Thrive London – Employment and Mental Health

You can download the final report here

What is this research?

We were commissioned by the London Health Board and the London Mental Health & Employment Collaboration to carry out a small study to illustrate the experiences of Londoners who have been affected by serious mental health problems and are either in work or looking for a job.

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Research in English NHS Mental Health Trusts

Download our briefing Everywhere and Everyone Included? research in NHS Mental Health Trusts in England

What is this work?

We wanted to understand how research active NHS mental health trusts in England are, and what the barriers to trusts hosting or developing research are.

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Mental Health Peer Health Coaching Initiative – Evaluation

The final report is available to download here

What was this project?

Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust commissioned the McPin Foundation to carry out an independent evaluation of a peer coaching project. The project was co-designed and led by trust staff and people with experience of mental health problems.

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My Support Broker, Evaluation

This project is now completed, and the two volumes of the report are available to download.

• Volume 1
• Volume 2 

What is this research?

My Support Broker  is a social business that provides independent support brokerage to help people with social care needs plan and manage their support.

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Suicide Prevention & Bereavement Support

What is this research?

We have collaborated on a number of projects looking at how suicide can be prevented and how people who are bereaved by suicide are supported. These include:

• Using funds from the Judi Meadows Memorial Fund we are supporting, with the University of Exeter, a PhD studentship examining how GPs can identify and better support people who are in psychological distress and may be at risk from suicide.  

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Peer Mentoring Service at Camden VoiceAbility – A Qualitative Evaluation

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What was this project?

Camden Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) asked the McPin Foundation to carry out an independent evaluation of the peer mentoring service run by Camden VoiceAbility. Peer mentoring through VoiceAbility involved a mentee setting short-term, achievable goals with a mentor, who had been through similar experiences.

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Information and Psychosis

A summary of our findings can be found here.

What was this research?

This project included focus groups and one-to-one interviews with a total of 27 service users with experience of psychosis and 16 carers. The project aimed to support the work of Imperial College Health Partners who have developed a psychosis pathway and are working locally to improve outcomes for people with psychosis.

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100 people: Evaluation of Employment Support

Download the final report on the 100 People Project

Download the summary report on the 100 People Project

What is this research?

Funded by the Trust for London, the 100 people project will delivered specialist employment support to people with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder using the Individual Placement and Support model.

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SLaM Recovery College Evaluation

We've just begun some exciting new work on an evaluation of the SLaM Recovery College. Throughout the evaluation we'll be talking with students and tutors of the college, and stakeholders in the local community to find out how the recovery college approach to mental health is working in SLaM for students at the college. The Recovery College Model revolves around recovery based education classes that are co-produced by service user and health care practitioner tutors and jointly delivered to a mix of service user, carer and health care professional students who learn together within the college. Read More

A service user evaluation of IAPT for people with a severe mental illness

We have just produced two reports from our service user evaluation of IAPT for SMI funded by NHS England. The summary report is a 12 page A5 booklet and the full report is much longer! Both have been produced with the three peer researchers who worked on this study alongside staff from the McPin Foundation. We are very grateful to everyone who participated and are working with the study sites to disseminate the findings locally. Read More

Side by Side: A National Evaluation of Peer Support

Mind, Bipolar UK and Depression Alliance have been funded by the Big Lottery Fund to develop a programme that will raise awareness of, and deliver, mental health peer support across nine regions of England and their online peer support platform, Elefriends. The McPin Foundation are working with St George's, University of London and the London School of Economics to evaluate the programme. We will seek to understand the principles and values that lie at the heart of peer support and develop the best way to support and expand the sector based on the evidence we gather. We will also be exploring the impact of the programme over a 12 month period. Read More

Trial of Sertraline versus CBT for generalised Anxiety (ToSCA)

The following text has been adapted from the protocol for the study

1. What is this research?

Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is common, causes unpleasant feelings and damages people’s lives. It is often chronic and may be accompanied by depression. Recent NICE guidelines have outlined the best initial treatments but it isn’t clear whether medication or psychological therapy provides better outcomes for those not responding to simpler low intensity treatments.

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Kent Wellbeing Programme Evaluation

 

Reports

Our final report on our evaluation of the Kent Mental Wellbeing programme is now available. If you would like any further information about the evaluation or report, please feel free to contact Rose – rosethompson@mcpin.org.

Kent Wellbeing final summary report

You can see our reports from the Theory of Change work from the first phase of the evaluation by clicking below:

Kent Wellbeing Concept mapping summary report

Kent Wellbeing Concept mapping full report

You can see individual project reports for 3 of our Kent projects by clicking below:

Primary Care Link Workers

Kent Sheds

Mental Health First Aid

 

What is this research?

