GCRF: South Asia Self Harm research capability building initiative (SASHI)
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Manchester
Department Name: School of Health Sciences
Abstract
Our vision is to bring together a critical mass of international expertise and research excellence to build capability and capacity to conduct research on Deliberate Self Harm (DSH).
Our main aim is to produce new and robust information to inform the understanding of the nature of DSH in the context of profound social, political and economic challenges in low and middle-income countries (LMIC) such as India and Pakistan.
Research leaders are thinly spread in LMICs, which limits capability building and restricts capacity. There are serious gaps in knowledge about DSH in South Asia. We will meet these challenges in two ways:
- firstly by conducting research
- secondly by providing training.
Research that is collaboratively designed, culturally appropriate and rigorously implemented is one of the best learning tools for building capability. A trained and skilled workforce will continue to build capability and capacity for research. In this partnership, capability building is reciprocal and sustainable. We will share knowledge across the partnership.
The programme of work will include training in different areas such as research methods, systematic reviews, data analysis and research governance. PhD students will benefit from the training. We will design some of the training ourselves and bring in other experts to help. We will draw on the expertise of people with lived experience to develop our work programme.
A lot of different academic disciplines are involved in the programme. We will work together and share our knowledge to support post doctoral researchers and PhD students who will become the research leaders of the future.
Our research programme will develop new evidence and strengthen our understanding of DSH. We will carry out research using quantitative and qualitative methods.
We will develop a flexible and trained research workforce in India and Pakistan to carry out fieldwork safely, efficiently and rigorously in challenging environments. We will work closely with Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) partners in Pakistan and India.
We will share our findings widely with a range of stakeholders including the local community, international forums and in high impact scientific journals. Our work will inform the development of culturally relevant community and primary-care responses to DSH and suicide in LMIC. Our work will also inform the development of suicide prevention policies, including public health messages and measures.
We will document and evaluate the development of the partnership and knowledge exchange processes, and disseminate the findings on conducting this work.
Our three core datasets (household survey sample, stakeholder sample, and DSH Register) will help us to examine and describe DSH in local context, explore substantive areas of interest in rich detail, answer a number of research questions and inform policy development and community and health service responses. We will find out more about differences and similarities between India and Pakistan and the differences and similarities between South Asia and other regions of the world.
Our main aim is to produce new and robust information to inform the understanding of the nature of DSH in the context of profound social, political and economic challenges in low and middle-income countries (LMIC) such as India and Pakistan.
Research leaders are thinly spread in LMICs, which limits capability building and restricts capacity. There are serious gaps in knowledge about DSH in South Asia. We will meet these challenges in two ways:
- firstly by conducting research
- secondly by providing training.
Research that is collaboratively designed, culturally appropriate and rigorously implemented is one of the best learning tools for building capability. A trained and skilled workforce will continue to build capability and capacity for research. In this partnership, capability building is reciprocal and sustainable. We will share knowledge across the partnership.
The programme of work will include training in different areas such as research methods, systematic reviews, data analysis and research governance. PhD students will benefit from the training. We will design some of the training ourselves and bring in other experts to help. We will draw on the expertise of people with lived experience to develop our work programme.
A lot of different academic disciplines are involved in the programme. We will work together and share our knowledge to support post doctoral researchers and PhD students who will become the research leaders of the future.
Our research programme will develop new evidence and strengthen our understanding of DSH. We will carry out research using quantitative and qualitative methods.
We will develop a flexible and trained research workforce in India and Pakistan to carry out fieldwork safely, efficiently and rigorously in challenging environments. We will work closely with Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) partners in Pakistan and India.
We will share our findings widely with a range of stakeholders including the local community, international forums and in high impact scientific journals. Our work will inform the development of culturally relevant community and primary-care responses to DSH and suicide in LMIC. Our work will also inform the development of suicide prevention policies, including public health messages and measures.
We will document and evaluate the development of the partnership and knowledge exchange processes, and disseminate the findings on conducting this work.
Our three core datasets (household survey sample, stakeholder sample, and DSH Register) will help us to examine and describe DSH in local context, explore substantive areas of interest in rich detail, answer a number of research questions and inform policy development and community and health service responses. We will find out more about differences and similarities between India and Pakistan and the differences and similarities between South Asia and other regions of the world.
Technical Summary
Our vision is to bring together a critical mass of international expertise and research excellence to build capability and capacity to conduct research on Deliberate Self Harm (DSH).
Our main aim is to produce new and robust information to inform the understanding of the nature of DSH in the context of profound social, political and economic challenges in low and middle-income countries (LMIC) such as India and Pakistan.
Research leaders are thinly spread in LMICs, which limits capability building and restricts capacity. There are serious gaps in knowledge about DSH in South Asia. We will meet these challenges in two ways:
- firstly by conducting research
- secondly by providing training.
Research that is collaboratively designed, culturally appropriate and rigorously implemented is one of the best learning tools for building capability. A trained and skilled workforce will continue to build capability and capacity for research. In this partnership, capability building is reciprocal and sustainable. We will share knowledge across the partnership.
The programme of work will include training in different areas such as research methods, systematic reviews, data analysis and research governance. PhD students will benefit from the training. We will design some of the training ourselves and bring in other experts to help. We will draw on the expertise of people with lived experience to develop our work programme.
A lot of different academic disciplines are involved in the programme. We will work together and share our knowledge to support post doctoral researchers and PhD students who will become the research leaders of the future.
Our research programme will develop new evidence and strengthen our understanding of DSH. We will carry out research using quantitative and qualitative methods.
We will develop a flexible and trained research workforce in India and Pakistan to carry out fieldwork safely, efficiently and rigorously in challenging environments. We will work closely with Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) partners in Pakistan and India.
We will share our findings widely with a range of stakeholders including the local community, international forums and in high impact scientific journals. Our work will inform the development of culturally relevant community and primary-care responses to DSH and suicide in LMIC. Our work will also inform the development of suicide prevention policies, including public health messages and measures.
We will document and evaluate the development of the partnership and knowledge exchange processes, and disseminate the findings on conducting this work.
Our three core datasets (household survey sample, stakeholder sample, and DSH Register) will help us to examine and describe DSH in local context, explore substantive areas of interest in rich detail, answer a number of research questions and inform policy development and community and health service responses. We will find out more about differences and similarities between India and Pakistan and the differences and similarities between South Asia and other regions of the world.
Our main aim is to produce new and robust information to inform the understanding of the nature of DSH in the context of profound social, political and economic challenges in low and middle-income countries (LMIC) such as India and Pakistan.
Research leaders are thinly spread in LMICs, which limits capability building and restricts capacity. There are serious gaps in knowledge about DSH in South Asia. We will meet these challenges in two ways:
- firstly by conducting research
- secondly by providing training.
Research that is collaboratively designed, culturally appropriate and rigorously implemented is one of the best learning tools for building capability. A trained and skilled workforce will continue to build capability and capacity for research. In this partnership, capability building is reciprocal and sustainable. We will share knowledge across the partnership.
The programme of work will include training in different areas such as research methods, systematic reviews, data analysis and research governance. PhD students will benefit from the training. We will design some of the training ourselves and bring in other experts to help. We will draw on the expertise of people with lived experience to develop our work programme.
A lot of different academic disciplines are involved in the programme. We will work together and share our knowledge to support post doctoral researchers and PhD students who will become the research leaders of the future.
Our research programme will develop new evidence and strengthen our understanding of DSH. We will carry out research using quantitative and qualitative methods.
We will develop a flexible and trained research workforce in India and Pakistan to carry out fieldwork safely, efficiently and rigorously in challenging environments. We will work closely with Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) partners in Pakistan and India.
We will share our findings widely with a range of stakeholders including the local community, international forums and in high impact scientific journals. Our work will inform the development of culturally relevant community and primary-care responses to DSH and suicide in LMIC. Our work will also inform the development of suicide prevention policies, including public health messages and measures.
We will document and evaluate the development of the partnership and knowledge exchange processes, and disseminate the findings on conducting this work.
Our three core datasets (household survey sample, stakeholder sample, and DSH Register) will help us to examine and describe DSH in local context, explore substantive areas of interest in rich detail, answer a number of research questions and inform policy development and community and health service responses. We will find out more about differences and similarities between India and Pakistan and the differences and similarities between South Asia and other regions of the world.
Planned Impact
The South Asia Self Harm research capability building initiative (SASHI) project aims to have significant impact on individuals who experience DSH, families, communities, health and care providers, policy makers and the international research community. There will be a number of direct and indirect pathways to impact.
Individuals at risk of deliberate self harm (DSH) and suicide and their families: Survivors of DSH are at increased risk of recurrent DSH and suicide. This work will provide new empirical evidence about DSH, including the information about prevalence and immediate and short term outcomes. Together with an understanding of how DSH occurs gained through the qualitative work, we will be able to identify what affects help-seeking behaviour, and social and health factors that might be amenable to intervention. Wider engagement with the local communities will raise awareness and encourage understanding about the antecedents (for example, rural debt, mental illness, life events) and consequences (disability, death) of DSH. We anticipate that this will decrease stigma and increase help seeking. We will achieve this through working with survivors, families and health and care providers to identify the best routes and media for disseminating information. Possible examples include use of social media and local media such as community radio and existing community groups.
Health and Care community: Identifying care needs and describing help seeking behaviour will inform service developments and new service models and approaches aimed at reducing DSH and at providing appropriate aftercare. Reducing the number of episodes of DSH will reduce the burden on secondary and intensive care facilities. We will achieve this by working with provider organisations to create joint action plans informed by our findings. We will produce training material based on the experience of implementing the core elements of the project. In particular we will carefully document the process of developing and implementing the DSH Registers in a manual. The research will improve the care of people following an episode of DSH as this has the potential to prevent further episodes and reduces the risk of suicide. To achieve this, wider engagement with policy makers is essential and we will prepare targeted SASHI Policy Briefings on a regular basis.
