SAMH collaborates with academic staff and other researchers to
undertake research into issues relating to mental health and mental
health problems.
Here, you can find information about our research projects. If
you are interested in collaborating with SAMH on a research
project, contact us.
Up to the Job?
SAMH's study of people going through the Work
Capability Assessment, the test for Employment and Support
Allowance. The report found that almost three-quarters
of respondents did not feel that the person conducting the
assessment understood their condition.
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Job?
What's it Worth Now?
Commissioned as part of our Dismissed?
campaign for fairness in mental health and employability, What's it
Worth Now? built on a previous SAMH report and found that the
social and economic costs of mental health problems in Scotland are
£10.7bn a year.
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What's it Worth Now?
SAMH Chrysalis:
Learning Through Doing Reports
People and nature: learning through doing was an action research
programme to identify successful approaches to involving people
from excluded and disadvantaged groups in enjoying, learning about
and caring for nature. Six community and voluntary sector
groups undertook their own research project to explore what
could help people from a range of backgrounds and circumstances to
get closer to nature - and the benefits they experienced when they
did.
SAMH's Chrysalis , a horticultural training and mental
health service, carried out a focus group of service users to
explore these issues. The two reports produced through this
research are now available to download:
SAMH Chrysalis Focus Group: People & Nature, Learning Through
Doing Report
SAMH Chrysalis Focus Group: People & Nature, Learning Through
Doing SUMMARY
There's More to Me
Published in 2010 and funded by Greater Glasgow and Clyde NHS
Board through the Glasgow Anti Stigma Partnership, There's More to
Me was a peer research project looking at the beliefs, experiences
and attitudes towards mental health of lesbian, gay and bisexual
people. SAMH worked with LGB organisations to train peer
researchers, who then held nine focus groups around Scotland. The
research found that LGB people felt they were more likely than
others to experience mental health problems, explored the reasons
for this and made recommendations for change.
Click here to download the report.
Get Active: A SAMH Research Report
As part of our national programme on sport and physical
activity, Get
Active, SAMH surveyed 320 people on aspects of physical and
mental health. The research found that people with mental health
problems took part in less sporting activity than others and were
less likely to meet government recommendations on fruit and
vegetable consumption, more likely to be unable to afford to eat
more fruit and vegetables, more likely to have sought help to
reduce their alcohol consumption and more likely to smoke and to
experience physical health problems.
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Get Active.
Crunch Time for Scotland's Mental Health
SAMH surveyed 376 people on their experiences of the credit
crunch and its effect on their mental health. The research found
that those who had been affected by the credit crunch in at least
one of nine specified ways were up to eight times more likely to
have sought help for a mental health problem for the first
time.
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Crunch Time for Scotland's Mental Health.
A World to Belong to
This project was funded by the Big Lottery. It examined the
social networks of 200 people with experience of mental health
problems. It found that people with mental health problems were
more likely to live alone, less likely to have a partner and less
likely to be in employment.
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World to Belong to.
What's it Worth?
This research concluded that the social and economic costs of
mental health problems in Scotland amounted to £8.6 billion in
2004/05, and called for greater investment in mental health.
Download What's it
Worth?
All You Need to Know?
This groundbreaking research is based on the first Scotland-wide
survey of service users' views on all aspects of psychiatric drugs.
It includes extensive coverage of the prescription experience and
summarises 1500 personal reports on 60 different psychiatric
drugs.
Download All You Need
to Know?