Category: Psychiatry

Current awareness updates

Type 2 diabetes in adults: management.
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE); 2021.
[This guideline covers care and management for adults (aged 18 and over) with type 2 diabetes. It focuses on patient education, dietary advice, managing cardiovascular risk, managing blood glucose levels, and identifying and managing long-term complications. In November 2021, NICE reviewed the evidence on SGLT2 inhibitors for adults with type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney disease, and made new recommendations. See the section on chronic kidney disease for more information.]

Cognitive behavioural social skills training: Methods of a randomized controlled trial for youth at risk of psychosis.[Abstract]
Addington J. Early Intervention in Psychiatry 2021;15(6):1626-1636.
[Poor functioning has become a hallmark of many youth at clinical high-risk (CHR) of psychosis. Even for those who do not make the transition to psychosis remain troubled by functional deficits and a decline in functioning increases the odds of transitioning to psychosis. There are very few treatment studies that have attempted to improve social and role functioning. The aim of this paper is to describe the methods of a treatment study to address social and role functioning in CHR.]

Good health and Wellbeing – Social Prescribing: Global Social Prescribing Alliance Playbook.
Global Social Prescribing Alliance; 2021.
[The Global Social Prescribing Playbook is aimed at people and organisations leading local, national, and international implementation of social prescribing. Among other things this report aims to clarify the role of the link worker and help leaders to plan how they can work with community groups, voluntary organisations and civic society to increase the number of community activities available, including across physical activity, financial wellbeing, arts and culture, and nature.]

Gendered experiences of obesity: Narrowing gender gaps in prevention and treatment.
Social Market Foundation; 2021.
[This report explores gendered experiences of obesity in the UK , examining how obesity rates differ between men and women, the drivers of these trends and the extent to which policy aimed at reducing obesity rates needs to be gender specific.]

Emerging infections: monthly summaries.
UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA); 2021.
[October update on new or emerging infectious disease events that could affect UK public health.]

Substance misuse treatment for adults: statistics 2020 to 2021.
Office for Health Improvement and Disparities; 2021.
[Statistics on alcohol and drug misuse treatment for adults from the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System (NDTMS).]

Environmental enrichment for stroke and other non-progressive brain injury. [Abstract]
Qin H. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2021;11:CD011879.
[OBJECTIVES: To assess the effects of environmental enrichment on well-being, functional recovery, activity levels and quality of life in people who have stroke or non-progressive brain injury.]