Mental Health

The human, social, and economic costs of mental health problems are profound.

CRD has undertaken numerous reviews of topics related to mental health, including the diagnosis of, and interventions for, depression and other mood disorders, anxiety disorders, alcohol and drug addiction, severe mental illness, mental and physical comorbidity, dementia, the mental health of offenders and public mental health, as well as issues affecting the provision and delivery of mental health services.

We are committed to developing strong, lasting and diverse collaborative partnerships in mental health research.

Collaborative working

We work collaboratively with other mental health researchers across a range of discplines at the University of York, including: the Centre for Health Economics, the Department of Environment and Geography, Hull York Medical School, the Mental Health and Addiction Research Group, NIHR Yorkshire and Humber Applied Research Collaboration, the Social Policy Research Unit, and Stockholm Environment Institute.

We also collaborate with a host of external organisations, including:

Partnerships

Partnerships are key to the creation, conduct, delivery and dissemination of our mental health research, and to ensure that our reviews address real challenges and make a difference to patients, the public, and service providers.

Mental health researchers in CRD are currently working with a number of NHS stakeholders (including several mental health trusts and Clinical Commissioning Groups) and related bodies (eg NGOs) to support the delivery of impact from CRD reviews and knowledge exchange, and the identification of high priority review topics.

A key partnership initiative led by CRD is the Youth Mental Health Evidence Synthesis Hub (Y-MHESH).

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What is Y-MHESH?

Youth Mental Health Evidence Synthesis Hub (Y-MHESH)

Y-MHESH is based in CRD and is a collaboration with the University of Auckland in New Zealand. It brings together research evidence to answer questions about mental health that are important to young people, working in partnership with them to co-design and co-produce meaningful evidence syntheses that have genuine impact on mental health decision-making with, and for, children and young people.

Bradford Mental Health Research Centre

We are partnered the University of Bradford on an NIHR funded programme to work with communities, education, health and religious groups to map mental health challenges in our region, identify existing resources, and summarise and disseminate evidence to help implement positive change.

Read about the Bradford MHRC

Project spotlights

Physical and Mental Health of Older Prisoners

We have partnered with Mental Health and Addiction in the Department of Health Sciences on a project to address the physical and mental health of older prisoners (PAMHOP). The project has synthesized the evidence to identify effective programme elements to help improve the mental health of older prisoners, assessed the socio demographic characteristics and unmet needs of older prisoners using a survey and qualitative interviews, developed an economic resource protocol to inform a subsequent trial, disseminate findings and co-produce a new practical guidance tool kit.

Evaluation of the NIHR Mental Health Research Initiative

An independent evaluation of the impact of NIHR's Mental Health Research Initiative (MHRI).

RE-DEFINE

Aimed to test the effectiveness of an innovative psychological intervention for preventing the onset of mental disorders in refugees and asylum seeker with psychological distress resettled in middle-income and high-income countries.

Cochrane Common Mental Disorders Group

Cochrane Reviews are internationally recognized as the highest standard of evidence to support and inform decision-making.

CRD hosted the editorial base of the Cochrane Common Mental Disorders (CCMD) group from 2016 to the end of March 2023, working with authors from around the world to produce and disseminate systematic reviews of health care interventions for treating and preventing a range of mental health problems, including depression, anxiety, eating disorders, somatoform disorders and suicide.

Latest publications

Understanding clinical library services as knowledge mobilisation activities: Mixed method evaluation of an Evidence Access service in a mental health trust.

IMPACT group , Adaptation Process of a Culturally Tailored Smoking Cessation Intervention for People Living With Severe Mental Illness in South Asia

Working with a youth mental health apprenticeship scheme to coproduce evidence synthesis: The youth mental health evidence synthesis hub.

Exploring the Moderating Effect of Control Group Type on Intervention Effectiveness in School-Based Anxiety and Depression Prevention: Findings from a Rapid Review and Network Meta-analysis

Mental health promotion and protection relating to key life events and transitions in adulthood: a rapid systematic review of systematic reviews