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Kathryn Berzins

0000-0001-5002-5212

Senior Research Fellow (Health sciences)

Preston, UK

Kathryn Berzins is a Senior Research Fellow with the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration North West Coast Implementation and Capacity Building Team based at the University of Central Lancashire. She is a mixed-methods researcher with extensive experience in researching mental health and social care services and the experiences of service users, healthcare staff and informal carers. In recent years she has been involved in several studies about patient safety in mental health settings and the reduction of restrictive practices. She has been a co-applicant on several NIHR funded studies, regularly teaches on mental health issues and research governance, supervises postgraduate students and ARC NWC research interns. Her role involves delivering mental health research capacity and capability building activities across the North West Coast. Kathryn aims to promote the use of research evidence to improve health and social care practice.

Publications

  • Case management for people with long-term conditions: impact upon emergency admissions and associated length of stay.
  • Hearing voices: a participative, amplifying role in a realist synthesis of crisis mental health services [Poster].
  • Berzins, K., Louch, G., Albutt, A. Baker, J. (2019, Oct 15) Recorded incidents in UK acute mental health wards: A retrospective descriptive analysis [Poster]. Leeds, UK.
  • The impact of variation in patient/staff ratios on incidents in adult inpatient mental health wards: Is the perceived relationship of more nurses creating more incidents correct or a statistical artefact?
  • Service users’, carers’ and professionals’ priorities for safety in UK mental health care [Presentation].
  • Berzins, K. (2019, June 5) Behaviour Change Techniques used in interventions to reduce restrictive practices
  • *Berzins, K., Louch, G., Albutt, A. Baker, J. (2019, Oct 15) Mental health service user and carer perspectives on safety issues in mental health services [Paper]. .
  • Carers’ experiences of service transitions in adult mental health: a descriptive phenomenological study.
  • Berzins, K. and Baker, J.Safety issues in UK mental health care.
  • Canvin, K., Berzins. K. and Baker, J. (2019, Oct 16) Understanding Key Components of Interventions to Reduce Restrictive Practices: Findings from the COMPARE Evidence Synthesis
  • Service user and carer involvement in mental health care safety: raising concerns and improving the safety of services [Presentation]. 23rd International Mental Health .
  • Carers of people with mental health problems.
  • Self-care and Case Management in Long-term Conditions: The Effective Management of Critical Interfaces, London: HMSO.
  • Non-pharmacological interventions to reduce restrictive practices in adult mental health inpatient settings: the COMPARE systematic mapping review. Health Serv Deliv Res 2021; 9 (5).
  • Social Networks of people using mental health services compared to the general population.
  • Implementing a Recovery Approach in Policy and Practice: A Review of the Literature
  • Mental health service users’, carers’ and professionals’ perceptions of the named person provisions of the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003.
  • Evaluating Active Case Management in Greater Manchester.
  • Safe environment or ghetto?
  • Social networks of people who use mental health services
  • Components of interventions to reduce restrictive practices with children and young people in institutional settings: the Contrast systematic mapping review
  • Mapping review of interventions to reduce the use of restrictive practices in children and young people's institutional settings: The CONTRAST study
  • Factors influencing decisions of mental health professionals to release service users from seclusion: A qualitative study
  • Service users’ and carers’ views of the Named Person provisions under the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003
  • Defining Quality of Life in the Children of Parents with Severe Mental Illness: A Preliminary Stakeholder-Led Model
  • Case Management for Long-Term Conditions: Developing Targeting Processes
  • Case Management for Long-Term Conditions: The Role of Networks in Health and Social Care Services
  • The clinical effectiveness, cost-effectiveness and acceptability of community-based interventions aimed at improving or maintaining quality of life in children of parents with serious mental illness: a systematic review.
  • Case management for people with long-term conditions: impact upon emergency admissions and associated length of stay.
  • Implementation of case management in long-term conditions in England: survey and case studies.
  • Emergent approaches to care coordination in England: exploring the evidence from two national organizations.
  • The views of policy influencers and mental health officers concerning the Named Person provisions of the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003.
  • UK self-care support initiatives for older patients with long-term conditions: a review.
  • A world to belong to.
  • Explanation of context, mechanisms and outcomes in adult community mental health crisis care: the MH-CREST realist evidence synthesis
  • Carers' experiences of involvement in care planning: A qualitative exploration of the facilitators and barriers to engagement with mental health services
  • Emergent approaches to care coordination in England: exploring the evidence from two national organizations.
  • A world to belong to.
  • A cluster randomised controlled trial and process evaluation of a training programme for mental health professionals to enhance user involvement in care planning in service users with severe mental health issues (EQUIP): Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
  • Specifying active components of educational interventions to promote adherence to treatment in glaucoma patients: Application of a taxonomy of behavior change techniques
  • A cross-sectional survey of mental health service users', carers' and professionals' priorities for patient safety in the United Kingdom.
  • Service user and carer involvement in mental health care safety: raising concerns and improving the safety of services.
  • What factors influence the decisions of mental health professionals to release service users from seclusion?
  • Mental healthcare staff well-being and burnout: A narrative review of trends, causes, implications, and recommendations for future interventions.
  • Caregivers’ experiences of service transitions in adult mental health: An integrative qualitative synthesis
  • The relationship between workforce characteristics and perception of quality of care in mental health: A qualitative study
  • A qualitative exploration of mental health service user and carer perspectives on safety issues in UK mental health services
  • Establishing Components of Programmes to Reduce Restrictive Practices in Adult Mental Health Inpatient Services: A Behaviour Change Technique Analysis
  • Non-pharmacological interventions to reduce restrictive practices in adult mental health inpatient settings: the COMPARE systematic mapping review
  • Health professionals’ perspectives of safety issues in mental health services: A qualitative study
  • Mental health service users', carers' and professionals' perceptions of the named person provisions of the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003.
  • Prevalence and experience of harassment of people with mental health problems living in the community.
  • The Independent Evaluation of ‘Starting Well’ Final Report.
  • Consultation on vulnerable adults: Analysis of the responses, Edinburgh:
  • The social networks of mental health service users
  • Give us a break: Exploring harassment of people with mental health problems
  • Researching recovery from mental health problems.
  • Legislation affecting carers of people with mental health problems,
  • Connected communities | Learning lessons from person-centred community-based support services’ implementation.
  • Explaining context, mechanism and outcome in adult community mental health crisis care: A realist evidence synthesis
  • Safety and contagion in acute psychiatric wards: How the milieu is implicated in the occurrence of clustered safety incidents
  • Promoting a Patient-Centered Understanding of Safety in Acute Mental Health Wards: A User-Centered Design Approach to Develop a Real-Time Digital Monitoring Tool
  • Promoting a Patient-Centered Understanding of Safety in Acute Mental Health Wards: A User-Centered Design Approach to Develop a Real-Time Digital Monitoring Tool (Preprint)

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