Academic communities: Enhancing the skill set of the local academic community will have lasting effects and help to build a strong research community and increase capacity for further research planning and activity such as scoping reviews, feasibility studies, trial platforms and systematic reviews. We will achieve this through knowledge exchange activities, research training and mentoring which will leave sustainable legacies for the local academic communities. Training local fieldworkers drawn from the health worker population has the potential to create a sustainable, flexible and efficient research delivery team for future research projects. The composition of the international team will ensure that our findings will be presented to a wide range of disciplines. Through the expansion of our knowledge and understanding of DSH, the work will lay the foundation for further research and evaluation.
The work will be of direct relevance to other Low and Middle Income Countries (LMIC) and will also be of interest to people working with minority immigrant communities in the UK and services providing support following an episode of DSH. Having an impact lead in each country and a strong internet and social media presence through a web site, briefings, Twitter feed and Blog and copy for local, national and international audience, enables us to reach individuals who experience DSH, families, communities, health and care providers, policy makers and the international research community to affect change to improve the health and wellbeing of communities in LMIC.
Individuals at risk of deliberate self harm (DSH) and suicide and their families: Survivors of DSH are at increased risk of recurrent DSH and suicide. This work will provide new empirical evidence about DSH, including the information about prevalence and immediate and short term outcomes. Together with an understanding of how DSH occurs gained through the qualitative work, we will be able to identify what affects help-seeking behaviour, and social and health factors that might be amenable to intervention. Wider engagement with the local communities will raise awareness and encourage understanding about the antecedents (for example, rural debt, mental illness, life events) and consequences (disability, death) of DSH. We anticipate that this will decrease stigma and increase help seeking. We will achieve this through working with survivors, families and health and care providers to identify the best routes and media for disseminating information. Possible examples include use of social media and local media such as community radio and existing community groups.
Health and Care community: Identifying care needs and describing help seeking behaviour will inform service developments and new service models and approaches aimed at reducing DSH and at providing appropriate aftercare. Reducing the number of episodes of DSH will reduce the burden on secondary and intensive care facilities. We will achieve this by working with provider organisations to create joint action plans informed by our findings. We will produce training material based on the experience of implementing the core elements of the project. In particular we will carefully document the process of developing and implementing the DSH Registers in a manual. The research will improve the care of people following an episode of DSH as this has the potential to prevent further episodes and reduces the risk of suicide. To achieve this, wider engagement with policy makers is essential and we will prepare targeted SASHI Policy Briefings on a regular basis.
Academic communities: Enhancing the skill set of the local academic community will have lasting effects and help to build a strong research community and increase capacity for further research planning and activity such as scoping reviews, feasibility studies, trial platforms and systematic reviews. We will achieve this through knowledge exchange activities, research training and mentoring which will leave sustainable legacies for the local academic communities. Training local fieldworkers drawn from the health worker population has the potential to create a sustainable, flexible and efficient research delivery team for future research projects. The composition of the international team will ensure that our findings will be presented to a wide range of disciplines. Through the expansion of our knowledge and understanding of DSH, the work will lay the foundation for further research and evaluation.
The work will be of direct relevance to other Low and Middle Income Countries (LMIC) and will also be of interest to people working with minority immigrant communities in the UK and services providing support following an episode of DSH. Having an impact lead in each country and a strong internet and social media presence through a web site, briefings, Twitter feed and Blog and copy for local, national and international audience, enables us to reach individuals who experience DSH, families, communities, health and care providers, policy makers and the international research community to affect change to improve the health and wellbeing of communities in LMIC.
Organisations
- University of Manchester (Collaboration, Lead Research Organisation)
- Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) (Collaboration)
- National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (Collaboration)
- University of Warwick (Collaboration)
- Cardiff University (Collaboration)
- Apna Ghar Ashram (Collaboration)
- University of Bristol (Collaboration)
- IIHMR University (Collaboration)
- London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London) (Collaboration)
- South Asian Clinical Toxicology Research Collaboration (Collaboration)
- MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST (Collaboration)
- Meditrina Centre (Collaboration)
- JSS University (Collaboration)
- The All India Institute of Speech and Hearing (Collaboration)
- Vivekananda Girijana Kalyana Kendra (Collaboration)
- All India Institute of Medical Sciences Bhubaneswar (Collaboration)
- University of Chester (Collaboration)
- JSS Medical College and Hospital (Collaboration)
- University of Mysore (Collaboration)
- Aga Khan University (Collaboration)
- Institute of Public Health Bengaluru (Collaboration)
- Rajasthan Police Academy (Collaboration)
- MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY (Collaboration)
- Sawai ManSingh Medical College and Hospital (Collaboration)
- Mysore Medical College (Collaboration)
- Grassroots Research and Advocacy Movement (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH (Collaboration)
- St Bartholomew's Hospital (Collaboration)
- National Institutes of Health (NIH) (Collaboration)
- Chhahari Nepal for Mental Health (Collaboration)
- Royal College of Psychiatrists (Collaboration)
Publications
McPhillips R
(2019)
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in Knowledge, attitudes, and experiences of self-harm and suicide in low and middle income countries: a systematic review
Krishna M
(2021)
A hospital-based self-harm register in Mysore, South India: Is follow-up of survivors feasible in low and middle income countries?
in International Journal Of Community Medicine And Public Health
Arshad U
(2020)
A Systematic Review of the Evidence Supporting Mobile- and Internet-Based Psychological Interventions For Self-Harm.
in Suicide & life-threatening behavior
Prof. Rob Poole
(2019)
Effective suicide prevention is a public health issue
Emily Bebbington
Establishing self-harm registers in India: The role of process mapping Data collection on hospital presentations of self-harm: The role of process mapping
in Submitted to BMJ Global Health
Bebbington E
(2023)
Establishing Self-Harm Registers: The Role of Process Mapping to Improve Quality of Surveillance Data Globally
in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Bebbington, E
(2023)
Establishing Self-Harm Registers: The Role of Process Mapping to Improve Quality of Surveillance Data Globally
in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
| Description | Two key objectives of the GCRF SASHI project were: 1. To build a critical mass of multidisciplinary expertise and research excellence by creating a sustainable and strong international partnership. 2. To deepen and sustain research capability in the UK and South Asia across the whole career pathway from fieldworker to research leader. With regards to the objectives, the SASHI project has been successfully in building a strong, collaborative team founded on reciprocal international partnerships and shared expertise. Since the inception of the project the SASHI team has grown through multiple collaborations, forming what is now a large international network of researchers, clinicians, and methodologists. During the course of the project relationships have been built with Aga Kahn University in Pakistan, and the SACR group from Sri Lanka, enhancing the international range of the project. Through these collaborations it has been possible to develop and submit a large number of further funding applications, including three successful funding applications to the UKRI GCRF schemes focused on topics of homelessness, prison mental health and suicide prevention. A core principal within SASHI has been that of reciprocity and co-production, and this has guided the capacity building components of the project. SASHI has brought together both early career and senior researchers, from a variety of different backgrounds (psychiatry, epidemiology, emergency medicine, public health, social policy, nursing, clinical psychology, health economics and social work). A number of PhD projects have been successfully funded and supported through the foundations provided by SASHI. Dr Emily Bebbington, who is an emergency medicine doctor, has joined the team as part of her funded Welsh Clinical Academic Training Fellowship. She is on a four-year PhD programme on burns survivors. Her work with SASHI has created a number of reciprocal knowledge exchange pathways between the UK and India in particular but more widely with an international group working on gender-based violence. Parvathy Ramesh, a funded PhD student, is focussing her research specifically on better understanding the experience of women who self-harm in India, using SASHI data to support this work. Working processes within SASHI have had to adapt in the face of COVID19. The project has managed to adapt to these challenges, making use of regular, remote, open-forum meetings as a means of maintaining working relationships within the group. These meetings have been well attended and have provided a context through which knowledge can be exchanged between international sites and between more junior and senior team members. Learning within SASHI has been reciprocal. Our process-mapping work, co-led by colleagues in India and Pakistan, has provided rich insights into the clinical management of self-harm in different settings. Team members in India and Pakistan co-developed scenarios to form part of an ethics training session for postgraduates. Capacity strengthening has been supported through tailored training offered by members of the SASHI team. For example, bespoke training sessions on qualitative interviewing methods have been undertaken with colleagues in the UK, India and Pakistan, supporting the stakeholder interviews that have taken place within SASHI. Joint qualitative data analysis meeting involving early career and senior researchers provided an opportunity for discussion and learning around cultural issues and differences in perceptions and understandings. Concrete examples of capacity strengthening include supporting SASHI staff members to present at the international conferences (8th Qualitative Research in Mental Health Conference; Qualitative Health Research Network Conference). Two ongoing systematic reviews have provided staff an opportunity to develop new and valuable research competencies in this area, supported by online training sessions provided by the SASHI team. The early work that we have undertaken on systematic reviews has enabled us to develop a strong framework for future systematic reviews that focus on self-harm in South Asia. We have seen tangible evidence of how SASHI has helped benefit early career researchers on an international level. This has been apparent in the career progression of our colleagues in South Asia. Dr Sudeep Das and Sunil Hosmat have both recently (2021, 2022) gained new positions at JSS University in Mysore (Associate Professor and Second Division Clerk). Arun Havanur is another colleague based in India who has been heavily involved in the qualitative workstream within SASHI, and has now applied for a funded PhD studentship in Anthropology. A further objective of SASHI has been to help improve our understanding of self-harm within South Asia. It is estimated that 75% of global suicides occur in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs) but despite this data relating to self-harm in LMICs has often been limited and poor quality, including in South Asia. Better data collection methods are needed to fully understand the scope, impact and phenomenology of self-harm within South Asia. Such an understanding is an essential step towards developing and improving methods for reducing and preventing self-harm. The goal of SASHI to generate high quality data on self-harm in South Asia has been pursued through the development and piloting of robust data collection mechanisms, including hospital-based self-harm registers. Once again COVID19 presented a significant challenge to the planned development of a person-based (interviews with patients) self-harm register within India and Pakistan. In response to these challenges we have diversified, establishing procedures to harvest routinely collected hospital data on self-harm presentations, alongside the ongoing piloting of the person-based register. This work is generating a large amount of data that will in turn help shed light on the character and trends surrounding self-harm in India and Pakistan. This register work has been supplemented with work streams focused on stakeholder interviewing, systematic reviewing, and analysis of media reporting regarding self-harm. In collaboration with the University of Edinburgh and SACR group in Sri Lanka, we have planned secondary data analyses focused on financial hardship and the links this has with suicide within Sri Lanka. Some of the biggest findings to emerge from SASHI so far have not been with regards to the data we have collected, but the understanding and insights gained through the process of data collection. Through our piloting of self-harm register procedures and rigorous mapping of the ways in which self-harm presentations have been responded to, we have built an understanding of both the opportunities and challenges facing the collection of self-harm data in India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, with implications for how such systems are set up and supported in the future. There is stigma around mental health, which creates major barriers to help-seeking. Media reporting and presentation of self-harm is a major factor that can shape public awareness of and attitudes towards self-harm. Within our media work we have adapted methods developed within the UK for analysis of media reports to the cultural context of India. This work investigates the way in which suicide and self-harm is described in the Indian media, and search for recent trends and patterns in this reporting. This includes a focus on how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the reporting of suicide and self-harm. The refinement into four online frameworks for surveillance, basic, brief, extended and records based in a major step forward. The frameworks are being prepared for the REDCAP library in parallel with a guidance manual for setting up self harm surveillance in different settings and countries and with different levels of resource. We are also evaluating the use of the REDCAP frameworks in different settings. . |
