May 2023
Collaborating to develop holistic health support for people living with severe mental illness
Speakers
Emily Oliver & Ilaria Pina, Newcastle University, and Sue Webster, peer researcher
Summary
Our three schools’ funded project, WHOLE-SMI, explores holistic health promotion for people living with severe mental illness, an underserved population who have not typically been well-represented in research involvement and engagement. Here we present, with our peer researchers and community advisory group members, learning from this research.
Speaker biographies
Emily Oliver is Professor of Behavioural Sciences at the University of Newcastle and holds the award for the study ‘WHOLE-SMI: Wellbeing and HOListic health promotion for people with Severe Mental Illness’. Ilaria Pina is a Research Associate at the University of Newcastle.
References and resources
- Evaluating the clinical and cost effectiveness of a behaviour change intervention for lowering cardiovascular disease risk for people with severe mental illnesses in primary care (PRIMROSE study): study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial | Trials (biomedcentral.com) (biomedcentral.com)
- The Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research – Technical Assistance for users of the CFIR framework (cfirguide.org)
- https://sphr.nihr.ac.uk/news-and-events/how-we-can-support-physical-health-for-people-living-with-severe-mental-illness/