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“It’s real life, isn’t it?” Integrated simulation teaching in undergraduate psychiatry education – a qualitative study
(2021-08)Purpose High-fidelity simulation has well-established educational value. However, its use in psychiatry remains underexplored. This study explores medical students’ experiences of high-fidelity simulation teaching during ... -
Conducting research into assaults on mental health nurses during COVID-19: a reflection on a professional and ethical dilemma
(2021-08)This article describes and reflects upon ethical dilemmas encountered during the data collection phase of a doctoral study exploring the experiences of mental health nurses who have been assaulted by patients in secure ... -
The Africa Ethics Working Group (AEWG): a model of collaboration for psychiatric genomic research in Africa [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]
(2021-07)The Africa Ethics Working Group (AEWG) is a South-South-North collaboration of bioethics and mental health researchers from sub-Saharan Africa, working to tackle emerging ethical challenges in global mental health research. ... -
SPICE-19: a 3-Month Prospective Cohort Study of 640 Medical Students and Foundation Doctors
(2021)Introduction There is paucity of data around the support that medical students have been provided with, need to be provided with, and would like to be provided with during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study sought to explore ... -
Psychological wellbeing and mental health amongst medical undergraduates: A descriptive study assessing more than 1,000 medical students in Sri Lanka
(2021-06)Studies from around the world have shown higher rates of anxiety, depression, alcohol and other drug use, and burnout in medical students. Aims: The aim of this study was to identify the socio-demographic factors and ... -
The psychiatry virtual-on-call experience: Can it improve confidence of foundation and GP trainees with out-of-hours work in psychiatry?
(2021-06)Out-of-hours (‘on-call’) work can be perceived by junior doctors to be a daunting experience, associated with feeling unprepared and less supported. Simulated on-call programmes have been used to great effect in medicine ... -
Enhancing psychological safety in mental health services
(2021-04)Background Psychological safety—speaking up about ideas and concerns, free from interpersonal risk—are essential to the high-risk environment, such as healthcare settings. Psychologically safe working is particularly ... -
Protocol for a scoping review exploring the use of patient-reported outcomes in adult social care
(2021-04)Introduction Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) are measures of a person’s own views of their health, functioning and quality of life. They are typically assessed using validated, self-completed questionnaires known as ... -
Making sense of child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS): An audit of the referral journey and the use of routine outcome measures (ROMS)
(2021-03)There is increased emphasis on the national reporting of Routine Outcome Measures (ROMS) as a way of improving Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). This data needs to be viewed in context so that reasons ... -
Delivering training during pandemic times and beyond
(2021-03)During the COVID-19 pandemic, many face-to-face training courses are being redesigned to be delivered virtually. In the UK, the Sexually Transmitted Infection Foundation (STIF) Course is traditionally a 2-day training ... -
The wh-questions of network meta-analyses
(2019-10)Currently, network meta-analyses (NMAs) are the only technique that allow us to compare and rank numerous treatments across trials. Evidence produced by NMAs relies on pooled data from both direct and indirect comparisons ... -
Strategies for preventing occupational stress in healthcare workers: past evidence, current problems
(2021)The problem of occupational stress in healthcare workers is hardly new, but effective interventions in this area are lacking despite being sorely needed – especially in the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. The review ... -
Global perspectives on under‐funding for Clinical Research Training Fellowships in Nursing
(2021-03)The impact of nursing research is well described in the literature and nurses have a long‐standing track record in delivering high‐quality clinical research that adds value and improves patient care and outcomes (Ferguson ... -
Nursing Resilience Interventions - A way forward in challenging healthcare territories
(2020-04)Resilience in nursing must be viewed and acknowledged as a dynamic, fluid process that requires continuous nurturing and commitment, as well as adaptability and flexibility in the face of changing professional and personal ... -
The Development of Guidance for Responding to Disclosure of Non‐recent Child Sexual Abuse within a Large Provider of Health Services for Adults and Children
(2021-01)In a large community health organisation, following high-proile cases of non-recent(historical) child sexual abuse, there was an increase in such disclosures and in uncertainties voiced by clinicians, both medical and ... -
Dealing with categorical risk data when extracting data for meta-analysis
(2021-01)A common problem in meta-analysis of observational studies arises when the exposure variable is categorical rather than continuous. These data may be referred to as quantile or quintile data (depending on the number of ... -
Interventions and strategies aimed at clinical academic pathway development for nurses in the United Kingdom: A systematised review of the literature
(2021-01)Aims and objectives To review interventions and strategies designed to progress UK clinical academic career pathways in nursing and identify barriers and facilitators to aid wider implementation. Background For over a ... -
Waiting list eradication in secondary care psychology: Addressing a National Health Service blind spot
(2021)Objectives: Waiting times for secondary care psychological therapy remain a 'blind spot' in serious mental illness (SMI) provision, and their reduction is a priority within the National Health Service (NHS) Five Year Forward ... -
Extracting data from diagnostic test accuracy studies for meta-analysis
(2021-01)It is important that DTA reviews summarise all the available evidence. Studies in which the necessary information is not fully reported should not necessarily be excluded from pooled analyses. As reported in this article, ... -
Ethical Issues in Consent for the Re-use of Data in Health Data Platforms
(2020-12)Data platforms represent a new paradigm for carrying out health research. In the platform model, datasets are pooled for remote access and analysis, so novel insights for developing better stratified and / or personalised ...
