Service user and carer priorities in a Biomedical Research Centre for mental health

Popular television and public mental health: creating media entertainment from mental distress

“…While expert advice is sought on 'prop' related issues and medical aspects of story trajectories this is not the case when it comes to more important matters concerning the function and role of medication, treatment and recovery. This risks ignoring vigorous and ongoing debates within the field of public mental health regarding service users and the burden of medication (Robotham et al, 2016).…”

Improving recruitment to healthcare research studies: clinician judgements explored for opting mental health service users out of the time to change viewpoint survey

“…Other studies have shown that people living with severe mental health problems have an interest in research and setting research priorities (Robotham et al, 2016;Rose et al, 2008), have capacity to understand the complexities of consent process and what is being asked of them (Roberts et al, 2006), and have opinions on research quality in RCTs (Xia et al, 2009). In busy mental health services there is little capacity for practitioners to discuss research with clients, helping them to understand information sheets and weigh up whether they want to consent to join a study.…”

Mental health phenotyping in UK Biobank

“…The Composite International Diagnostic Interview Short Form (CIDI-SF) modified to provide lifetime history had been used to identify cases and controls for some existing studies in the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium, so modules from this were chosen to maximise the scope for international collaboration. 18,19 A service user advisory group at the National Institute of Health Research Biomedical Research Centre at the Maudsley was consulted over the design of the questionnaire and invitation 20 and it was piloted in nearly 15 000 people over 50 years old through an online platform. 21 Table 1 summarises the measures included in the MHQ and the suggested outcomes or phenotypes that can be derived.…”