Browsing by Author "Freeman, Daniel"
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Developing a virtual reality environment for educational and therapeutic application to investigate psychological reactivity to bullying
Rovira, Aitor; Freeman, Daniel (2023-07)Understanding how bullying victimisation influences cognitive and emotional processes may help to direct early intervention to prevent the development of psychopathology. In a convenience sample of 67 female adolescents, ... -
Developing an automated VR cognitive treatment for psychosis: gameChange VR therapy
Lambe, Sinead; Lister, Rachel; Rosebrock, Laina; Rovira, Aitor; Clark, David M; Freeman, Daniel; Waite, Felicity (2020-04)The automated delivery of psychological treatment using virtual reality (VR) has the potential to revolutionise patient access to evidence-based care. VR creates immersive, interactive computer simulations, which elicit ... -
Digitally supported CBT to reduce paranoia and improve reasoning for people with schizophrenia-spectrum psychosis: the SlowMo RCT
Freeman, Daniel (2021-08)Background: Reasoning may play a causal role in paranoid delusions in psychosis. SlowMo, a new digitally supported cognitive–behavioural therapy, targets reasoning to reduce paranoia. Objectives: To examine the effectiveness ... -
The Disease Influenced Vaccine Acceptance Scale-Six (DIVAS-6): Validation of a Measure to Assess Disease-Related COVID-19 Vaccine Attitudes and Concerns
Freeman, Daniel (2022-06)Patients with underlying comorbidities are particularly vulnerable to poor outcomes from SARS-CoV-2 infection. Despite the context-specific nature of vaccine hesitancy, there are currently no scales that incorporate disease ... -
Disentangling the Consequences of Systemic Racism and Clinical Paranoia to Promote Effectiveness of a Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention for Persecutory Delusions in Minoritized Individuals: A Case-Example
Freeman, Daniel (2023-07)While everyone experiences threats, some threats are culturally specific and not universally recognized or addressed by providers. A prominent example is threat-based worry and hypervigilance in Black Americans and other ... -
Dissociation in patients with non-affective psychosis: Prevalence, symptom associations, and maintenance factors
Cernis, Emma; Molodynski, Andrew; Ehlers, Anke; Freeman, Daniel (2021-11)Dissociation is problematic in its own right for patients with psychosis but may also contribute to the occurrence of psychotic experiences. We therefore set out to estimate in a large cohort of patients with psychosis the ... -
Dissociation in relation to other mental health conditions: An exploration using network analysis
Ehlers, Anke; Freeman, Daniel (2020-08)Dissociative experiences, traditionally studied in relation to trauma and PTSD, may be important phenomena across many different psychological conditions, including as a contributory causal factor for psychotic experiences. ... -
Does raising heart rate prior to a behavioural test enhance learning in cognitive therapy for anxiety? An experimental test for the treatment of fear of heights using virtual reality
Bird, Jessica C.; Freeman, Daniel (2021-07)A key clinical issue is how to maximise the belief change central to cognitive therapy. Physiological arousal is a key internal cue confirming threat beliefs in anxiety disorders. Deeper extinction of anxiety may occur if ... -
Effects of different types of written vaccination information on COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the UK (OCEANS-III): a single-blind, parallel-group, randomised controlled trial
Freeman, Daniel; Waite, Felicity; Rosebrock, Laina; Petit, Ariane; Lambe, Sinead (2021-06)The effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccination programme depends on mass participation: the greater the number of people vaccinated, the less risk to the population. Concise, persuasive messaging is crucial, particularly ... -
The effects of improving sleep on mental health (OASIS): a randomised controlled trial with mediation analysis
Freeman, Daniel; Sheaves, Bryony; Goodwin, Guy M (2017-09-06)Summary: Background Sleep difficulties might be a contributory causal factor in the occurrence of mental health problems. If this is true, improving sleep should benefit psychological health. We aimed to determine whether ... -
Effects of SlowMo, a Blended Digital Therapy Targeting Reasoning, on Paranoia Among People With Psychosis A Randomized Clinical Trial
Freeman, Daniel; Collett, Nicola; Rus-Calafell, Mar (2021-04)IMPORTANCE Persistent paranoia is common among patients with psychosis. Cognitive-behavioral therapy for psychosis can be effective. However, challenges in engagement and effectiveness remain. OBJECTIVE To investigate ... -
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
Freeman, Daniel; Rosebrock, Laina; Lambe, Sinead; Waite, Felicity (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 ... -
Excessive sleepiness in patients with psychosis: An initial investigation
Sheaves, Bryony; Freeman, Daniel (2021-01)Clinical experience indicates that excessive sleepiness and hypersomnia may be a common issue for patients with psychosis. Excessive sleepiness is typically ascribed to the sedating effects of antipsychotic medications but ... -
The Experience of Sleep Problems and Their Treatment in Young People at Ultra-High Risk of Psychosis: A Thematic Analysis
Waite, Felicity; Bradley, Jonathan; Bird, Jessica C.; Freeman, Daniel (2018-08)We view sleep disruption as a contributory causal factor in the development of psychotic experiences. Clinical trials indicate that psychological interventions targeting insomnia result in improvements in both sleep and ... -
The impact of Patient and Public Involvement in the SlowMo study: Reflections on peer innovation
Collett, Nicola; Freeman, Daniel (2021-09)Background: The SlowMo study demonstrated the effects of SlowMo, an eight-session digitally supported reasoning intervention, on paranoia in a large-scale randomized-controlled trial with 362 participants with schizophre ... -
Injection fears and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy
Freeman, Daniel; Lambe, Sinead; Waite, Felicity; Rosebrock, Laina; Petit, Ariane (2021-06)When vaccination depends on injection, it is plausible that the blood-injection-injury cluster of fears may contribute to hesitancy. Our primary aim was to estimate in the UK adult population the proportion of COVID-19 ... -
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
Freeman, Daniel; Sheaves, Bryony; Saunders, Kate E.A. (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 ... -
“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
Brown, Poppy; Waite, Felicity; Lambe, Sinead; Freeman, Daniel (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 ... -
The journey of adolescent paranoia: A qualitative study with patients attending child and adolescent mental health services
Bird, Jessica C.; Freeman, Daniel; Waite, Felicity (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 ... -
A life more ordinary: A peer research method qualitative study of the Feeling Safe Programme for persecutory delusions
Freeman, Daniel; Waite, Felicity (2022-07)Background: The Feeling Safe Programme is a cognitive therapy developed to improve outcomes for individuals with persecutory delusions. It is theoretically driven, modular and personalised, with differences in ...