Browsing Schizophrenia and Psychotic Disorders by Author "Waite, Felicity"
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Agoraphobic avoidance in patients with psychosis: Severity and response to automated VR therapy in a secondary analysis of a randomised controlled clinical trial
Freeman, Daniel; Waite, Felicity; Lambe, Sinead (2022-11)Background: The social withdrawal of many patients with psychosis can be conceptualised as agoraphobic avoidance due to a range of long-standing fears. We hypothesised that greater severity of agoraphobic avoidance is ... -
Anticipatory Pleasure in Current Psychosis: Cognitive and Emotional Correlates
Rosebrock, Laina; Waite, Felicity; Diamond, Rowan; Collett, Nicola; Bold, Emily; Chadwick, Eleanor; Teale, Ashley-Louise (2020-12)Anticipation of pleasure – a key aspect of hedonic experience - is a motivating factor for engaging in activities. Low levels of anticipatory pleasure and activity are found in individuals with psychosis. Cognitive factors ... -
Automated psychological therapy using virtual reality (VR) for patients with persecutory delusions: study protocol for a single-blind parallel-group randomised controlled trial (THRIVE)
Freeman, Daniel; Lister, Rachel; Waite, Felicity (2019-01)Persecutory delusions are a major psychiatric problem and are associated with a wide range of adverse outcomes. Our theoretical model views these delusions as unfounded threat beliefs which persist due to defence behaviours ... -
Automated virtual reality (VR) cognitive therapy for patients with psychosis: study protocol for a single-blind parallel group randomised controlled trial (gameChange).
Freeman, Daniel; Lambe, Sinead; Rovira, Aitor; Goodsell, Andrew; Rosebrock, Laina; Geddes, John R; Clark, David M; Waite, Felicity (2019-08)Introduction Many patients with psychosis experience everyday social situations as anxiety-provoking. The fears can arise, for example, from paranoia, hallucinations, social anxiety or negative-self beliefs. The fears lead ... -
Automated virtual reality therapy to treat agoraphobic avoidance and distress in patients with psychosis (gameChange): a multicentre, parallel-group, single-blind, randomised, controlled trial in England with mediation and moderation analyses
Freeman, Daniel; Lambe, Sinead; Rosebrock, Laina; Rovira, Aitor; Clark, David M; Waite, Felicity (2022-04)Automated delivery of psychological therapy using immersive technologies such as virtual reality (VR) might greatly increase the availability of effective help for patients. We aimed to evaluate the efficacy of an automated ... -
Body image concerns in patients with persecutory delusions
Waite, Felicity; Diamond, Rowan; Collett, Nicola; Freeman, Daniel (2022-04)Background: Persecutory fears build on feelings of vulnerability that arise from negative views of the self. Body image concerns have the potential to be a powerful driver of feelings of vulnerability. Body image concerns ... -
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 comments of voices on the appearance of patients with psychosis: ‘the voices tell me that I am ugly’
Waite, Felicity; Diamond, Rowan; Collett, Nicola; Teale, Ashley-Louise; Bird, Jessica C.; Cernis, Emma; Isham, Louise; Freeman, Daniel (2019-09)Background:There are high rates of obesity and low self-esteem in patients with psychosis. The occurrence of negative voice content directly about appearance is therefore plausible. Derogatory comments about appearance are ... -
A compassionate imagery intervention for patients with persecutory delusions
Forkert, Ava; Freeman, Daniel; Waite, Felicity (2021-06)Negative beliefs about the self, including low self-compassion, have been identified as a putative causal factor in the occurrence of paranoia. Therefore, improving self-compassion may be one route to reduce paranoia. Aims: To ... -
Developing an automated VR cognitive treatment for psychosis: gameChange VR therapy
Lambe, Sinead; Lister, Rachel; Rosebrock, Laina; Rovira, Aitor; Clark, David M; Freeman, Daniel; Waite, Felicity (2020-04)The automated delivery of psychological treatment using virtual reality (VR) has the potential to revolutionise patient access to evidence-based care. VR creates immersive, interactive computer simulations, which elicit ... -
