This is the second of three-blog posts to celebrate World Menopause Day 2023, Daisy Long looks at the social constructions of menopause based on a paper recently published in the Journal of Aging.
[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...]Menopause in the workplace: A blog to celebrate World Menopause Day 2023
Today, 18th October 2023, is World Menopause Day. It’s the now annual discussion on the impact that menopause has for the individual in the workplace, in the family and in our communities.
[read the full story...]Flap or flapless surgery for immediate implant placement?
This review comparing immediate implant placement using flap or flapless surgery included 5 small RCTs involving a total of 140 patients. The findings suggested a benefit for flapless srugery but in addition to being small the studies were short term and 3 of the 5 studies were considered to be at high risk of bias.
[read the full story...]To seek or not to seek? COVID information-seeking linked to poorer mental health
Olga Lainidi summarises a paper from the UK COVID-19-MH study, which explores the links between COVID-19 information-seeking behaviours during the pandemic, and depression, anxiety and loneliness.
[read the full story...]Cost of living linked to depression in healthcare workers
Lisa Lloyd summarises a UK-based cohort study investigating the associations between financial concerns and the development of depression in healthcare workers.
[read the full story...]The pill and ‘baby blues’: does experiencing depression with hormonal contraception predict postpartum depression?
Flo Martin explores a recent cohort study of Danish registry data that investigate whether women with a history of depression associated with using hormonal contraception were also at a higher risk of developing postpartum depression.
[read the full story...]Continuing Professional Development is an emotional experience as well as a learning one.
Daisy Long summarises a qualitative study regarding the emotional experience of learning in and of itself for individual social workers and how early learning experiences can shape current responses.
[read the full story...]Prenatal vitamin D and enamel defects
This review of the the potential impact of prenatal Vitamin D levels on enamel defects and tooth erosion included 7 studies. While the findings suggest an association between Vitamin D and emamel defects the studies varied in relation to the study designs, Vitamin D assessment methods, enamel defect assessment, and demographic characteristics of the populations studied so the findings should be interpreted very cautiously.
[read the full story...]Clinical severity and instability as predictors for psychiatric hospitalisation: can one size fit all?
Florian Walter summarises a retrospective cohort study published in The Lancet Psychiatry that investigates whether early trajectories of clinical global impression severity can transdiagnostically predict later psychiatric hospitalisation.
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