Social interventions in mental health: a call to action.

What it found

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The trial behind it

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Who cites it

29 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

1. Associations between constructs related to social relationships and mental health conditions and symptoms: an umbrella review.BMC psychiatry · 2023
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2. Clinical and social factors associated with increased risk for involuntary psychiatric hospitalisation: a systematic review, meta-analysis, and narrative synthesis.The lancet. Psychiatry · 2019
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3. Associations between loneliness and perceived social support and outcomes of mental health problems: a systematic review.BMC psychiatry · 2018
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4. Whole Person Care in Under-resourced Communities: Stakeholder Priorities at Long-Term Follow-Up in Community Partners in Care.Ethnicity & disease · 2018
   Trial
5. The Community Navigator Study: a feasibility randomised controlled trial of an intervention to increase community connections and reduce loneliness for people with complex anxiety or depression.Trials · 2017
   Trial
6. The power of the social: A systematic review and meta-analysis of social interventions in Global Mental Health.PLOS mental health · 2026
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7. Social inclusion among young adults with mental illness and complex needs in Flexible Assertive Community Treatment: A qualitative study on team staff's understanding and experiences.PloS one · 2026
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8. "I've always felt like I'm on the outside": identity and social inclusion among young adults with mental illness and complex needs - a qualitative study.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2025
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9. Personality disorders in unipolar depressed inpatients: is patient perceived social support related to depression progression?BMC psychiatry · 2025
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10. Social exclusion as a major outcome domain of psychotic disorders: early predictors, and associations with non-recovery and clinical staging 21 years after a first episode of psychosis.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2025
    Observational
11. Making un/equal: reassessing inequality and mental health through a praxeographic approach on welfare categorization processes.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2024
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12. Coping strategies employed by older Nepalese migrant women to manage their mental distress in the UK: A qualitative research.PloS one · 2024
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13. What do we not know (yet) about recovery colleges? A study protocol on their (cost-)effectiveness, mechanisms of action, fidelity and positioning.BMC psychiatry · 2023
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14. Current insights of community mental healthcare for people with severe mental illness: A scoping review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023
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15. Explorative analyses on spatial differences in the desire for social distance toward people with mental illness in a diverging city.Frontiers in public health · 2023
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16. Prognostic factors for employment outcomes in patients with a history of childhood-onset drug-resistant epilepsy.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2023
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17. A national-level examination of First Nations peoples' mental health data: Predicting mental well-being from social determinants of health using the 2017 Aboriginal Peoples Survey.Frontiers in public health · 2023
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18. Exploring the impact of a complex intervention for women with depression in contexts of adversity: A pilot feasibility study of COURRAGE-plus in South Africa.The International journal of social psychiatry · 2022
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19. Interventions to improve social circumstances of people with mental health conditions: a rapid evidence synthesis.BMC psychiatry · 2022
    Review
20. Participatory mental health interventions in low-income and middle-income countries: a realist review protocol.BMJ open · 2022
    Article

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