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Navneet Kapur is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the field of psychology, with a focus on clinical psychology among other related subfields such as social psychology, general health professions, sociology and political science, and emergency medicine.

Their work concentrates on several key topics, notably suicide and self-harm studies, mental health treatment and access, and the intersection of COVID-19 and mental health. Additional topics include homicide, infanticide, and child abuse, psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, health disparities and outcomes, as well as grief, bereavement, and mental health.

Navneet Kapur's recent publications include:

  • "Suicide risk and prevention during the COVID-19 pandemic" (2020) published in The Lancet Psychiatry
  • "Suicide trends in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic: an interrupted time-series analysis of preliminary data from 21 countries" (2021) published in The Lancet Psychiatry
  • "Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on primary care-recorded mental illness and self-harm episodes in the UK: a population-based cohort study" (2021) published in The Lancet Public Health
  • "Diagnosis of physical and mental health conditions in primary care during the COVID-19 pandemic: a retrospective cohort study" (2020) published in The Lancet Public Health
  • "Suicide and self-harm" (2022) published in The Lancet

Frequent collaborators in their research include Roger T. Webb, Louis Appleby, Keith Hawton, Pauline Turnbull, and Sarah Steeg.

The venues where Navneet Kapur has published extensively encompass:

  • BJPsych Open
  • The Lancet Psychiatry
  • The British Journal of Psychiatry
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

In summary, Kapur's body of work contributes to understanding and addressing mental health challenges with an emphasis on suicide prevention, especially within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Their research integrates psychological and social perspectives to explore patterns, risks, and healthcare responses related to mental health issues.

Best Publications

  • Suicide After Deliberate Self-Harm: A 4-Year Cohort Study

    Jayne Cooper;Navneet Kapur;Roger Webb;Martin Lawlor

  • Suicide trends in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic: an interrupted time-series analysis of preliminary data from 21 countries.

    Jane Pirkis;Ann John;Sangsoo Shin;Marcos DelPozo-Banos

  • Randomised controlled trial of brief psychological intervention after deliberate self poisoning.

    Elspeth Guthrie;Navneet Kapur;Kevin Mackway-Jones;Carolyn Chew-Graham

  • Predicting suicide following self-harm: systematic review of risk factors and risk scales.

    Melissa K Y Chan;Henna Bhatti;Nick Meader;Sarah Stockton

  • Self-harm in England: a tale of three cities. Multicentre study of self-harm.

    Keith Hawton;Helen Bergen;Deborah Casey;Sue Simkin

  • Non-suicidal self-injury v. attempted suicide: new diagnosis or false dichotomy?

    Navneet Kapur;Jayne Cooper;Rory C. O'Connor;Keith E. Hawton

  • Suicide following self-harm: findings from the Multicentre Study of self-harm in England, 2000-2012

    Keith Hawton;Helen Bergen;Jayne Cooper;Pauline Turnbull

  • Implementation of mental health service recommendations in England and Wales and suicide rates, 1997–2006: a cross-sectional and before-and-after observational study

    David While;Harriet Bickley;Alison Roscoe;Kirsten Windfuhr

  • Predicting suicidal behaviours using clinical instruments: systematic review and meta-analysis of positive predictive values for risk scales

    Gregory Carter;Allison Milner;Katie McGill;Jane Pirkis

  • The epidemiology and prevention of suicide by hanging: a systematic review

    David Gunnell;Olive Bennewith;Keith E. Hawton;Sue Simkin

  • Repetition of self-harm and suicide following self-harm in children and adolescents: findings from the Multicentre Study of Self-harm in England

    Keith E. Hawton;Helen A. Bergen;Navneet Kapur;Jayne Cooper

  • Suicide and the internet.

    Lucy Biddle;Jacqueline Donovan;Keith E. Hawton;Navneet Kapur

  • Attitudes towards clinical services among people who self-harm: systematic review.

    Tatiana L. Taylor;Keith Hawton;Sarah Fortune;Navneet Kapur

  • Suicide in mental health in-patients and within 3 months of discharge. National clinical survey.

    Janet Meehan;Navneet Kapur;Isabelle M. Hunt;Pauline Turnbull

  • Premature death after self-harm: a multicentre cohort study.

    Helen A. Bergen;Keith E. Hawton;Keith Waters;Jennifer Ness

  • Long term effect of reduced pack sizes of paracetamol on poisoning deaths and liver transplant activity in England and Wales: Interrupted time series analyses

    Keith E. Hawton;Helen Bergen;Sue Simkin;Sue Dodd

  • Neural activation during covert processing of positive emotional facial expressions

    Raymond J. Dolan;Raymond J. Dolan;P. Fletcher;J. Morris;N. Kapur

  • Incidence of suicide, hospital-presenting non-fatal self-harm, and community-occurring non-fatal self-harm in adolescents in England (the iceberg model of self-harm): a retrospective study

    Galit Geulayov;Deborah Casey;Keltie C McDonald;Pauline Foster

  • Suicide Risk in Primary Care Patients With Major Physical Diseases: A Case-Control Study

    Roger T. Webb;Evangelos Kontopantelis;Tim Doran;Ping Qin

  • Toxicity of antidepressants: rates of suicide relative to prescribing and non-fatal overdose

    Keith E. Hawton;Helen A. Bergen;Sue Simkin;Jayne Cooper

Frequent Co-Authors

Keith Hawton
Keith Hawton University of Oxford
Louis Appleby
Louis Appleby University of Manchester
David Gunnell
David Gunnell University of Bristol
Roger T. Webb
Roger T. Webb University of Manchester
Jenny Shaw
Jenny Shaw University of Manchester
Francis Creed
Francis Creed University of Manchester
Jonathan Evans
Jonathan Evans University of Glasgow
Allan House
Allan House University of Leeds
Elizabeth Murphy
Elizabeth Murphy National Heart Lung and Blood Institute
Jo Robinson
Jo Robinson University of Melbourne

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