Antidepressant withdrawal: recommendations for support from people with lived experience

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Hannah Bowers summarises a study exploring the need for antidepressant withdrawal support, from 708 survey respondents with lived experience.

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What treatment outcomes are important to adolescents with depression? Novel findings from a Q-study

While this study demonstrated strengths in participant involvement and novelty, participants identified important missing outcomes, and the recruitment method excluded participants who may have prioritised different outcomes.

In her debut blog, Danielle Brocklebank summarises a Q-sort study which sought to identify which treatment outcomes are the most important to young people with depression.

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Do British newspapers breach suicide reporting guidelines?

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Caroline Tomes highlights a new study that explores suicide reporting in the arts sections of British newspapers. The study concludes that there is poor compliance with suicide reporting guidelines in British newspapers, but further research is needed before we can generalise these findings.

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Defining Pilates exercise

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Have you ever taken part in or even taught a Pilates class? Do you really know what it is and could you define it for others? We were interested to read a recently published paper by authors from Australia that aimed to describe Pilates exercise according to peer-reviewed literature, and compare definitions used in papers [read the full story…]