Bullying and violence in the workplace increase the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, possibly due to changes caused by stress hormones or because they trigger comfort eating, researchers say.
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The study found that people who said they'd experienced workplace bullying or violence had an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes compared with those who didn't report any bullying or violence.
A recent Royal College of Physicians' study on assessment raises serious questions for workplace assessment. To address these, a system is recommended that bridges the gap from competence to performance and integrates supervised learning events (SLEs) that are formative in purpose with summative assessment of performance by entrustable professional activities (EPAs).
News. Judges considering gross negligence manslaughter prosecutions against doctors would not view a lack of NHS resources as a defence against clinical negligence, a barrister who specialises in medical law and clinical negligence has said. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details
Chris Barber, Visiting Lecturer (Learning Disabilities), Birmingham City University (chris.barber@bcu.ac.uk), offers tips for nurses on supporting patients in the spiritual aspects of their lives. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details.
More than 120 students from five secondary schools across Haringey came together at the Pleasance Theatre in March to discuss mental health and emotional wellbeing - an event co-ordinated by a range of local young persons organisations.
The discussions were inspired by play I AM BEAST, written by theatre company Sparkle and Dark, which explores themes of bereavement and loss.
Women with a learning disability who experience domestic abuse receive intervention from both social services and the police. Responses from these services have increasingly become focused on notions of risk. This article uses governmentality theory to examine how risk is understood and managed by both services through a focus on policy and practice.
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Professional Psychology: Research and Practice 47.1 (Feb 2016): 84-92.
Despite decades of articles urging for greater attention to professional competence in the field of psychology, few empirical studies have examined what it means to be a competent mental health professional. The purpose of the present study was to explore critical domains of professional competence for mental health professionals who work with veterans and their families. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details
As we publish our new report on addressing barriers to partnership working with the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector, Helen Gilburt takes a look at three fundamental principles needed to create change.
An assistant librarian was seconded for two days a week to support the Patient Experience Team. This item shows how she worked to update policies. The LKS is now being recommended across the Trust to support this work.
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The GMC has produced a interactive teaching session to increase awareness of the legal issues around the complex decision making that can occur at the end of life. This includes an interplay with the mental capacity act & safeguarding. The GMC have also produced case studies which the FY2 doctors, whom we trialled this session on, received well and worked through. We complimented this with clinical teaching around pain and safe prescribing by our team.
or three years Sussex Police and Sussex Partnership have operating street triage teams, which started in Eastbourne, and has expanded across East and West Sussex. This scheme sees a specially allocated police officer and a specialist mental health nurse responding to incidents where a mental health intervention is needed. It has been an enormous success meaning less people have been detained under s136 and those that have are far more likely to be taken to a hospital place of safety.
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Rates of self‐harm are high among prisoners. Most research focuses on the vulnerable prisoner, and there is little on the impact of these behaviours on staff.
To investigate staff perceptions of self‐harming behaviours by prisoners, including their views on its causes, manifestation, prevention in institutions, and impact on them.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS Athens details. To access full-text: click “Log in/Register” (top right hand side). Click ‘Institutional Login’ then select 'OpenAthens Federation', then ‘NHS England’. Enter your Athens details to view the article.
Working with women in secure services is an infrequent subject of research and discussion in the forensic mental health literature. There are several reasons for this, which will be considered in the introduction to this paper. However, a consequence of this situation is that there remains a lack of clarity in key areas of practice in relation to working with women in secure services, and working with women with personality disorder specifically: how women with personality disorder may present in secure services compared to men, therefore, the particular skills required of the practitioners who work with women and the main design features of the services within which they are managed. The body of this paper attempts to summarise important issues in each of these areas in order to inform future debate and developments in the field. 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.
Multi-agency public protection arrangements (MAPPA) have been in operation for around 18 years in England and Wales. The primary purpose is for the sharing of information between agencies regarding the risk management of offenders returning to the community from custodial and hospital settings. The legal framework regarding information by psychiatrists is not dealt with in one single policy or guidance document. Psychiatrists must use their clinical and professional judgement when engaging with the MAPPA process, mindful of guidance available from professional bodies such as the Royal College of Psychiatrists, General Medical Council and British Medical Association.. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details.
