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Research Professor Louise Howard Professor Ian Jones April 2016
Research Professor Louise Howard Professor Ian Jones April 2016
Why is research important? Perinatal mental health care needs evidence for:
– Clinical care – NICE recs – Commissioning – Decision making YOU can participate by: – Being a local collaborator/PI (+ generate income for your Trust
via CRN/RCPsych for portfolio studies) e.g. ESMI-MBU – Referring women to local and national studies e.g. PDA study;
surveillance studies (CAPPS); BDRN – Doing research
(Fellowships/MD/RfPB; Research Design Service)
Effectiveness & cost-effectiveness of services for acute perinatal care (ESMI) Work stream 3 Observational study comparing: •Psychiatric Mother & Baby Units •Generic Inpatient Wards •Home Treatment Teams Primary 1 year outcomes: •Readmission rate •Number of inpatient days
Secondary outcomes: •Service use and cost-effectiveness •Quality of life •Unmet needs •Service user experience Use of propensity scores and instrumental variables
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www.kcl.ac.uk/decisionaid
Women's Mental Health Research Summer School
What factors impact women’s mental health? How can interventions to improve women’s mental health
be designed and evaluated? What are the key ethical and safety issues in women’s
mental health research – and how can they be managed?
When? 8th & 9th September 2016
Where? King’s College London, Denmark Hill
How to enrol Contact Vanessa Frederick ([email protected]) for information about costs and booking
Designed and taught by members of the Section for Women’s Mental Health, this 2 day course provides an introduction to research methods to investigate risk factors and the effectiveness of interventions for women’s mental health problems.
The BDRN Study
Bipolar UK (prev. MDF)
NHS services
Other
N = 6007
Prospective Pregnancy Study
Sleep Monitoring
Collaborative Network for Bipolar Research to Improve Outcomes
£1,490,403 (2014 - 2017)
www.ncmh.info [email protected]
• Recruited nearly 6000 participants across Wales
• Clinical / psycho-social / biological data and routine follow up via SAIL
• Perinatal disorders one of our “core phenoytpes”
• Now recruiting in English trusts
