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The CRPD and Mental Health Law Reform in Scotland

Journal Article
Stavert, J. (in press)
The CRPD and Mental Health Law Reform in Scotland. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijlp.2024.101991
Scotland's mental health and capacity legislation and its implementation is underpinned by European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) informed principles, and such legislation...

Exploring Nurse's Perceptions of Integration of Mental Health Services in HIV/AIDS Treatment in Lesotho: A Qualitative Survey

Journal Article
Ramokanate, S., Nyangu, I., & Rathobei, L. M. (2023)
Exploring Nurse's Perceptions of Integration of Mental Health Services in HIV/AIDS Treatment in Lesotho: A Qualitative Survey. New Voices in psychology, 13, Article 15566. https://doi.org/10.25159/2958-3918/15566

Evaluation of a web-based intervention to optimize perinatal emotional wellbeing: A nested case-control study

Journal Article
Kuipers, Y. J., Bleijenbergh, R., Rimaux, S., & Mestdagh, E. (2024)
Evaluation of a web-based intervention to optimize perinatal emotional wellbeing: A nested case-control study. International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, 24(1), Article 100422. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijchp.2023.100422
Background/Objective: WazzUp Mama© is a remotely delivered web-based tailored intervention to prevent and reduce perinatal emotional distress, originally developed in the Net...

People with Learning Disability: Scotland and Beyond

Book Chapter
Stavert, J. (2023)
People with Learning Disability: Scotland and Beyond. In B. D. Kelly, & M. Donnelly (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Mental Health Law (166-178). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003226413
‘Learning disability’ is currently included in the statutory definition of ‘mental disorder’ used by Scottish capacity and mental health legislation, along with mental illness...

Research Report for COVID-19 Public Inquiry

Report
This report was commissioned by the Scottish Covid-19 Inquiry as introductory scoping research.

Sharing data to better understand one of the world’s most significant shared experiences: Data Resource Profile of the longitudinal COVID-19 Psychological Research Consortium (C19PRC) Study

Journal Article
McBride, O., Butter, S., Hartman, T. K., Murphy, J., Hyland, P., Shevlin, M., …Bentall, R. P. (2022)
Sharing data to better understand one of the world’s most significant shared experiences: Data Resource Profile of the longitudinal COVID-19 Psychological Research Consortium (C19PRC) Study. International Journal of Population Data Science, 5(4), https://doi.org/10.23889/ijpds.v5i4.1704
This paper serves to alert IJPDS readers to the availability of a major new longitudinal survey data resource, the COVID-19 Psychological Research Consortium (C19PRC) Study, w...

Scottish Mental Health Law Review: Final Report

Report
McKay, C., Stavert, J., Scott, J., Martin, K., Rankin, A., & Morgan, G. (2022)
Scottish Mental Health Law Review: Final Report. Scottish Government
Report commissioned by Scottish Ministers to review Scottish mental health, capacity and adult protection law, to improve the rights and protections of persons with a mental d...

The Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland: the views and experiences of Patients, Named Persons, Practitioners and Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland members

Report
Stavert, J., Brown, M. J., & McDonald, A. (2022)
The Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland: the views and experiences of Patients, Named Persons, Practitioners and Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland members. Nuffield Foundation

Childhood adversity, mental health and suicide (CHASE): a longitudinal case-control linked data study of lifetime inpatient records associated with suicide

Journal Article
Savinc, J., Dougall, N., Maxwell, M., Karatzias, T., O'Connor, R., Williams, B., …Nolan, L. (2022)
Childhood adversity, mental health and suicide (CHASE): a longitudinal case-control linked data study of lifetime inpatient records associated with suicide. International Journal of Population Data Science, 7(3), https://doi.org/10.23889/ijpds.v7i3.1878
Objectives Childhood adversity (CA) carries an increased risk of developing later mental health (MH) problems and suicidal behaviour. This study aimed to summarise lifetime ho...

