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The prognostic value of national early warning scores (NEWS) during transfer of care from community settings to hospital: a retrospective service evaluation
(2020-06)Background The National Early Warning Score (NEWS) calculated from physiological observations provides a simple away to identify and respond to the deteriorating patient. There is increasing interest in the application of ... -
Prolonged Grief and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Following the Loss of a Significant Other: An Investigation of Cognitive and Behavioural Differences
(2020-01)Cognitive behavioural correlates to bereavement-related mental health problems such a Prolonged Grief Disorder (PGD) and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) are of theoretical and clinical importance. Methods:Individuals ... -
Promoting inclusivity by ensuring that all patients with mental health issues are offered research opportunities in the NHS
(2022-01)Research-active clinical services have lower mortality rates and produce higher quality care outcomes, however, recruiting participants to clinical research in the National Health System (NHS) remains challenging.1 A recent ... -
Promoting resilience in healthcare students through psychological interventions
(2022-06)Given the impact of well-known chronic stressors on health and social care students, the concept of resilience has gained importance in the field of health professional education. Many interventions have been tested that ... -
Promoting safety in the home during the pandemic and beyond
(2021-03)With families home schooling their children, caring for young babies and managing housework during lockdown, it is important for health visitors to promote home safety advice to help prevent unintentional accidents and injuries -
Promoting the sexual health of people living with severe mental illness
(2020-08)Sexual health is an important part of an individual’s overall health profile. However, for people with a severe mental illness (SMI), maintaining optimal sexual health can be a challenge. Mental health nurses have an ... -
Prospective task knowledge improves working memory-guided behaviour
(2019-07)Working memory (WM) is the ability to keep information online for a forthcoming task. WM theories have tended to focus on how sensory information is maintained, and less on how WM content is used for guiding behaviour. ... -
Protocol for a scoping review exploring the use of patient-reported outcomes in adult social care
(2021-04)Introduction Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) are measures of a person’s own views of their health, functioning and quality of life. They are typically assessed using validated, self-completed questionnaires known as ... -
Protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis of coordinate-based network mapping of brain structure in bipolar disorder across the lifespan
(2023-10)Background: Studies about brain structure in bipolar disorder have reported conflicting findings. These findings may be explained by the high degree of heterogeneity within bipolar disorder, especially if structural ... -
Protocol for a systematic review of the pharmacological augmentation treatment guidelines for unipolar depression
(2019-11)Objectives: To provide a comprehensive overview of recommendations made by local, national and international bodies for the prescription of pharmacological augmentation therapies for TRD, to identify consistencies ... -
Psychiatric comorbidity and risk of premature mortality and suicide among those with chronic respiratory diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and diabetes in Sweden: A nationwide matched cohort study of over 1 million patients and their unaffected siblings
(2022-01)Persons with noncommunicable diseases have elevated rates of premature mortality. The contribution of psychiatric comorbidity to this is uncertain. We aimed to determine the risks of premature mortality and suicide in ... -
Psychiatric disorders, substance use, and executive functioning in older probationers
(2018-11)Although the number of older people serving community sentences (probation) after conviction for a criminal offence in England and Wales has increased rapidly since about 2006, this population has received little research ... -
The psychiatry virtual-on-call experience: Can it improve confidence of foundation and GP trainees with out-of-hours work in psychiatry?
(2021-06)Out-of-hours (‘on-call’) work can be perceived by junior doctors to be a daunting experience, associated with feeling unprepared and less supported. Simulated on-call programmes have been used to great effect in medicine ... -
Psycho-spiritual Care in Health Care Practice
(Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2017)Meeting the psychological and spiritual needs of patients is vital to supporting their wellbeing in health care settings. To develop an effective, holistic and inclusive approach to care within predominantly medical health ... -
Psychologic Treatment of Depression Compared With Pharmacotherapy and Combined Treatment in Primary Care: A Network Meta-Analysis
(2021-05)PURPOSE Most patients with depression are treated by general practitioners, and most of those patients prefer psychotherapy over pharmacotherapy. No network meta-analyses have examined the effects of psychotherapy compared ... -
Psychological framework to understand interpersonal violence by forensic patients with psychosis
(2023-10)Forensic patients with psychosis often engage in violent behaviour. There has been significant progress in understanding risk factors for violence, but identification of causal mechanisms of violence is limited. Aims To ... -
Psychological intervention, antipsychotic medication or a combined treatment for adolescents with a first episode of psychosis: the MAPS feasibility three-arm RCT
(2021-01)Background: When psychosis emerges in young people there is a risk of poorer outcomes, and access to evidence-based treatments is paramount. The current evidence base is limited. Antipsychotic medications show only a small ... -
The psychological journey of weight gain in psychosis
(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 ... -
Psychological mechanisms connected to dissociation: Generating hypotheses using network analyses
(2022-02)A large number of mechanisms, many relating to the processing of affect, have been proposed to cause dissociation. The aim of this study was to use network analyses to identify psychological processes most closely connected ... -
Psychological processes mediating the association between developmental trauma and specific psychotic symptoms in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis
(2021-02)Experiencing psychological trauma during childhood and/or adolescence is associated with an increased risk of psychosis in adulthood. However, we lack a clear knowledge of how developmental trauma induces vulnerability to ...