| Exploitation Route | The work of the SASHI project has helped to develop valuable insights into the challenges of collecting robust data on self-harm in hospital settings in South Asia. We intend to make available through publications our insights and recommendations for setting up self-harm registers in these settings, and alongside this, disseminate open access training materials and procedures developed in the course of our work. By sharing these resources we will help support future researchers and clinicians in establishing similar data collection systems within LMICs setting including South Asia and beyond. The goal of SASHI was always to support the development of systems of data collection that could be self-sustaining and locally led, and we are seeing progress in this regard. We are currently already in discussions with hospitals in India and Pakistan who have expressed an interest in supporting self-harm registers beyond the life of the SASHI project. We have had similar discussions with the Rajasthan state government about setting up ongoing registers within government hospitals, and are in the process of strengthening this relationship through a memorandum of understanding with the University of Manchester. Through the work of SASHI a number of large datasets are being generated, for example, through the retrospective self-harm records data being collected in India and Pakistan. These datasets will be made available for sharing with researchers beyond the SASHI team. As such, these datasets will create a valuable resource for researchers and clinicians, both within the SASHI team and beyond, helping to fill an important gap in our understanding about self-harm in South Asia. Important questions these datasets will help to answer include how self-harm rates have changed in India during the COVID19 pandemic. The hospitals that have participated in SASHI will have the opportunity to make use of the data collected on self-harm in order to aid their planning and development. Finally, SASHI has provided a foundation for numerous further collaborations and associated funding applications. Through this additional funding we aim to continue to build on the work of SASHI, taking this work forward through new collaborations and into new contexts. |
| Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Healthcare,Government, Democracy and Justice |
| Description | Writing up and reporting of the key findings arising from the SASHI project is still ongoing. However, a number of preliminary impacts have already arisen from the research so far. 1) Several hospitals and institutions across India and Pakistan have expressed an interest in setting up or maintaining ongoing self-harm registers based on the model developed within the SASHI project, and discussions with these individuals and organisations around how to do this are ongoing. 2) The network formed through SASHI has been used as a basis for a number of further funding applications, including applications for NIHR global health research unit and MRC GCRF grants. Whilst not all successful, through each application further collaborative relationships and partnerships have been formed. 3) The hospitals participating in SASHI will have access to the accumulating data regarding self-harm, which can then be used to aid in the planning and development of their services. 4) Discussions with State Government in India regarding adoption of the SASHI SHR method in state hospitals in one state in North India. 5) Discussions with State funded hospital in Pakistan regarding the continuation of the SASHI SHR method beyond the funding period |
| First Year Of Impact | 2022 |
| Sector | Healthcare |
| Impact Types | Policy & public services |
| Description | Hospitals in India and Pakistan express interest in ongoing delivery of SASHI self-harm registers |
| Geographic Reach | Asia |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or Improved professional practice |
| Description | Meeting with representatives from the Jaipur Police Academy. |
| Geographic Reach | Asia |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or improved professional practice |
| Description | NVivo training and qualitative approaches to analysing media data and healer interviews by Dr Reena Lasrado |
| Geographic Reach | Asia |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Presentation and discussion with clinicians at the postgraduate institute of medical education and research, chandigarh |
| Geographic Reach | Asia |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Presentation on findings from the interview work with police staff |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Presentation: Social work Practice - A comparative perspective by Dr Reena Lasrado |
| Geographic Reach | Asia |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Rajasthan state government interested in setting up self-harm registers |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or Improved professional practice |
| Description | Training event on the use of qualitative and especially narrative methods in health and social care research JSS MEDICAL College |
| Geographic Reach | Asia |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | GCRF Studentship funding ("Women and suicide in South Asia") |
| Amount | £120,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
| Department | Global Challenges Research Fund |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2020 |
| End | 08/2024 |
| Description | Homelessness as a global health and social care concern |
| Amount | £19,200 (GBP) |
| Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
| Department | Global Challenges Research Fund |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2020 |
| End | 12/2020 |
| Description | Prison mental health and suicide in India |
| Amount | £19,600 (GBP) |
| Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
| Department | Global Challenges Research Fund |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2020 |
| End | 12/2020 |
| Description | Research Alliance for Suicide Prevention: Proposal to develop a research hub application |
| Amount | £35,762 (GBP) |
| Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
| Department | Global Challenges Research Fund |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2018 |
| End | 12/2021 |
| Description | Santander Scholarships Skills Bangor University Virtual Mobility Award |
| Amount | £850 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Santander Bank |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United States |
| Start | 07/2021 |
| End | 10/2021 |
| Description | Welsh Clinical Academic Training Fellowship (Emergency Medicine) |
| Amount | £330,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Health Education and Improvement Wales |
| Sector | Learned Society |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2019 |
| End | 08/2026 |
| Title | SASHI Self-Harm Datasets |
| Description | Within the SASHI project we are retrospectively collating routinely collected medical data regarding patients presenting following acts self-harm, from hospitals located in India and Pakistan. Data relating to demographic and clinical characteristics of the individual and behaviour are being recorded. A self-harm register is also being piloted with data being collected prospectively for new cases where self-harm is present, using a standardised proforma. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | The datasets are still being compiled and therefore not yet ready for distribution or use. However, plans have been developed to make the data accessible to other researchers, and procedures including standard data sharing agreement forms have been drafted to govern this process. It is anticipated that the datasets will lead to a number of research papers, both within and beyond the immediate SASHI research group, as they provide a unique opportunity to better understand self-harm within India and Pakistan and answer important questions about the characteristics, trends and patterns that exist within this behaviour. As one example of potential areas of investigation, the retrospective data will enable and investigation of how the COVID pandemic has impacted on self-harm rates within India. |
| Description | Antecedents and outcomes of debt and self-harm |
| Organisation | Grassroots Research and Advocacy Movement |
| Country | India |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Profs Robinson and Poole, and Dr Murali Krishna have continued to meet with Dr Balasubramanian Founder of SVYM, for example, during their visit to Mysore in May 2018. Dr Murali Krishna has maintained regular contact with SVYM. SASHI researchers included individuals with a particular interest in social factors. Drawing together a multidisciplinary team with experience in in depth case study research and policy analysis and influence provides a strong partnership to take the debt research and impact work forward. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Dr Balasubramanian will help set up a Memoradum Of Understanding (MOU). He will be leading the project evaluating the impact of debt and the recently implemented debt waiver programme on self-harm among farmers in Mysore. GRAAM are an important policy focused NGO with particular expertise around community engagement and social factors. GRAAM have become an important element of our pathways to impact infrastructure in India. |
| Impact | A MOU will be confirmed between SASHI and GRAAM, in 2019. The proposed project on debt will use an innovative case study approach to debt. We will consider in-depth case studies on the antecedents and consequences of debt from the perspective of individuals, families, communities and policy makers. GRAAM included public health, social policy and medicine. This work will be developed in collaboration with the SACR Team in University of Edinburgh and Sri Lanka. The data collection work in India has been delayed due to COVID-19 |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Bristol University |
| Organisation | University of Bristol |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Amber Young of Bristol University is working with Emily Bebbington to extend the International Society for Burn Injuries (ISBI) common data model to include more work on outcomes and outcome measures. They will compare register outcomes internationally and compare them to a recently agreed core outcome set for burn injuries. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Project support including financial support from Dr Young's NIHR senior fellowship. |
| Impact | Work ongoing |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Cardiff University |
| Organisation | Cardiff University |
| Department | School of Social Sciences |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We worked in collaboration to develop an extension to the SASHI work in South Asian countries including preparation of a major grant application. |
| Collaborator Contribution | We worked in collaboration to develop an extension to the SASHI work in South Asian countries including preparation of a major grant application. |
| Impact | Social work and Computer Sciences. We submitted an outline grant application. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Collaboration on bid for NIHR Three Schools Exclusion From Services call |
| Organisation | University of Manchester |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Ms Bethan Edwards, University of Manchester, is a collaborator on a funding bid for the NIHR Three Schools Exclusion From Services call |
| Collaborator Contribution | Active collaboration on a funding bid for the NIHR Three Schools Exclusion From Services call |
| Impact | None yet |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Developing collaboration with SMS Jaipur, India |
| Organisation | Sawai ManSingh Medical College and Hospital |
| Country | India |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Meeting to discuss the agreement of Memorandum of Understanding between SMS and Manchester University. Also exploration of research collaborarion based on SASHI research findings. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Keen interest to develop research links and projects as well as MoU |
| Impact | MoU in draft form. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Developing research collaboration with Apnagharashram for Homeless People |
| Organisation | Apna Ghar Ashram |
| Country | India |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | We are bringing research expertise to the partnership to address a gap in work on poverty and women. I have also secured PhD funding from NIHR School for Social Care Research which will focus on homelessness in England so it is timely to have some parallel work in South Asia. My intention is to collaborate with the Stephen Campbell and colleagues in the NIHR PSTRU in Manchester. We also have a link with the TATA foundation and will pursue that as a potential source of funding. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This is a large organisation with the main site in Rajasthan - with 30 other sites across India and one in Pakistan and one in Nepal. There are high levels of mental disorder and learning disability. It is run like a therapeutic community. They are collecting a lot of routine data and are keen to evaluate their services and carry out some analysis of the costs. |
