Social media and adolescent mental health
Longitudinal research on social media use and mental health problems in UK young people
Neighborhood-level predictors of age-at-first-diagnosis of psychotic disorders
Longitudinal research on neighbourhood factors and access to mental health care, led by MSc student Spyros Spyridonidis.
Parenthood and risk of suicide
Research led by Alma Sörberg Wallin from Karolinska Institutet exploring if parenthood changed risk of suicide.
Improving public mental health among adults from ethnic minority populations in the UK
What community-based interventions exist to improve the mental health of adults from ethnic minority groups?
Mental health, social isolation, and financial stress
One of the exciting new projects I have been involved in is the launch of a new podcast.
Substance use in migrants and refugees
It’s been a while since I have shared any epi fun on the blog, and I am very overdue on an update, but I thought I would tide you over with this little research snack – a paper we just published on substance use disorders in migrants and refugees: full text. Why did we do this study? Understanding the mental health of migrants and refugees is an important public health issue as over 258 million people are currently living as migrants outside of their birth country.
Neighbourhood migrant density and psychotic disorders
Does the proportion of one’s neighbours which share migration backgrounds impact psychosis risk?