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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 ... -
Having a son or daughter with an intellectual disability transition to adulthood: A parental perspective
(2020-04)Background: Transition to adulthood is an important time for young people and may be a particularly challenging time for people with intellectual disabilities. However, there has been little research in the UK regarding ... -
Health Outcome Prioritization in Alzheimer's Disease: Understanding the Ethical Landscape.
(2020-07)BACKGROUND:Dementia has been described as the greatest global health challenge in the 21st century on account of longevity gains increasing its incidence, escalating health and social care pressures. These pressures highlight ... -
The heartland of psychiatry, revisited
(2019-11)The role of doctors will undoubtedly evolve as knowledge, and perverse ignorance become more universally available to all via the internet. The role of the psychiatrist must be to relate real advances in understanding ... -
Hebephrenia is dead, long live hebephrenia, or why Hecker and Chaslin were on to something
(2019-05-03)Since its first description in 1863, ‘hebephrenia’ has highlighted a group of patients characterised by an early onset of illness, formal thought disorder, bizarre behaviour and incongruent emotional expression. A proportion ... -
Helping young people who self-harm
(2017-02)Key learning points: For many young people, the function of self-harm is to escape an unbearable emotional state; relief and negative feelings experienced following self-harm can result in a cycle of self-harming behaviour; ... -
Hemizygous mutations in L1CAM in two unrelated male probands with childhood onset psychosis
(2020-06)Objective :To identify genes underlying childhood onset psychosis. Methods :Patients with onset of psychosis at age 13 or younger were identified from clinics across England, and they and their parents were exome sequenced ... -
Hippocampal network abnormalities explain amnesia after VGKCC-Ab related autoimmune limbic encephalitis
(2019-05)Objective Limbic encephalitis associated with antibodies to components of the voltage-gated potassium channel complex (VGKCC-Ab-LE) often leads to hippocampal atrophy and persistent memory impairment. Its long-term impact ... -
How pharmacist prescribers can help meet the mental health consequences of COVID-19
(2020-11)We suggest that Mental Health Trusts should urgently develop prescribing roles for specialist mental health pharmacists, which are integrated within mental health teams. In these roles, prescribing pharmacists can ... -
How representative are neuroimaging samples? Large-scale evidence for trait anxiety differences between MRI and behaviour-only research participants.
(2020-04)Over the past three decades, MRI has become a key tool to study how cognitive processes are implemented in the human brain. However, the question of whether participants recruited into MRI studies differ from participants ... -
How women with and without eating disorders perceive their own and others’ bodies: a case-control study
(University of Bristol, 2020-03)Background: Body dissatisfaction is a key part of the psychopathology of eating disorders, but there is a lack of consensus as to whether the dissatisfaction arises from misperception of body size, and if such misperception ... -
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 ... -
Identifying outcomes for depression that matter to patients, informal caregivers, and health-care professionals: qualitative content analysis of a large international online survey
(2020-07)Many clinical trials have assessed treatments for depressive disorders and bipolar depression. However, whether, and which, assessed outcome domains really matter to patients, informal caregivers, and health-care professionals ... -
Imagery-Based Cognitive Therapy for Bipolar Disorder and Mood Instability
(Guilford Press, 2019)People with bipolar disorder are particularly vulnerable to anxiety and intrusive mental imagery, which can contribute to mood swings and a heightened risk for relapse. This book presents a novel brief treatment that focuses ... -
The impact of assistive technology on burden and psychological well-being in informal caregivers of people with dementia (ATTILA Study)
(2020-09)Introduction: Assistive technology and telecare (ATT) may alleviate psychological burden in informal caregivers of people with dementia. This study assessed the impact of ATT on informal caregivers’ burden and psychological ... -
The impact of COVID-19 on adolescents and young adults’ cancer care and their wellbeing: Results from an online survey conducted in the early stages of the pandemic
(2020-05)Abstract: Background: Due to the global spread of COVID-19, oncology departments across the world rapidly adaptedtheir cancer care protocols, balancing the risk of delaying cancer treatments and risk of ... -
The Impact of COVID-19 on the Cancer Care of Adolescents and Young Adults and Their Well-Being: Results From an Online Survey Conducted in the Early Stages of the Pandemic
(2020-07)The COVID-19 pandemic is rapidly evolving, and we learn new details every day. Even though the disrup-tions in our daily routines and health care systems pose many challenges, therein lie many ... -
Impact of person-centred care training and person-centred activities on quality of life, agitation, and antipsychotic use in people with dementia living in nursing homes: A cluster-randomised controlled trial
(2018-02-06)Agitation is a common, challenging symptom affecting large numbers of people with dementia and impacting on quality of life (QoL). There is an urgent need for evidence-based, cost-effective psychosocial interventions to ... -
Impact of placebo arms on outcomes in antidepressant trials: systematic review and meta-regression analysis
(2018-06)There is debate in the literature as to whether inclusion of a placebo arm may alter characteristics of antidepressant trials. However, previous research has focused on response rates of various antidepressants on average ...
