| Publication name: | Collation of case studies, research evidence and evaluation: conducted at local level and focusing on mental health improvement |
| Publish date: | 1 February 2012 |
| Summary: | Towards a Mentally Flourishing Scotland (TAMFS) provides direction on what local authorities, NHS boards and other key stakeholders can do to support mental health improvement. It also details a number of NHS Health Scotland commitments in supporting this agenda. One of these is to support local implementation by promoting knowledge transfer regarding effective interventions and approaches.
As part of this commitment, and in response to stakeholders’ feedback, NHS Health Scotland wished to collate examples of mental health improvement research and evaluation and how this has been used to inform and improve practice at local level.
This report and supporting summaries provide examples of research and/or evaluation which have substantially influenced local mental health improvement activity at local level. |
| Publication name: | Evaluation of the first two phases of the Pregnant? Tell Me communications campaign to support Keeping Childbirth Natural and Dynamic (KCND) Programme |
| Publish date: | 23 January 2012 |
| Summary: | This report presents the findings from the evaluation of the ‘Pregnant? Tell Me’ communications campaign to support the Keeping Childbirth Natural and Dynamic (KCND) Programme.
In order to inform the future development of the communications strategy, NHS Health Scotland commissioned Scott Porter Research to assess the effectiveness of the first two phases of the ‘Pregnant? Tell me’ communication campaign.
The research involved qualitative research with general public audiences, health professionals and gatekeepers.
The study was concerned solely with appraising existing communication strategies. It did not include a wider evaluation of the KCND programme. |
| Publication name: | Smoke-free Mental Health Services Baseline survey report |
| Publish date: | 19 December 2011 |
| Summary: | This report is a baseline survey of the smoke-free status of mental health sites in Scotland around the time of the dissemination of the [pl 5041]Smoke-free Mental Health Services in Scotland: Implementation Guidance.[end pl] |
| Publication name: | Aligning Routemap with Healthy Weight Outcomes Framework |
| Publish date: | 28 November 2011 |
| Summary: | This paper introduces an outcomes framework to support outcome-focused approaches for healthy weight. The resources are intended to support partners (particularly those developing Single Outcome Agreements) focus on key outcomes, ways of achieving them and ways of measuring them. |
| Publication name: | National Evaluation of Keep Well - NHS Tayside |
| Publish date: | 14 November 2011 |
| Summary: | The aim of this paper is to report on changes in NHS Tayside for clinical indicators of those engaged in Keep Well and those who do not attend. This helps to assess whether individuals who attend the Keep Well programme earlier have longer to reduce their risk and whether this shows greater improvement. |
