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Originally published by Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (<\/em>https:\/\/www.gmmh.nhs.uk\/news\/world-suicide-prevention-day-and-the-carms-project-4160<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n On World Suicide Prevention Day, Charlotte Huggett, Trial Manager, tells us about how you can learn more about, and raise awareness of, suicide; and about the vital work of the Patient Safety Research Unit (PSRU) and the Cognitive AppRoaches to coMbatting Suicidality (CARMS) project.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Today, on the 10th<\/sup> September, across the globe, many organisations and individuals are getting involved to raise awareness of suicide, suicide prevention strategies and research, and remember those who have sadly lost their lives to suicide.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The International Association for Suicide Prevention<\/a> (IASP) have a wide range of activities, information and materials that people can use to:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n IASP are also leading the \u2018Light a Candle<\/a>\u2019 campaign, asking people to light a candle near a window at 8pm so that people can \u201cshow their support for suicide prevention, to remember a lost loved one, and for survivors of suicide\u201d.<\/p>\n We recognise that suicide prevention and awareness raising efforts should not just be limited to one day, but a continuous effort throughout the year. The academics, clinicians and experts by experience involved in the Patient Safety Research Unit (PSRU)<\/a> have devoted over a decade to understanding why people may feel suicidal, have suicidal thoughts, urges, plans and make attempts to end their life. This has led to developing a suicide-focussed psychological talking therapy called Cognitive Behavioural Suicide Prevention (CBSP)<\/a> therapy, which involves:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n (Note that this body of research actually pre-dates the PSRU).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Several pilot randomised controlled trials have found evidence to suggest that CBSP is\u00a0feasible<\/a>\u00a0to deliver (meaning we are able to carry it out practically) and\u00a0acceptable<\/a>\u00a0to those with suicidal experiences (meaning it is appropriate for this audience) in the context of\u00a0people with psychosis in the community<\/a>,\u00a0male prisoners<\/a>\u00a0and on\u00a0the inpatient wards<\/a>. We\u2019ve recently written a blog about suicidal experiences on the mental health inpatient wards, which you can read\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Cognitive AppRoaches to coMbatting Suicidality (CARMS) project<\/a> officially started back in January 2017, where the CARMS team began gaining the relevant approvals to conduct the research. The NHS sites –Greater Manchester NHS Foundation Trust (GMMH)<\/a>, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (LSCFT)<\/a>, Pennine Care<\/a> NHS Foundation Trust and North West Boroughs Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (NWBH)<\/a> – were then set up ready to host the next step in investigating CBSP therapy, which was to see how effective it would be for people with non-affective psychosis and suicidal experiences in the context of the NHS and to examine the underlying mechanisms which lead to suicidal thoughts and acts.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n We started recruiting participants back in May 2017 and we\u2019re still going, even after a short break this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. So far, we\u2019ve recruited 252<\/strong> people with non-affective psychosis and suicidal experiences, around half of whom have been randomly allocated to be offered CBSP. We\u2019ve also met with 190<\/strong> participants six months after they entered the project and 134<\/strong> participants 12 months after they entered the project. This was to ask some questions about their mental health and to fill in some questionnaires.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n We now have just under three months left of recruitment \u2013 until 30th November 2020 \u2013 with only 43 spaces left across GMMH and Pennine Care! You can find out how to refer\/get involved on the CARMS website: https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/carms\/<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n If you\u2019re interested in finding out more about the project aims and design, the CARMS Trial protocol is free to access here: https:\/\/bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com\/track\/pdf\/10.1186\/s12888-020-02697-8<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n “I am currently the Trial Manager for the CARMS project<\/a> and co-editor of the CARMS blog. I have previously worked as a Project Coordinator for the INSITE pilot trial<\/a> and as a Research Assistant on a project which explored people’s experiences of mental health stigma. I have also previously worked for Stockport Mind<\/a>, working 1:1 with people with mental health problems to support them in setting and achieving personal goals.<\/p>\n I am due to start as a Trainee Clinical Psychologist at The University of Manchester \/ Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust towards the end of September 2020.”<\/p>\n Originally published by Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (https:\/\/www.gmmh.nhs.uk\/news\/world-suicide-prevention-day-and-the-carms-project-4160) On World Suicide Prevention Day, Charlotte Huggett, Trial Manager, tells us about how you can learn more about, and raise awareness of, suicide; and about the vital work of the Patient Safety Research Unit (PSRU) and the Cognitive AppRoaches to coMbatting Suicidality (CARMS) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,64],"tags":[15,16,47,68,67,22,36,12,38,48,35,34,21,13,65,66,69],"class_list":["post-1622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-suicidality","category-world-suicide-prevention-day","tag-carms","tag-cbsp","tag-clinical-trial","tag-gmmh","tag-iasp","tag-mental-health","tag-nhs","tag-psychological-therapy","tag-psychosis","tag-rct","tag-recruitment","tag-research","tag-suicide","tag-suicide-prevention","tag-world-suicide-prevention-day","tag-wspd","tag-wspd2020"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/carms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/carms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/carms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/carms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/carms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1622"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/carms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1632,"href":"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/carms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622\/revisions\/1632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/carms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/carms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/carms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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<\/p>\n* This article contains references to suicide that some people may find distressing so if at any point you require urgent support with your mental health please contact your GP, care coordinator or crisis team. Other help can be found here:<\/h6>\n
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A bit about Charlotte Huggett<\/h6>\n
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