| Impact | Develop plans to apply for joint funding. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Discussion potential roll out of self ham register and further research with All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) |
| Organisation | All India Institute of Medical Sciences Bhubaneswar |
| Country | India |
| Sector | Hospitals |
| PI Contribution | We bring research expertise to this developing partnership. I reengaged with a senior AIIMS psychiatrist who had previously expressed interest in rolling out the SASHI self harm register work in Odisha, in the first instance in the AIIMS hospital. I had the opportunity to reengage with the forthcoming Director of Psychiatry at PGI Chandigarh and to meet the Head of Department of Psychiatry in AIIMS Delhi. There is considerable interest in pursuing common areas of research. . |
| Collaborator Contribution | Potential roll out site for self harm register and research partner for further grant applications. |
| Impact | Further meetings are planned to take the work forward |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Extension of self harm register work to the Aga Khan hospital in Pakistan |
| Organisation | Aga Khan University |
| Country | Pakistan |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Sadia Nafees, one of the SASHI early career researchers went to Pakistan in March 2020 and met with the head of the faculty of the Psychiatry department, Dr Nargis Asad and her research team members. Sadia introduced the SASHI research project and how work from the project potentially may apply to the Aga Khan hospital. At the same time, Catherine Robinson (PI) and Rob Poole (Co-I) built a relationship with Professor Murad Khan from the Aga Khan University hospital. This has now developed into a partnership |
| Collaborator Contribution | Dr Asad was very interested and the possibility of the roll-out of the register and other collaborative work was discussed. The hospital would provide the study site. This is now being formalised as a partnership and the partners will support the development and implementation of the SASHI self-harm register in Aga Khan University hospital in Pakistan. Plans for implementing SASHI SHR in Pakistan have been agreed and a collaboration agreement is being set-up |
| Impact | Committment to follow this up further and work towards some actions has led to detailed plans being worked-up and agreed. A collaboration agreement is being drawn-up. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | IIHMR University |
| Organisation | IIHMR University |
| Country | India |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We worked in collaboration to develop an extension to the SASHI work in South Asian countries including preparation of a major grant application. We have met regularly, including collaborating on a major meeting in Jaipur in February 2019 in collaboration with the WPA |
| Collaborator Contribution | We worked in collaboration to develop an extension to the SASHI work in South Asian countries including preparation of a major grant application. The SASHI Team and members of IIHMR have met regularly, including collaborating on a major meeting in Jaipur in February 2019 in collaboration with the WPA and meetings in late 2019 and early 2020. We have developed some collaborative grant applications. |
| Impact | Psychiatry, Clinical Psychology, Public Health |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Indian Institute of Health Management Research Jaipur |
| Organisation | IIHMR University |
| Country | India |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We have started to plan a number of pieces of work which relate to global mental health and provision of services and support in rural areas in India. We have explored the gap in services for people with serious mental illness and adults with learning disability. We will continue to explore opportunities to extend our work in collaboration and have started to prepare research questions about supervision of health workers in remote areas, identifying the needs of adults with learning disability and psychological autopsy in rural communities. |
| Collaborator Contribution | IIHMR bring particular expertise related to public health and research on the management of service provision in low and middle income countries. They train graduates in health management and recruit students from a number of countries. Their research interests are closely aligned with the SASHI group and we are working together to increase capacity and capability in research to extend the SASHI research both within India and in other countries in South Asia. IIHMR members will meet with the wider group in December 2018 in the SASHI meetings in Sharjah. |
| Impact | IIHMR were collaborators in a large grant application to extend the scope and reach of the SASHI network. IIHMR includes public health and psychology and health management. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | JSS Medical College and Hospital |
| Organisation | JSS Medical College and Hospital |
| Country | India |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Discussion about the potential for doctors and other mental health professionals undertaking postgraduate training to work with the SASHI team on their dissertation projects where this work is relevant to self-harm or suicide prevention. Profs C Robinson and Poole met Dr Kushalappa PA Director, Dr B Manjunath, the registrar, Dr Basavanna Gowda Patil, Principal, and Dr Rajesh Raman Head of the Department of Psychiatry at JSS University of Mysore to set up a Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU) in May 2018. Dr Murali Krishna is continuing to work with them for setting up of this MOU. The SASHI team will work with JSS on gaining a better understanding about self-harm and suicide and the pathways and barriers to prevention and support. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Discussion about the JSS Hospital participating in the self-harm register research Prof Rajesh Raman is helping us draft and set up the MOU. He is helping in the preparatory work for setting up of a self-harm register at JSS Hospital Mysore. He will be working jointly with Dr Murali Krishna on a wide range of planned activities for building up self-harm research capacity at JSS University. He will also guide us in the receiving the necessary clearances from the ethics and clinical research committee at the JSS University. He will attend the SASHI meeting at Sharjah in December 2018 to refine the plans about students and self-harm. |
| Impact | Psychiatry, nursing, clinical psychology, medical social work 1. The MOU between the Centre for Mental Health and Society (CFMHAS), Bangor, and JSS university will be signed in December 2018. 2. Dr Murali Krishna, Senior Research Fellow Bangor University and SASHI researcher has been offered an adjunct faculty at the Department of Psychiatry, JSS University. 3. Setting up of the Self harm Register at JSS Hospital in Mysore 4. Jointly develop the SASHI self-harm and mental health project for the student populations in Mysore 5. Dr Shivanand, Associate Professor at the Department of Psychiatry, JSS will register for a PhD programme examining the social and psychosexual determinants of self-harm in Mysore. 6. Dr Megha has registered the mental health and suicidality among the adolescents for her Master's dissertation (MD). To commence from 2019. 7. Dr Sashanth has registered 'the social and clinical determinants of self-harm among older adults in Mysore' for his Master's dissertation (MD). To commence from 2019 |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | JSS University of Mysore |
| Organisation | JSS University |
| Country | India |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Profs C Robinson and Poole met Dr Kushalappa PA Director, Dr B Manjunath, the registrar, Dr Basavanna Gowda Patil, Principal, and Dr Rajesh Raman Head of the Department of Psychiatry at JSS University of Mysore to set up a Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU) in May 2018. Dr Murali Krishna is continuing to work with them for setting up of this MOU. The SASHI team will work with JSS on gaining a better understanding about self harm and suicide and the pathways and barriers to prevention and support. JSS are now the main project partner. The collaboration agreement is due to be signed off shortly and Dr Rajesh Rahman will be part of the Co Investigator group. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Prof Rajesh Raman is helping us draft and set up the MOU. He is helping in the preparatory work for setting up of a self-harm register at JSS Hospital Mysore. He will be working jointly with Dr Murali Krishna on a wide range of planned activities for building up self harm research capacity at JSS University. He will also guide us in the receiving the necessary clearances from the ethics and clinical research committee at the JSS University. He will attend the SASHI meeting at Sharjah in December 2018 to refine the plans about students and self harm. |
| Impact | 1. The MOU between the Centre for Mental Health and Society (CFMHAS), Bangor, and JSS university will be signed in December 2018. 2. Dr Murali Krishna, Senior Research Fellow Bangor University and SASHI researcher has been offered an adjunct faculty at the Department of Psychiatry, JSS University. 3. Setting up of the Self harm Register at JSS Hospital in Mysore 4. Jointly develop the SASHI self-harm and mental health project for the student populations in Mysore 5. Dr Shivanand, Associate Professor at the Department of Psychiatry, JSS will register for a PhD programme examining the social and psychosexual determinants of self harm in Mysore. 6. Dr Megha has registered the mental health and suicidality among the adolescents for her Master's dissertation (MD). To commence from 2019. 7. Dr Sashanth has registered 'the social and clinical determinants of self harm among older adults in Mysore' for his Master's dissertation (MD). To commence from 2019 |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | London School of Economics, Dr Mike Clarke |
| Organisation | London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration on bid for NIHR Three Schools Mental Health Research Catalyst and on subsequent work |
| Collaborator Contribution | Collaboration on bid for NIHR Three Schools Mental Health Research Catalyst and on subsequent work |
| Impact | None yet - work ongoing |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | MMCRI Burns Unit |
| Organisation | Mysore Medical College |
| Country | India |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Discussion about working together to augment the routinely collected data on the burns unit to enable a burns unit register to be established as part of the SASHI self-harm register research and to also serve the needs of the burns unit. Discussion about the creation of a care pathway between the burns unit and psychiatry and the burns unit and NGOs. Discussion about the role of stigma and substance misuse. Discussion about the role of routinely collected data and follow-up of individuals. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Discussion about working together to augment the routinely collected data on the burns unit to enable a burns unit register to be established as part of the SASHI self-harm register research and to also serve the needs of the burns unit. Discussion about the role of stigma and substance misuse. Discussion about the role of routinely collected data and follow-up of individuals. |
| Impact | Plastic surgery and hospital medicine |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | MMCRI Community Medicine |
| Organisation | Mysore Medical College |
| Country | India |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Discussion about postgraduate trainees working with SASHI to develop research questions about self-harm and suicide prevention in their dissertation research. Discussion about the role of alcohol in self harm and suicide. Discussion about stigma in the role of suicide and self-harm. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Discussion about postgraduate trainees working with SASHI to develop research questions about self-harm and suicide prevention in their dissertation research. Agreed that a member of faculty would work directly with the SASHI team on the SASHI household survey. Agreed that substance misuse and mental illness will be an important focus in SASHI. |
| Impact | public health and community medicine |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust |
| Organisation | Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Mr Ken Dunn of MFT runs the UK burn registry. He is now one of Emily Bebbington's PhD supervisors and is helping with the common data model development for the International Society for Burn Injuries (ISBI) project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Common data model development. |
| Impact | Work ongoing |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Meeting to discuss potential research work on human rights in mental health care with the Meditrina Healthcare Psychiatry Hospital, Pakistan |
| Organisation | Meditrina Centre |
| Country | Pakistan |
| Sector | Hospitals |
| PI Contribution | Sadia Nafees, an early career researcher on the SASHI project, met with Consultant Psychiatrist Dr Asma Humayun and her team members (clinicians and researchers) in the Meditrina Healthcare (Psychiatry hospital) in Islamabad.Sadia introduced SASHI and what the project team could bring to a collaboration. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The team in Islamabad is keen to develop some collabrative work and can has offered their local knowledge and research expertise. |
| Impact | A committment to follow up on the meeting and develop a shared research project |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Meeting with the Rajasthan Police Academy and the Indo Tibetan Border Force to discuss the development of research proposal. The focus to be on understaning and preventing suicide in police personnel and support for families. |
| Organisation | Rajasthan Police Academy |
