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Understanding, treating, and renaming grandiosedelusions: A qualitative study
(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 ...
The comments of voices on the appearance of patients with psychosis: ‘the voices tell me that I am ugly’
(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
(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 ...
Digitally supported CBT to reduce paranoia and improve reasoning for people with schizophrenia-spectrum psychosis: the SlowMo RCT
(2021-08)
Background: Reasoning may play a causal role in paranoid delusions in psychosis. SlowMo, a new digitally supported cognitive–behavioural therapy, targets reasoning to reduce paranoia.
Objectives: To examine the effectiveness ...
The impact of Patient and Public Involvement in the SlowMo study: Reflections on peer innovation
(2021-09)
Background: The SlowMo study demonstrated the effects of SlowMo, an eight-session digitally supported reasoning intervention, on paranoia in a large-scale randomized-controlled trial with 362 participants with schizophre ...
The service user experience of SlowMo therapy: A co-produced thematic analysis of service users' subjective experience
(2022-04)
Objectives: SlowMo is the first blended digital therapy for paranoia, showing significant small-moderate reductions in paranoia in a recent large-scale randomized controlled trial (RCT). This study explored the subjective ...
Body image concerns in patients with persecutory delusions
(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 ...
Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial of CBT vs antipsychotics vs both in 14–18-year-olds: Managing Adolescent first episode Psychosis: a feasibility study (MAPS)
(2019-07)
Background: Adolescent-onset psychosis is associated with more severe symptoms and poorer outcomes than adult-onset psychosis. The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) recommend that adolescents with first ...
A life more ordinary: A peer research method qualitative study of the Feeling Safe Programme for persecutory delusions
(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 ...
Agoraphobic avoidance in patients with psychosis: Severity and response to automated VR therapy in a secondary analysis of a randomised controlled clinical trial
(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 ...