A report has been published by NHS Clinical Commissioners to showcase effective examples from CCGs who are improving prevention and early diagnosis through bringing together a range of stakeholders in their local areas.
Chris Barber, Visiting Lecturer (Learning Disabilities), Birmingham City University, offers tips for nurses working with adults with autism spectrum conditions. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details.
Working Well is Greater Manchester’s whole population approach to health, skills and employment. Based on personalised support and a new ecosystem of work, health and skills, it is on track to significantly exceed its target of supporting 20% of clients into work.
This resource was commissioned by NHS England to support delivery of the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health and the NHS Long Term Plan. A service that has been commissioned based on the principles of co-production is more likely to be cost-effective, responsive and have high satisfaction and health outcome rates from people using it.
Norfolk Recovery Partnership (NRP) is working with homeless hostels across Norfolk to train staff to administer Naloxone, which is used when people have taken heroin and other opiate overdoses. It is hoped that by providing hostels with a take-home kit, as well as the right training on how to use it, the number of people who die prematurely as a result of an overdose will reduce.
NRP, which is a partnership between Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT), The Matthew Project and the Rehabilitation for Addicted Prisoners Trust (RAPt), has so far trained staff at many hostels, including Bishopbridge House and the Ripley Project, both in Norwich. A further session will take place with staff from Genesis Housing next month.
Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal40.2 (Jun 2017): 252-259.
Objective: Funding cuts have increased job demands and threatened clinicians’ ability to provide high-quality, person-centered care. One response to increased job demands is for clinicians to work more than their official scheduled work hours (i.e., overtime). We sought to examine the frequency of working overtime and its relationships with job characteristics, work-related outcomes, and quality of care in community health clinicians. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Working memory training (WMT) has been shown to offer therapeutic benefits to both patients with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and patients with mild to borderline Intellectual Disabilities (MBID; 60 < IQ < 85). However, robust evidence for transfer effects and treatment benefits of WMT over placebo training are lacking. Owing to the nature of double-blind research designs in RCTs, children have received non-specific coaching not based on their actual training performance. Active coaching based on individual training results (such as in clinical practice) might enhance the efficacy of Cogmed WMT. Furthermore, clinical experience and the general treatment approach to these vulnerable children has shown that the intensity and duration of WMT is often too stressful. This study therefore investigated the efficacy of a less intensive, but more prolonged Cogmed WMT (including active personalized coaching and feedback) in reducing behavioral symptoms and improving neurocognitive functioning and academic achievements in children with MBID and neuropsychiatric disorders.
Working memory (WM) deficits are recognized as serious cognitive impairment in patients with major depressive disorder (MDD). This review aims to clarify the effects of impaired WM function in patients with MDD and explore non-invasive and effective treatments that can be adopted in clinical practice. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
To test a neurobehavioral model of adolescent substance use disorder (SUD) resulting from an imbalance between a hyperactive reward motivation system and a hypoactive executive control system. Specifically, we tested (1) if early weakness in working memory (WM) and associated imbalance indicators of acting-without-thinking (AWT) and delay discounting (DD) predict SUD in late adolescence, and (2) if early drug use progression mediates this relation. Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
We are keen to gather your feedback on the Working Longer Group’s age awareness toolkit and whether it has helped you and your organisation better understand the opportunities and challenges associated with the ageing workforce.
Launched in November 2015, it was designed to help employers work in partnership with their trade union colleagues, to create organisational awareness.
Personality disorder is a contentious diagnostic label that is associated with high levels of stigma, leading many practitioners and people with lived experience to call for a change in its use. Mental health nurses frequently encounter people who have received a diagnosis of personality disorder in various settings. This article provides a critique of this diagnosis and discusses the issues that are associated with this label. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
Presentation from NHS Transformathon. We know the perspectives and knowledge of patients and service users are an important resource for those involved in the design and delivery of services. The NHS Five Year Forward View rightly calls for a new relationship with patients, citizens and communities but what that new relationship looks like and how this might happen is less clear.