| Country | India |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | JAIPUR POLICE ACADEMY we supported the research process such as development of Recruitment materials, interview schedule and provided mentoring for the data collection process. We also led on the analysis. Based on the findings, we will take forward next steps, looking at potential practice changes and developing a follow on proposal. A report and a published paper was produced as a result. ITB we shared findings from the work with the Police Academy and discussed ways forward for interventions/ changes in practice as well as exploring further research opportunities. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The police Academy contributed: staff time and data. A member of staff also collected data and was involved in the analysis. ITB willingness to work together. |
| Impact | Internal report and a published paper Jaipur police academy |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Middlesex University |
| Organisation | Middlesex University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We worked in collaboration to develop an extension to the SASHI work in South Asian countries including preparation of a major grant application. We are preparing a number of other grant applications |
| Collaborator Contribution | We worked in collaboration to develop an extension to the SASHI work in South Asian countries including preparation of a major grant application. |
| Impact | We submitted an outline grant application. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | NIMHANS Developing Funding Applications together |
| Organisation | National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences |
| Country | India |
| Sector | Hospitals |
| PI Contribution | We bring research expertise and understanding of the funding requirements. |
| Collaborator Contribution | NIMHANS is a highly respected institution and they can provide access to potential research participants. |
| Impact | Psychiatry, nursing, social work. We discussed firms planed to collaborate on the wider digital agenda (telemedicine initiative) and this work may be of interest to the group in the University of Manchester led by Professor Niels Peak. We met with the Head of Department and Faulty and discussed plans for collaboration. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | National Institute of Mental Health & Hospital (NIMH) |
| Organisation | National Institutes of Health (NIH) |
| Department | National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Agreed to collaborate to extend the SASHI work in South Asian countries including preparation of a major grant application. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Agreed to collaborate to extend the SASHI work in South Asian countries including preparation of a major grant application. |
| Impact | Psychiatry, Clinical Psychology |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | PGI Chandigarh |
| Organisation | Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) |
| Country | India |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Discussion about PGI faculty collaborating in SASHI research, particularly in relationship to substance misuse and self-harm and suicide. We discussed creating a memorandum of understanding. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Discussion about PGI faculty collaborating in SASHI research, particularly in relationship to substance misuse and self-harm and suicide. Discussion about sources of funding to extend the SASHI research platform in India. |
| Impact | PGI faculty includes psychiatry, clinical psychology and medical social work |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | QMUL |
| Organisation | St Bartholomew's Hospital |
| Department | School of Medicine and Dentistry |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Hospitals |
| PI Contribution | We worked in collaboration to develop an extension to the SASHI work in South Asian countries including preparation of a major grant application. |
| Collaborator Contribution | We worked in collaboration to develop an extension to the SASHI work in South Asian countries including preparation of a major grant application. |
| Impact | Psychiatry, Clinical Psychology |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | RCPsych |
| Organisation | Royal College of Psychiatrists |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Agreed to collaborate to extend the SASHI work in South Asian countries including preparation of a major grant application. We have held a series of meetings with their internationalisation lead to advise RCPsych about getting involved in global mental health research, including working with the SASHI network. We have also discussed other global health related research funding streams and about research on supervision in the context of scale-up activity. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Agreed to collaborate to extend the SASHI work in South Asian countries including preparation of a major grant application. We have held a series of meetings with their internationalisation lead to advise RCPsych about getting involved in global mental health research, including working with the SASHI network. We have also discussed other global health related research funding streams and about research on supervision in the context of scale-up activity. |
| Impact | The collaboration with RCPsych has resulted in the submission of one outline proposal and discussion about the potential to collaborate on other research activity related to global mental health, in particular the topic of supervision |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Research work with Rajasthan Police |
| Organisation | Rajasthan Police Academy |
| Country | India |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | We met with the Director General of the Rajasthan police force about the potential to undertake some research and development work about the well-being of members of the police force and suicide and self harm and about potential collaboration with the Police University. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Potential research partner providing access to a large number of police employees. |
| Impact | This collaboration has since developed and a qualitative project is being planned where Police staff will be interviewed. The study will explore perceptions and attitudes around suicide and self-harm of police staff through remote in-depths interviews. The study would be supported by the Rajasthan Police force in general and the Police Academy in Jaipur specifically, and the Green Oak Initiative in Bangaluru. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Self Harm Register Roll out in Rajasthan |
| Organisation | Sawai ManSingh Medical College and Hospital |
| Country | India |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We met in 2019 with the Director of Medical Education (who also has state-wide responsibilities) and the Director of Forensics and Toxicology. We discussed the opportunity for the SASHI Self Harm register process (supervised implementation by the SASHI team) to be adopted by the hospital. We met again in February 2020 to firm up plans. We discussed the collaboration on the upcoming MRC programme grant call. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The hospital has an ED and a Trauma Centre. The Director of Forensics manages the routinely collected data about medico-legal cases which are key to SASHI processes. SMS is also a focus for autopsies at a time when death registration in India is being reformed. We also met with the secretary and the minister for Health and Family Welfare in Rajasthan and both support a roll-out of the Self Harm Register across state hospitals. State Minister for Health and Family Welfare will be the signatory on an MOU between the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health in the University of Manchester |
| Impact | Initial draft plans for SASHI Self Harm Register roll-out. To have access to this sort of support and infra-structure to roll out the SASHI surveillance system is significant and a major outcome for SASHI. MOU in preparation. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Submission of a GCRF-University grant application with a focus on Social inclusion in deprived tribal communities in India |
| Organisation | Institute of Public Health Bengaluru |
| Country | India |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | We developed and submitted a grant application , the application was led by P. Huxley in Bangor. Unfortunately we were unsucessful in this very competitive round. This is a developing partnership and the group is exploring further options. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The organisations provided their knowledge of the local context to the application. This is a collaborative partnership. The proposed work was going to be conducted by partners in India |
| Impact | A grant application was submitted. The partnership is with a University (https://iphindia.org/about-us/) and a TSO (http://www.vgkk.org/). |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Submission of a GCRF-University grant application with a focus on Social inclusion in deprived tribal communities in India |
| Organisation | Vivekananda Girijana Kalyana Kendra |
| Country | India |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | We developed and submitted a grant application , the application was led by P. Huxley in Bangor. Unfortunately we were unsucessful in this very competitive round. This is a developing partnership and the group is exploring further options. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The organisations provided their knowledge of the local context to the application. This is a collaborative partnership. The proposed work was going to be conducted by partners in India |
| Impact | A grant application was submitted. The partnership is with a University (https://iphindia.org/about-us/) and a TSO (http://www.vgkk.org/). |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Submission of a GCRF-University grant application with a focus on service user engagement in self harm and suicide research in South Asia |
| Organisation | Chhahari Nepal for Mental Health |
| Country | Nepal |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | We developed and submitted a grant application together, the application was led by A.Krayer in Bangor. Unfortunately we were unsucessful in this very competitive round. This is a developing partnership and the partners are working on a Health System Research Grant. |
| Collaborator Contribution | We developed and submitted a grant application together at the end of 2019. The research was going to take place in India (http://www.graam.org.in/about-us/) and Nepal (https://chhaharinepal.org.np/), with the South Asia partners being equal partners and conducting the field work. Connections with partners in Nepal have developed further and we are currently collaboratively developing a grant proposal |
| Impact | This collaboration is with two NGOs - one in Nepal and one in India. An output is the grant proposal which we submitted the end of 2019. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Submission of a bid for a GCRF funded PhD at University of Manchester on 'Deliberate Self-Harm and Suicide in Women in India' |
| Organisation | JSS University |
| Country | India |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | An application for a GCRF funded PhD was developed collaboratively with Indian partners who have first hand knowledge and experience of the Indian context. The appication was succesfull and the PhD student, Parvathy Ramesh, has started on her programme of research. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners provided their knowledge and experience of the local context to the application. The proposed work will be conducted in close collaboration with partners in India and the PhD student will spend a significant proportion of time in India with partners (dependent on restrictions relating to COVID-19). |
| Impact | A grant application was submitted. Funding was successfully obtained (see Funding section). PhD studentship commenced September 2020 |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Submission of a bid for a GCRF funded PhD at University of Manchester on 'Responsible Reporting of Deliberate Self-Harm and Suicide in the Indian Media' |
| Organisation | University of Mysore |
| Country | India |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | An application for a GCRF funded PhD was developed collaboratively with Indian partners who have first hand knowledge and experience of the Indian media. Unfortunately this application was unsuccessful. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners provided their knowledge and experience of the local context to the application. If successful the proposed work would have been conducted in close collaboration with partners in India. |
| Impact | A grant application was submitted. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | The All India Institute of Speech and Hearing Mysore |
| Organisation | The All India Institute of Speech and Hearing |
| Country | India |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Profs Robinson and Poole, and Dr Murali Krishna, had a meeting with Prof S Goswami at the All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, Mysore. This meeting identified AIISH as an important resource for capacity building, and carrying out training and dissemination activities. Further work has involved a joint workshop and successful joint funding application with Dr Ira Leroi (SASHI Co-Investigator) |
| Collaborator Contribution | Prof Goswami is helping us draft and set up a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Bangor University, University of Manchester, Oxford University, PILL, MMCRI and AIISH, Mysore. He has specifically sought permission for SASHI-India staff to use the state of the art facilities at his institution for training and public engagement activities. Further work has involved a joint workshop and successful joint funding application with Dr Ira Leroi (SASHI Co-Investigator) |
