Keele Mental Health Research Group

06/01/2023

Opportunity for people aged 60 years and over living in Staffordshire to participate in a local research project. The research is led by Keele University in collaboration with Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service. See flyer. Please share. Happy to answer any questions.

05/12/2021

We are looking for women with experience of perinatal anxiety to join our public involvement group. We have a meeting next week to discuss our latest research and would value your input.... see flyer for further details. PLEASE SHARE.

19/10/2018

New study on perinatal anxiety launched... see flyer for details

17/07/2017

A publication from the mental health team. Please see/share this link http://rdcu.be/t9jy

29/06/2017

Check out the special edition in BMC Family Practice on the impact of comorbidity and multimorbidity in Primary Care - with research from members of the Mental Health Research Group featured! Well done Shula Baker and co-authors Carolyn Chew-Graham, John McBeth and Ross Wilkie https://www.biomedcentral.com/collections/multimorbidityinprimarycare

Comorbidity and multimorbidity are often defined as the co-existence of two or more long-term medical conditions. Comorbidity and multimorbidity have been shown to be associated with adverse health outcomes, such as poor quality of life, disability, psychological problems and increased mortality. Th...

17/03/2017

Reflecting on a fantastic Primary Care Mental Health conference yesterday... 'Ethics: a friend of research' was the theme of the day, Prof. Sumathipala set the tone with his opening talk and reflections on ethics in research. Followed by Jonathan Ives, who drilled down into those taken-for-granted assumptions around the unspoken individual and social obligations of research participation. Further highlights included parallel sessions delivered by: Dr Lisa Dikomitis, Dr Buddhika Lalani Fernando, Annabelle Machin, Alice Moult and Dr Saeed Farooq. A breaking news section with a first look at results from trials: CASPERplus (Dr Dean McMillan) MIR Trial (Dr David Kessler) and SCIMITAR (Prof Simon Gilbody). Congratulations to our prize winners: Nadine Mirza (best presentation), Yumna Masood (best poster) and Abigail Taylor (best abstract). All wrapped up on time by our excellent chair: Prof. Chew-Graham. Over to University of Southampton for 2018!!

14/11/2016

Our poster on metaphors for medically unexplained symptoms survived the plane ride, folded up in my case, and proved extremely popular at the NAPCRG2016 annual conference. Didn't stop talking for the entire poster session! Lots of interest from family physicians, suggestions for collaborations, and invitations from editors to publish our work. Not bad.

14/11/2016

Checking in at the NAPCRG 2016 annual conference in Colorado Springs. Couple of photos for you, enjoy!

07/10/2016

Congratulations to Dr Saeed Farooq (our Clinical Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry) for his prize winning poster at the RCPsych Faculty of General Adult Psychiatry conference. As pictured, a great piece of research and a worthy prize winner, I think you'll agree...

06/10/2016

Great to see our mental health research on show at the RCGP conference in Harrogate! Thanks to our representatives at the conference Carolyn Chew-Graham and Athula Sumathipala, and to our collaborators at Age UK (NOTEPAD Study) and South Staffordshire & Shropshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (Metaphors study)...

17/11/2015

Congratulations to Athula Sumathipala, Debra Green and colleagues for presenting their research at the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Faculty of Perinatal Psychiatry Annual Scientific Meeting...