Tag: Systematic Reviews

Let’s Address Hatred

A systematic review

Written by one of our own colleagues – (Salman Shafiq) the aim of this review is to highlight how hatred can be addressed. Key themes derived include the need for a better understanding of hate, responding appropriately to hate, addressing hatred from different angles utilising tools and resources and actively intervening to address hatred through strategies, inclusion projects or psycho social interventions.

You can read the article here: A Systematic Review on How to Address Hatred in its Various Manifestations: Understand Its Different Aspects, Use Different Tools and Specific Interventions or take a look at a poster which was shared at the Royal College of Psychiatrist International Congress:

Library Support

Literature Searching

Literature searching puts evidence based practice at the forefront of clinical practice- allowing you to find appropriate articles which could have a direct impact upon patients, service planning, clinical support, further research or simply to keep up to date with your area of expertise.

Evidence can support:

  • An audit
  • A care pathway
  • A guideline
  • Protocol development
  • Direct patient care
  • Service planning and decision making
  • Presentations/ training
  • Research
  • Systematic Reviews

Literature searching provides you with the information you need to find the types of articles that will help you with your clinical practice or research. It is a skill that can be developed and should be incorporated into daily practice.

The Library can support you with training on this topic – (either on a 1:1 basis or as a group) should you wish to develop your skills in this area. Please contact; katie.roper@lscft.nhs.uk to arrange a session.

We also provide literature searching as part of our service. Simply fill out the form below and send it back to academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk.

Literature-Search-formDownload

We kindly ask that you give us 10 working days to find the evidence for your request.

Resource of the Month

The Cochrane Library

The Cochrane Library is a collection of high-quality independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making.

The Cochrane library promotes evidence-informed health decision-making by producing high-quality, relevant, accessible systematic reviews and other synthesized research evidence.

Their work is internationally recognised as the benchmark for high-quality information about the effectiveness of health care and is generally known as the ‘Gold Standard’ for systematic reviews.

Access the library here. For help with this please email the library team: academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk

Please feel free to download our resource of the month poster and share with your team or within your department.

The Mental Elf

An online resource to keep up to date with mental health research and guidance

Mental heath experts summarise evidence based publications relevant to mental health practice.

They find key guidance, systematic reviews and high quality research and reports to help make your practice more evidence based.

You can also join evidence based journal clubs interactive webinars targeted at your field, or suggest a paper to be discussed.

Best of all, their work is free to read and access.

To access click this link.