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[Project status: Ongoing]
Project summary听
In this project, we aimed to provide an overview of evidence-based and promising models of support to help improve the social circumstances of people living with a mental health condition across eight life domains. The areas of life we looked at were: money and debt; housing; work and education; social isolation; family and caring roles; crime victimisation; offending; rights, inclusion and citizenship.
Reports from this projects have been provided to policy makers to feed into into cross-governmental initiatives to implement the NHS Long Term Plan and other policy initatives.
The work includes:
- A systematic review of evidence from systematic reviews and trials regarding effective models of support to improve the social circumstances of people living with a mental health condition 鈥� completed in 2021 and now published. This showed that the areas in which there is strongest evidence are employment and housing, with many evidence gaps elsewhere.
- A report to DHSC summarising evidence of the impacts of changes in social security policy on claimants鈥� mental health and wellbeing 鈥� completed in July 2022
- A scoping review and expert consultation aimed at identifying promising models of support to improve the social circumstances of people with serious mental health conditions that have not been evaluated in randomised controlled trial. We have identified potentially useful models across a range of domains, and submitted a report to inform cross-governmental policy. We have also drawn on this work for a paper reporting on a typology of models of social intervention, now available in .
engagement and events:
- Policy brief for the Department of Health and Social Care:听
Publications
- A from literature reviews and trials about effective social interventions for people with mental health conditions.听
- A providing a narrative summary of how the welfare benefits system impacts claimants鈥� mental health and wellbeing听
- An overview of models of support and broad approaches to improving the social circumstances of people with serious mental health conditions -
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