BMJ Mental Health

is a peer reviewed, open access journal from BMJ covering clinically relevant research in mental health and psychiatry.

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BMJ Mental Health (formerly Evidence-Based Mental Health) is an open access, peer reviewed journal publishing evidence-based, innovative research, systematic reviews, and methodological papers in the area of mental health. It facilitates multidisciplinary collaboration among psychiatrists, psychologists and other mental health professionals, encourages debate on clinically relevant topics, and informs real world practice to improve patient and carer outcomes.

BMJ Mental Health invites submissions in all areas of mental health including digital health; medical statistics; precision mental health; evaluation of psychotherapies; studies in children, young people and in the elderly; forensic psychiatry; health economics; data science and computational mental health.

BMJ Mental Health is indexed in MEDLINE, Scopus, DOAJ and the Web of Science

Submissions and article proposals are welcomed by the international editorial team, which is led by Editor-in-Chief Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford).

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Authors

BMJ Mental Health accepts submissions of a wide range of article types, including original research, reviews and perspective pieces.

The Author Information section provides specific article requirements to help you turn your research into an article suitable for BMJ Mental Health.

Information is also provided on editorial policies and open access.

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What I Stand for as Editor-in-Chief

In BMJ Mental Health's first Editorial, Professor Andrea Cipriani outlines the aims, scope and vision for the journal, and discusses the benefits of an accessible, fully open access journal in the field of mental health.

Professor Cipriani also discusses what he will stand for as Editor-in-Chief of BMJ Mental Health, including embedding evidence-based research in routine mental healthcare and fighting stigma and ideology in mental health.

Read the Editorial

Topic Collections

Climate Attributable Mental Health: Impacts and Interventions

Climate related disasters such as wildfires, drought, heat waves and floods and their consequences are resulting in deaths and disease from causes ranging from cardio-respiratory disease to malnutrition and malaria. Mental ill health too, is on the rise, however, causal pathways and psychiatric diagnoses in relation to climate change remains less well recognised and estimated. This Topic Collection in BMJ Mental Health plans to bring together the latest evidence on the burden of climate-attributable mental health impacts and potential actions to address these impacts.

Submission deadline: 6th September 2024

Chronopsychiatry: From Discovery Science to Clinical Innovation

In recent years, there has been a resurgence of interest exploring the intersection sleep/circadian science and mental health. BMJ Mental Health is calling for submissions on circadian mental health research and innovation with particular focus on major depression, psychosis, bipolar disorder, dementia, neurodevelopmental disorders (ASD and ADHD) and substance misuse disorders.

Submission deadline: 9th September 2024

Most Read Articles

Child and adolescent mental health:

All-cause and suicide mortalities among adolescents and young adults who contacted specialised gender identity services in Finland in 1996–2019: a register study

17 February 2024

Adult mental health:

Association between psychological resilience and all-cause mortality in the Health and Retirement Study

3 September 2024

Digital mental health:

Digital mental health: challenges and next steps

15 February 2024

Pharmacological treatments:

Psychosis with use of amphetamine drugs, methylphenidate and atomoxetine in adolescent and adults

12 April 2024

Perspective:

Perfect storm: emotionally based school avoidance in the post-COVID-19 pandemic context

5 April 2024

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All-cause and suicide mortalities among adolescents and young adults who contacted specialised gender identity services in Finland in 1996–2019: a register study
17 February 2024

School-based mindfulness training in early adolescence: what works, for whom and how in the MYRIAD trial?
12 July 2022

‘There’s more to life than staring at a small screen’: a mixed methods cohort study of problematic smartphone use and the relationship to anxiety, depression and sleep in students aged 13–16 years old in the UK
31 July 2024

Association between psychological resilience and all-cause mortality in the Health and Retirement Study
3 September 2024

Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of universal school-based mindfulness training compared with normal school provision in reducing risk of mental health problems and promoting well-being in adolescence: the MYRIAD cluster randomised controlled trial
12 July 2022

Latest Articles

Adult mental health:

Systematic review of interventions for mental health, cognition and psychological well-being in long COVID

9 October 2024

Original research:

Changes in sleep patterns in people with a history of depression during the COVID-19 pandemic: a natural experiment

4 October 2024

Genetics and genomics:

Mediation-adjusted multivariable Mendelian randomisation study identified novel metabolites related to mental health

2 October 2024

Pregnancy and peri-partum:

Identifying postpartum depression: Using key risk factors for early detection

1 October 2024

Letter:

Using the South African Depression Scale (SADS) to measure depressive symptoms in a UK sample

29 September 2024

Featured Video

BMJ Mental Health - Our Full Story

12 March 2024

Listen to Editor of BMJ Mental Health, Andrea Cipriani, talk about the journal's aims and scope, the advice he has for authors thinking about submitting to the journal, what the journal has to offer to readers, highlights from the journal and what the journal has planned for 2024.

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