| Impact | 1. MOU between Bangor University, University of Manchester, Oxford University, PILL, MMCRI and AIISH to be drafted by December 2018; 2. AIISH is a premier institution of the Central Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. This provides a direct pathway for the policy impact in India; 3. Resources (e.g. lecture theatres, halls and auditorium, and AV facilities) will be made available for the SASHI team for effectively conducting public engagement, training and scientific dissemination activities in Mysore; 4. Prof Goswami will collaborate with us in conducting the self-harm studies among the immigrant populations in Mysore. 5. Funded research project starting in March 2019 |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | The Department of Anthropology, University of Mysore |
| Organisation | University of Mysore |
| Country | India |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Profs. Robinson and Poole, and Dr Murali Krishna had a meeting with Prof. Gangadhar, Head of the Department of Anthropology at University of Mysore. This meeting identified the University of Mysore as an important resource for capacity building, and developing educational and training resources. The potential for SASHI staff to co-supervise MA and MSc students is under discussion. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Prof. Gangadhar is helping us set up a Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU) between the SASHI Collaborators and the University of Mysore. In addition, he has made provision for CFHMAS, Bangor and SASHI India team to use the multimedia resources available at University of Mysore for developing educational training resources. |
| Impact | 1. The MOU between the SASHI Collaborators and the Department of Anthropology, University of Mysore, has been drafted and will be formalised in November 2018 during a knowledge exchange visit. 2. The team and SASHI India team have access to the multimedia studio at University of Mysore for developing educational training resources that can be broadcast to all graduate and postgraduate educational organisations in the State of Karnataka. 3. The Department of Anthropology are considering identifying student undertaking Masters level dissertations to work with the SASHI team. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | University of Chester |
| Organisation | University of Chester |
| Department | Faculty of Health and Social Care |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We worked in collaboration to develop an extension to the SASHI work in South Asian countries including preparation of a major grant application. The SASHI team are involved in some knowledge exchange work to extend their work on self-harm and suicide prevention with particular occupational groups including known to be of high risk for self harm and suicide. The SASHI group bring particular expertise in self-harm research, narrative methods and the use of routinely collected data. |
| Collaborator Contribution | We worked in collaboration to develop an extension to the SASHI work in South Asian countries including preparation of a major grant application. Professor Vimal Sharma chairs the World Psychiatric Association interest group on rural mental health. Professor Sharma developed the Global Mental Health Assessment Tool (GMHAT) for use by non-specialist workers. The GMHAT may become part of the Self Harm Register additional data set. |
| Impact | We submitted an outline grant application. Psychiatry and Nursing are included in the disciplines from University of Chester. We are developing a further grant application in relation to learning disability. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | University of Edinburgh and South Asian Clinical Toxicology Research Collaboration |
| Organisation | South Asian Clinical Toxicology Research Collaboration |
| Country | Sri Lanka |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Prof. Eddleston (University of Edinburgh), and the South Asian Clinical Toxicology Research COllaboration (SACR) have become collaborators with the SASHI project. SASHI will use make use of the financial strain measures employed by the team in Sri Lanka in their own data collection, providing further comparative data on financial strain and self-harm. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Access to financial strain measures. Access to existing datasets of self-poisoning events recorded at hospitals in Sri Lanka for the purposes of further secondary analysis. |
| Impact | Addition of financial strain items in the updated SASHI self-harm register (Multi-disciplinary; Psychiatry, Medicine, Sociology, Psychology) Development of protocol for secondary analyses of Sri Lanka hospital data - in progress (Multi-disciplinary; Psychiatry, Medicine, Sociology, Psychology) |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | University of Edinburgh and South Asian Clinical Toxicology Research Collaboration |
| Organisation | University of Edinburgh |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Prof. Eddleston (University of Edinburgh), and the South Asian Clinical Toxicology Research COllaboration (SACR) have become collaborators with the SASHI project. SASHI will use make use of the financial strain measures employed by the team in Sri Lanka in their own data collection, providing further comparative data on financial strain and self-harm. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Access to financial strain measures. Access to existing datasets of self-poisoning events recorded at hospitals in Sri Lanka for the purposes of further secondary analysis. |
| Impact | Addition of financial strain items in the updated SASHI self-harm register (Multi-disciplinary; Psychiatry, Medicine, Sociology, Psychology) Development of protocol for secondary analyses of Sri Lanka hospital data - in progress (Multi-disciplinary; Psychiatry, Medicine, Sociology, Psychology) |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | University of Warwick |
| Organisation | University of Warwick |
| Department | Warwick Medical School |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We worked in collaboration to develop an extension to the SASHI work in South Asian countries including preparation of a major grant application. |
| Collaborator Contribution | We worked in collaboration to develop an extension to the SASHI work in South Asian countries including preparation of a major grant application. |
| Impact | We submitted an outline grant application. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | "Meet the team" SASHI Co-Investigator interviews |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | We have produced a series of brief videos featuring interviews with different SASHI co-investigators (seven in total). The videos were distributed on a monthly basis via social media (twitter, facebook) and were also accessible via the SASHI website. The videos provide information about the nature and goals of the SASHI project, and the work involved, as well as the interests and motivations of the co-investigators. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://sashi.bangor.ac.uk/sashitv/team.php.en |
| Description | Academic emergency medicine: a UK perspective by Emily Bebbington |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Twenty doctors from JSS hospital Emergency Department (India) attended the talk which gave insight into the SASHI project and led to discussions about research development at the hospital and region as a whole. This event led to future potential research collaborations with the JSS ED. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Awareness event in Mysore on self-harm in children and adolescents. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | An awareness program on self-harm was undertaken with teachers who have enrolled for counselling and guidance courses. The participants belonged to various states of South-India. The participants were briefed about the SASHI Project and also given a small presentation on self-harm in children and adolescents. Then the video #youfirstmarksnext was also shown to them. There was a small discussion with the management of the institution on conducting further engagement programs for students who are getting trained to be teachers and they were positive about this. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Awareness program on Self-Harm for MBBS students |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | On June 3rd 2018, an awareness program on self-harm was run for the 3rd year MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery) students of Mysore Medical College & Research Institute. The program focussed on sensitizing the students to the issue of self-harm and also informing the about the facts and myths related to self-harm. The program also focussed on informing the participants about the SASHI project and also the research done in the Mysore district related to self-harm. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Brief introduction to qualitative research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A two hour training event for postgraduates concerning qualitative research, organised based on a request made at a previous event (Improving Mental Health and Wellbeing of Communities, IIHMR University). Feedback from the session was good: 85% rated the training as "good". 90% said the content of the training was "good" or "excellent", and 100% said the trainer was "good" or "excellent". One participant said "Excellent workshop, interdisciplinary and truly enjoyed it." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | British Isles Workshop 16th October 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 26th British Isles Workshop |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | South East Regional Conference on Self Harm and Suicide 'Working together to Prevent Suicide' My presentation "The nature and important of self-harm" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Consultation Meeting with Health Workers, India |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Discussion involved Introducing SASHI and better understanding self-harm in the context of tribal communities |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Culture and International Mental Health Conference 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | GCRF SASHI team members attended the International conference in Manchester on Culture and International Mental Health. Professor Catherine Robinson the PI and Professor Rob Poole a CI, delivered a presentation on development of the GCRF SASHI project and outlined the findings from some pilot work on the development of Self Harm Registers in South Asia. The idea was to share the project focus with a wider audience and invite comments and identify future partners for research. People were very engaged and networks were developed for future collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Decriminalisation of suicide in India" at Offender Health Research Network Wales North Wales conference 22 May 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | More details required |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Engagement event for school children in Mysore, India, regarding self-harm and mental health |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Dr murali krishna from the SASHI project team led this engagement event with school children from Mysore and their teachers, promoting mental health and self-harm awareness. The event involved discussion and interaction with the students about mental health suicide and self harm. Students had an opportunity to talk about self-harm behaviour and were told about mental health services and what they provide. The SASHI project was introduced and discussed as part of the event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Engagement program with Post-Graduate students (Community Medicine) of Mysore Medical College & Research Institute |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A need assessment program was undertaken for the Post-Graduate (Community Medicine) students of Mysore Medical College & Research Institute, marking World Suicide Prevention Day (10th September 2018). The program mainly focussed on informing the participants about the SASHI project and also explaining to them the objectives of the project. There was an active discussion about risk factors for self-harm and also a discussion about the myths and facts about self-harm. They informed us that there was no event until then about Self-Harm and the program was beneficial. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Forging your own path in academic clinical medicine (National) - Workshop by Dr Emily Bebbington |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Thirty junior doctors who are members of the BMA. The workshop included discussions about the practicalities of becoming involved in research, the SASHI project, and potential areas of medical training that could be lobbied to improve academic opportunities. A key outcome was national exposure of the project to junior doctors. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Forging your own path in academic clinical medicine - Talk by Dr Emily Bebbington |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Ten junior doctors from Bangor Emergency Department. Discussed opportunities for research and details of my PhD project. A key outcome was Increased exposure to research opportunities and SASHI in trainee doctors in North Wales. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | GCRF Advisory Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | I presented (alongside three other GROW PIs) a collective presentation on visions for capacity building under the Growing Research Capability call. This detailed our initial plans for capacity building, and what we are aiming to achieve medium to longer term over the life cycle of the project in terms of capacity building. We also participated in a question and answer session with the Strategic Advisory Group about some of the challenges of working in Low and Middle Income Countries (LAMICS). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | GCRF Networking Event, Bangor University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | PI Professor Catherine Robinson and CoI Professor Rob Poole presented an overview of the GCRF-SASHI programme and took part in a question and answer session on securing GCRF funding and creating partnerships for research in LAMICS. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Health Service Research Summer School Presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A presentation to the Health Service Summer School on "Partnership and Capacity Building in low and middle income countries: Lessons from the Global Challenge Research Fund South Asia Self Harm Initiative (GCRF SASHI) Presentation sparked lots of questions and discussions, feedback indicated that participants found it inspiring and very informative |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.bangor.ac.uk/health-sciences/research/summer-school-2018/index.php.en |
