Senior Research Associate, Paul Marshall led a paper titled "Understanding the Impacts of Online Mental Health Peer Support Forums: Realist Synthesis".
Study Outputs
Moderator Training
We (a group of researchers, users and moderators of online forums as well as public advisors) have co-designed training for moderators of online forums. If you want to see it, please complete this online form: https://forms.office.com/e/PtQCG9Aks9 and you will be emailed a link to the training.
This is so we can understand more who accesses our training, as well as request feedback.
An academic paper about the co-design process is published here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212657025000388
Superuser's Experiences of Mental Health Forums
Postgraduate researcher Catherine Liberty won Best Poster at the FHM PGR Symposium for her work on superuser's experiences of online mental health forums.
View the poster here:
Animation
Our team of forum moderators, users, researchers and public advisors co-designed an animation. We hope the animation will help people with mental health difficulties, referrers, and commissioners better understanding of the role of online mental health communities and how they work.