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Sleep in the time of COVID-19: findings from 17000 school-aged children and adolescents in the UK during the first national lockdown
(2022-01)
Sleep is essential to young people’s wellbeing, yet may be constricted by the adolescent delayed sleep phase coupled with school start times. COVID-19 restrictions caused major disruptions to everyday routines, including ...
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
(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
(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 ...
Appraisal of patient-level health economic models of severe mental illness: systematic review
(2021-08)
Healthcare decision makers require accurate long-term economic models to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of new mental health interventions.
Aims
To assess the suitability of current patient-level economic models to ...
The psychological journey of weight gain in psychosis
(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 ...
The journey of adolescent paranoia: A qualitative study with patients attending child and adolescent mental health services
(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 ...
Understanding agoraphobic avoidance: the development of the Oxford Cognitions and Defences Questionnaire (O-CDQ)
(2022-02)
Many patients with mental health disorders become increasingly isolated at home due to anxiety about going outside. A cognitive perspective on this difficulty is that threat cognitions lead to the safety-seeking behavioural ...
“It seems impossible that it’s been made so quickly”: a qualitative investigation of concerns about the speed of COVID-19 vaccine development and how these may be overcome
(2022-02)
The speed of COVID-19 vaccine development has been identified as a central concern contributing to
hesitancy in acceptance. We conducted qualitative interviews to gain a greater understanding into these
concerns and to ...
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 ...
Development and initial evaluation of a behavioural intervention to support weight management for people with serious mental illness: an uncontrolled feasibility and acceptability study
(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 ...