Interventions: Recent submissions
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Generating comparative evidence on new drugs and devices before approval
(2020-03)Fewer than half of new drugs have data on their comparative benefits and harms against existing treatment options at the time of regulatory approval in Europe and the USA. Even when active-comparator trials exist, they ... -
Exploring UK doctors’ attitudes towards online patient feedback: Thematic analysis of survey data
(2020-03)Introduction Patients are increasingly using online platforms to give feedback about their health-care experiences. Online feedback has been proposed as a way to drive transformative change in the health service through ... -
Long‐term benefits of digital cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia: Follow‐up report from a randomized clinical trial
(2020-02)Digital cognitive behavioural therapy (dCBT) is an effective treatment for chronic insomnia and also improves well‐being and quality of life (QoL). We assessed whether these benefits are sustained and if the effects of ... -
Digital Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia for Adolescents With Mental Health Problems: Feasibility Open Trial
(2020-03)Background: Insomnia in adolescents is common, persistent, and associated with poor mental health including anxiety and depression. Insomnia in adolescents attending child mental health services is seldom directly treated, ... -
Introducing artificial intelligence in acute psychiatric inpatient care: qualitative study of its use to conduct nursing observations.
(2020-02)Background All patients admitted to an acute inpatient mental health unit must have nursing observations carried out at night either hourly or every 15 minutes, to ascertain that they are safe and breathing. However, while ... -
Advance care planning in patients referred to hospital for acute medical care
(2020-02)Advance care planning (ACP) is a voluntary process of discussion about future care between an individual and their care provider. ACP is a key focus of national policy as a means to improve patient centered care at the ... -
The True Colours Remote Symptom Monitoring System: A Decade of Evolution
(2020-01)The True Colours remote mood monitoring system was developed over a decade ago by researchers, psychiatrists, and software engineers at the University of Oxford to allow patients to report on a range of symptoms via text ... -
Sleep duration over 28 years, cognition, gray matter volume, and white matter microstructure: a prospective cohort study
(2020-01)Study Objectives To examine the association between sleep duration trajectories over 28 years and measures of cognition, gray matter volume, and white matter microstructure. We hypothesize that consistently meeting sleep ... -
What is the clinical value of mHealth for patients?
(2020-01)Despite growing interest from both patients and healthcare providers, there is little clinical guidance on how mobile apps should be utilized to add value to patient care. We categorize apps according to their functionality ... -
Whole-brain white matter organization, intelligence, and educational attainment
(2019-03)General cognitive ability, sometimes referred to as intelligence, is associated with educational attainment throughout childhood. Most studies that have explored the neural correlates of intelligence in childhood focus ... -
The effects of an aerobic training intervention on cognition, grey matter volumes and white matter microstructure
(2020-05)While there is strong evidence from observational studies that physical activity is associated with reduced risk of cognitive decline and dementia, the extent to which aerobic training interventions impact on cognitive ... -
The Oxford Cognitive Screen – Plus (OCS-Plus): a tablet based short cognitive screening tool for milder cognitive impairment.
(2020-02)The Oxford Cognitive Screen was developed as a brief screening tool for common post-stroke focal cognitive deficits, including language, memory, attention, praxis, and number-processing impairments. Here, we present the ... -
A Structural Brain Network of Genetic Vulnerability to Psychiatric Illness
(2020-05)Psychiatry is undergoing a paradigm shift from the acceptance of distinct diagnoses to a representation of psychiatric illness that crosses diagnostic boundaries. How this transition is supported by a shared neurobiology ... -
When Helping is Risky: Behavioral and Neurobiological Mechanisms of Prosocial Decisions Entailing Risk.
(2020-03)Helping others can entail risks. Doctors that treat infectious patients may risk their own health, intervening in a fight can lead to injury, and organ donations can lead to medical complications. When helping others comes ... -
Factors associated with the prescribing of high-dose opioids in primary care: a systematic review and meta-analysis
(2020-03)Background The risks of harms from opioids increase substantially at high doses, and high-dose prescribing has increased in primary care. However, little is known about what leads to high-dose prescribing, and studies ... -
Clinicians’ use of and attitudes towards technology to provide and support interventions in child and adolescent mental health services
(2019-12)Background:Technology can increase child and adolescent mental health service (CAMHS) capacity by sup-porting and delivering interventions, yet it has not been widely adopted by CAMHS child mental health professionals. ... -
Effects of a mindfulness-based stress reduction group programme on family carers
(2019-11)Background Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) is an evidence-based intervention that teaches participants skills in reducing stress and managing challenging emotions in a group setting. Mindfulness-based therapies ... -
Online mood monitoring in treatment-resistant depression: qualitative study of patients' perspectives in the NHS
(2020-01)Aims and method True Colours is an automated symptom monitoring programme used by National Health Service psychiatric services. This study explored whether patients with unipolar treatment-resistant depression (TRD) found ... -
Developing a guided imagery intervention in consultation with service users
(2019-12)Guided imagery interventions have a range of applications to affect emotion, thought and behaviour. They may be effectively used by staff with minimal training and are simple and quick to use. Service user involvement ... -
IAPT and the internet: The current and future role of therapist-guided internet interventions within routine care settings
(2020-02)Compared to the traditional face-to-face format, therapist-guided internet interventions offer a different approach to supporting clients in learning skills to manage and overcome mental health difficulties. Such interventions ...