Ms Dana Dekel

Research Officer, Psychology

dana.dekel@swansea.ac.uk

Office - 722
Seventh Floor
Vivian Building
Singleton Campus

Available For Postgraduate Supervision

Research Links

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0137-5149

ResearchGate

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About

Dana is a Research Officer of the school of Psychology.

Areas Of Expertise

Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Common Mental Disorders
Suicide and Self-harm
Qualitative Research
Qualitative data analysis
Gambling and related harms
Military and veterans’ mental health

Publications

Research Highlights

Steeg, S., John, A., Gunnell, D., Kapur, N., Dekel, D., Schmidt, L., Knipe, D., Arensman, E., Hawton, K., Higgins, J., Eyles, E., Macleod-Hall, C., McGuiness, L., & Webb, R. (2022). The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on presentations to health services following self-harm: systematic review. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 221(4), 1-10.
https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2022.79, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa60523
John, A., Eyles, E., Webb, R., Okolie, C., Schmidt, L., Arensman, E., Hawton, K., O'Connor, R., Kapur, N., Moran, P., O'Neill, S., McGuinness, L., Olorisade, B., Dekel, D., Macleod-Hall, C., Cheng, H., Higgins, J., & Gunnell, D. (2021). The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on self-harm and suicidal behaviour: update of living systematic review. F1000Research, 9, 1097
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.25522.2, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa59742
Knipe, D., John, A., Padmanathan, P., Eyles, E., Dekel, D., Higgins, J., Bantjes, J., Dandona, R., Macleod-Hall, C., McGuinness, L., Schmidt, L., Webb, R., & Gunnell, D. (n.d.) Suicide and self-harm in low- and middle- income countries during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review
https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.09.03.21263083, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa59741
Sinyor, M., Zaheer, R., Webb, R., Knipe, D., Eyles, E., Higgins, J., McGuinness, L., Schmidt, L., Macleod-Hall, C., Dekel, D., Gunnell, D., & John, A. (2022). SARS-CoV-2 Infection and the Risk of Suicidal and Self-Harm Thoughts and Behaviour: A Systematic Review. The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 67(11), 812-827.
https://doi.org/10.1177/07067437221094552, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa59705
Eyles, E., Moran, P., Okolie, C., Dekel, D., Macleod-Hall, C., Webb, R., Schmidt, L., Knipe, D., Sinyor, M., McGuinness, L., Arensman, E., Hawton, K., O'Connor, R., Kapur, N., O'Neill, S., Olorisade, B., Cheng, H., Higgins, J., John, A., & Gunnell, D. (2021). Systematic review of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on suicidal behaviour amongst health and social care workers across the world. Journal of Affective Disorders Reports, 6, 100271
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadr.2021.100271, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa58720
Webb, R., John, A., Knipe, D., Bojanić, L., Dekel, D., Eyles, E., Marchant, A., Mughal, F., Pirkis, J., Schmidt, L., & Gunnell, D. (2022). Has the COVID-19 pandemic influenced suicide rates differentially according to socioeconomic indices and ethnicity? More evidence is needed globally. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, 31
https://doi.org/10.1017/s2045796022000543, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa62490

All Research

Journal Articles

Sinyor, M., Zaheer, R., Webb, R., Knipe, D., Eyles, E., Higgins, J., McGuinness, L., Schmidt, L., Macleod-Hall, C., Dekel, D., Gunnell, D., & John, A. (2022). SARS-CoV-2 Infection and the Risk of Suicidal and Self-Harm Thoughts and Behaviour: A Systematic Review. The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 67(11), 812-827.
https://doi.org/10.1177/07067437221094552, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa59705
Webb, R., John, A., Knipe, D., Bojanić, L., Dekel, D., Eyles, E., Marchant, A., Mughal, F., Pirkis, J., Schmidt, L., & Gunnell, D. (2022). Has the COVID-19 pandemic influenced suicide rates differentially according to socioeconomic indices and ethnicity? More evidence is needed globally. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, 31
https://doi.org/10.1017/s2045796022000543, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa62490
Steeg, S., John, A., Gunnell, D., Kapur, N., Dekel, D., Schmidt, L., Knipe, D., Arensman, E., Hawton, K., Higgins, J., Eyles, E., Macleod-Hall, C., McGuiness, L., & Webb, R. (2022). The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on presentations to health services following self-harm: systematic review. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 221(4), 1-10.
https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2022.79, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa60523
Eyles, E., Moran, P., Okolie, C., Dekel, D., Macleod-Hall, C., Webb, R., Schmidt, L., Knipe, D., Sinyor, M., McGuinness, L., Arensman, E., Hawton, K., O'Connor, R., Kapur, N., O'Neill, S., Olorisade, B., Cheng, H., Higgins, J., John, A., & Gunnell, D. (2021). Systematic review of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on suicidal behaviour amongst health and social care workers across the world. Journal of Affective Disorders Reports, 6, 100271
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadr.2021.100271, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa58720
John, A., Eyles, E., Webb, R., Okolie, C., Schmidt, L., Arensman, E., Hawton, K., O'Connor, R., Kapur, N., Moran, P., O'Neill, S., McGuinness, L., Olorisade, B., Dekel, D., Macleod-Hall, C., Cheng, H., Higgins, J., & Gunnell, D. (2021). The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on self-harm and suicidal behaviour: update of living systematic review. F1000Research, 9, 1097
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.25522.2, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa59742

