Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Uni of Leicester + Consultant Intellectual Disability Psychiatrist at LPT (NHS).
Interests: autism, learning disability + mental health.
Academic sec of RCPsych ID Faculty + NDPSIG.
https://le.ac.uk/people/sam-tromans
Samuel Tromans
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We are looking for adults with a #LearningDisability to take part in our research about #EasyRead information!
If you or somebody you know would like to take part, please direct message or email me 📧💬
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📢 Our Faculty of Psychiatry of Intellectual Disability Spring Conference is going to be at The Royal College of Psychiatrists on 25th April 2025!
We have a fantastic line up of speakers, + hope that many of you will be able to join us! 😁
Booking link: www.rcpsych.ac.uk/events/confe...
If you routinely prescribe and deprescribe antidepressants and have experience prescribing during the pandemic in UK Primary Care, please consider sharing your thoughts and experiences in our study on decision making for prescribing antidepressants!
📢NEW PAPER (OPEN ACCESS)📢
An assessment of the impact of Blue Light meetings for people with learning disability and autistic people.
Link: doi.org/10.1177/0020...
with VISION consortium (vision.city.ac.uk) support - Iran-based NGO Mehre Shams Afarid, IKWRO, a team of Iranian animators, Ladan Hashemi and many others produced these short films on domestic violence, including on recognising tech abuse:
youtu.be/wtflT6uWlUw
Our new paper (OPEN ACCESS) critiques the important, emotive, + relevant issue of long-term segregation + seclusion for people w/ intellectual disability + autistic people. Ideologically understandable need for elimination but evidence/practice needs resolving first.
Link: doi.org/10.1192/bjp....
Proud to have contributed to this paper in @thelancetph.bsky.social , which reports that of 16 European countries, England had the largest decline in life expectancy improvement (a fall in average annual improvement from 0.25 from 1990-2011 to 0.07 from 2011-2019
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Please consider taking part in our PhD students research study!
Our new paper (OPEN ACCESS) critiques the important, emotive, + relevant issue of long-term segregation + seclusion for people w/ intellectual disability + autistic people. Ideologically understandable need for elimination but evidence/practice needs resolving first.
Link: doi.org/10.1192/bjp....
The countries that best maintained improvements in life expectancy after 2011 (Norway,
Iceland, Belgium, Denmark, and Sweden) did so through better maintenance of reductions
in mortality from cardiova...
If you routinely prescribe and deprescribe antidepressants and have experience prescribing during the pandemic in UK Primary Care, please consider sharing your thoughts and experiences in our study on decision making for prescribing antidepressants!
