Browsing by Author "Waite, Felicity"
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Identifying effective characteristics of behavioral weight management interventions for people with serious mental illness: A systematic review with a qualitative comparative analysis
Waite, Felicity (2021-10)People with serious mental illness (SMI) have identified barriers to engaging in behavioral weight management interventions (BWMIs). We assessed whether BWMIs that addressed these barriers were more effective. First, we ... -
Identifying individuals at risk of developing psychosis: A systematic review of the literature in primary care services
Waite, Felicity; Radez, Jerica; Izon, Emma; Johns, Louise (2023-01)Psychosis and related disorders are a major public health issue. Early identification and prevention for those at high risk (at-risk-mental-state, ARMS) is important. General practitioners (GPs) are often the first point ... -
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 ... -
“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 ... -
Online Social Endorsement and Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in the United Kingdom
Freeman, Daniel; Lambe, Sinead; Waite, Felicity; Rosebrock, Laina; Jenner, Lucy; Petit, Ariane (2021-04)We explore the implications of online social endorsement for the Covid-19 vaccination program in the United Kingdom. Vaccine hesitancy is a long-standing problem, but it has assumed great urgency due to the pandemic. By ... -
Paranoia in patients attending child and adolescent mental health services
Bird, Jessica C.; Fergusson, Emma C.; Shearn, Christina; Teale, Ashley-Louise; Stratford, Hannah J.; James, Anthony; Waite, Felicity; Freeman, Daniel (2021-01)OBJECTIVE: Paranoia may be particularly prevalent during adolescence, building on the heightened social vulnerabilities at this age. Excessive mistrust may be corrosive for adolescent social relationships, especially in ... -
Parenting behaviour and paranoia: a network analysis and results from the National Comorbidity Survey-Adolescents (NCS-A)
Waite, Felicity; Freeman, Daniel (2020-08)Method We examined cross-sectional associations of parenting and paranoia in an epidemiologically representative cohort of 10,148 adolescents (National Comorbidity Survey-Adolescents; NCS-A) and a second dataset of 1286 ... -
Participatory design to create a VR therapy for psychosis
Lambe, Sinead; Waite, Felicity; Freeman, Daniel (2021-02)This paper describes how participatory design was employed in the design of an automated Virtual Reality (VR) psychological therapy (gameChange), putting people with lived experience of psychosis at the heart of the process. ... -
Physical activity in a pandemic: A new treatment target for psychological therapy.
Diamond, Rowan; Waite, Felicity (2020-06)The COVID-19 pandemic and its management are placing significant new strains onpeople’s well-being, particularly those with pre-existing mental health conditions. Physicalactivity has been shown to improve mental as well ... -
The psychological journey of weight gain in psychosis
Waite, Felicity; Langman-Levy, Amy; Mulhall, Sophie; Lennox, Belinda; Freeman, Daniel (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 ... -
A safe place to learn: a peer research qualitative investigation of automated virtual reality cognitive therapy (gameChange)
Freeman, Daniel; Rosebrock, Laina; Lambe, Sinead; Waite, Felicity (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 Safe Place to Learn: Peer Research Qualitative Investigation of gameChange Virtual Reality Therapy
Beckley, Ariane; Rosebrock, Laina; Lambe, Sinead; Freeman, Daniel; Waite, Felicity (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 ... -
Sleep disturbance and psychiatric disorders
Freeman, Daniel; Sheaves, Bryony; Waite, Felicity; Harrison, Paul J (2020-07)Signs of mental ill health that cut across psychiatric diagnostic categories at high rates are typically viewed as non-specific occurrences, downgraded in importance and disregarded. However, problems not associated with ... -
Sleep in the time of COVID-19: findings from 17000 school-aged children and adolescents in the UK during the first national lockdown
Waite, Felicity (2022-01)Sleep is essential to young people’s wellbeing, yet may be constricted by the adolescent delayed sleep phase coupled with school start times. COVID-19 restrictions caused major disruptions to everyday routines, including ... -
Suicidal ideation and behaviour in patients with persecutory delusions: Prevalence, symptom associations, and psychological correlates
Freeman, Daniel; Collett, Nicola; Diamond, Rowan; Cernis, Emma; Bird, Jessica C.; Isham, Louise; Forkert, Ava; Waite, Felicity (2019-07)Background:To determine the prevalence of suicidal ideation and behaviour - and their correlates - in patients with persecutory delusions. Methods:110 patients with persecutory delusions in the context of non-affective ... -
A targeted psychological treatment for sleep problems in young people at ultra-high risk of psychosis in England (SleepWell): a parallel group, single-blind, randomised controlled feasibility trial
Waite, Felicity; Cernis, Emma; Iredale, Ellen; Johns, Louise; Maughan, Daniel L; Diamond, Rowan; Freeman, Daniel (2023-08)Sleep disturbance is common and problematic for young people at ultra-high risk of psychosis. Sleep disruption is a contributory causal factor in the occurrence of mental health problems, including psychotic experiences, ... -
Testing the combination of Feeling Safe and peer counselling against formulation-based cognitive behaviour therapy to promote psychological wellbeing in people with persecutory delusions: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial (the Feeling Safe-NL Trial)
Waite, Felicity; Freeman, Daniel; Isham, Louise (2023-10)Persecutory delusions are strong threat beliefs about others’ negative intentions. They can have a major impact on patients’ day-to-day life. The Feeling Safe Programme is a new translational cognitive-behaviour therapy ... -
Treating sleep problems in young people at ultra-high-risk of psychosis: study protocol for a single-blind parallel group randomised controlled feasibility trial (SleepWell).
Waite, Felicity; Johns, Louise; Cernis, Emma; Maughan, Daniel L; Freeman, Daniel (2020-11)Background Effective interventions, targeting key contributory causal factors, are needed to prevent the emergence of severe mental health problems in young people. Insomnia is a common clinical issue that is problematic ...