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Professor EAMONN FERGUSON's Outputs (173)

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

Background: The spread of infection amongst livestock depends not only on the traits of the pathogen and the livestock themselves, but also on the behavioural characteristics of farmers and how that impacts the implementation of livestock disease con... Read More about Modelling livestock infectious disease control policy under differing social perspectives on vaccination behaviour..

Modelling livestock infectious disease control policy under differing social perspectives on vaccination behaviour (2022)
Journal Article
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.

Mental health and well-being during the second wave of COVID-19: longitudinal analyses of the UK COVID-19 Mental Health and Wellbeing study (UK COVID-MH) (2022)
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Wetherall, K., Cleare, S., McClelland, H., Melson, A. J., Niedzwiedz, C. L., O’Carroll, R. E., O’Connor, D. B., Platt, S., Scowcroft, E., Watson, B., Zortea, T., Ferguson, E., Robb, K. A., & O’Connor, R. C. (2022). Mental health and well-being during the second wave of COVID-19: longitudinal analyses of the UK COVID-19 Mental Health and Wellbeing study (UK COVID-MH). BJPsych Open, 8(4), Article e103. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2022.58

Background
Waves 1 to 3 (March 2020 to May 2020) of the UK COVID-19 Mental Health & Wellbeing study suggested an improvement in some indicators of mental health across the first 6 weeks of the UK lockdown, however, suicidal ideation increased.

A... Read More about Mental health and well-being during the second wave of COVID-19: longitudinal analyses of the UK COVID-19 Mental Health and Wellbeing study (UK COVID-MH).

Effects of COVID-19-related worry and rumination on mental health and loneliness during the pandemic: Longitudinal analyses of adults in the UK COVID-19 Mental Health & Wellbeing study (2022)
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O’Connor, D. B., Wilding, S., Ferguson, E., Cleare, S., Wetherall, K., McClelland, H., Melson, A. J., Niedzwiedz, C., O’Carroll, R. E., Platt, S., Scowcroft, E., Watson, B., Zortea, T., Robb, K. A., & O’Connor, R. C. (2023). Effects of COVID-19-related worry and rumination on mental health and loneliness during the pandemic: Longitudinal analyses of adults in the UK COVID-19 Mental Health & Wellbeing study. Journal of Mental Health, 32(6), 1122-1133. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638237.2022.2069716

Background: The lasting effects of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic are likely to be significant.

Aims: This study tracked worry and rumination levels during the pandemic and investigated whether periods with higher COVID-related worry and ru... Read More about Effects of COVID-19-related worry and rumination on mental health and loneliness during the pandemic: Longitudinal analyses of adults in the UK COVID-19 Mental Health & Wellbeing study.

Trust and distrust: Identifying recruitment targets for ethnic minority blood donors (2022)
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Ferguson, E., Dawe‐Lane, E., Khan, Z., Reynolds, C., Davison, K., Edge, D., & Brailsford, S. R. (2022). Trust and distrust: Identifying recruitment targets for ethnic minority blood donors. Transfusion Medicine, 32(4), 276-287. https://doi.org/10.1111/tme.12867

Background: We explore the role of trust, distrust, and the prevailing socio-political context to better understand why people from ethnic minority communities are less likely to be blood donors compared to people from White communities. Recruiting m... Read More about Trust and distrust: Identifying recruitment targets for ethnic minority blood donors.

Foot and ankle Osteoarthritis and Cognitive impairment in retired UK Soccer players (FOCUS): protocol for a cross-sectional comparative study with general population controls (2022)
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Espahbodi, S., Fernandes, G., Hogervorst, E., Thanoon, A., Batt, M., Fuller, C. W., Fuller, G., Ferguson, E., Bast, T., Doherty, M., & Zhang, W. (2022). Foot and ankle Osteoarthritis and Cognitive impairment in retired UK Soccer players (FOCUS): protocol for a cross-sectional comparative study with general population controls. BMJ Open, 12(4), Article e054371. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-054371

INTRODUCTION: Professional footballers commonly experience sports-related injury and repetitive microtrauma to the foot and ankle, placing them at risk of subsequent chronic pain and osteoarthritis (OA) of the foot and ankle. Similarly, repeated head... Read More about Foot and ankle Osteoarthritis and Cognitive impairment in retired UK Soccer players (FOCUS): protocol for a cross-sectional comparative study with general population controls.