Development and initial evaluation of a behavioural intervention to support weight management for people with serious mental illness: an uncontrolled feasibility and acceptability study
Waite, Felicity (2023-03)The rates of obesity and associated health problems are higher in people with serious mental illness (SMI), such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, than the general population. A primary care referral to a behavioural ... -
Estimating the Economic Value of Automated Virtual Reality Cognitive Therapy for Treating Agoraphobic Avoidance in Patients With Psychosis: Findings From the gameChange Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial
Freeman, Daniel; Rosebrock, Laina; Lambe, Sinead; Waite, Felicity (2022-11)Background: An automated virtual reality cognitive therapy (gameChange) has demonstrated its effectiveness to treat agoraphobia in patients with psychosis, especially for high or severe anxious avoidance. Its economic ... -
The Experience of Sleep Problems and Their Treatment in Young People at Ultra-High Risk of Psychosis: A Thematic Analysis
Waite, Felicity; Bradley, Jonathan; Bird, Jessica C.; Freeman, Daniel (2018-08)We view sleep disruption as a contributory causal factor in the development of psychotic experiences. Clinical trials indicate that psychological interventions targeting insomnia result in improvements in both sleep and ... -
Identifying effective characteristics of behavioral weight management interventions for people with serious mental illness: A systematic review with a qualitative comparative analysis
Waite, Felicity (2021-10)People with serious mental illness (SMI) have identified barriers to engaging in behavioral weight management interventions (BWMIs). We assessed whether BWMIs that addressed these barriers were more effective. First, we ... -
Identifying individuals at risk of developing psychosis: A systematic review of the literature in primary care services
Waite, Felicity; Radez, Jerica; Izon, Emma; Johns, Louise (2023-01)Psychosis and related disorders are a major public health issue. Early identification and prevention for those at high risk (at-risk-mental-state, ARMS) is important. General practitioners (GPs) are often the first point ... -
The journey of adolescent paranoia: A qualitative study with patients attending child and adolescent mental health services
Bird, Jessica C.; Freeman, Daniel; Waite, Felicity (2022-02)Objectives: Paranoia is most likely to emerge in adolescence. In adolescents with mental health disorders, the disruptive effect of paranoia on social relationships could worsen outcomes. However, little is known about ... -
A life more ordinary: A peer research method qualitative study of the Feeling Safe Programme for persecutory delusions
Freeman, Daniel; Waite, Felicity (2022-07)Background: The Feeling Safe Programme is a cognitive therapy developed to improve outcomes for individuals with persecutory delusions. It is theoretically driven, modular and personalised, with differences in ... -
Paranoia in patients attending child and adolescent mental health services
Bird, Jessica C.; Fergusson, Emma C.; Shearn, Christina; Teale, Ashley-Louise; Stratford, Hannah J.; James, Anthony; Waite, Felicity; Freeman, Daniel (2021-01)OBJECTIVE: Paranoia may be particularly prevalent during adolescence, building on the heightened social vulnerabilities at this age. Excessive mistrust may be corrosive for adolescent social relationships, especially in ... -
Parenting behaviour and paranoia: a network analysis and results from the National Comorbidity Survey-Adolescents (NCS-A)
Waite, Felicity; Freeman, Daniel (2020-08)Method We examined cross-sectional associations of parenting and paranoia in an epidemiologically representative cohort of 10,148 adolescents (National Comorbidity Survey-Adolescents; NCS-A) and a second dataset of 1286 ... -
Participatory design to create a VR therapy for psychosis
Lambe, Sinead; Waite, Felicity; Freeman, Daniel (2021-02)This paper describes how participatory design was employed in the design of an automated Virtual Reality (VR) psychological therapy (gameChange), putting people with lived experience of psychosis at the heart of the process. ...