A myth-busting mental health tour of the National Gallery in London: Facilitators and challenges to its development and evaluation.

This paper describes a mental health-awareness audio tour of the National Gallery, London, and evaluates the development and implementation of the tour. This smartphone-based audio tour was co-produced by Gallery staff, young people with lived experience of mental health issues, academics, and technologists. Interviews (N = 22) were conducted with developers and data-collectors (who had gathered feedback from Gallery visitors who undertook the tour) with responses analysed thematically.

Impact on public attitudes of a mental health audio tour of the National Gallery in London.

Aim: The arts have the potential to increase public awareness about mental health and reduce stigma. However, arts-based projects to raise awareness have been small-scale. In this study, a mental health-awareness audio tour of The National Gallery in London was co-produced and narrated by young adults with relevant lived experience.

[Age aspects of arterial stiffness in patients with hypertension].

To study age aspects of arterial stiffness we examined 130 patients with hypertension who signed protocol of informed consent to participate in research, mean age 61,7±14,3 years. All the patients underwent ambulatory blood pressure monitoring by the standard method and were divided into four groups: 1st group - patients of young age (n=17), 2nd group - patients of middle age (n=36), 3rd - senior patients (n=52), 4th - elderly patients (n=25). In senior and elderly patients with hypertension arterial stiffness significantly increases comparing with younger patients resulting in an increase of the index of arterial stiffness and augmentation index.