Cattle farmer psychosocial profiles and their association with control strategies for bovine viral diarrhea (2022)
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Prosser, N. S., Green, M. J., Ferguson, E., Tildesley, M. J., Hill, E. M., Keeling, M. J., & Kaler, J. (2022). Cattle farmer psychosocial profiles and their association with control strategies for bovine viral diarrhea. Journal of Dairy Science, 105(4), 3559-3573. https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2021-21386

Bovine viral diarrhea (BVD) is endemic in the United Kingdom and causes major economic losses. Control is largely voluntary for individual farmers and is likely to be influenced by psychosocial factors, such as altruism, trust, and psychological prox... Read More about Cattle farmer psychosocial profiles and their association with control strategies for bovine viral diarrhea.

The association of socio-economic and psychological factors with limitations in day-to-day activity over 7 years in newly diagnosed osteoarthritis patients (2022)
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Kouraki, A., Bast, T., Ferguson, E., & Valdes, A. M. (2022). The association of socio-economic and psychological factors with limitations in day-to-day activity over 7 years in newly diagnosed osteoarthritis patients. Scientific Reports, 12(1), Article 943. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-04781-3

Previous research has established links between chronic pain and impaired cognitive ability, as well as between chronic pain and anxiety, in osteoarthritis. Furthermore, there is evidence linking risk of osteoarthritis to lower educational attainment... Read More about The association of socio-economic and psychological factors with limitations in day-to-day activity over 7 years in newly diagnosed osteoarthritis patients.

Assessing medical mistrust in organ donation across countries using item response theory (2021)
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Ghoshal, A., O’Carroll, R. E., Ferguson, E., Shepherd, L., Doherty, S., Mathew, M., Morgan, K., & Doyle, F. (2022). Assessing medical mistrust in organ donation across countries using item response theory. Journal of Health Psychology, 27(12), 2806-2819. https://doi.org/10.1177/13591053211064985

Although medical mistrust (MM) may be an impediment to public health interventions, no MM scale has been validated across countries and the assessment of MM has not been explored using item response theory, which allows generalisation beyond the samp... Read More about Assessing medical mistrust in organ donation across countries using item response theory.

Attitudes and personality of farm managers and association with cow culling rates and longevity in large-scale commercial dairy farms (2021)
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Rilanto, T., Viidu, D.-A., Kaart, T., Orro, T., Viltrop, A., Emanuelson, U., Ferguson, E., & Mõtus, K. (2022). Attitudes and personality of farm managers and association with cow culling rates and longevity in large-scale commercial dairy farms. Research in Veterinary Science, 142, 31-42. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rvsc.2021.11.006

The farmer has the central role in determining cow culling policies on their farm and thus affecting cow longevity. The present study aimed to examine farm managers´ satisfaction, attitudes, personality traits and analyse the associations with dairy... Read More about Attitudes and personality of farm managers and association with cow culling rates and longevity in large-scale commercial dairy farms.

Australian Perspectives on Opt-In and Opt-Out Consent Systems for Deceased Organ Donation (2021)
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Hyde, M. K., Masser, B. M., Edwards, A. R., & Ferguson, E. (2021). Australian Perspectives on Opt-In and Opt-Out Consent Systems for Deceased Organ Donation. Progress in Transplantation, 31(4), 357-367. https://doi.org/10.1177/15269248211046023

Introduction: As many countries change to opt-out systems to address organ shortages, calls for similar reform in Australia persist. Community perspectives on consent systems for donation remain under-researched, therefore Australian perspectives on... Read More about Australian Perspectives on Opt-In and Opt-Out Consent Systems for Deceased Organ Donation.

Australian Perspectives on Opt-In and Opt-Out Consent Systems for Deceased Organ Donation (2021)
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Hyde, M. K., Masser, B. M., Edwards, A. R. A., & Ferguson, E. (2021). Australian Perspectives on Opt-In and Opt-Out Consent Systems for Deceased Organ Donation. Progress in Transplantation, 31(4), 357-367. https://doi.org/10.1177/15269248211046023

Introduction: As many countries change to opt-out systems to address organ shortages, calls for similar reform in Australia persist. Community perspectives on consent systems for donation remain under-researched, therefore Australian perspectives on... Read More about Australian Perspectives on Opt-In and Opt-Out Consent Systems for Deceased Organ Donation.

