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Personality disorder, socioeconomic factors and psychiatric hospital admissions: assessing the evidence
This study aims to understand more about how housing, benefits and personal finances affect mental health. In some cases, problems in these areas can make people feel worse but in other situations, for example, where a person feels safe and secure in their housing, people might be protected from a crisis.
People with lived experience of complex trauma or a personality disorder diagnosis experience a range of health and social inequalities when compared to people with lived experience of other mental health problems, and people without any mental health problems. At the same time, people with these difficulties do not always get included in mental health research.
By understanding more about the lived experiences, social circumstances, and mental health of people with complex trauma and personality disorder diagnoses, this research aims to find out what is helpful and not so helpful in terms of support. It seeks to understand experiences of social exclusion and make recommendations for change.
The research will bring together three key sources of evidence:
- The lived experiences of people with complex trauma and personality disorder diagnoses, carers and those working across a range of different support services.
- A literature review of the best available evidence.
- Data from the National Study of Health and Wellbeing.
This research is funded by the Centre for Future Health, a partnership between the University of York and The Wellcome Trust. The funders will have no influence over the analysis or findings in this research.
If you have any questions or you are interested in taking part in this research, please contact:
Dr Katie Pybus: katie.pybus@york.ac.uk
Privacy Notice
Please note that the following privacy notice applies only to individuals who were survey participants in the 2014 National Study of Health and Wellbeing (also known as the Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey) via NHS Digital, which has been provided to the project as a pseudonymised secondary data set. Those taking part in interviews or new data collection as part of the project will receive a separate information sheet and privacy notice upon joining the study.
