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Open AccessStudy protocol for an adaptive, multi-arm, multi-stage (MAMS) randomised controlled trial of brief remotely delivered psychosocial interventions for people with serious mental health problems who have experienced a recent suicidal crisis: Remote Approaches to Psychosocial Intervention Delivery (RAPID)
People with serious mental health problems (SMHP) are more likely to be admitted to psychiatric hospital following contact with crisis services. Admissions can have significant personal costs, be traumatic and...
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Open AccessTrajectories of Loneliness During Adolescence Predict Subsequent Symptoms of Depression and Positive Wellbeing
There is a need to identify the outcomes of changes in loneliness during adolescence, and to consider this within a multidimensional framework of loneliness. This study considered the effects of different traj...
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Open AccessA sco** review examining patient experience and what matters to people experiencing homelessness when seeking healthcare
Homelessness is associated with significant health disparities. Conventional health services often fail to address the unique needs and lived experience of homeless individuals and fail to include participator...
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Open AccessA crisis planning and monitoring intervention to reduce compulsory hospital readmissions (FINCH study): protocol for a randomised controlled feasibility study
Rates of compulsory (also known as involuntary) detention under mental health legislation have been rising over several decades in countries including England. Avoiding such detentions should be a high priorit...
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African Immigrant Health: The Health Promotion Beliefs of Zimbabwean Immigrants in the United States
To examine the health beliefs that can influence engagement in cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk reduction health promotion activities among Zimbabwe-born immigrants in the US. Focus group interviews with 37 N...
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Open AccessCrisis-focused Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for psychosis (CBTp) in acute mental health inpatient settings (the CRISIS study): protocol for a pilot randomised controlled trial
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for psychosis (CBTp) has an established evidence base and is recommended by clinical guidelines to be offered during the acute phases of psychosis. However, few research studies h...
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Open AccessInvisible experts: a systematic review & thematic synthesis of informal carer experiences of inpatient mental health care
The negative impact of caregiving on carers’ physical and psychological wellbeing is well documented. Carers of mental health inpatients have particularly negative experiences and largely report being dissatis...
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Open AccessReciprocal Relationships between Trajectories of Loneliness and Screen Media Use during Adolescence
Adolescence is the peak period for loneliness. Now a ubiquitous part of the adolescent landscape, electronic screens may provide avenues for ameliorating feelings of loneliness. Conversely, they may act as ris...
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Open AccessChromosomally unstable tumor cells specifically require KIF18A for proliferation
Chromosomal instability (CIN) is a hallmark of tumor cells caused by changes in the dynamics and control of microtubules that compromise the mitotic spindle. Thus, CIN cells may respond differently than diploi...
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Open AccessA mixed methods randomised control trial to evaluate the effectiveness of the journey to social inclusion – phase 2 intervention for chronically homeless adults: study protocol
Chronic homelessness is a problem characterised by longstanding inability to attain or maintain secure accommodation. Longitudinal research with homeless populations is challenging, and randomised controlled t...
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Open AccessReciprocal Relationships between Trajectories of Depressive Symptoms and Screen Media Use during Adolescence
Adolescents are constantly connected with each other and the digital landscape through a myriad of screen media devices. Unprecedented access to the wider world and hence a variety of activities, particularly ...
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Open AccessA latent growth curve model to estimate electronic screen use patterns amongst adolescents aged 10 to 17 years
High quality, longitudinal data describing young people’s screen use across a number of distinct forms of screen activity is missing from the literature. This study tracked multiple screen use activities (pass...
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Open AccessDevelopment of the Adolescent Preoccupation with Screens Scale
Although public health concerns have been raised regarding the detrimental health effects of increasing rates of electronic screen use among adolescents, such effects have been small. Instruments currently ava...
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Erratum to: Exploration of the Effectiveness and Acceptability of a Professional Mindfulness Retreat for Psychiatrists
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Open AccessThe association between dog walking, physical activity and owner’s perceptions of safety: cross-sectional evidence from the US and Australia
We examined the relationship between dog walking and physical activity within and between four US cities and Australia and investigated if dog walking is associated with higher perceived safety in US and Austr...
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Exploration of the Effectiveness and Acceptability of a Professional Mindfulness Retreat for Psychiatrists
Mindfulness has a growing evidence base demonstrating its efficacy for mental health patients; however, less is known about its usefulness for psychiatric staff. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness ...
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Open Dialogue and its Relevance to the NHS: Opinions of NHS Staff and Service Users
Open Dialogue is a model of mental health services that originated in Finland and has since, been taken up in trial teams worldwide. As this is a relatively unknown approach in the UK, it is important to tenta...
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Mindfulness in Clinician Therapeutic Relationships
Mindfulness is increasingly becoming acknowledged as an effective therapeutic mechanism. However, the level of the clinician’s mindfulness and its impact on the therapeutic alliance have been minimally explore...
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Open AccessVirtually impossible: limiting Australian children and adolescents daily screen based media use
Paediatric recommendations to limit children’s and adolescents’ screen based media use (SBMU) to less than two hours per day appear to have gone unheeded. Given the associated adverse physical and mental healt...
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Preliminary differences in peripheral immune markers and brain metabolites between fatigued and non-fatigued breast cancer survivors: a pilot study
Persistent cancer-related fatigue (PCRF) is one of the most troubling side-effects of breast cancer (BC) treatment. One explanatory model for PCRF is sickness behavior, which is a set of adaptive responses inc...