This guidance provides information on the arrangements in place to identify and support child victims and potential child victims of human trafficking and modern slavery. In particular, it sets out the working arrangements that should be followed by staff working in the Health and Social Care Trusts and the Police Service of Northern Ireland when they encounter a child who they suspect may be a victim of human trafficking or modern slavery. The guidance covers general principles that should be taken into account during all stages of caring for and protecting trafficked children; obstacles to self-identifications by child victims and potential child victims of human trafficking; transitions to adult services; repatriation and safe returns; and supporting child victims of human trafficking to access justice. The guidance has been developed by Health and Social Care Board and the Police Service for Northern Ireland, in consultation with the Department of Justice and the Department of Health. You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
Journal of Counseling Psychology 63.2 (Mar 2016): 149-161.
We used the Actor Partner Interdependence Model (APIM; Kashy & Kenny, 2000) to examine the dyadic associations of 74 clients and 23 therapists in their evaluations of working alliance, real relationship, session quality, and client improvement over time in ongoing psychodynamic or interpersonal psychotherapy. There were significant actor effects for both therapists and clients, with the participant’s own ratings of working alliance and real relationship independently predicting their own evaluations of session quality. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details
Videoconferencing psychotherapy (VCP)—the remote delivery of psychotherapy via secure video link—is an innovative way of delivering psychotherapy, which has the potential to overcome many of the regularly cited barriers to accessing psychological treatment. However, some debate exists as to whether an adequate working alliance can be formed between therapist and client, when therapy is delivered through such a medium. The presented article is a systematic literature review and two meta‐analyses aimed at answering the question..... 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.
A holistic vision about what constitutes a workforce in the care sector, now and in the future, has been presented to IPC by John Bryant, Head of Integration and Development at Torbay Council.
In his discussion paper Workforce to Care Force: Who Cares? he acknowledges that the right workers are at the heart of delivering seamless services to those in need. John supports the notion of breaking down the barriers between NHS employees, local authorities, the private and voluntary sectors and those who care informally, or do so as family members.
NHS Employers has developed a briefing for HR professionals in the NHS highlighting the changing context and policies designed to incentivise increased investment in the skills of the UK population.
Commissioned by Health Education England, this framework has been produced by Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust's national workforce skills development unit to help organisations minimise the impact of workforce stress.
Responding to the workforce report by the King’s Fund, Nuffield Trust and Health Foundation, Danny Mortimer, chief executive of NHS Employers said:
“This well-considered report is clear that there will need to be minimum of £900 million more invested every year for the next five years in order to boost numbers of staff we train, employ and develop to support the delivery of the NHS Long Term Plan.
We are pleased to publish our Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES) report for 2018/19.
This is our third year of reporting on the experiences of BME staff to ensure equal access to career opportunities and fair treatment in the workplace.
The care workforce in England is ethnically diverse yet little is known of how managers manage this aspect of human resources work. This article reports findings from a longitudinal study of the care workforce to offer insights into managers' views of staff demographics, relationships and management challenges and strategies. Three themes emerged from the analysis: sources of conflict; reactive approaches to limiting conflict; and proactive approaches to preventing and limiting conflict. Findings have implications for human resource management and the creation of supportive staff relationships within care work in countries where ethnic diversity is characteristic of the care workforce. You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
Family focused practice is thought to lead to positive outcomes for all family members. However, there are multiple barriers and enablers in adult mental health services to practitioners undertaking these actions. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - request a copy of the article from the library - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
Concerns with the usability of electronic prescribing (ePrescribing) systems can lead to the development of workarounds by users. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Can physicians pack even more into their already busy schedules? Find out how experienced doctors find work-life balance: it's all about the individual.
Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal (May 9, 2019). DOI:10.1037/prj0000365
Objective: People with mental illness frequently have trouble obtaining and keeping competitive employment and struggle with on-the-job performance. To address these issues, the manualized, group-based, 12-session Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Work Success (CBTw) intervention was developed and tested in an open trial. Although posttreatment work outcomes were promising, lasting effects associated with the intervention are unknown.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
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This consultation seeks views on how we can halve the disability employment gap. Despite the current record-breaking labour market, 4.6 million disabled people and people with long-term health conditions are out of work. Less than half (48%) of disabled people are in employment, compared to 80% of the non-disabled population.
