Outputs (3)

Opportunities and challenges to delivering a trial for depressive symptoms in primary care during the COVID-19 pandemic: insights from the Alpha-Stim-D randomised controlled trial (2025)
Journal Article
Patel, S., Patel, P., Boutry, C., Guo, B., Butler, D., Higton, F., McNaughton, R., Briley, P. M., Griffiths, C., Nixon, N., Prasad, V., Sayal, K., Smart, D., Zafar, A., Kai, J., & Morriss, R. (2025). Opportunities and challenges to delivering a trial for depressive symptoms in primary care during the COVID-19 pandemic: insights from the Alpha-Stim-D randomised controlled trial. Trials, 26(1), Article 62. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-025-08772-3

Background: Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) are widely regarded as the most powerful research design for evidence-based practice. However, recruiting to RCTs can be challenging resulting in heightened costs and delays in research completion and i... Read More about Opportunities and challenges to delivering a trial for depressive symptoms in primary care during the COVID-19 pandemic: insights from the Alpha-Stim-D randomised controlled trial.

Guidelines and practice: antipsychotics prescribing and physical health monitoring in children and young people, a cohort study using primary care data (2025)
Journal Article
Vinogradova, Y., Jack, R. H., Prasad, V., Coupland, C., Morriss, R., & Hollis, C. (2025). Guidelines and practice: antipsychotics prescribing and physical health monitoring in children and young people, a cohort study using primary care data. BMJ Mental Health, 28(1), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjment-2024-301287

Background: Antipsychotic treatments require physical health monitoring (PHM), especially among children and young people (CYP).
Objective: For CYP aged 5-17, to investigate recorded indications for antipsychotics prescribing and first-treatment dur... Read More about Guidelines and practice: antipsychotics prescribing and physical health monitoring in children and young people, a cohort study using primary care data.

Use of healthcare services before diagnosis of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a population-based matched case-control study (2023)
Journal Article
Prasad, V., Rezel-Potts, E., White, P., Downs, J., Boddy, N., Sayal, K., & Sonuga-Barke, E. (2024). Use of healthcare services before diagnosis of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a population-based matched case-control study. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 109, Article 46-51. https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2023-325637

Objective: To compare use of healthcare services and reasons for attendance by children and young people (CYP) with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) versus non-ADHD controls. Design: Population-based matched case-control study. Setting... Read More about Use of healthcare services before diagnosis of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a population-based matched case-control study.