Delivering digital mental health care
This month’s Digital Health Unplugged focuses on delivering digital mental health care and how technology has been used during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Category: Mental Health
Commonwealth Fund
Mental health conditions and substance use: comparing US needs and treatment capacity with those in other high-income countries
This data brief examines the mental health burden in the United States compared with 10 other high-income countries (including the United Kingdom) that participate in the Commonwealth Fund’s annual international health policy survey. It also looks at the relationship between mental health burden and social determinants of health, differences in seeking care, access and affordability of care, mental health and substance use disorder outcomes, and health system capacity
Read the data brief here
Mental Health
Stepchange: mentally healthy universities
This strategic framework sets out a whole university approach to mental health and wellbeing at universities. It calls on universities to see mental health as foundational to all aspects of university life, for all students and all staff.
Read more here
Mental Health
Research briefing on the benefits of kindness
The Mental Health Foundation found that 63% of UK adults agree that being kind to others has a positive impact on their mental health
Read more in the briefing here
COVID-19 Resources
King’s Fund resources to support mental wellbeing
The King’s Fund have brought together some resources providing practical tools and information to support the mental health and wellbeing of health care workers during the COVID-19 crisis.
Find the resources here
Mental Health Awareness Week 2020
Hosted by the Mental Health Foundation, Mental Health Awareness Week 2020 takes place 18-24 May
The theme is kindness and you can read more here
Working From Home
Zoom fatigue: how to make video calls less tiring
Many phrases have entered our vocabulary as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown “Zoom fatigue” refers to the mental exhaustion associated with online video conferencing.
Read here for advice on how to get the most out of online video conferencing
Mental Health
Mental health advice for older people during the COVID-19 outbreak
Advice for older people from the Mental Health Foundation on keeping safe and looking after their mental health at this time.
Read the advice here
Coronavirus
Three ways people are reacting to coronavirus: ‘accepting’, ‘suffering’ and ‘resisting’
There remains near-universal backing for the coronavirus lockdown among the UK public. This study shows three main clusters within the population, the “accepting”, the “suffering” and the “resisting”.
Read more here
Lockdown Singing
The science of why music helps us connect in isolation
One of the most encouraging phenomena we have begun to see in response to social distancing laws are the innovative ways that people are starting to bond with each other, particularly musically.
Read more here