166 - Researching suicide in perimenopause and menopause with Dr Pooja Saini

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast

Dr Louise Newson

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Medicine

4.8 • 798 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Advisory: we would like to apologise for the sound quality in this episode, which was due to technical issues experienced during recording. Dr Pooja Saini is a Chartered Psychologist and Reader in suicide and self-harm prevention based at Liverpool John Moores University. Her work has a particular focus in suicide prevention in primary care and developing community-based interventions for high-risk groups. Since connecting, Louise and Pooja have been discussing the impact of perimenopause and menopause on mood, mental health and suicide and the many research gaps and unanswered questions in this space. In this episode, Pooja explains more about what is known and unknown regarding the effect of hormones on suicidal thoughts and outlines the research plan for a PhD funded by Newson Health Research and Education. Pooja’s tips for those with suicidal thoughts: Early intervention is key; seek help as soon as you feel you are not yourself Change your habits to do more of what you really enjoy Talk to your loved ones, family and friends. Don’t try and hide or mask it. If you need support, you can call the Samaritans on 116 123 for free from any phone or email them at [email protected] Pooja's Social Channels Twitter Work Website Reference for BMJ article discussed: McCarthy M, Saini P, Nathan R, McIntyre J. Improve coding practices for patients in suicidal crisis. BMJ. 2021 Oct 15;375:n2480. doi: 10.1136/bmj.n2480. PMID: 34654729.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Dr. Louise Newsome and welcome to my podcast. I'm a GP and menopause specialist and I run the Newsome Health Menopause and Wellbeing Centre here in Stratford-Bron-Avon. I'm also the founder of the Menopause charity and the Menopause support app called Balance.
0:29.9	On the podcast, I will be joined each week by an exciting guest to help provide evidence-based
0:36.5	information and advice about both the perimenopause and the
0:40.9	menopause. So today on the podcast, I'm absolutely delighted and thrilled, actually, to
0:49.8	introduce to you something called Dr. Pujar Sunny, who I've reached out to probably about nine months ago now,
0:56.7	and we've been talking a lot, actually, and our conversation is only at the beginning.
1:02.5	So welcome Pudor to the podcast today.
1:05.1	Thank you, and thanks for inviting me here today.
1:07.9	So I read an article that you had written in the BMJ, the British
1:12.1	Medical Journal, and it was about suicide. And I reached out to you, I think I probably, like most
1:18.1	of my email, sent quite late at night. And I send a lot of emails to all sorts of people wanting
1:22.8	to engage in menopause in a bigger way. And I was so excited when you replied.
1:28.2	And then we had a conversation, didn't we?
1:30.2	And things have escalated, which is great.
1:32.9	So do you mind just explaining what you do and even, you know,
1:37.7	what led you to write the article in the first place?
1:40.2	Absolutely.
1:41.0	So I'm a reader in suicide and self-harm prevention, and I've been looking at suicide prevention, particularly within primary care, because a lot of the research that's been done to date has been in hospital settings and A&E settings. So what we really wanted to look at within my research area was what's happening in primary care and how can primary care
2:02.9	intervene within suicide prevention. And what came to light really is, firstly, that a lot of people
2:10.5	are communicating to their GPs in the year or months prior to death that they might be feeling
2:16.8	suicidal. And in many cases, primary care
2:20.1	provided, you know, really good care and they tried to manage the patients in that setting,
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