Ayana Cant summarises the findings from a recent umbrella review on the social determinants of mental health in major depressive disorder, which suggests that early life adversities, intimate partner violence, and food insecurity were the biggest risk factors for depression.
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For: povertyTraumatic stress in Palestinian children and young people in the Gaza Strip
Rasanat Fatima Nawaz and Hayley Gains summarise a scoping review exploring the impact of war on Palestinian children and young people residing in the Gaza Strip.
[read the full story...]Unjust: how inequality and mental health intertwine
Andy Bell reflects on a recent peer research study and shares the steps that any mental health service can take to help people reclaim their rights, their personhood, and their equal citizenship.
[read the full story...]Digital privilege? Negative effects of screen time linked to lower socioeconomic status in adolescence
In his debut blog, Isaac Winterburn evaluates an Irish longitudinal cohort study examining the impact of digital use and socioeconomic status on adolescent wellbeing.
[read the full story...]Introducing the Hope service: we need to provide practical support to men at risk of suicide
In his debut blog, Michael J. Wilson appraises a qualitative study, which examined service users, staff and stakeholder perspectives on a service helping to prevent suicide in men who are going through a crisis.
[read the full story...]There is a clear association between socioeconomic deprivation and self-harm
A group of UCL masters student review a multi-centre study on socio-economic disparities in patients who present to hospital for self-harm in England, which found large variations in patients characteristics and pre-self-harm experiences.
[read the full story...]We need a whole system approach to tackling early childhood inequality: new research on health and educational outcomes in adolescence
In her debut blog, Dr Huong Le evaluates a UK population-based retrospective cohort study investigating the impact of early childhood disadvantage on a variety of adverse health and educational outcomes in adolescence.
[read the full story...]Mental health care and the benefits system: linked data provides opportunities for new research
Becky Appleton explores the potential of new data linkage opportunities for understanding the intersection between mental health service use and receipt of benefits in a South London service user population.
[read the full story...]Income inequality and poor mental health: should we be focusing more on young people’s own perceptions?
In her debut elf blog, Kadra Abdinasir from Centre for Mental Health explores the relationship between perceived income inequality, adverse mental health and interpersonal difficulties in UK adolescents.
[read the full story...]If mental illness excludes us from the labour market, how can we make employment work for all?
Ian Cummins reviews a Danish population-based cohort study, which finds that all mental health disorders were associated with shorter working life.
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