ERA Study

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With the final Newsletter comes the end of an ERA

Our very own Dr Catherine Carr (@CatherineCarrMT) was invited to give a keynote about the role of music and common factors in group music therapy at the European Music Therapy Congress in Hamburg #EMTC2025

This month we turn our spotlight onto Dr Min Peng from the health economics team. It takes a village to conduct a high quality trial!

This month, the spotlight is on Yunli Ou, our junior statistician, who is working hard behind the scenes on the quantitative analysis

Our latest newsletter includes updates and initial findings from our analysis of interviews conducted with participants and therapists

Check out our latest newsletter including a spotlight on Professor Karkou (@VKarkou). This month we also say goodbye to Lauren Hounsell - ERA's longest serving researcher

Check out our February newsletter including big changes to the ERA team. We say a heartfelt thank you to @emma_medlicott and a warm welcome to @AgnesJChevalier and @SarahBourdin2

Happy New Year from the ERA study team 🎊 In our December newsletter, we say a huge thank you to Jennifer French and celebrate ERA Counsellor Imtaz Khaliq's interview with the National Careers Service 🗞️

Give feedback on your research experience! The NIHR would like to gather feedback from all study participants on their experience of taking part in research. Please use the link below to complete the Patient in Research Experience Survey. Thank you🌟 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

🗞️🌟As discussed in the November 2024 newsletter, if ERA study participants are interested in supporting the study team with the final stages of the study, please complete the below expression of interest form: forms.office.com//Pages/Respons…

🗞️Take a read of our November newsletter, which includes an expression of interest form for ERA participants to complete if they would like to help the research team on the trials' final stages. We are also sharing the NIHR Patient in Research Experience survey. Links to follow!

In our October newsletter, we hear from ERA's co-Chief Investigator Catherine Carr about their role in the trial and some challenges and successes so far! Also, this month the team attended the Mental Health Research Initiative Symposium 🗞️👏

A fantastic day at the @NIHRresearch Mental Health Research Initiative Symposium today sharing our success in delivering the ERA trial with @CNTWNHS lots of thoughtful discussion around increasing capacity and capability to conduct mental health research where it is most needed.

In our August newsletter, we're delighted to hear from ERA study co-applicant @MikeMCrawford about his role in the trial!📬

Wish I could join this event to- lots of learning from @study_era and continuing to do so every day from @QMULSocialPsych @nicki_power @MeganTjasink @EllieKeiller @cimtr_aru #KindnessIsPowerful

In ERA's July newsletter, we give an update on our final follow ups and hear from co-applicant Dr Val Huet about their role throughout the ERA Trial 📬

The final 12-month follow ups are well underway across 4 of our study sites!🎉🙌This is a landmark moment for the ERA study as we celebrate the last of our data collection. Thank you as always to our study participants for making time to meet with our researchers!

Take a look at our January 2024 newsletter🗞️✨ This month, we met with our wonderful ERA LEAP panel.

In ERA's November 2023 newsletter, ELFT and CNWL Arts Therapists reflect on the end of their clinical work on the study. Plus a fun ERA fact!🗞️✨

Today is #WorldMentalHealthDay, a day to reflect on what mental health means and the ways we can protect and promote it for ourselves and others!💪🫂 Our unit is proud of our #researchers who advance the field of mental health with their work and expertise!