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Behavioural Activation Therapy for Depression after Stroke (BEADS): a study protocol for a feasibility randomised controlled pilot trial of a psychological intervention for post-stroke depression (2016)
Journal Article
Thomas, S. A., Coates, E., das Nair, R., Lincoln, N. B., Cooper, C., Palmer, R., Walters, S. J., Latimer, N. R., England, T. J., Mandefield, L., Chater, T., Callaghan, P., & Drummond, A. E. R. (2016). Behavioural Activation Therapy for Depression after Stroke (BEADS): a study protocol for a feasibility randomised controlled pilot trial of a psychological intervention for post-stroke depression. Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 2(1), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-016-0072-0

Background

There is currently insufficient evidence for the clinical and cost-effectiveness of psychological therapies for treating post-stroke depression.
Methods/Design

BEADS is a parallel group feasibility multicentre randomised controlled... Read More about Behavioural Activation Therapy for Depression after Stroke (BEADS): a study protocol for a feasibility randomised controlled pilot trial of a psychological intervention for post-stroke depression.

Efficacy and cost-effectiveness of a specialist depression service versus usual specialist mental health care to manage persistent depression: a randomised controlled trial (2016)
Journal Article
Morriss, R., Garland, A., Nixon, N., Guo, B., James, M., Kaylor-Hughes, C., Moore, R., Ramana, R., Sampson, C., Sweeney, T., & Dalgleish, T. (2016). Efficacy and cost-effectiveness of a specialist depression service versus usual specialist mental health care to manage persistent depression: a randomised controlled trial. Lancet Psychiatry, 3(9), 821-831. https://doi.org/10.1016/s2215-0366%2816%2930143-2

Background: Persistent moderate or severe unipolar depression is common and expensive to treat. Clinical guidelines recommend combined pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy. Such treatments can take up to 1 year to show an effect, but no trials of suitab... Read More about Efficacy and cost-effectiveness of a specialist depression service versus usual specialist mental health care to manage persistent depression: a randomised controlled trial.

Clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of physiotherapy and occupational therapy versus no therapy in mild to moderate Parkinson’s disease: a large pragmatic randomised controlled trial (PD REHAB) (2016)
Journal Article
Clarke, C. E., Patel, S., Ives, N., Rick, C. E., Woolley, R., Wheatley, K., Walker, M. F., Zhu, S., Kandiyali, R., Yao, G., & Sackley, C. M. (2016). Clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of physiotherapy and occupational therapy versus no therapy in mild to moderate Parkinson’s disease: a large pragmatic randomised controlled trial (PD REHAB). Health Technology Assessment, 20(63), https://doi.org/10.3310/hta20630

Background

Cochrane reviews of physiotherapy (PT) and occupational therapy (OT) for Parkinson’s disease found insufficient evidence of effectiveness, but previous trials were methodologically flawed with small sample size and short-term follow-up.... Read More about Clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of physiotherapy and occupational therapy versus no therapy in mild to moderate Parkinson’s disease: a large pragmatic randomised controlled trial (PD REHAB).

Stratifying the NHS diabetic eye screening programme: into the unknown? (2016)
Journal Article
Sampson, C. J., James, M., Broadbent, D. M., & Harding, S. P. (in press). Stratifying the NHS diabetic eye screening programme: into the unknown?. Diabetic Medicine, https://doi.org/10.1111/dme.13192

In this commentary, we consider the recent recommendation by the UK National Screening Committee (NSC) that people with diabetes at low risk of sight loss should be invited to screening every 2 years rather than annually [1]. We broadly support this... Read More about Stratifying the NHS diabetic eye screening programme: into the unknown?.

Understanding the theoretical underpinning of the exercise component in a fall prevention programme for older adults with mild dementia: a realist review protocol (2016)
Journal Article
Booth, V., Harwood, R. H., Hood, V., Masud, T., & Logan, P. A. (2016). Understanding the theoretical underpinning of the exercise component in a fall prevention programme for older adults with mild dementia: a realist review protocol. Systematic Reviews, 5, Article 119. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-016-0212-x

Background

Older adults with mild dementia are at an increased risk of falls. Preventing those at risk from falling requires complex interventions involving patient-tailored strength- and balance-challenging exercises, home hazard assessment, visu... Read More about Understanding the theoretical underpinning of the exercise component in a fall prevention programme for older adults with mild dementia: a realist review protocol.

Effective health care for older people living and dying in care homes: a realist review (2016)
Journal Article
Goodman, C., Dening, T., Gordon, A. L., Davies, S. L., Meyer, J., Martin, F. C., Gladman, J. R., Bowman, C., Victor, C., Handley, M., Gage, H., Iliffe, S., & Zubair, M. (in press). Effective health care for older people living and dying in care homes: a realist review. BMC Health Services Research, 16(269), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-016-1493-4

Background: Care home residents in England have variable access to health care services. There is currently no coherent policy or consensus about the best arrangements to meet these needs. The purpose of this review was to explore the evidence for ho... Read More about Effective health care for older people living and dying in care homes: a realist review.

The impact of involuntary retirement on senior police officers (2016)
Journal Article
Cameron, T. M., & Griffiths, A. (2017). The impact of involuntary retirement on senior police officers. Policing, 11(1), https://doi.org/10.1093/police/paw020

There have been no published studies on the impact of involuntary retirement on police officers. This article describes the reported experience of a group of senior police officers who were involuntarily retired from the police service in England and... Read More about The impact of involuntary retirement on senior police officers.

Dysexecutive symptoms and carer strain following acquired brain injury: changes measured before and after holistic neuropsychological rehabilitation (2016)
Journal Article
Goodwin, R. A., Lincoln, N., Bateman, A., & Parente, R. (2016). Dysexecutive symptoms and carer strain following acquired brain injury: changes measured before and after holistic neuropsychological rehabilitation. NeuroRehabilitation, 39(1), https://doi.org/10.3233/NRE-161338

BACKGROUND: Following acquired brain injury (ABI), deficits in executive functioning (EF) are common. As a result many brain-injured patients encounter problems in every-day functioning, and their families experience significant strain. Previous rese... Read More about Dysexecutive symptoms and carer strain following acquired brain injury: changes measured before and after holistic neuropsychological rehabilitation.

Development and evaluation of an early specialised traumatic brain injury vocational rehabilitation training package (2016)
Journal Article
Holmes, J., Phillips, J., Morris, R., Bedekar, Y., Tyerman, R., & Radford, K. (in press). Development and evaluation of an early specialised traumatic brain injury vocational rehabilitation training package. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 79(11), https://doi.org/10.1177/0308022616651645

Background:
In a feasibility randomised controlled trial, training was developed to equip Occupational Therapists to deliver Early Specialised Traumatic Brain Injury Vocational Rehabilitation in the English National Health Service.

Methods:
The... Read More about Development and evaluation of an early specialised traumatic brain injury vocational rehabilitation training package.