Topics in this consultation include the role of employers and work coaches, improvements to the welfare system, investing in innovative services, occupational health support and changing the culture around work and health
It brings together existing evidence on work, health and disability alongside new analysis on the following:
statistical analysis on work, health and disability using the Labour Force Survey;
longitudinal analysis of disability and employment status using the Labour Force Survey;
segmentation analysis of the disabled population using the Annual Population Survey, including segmentation of local authority by disabled population statistics;
estimates of long-term sickness absence;
the economic cost of ill health at working ages;
Employment and Support Allowance customer journeys;
Work is now well underway to host one of the biggest celebrations of people in recovery in the UK.
The UK Recovery Walk 2018 will be held in Shrewsbury from 12pm (midday) on Saturday 8 September 2018 and more than 5,000 individuals and families are expected to walk through the centre of the town to celebrate the event. The walk, organised by Faces and Voices of Recovery (FAVOR UK), is held every September as part of International Recovery Month.
Initial preparatory work to divert services has already been undertaken at Shawbirch roundabout and next Monday sees the start of the main roundabout improvement scheme.
The other roundabout where work will start is the “Clock Tower” Donnington island on the A518.
This first phase will last approximately five weeks and will require some lane closures so that the works can be completed safely. To minimise disruption during the festive period, work will finish on Friday 2 December and begin again in the New Year. Work at the roundabout is due to be completed next spring.
Survey that found gap between people's expectations of working in a team and their actual experience. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Military Psychology29.5 (Sep 2017): 396-406.
Few studies have attempted to examine how changes in work stressors from predeployment to postdeployment and reintegration may be associated with changes in mental health symptoms and hazardous drinking. The present study examined associations between work stressors, depressive symptoms, and hazardous drinking, and whether depressive symptoms mediated the association between work stressors and hazardous alcohol use or vice versa across deployment (predeployment, postdeployment, and 6-month reintegration). To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Here’s an update on the work being done to refurbish doctors’ accommodation at Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) to help recruit more junior and middle grade doctors.
Work is starting on the next two doctors’ houses at PRH.
The Burton Centre of Excellence will provide specialist accommodation in a home-style environment for people with dementia, providing high quality care and support in an innovative, purpose built setting.
It is being built on the site of the former Margaret Stanhope Centre in Outwoods, Burton at a cost of £6.4m with £945,000 of funding from the Homes & Communities Agency.
Young people, carers, parents and stakeholders are being urged to have their say on emotional wellbeing services across Telford and Wrekin and Shropshire.
Telford & Wrekin and Shropshire Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) as well as Telford & Wrekin Council and Shropshire Council have joined together to work on a project that will change emotional health and wellbeing services for children and young people across the area for the better.
The study aims are 1. to test a model developed to estimate the impact of work engagement on work ability as it is perceived by nurses; 2. to test the parameters between work ability and job satisfaction and between job satisfaction and turnover intention.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS Athens details. To access full-text: click “Log in/Register” (top right hand side). Click ‘Institutional Login’ then select 'OpenAthens Federation', then ‘NHS England’. Enter your Athens details to view the article.
“The resurfacing work will be carried out at night to minimise any disruption to traffic during the working day.
“We do not expect significant delays to traffic during the course of the work but we would advise road users to plan their routes accordingly and would like to thank road users for their patience and co-operation.”
The American Journal of Occupational Therapy; Bethesda Vol. 71, Iss. 6, (Nov/Dec 2017): 1-4.
The WDP model proposes implementing interventions early and therefore preventing disease or disability or the progression of such disease or disability (e.g., interventions during the subacute phase to prevent chronic back pain; Bell et al., 1995; Loisel et al., 2001; van Oostrom et al., 2009). [...]holistic approaches to health, such as the approach adopted by the field of occupational therapy, take into consideration the psychosocial factors associated with successful interventions, which establishes a more comprehensive approach to workplace disability management. (2010) also found that most postreturn phases of return-to-work programs encompass modified jobs and tasks that eliminate the impact and presence of the worker's disability but do not account for the social and psychological impact ofthe transition.
Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy Vol. 10, Iss. 1, (Jan 2018): 30-35.
Objective: Posttraumatic mental disorders may occur with different affect qualities. Best known is posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a conditioned anxiety reaction with intrusions. Another event-related mental disorder is posttraumatic embitterment (PTED), characterized by affect of embitterment and thoughts of revenge, occurring after an event deeply hurting basic beliefs. Knowing about associated disability is important for treatment and sociomedical decisions. This is the first study to explore work-disability in patients with PTSD, PTED, and not-event-related common mental disorder (CMD).. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Public Health England’s (PHE’s) ‘work as a health outcome’ programme seeks to promote healthcare professionals’ (HCPs) understanding of the health benefits of good work and encourage HCPs to have supportive conversations about work and health with their patients.
Senior clinicians and hospital leaders have again met with healthcare partners and patient representatives as discussions over the best way of keeping patients safe in the event of fragile services becoming unsustainable continue.
Enable, Shropshire Council’s supported employment service, is very proud that it is achieving outstanding job results for people with disabilities through its Work Choice programme.
The Work and Health Programme is a welfare-to-work programme which will be launched in autumn 2017. It will provide specialised support for those unemployed for over two years and, on a voluntary basis, to those with health conditions or disabilities. The Government expects that the majority of people referred to the Programme will be disabled.
To investigate the feasibility of a full-scale randomised controlled trial of a picture booklet to improve quality of life for people with epilepsy and learning disabilities. Open Access Article
Service data indicates that from a sample of 102 service users 80.4% had their families involved in their care.
In line with offering a combined healthy eating and physical activity programme the service is also piloting the Supporting Health and Promoting Exercise (SHAPE) physical health intervention programme, which uses the expertise of nutritionists, exercise physiologists and health trainers. It is a structured and intensive 12-week course with follow-up over 12 months, which includes a group educational programme and individually tailored exercises sessions.
This study examined transgenerational transmission of risk for female alcohol misuse. Women’s perceived similarity to their mother/father in adulthood was examined in terms of its influence on the expected association between perceived maternal alcohol use and female offsprings’ trajectories of alcohol misuse. We hypothesized that a daughter’s self-perceived similarity to her mother, in instances where her mother was perceived to be a frequent- or problem-drinker, would be associated with an increase in the daughter’s count of negative consequences from alcohol use and potential symptoms of alcohol dependence across adulthood.. Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
While interesting, it is difficult to see what practical implications this study has in terms of improving public health and preventing degenerative conditions such as dementia.
Other things that may help keep your brain healthy as you age include regular exercise, eating a healthy diet, not smoking and sticking to the recommendations on alcohol consumption.
This was a qualitative study of the experiences of 11 women who are informal carers of people with a long-term mental illness. The study aimed to gain an understanding of the characteristics of this particular caregiving context that contributes to the stress of the role, and to identify the ways in which services could support women in these roles to promote their wellbeing and support the recovery of those they care for. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
This review adds robust qualitative evidence that interviewing women about their abuse experiences can be a beneficial and healing experience for them.
Mental health nurses are in an ideal position to create a therapeutic environment to interview women about their abuse experiences. 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.
Difficulty in sleeping is associated with an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes, a study published in Diabetologia has found. To read the full article, log in using your NHS Athens
Throughout the life stages of women with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders (SSD), lower estrogen levels are associated with more severe disease course. At perimenopause in the mid-forties, estrogen levels decline to remain persistently low after menopause. This period is hypothesized to increase relapse risk and reduce antipsychotic effectiveness in preventing relapse.
Commentary on: Chou AIW, Wang Y-C, Lin C-L, et al. Female schizophrenia patients and risk of breast cancer: a population-based cohort study. Schizophrenia Research 2017;188:165–171.
