Mental health and behavioural conditions

Mixed methods implementation research of cognitive stimulation therapy (CST) for dementia in low and middle-income countries: study protocol for Brazil, India and Tanzania (CST-International)

Orrell, Martin (2019)

INTRODUCTION: In low/middle-income countries (LMICs), the prevalence of people diagnosed with dementia is expected to increase substantially and treatment options are limited, with acetylcholinesterase inhibitors not used ...

The core deficit of classical schizophrenia: Implications for predicting the functional outcome of psychotic illness and developing effective treatments

Liddle, Peter F. (2019)

Many people suffering from psychotic illnesses experience persisting impairment of occupational and social function. Evidence assembled since the classical description of schizophrenia over a century ago indicates that ...

Process evaluation of a randomised controlled trial of PBS-based staff training for challenging behaviour in adults with intellectual disability

Bosco, Alessandro (2019)

BACKGROUND: Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) for challenging behaviour is a complex intervention. Process evaluation is pivotal in fully understanding the mechanisms and contextual factors that impact on participant outcomes. ...

Applying a new concept of embedding qualitative research: an example from a quantitative study of carers of people with later stage dementia

Challis, David (2019)

BACKGROUND: Qualitative methods are increasingly included in larger studies to provide a richer understanding of people's experience. This paper explores the potential of using a novel approach to embedded qualitative ...

Comorbid depression and risk of cardiac events and cardiac mortality in people with diabetes: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Morriss, Richard K. (2019)

OBJECTIVETo examine the association of comorbid occurrence of diabetes and depression with risk of cardiovascular endpoints including cardiovascular mortality, coronary heart disease and stroke.RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODSA ...

The case for employing an occupational therapist within a fire and rescue service

Addy, Sarah (2019)

This is a poster from the Royal College of Occupational Therapists 43rd Annual Conference and Exhibition, 17-18 June 2019, Birmingham United Kingdom.

Conceptual framework for personal recovery in mental health among children and adolescents: a systematic review and narrative synthesis protocol

Slade, Mike; Manley, David S. (2019)

Introduction Personal recovery has been defined as ‘a profound personal and unique process for the individual to change their attitudes, values, feelings, goals, abilities and roles in order to achieve a satisfactory, ...

Dementia and hearing loss: A narrative review

Ray, Manisha; Dening, Tom (2019)

Dementia and hearing loss are both common among older people. The co-occurrence of the two conditions increases complexities in all aspects of an individual's care and management plan. There has been increasing research ...

Prison vs. hospital for offenders with psychosis; effects on reoffending

Huband, Nick; Haque, Quasi; Duggan, Conor (2019)

With research showing a high prevalence of psychosis in prisons, its effective management is essential for clinical and criminal outcomes. In a matched sample of released prisoners and discharged patients with psychosis ...

Relational fragility, development and an emerging self: service user views of engaging in an IIRMS in the OPD pathway

Gordon, Frances; Gordon, Neil (2019)

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to gain an in-depth view into how participants perceived their experience of engaging in an enhanced Intensive Intervention and Risk Management Service (IIRMS), which is a part of the ...

Personality disorders and offending

Howard, Richard C. (2019)

Personality disorders are typified by relatively enduring, inflexible, and pervasive disturbances in how individuals experience and interpret themselves, others, and the world around them. The field of personality disorders ...

New developments in interventions for working with offending behavior

Jones, Lawrence F. (2019)

This chapter discusses some criteria for justifying innovation practice. The criteria are based on common sense, experience, and pragmatism. In effect, they acknowledge that innovation is, implicitly, an active choice not ...

CAMHS self-harm teams and crisis/liaison teams; What CAMH nurses bring to the acute moments in young people's lives

Armstrong, Marie (2019)

This chapter focuses on one of the places where young people who self-harm are in contact with services, the general hospital. This includes their experience in the Emergency Department and on hospital wards-usually ...

Associations of childhood trauma and childhood mental disorder with past-year mental disorder in military and civilian employed men

Sheriff, Rebecca S. (2019)

Childhood factors are pivotal to understanding mental health over the lifespan. However, there is a dearth of research exploring childhood trauma and childhood disorder simultaneously in determining adult mental disorder. ...

eHealth interventions to support caregivers of people with dementia may be proven effective, but are they implementation-ready?

Martin, Jennifer L.; Orrell, Martin (2019)

Objectives: A variety of health services delivered via the Internet, or "eHealth interventions," to support caregivers of people with dementia have shown evidence of effectiveness, but only a small number are put into ...

The terminology of identities between, outside and beyond the gender binary - a systematic review

Thorne, Nat; Bouman, Walter P.; Marshall, Ellen; Arcelus, Jon (2019)

Background: Recently, a multitude of terms have emerged, especially within North America and Western Europe, which describe identities that are not experienced within the culturally accepted binary structure of gender which ...

A feasibility study of the effects of implementing a staff-level recovery-oriented training intervention in older people's mental health services

Slade, Mike (2019)

Objectives: The concept of recovery has exerted considerable traction in mental health services for adults of working age, but less so in older people’s mental health services. The aim of this study was to evaluate the ...