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The weeks before 100 persecutory delusions: the presence of many potential contributory causal factors
(2019-09)Background:The period before the formation of a persecutory delusion may provide causal insights. Patient accounts are invaluable in informing this understanding. Aims:To inform the understanding of delusion formation, ... -
Weight change, cardio-metabolic risk factors and cardiovascular incidence in people with serious mental illness: protocol of a population-based cohort study in the UK from 1998 to 2020
(2021-11)Introduction: People with serious mental illness (SMI), which includes people with diagnoses of schizophrenia spectrum and bipolar disorders, face significant health inequality. This includes a life expectancy reduced by ... -
Wellbeing and burnout amongst medical students in England
(2019-11)The wellbeing of doctors in training is currently under the spotlight. The British Medical Association (BMA) has committed to understanding issues of wellbeing amongst medical students. Medical students from England were ... -
Wellbeing Wednesdays: nurse-led clinic for improving physical health care in a general adolescent inpatient unit
(2020-02)Background: Young people with mental illness are at high risk of physical health complications. Physical healthcare on a general adolescent inpatient unit is complex. Aim: To establish a wellbeing clinic to improve ... -
Wellbeing, psychiatric morbidity and psychological distress amongst medical students in Denmark
(2022-02)Medical students in Denmark undertake a demanding 6-year course which is generally during a critical age for the development of psychiatric disorder and harmful substance or alcohol use behaviours. Previous literature has ... -
The Western diet: a blind spot of eating disorder research?—a narrative review and recommendations for treatment and research
(2020-07)Over the last 50 years, in parallel with the obesity epidemic, the prevalence of eating disorders has increased and presentations have changed. In this narrative review, we consider recent research exploring the implications ... -
The wh-questions of network meta-analyses
(2019-10)Currently, network meta-analyses (NMAs) are the only technique that allow us to compare and rank numerous treatments across trials. Evidence produced by NMAs relies on pooled data from both direct and indirect comparisons ... -
What can siblings and cousins tell us about the role of early life family income in the aetiologies of violent crime, substance misuse and psychiatric morbidity?
(2022-03)In our recent paper,1 we examined associations between family income during childhood and adolescence on subsequent risks of developing psychiatric disorders, having substance misuse problems and being arrested for a violent ... -
What do others think? The why, when and how of using surveys in CBT
(2022-09)Surveys are a powerful technique in cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). A form of behavioural experiment, surveys can be used to test beliefs, normalise symptoms and experiences, and generate compassionate perspectives. ... -
What does COVID mean for UK mental health care?
(2020-06)The coronavirus disease (COVID) pandemic is the biggest disaster United Kingdom has seen for many decades. Not since World War II has there been such risk, displacement and change affecting the whole community. This is the ... -
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What influences the sustainability of an effective psychosocial intervention for people with dementia living in care homes? A 9 to 12-month follow-up of the perceptions of staff in care homes involved in the wheld randomised controlled trail
(2019-03)The study aims to understand the factors that care home staff felt enabled or hindered them in continuing to use the well-being and health for people with dementia (WHELD) psychosocial approach in their care home and ... -
What is Computational Psychiatry Good For?
(2022-09)It is rare in the field of biological psychiatry for hypotheses to be definitively refuted. Rather, topics of investigation drift into and out of fashion, often driven by the initial excitement of technological innovation, ... -
What is the clinical value of mHealth for patients?
(2020-01)Despite growing interest from both patients and healthcare providers, there is little clinical guidance on how mobile apps should be utilized to add value to patient care. We categorize apps according to their functionality ... -
What is the evidence for using bed rest as part of hospital treatment of severe anorexia nervosa?
(2019-04)Bed rest is commonly used on medical and paediatric wards as part of nursing management of the physically compromised patient with severe anorexia nervosa. The aim of this study was to review the evidence base of bed rest ... -
What is the relationship between dissociation and self-harming behaviour in adolescents?
(2019-01)Deliberate self‐harm in adolescents is an increasing clinical problem, but there is a limited understanding of the mechanisms causing or maintaining this behaviour. One proposed mechanism is that of dissociation. However, ... -
What is the return on investment for laboratory medicine? The antidote to silo budgeting in diagnostics
(2020-06)Procuring and managing diagnostic services, such as laboratory medicine, is generally based on cost and activity. Improving productivity of laboratory services therefore tends to focus on reducing the cost per test. However, ... -
What proportion of patients at the end of life contact out-of-hours primary care? A data linkage study in Oxfordshire
(2018-04)Objectives: Out-of-hours (OOH) primary care services are a key element of community care at the end of life, yet there have been no previous attempts to describe the scope of this activity. We aimed to establish the ... -
What we learn about bipolar disorder from large-scaleneuroimaging: Findings and future directions from theENIGMA Bipolar Disorder Working Group
(2020-06)MRI-derived brain measures offer a link between genes, the environment and behav-ior and have been widely studied in bipolar disorder (BD). However, many neuroimag-ing studies of BD have been underpowered, leading to varied ... -
The WHELD programme: showing the benefits
(2019-01)The WHELD study demonstrates that with support home care teams can incorporate into practice a focused approach to person centred care, augmented with other therapeutic elements of personalised social activities and ...