A process evaluation of 'We Can Quit': a community-based smoking cessation intervention targeting women from areas of socio-disadvantage in Ireland

Journal Article
Darker, C. D., Burke, E., Castello, S., O'Sullivan, K., O'Connell, N., Vance, J., …Hayes, C. B. (in press)
A process evaluation of 'We Can Quit': a community-based smoking cessation intervention targeting women from areas of socio-disadvantage in Ireland. BMC Public Health, 22(1), Article 1528. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-13957-5
Background: Smoking poses a serious risk of early preventable death and disease especially for women living with socio-economic disadvantage (SED). A smoking cessation program...
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Increasing Physical Activity in a Medium Secure Service: The Development and Feasibility of a Physical ACTivity Intervention

2021 - 2023
Many people become overweight due to the effects of poor diet, and less active lifestyles. Being obese can affect people s heath and lead to type 2 diabetes and heart problems, People with severe ment...
Funder: National Institute for Health Research | Value: £15,487

Modular Therapy (MT) vs. Treatment as Usual (TAU) for Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD) in Military Personnel: A Pilot Study

2021 - 2024
ICD-11 Complex PTSD is a new condition and there are currently no identified effective treatments. We have recently proposed in the literature a new innovative person centred intervention for CPTSD, w...
Funder: Forces in Mind Trust | Value: £304,494

A realist evaluation of the implementation of a Continuous Intervention Policy in inpatient mental health services in Scotland.

2020 - 2025
A realist evaluation of the implementation of a Continuous Intervention Policy in inpatient mental health services in Scotland. NHS Boards in Scotland are implementing new observation policies in line...
Funder: NHS Lothian | Value: £4,743

The RECO study: Realist Evaluation of service models and systems for CO- existing serious mental health and substance use conditions.

2020 - 2022
The impact of serious mental health difficulties can be severe, long-lasting, and can seriously affect peoples' lives over a long period of time. It is common for people who experience serious mental ...
Funder: National Institute for Health Research | Value: £218,651

HEADS: UP (Helping Ease Anxiety and Depression following Stroke) psychological self-management intervention: non-randomised pilot study followed by a randomised cluster pilot trial.

2019 - 2023
The aim of this mixed methods research is to conduct feasibility pilot testing of a tailored adaptation of an existing psychological intervention to help people affected by stroke self-manage symptoms...
Funder: Stroke Association | Value: £5,181

Understanding and Maximising the Roles and Contributions of NHS Chaplains across UK

2019 - 2019
The NHS in the UK employs an estimated 1,500+ chaplains. Chaplains deliver specialist spiritual care to patients and staff across the NHS, offering comfort to those of all faith and none. Despite the ...
Funder: Chief Scientists Office | Value: £29,626

Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) post perinatal loss: investigating final details for pilot trial and feasibility study

2019 - 2019
Approximately 3,500 women in the UK experience the trauma of perinatal loss each year. Up to 39% go on to develop perinatal PTSD. There is no effective treatment for these women, but EMDR is effective...
Funder: Chief Scientists Office | Value: £33,319

Queer Futures 2

2019 - 2022
Queer Futures 2 is a large national UK study to identify and evaluate early intervention mental health support and services for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning+ (LGBTQ+) young p...
Funder: National Institute for Health Research | Value: £4,939

The role of CHildhood Adversities and their subsequent effect on mental ill-health and Suicidal behaviour (CHASe)

2018 - 2020
Deaths by suicide among young people are common, increasing year by year in 15-19 year olds, have devastating consequences for everyone involved, and are a signficant UK public health problem. People ...
Funder: Chief Scientists Office | Value: £80,064

An examination of the assessment of vulnerability for suicide for those who have experienced intimate partner violence: A cross-cultural comparison between Hong Kong and Scotland.

2018 - 2022
The aim of this research is to examine policing, health professionals’ and victims’ understandings of the assessment of vulnerability for suicide in IPV victims, incorporating a cross-cultural compari...
Funder: Scottish Institute for Policing Research | Value: £81,928