Many of us will know someone who may have been affected by a mental health difficulty and as a result has been unable to work, whether that’s temporarily or permanently. This has a huge impact on the millions of lives of those affected as well as their families, friends and colleagues, and the wider society, as it costs billions of pounds each year. In this blog, Dr Sharon Stevelink, Senior Lecturer in Epidemiology at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, and NIHR Advanced Fellow, looks at the potential for linking data sets to understand the impact of the benefits system on mental health and work.
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NIHR Maudsley BRC at 16 Feb 2023
SlowMo, an inclusive, digitally supported therapy for paranoia, has been awarded £1.3 million funding by Wellcome to scale up in three NHS Trusts.
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NIHR Maudsley BRC at 20 Jan 2023
Emilie Wildman is a PhD student in the Department of Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, whose recent PhD study has explored the rates, types and impacts of violence towards relatives and informal carers by people living with severe mental health conditions (e.g., schizophrenia or bipolar disorder). In this blog, Emilie discusses the review’s findings, and why it is important to raise awareness of this misunderstood and often hidden problem.
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NIHR Maudsley BRC at 13 Jan 2023
Research funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre proposes a new framework to empower young people in providing informed consent to social media data access by researchers to better understand the relationship between social media and young people’s mental health.
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NIHR Maudsley BRC at 10 Jan 2023