| Description | Health Service Research Summer School Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Discussion of participant's research projects/ideas and sharing of knowledge and experience. One of the participants has remained in contact and is pursuing higher training in Public Health Medicine firstly by undertaking a MSc and if a funding application is successful she will go on to undertake a PhD. Her intention is to work closely with the SASHI team and to undertake work on presentations of self-immolation in India. It is anticipated that this work will involve joint supervision from India and the UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.bangor.ac.uk/healthcaresciences/research/summer-school-2018/timetable.php.en |
| Description | Improving Mental Health and Well-being of Communities, IIHMR University Jaipur, 9 Feb 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A two day workshop and a one day conference for health and social care staff and Non-Governmental Organisations. Catherine Robinson, the SASHI PI, was part of a panel on day one of the workshop and introduced SASHI to the audience. Peter Huxley, Anne Krayer, Murali Krishna and Sumanth Magji (co-investigators and SASHI team members) all spoke at a symposium at the conference about various aspects of SASHI. The symposium panel was chaired by Catherine. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Invited Plenary |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention Griffith University, Brisbane "Self-harm and Suicide in Young People" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Invited speaker |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Glasgow Invited Plenary Speaker "Restrictions of access to means of suicide as a key suicide prevention measure"Early and Mid-Career Researchers (EMCR) Forum 2019 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Invited speaker |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Working together to Prevent Suicide' South East Regional Conference on Self Harm and Suicide - invited speaker "The nature and importance of self-harm" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Invited speaker |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | European Symposium on Suicide and Suicidal Behaviour (ESSSB) Derry - London Derry 17th September until Saturday 21st September |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Invited speaker |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Glasgow Early and Mid-Career Researchers (EMCR) Forum 2019 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Invited speaker |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention Griffith University, Brisbane "Self-harm and Suicide in Young People" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Lancet Psychiatry with CSR 15th October 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Lancet Psychiatry Suicide Research Symposium |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Meeting in Oxford with Murad Khan |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Meeting in Oxford with Catherine Robinson, Rob Poole and Murad Khan (Pakistan) to discuss the project |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Meeting in Oxford with Rob Poole and Catherine Robinson |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Ongoing discussion regarding the Grant |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Meeting in Oxford with Rob Poole and Catherine Robinson |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Meeting in Oxford with Rob Poole and Catherine Robinson to discuss the grant and with Sudeep Das for filming to be placed on the SASHI website |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Mental health and self-harm awareness - Minnesota University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Awareness program on mental health systems and self-harm in the Indian context with Masters Students from Minnesota University |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Narrative research training for health and social care professionals from India and Pakistan |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 8 professionals attended a two day interactive workshop on narrative interview methods. feedback was extremely positive and the group formed the Narrative Inquiry Interest group. The group will share resources and contribute to meet (by a variety of means, mainly online but also face-to face if possible) at regular intervals. Short-term, the purpose is to increase members confidence to use the methods in their settings and share learning with collagues. Longer-term, the group will aim to develop and submit a proposal. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.facebook.com/pill2001/ |
| Description | Need Assessment for Self-Harm register in India |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | SASHI-india was invited to conduct an awareness programme on self-harm on 5-12-2018. The facillitators were Dr Sumanth and Dr Sudeep Das. Another objective was to discuss the feasibility of keeping a self-harm register at the primary care level. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | One day training on "Understanding Self-Harm" to students at Mysore Medical College and Research Institute |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | This event took place in July with 3rd year medical students studying at Medical College and Research Institute. The presentation included an introduction to statistics related to suicide and self-harm, common myths surrounding self-harm, details of risk and protective factors, and how to support someone who might be suicidal. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Online Qualitative Data Analysis with psychology postgraduates and staff in JSS Hospital, Mysore |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A 1.5hr introductory workshop to coding with hands-on experience. Participants worked in groups on transcripts to develop coding schemes. Qualitative research is not valued as much in India as there is a lack of training. Feedback indicated that participants found it thought-provoking and stimulating. Long-term, the aim is to support students to take-up qualitative research projects (capacity building). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Open house engagement event with Vikram college of Nursing students and staff that focused on self-harm |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | This was an open house engagement event at the College which focused on self-harm, following concerns about increased self-harm rates amongst nurses. The event was an opportunity for the nursing students to talk about self-harm and suicide and think about their options for seeking help and support. The SASHI project was discussed. The event also led to the identification of a SASHI champion amongst the students, who will be able to support future engagement events. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | PI experience - "securing GCRF funding" on 27/07/17 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Bangor University's RCUK & Impact Manager organised a one-day GCRF Networking Session for senior academics in July 2017. The aims of the day were to: • Engage with GCRF project PIs, panel members and researchers working internationally with a session of talks and posters • Run an all-day mapping exercise to identify the nature of existing international research and development networks that Bangor staff had • Gain a better idea of the interdisciplinary opportunities which might be open to the University in relation to global challenges focussed research I contributed throughout the day, including the delivery of a discrete session on writing proposals to GCRF calls. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Podcast about mental health with Tracie Harris and Prof. Rob Poole |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In this podcast SASHI co-Investigator Rob Poole was intervied. Discussion touched on suicide prevention and suicide rates during the COVID-19pandemic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY43sGfgphk |
| Description | Poster presentation to ADSSCymru (Llandudno, 29th & 30th June, 2016) and the International Population Data Linkage Conference (Swansea, 24-26 August, 2016). |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | ADSSCymru (Llandudno, 29th & 30th June, 2016) and the International Population Data Linkage Conference (Swansea, 24-26 August, 2016). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Presentation 'The Decriminalisation of Suicide in India' by Rob Poole |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Needs content |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation School of Health Sciences Bangor University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Talked about the SASHI work with a specific focus on research issues that need to be considered when conducting research on suicide and self harm in South Asia. This led to questions and discussion and participants told me that they learnt a lot. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Presentation at QRMH 7 How do health professionals in South India talk about self-harm? A narrative pilot study |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of a paper: How do health professionals in South India talk about self-harm? A narrative pilot study. Participants in the session (about 40) came from a diversity of backgrounds and countries and the event created a space for lively and enriching discussions. In particular contact was made with a representative from an NGO, working in South Asia, with whom we are going to explore further work. Also, there was a lot of discussion about enabling participation, cultural values and narrative methods and several people came after the talk to discuss the possibility of using narrative methods generally and in different cultural contexts. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Presentation on Effective suicide prevention is a public health at British Pakistani Psychiatrists Association (BPPA) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation sparked a lot of questions and discussions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.bppa.info/bppa-annual-meeting-9th-and-10th-november-2019/ |
| Description | Presentation on SASHI to two day conference in Wrexham organised by R&D department of local Health Board |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The R&D department of Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board relaunched following reorganisation. The conference was specifically intended to bring together researchers, business and industry. Our presentation was well received and led to closer links with NHS R&D, together with significant interest from health researchers beyong the public sector and mental health. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Presentation summer research school, Bangor University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | SASHI Co-Is and researchers in training delivered sessions at the two summer school weeks at the School of Health Sciences, Bangor University. Sessions covered: - introduction to SASHI - research protocol development - capacity building theory and practice - considerations when setting-up a burns register. The sessions sparked a lot of interest and discussion. A connection with Emily Bebbington was made in the first summer school in 2018. She stayed in touch and met several times with the team. Based on this she submitted a PhD funding application and received funding. Her PhD focuses on setting up a burns register and Catherine Robinson (PI) and Rob Poole (Co-I) are her supervisors. She presented at the Summer school in 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019 |
| Description | Process Mapping presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to the SASHI team by Emily Bebbington outlining findings from the process mapping work completed in India. This was presented to aid the Pakistan team in their setting up of the self-harm register in Karachi. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Prof. Rob Poole on "Captain Hunter's podcast" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Professor Rob Poole, SASHI co-ivestigator has recorded an interview for Captain Hunter's podast, a US based podcast about political and social issues. In the interview he talks about his work with SASHI and suicide preventions, as well as the social determinants of mental health more broadly. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://captainhunter.podbean.com/e/marginalized-people-mental-illness-suicide-w-prof-rob-poole/ |
| Description | Qualitative Research in Mental Health Conference, QRMH8 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 6 people attended a conference workshop on Ethical considerations when conducting qualitative research in mental health in low- and middle-income countries. A lot of discussion and questions with participants reporting that the workshop had also highlighted the relevance of these issues for working with vulnerable and BAME groups in the UK. The audience included practitioners, researchers, academics, service users and carers" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Qualitative Research in Mental Health Conference, QRMH8: Conference Poster Presentation (SD) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The poster presented finding for a scoping review on Mental health and wellbeing among parent of children with disability in South Asia. It particularly highlighted the gap in evidence and the need for further research. As posters were available online, we are unable to tell how many people viewed the poster. A couple of questions were asked online about method details. The audience included practitioners, researchers, academics, service users and carers" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Qualitative Research in Mental Health Conference, QRMH8: Conference Presentation 'Knowledge, attitudes and experiences of suicide and self-harm in low and middle income countries: systematic review and meta-synthesis of qualitative research ' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A conference presentation was made on 'knowledge, attitudes and experiences of suicide and self-harm in low and middle income countries: systematic review and meta-synthesis of qualitative research' at the Qualitative Research on Mental Health conference. Approximately 15 people attended this session and the research presented was discussed in some depth with attendees. The audience reported that the session facilitated them to think in more depth about the cultural nature of suicide and self-harm. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | http://www.qrmh8.com/images/QRMH8_Programme_v3.pdf |
