UCL Psychiatry David Osborn Future interventions should aim to both increase social support and improve health outcomes for people with SMI who have negative or limited social contacts - Alexandra Burton from UCL Psychiatry speaking at #mhloneliness

Molly Bird UCL Psychiatry Loneliness & SI in Mental Health research network These results seem to endorse the importance of improving social connectedness in young people experiencing mental health problems, says Molly Bird #mhloneliness What's important? -providing a safe space -seeing the person -recognising barriers to engagement

At the Loneliness & SI in Mental Health research network symposium Dr Gemma Lewis presented a UCL Mental Health Sciences MScs student’s dissertation project on the longitudinal relationship between loneliness & #depression. Excellent work from Siu Long (Michael) Lee UCL Psychiatry & shortly to be submitted

Welcome back from lunch! Next up at #MHLoneliness is Penny Rappaport (not on Twitter) from UCL Psychiatry "Experiences of social isolation and loneliness in older people living with dementia and memory problems and their carers"

Congratulations!!! Ruimin Ma

Interviews with Sonia Johnson Dr Mary Birken by roving reporter @DrEiluned & her round table discussion with a variety of members of the Loneliness & SI in Mental Health research network network

We're joining up w/ UKDataService to run a *FREE* online course to help undergrad students get to grips w/ the basics of accessing & analysing #longitudinal data for research. It will include guided examples, interactive quizzes & hands-on analysis tasks tinyurl.com/rnej5e8

Are you an Early Career Researcher interested in Loneliness/social Isolation research? Join us on 25th February for a collaborative workshop to review potential pathways between loneliness/social isolation& mental health. See our newsletter for info👇 mailchi.mp/aca95fe0d61a/l…

We are conducting telephone & face to face interviews with people with lived experience of mental illness & loneliness to better understand their experience of loneliness. If you are interested in being involved contact: [email protected] ucl.ac.uk/psychiatry/sit…

The #psychological impact of #quarantine and how to reduce it: rapid review of the evidence The Lancet UK Research and Innovation Loneliness & SI in Mental Health research network thelancet.com/journals/lance…

Great point - people need now to find ways of being physically but not socially distant.

Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now - Tomas Pueyo - Medium - medium.com/@tomaspueyo/co… medium.com/@tomaspueyo/co…

We would like to interview people with mental health problems about their experience of managing their mental health and isolation during the virus outbreak. #MHLoneliness Email us if you are interested in taking part: [email protected]

Reducing loneliness may be a promising target to improve recovery for mental health community crisis service users

Our new Loneliness & SI in Mental Health research network paper: lonely people tend to recover less well after mental health crises (though we still cannot be sure if the link is causal). #mhloneliness Research led by Jingyi Wang with Farhana Mann Louise Marston bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Here's a second pre-print on COVID-19 from Mental Health Policy Research Unit. Our multilingual researchers including many post-grads & ppl with lived experience have synthesised published accounts from many perspectives of impacts on mental health care & service users medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Our rapid review of early reports of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health care is now out as a pre-review preprint It was a massive piece of work, including 872 different articles and contributions from over 70 researchers. Take a look! medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

1/14 What's happened to mental health care and people living with mental health conditions in the COVID-19 pandemic? A thread summarising our Mental Health Policy Research Unit paper, a synthesis of reports from service users,clinicians, scientists, journalists & more. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Trajectories of loneliness & objective social isolation & associations between persistent loneliness and self-reported personal recovery in a cohort of secondary mental health service users in the UK rdcu.be/cv797 Sonia Johnson UCL Crisis Care Jingyi Wang UCL Primary Care & Population Health

New @ucl_loneliness paper led by Ruimin Ma - people who are persistently lonely or persistently socially isolated recover from a mental health crisis less well bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…