DeStress 2 - Exploring the links between poverty and mental health
Project Papers & Publications
Creating a collaborative and impactful research environment: community partner reflections on the DeStress-II study
November 2025
Jane Horrell, Alison McLoughlin, Felicity Thomas, Kathryn Berzins, Susanne Hughes, Keith Guppy, Phillip Perkins, Ralph Corkhill, Debbie Sherlock, Saiqa Ahmed, Saima Gul, Keith Holt, Karen Coombes, Farheen Yameen, Oliver Hamer & Katrina Wyatt
Discussing poverty within primary care consultations: implications for mental health support
July 2025
Felicity Thomas, Katrina Wyatt, Kathryn Berzins, Ilse Lee, Jane Horrell and Alison McLoughlin
Supporting patients experiencing poverty-related mental distress: Development and evaluation of a training resource in general practices in eleven regions of England
June 2024
Thomas, F., Wyatt, K., Berzins, K., Lee, I., Horrell, J., McLoughlin, A., Hamer, O. and Hughes, S.
Asking about self-harm and suicide in primary care: Moral and practical dimensions
October 2020
Ford, J., Thomas, F., Byng, R. and McCabe, R.
Use of the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) in Practice: Interactions between patients and physicians
June 2020
Ford, J., Thomas, F., Byng, R. and McCabe, R.
An engaged approach to exploring issues around poverty and mental health: a reflective evaluation of the research process from researchers and community partners involved in the DeStress study, Health Expectations
2020
Thomas, F., Hansford, L., Wyatt, K., Byng, R., Coombes, K. et al.
The violence of narrative: embodying responsibility for poverty-related distress, Sociology of Health and Illness
2020
Thomas, F., Hansford, L., and Wyatt, K.
How accessible and acceptable are current GP referral mechanisms for IAPT for low-income patients? Lay and primary care perspectives, Journal of Mental Health
November 2019
Thomas, F., Hansford, L., Ford, J., Wyatt, K., McCabe, R. and Byng, R.
Exploring how patients respond to GP recommendations for mental health treatment: an analysis of communication in primary care consultations, BJGP Open
October 2019
Ford, J., Thomas, F., McCabe, R. and Byng, R.
The impact of the Work Capability Assessment on mental health: claimants’ lived experiences and GP perspectives in low-income communities, Journal of Poverty and Social Justice
October 2019
Hansford, L., Thomas, F. and Wyatt, K.
Supporting mental health in low-income communities: implications for justice and equity
March 2019
Thomas, F. and Hansford, L.
Published in:
Practical Justice: Principles, Practice and Social Change by Aggleton, P., Broom, A. and Moss, J. (Chapter 4)
Moral narratives and mental health: rethinking understandings of distress and healthcare support in contexts of austerity and welfare reform, Palgrave Communications
March 2018
Thomas, F., Hansford, L., Ford, J., Wyatt, K., McCabe, R. and Byng, R.
Conference Day 1
Abstracts and slides from the first day of the conference.
Conference Day 2
Abstracts and slides from the second day of the conference.
