Impact of COVID-19 on mental health research: is this the breaking point?: is this the breaking point?

Oli Sparasci; Kamaldeep Bhui; Asit Biswas; Samuel Chamberlain; Bernadka Dubicka; Robert Dudas; Saeed Farooq; Tamsin Ford; Nusrat Husain; Ian Jones; Helen Killaspy; William Lee; Anne Lingford-Hughes; Ciaran Mulholland; Judy Rubinsztein; Rohit Shankar; Aditya Sharma; Lindsey Sinclair; James Stone; Allan Young

doi:10.1192/bjp.2022.8

Impact of COVID-19 on mental health research: is this the breaking point? is this the breaking point?

Oli Sparasci, Kamaldeep Bhui, Asit Biswas, Samuel Chamberlain, Bernadka Dubicka, Robert Dudas, Saeed Farooq, Tamsin Ford, Nusrat Husain, Ian Jones, Helen Killaspy, William Lee, Anne Lingford-Hughes, Ciaran Mulholland, Judy Rubinsztein, Rohit Shankar, Aditya Sharma, Lindsey Sinclair, James Stone^*, Allan Young

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Abstract

There are many structural problems facing the UK at present, from a weakened National Health Service to deeply ingrained inequality. These challenges extend through society to clinical practice and have an impact on current mental health research, which was in a perilous state even before the coronavirus pandemic hit. In this editorial, a group of psychiatric researchers who currently sit on the Academic Faculty of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and represent the breadth of research in mental health from across the UK discuss the challenges faced in academic mental health research. They reflect on the need for additional investment in the specialty and ask whether this is a turning point for the future of mental health research.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	254-256
Number of pages	3
Journal	British Journal of Psychiatry
Volume	220
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2022.8
Publication status	Published - 17 Feb 2022

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Psychiatry and Mental Health

Keywords

clinical governance
cost-effectiveness
economics
Education and training
supervision

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Sparasci, O., Bhui, K., Biswas, A., Chamberlain, S., Dubicka, B., Dudas, R., Farooq, S., Ford, T., Husain, N., Jones, I., Killaspy, H., Lee, W., Lingford-Hughes, A., Mulholland, C., Rubinsztein, J., Shankar, R., Sharma, A., Sinclair, L., Stone, J., & Young, A. (2022). Impact of COVID-19 on mental health research: is this the breaking point? is this the breaking point? British Journal of Psychiatry, 220(5), 254-256. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2022.8

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