Exploring the nuances of cooperation in public health – a critical reflection of default policies and reputation effects: a reply to 'Nurturing, nudging and navigating the increasingly precarious nature of cooperation in public health: The cases of vaccination and organ donation' by Larson and Toledo
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Ferguson, E., & Mills, R. (2023). Exploring the nuances of cooperation in public health – a critical reflection of default policies and reputation effects: a reply to 'Nurturing, nudging and navigating the increasingly precarious nature of cooperation in public health: The cases of vaccination and organ donation' by Larson and Toledo. Global Discourse: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Current Affairs and Applied Contemporary Thought, 13(3-4), https://doi.org/10.1332/20437897Y2023D000000008
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Warming up cool cooperators (2023)
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Ferguson, E., Lawrence, C., Bowen, S., Gemelli, C. N., Rozsa, A., Niekrasz, K., …Davison, T. E. (2023). Warming up cool cooperators. Nature Human Behaviour, 7, 1917-1932. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-023-01687-6Explaining why someone repeats high-cost cooperation towards non-reciprocating strangers is difficult. Warm-glow offers an explanation. We argue that warm-glow, as a mechanism to sustain long-term cooperation, cools off over time but can be warmed up... Read More about Warming up cool cooperators.
Incorporating heterogeneity in farmer disease control behaviour into a livestock disease transmission model (2023)
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Hill, E., Prosser, N., Brown, P., Ferguson, E., Green, M., Kaler, J., …Tildesley, M. (2023). Incorporating heterogeneity in farmer disease control behaviour into a livestock disease transmission model. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 219, Article 106019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.prevetmed.2023.106019Human behaviour is critical to effective responses to livestock disease outbreaks, especially with respect to vaccination uptake. Traditionally, mathematical models used to inform this behaviour have not taken heterogeneity in farmer behaviour into a... Read More about Incorporating heterogeneity in farmer disease control behaviour into a livestock disease transmission model.
Heading Frequency and Risk of Cognitive Impairment in Retired Male Professional Soccer Players (2023)
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Espahbodi, S., Hogervorst, E., Macnab, T. P., Thanoon, A., Fernandes, G. S., Millar, B., …Zhang, W. (2023). Heading Frequency and Risk of Cognitive Impairment in Retired Male Professional Soccer Players. JAMA Network Open, 6(7), Article e2323822. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.23822Importance Although professional soccer players appear to be at higher risk of neurodegenerative disease, the reason remains unknown.
Objective To examine whether heading frequency is associated with risk of cognitive impairment in retired profe... Read More about Heading Frequency and Risk of Cognitive Impairment in Retired Male Professional Soccer Players.
Cognitive Impairment and Self-Reported Dementia in UK Retired Professional Soccer Players: A Cross Sectional Comparative Study (2023)
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Macnab, T. P., Espahbodi, S., Hogervorst, E., Thanoon, A., Fernandes, G. S., Millar, B., …Zhang, W. (2023). Cognitive Impairment and Self-Reported Dementia in UK Retired Professional Soccer Players: A Cross Sectional Comparative Study. Sports Medicine - Open, 9, Article 43. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40798-023-00588-2Background
Previous studies based on death certificates have found professional soccer players were more likely to die with neurodegenerative diseases, including dementia. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate whether retired professional male... Read More about Cognitive Impairment and Self-Reported Dementia in UK Retired Professional Soccer Players: A Cross Sectional Comparative Study.
A latent class analysis using the integrated motivational-volitional model of suicidal behaviour: Understanding suicide risk over 36 months (2023)
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van Eijk, N. L., Wetherall, K., Ferguson, E., O'Connor, D. B., & O'Connor, R. C. (2023). A latent class analysis using the integrated motivational-volitional model of suicidal behaviour: Understanding suicide risk over 36 months. Journal of Affective Disorders, 336, 9-14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2023.05.028The use of latent class analysis (LCA) to understand suicide risk is often not guided by theoretical frameworks. This study used the Integrated Motivational-Volitional (IMV) Model of Suicidal Behaviour to inform the classification of subtypes of youn... Read More about A latent class analysis using the integrated motivational-volitional model of suicidal behaviour: Understanding suicide risk over 36 months.
Depression, Cognition, and Pain: Exploring Individual, Cultural and Country-Level Effects Across Europe (2023)
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James, R. J., & Ferguson, E. (2023). Depression, Cognition, and Pain: Exploring Individual, Cultural and Country-Level Effects Across Europe. Journal of Pain, 24(6), 1104-1115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpain.2023.03.006The aim of this paper was to investigate the role of economic (eg, GDP per capita), political (eg, healthcare spending), cultural (country-level aggregates norms) and individual correlates (eg, depression) of pain in a secondary analysis of a sample... Read More about Depression, Cognition, and Pain: Exploring Individual, Cultural and Country-Level Effects Across Europe.
Impact of a post-donation hemoglobin testing strategy on efficiency and safety of whole blood donation in England: A modeling study (2023)
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Kim, L. G., Bolton, T., Sweeting, M. J., Bell, S., Fahle, S., McMahon, A., …Wood, A. M. (2023). Impact of a post-donation hemoglobin testing strategy on efficiency and safety of whole blood donation in England: A modeling study. Transfusion, 63(3), 541-551. https://doi.org/10.1111/trf.17277Background: Deferrals due to low hemoglobin are time-consuming and costly for blood donors and donation services. Furthermore, accepting donations from those with low hemoglobin could represent a significant safety issue. One approach to reduce them... Read More about Impact of a post-donation hemoglobin testing strategy on efficiency and safety of whole blood donation in England: A modeling study.
Reproducible microbiome composition signatures of anxiety and depressive symptoms (2023)
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Kouraki, A., Kelly, A., Vijay, A., Gohir, S., Astbury, S., Georgopoulos, V., …Valdes, A. M. (2023). Reproducible microbiome composition signatures of anxiety and depressive symptoms. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 21, 5326-5336. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csbj.2023.10.035The gut microbiome is a significant contributor to mental health, with growing evidence linking its composition to anxiety and depressive disorders. Gut microbiome composition is associated with signs of anxiety and depression both in clinically diag... Read More about Reproducible microbiome composition signatures of anxiety and depressive symptoms.
Probable COVID-19 infection is associated with subsequent poorer mental health and greater loneliness in the UK COVID-19 Mental Health and Wellbeing study (2022)
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Wilding, S., O’Connor, D., Ferguson, E., Cleare, S., Wetherall, K., O'Carroll, R., …O’Connor, R. C. (2022). Probable COVID-19 infection is associated with subsequent poorer mental health and greater loneliness in the UK COVID-19 Mental Health and Wellbeing study. Scientific Reports, 12, Article 20795. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-24240-3The COVID-19 pandemic has been associated with psychological distress. In addition to physical effects including fatigue and cognitive impairment, contracting COVID-19 itself may also be related to subsequent negative mental health outcomes. The pres... Read More about Probable COVID-19 infection is associated with subsequent poorer mental health and greater loneliness in the UK COVID-19 Mental Health and Wellbeing study.