Other Research Outputs

Knipe, D., John, A., Padmanathan, P., Eyles, E., Dekel, D., Higgins, J., Bantjes, J., Dandona, R., Macleod-Hall, C., McGuinness, L., Schmidt, L., Webb, R., & Gunnell, D. (n.d.) Suicide and self-harm in low- and middle- income countries during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review
https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.09.03.21263083, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa59741

Taught Modules

PM-269 Population Health & The Art of Research 1

This module introduces students to the philosophical underpinnings, and practical applications of population health research. It has been designed to enable students to develop a real-world understanding of a range of epidemiological and qualitative research methodologies used to investigate population health problems, and an appreciation of the importance of ethics when conducting population health research in practice.
PM-344 Capstone Project

The aim of this module is to provide a capstone experience to students¿ learning, through participating in their own enquiry-based research project, with guidance from an academic supervisor. The project may be laboratory or non-laboratory based, but it will always involve a research question that is drawn from the literature, and focused on a topic relevant to the life sciences. It will ask a research question and involve the critical analysis of research findings. Students will refine their oral and written communication skills to a graduate level through an oral presentation and dissertation on their research findings and conclusions.
PM-374 Child Health

This module aims to provide a critical overview of the epidemiology of common causes of morbidity and mortality in school-aged children and adolescents. It will cover individual conditions, links between physical and mental health, determinants of health with a focus on socio-economic inequalities, public health universal services to improve health. Further, it will cover links to educational outcomes.
PMP303 New Knowledge (NK60)

PMP303 New Knowledge is the dissertation research project for the MPharm Pharmacy (Hons) programme, conducted in semester 2 of year 3. This semester-long (11 weeks) module comprises largely of independent experimental/research work and production of a written dissertation demonstrating in-depth knowledge of research methodology and enquiry through designing and conducting a research project (under the direction of one or more project supervisors) in areas of the science or practice of pharmacy including but not limited to clinical pharmacy, digital pharmacy, drug delivery, pharmaceutical chemistry, microbiology, cell and molecular biology, immunology, pharmacology, data science, pharmacy education and public health. The aim of this module is to provide the opportunity for students to explore a specific issue of improving the science or practice of pharmacy including health and well-being of the patients through participating in their own enquiry-based research project. The research project maybe completed individually or are completed collaboratively in small groups (4-5 students; students will be responsible for their own area of a larger research project) under the direction of one or more project supervisors (e.g., university academic and external supervisor e.g. a hospital or community pharmacist). The focus of the projects varies but the science or practice of pharmacy remains at the core of all projects. Like in previous modules PMP302 also horizontally spirals up with the 7 subject themes: pharmaceutics, pharmaceutical chemistry, cellular & molecular biosciences, anatomy & physiology, pharmacology & therapeutics, clinical pharmacy, and pharmacy practice ¿ forming the basis of student research projects with the inclusion of additional themes (where appropriate) for example, data science (prescribing) and pharmacy education. Where projects are external to the university, they have been pre-agreed between the university and the project placement site. The project may be laboratory or non-laboratory based, but it will always involve a research question that is drawn from the literature and focused on a topic relevant to Pharmacy. It will ask a novel research question and involve the critical analysis of research findings. Students have dedicated time to spend on their project. This time is allocated to tasks such as project planning, literature review, developing a specific tool/resource, collecting data, analysing data that they collect or that has been collected by others (data science), meeting with supervisors, meeting with wider research team, reflecting on findings and problem-solving. Students will refine their project management, and oral and written communication skills to FHEQ Level 6 through creating a project overview and Gantt chart on scoping the project background, an appropriate PICO based research question, study methodology including research ethics/governance and timeline; and presentation of an academic poster summarising their research at an in-house `MPharm conference¿ and a written dissertation on their research including conclusion and suggested further research. Successful projects will require significant self-directed learning and the ability to work well in a team.

Key Grants and Projects

Suicide Prevention Strategy Collaboration 2022 - 2023

With Professor Ann John, £13,983

Ms Dana Dekel

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About

Areas Of Expertise

Publications

Research Highlights

All Research

Journal Articles

Other Research Outputs

Taught Modules

PM-269 Population Health & The Art of Research 1

PM-344 Capstone Project

PM-374 Child Health

PMP303 New Knowledge (NK60)

Key Grants and Projects

Suicide Prevention Strategy Collaboration 2022 - 2023