In this study, we observed that caring for people with PWS can have a significant effect on the mental health, burden and quality of life of caregivers, with a greater impact among primary caregivers compared with the other living relatives. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
There are people who argue for the use of intersectional approaches in understanding people’s lived experience of care in tackling ethnic health inequalities. These intersectional approaches help health and care providers shift their focus from people’s behaviours to also identifying and addressing ways of working that create and reinforce inequalities and poor experiences of care that create and reinforce inequalities and poor experiences of care.
The early-access Living Well support group, led by an occupational therapist and a registered nurse, was developed to support people with motor neurone disease and their carers. The objective of this study was to explore the carers’ lived experiences of being part of this support group. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
This paper aims to examine the use of coproduction to create a film “Do You See Me?”, to amplify the voices of a “hard to reach” group: older lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) victim-survivors of domestic abuse (DA). To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
This article represents reflections on current social and legal issues for people given a mental diagnosis, from a lived experience perspective. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
This reflective piece occurs from the co-production of knowledge between Mark Lynes and Clive Sealey. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
This article explores the key areas by which an academic book was co-produced with people from diverse backgrounds and lived experiences. We argue that co-production is possible, by building relationships with co-participants, working in an adaptable and flexible way around structures and facilitating the voices of people with lived experience. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
Orla, a Bipolar UK peer support officer, shares her personal experiences and how nurses can help to destigmatise the condition. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
Since the age of 14 I have had symptoms of bipolar, with alternating periods of depression and hypomania.
People with mental health problems are often left behind, forgotten and excluded• Little is known or written from a service user perspective about experiences of psychiatry, mental health nursing, Mental Health Tribunals and alternative ap-proaches (such as counselling, peer support, psychological and recovery ap-proaches, cognitive behavioural therapy—CBT and creative/art/music/drama/horticultural/dance therapies)