Kirsten Lawson summarises the ECoWeB PROMOTE and PREVENT trials in relation to self-helps apps for promoting wellbeing and preventing mental ill health among young adults.
[read the full story...]Are psychological interventions effective in preventing relapse and recurrence in depression?
Andrea Cipriani is back, this time writing with Rosario Aronica to summarise an individual patient data meta-analysis on the use of psychological interventions for preventing relapse in depression.
[read the full story...]Keep on movin’… Even small doses of physical activity can lower our risk of depression
Elli Kypraiou considers a systematic review published in JAMA Psychiatry, which suggests that relatively small doses of physical activity were associated with substantially lower risks of depression.
[read the full story...]Preventing the onset of depressive disorders #DepressionSolvingTheToll part 1
Part 1 in a four-part series on solving the toll of depression on populations. A talk given by Professor Pim Cuijpers, Professor of Clinical Psychology at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, and Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Dissemination of Psychological Interventions.
In this talk, Pim Cuijpers focuses on preventing depressive disorders.
[read the full story...]Reducing stigma and sickness absence: can a low intensity psychological intervention help us ‘Prevail’?
Emmeline Lagunes-Cordoba summarises a cluster randomised controlled trial exploring the effectiveness of a low-intensity psychological intervention to reduce mental health stigma and improve help-seeking in the workplace.
[read the full story...]Menopause in the workplace revisited: A feminist perspective and a visit to the Employment Tribunal (ET)
For the last in our World Menopause Day 2023 series, we are combining a paper and some recent case law, to think about some of the things that have been discussed this week through these blog posts.
[read the full story...]The Body Project peer-led eating disorders prevention programme shows promise for bulimia nervosa and purging disorder
Georgie Parker summarises a recent study which outlines the results of three trials exploring the effectiveness of a peer-led dissonance-based programme for preventing the onset of eating disorders.
[read the full story...]Interventions to foster resilience in nursing staff may help (a little) in the short-term
Olga Lainidi summarises a recent systematic review and meta-analysis investigating the effectiveness of resilience interventions on the mental health of nursing staff.
[read the full story...]Can social recovery therapy improve social disability in young people?
In her debut blog, Jude Madani summarises the findings of the PRODIGY trial, which looked at the clinical and cost-effectiveness of social recovery therapy for the prevention and treatment of long-term social disability among young people with emerging severe mental illness.
[read the full story...]Community arts participation linked with wellbeing, life satisfaction and purpose in older adults
Karen Mak considers a recent study that explores the associations between participation in community arts groups and aspects of wellbeing in older adults in the US.
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