What is already known on this topic
Research into rates of breast cancer in women with schizophrenia shows conflicting results, with reports of increased, decreased and the same risk as the general population. This is despite women with schizophrenia possibly being at increased risk of breast cancer through use of antipsychotic medications, many of which increase prolactin, a hormone involved in cellular differentiation of the mammary glands. This study1 investigated rates of breast cancer in individuals with schizophrenia compared with the general population.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Commentary on: Chou AIW, Wang Y-C, Lin C-L, et al. Female schizophrenia patients and risk of breast cancer: a population-based cohort study. Schizophrenia Research 2017;188:165–171.
What is already known on this topic
Research into rates of breast cancer in women with schizophrenia shows conflicting results, with reports of increased, decreased and the same risk as the general population. This is despite women with schizophrenia possibly being at increased risk of breast cancer through use of antipsychotic medications, many of which increase prolactin, a hormone involved in cellular differentiation of the mammary glands. This study1 investigated rates of breast cancer in individuals with schizophrenia compared with the general population.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
A study by Glasgow University has added weight to assertions that type 1 and type 2 diabetes can affect birth outcomes.
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Commentary on: Rasmussen M-LH, Strøm M, Wohlfahrt J et al. Risk, treatment duration, and recurrence risk of postpartum affective disorder in women with no prior psychiatric history: a population-based cohort study. PLoS Med. 2017;14(9): e1002392.
What is already known on this topic
Postpartum depression (PPD) has an estimated prevalence of 10%–15%1 with associated negative maternal and child sequelae if left untreated. Following an episode of PPD, women are more likely to experience recurrent postpartum and non-postpartum depressive episodes, regardless of whether this was a first or subsequent depressive episode.2 PPD prevalence estimates typically include women with and without pre-existing psychiatric diagnoses. Thus, there is a poor understanding of potential differences in recurrence risk and treatment duration between these two groups.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Postpartum depression (PPD) has an estimated prevalence of 10%–15%1 with associated negative maternal and child sequelae if left untreated. Following an episode of PPD, women are more likely to experience recurrent postpartum and non-postpartum depressive episodes, regardless of whether this was a first or subsequent depressive episode.2 PPD prevalence estimates typically include women with and without pre-existing psychiatric diagnoses. Thus, there is a poor understanding of potential differences in recurrence risk and treatment duration between these two groups.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
This study provides weak evidence that morning types might be slightly better off than others when it comes to avoiding depression. But bear in mind the results were based on a very specific group of people, and it's not possible to say with any certainty that depression risk is influenced by sleep habits.
A long-running study of 191 middle-aged Swedish women who took a one-off fitness test in 1969, found those with the highest fitness levels were much less likely to develop dementia than less fit women, and that if they did, they were on average 10 years older at age of diagnosis.
The study adds to evidence linking physical fitness with better mental health in later life. However, the relatively small size of the study, and its observational nature, mean we can't be sure that high fitness levels protect against dementia. Other factors could be involved.
A large Harvard study showed that predominantly white Christian nurses who attended religious services more than once a week had a 33% lower relative risk of dying over a 16-year period compared with similar women who did not attend religious services.
A sizeable chunk of the link was explained by social support (23%), smoking rates (23%) and, to a lesser extent, optimism differences (9%) between attenders and non-attenders.
The study was very large, precise, and as robust to bias and confounding as you could reasonably expect, so it can be considered reliable. But the lifestyle and social differences between the groups can't go unnoticed.
It's therefore possible that the regular pattern of social interaction associated with being part of a religious community, and the benefits this brings, is mainly responsible for the outcome seen in this research, rather than any specific religious or spiritual aspects.
The research suggests that if newer HPV testing is more effective than the standard cervical screening test that looks for abnormal cells, this could also benefit women who haven’t been vaccinated against HPV. With the new type of test, these women may only need half as many cervical screening tests as they are currently offered in their lifetime.
It's well known that fast food can be high in saturated and trans fats, sugars and salt, and therefore should be eaten in moderation. However, this study doesn't provide convincing evidence that the odd burger and fries will slash your chances of conceiving.
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