Conditions, Lifestyle Factors & Interventions: Recent submissions
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Effectiveness of psychosocial interventions in mitigating adverse mental health outcomes among disaster-exposed health care workers: A systematic review
(2022-02)Health care workers worldwide are at an increased risk of a range of adverse mental health outcomes, including posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), following the unprecedented demand placed upon them during the COVID-19 ... -
“It seems impossible that it’s been made so quickly”: a qualitative investigation of concerns about the speed of COVID-19 vaccine development and how these may be overcome
(2022-02)The speed of COVID-19 vaccine development has been identified as a central concern contributing to hesitancy in acceptance. We conducted qualitative interviews to gain a greater understanding into these concerns and to ... -
Women’s information needs around urine testing for urinary tract infections: a qualitative study
(2022-02)Background Urinary tract infection (UTI) is one of the commonest bacterial infections in general practice, with urine testing a frequent feature of its management. Urinary dipsticks are widely used, with urine culture the ... -
Risks, roles and responsibilities: Evaluating falls in inpatient mental healthcare settings for older people
(2022-02)Background Despite the large number of falls in mental health settings, we know little about what contributes to falls. The main aim of the study is to explore how fall risk, prevention and management is understood and ... -
A dose–effect network meta-analysis model with application in antidepressants using restricted cubic splines
(2022-02)Network meta-analysis has been used to answer a range of clinical questions about the preferred intervention for a given condition. Although the effectiveness and safety of pharmacological agents depend on the dose ... -
Understanding agoraphobic avoidance: the development of the Oxford Cognitions and Defences Questionnaire (O-CDQ)
(2022-02)Many patients with mental health disorders become increasingly isolated at home due to anxiety about going outside. A cognitive perspective on this difficulty is that threat cognitions lead to the safety-seeking behavioural ... -
A Refugee Rose of competencies and capabilities for mental healthcare of refugees
(2022-02)In this paper, I set out the challenges of care for refugees and suggest approaches to assessment and intervention. I discuss clinical interventions that can address the immediate concern of the clinician in a ... -
The journey of adolescent paranoia: A qualitative study with patients attending child and adolescent mental health services
(2022-02)Objectives: Paranoia is most likely to emerge in adolescence. In adolescents with mental health disorders, the disruptive effect of paranoia on social relationships could worsen outcomes. However, little is known about ... -
The relationship between frequency content and representational dynamics in the decoding of neurophysiological data
(2022-02)Decoding of high temporal resolution, stimulus-evoked neurophysiological data is increasingly used to test theories about how the brain processes information. However, a fundamental relationship between the frequency ... -
Symptom Dynamics and Attention in Depression: Fatigue and Low Positive Affect are Associated With Reduced Orienting Efficiency
(2022-02)Depression is a heterogeneous mental disorder involving a complex interplay between potential etiological and maintenance factors. The current study examined how depression heterogeneity is related to attentional ... -
The psychological journey of weight gain in psychosis
(2022-02)Rapid weight gain is common with antipsychotic medication. Lost confidence, low mood and medication non-adherence often follow. Yet, the dynamic interactions between the physical and psychological consequences of weight ... -
Non-pharamacological treatment for individuals with autism spectrum conditions who display harmful sexual behaviour
(2022-02)Background: Specific treatment and interventions for individuals with Autism Spectrum Conditions who display harmful sexual behaviour have yet to be widely evaluated. This review aims to consolidate and assess the quality ... -
Ketamine for suicidal ideation: New trial challenges current thinking about ketamine
(2022-02)Will ketamine be given to eligible patients with suicidal ideation any time soon? This is hard to say, given the plausible concern that the widespread use of ketamine might trigger a new opioid style crisis.10 Whether ... -
Development and validation of a meta-learner for combining statistical and machine learning prediction models in individuals with depression
(2022-05)The debate of whether machine learning models offer advantages over standard statistical methods when making predictions is ongoing. We discuss the use of a meta-learner model combining both approaches as an alternative. ... -
Generalizing Brain Decoding Across Subjects with Deep Learning
(2022-05)Decoding experimental variables from brain imaging data is gaining popularity, with applications in brain-computer interfaces and the study of neural representations. Decoding is typically subject-specific and does not ... -
Incorporating interventions for unhealthy exercise into eating disorders treatment A survey of attitudes in those with lived experience of an eating disorder
(2022-05)Introduction: There is little consensus on the treatment of unhealthy exercise in eating disorders. Many treatment programmes do not offer any interventions at all. This study explored the attitudes of those with lived ... -
The relationship between short- and long-term memory is preserved across the age range
(2022-06)The aim of the current study was to examine cross-sectionally the changes in the relationship between short- and long-term memory with age. In two experiments, participants across the age-range were tested on contextual-spatial ... -
Personalised treatment for cognitive impairment in dementia: development and validation of an artificial intelligence model
(2022-02)Donepezil, galantamine, rivastigmine and memantine are potentially effective interventions for cognitive impairment in dementia, but the use of these drugs has not been personalised to individual patients yet. We examined ... -
A feasibility study to determine whether the daily consumption of flavonoid-rich pure cocoa has the potential to reduce fatigue and fatigability in people with Parkinson's (pwP)
(2022-01)Summary Flavonoids, plant compounds found in certain foods, may have the ability to improve fatigue and fatigability. However, to date, no well-designed intervention studies assessing the role of flavonoid consumption for ... -
Psychiatric comorbidity and risk of premature mortality and suicide among those with chronic respiratory diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and diabetes in Sweden: A nationwide matched cohort study of over 1 million patients and their unaffected siblings
(2022-01)Persons with noncommunicable diseases have elevated rates of premature mortality. The contribution of psychiatric comorbidity to this is uncertain. We aimed to determine the risks of premature mortality and suicide in ...