Tag: evidence based practice

Suicide Prevention and Self Harm Bulletin

January 2026

The latest Suicide Prevention and Self Harm bulletin from Mersey Care Evidence and Library Service can now be viewed at https://www.evidentlybetter.org/bulletins/suicide-prevention/

This webpage features key links and emerging reports about suicide prevention.

In this issue:  

  • LGB+ people in England and Wales ‘much’ more likely to die by suicide than straight people
  • Suicidal ideation among people with different gambling behaviour profiles: analysis of a longitudinal survey of people who gamble regularly in the UK
  • Visual content and thematic analyses of images shared on social media before and after episodes of self-harm in a UK clinical youth sample
  • What lies beneath hair-pulling and skin-picking behaviours? The role of early maladaptive schemas
  • Plus much more
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Depression and Anxiety Bulletin

January 2026

The latest Depression & Anxiety Bulletin from Mersey Care Evidence and Library Service is ready for you to view at https://www.evidentlybetter.org/depression-anxiety/2026/01/20-january-2026/

In this edition:

  • Resilience and its external determinants: cross-sectional survey and network analysis of parenting, trauma and stress in college students
  • Childhood adversities and post-traumatic stress: predictive pathways through acute stress disorder
  • Mental health impacts of sexual violence in older adults: a qualitative study
  • Is depression a cause or consequence? Using genetics to untangle causal relationships
  • Plus much more
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Dementia Bulletin

January 2026

The latest dementia bulletin from Mersey Care Evidence and Library Service has now been published at https://www.evidentlybetter.org/dementia/2026/01/19-january-2026/

In this issue:

  • Alzheimer’s finger-prick blood test could transform diagnosis, experts say
  • Suicidal Behavior in Alzheimer’s Disease: Preliminary Study
  • Increased Dementia Risk in Higher-Functioning Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Insights from 21,648 Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder
  • A new psychosocial goal-setting and manualised support intervention for independence in dementia (NIDUS-Family): longer-term outcomes of a randomised controlled trial
  • Plus much more
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Community Health

December Bulletin

You can view the latest Community Health Bulletin, completed by our colleagues at Mersey Care, here: https://www.evidentlybetter.org/community-bulletin/2025/12/16-december-2025/

In this edition:

  • Medicines in community mental health services
  • Co-occurring mental health and substance use: delivery framework
  • Youth Matters: A new national strategy and a critical moment for young people’s mental health
  • ‘Life being stressful is not an illness’ – why this BBC headline misses the point
  • Review launched into mental health, ADHD and autism services
  • New research collaboration to tackle ethnic inequalities in perinatal severe mental illness
  • Plus much more

Dementia

December Bulletin

The latest dementia bulletin from Mersey Care Evidence and Library Service is available to view: https://www.evidentlybetter.org/dementia/2025/12/10-december-2025/

In this issue:

  • Physical Activity Over the Adult Life Course and Risk of Dementia in the Framingham Heart Study
  • Crossing the brain’s protective barrier – the next generation of dementia treatments
  • UK charity records original music by people living with dementia
  • Brain-healthy gifts to bring home this Christmas
  • Plus much more

Suicide Prevention and Self Harm

December Bulletin

The latest Suicide Prevention and Self Harm bulletin from Mersey Care Evidence and Library Service can now be viewed at https://www.evidentlybetter.org/bulletins/suicide-prevention/

This webpage features key links and emerging reports about suicide prevention.

In this issue:      

  • Domestic violence and suicide in women: insights from a national UK study
  • Predictors of suicidal ideation in UK doctors: retrospective case–control study from NHS Practitioner Health
  • Characterisation of a university student sample with a lifetime history of non-suicidal self-injury: mixed-methods analysis of stress factors, coping mechanisms and reasons for self-injury
  • New BSI standard for suicide and the workplace
  • Why online safety is core to suicide prevention
  • Plus much more

How did we help you?

An overview of some evidence searches completed last month

Take a look at some of the literature searches we completed last month. The outcomes help to support clinical decision making, inform patient care or plan for service developments.

If you would like to request a literature search, please complete the form below and send it back to academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk

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Resources for Health Play Services for England

Play Well Toolkit

NHS England

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This toolkit, produced by NHS England and Starlight, will help commissioners, service managers, health play practitioners and clinical leaders to design, plan and deliver high-quality health play services for babies, children and young people. It includes guidelines, recommended standards and a quality checklists.

NHS England » Play well – resources for health play services for England

Library Newsletter

July 2025

Keep up to date with current news and resources in our monthly newsletter. Please get in touch for any support accessing any materials mentioned in this months update: academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk

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Perinatal Mental Health

Current Awareness

With thanks to our colleagues at Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation trust the latest Perinatal Mental Health bulletin is now available to view and download. Some articles are freely accessible, others require an Open Athens account. Please get in touch for support with this: academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk.

You can also download LibKey Nomad directly to your browser to make articles easily accessible: Download LibKey Nomad – Third Iron

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