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Research study investigating how cancer screening services can be person centred for people with learning disability, and people with severe mental illness.

North East, England
Joined August 2022
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We searched 6 database and screened 1017 records. We used the Normalisation Process Theory to synthesise the data.
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We find that people with SMI struggle to go to cancer screening due to poor communication from healthcare staff, stigmatising attitudes, and accessibility problems. Social support from friends, family, and healthcare providers can help.
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Our study is coming to an end 😢. Not to worry though, our Twitter and website will still be active so we can share outputs with you all. For now, we wanted to share some of our results, and what we plan to do next (1/3) #cancerscreening #mentalhealth #learningdisabilities
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You can also access a recording of @DrKateSykes talking through the above images - northumbria.cloud.panopto.eu… (2/3)
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We also want to thank our advisory group members for their time, expertise and insights, @NIHR_ARC_NENC for funding our study, our participants for taking part, and everyone who has supported the study over the past 18 month. Thank you! (3/3)
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Here is a thread of our systematic review preliminary findings that we presented at the @HSRN_UK #HSRUK 🧵 1) Our review is a mixed method systematic review of barriers and facilitators exploring access to cancer screening by people with #SMI
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6) Our review has highlighted a range of factors that impact upon deciding to attend and then accessing cancer screening. It shows an inequality may exist and reasonable adjustments may not be implemented to support access
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7) Thank you to @HSRN_UK for allowing us to share our findings. If anyone has any questions or wants to know more please do get in contact! 📧
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Emma the PECCS research associate (@EmmaTush1) presented this morning the preliminary findings of our systematic review. Well done Emma! Keep an eye out on our next tweet summarising the results #HSRUK23
We can't wait to welcome the UK's brilliant community of health and care services researchers to #HSRUK23 tomorrow⏰ To engage with the most cutting-edge and innovative work in this space, make sure to book your tickets before the end of the day! eventsforce.net/eventage/fro…
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We just recruited our 20th participant! We are getting ever closer to our recruitment target. #interviews #bipolar #research
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Sorry that we have been very quiet recently! We have busy with recruitment and speaking to people. To date we have chatted to 17 people with #bipolar and still open to recruitment! 🗣️📣 Thank you to everyone who has helped us so far, and continue to do so.
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Do you want to help us improve cancer screening services? If you have bipolar, we want to speak to you. We are looking for people to have a one-hour chat about their opinions and/or experiences. teesside.onlinesurveys.ac.uk… #cancerresearch
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A research study looking at people with bipolars’ experiences of cancer screening is looking for participants. If you have a diagnosis of bipolar and would like to find out more or want to participate, please click teesside.onlinesurveys.ac.uk… #mentalhealth #bipolar #cancerscreening
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