Anette Juel

Danish Research Institute for Suicide Prevention Mental Health Centre Copenhagen & Centre of Relationships and Deescalation Region Zealand Psychiatry

Introduction Service users are increasingly participating in health research. Although collaborative research is assumed to give users a sense of psychological ownership, little is known about the specific psychosocial processes through which ownership develops and is displayed. The present study yields insight into a process in which service users...

Introduction: Parents are affected when their offspring engages in non-fatal suicidal behaviour. Although research exists on parents' mental and emotional state when they realise this behaviour, relatively little attention has been devoted to exploring how their parental identity is affected. Purpose: To explore how parents re-constructed and ne...

Aims To explore how consultation exercises were described in a convenience sample of recent scoping reviews. Design Critical literature review. Data sources We searched PsycINFO, Embase, CINAHL and PubMed in July 2020. Our inclusion criterion was a peer‐reviewed journal article reporting a scoping review in Danish, English, Norwegian or Swedish....

Background The treatment of mania in bipolar disorders needs to be more efficient, as the manic condition creates severe problems for the patient when it comes to work, finances, relationships, and health. This proof-of-concept study examines to what extent casein glycomacropeptide (CGMP) may reduce the precursors of dopamine, phenylalanine, and ty...

Background: An increasing number of qualitative research articles have reported on relatives' experiences of providing care for individuals displaying suicidal behaviour. To contribute more fully to theory and practice, these reported experiences must be synthesized. Objectives: To identify original qualitative studies of relatives' experiences...

Objective/Background Research supports the efficacy of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I) for patients suffering from depression and insomnia, but little is known about how they experience treatment and adhere to it. Our objective, therefore, was to explore how patients with depression experience treatment components and how their ex...

Objective: To explore different stakeholder perspectives on the MYPLAN app for suicide prevention safety planning. Methods: The study was a comparative analysis of four focus groups with Danish MYPLAN stakeholders, young users, adult users, relatives, and clinicians. The focus groups were audio recorded, transcribed, and subjected to a thematic...

I presented my PhD protocol on a poster at the 5th Horatio Festival of Psychiatric Nursing in Copenhagen May 2019.

Background: The effect of safety planning for people in suicidal crisis is not yet determined, but using safety plans to mitigate acute psychological crisis is regarded as best practice. Between 2016 and 2017, Australian and Danish stakeholders were involved in revising and updating the Danish MYPLAN mobile phone safety plan and translating the app...

BACKGROUND The efficacy of safety planning for people in suicidal crisis is not yet determined but using safety plans to mitigate acute psychological crisis is regarded ‘best practice’. In 2016-17, Australian and Danish key stakeholders were systematically involved in revising and translating the Danish MYPLAN mobile phone safety plan app into a cu...

We aimed to explore beliefs about physical health from the perspective of patients with concurrent mental illness and substance use and to explore how a health promotion intervention influenced their personal agency for changing health-related behaviour. Our findings were that patients' beliefs were focused on their present day state of health and...

Background The most common cause of premature death in people with schizophrenia is cardiovascular disease, partially explained by an unhealthy lifestyle, smoking, poor diet and sedentary behavior. We aimed to reduce cardiovascular risk factors. Method Naturalistic follow-up study with 54 long-term-treated non-selected outpatients with schizophren...

Background: Patients with schizophrenia experience low quality of life (QoL) and poor physical health, which is explained, in part, by unhealthy lifestyle, tobacco smoking, poor diet and sedentary behavior. Aim: To measure QoL and physical health in patients with schizophrenia and to quantify associations between QoL and physical health. Method...

Background: Patients with co-existence of psychiatric disorders and substance use have an increased risk of premature death. This is attributable to a higher prevalence of physical comorbidities and a lifestyle related to substance use. Furthermore, they experience low quality-of-life (QoL). Studies addressing lifestyle interventions for these pati...

To explore physical health problems and their causes in patients with severe mental illness, as well as possibilities for prevention and treatment from the patients’ and staff's perspectives. We conducted six focus groups with patients and staff separately, from three out-patient clinics treating patients with schizophrenia or substance-use disorde...