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Harnessing mobile devices to support the delivery of community-based clinical care: a participatory evaluation
(2019)Background:A large provider of community health services (an NHS Trust in England) deployed Apple iPads to its front-line community-based healthcare clinicians (predominantly nurses) to enable them to increase responsiveness ... -
Hummingbird Study: a study protocol for a multicentre exploratory trial to assess the acceptance and performance of a digital medicine system in adults with schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder or first-episode psychosis
(2019-06)Introduction: In patients with schizophrenia, medication adherence is important for relapse prevention, and effective adherence monitoring is essential for treatment planning. A digital medicine system (DMS) has been ... -
IAPT and the internet: The current and future role of therapist-guided internet interventions within routine care settings
(2020-02)Compared to the traditional face-to-face format, therapist-guided internet interventions offer a different approach to supporting clients in learning skills to manage and overcome mental health difficulties. Such interventions ... -
Innovations in Practice: Avatar-based virtual reality in CAMHS talking therapy: two exploratory case studies
(2019-03)Background: Avatar-based virtual reality therapy is an emerging digital technology that can be used to assist the treatment of common mental health problems. This may be particularly appealing to young people who are ... -
Insomnia as a mediating therapeutic target for depressive symptoms: A sub-analysis of participant data from two large randomized controlled trials of a digital sleep intervention
(2020-06)Insomnia predicts the onset of depression, commonly co-presents with depression and often persists following depression remission. However, these conditions can be challenging to treat concurrently using depression-specific ... -
Introducing artificial intelligence in acute psychiatric inpatient care: qualitative study of its use to conduct nursing observations.
(2020-02)Background All patients admitted to an acute inpatient mental health unit must have nursing observations carried out at night either hourly or every 15 minutes, to ascertain that they are safe and breathing. However, while ... -
Introducing the tablet-based Oxford Cognitive Screen-Plus (OCS-Plus) as an assessment tool for subtle cognitive impairments
(2021-04)Here, we present the Oxford Cognitive Screen-Plus, a computerised tablet-based screen designed to briefly assess domain-general cognition and provide more fine-grained measures of memory and executive function. The OCS-Plus ... -
Long‐term benefits of digital cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia: Follow‐up report from a randomized clinical trial
(2020-02)Digital cognitive behavioural therapy (dCBT) is an effective treatment for chronic insomnia and also improves well‐being and quality of life (QoL). We assessed whether these benefits are sustained and if the effects of ... -
The NICE Evidence Standards Framework for digital health and care technologies – Developing and maintaining an innovative evidence framework with global impact
(2021-06)Objective: In 2018, the UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), in partnership with Public Health England, NHS England, NHS Improvement and others, developed an evidence standards framework (ESF) for ... -
Online mood monitoring in treatment-resistant depression: qualitative study of patients' perspectives in the NHS
(2020-01)Aims and method True Colours is an automated symptom monitoring programme used by National Health Service psychiatric services. This study explored whether patients with unipolar treatment-resistant depression (TRD) found ... -
Online patient feedback: a scoping review and stakeholder consultation
(2020-04)Objective To provide a synthesis of the current evidence base of online patient feedback using a scoping review and a consultation of stakeholders in England, UK. Methods We searched MEDLINE, EMBASE, PsycINFO, CINAHL ... -
Online peer support training to promote adolescents’ emotional support skills, mental health and agency during COVID-19: A pilot randomised controlled trial
(2021-08)Background: Adolescents often look to their peers for emotional support, so it is critical that they are prepared to take on a supportive role, especially during a health crisis. Using a pilot randomised controlled trial ... -
An online survey of young adolescent girls’ use of the internet and smartphone apps for mental health support
(2018-07)Background Adolescents are digital natives, with the majority now owning their own smartphones and having internet access. Although the internet and smartphone applications (apps) can provide mental health support, little ... -
The Oxford Cognitive Screen – Plus (OCS-Plus): A digital, tablet-based, brief cognitive assessment
(2020-10)Here, we present the Oxford Cognitive Screen-Plus, a computerised tablet-based screen designed to briefly assess domain-general cognition and provide more fine-grained measures of memory and executive function. The OCS-Plus ... -
A Path Signature Approach for Speech Emotion Recognition
(2019-09)Automatic speech emotion recognition (SER) remains a difficult task within human-computer interaction, despite increasing interest in the research community. One key challenge is how to effectively integrate short-term ... -
Predicting motor, cognitive & functional impairment in Parkinson’s
(2019-07)Objective: We recently demonstrated that 998 features derived from a simple 7-minute smartphone test could distinguish between controls, people with Parkinson’s and people with idiopathic Rapid Eye Movement sleep behavior ... -
Qualitative Analysis of Remote Consultations (QuARC): A study of technology-enhanced consultations in diabetes, cancer and heart failure
(2018-07)Background Remote video consulting is promoted by policymakers as a way of delivering healthcare efficiently to an ageing population with rising rates of chronic illness. As a radically new service model, it brings operational ... -
A randomised controlled test of emotional attributes of a virtual coach within a virtual reality (VR) mental health treatment
(2023-07)We set out to test whether positive non-verbal behaviours of a virtual coach can enhance people's engagement in automated virtual reality therapy. 120 individuals scoring highly for fear of heights participated. In a ... -
A Safe Place to Learn: Peer Research Qualitative Investigation of gameChange Virtual Reality Therapy
(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 ... -
A Smartphone App (BlueIce) for Young People Who Self-Harm: Open Phase 1 Pre-Post Trial
(2018-01-30)Background: Recent years have seen a significant increase in the availability of smartphone apps for mental health problems. Despite their proliferation, few apps have been specifically developed for young people, and ...