| Description | Qualitative Research in Mental Health Conference, QRMH8: Conference Presentation (AK) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on supporting local researchers as part of a symposium on trauma. Participants (15) discussed and shared issues and practices around supporting researchers working with sensitive topics. The event enabled learning and good practice to be shared and new potential collaborations to be started. the audience included practitioners, researchers, academics, service users and carers" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | RCPsych International Congress in Birmingham |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Royal College of Psychiatrists have formed a group aimed at developing their involvement in global mental health research and training. The PI and one of the Co-Investigators of SASHI have been invited to join this group. SASHI team members have shared their experiences and expertise in developing partnerships in Low and Middle Income Countries and in doing challenge led research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | RCPsych Mental Health Awareness Week events, RGP delivering session on 18th May |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This was one of a series of five talks organised by the Royal College of Psychiatry (RCPsych) to mark Mental Health Awareness Week. Roughly 60 people attended, mostly of whom were RCPsych staff it created a great deal of interest with the RCPsych and ported the RCPsych involvement in the SASHI Advisory Group. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Research ethics at JSS Hospital, Mysore, India |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 17 health and research professionals and postgraduate students attended an interactive workshop on research ethics. The aim of the workshop was knowledge exchange between facilitators from the SASHI team and attendees. The workshop sparked much discussion regarding the ways in which ethical risks and issues can be managed in the Indian context. Feedback forms filled out by attendees indicated that the session had increased their understanding of how to identify and deal with ethical risks and issues. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | SASHI Launch |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A combination of partners and third sector organisations attend the launch of the SASHI Research Project in Manchester. The purpose of the GCRF-SASHI project is to help to find effective responses to deliberate self-harm and suicide in South Asia by building research infrastructure and expertise in India and Pakistan with international attendees. With a few short presentation which sparked questions and discussions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | SASHI Networking event (6th November) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This was a three hour afternoon event bringing together clinicians and researchers from India, UK and Pakistan. The event provided a context for discussions on topics linked to SASHI and promoted the development of new collaborative research projects and funding application. Organisations involved included University of Manchester, Bangor University, PILL, University of Chester, Cwm Taf University Health Board, Cardiff University, University of Bradford, Mysore Medical College & research Institute, JSS Medical College, Grassroots Research & Advocacy Movement in Mysore, University of Sap Paulo, NCMH, CAMHS in Bangor, UCL, Edinburgh University, Royal College of Psychiatrists, MIND Cymru, Aga Khan University, and Edge Hill University. There was considerable engagement and discussion within and following the event, including social media activity. Social media engagements on twitter increased the week of the event by 258 engagements, up to 273 from 15 the previous week, including an additional 20 Twitter followers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://sashi.bangor.ac.uk/news/networking-event-in-manchester-6th-of-november-38753 |
| Description | SASHI research training for Research Assistants at Public Health Institute, Mysore |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Training in research methods delivered to assistant psychologists at the Public Health Research Institute, Mysore. The training focused on development of questionnaires and administration of the questionnaire in a standardised manner for women in the community. Basic principles and ethical issues in conducting community research were taught and discussed. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | SASHI team database training |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentations to Pakistan and India teams on SASHI database training covering data entry, verification, and backup. This is in relation to the recording of self-harm data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | SSHARE NoW one day conference (Liverpool) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | One day conference on the topic of suicide and self-harm, focused on local research and priorities (Suicide and Self-Harm Research Exercise: North West; SSHARE NoW). SASHI Co-Investigator Peter Taylor was involved in organising the event and facilitating afternoon networking discussions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Self-Harm Awareness programme with ASHA workers - India |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Awareness programme on self-harm for ASHA (Accredited Social Health Activists) workers. Myths and facts about Self-Harm were discussed. The audience reported that it was beneficial. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Submisison of abstracts for the 5th Global Symposium on Health Systems Reseach and application for a scholarship which includes further training |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This is part of the capacity building theme of the project. We supported two applicants, who are early career researchers with a clinical background, in developing the research protocol and abstract. If successful in this very competitive process, they will receive a scholarship which not only allows them to attend and present at the conference but also includes additional research training and networking opportunities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://healthsystemsresearch.org/hsr2018/ |
| Description | Suicide Awareness Programme and Introduction to SASHI - Police in India |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The SASHI Team was invited by the District Mental Health Programme of Chamarajanagar District to conduct an awareness programme on self-harm for the police department of the district. The session was a part of the larger awareness programme on Mental Health. The event included an introduction to SASHI Project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://sashi.bangor.ac.uk/news/awareness-programme-on-self-harm-and-suicide-for-police-department-at... |
| Description | Suicide Awareness Programme and Introduction to SASHI, India |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | The session involved introducing SASHI project to the participants and then building awareness about self-harm among students. The session was interactive and the teacher participated actively. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Symposium Presentation at World Psychiatric Association (WPA) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | International perspectives on social factors and mental Health Symposium based on SASHI work chaired by Peter Huxley (CoI): Presentation by Catherine Robinson (CI): Care for People following Self-Harm: perspectives from health care providers Presentation by Rob Poole (CoI): Developing Effective Suicide Prevention Strategies in South Asia |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.wpanet.org/post/world-congress-of-psychiatry-mexico-2018-meet-the-expert-sessions |
| Description | Talk on Trauma systems: Prevention to treatment by Emily Bebbington |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Forty doctors from Emergency Departments (EDs) across Karnataka (India) gathered for their monthly regional meeting which I was invited to talk at. We discussed trauma systems in the UK and how they compared to India, current research infrastructure, details of the SASHI project, which sparked debate and potential future visits. An outcome was strengthening links with ED's across Karnataka and exposure to the SASHI project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Teaching about SASHI for the public health pathway (Bangor University) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Teaching about SASHI for the public health pathway (Bangor University), covering information about self-harm and suicide, including the role of public health initiatives in suicide prevention. Covered importance of surveillance of self-harm. Teaching delivered by Anne Krayer (SASHI co-Investigator) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Television Programme on SASHI in Mysore |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | On the 29th of May 2018, there was a live telecast of interview of Profs Catherine Robinson and Rob Poole, and the SASHI India team by Yashtel television services that was broadcast to entire city of Mysore. This was over 90 minutes long and the anchor interviewed the team about the aims and objectives of SASHI, relevance of SASHI to Mysore, risk factors for self-harm in India and the plan of work of SASHI in Mysore in the coming years. This was received extremely well and we received plenty of compliments and phone calls from at least 50 to 60 members of public and other educational organisations, and welfare societies wanting to work with/collaborate/or know more about SASHI. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://youtu.be/dQYYzWXziPo |
| Description | Training for India team on burns questions in the SASHI proforma |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Training provided to researchers and clinicians within the SASHI team in India regarding the administration of the burns questions in the SASHI proforma. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Training for teachers in Mysore about self-harm in children and adolescents |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Training for teachers of Excel Public School was undertaken. The training mainly focussed on awareness of self-harm among children and adolescents. Risk factors for self-harm among students were discussed. The teachers were informed about SASHI project. The #youfirstmarksnext video made by the SASHI team was shown. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | UN World Day of Social Justice hosted by Social Science Society, Bangor University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | UN World Day of Social Justice hosted by Social Science Society - Talks on Issues in Equality, Mental Health and more, 20th February 2018. Professor Catherine Robinson and Professor Rob Poole presented an overview of the issues related to mental health and poverty and described our work in GCRF SASHI on self harm |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Understanding self harm and suicide in south India - Presentation at Bangor University by Dr Emily Bebbington |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Thirty students and staff from Bangor University attended this 2 hour workshop at the Health Research Summer School. It sparked questions and debate, and students reported increased understanding of injury prevention principles afterwards. A key outcome was increased knowledge of the SASHI project in the wider university. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Welsh Clinical Academic Training Fellowship - Talk by Dr Emily Bebbington |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Fifteen junior doctors from acute speciality training scheme across North Wales. We discussed the opportunities for research across Wales and the SASHI project. A key outcome was increased exposure to research opportunities and SASHI in trainee doctors in North Wales. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Workshop on skills training with carers on managing children with intellectual disabilities, pariculalry those who self-harm |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Patients, carers and/or patient groups |
| Results and Impact | Carers attended a workshop on skills training to learn about managing children with intellectual disabilities, with a particular focus on managing self-harm behaviours. At the Government Shadab Institute of Special Children |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | YouFirstMarksNext video |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | We compiled a short video outlining the link between exam pressure and student suicide in India. The video included interviews with students, teaching staff, clinicians and SASHI co-investigators. The video is hosted on the SASHI website (942 views as of 28/08/2018) and has been disseminated via social media. The video also caught attention from the media house named '"UDAYAVANI" and shared the video in their social media page which has been viewed by 4000 people and also shared 30 times. Since sharing the video we have been contacted by individuals praising the video and the importance of the subject matter it covers. The video was also entered into the "Art with Impact" competition where it received positive feedback. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://sashi.bangor.ac.uk/sashitv/youfirstmarksnext.php.en |
| Description | short piece in the Public Health Network Cymru publication |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This was a special issue for Mental Health day in September and we presented a brief summary about the research including contact details and web site |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.publichealthnetwork.cymru/en/get-involved/ebulletins/ |