Ana Veic explores a review on the female migrant experience in accessing mental health support in primary care settings across Europe, which concludes that services must be culturally aware and gender sensitive.
[read the full story...]How can we make children and young people’s mental health care more evidence-based?
In her debut blog, Robyn Bosworth summarises a systematic review investigating the barriers and facilitators of implementing evidence-based practice into mental health services for children and young people.
[read the full story...]Psychotherapy presents hope for people in South Asia with depression and a non-communicable disease
A team of experts from the Global NIHR Centre for IMPACT consider the findings of a recent review, which looks at the effectiveness and implementation of psychological interventions for depression in people with non-communicable diseases in Pakistan and Bangladesh.
[read the full story...]Gender identity and eating disorders: clinician’s perceptions of care for transgender and gender diverse patients
Sophie Archer’s debut blog summarises a qualitative study exploring healthcare provider perspectives on barriers and facilitators to transgender and gender diverse patients accessing and receiving support for eating disorders.
[read the full story...]Mental health support teams in schools: an evaluation of the UK Trailblazer programme
Lucinda Powell reflects on an early evaluation of the Children and Young People’s Mental Health Trailblazer programme, which looked at the first 25 ‘Trailblazer’ sites implementing mental health support teams in schools.
[read the full story...]Children vs dependent older people – facilitators and barriers to providing oral hygiene
In this their latest blog Gemma Gaw, Suzy Harkness, Emma O’Donnell Scottish Specialty Registrars in Special Care Dentistry look at a review comparing barriers and facilitators to providing oral health measures for both children and dependent older adults.
[read the full story...]Blended CBT for depression: does it affect the working alliance?
Destiny Kumari summarises a study on practitioners’ experience of the working alliance in a blended CBT intervention for depression.
[read the full story...]Oral health interventions for people with severe mental illness: what enables and prevents people from accessing them?
Vishal Aggarwal considers the findings of a recent qualitative study, which looks at the contextual factors, barriers, and facilitators to accessing oral health interventions for people with severe mental illness.
[read the full story...]Telemental health: mega-blog on remote mental health care during the pandemic
In her debut blog, Philippa Clery presents the findings of three studies from the NIHR Mental Health Policy Research Unit, which explore the acceptability and efficacy of telemental health during the COVID-19 pandemic.
[read the full story...]What are the barriers and facilitators affecting engagement with digital mental health interventions?
Theo Kyriacou and Andie Ashdown blog about a systematic review that explores the barriers and facilitators to engagement with digital mental health interventions, which has some interesting findings for app developers and researchers.
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