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10 minutes with Kelly Garside, Team Manager, Community Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, Oxford Health Foundation Trust
(2020-07)Kelly Garside is a registered mental health nurse who graduated with Distinction in a Higher Diploma in Mental Health Nursing in 1997 and obtained her BSc (Hons) in 1998, both at Buckinghamshire University (Brunel). She ... -
112 New rapid access urology clinic
(2019-11)Rapid access urology clinics had been trialled elsewhere in the country with variable success. ED, urology consultants and registrars, and senior nurses (i.e. the stakeholders who would be directly impacted by this ... -
25 On being autoimmune in psychiatric places: 10 characteristic mental state features in patients with definite NMDAR-antibody encephalitis
(2019-05)Objectives/Aims: NMDAR-antibody encephalitis frequently presents with psychiatric symptoms. However, new-onset mental illness does not usually receive detailed biomedical investigations. Yet, early diagnosis and treatment ... -
3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA)-assisted psychotherapy for post-traumatic stress disorder in service personnel
(2018-06)Comment: This current study describes the therapeutic use of MDMA by committed experts in a specialised setting in a small group of participants, most of whom self-referred for the trial. The unmet need for better PTSD ... -
369 A systematic review to identify and assess the mental health sequalae amongst women with endometriosis with or without chronic pelvic pain (THE ELEMI PROJECT)
(2020-12)Introduction/Background: Endometriosis is a complex, chronic gynaecological condition impacting approximately 176 million women globally. It is associated with symptoms such as chronic pelvic pain (CPP), dysmenorrhoea, ... -
51 Doctor(noun, latin), to teach; transforming a working week into a teaching week
(2018)One of the prerequisites to successfully complete Core Medical Training in the UK is to acquire the Membership of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP) title by passing the Practical Assessment of Clinical Examination ... -
7 Virtual reality (VR) for the treatment of mental health disorders
(2020-07)Mental health disorders are very common, but far too few people receive the best treatments. Much greater access to the best psychological treatments may be achieved using automated delivery in virtual reality (VR). With ... -
Absconding: reducing failure to return in adult mental health wards
(2016-11)Failing to return from leave from acute psychiatric wards can have a range of negative consequences for patients, relatives and staff. This study used quality improvement methodology to improve the processes around patient ... -
Absent sleep EEG spindle activity in GluA1 (Gria1) knockout mice: relevance to neuropsychiatric disorders
(2018-08)Sleep EEG spindles have been implicated in attention, sensory processing, synaptic plasticity and memory consolidation. In humans, deficits in sleep spindles have been reported in a wide range of neurological and psychiatric ... -
Abstract thinking as a risk factor for the development of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms in student paramedics
(2021-10)Abstract cognitive processing is characterized by “why?” and “what if?” questions and associated with processes such as rumination and worry. The tendency to think abstractly in response to stress has not been examined as ... -
The Acceptability of a Smartphone App (BlueIce) for University Students Who Self-harm
(2022-01)University students are twice as likely to self-harm than community controls but, unfortunately, help-seeking among this population is particularly low. Given the stigma around self-harm, the face-to-face nature of traditional ... -
Accuracy of individual and combined risk-scale items in the prediction of repetition of self-harm: multicentre prospective cohort study
(2020-12)Background Individuals attending emergency departments following self-harm have increased risks of future self-harm. Despite the common use of risk scales in self-harm assessment, there is growing evidence that combinations ... -
Accuracy of risk scales for predicting repeat self-harm and suicide: a multicentre, population-level cohort study using routine clinical data
(2018-04-25)Background: Risk scales are used widely in the management of patients presenting to hospital following self-harm. However, there is evidence that their diagnostic accuracy in predicting repeat self-harm is limited. Their ... -
Accurate expression quantification from nanopore direct RNA sequencing with NanoCount
(2021-11)Accurately quantifying gene and isoform expression changes is essential to understanding cell functions, differentiation and disease. Sequencing full-length native RNAs using long-read direct RNA sequencing (DRS) has the ... -
Actigraphic patterns, impulsivity and moodinstability in bipolar disorder, borderlinepersonality disorder and healthy controls.
(2020-01)Objectives:To differentiate the relation between the structure and timing of rest-activity patterns and symptoms of impulsivity and mood instability in bipolar disorder (BD), borderline personality disorder(BPD) and healthy ... -
Active Support and “meaningful activity.” What is the meaning of “meaningful”?
(2021-09)Active Support is an approach that aims to engage people in meaningful activities. It is one of the best evidenced models of support for adults with learning disabilities (Mansell and Beadle-Brown, 2012). Adults using ... -
Acute mental health nurses’ experience of forcibly touching service users during physical restraint
(2020-10)Mental health nurses use forcible touch during physical restraint. Little research considers nurses’ experiences and the meanings they give to forcible touch. This study investigated nurses’ lived experiences of forcibly ... -
Adapted CBT to Stabilize Sleep on Psychiatric Wards: a Transdiagnostic Treatment Approach
(2018-04-04)Background: Almost all patients admitted at acute crisis to a psychiatric ward experience clinically significant symptoms of insomnia. Ward environments pose challenges to both sleep and the delivery of therapy. Despite ... -
Adapting cognitive behavioural therapy for adolescents with psychosis: insights from the Managing Adolescent first episode in psychosis study (MAPS)
(2022-01)Background: Onset of psychosis commonly occurs in adolescence, and long-term prognosis can be poor. There is growing evidence, largely from adult cohorts, that Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Psychosis (CBTp) and ... -
Adding value, reducing research waste, the role of the NHS research and development management community
(2018-02-23)Purpose – Research suggests that 85 per cent of health research is avoidably wasted. The research and development management community has an important role in the research process and can contribute to improving the ...