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The Primrose project: severe mental illness and physical health

The Primrose project is a large scale research study based at University College London and we support a Lived Experience Advisory Panel co-ordinated by Dr Ben Gray. People with mental health problems are at greater risk of developing heart problems. The Primrose project aims to develop and pilot a new service in primary care that improves the care of people with mental health problems and reduces their likelihood of having heart problems. Read More

Cochrane summaries

The Cochrane Schizophrenia Group is internationally recognised and based at the University of Nottingham. The group produce systematic reviews on the latest evidence about schizophrenia. The reviews focus on the latest randomised controlled trials (RCTs) in the treatment of schizophrenia. Read More

Crisis Care Concordat evaluation

 

What was this evaluation?

The Crisis Care Concordat was launched in February 2014. It is an England-wide national agreement between the different agencies and services involved in the care of people experiencing, or at risk of experiencing, a mental health crisis.

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Driving Change: Global mental health report

We worked with Mind to support the global mental health forum for the World Innovation Summit in Health (WISH) which met in Doha, December 2013. Our role was to work with mental health NGOs across the world to understand their views and experiences of innovations in mental health care.

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PEOPLE Study – evaluating personalisation and personal budgets

We have delivered with Rethink Mental Illness a Big Lottery Funded research study into the impact of personalisation on people with severe mental illness. The study has produced a series of tool kits which were launched October 2013. There are toolkits for practitioners, people living with mental health problems and families or carers. The project has been guided throughout by a group of people with lived experience of mental health problems and with an interest in personalisation. This Lived Experience Advisory Panel has helped us to put together our data collection tools, to recruit people to the study, to gather local intelligence and to analyse our data. “I’m proud of my personal involvement with the People Study and I know that I have learnt such a lot from the process and from everyone involved in the study. I have found it to be very rewarding and the journey has been an interesting one. I’m really fascinated by research processes and have a healthy respect for the amount of work that goes into putting together innovative research.”  Shirley Dean, All Together Positive Read More

Your Experience in Mind, Survey

We are working with Mind to gain feedback from the people using their services. The Local Mind’s taking part are each recruiting one person with lived experience of mental health issues to work with us to promote the survey locally and help us with analysis and dissemination. It is a really exciting project working in England and Wales and we know we are going to learn a lot from our lived experience team in how best to run and coordinate these large scale evaluations efficiently, sensitively and inclusively to ensure diverse voices are heard. Read More

Birth Companions

We are working with Birth Companions to evaluate their Community Link project which provides support to vulnerable women before, during and immediately after the birth of their baby. Women accessing the service face multiple challenges including social isolation, mental health problems, immigration and asylum issues and a history of abuse. We are conducting interviews and a literature review to find out what works to support these women during this difficult period of their life. The evaluation project is guided by women who used to access the service, staff and volunteers. Read More

Viewpoint Survey on stigma and discrimination

The McPin Foundation is a founding partner in the Viewpoint Survey, a major annual survey of experiences of mental health discrimination among around 1,000 service users across five areas of England. The project is delivered in partnership with the Institute of Psychiatry at King’s College, London. Researchers at the Foundation have worked on the project since it began in 2008. Read More

Decisions about Medication during Pregnancy

We are working with researchers at University College London (UCL) on a NIHR HTA funded research study on the risks and benefits of psychotropic medication in pregnancy. The main study will involve a statistician exploring existing data collected in primary care and the McPin Foundation have set up a Lived Experience Advisory Panel (LEAP) with four members and they will carry out a pilot qualitative study  to complement the epidemiological work. We hope the pilot qualitative data will lead to a larger study exploring women’s views on pregnancy and psychotropic medication use. Read More

Young people’s anti-stigma campaign

We are delivering the Time to Change Children and Young People’s programme evaluation. This means working in schools across Kent and parts of London understanding the impact of Time to Change activities on kids aged 13-15 in terms of their attitudes, knowledge and intended behaviour. In 2003 one of our team undertook mental health awareness research in secondary schools and found 250 different labels used to describe people with mental health problems. Part of our evaluation will assess if the list of words used today about mental health issues has changed and how. Read More

Community Health Networks research

Our 30 month study looking at the community health networks of people with mental health problems completed data collection today (5 August 2013). This NIHR Health Service and Delivery Research funded study will report in October 2013. We have just commissioned an independent peer researcher to work with the group of service user researchers on the project to ensure their take on our findings from a lived experience perspective is fully incorporated into the writing up phase. Read More