Browsing Conditions, Lifestyle Factors & Interventions by Author "Sheaves, Bryony"
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Adapted CBT to Stabilize Sleep on Psychiatric Wards: a Transdiagnostic Treatment Approach
Sheaves, Bryony; Isham, Louise; Bradley, Jonathan; Barrera, Alvaro; Waite, Felicity; Freeman, Daniel (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 ... -
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Nightmares for Patients with Persecutory Delusions (Nites): An Assessor-Blind, Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial
Sheaves, Bryony; Waite, Felicity; Harrison, Paul J; Freeman, Daniel (2019-05)Objective:Nightmares are relatively common in patients experiencing psychosis but rarely assessed or treated. Nightmares may maintain persecutory delusions by portraying fears in sensory-rich detail. We tested the potential ... -
The effects of improving sleep on mental health (OASIS): a randomised controlled trial with mediation analysis
Freeman, Daniel; Sheaves, Bryony; Goodwin, Guy M (2017-09-06)Summary: Background Sleep difficulties might be a contributory causal factor in the occurrence of mental health problems. If this is true, improving sleep should benefit psychological health. We aimed to determine whether ... -
Excessive sleepiness in patients with psychosis: An initial investigation
Sheaves, Bryony; Freeman, Daniel (2021-01)Clinical experience indicates that excessive sleepiness and hypersomnia may be a common issue for patients with psychosis. Excessive sleepiness is typically ascribed to the sedating effects of antipsychotic medications but ... -
Insomnia as a mediating therapeutic target for depressive symptoms: A sub-analysis of participant data from two large randomized controlled trials of a digital sleep intervention
Freeman, Daniel; Sheaves, Bryony; Saunders, Kate E.A. (2020-06)Insomnia predicts the onset of depression, commonly co-presents with depression and often persists following depression remission. However, these conditions can be challenging to treat concurrently using depression-specific ... -
Preferred treatment outcomes in psychological therapy for voices: a comparison of staff and service-user perspectives
Sheaves, Bryony (2023-07)As access to psychological therapy for voice-hearing continues to increase, it is important to understand what treatment outcomes may be particularly valued by those who coordinate, administer, and engage with such ... -
Sleep Disorders in Early Psychosis: Incidence, Severity, and Association With Clinical Symptoms
Sheaves, Bryony; Freeman, Daniel (2018-09-08)Sleep disturbance is known to be associated with psychosis, but sleep disorders (eg. insomnia, nightmare disorder, sleep apnea) have rarely been investigated. We aimed to provide the first detailed assessment of sleep ... -
Sleep disruption in adolescent inpatients: prevalence, associations with clinical outcomes, and clinician perspectives
Bird, Jessica C.; Salkovskis, Paul; James, Anthony; Stratford, Hannah J.; Sheaves, Bryony (2023-10)Sleep problems are common for adolescents with psychiatric disorders, and sleep treatment may aid mental health recovery. Inpatient admissions are likely a particularly challenging time for sleep. Despite this little is ... -
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 ... -
Understanding, treating, and renaming grandiosedelusions: A qualitative study
Isham, Louise; Sheaves, Bryony; Freeman, Daniel (2019-11)Background.Grandiose delusions are arguably the most neglected psychotic experience in research. Objectives.We aimed to discover from patients: whether grandiose delusions have harmful consequences; the psychological ... -
Why do patients with psychosis listen to and believe derogatory and threatening voices? 2 21 reasons given by patients
Sheaves, Bryony; Johns, Louise; Isham, Louise; Freeman, Daniel (2020-05)Background: Around two thirds of patients with auditory hallucinations experience derogatory 37 and threatening voices (DTVs). Understandably, when these voices are believed then common 38 consequences can be depression, ...