Identifying multiple knee pain trajectories and the prediction of opioid and NSAID medication used: A latent class growth approach (2021)
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Haybatollahi, S. M., James, R. J., Fernandes, G., Valdes, A., Doherty, M., Zhang, W., Walsh, D. A., & Ferguson, E. (2022). Identifying multiple knee pain trajectories and the prediction of opioid and NSAID medication used: A latent class growth approach. Pain Practice, 22(2), 210-221. https://doi.org/10.1111/papr.13082

Background: Knee pain is a major source of distress and disability, with pain progression highly variable between individuals. Previous studies defining pain trajectories have all used a single measure of pain, and these differ across studies. Differ... Read More about Identifying multiple knee pain trajectories and the prediction of opioid and NSAID medication used: A latent class growth approach.

What blood and organ donation can tell us about cooperation? (2021)
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Ferguson, E. (2022). What blood and organ donation can tell us about cooperation?. Current Opinion in Psychology, 44, 202-207. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2021.09.005

High-cost cooperation directed towards strangers is difficult to explain from an evolutionary perspective. Here, it is argued that by studying the behaviours, motivations, and preferences of real-world high-cost cooperators — blood and organ donors —... Read More about What blood and organ donation can tell us about cooperation?.

Resilience and vulnerability factors influence the cortisol awakening response in individuals vulnerable to suicide (2021)
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O'Connor, D. B., Branley-Bell, D., Green, J. A., Ferguson, E., O'Carroll, R. E., & O'Connor, R. C. (2021). Resilience and vulnerability factors influence the cortisol awakening response in individuals vulnerable to suicide. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 142, 312-320. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2021.08.006

Suicide is a global health issue. Dysregulated hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis activity, as measured by cortisol levels, has been identified as one potential risk factor. Evidence is emerging to suggest that different psychological factors... Read More about Resilience and vulnerability factors influence the cortisol awakening response in individuals vulnerable to suicide.

Central Aspects of Pain in Rheumatoid Arthritis (CAP-RA): protocol for a prospective observational study (2021)
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Ifesemen, O., McWilliams, D. F., Ferguson, E., Wakefield, R., Akin-Akinyosoye, K., Wilson, D., Platts, D., Ledbury, S., & Walsh, D. A. (2021). Central Aspects of Pain in Rheumatoid Arthritis (CAP-RA): protocol for a prospective observational study. BMC Rheumatology, 5(1), Article 23. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41927-021-00187-2

Background: Pain and fatigue are persistent problems in people with rheumatoid arthritis. Central sensitisation (CS) may contribute to pain and fatigue, even when treatment has controlled inflammatory disease. This study aims to validate a self-repor... Read More about Central Aspects of Pain in Rheumatoid Arthritis (CAP-RA): protocol for a prospective observational study.

Big Changes Start With Small Talk: Twitter and Climate Change in Times of Coronavirus Pandemic (2021)
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Gaytan Camarillo, M., Ferguson, E., Ljevar, V., & Spence, A. (2021). Big Changes Start With Small Talk: Twitter and Climate Change in Times of Coronavirus Pandemic. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.661395

Behavioural scientists have been studying public perceptions to understand how and why people behave the way they do towards climate change. In recent times, enormous changes to behaviour and people’s interactions have been brought about by the world... Read More about Big Changes Start With Small Talk: Twitter and Climate Change in Times of Coronavirus Pandemic.

Do we become more cautious for others when large amounts of money are at stake? (2021)
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Batteux, E., Ferguson, E., & Tunney, R. J. (2021). Do we become more cautious for others when large amounts of money are at stake?. Experimental Psychology, 68(1), 32-40. https://doi.org/10.1027/1618-3169/a000508

A considerable proportion of financial decisions are made by agents acting on behalf of other people. Although people are more cautious for others when making medical decisions, this does not seem to be the case for economic decisions. However, studi... Read More about Do we become more cautious for others when large amounts of money are at stake?.

Simple Reciprocal Fairness Message to Enhance Non-Donor’s Willingness to Donate Blood (2021)
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Ferguson, E., Edwards, A. R., & Masser, B. M. (2022). Simple Reciprocal Fairness Message to Enhance Non-Donor’s Willingness to Donate Blood. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 56(1), 89-99. https://doi.org/10.1093/abm/kaab026

Background: Against a background of declining blood donor numbers, recruiting new donors is critical for the effective operations of healthcare providers. Thus, interventions are needed to recruit new blood donors.

Purpose: We provide initial evi... Read More about Simple Reciprocal Fairness Message to Enhance Non-Donor’s Willingness to Donate Blood.