Browsing Schizophrenia and Psychotic Disorders by Author "Waite, Felicity"
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The psychological journey of weight gain in psychosis
Waite, Felicity; Langman-Levy, Amy; Mulhall, Sophie; Lennox, Belinda; Freeman, Daniel (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 ... -
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 ... -
Testing the combination of Feeling Safe and peer counselling against formulation-based cognitive behaviour therapy to promote psychological wellbeing in people with persecutory delusions: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial (the Feeling Safe-NL Trial)
Waite, Felicity; Freeman, Daniel; Isham, Louise (2023-10)Persecutory delusions are strong threat beliefs about others’ negative intentions. They can have a major impact on patients’ day-to-day life. The Feeling Safe Programme is a new translational cognitive-behaviour therapy ... -
Virtual reality clinical-experimental tests of compassion treatment techniques to reduce paranoia
Waite, Felicity; Rovira, Aitor; Freeman, Daniel (2020-05)Paranoia may build on negative beliefs held both about the self and others. Compassionate imagery may be one way of reducing such negative beliefs, and hence paranoia. Two studies tested this idea, one targeting compassion ... -
The weeks before 100 persecutory delusions: the presence of many potential contributory causal factors
Freeman, Daniel; Diamond, Rowan; Bird, Jessica C.; Cernis, Emma; Collett, Nicola; Isham, Louise; Lister, Rachel; Waite, Felicity (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
Waite, Felicity (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 ...