Conditions, Lifestyle Factors & Interventions: Recent submissions
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Beating Adolescent Self-Harm (BASH): a randomised controlled trial comparing usual care versus usual care plus a smartphone self-harm prevention app (BlueIce) in young adolescents aged 12–17 who self-harm: study protocol
(2021-11)Introduction A mobile app, BlueIce, was codesigned with young people with a history of self-harm to provide them with more accessible and available evidence-based support at times of distress. A preliminary evaluation found ... -
Improving diabetes care: findings from the first National Diabetes Inpatient Audit undertaken in a mental health setting
(2023-05)Background/Aims There has been no national audit of diabetes care provided in mental heath inpatient settings. This research was undertaken to reveal a snapshot of prevalence, services provided and the education delivered ... -
Using therapy outcome measures to identify the speech and language therapy needs of children and young people with severe acquired brain injury
(2022-12)Children and young people often require speech and language therapy input following severe acquired brain injury. However, there is limited understanding of the impact of post-acute neurorehabilitation on children and young ... -
A single case report of using Dummett’s systemic cognitive behavioural formulation to guide treatment of adolescent PTSD
(2022-12)Trauma-focused CBT (TF-CBT) is recommended by NICE for adolescents with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Whilst caregiver involvement is recommended, no specific guidance on the nature of involvement is provided ... -
Patients’ experiences of clinical team meetings (ward rounds) at an adult in-patient eating disorders ward: mixed-method service improvement project
(2023-04)Ward rounds are key to treatment-related decision-making, but are often stressful. This project aimed to explore and improve patients’ experiences of the clinical team meeting (CTM; historically known as ward round) in an ... -
A safe place to learn: a peer research qualitative investigation of automated virtual reality cognitive therapy (gameChange)
(2023-01)Background: Automated virtual reality (VR) therapy has the potential to substantially increase access to evidence-based psychological treatments. The results of a multicenter randomized controlled trial showed that ... -
Supporting health literacy and managing minor illnesses
(2022-12)Health visitors have an important role in education, signposting and giving advice to families in relation to managing minor illnesses -
A Standardized Ward Round Proforma Improves Documentation in a Specialist Stroke Unit
(2022-11)Background and aim Ward-round documentation is important for clinical communication and patient safety. Standardized checklists have improved ward-round documentation in surgical and medical settings. This quality improvement ... -
Perinatal mental health and COVID-19: Navigating a way forward
(2022-11)The COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath have increased pre-existing inequalities and risk factors for mental disorders in general, but perinatal mental disorders are of particular concern. They are already underdiagnosed ... -
Estimating the Economic Value of Automated Virtual Reality Cognitive Therapy for Treating Agoraphobic Avoidance in Patients With Psychosis: Findings From the gameChange Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial
(2022-11)Background: An automated virtual reality cognitive therapy (gameChange) has demonstrated its effectiveness to treat agoraphobia in patients with psychosis, especially for high or severe anxious avoidance. Its economic ... -
Predicting Antidepressant Treatment Response Using Functional Brain Controllability Analysis
(2023-03)Introduction: For decades, predicting response to the antidepressant medication has been a critical unmet need in depression treatment in clinic, and a technical challenge in depression research. Methods: In this study, ... -
Comparative efficacy and tolerability of 32 oral and long-acting injectable antipsychotics for the maintenance treatment of adults with schizophrenia: a systematic review and network meta-analysis
(2022-02)Schizophrenia is a common, severe, and usually chronic disorder. Maintenance treatment with antipsychotic drugs can prevent relapse but also causes side-effects. We aimed to compare the efficacy and tolerability of ... -
Mental health disorders in English newspapers of India: A retrospective study
(2022-11)In recent years there has been significant coverage of mental health in Indian newspapers; the media can play a significant role in perpetuating as well as reducing stigma towards people with mental illness. This paper ... -
A Cognitive-Behavioural Approach to Targeting Sensation-Based and Intrusion-Based Misinterpretations in Health Anxiety: A Single-Case Experimental Study
(2022-11)Health anxiety (HA) is common in psychiatric and medical settings. Cognitive models of HA highlight the role of misinterpreting physical sensations as dangerous. This report presents the case of a 31-year-old man and the ... -
Agoraphobic avoidance in patients with psychosis: Severity and response to automated VR therapy in a secondary analysis of a randomised controlled clinical trial
(2022-11)Background: The social withdrawal of many patients with psychosis can be conceptualised as agoraphobic avoidance due to a range of long-standing fears. We hypothesised that greater severity of agoraphobic avoidance is ... -
Nasogastric tube feeding under restraint: practical guidance for children’s nurses
(2022-11)The number of children and young people admitted to children’s wards with an eating disorder has increased significantly since the start of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. In the most extreme cases, those ... -
An investigation into the relationship between nutritional status, dietary intake, symptoms and health-related quality of life in children and young people with juvenile idiopathic arthritis: a systematic review and meta-analysis
(2023-01)The association between diet, symptoms and health related quality of life in children and young people with Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is not clearly understood. The objectives of this systematic review and ... -
How effective are physiotherapy interventions in treating people with sciatica? A systematic review and meta-analysis
(2022-12)Purpose: Physiotherapy interventions are prescribed as first-line treatment for people with sciatica; however, their effectiveness remains controversial. The purpose of this systematic review was to establish the short-, ... -
Patient and stakeholder engagement on the role that Social Prescribing might play in supporting the health and wellbeing of people diagnosed with Mild Cognitive Impairment
(2022-11)There is no standardised clinical care for people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) postdiagnosis. Social prescribing could potentially address this gap, as it enables people to access a range of non-clinical organisations ... -
Incidence of Epilepsy and Seizures Over the First 6 Months After a COVID-19 Diagnosis
(2022-11)Background and Objectives The relationship between COVID-19 and epilepsy is uncertain. We studied the potential association between COVID-19 and seizures or epilepsy in the 6 months after infection. Methods We applied ...