evening.
But despite the Mail's headline, this study certainly doesn't prove work-related thoughts are deadly. Short-term observations of a person's heartbeat cannot predict long-term health outcomes.
Empirical evidence shows that family involvement (FI) can play a pivotal role in the coping and recovery of persons with severe mental illness (SMI). Nevertheless, various studies demonstrate that FI in mental healthcare services is often not (sufficiently) realized. In order to develop more insights, this scoping review gives an overview of how various stakeholders conceptualize, perceive and experience barriers to FI. Central questions are: 1) What are the main barriers to FI reported by the different key stakeholders (i.e. the persons with SMI, their families and the professionals, and 2) What are the differences and similarities between the various stakeholders’ perspectives on these barriers.
A “world-class centre for the treatment of mental injuries” suffered by Service personnel should be established in the next 12-18 months, says a new Report by the House of Commons Defence Committee, if veterans and their families are to receive the provision and support promised in the Armed Forces Covenant.
A new multimillion pound study, which will see the most thorough and rigorous series of tests to detect Alzheimer’s disease ever performed on volunteers, is announced today. The Deep and Frequent Phenotyping study is funded by the National Institute of Health Research and the MRC and hopes to dramatically improve the success rate of clinical trials for treatments in Alzheimer’s disease.
Carl is a mental health campaigner who loves poetry. Here he blogs about how reading, writing or even performing can help your wellbeing, and gives his tips on how to get started...
Wednesday November 21 is World COPD day – and people are being urged to know the signs of this serious condition, how to avoid it and how to manage it if they have been diagnosed.
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a serious lung condition that makes breathing more difficult.
A global action plan on dementia endorsed by World Health Organization (WHO) member states has been welcomed by health experts.
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Organisations across Shropshire came together this week (Thursday 15 June 2017) at an event to mark World Elder Abuse Day and to commit to put an end to adult abuse in the county.
Today is World Elder Abuse Awareness Day. Leading local doctors and nurses are using the opportunity to raise awareness and let people know what they can do to help prevent it.
Here are some of the library's top E-books on Dementia. If you would like to access any of these, please reply to this email with 'access E-book' followed by the title.
Workshops are used in many psychiatric teaching and learning contexts, from undergraduate to continuing professional development. Most psychiatrists have at some time attended a workshop. However, the terms workshop, tutorial and small-group teaching are used indiscriminately. It is therefore important to reflect on what characterises a workshop, the learning theories behind their development and what learning needs workshops best meet. We give an outline of the evidence for workshops in medical education and review the principles governing how to conduct workshops and the use of technology to enhance their delivery. Data collected from an undergraduate psychiatry course delivered in an Irish university are used to illustrate how applying these principles contributes to optimising the use of workshops from both the learners’ and facilitators’ perspective.. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details.
Describe and summarize workplace characteristics of three nursing generations: Baby Boomers, Generations X and Y.. To read the full article, log in using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens details. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
Blog post. Despite the prevalence of workplace wellness efforts, only one-third of American workers say they regularly participate in the health promotion programs provided by their employer, according to a new survey by the American Psychological Association.
Additionally, less than half of working Americans (44 percent*) say the climate in their organization supports employee well-being, and 1 in 3 reports being chronically stressed on the job. The APA survey suggests a key part of the solution is senior leadership support.
Nearly three-fourths (73 percent) of employees with senior managers who show support through involvement and commitment to well-being initiatives said their organization helps employees develop a healthy lifestyle, compared with just 11 percent who work in an organization without that leadership support, according to APA's 2016 Work and Well-Being Survey (PDF, 726KB). It was conducted online by Harris Poll among more than 1,500 U.S. adults in March.
Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust’s (CFT) Transport Team has commissioned Sunshine Mobile Valeting, part of the Brandon Trust, to help people with a learning disability gain access to paid employment.
The authors concluded that medical students and junior doctors suffered significantly from both the inherent medicine stressors, but also the additional burdens brought onto the healthcare system during COVID-19, in a culture of stress around mental health difficulties that promotes presenteeism and acceptance of unsatisfactory working conditions.
Chris O'Sullivan on a recent cluster randomised controlled trial of workplace mental health training for managers and its effect on sick leave in employees.
Mental illness is one of the most rapidly increasing causes of long-term sickness absence, despite improved rates of detection and development of more effective interventions. However, mental health training for managers might help improve occupational outcomes for people with mental health problems. We aimed to investigate the effect of mental health training on managers' knowledge, attitudes, confidence, and behaviour towards employees with mental health problems, and its effect on employee sickness absence.
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A large number of people are employed in sedentary occupations. Physical inactivity and excessive sitting at workplaces have been linked to increased risk of cardiovascular disease, obesity, and all-cause mortality.
Objectives: To evaluate the effectiveness of workplace interventions to reduce sitting at work compared to no intervention or alternative interventions.