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Effects of patient suicide on psychiatrists: survey of experiences and support required
(2019-03)
Aims and method Death of patients by suicide can have powerful effects on
psychiatrists. We report the findings of a survey completed by 174 psychiatrists on
the effects of patient suicide on their emotional well-being ...
Characteristics of people with pressure ulcers using one year's routinely collected data in a defined diverse community
(2019-09)
Objective:To determine if meaningful patient characteristics pertaining to pressure ulcers (PU) can be derived from routinely collected community health data.
Methods: A retrospective cohort analysis of records was carried ...
Imagery-Based Cognitive Therapy for Bipolar Disorder and Mood Instability
(Guilford Press, 2019)
People with bipolar disorder are particularly vulnerable to anxiety and intrusive mental imagery, which can contribute to mood swings and a heightened risk for relapse. This book presents a novel brief treatment that focuses ...
Predicting motor, cognitive & functional impairment in Parkinson’s
(2019-07)
Objective: We recently demonstrated that 998 features derived from a simple 7-minute smartphone test could distinguish between controls, people with Parkinson’s and people with idiopathic Rapid Eye Movement sleep behavior ...
New Approaches in Hypertension Management: a Review of Current and Developing Technologies and Their Potential Impact on Hypertension Care
(2019-06)
Hypertension is a key risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Currently, around a third of people with hypertension are undiagnosed, and of those diagnosed, around half are not taking antihypertensive medications. The World ...
Development of an app for lung cancer survivors (iEXHALE) to increase exercise activity and improve symptoms of fatigue, breathlessness and depression
(2019-11)
Objective
Exercise‐based self‐management interventions are recommended for lung cancer survivors and can provide physical, psychosocial and emotional relief. Mobile health technologies can encourage self‐management; ...
Internet-Based Cognitive Therapy for Social Anxiety Disorder in Hong Kong: Therapist Training and Dissemination Case Series
(2019-02)
Background: Guided internet-based psychological interventions show substantial promise for expanding access to evidence-based mental health care. However, this can only be achieved if results of tightly controlled studies ...
Variation in recognition of happy and sad facial expressions and self-reported depressive symptom severity: A prospective cohort study
(2019-06)
Objective:Cognitive theories suggest people with depression interpret self-referential social information negatively. However, it is unclear whether these biases precede or follow depression. We investigated whether facial ...
Appraisal Biases About Strangers in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
(2019-02)
Cognitive theories of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) suggest that negative appraisals play an important role in the development and maintenance of PTSD. It has not yet been examined experimentally how people with ...
Violent outcomes in first-episode psychosis: A clinical cohort study
(2019-11)
Aim
Violence risk is an important part of a comprehensive clinical assessment in first‐episode psychosis. This study addresses limitations of previous violent outcome research in first‐episode psychosis, which has typically ...