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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., Robbe, K. A., & 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/s41598-022-24240-3

The 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.

Assessing the factors that influence the donation of a deceased family member's organs in an opt-out system for organ donation (2022)
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Shepherd, L., O'Carroll, R., & Ferguson, E. (2023). Assessing the factors that influence the donation of a deceased family member's organs in an opt-out system for organ donation. Social Science and Medicine, 317, Article 115545. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115545

Rationale: Family, and sometimes longstanding friends, have considerable influence over organ donation, through agreeing or disagreeing to the donation of a deceased individual’s organs. To date, most research has been undertaken within opt-in system... Read More about Assessing the factors that influence the donation of a deceased family member's organs in an opt-out system for organ donation.

Communicating the move to individualized donor selection policy: Framing messages focused on recipients and safety (2022)
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Ferguson, E., Bowen, S., Lawrence, C., Starmer, C., Barr, A., Davison, K., Reynolds, C., & Brailsford, S. R. (2023). Communicating the move to individualized donor selection policy: Framing messages focused on recipients and safety. Transfusion, 63(1), 171-181. https://doi.org/10.1111/trf.17175

Background: Men-who-have-sex-with-men (MSM) have been deferred from donating blood. However, recent evidence supports the adoption of donor screening based on individuals' sexual behavior over population-based criteria. We explore how best to frame c... Read More about Communicating the move to individualized donor selection policy: Framing messages focused on recipients and safety.

Calf care workers' attitudes and personality and their association with calf mortality in large-scale dairy farms (2022)
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Viidu, D. A., Ferguson, E., Kaart, T., & Mõtus, K. (2022). Calf care workers' attitudes and personality and their association with calf mortality in large-scale dairy farms. Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 9, Article 959548. https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2022.959548

Although calf mortality is a multifactorial problem, little is known about the attitudes and personalities of calf care workers (CCWs) and their association with calf mortality. This study aimed to describe the attitudes, satisfaction, and personalit... Read More about Calf care workers' attitudes and personality and their association with calf mortality in large-scale dairy farms.

Information seeking, mental health and loneliness: Longitudinal analyses of adults in the UK COVID-19 mental health and wellbeing study (2022)
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Wilding, S., O'Connor, D. B., Ferguson, E., Wetherall, K., Cleare, S., O'Carroll, R. E., Robb, K. A., & O'Connor, R. C. (2022). Information seeking, mental health and loneliness: Longitudinal analyses of adults in the UK COVID-19 mental health and wellbeing study. Psychiatry Research, 317, Article 114876. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2022.114876

Information seeking has generally been seen as an adaptive response to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, it may also result in negative outcomes on mental health. The present study tests whether reporting COVID-related information seeking throughout th... Read More about Information seeking, mental health and loneliness: Longitudinal analyses of adults in the UK COVID-19 mental health and wellbeing study.

BJS Prize 2 Exploring variation in surgical practice: the colorectal surgeon's personality influences anastomotic decision-making in rectal cancer (2022)
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Bisset, C., Ferguson, E., Oliphant, R., Macdermid, E., & Moug, S. (2022). BJS Prize 2 Exploring variation in surgical practice: the colorectal surgeon's personality influences anastomotic decision-making in rectal cancer. British Journal of Surgery, 109(Supplement_5), Article znac246.002. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjs/znac246.002

Background The influence of internal surgeon-specific factors, such as personality, on cognitive bias and decision-making in surgery is not well understood. These factors may be particularly influential in clinical cases where there is a high degree... Read More about BJS Prize 2 Exploring variation in surgical practice: the colorectal surgeon's personality influences anastomotic decision-making in rectal cancer.

A typology of strategies that recognize, reward, and incentivize blood donation (2022)
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Chell, K., Masser, B., Davison, T. E., & Ferguson, E. (2022). A typology of strategies that recognize, reward, and incentivize blood donation. Transfusion, https://doi.org/10.1111/trf.17053

Background: Blood collection agencies (BCAs) worldwide are continuously looking to improve recognition, reward, and incentive (RRI) policies to optimize the recruitment and retention of blood donors. However, given the inconsistent categorization and... Read More about A typology of strategies that recognize, reward, and incentivize blood donation.

Descriptive analysis of national bovine viral diarrhoea test data in England (2016–2020) (2022)
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Prosser, N. S., Hill, E. M., Armstrong, D., Gow, L., Tildesley, M. J., Keeling, M. J., Kaler, J., Ferguson, E., & Green, M. J. (2022). Descriptive analysis of national bovine viral diarrhoea test data in England (2016–2020). Veterinary Record, 191(5), Article e1854. https://doi.org/10.1002/vetr.1854

Background: Bovine viral diarrhoea virus (BVDV) causes substantial economic losses to the cattle industry; however, control and eradication can be achieved by identifying and removing persistently infected cattle from the herd. Each UK nation has sep... Read More about Descriptive analysis of national bovine viral diarrhoea test data in England (2016–2020).

Exploring variation in surgical practice: does surgeon personality influence anastomotic decision-making? (2022)
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Bisset, C. N., Ferguson, E., MacDermid, E., Stein, S. L., Yassin, N., Dames, N., Keller, D. S., Oliphant, R., Parson, S. H., Cleland, J., Moug, S. J., & Plato Project Steering Group Collaborators. (2022). Exploring variation in surgical practice: does surgeon personality influence anastomotic decision-making?. British Journal of Surgery, 109(11), 1156-1163. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjs/znac200

BACKGROUND: Decision-making under uncertainty may be influenced by an individual's personality. The primary aim was to explore associations between surgeon personality traits and colorectal anastomotic decision-making. METHODS: Colorectal surgeons wo... Read More about Exploring variation in surgical practice: does surgeon personality influence anastomotic decision-making?.

Modelling livestock infectious disease control policy under differing social perspectives on vaccination behaviour (2022)
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Hill, E. M., Prosser, N. S., Ferguson, E., Kaler, J., Green, M. J., Keeling, M. J., & Tildesley, M. J. (2022). Modelling livestock infectious disease control policy under differing social perspectives on vaccination behaviour. PLoS Computational Biology, 18(7), Article e1010235. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010235

The spread of infection amongst livestock depends not only on the traits of the pathogen and the livestock themselves, but also on the veterinary health behaviours of farmers and how this impacts their implementation of disease control measures. Cont... Read More about Modelling livestock infectious disease control policy under differing social perspectives on vaccination behaviour.