All Outputs (8)

Exploring access to support services for medical students: recommendations for enhancing wellbeing support (2024)
Journal Article
Hawsawi, A. A., Nixon, N., Stewart, E., & Nixon, E. (2024). Exploring access to support services for medical students: recommendations for enhancing wellbeing support. BMC Medical Education, 24, Article 671. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-024-05492-1

Background
Medical students have reported facing unique challenges in their academic journey that can have a significant impact on their mental health and wellbeing; therefore, their access to support services and wellbeing resources has been deemed... Read More about Exploring access to support services for medical students: recommendations for enhancing wellbeing support.

Specialist treatment for persistent depression in secondary care: Sustained effects from a multicentre UK study at 24 and 36 months (2023)
Journal Article
Nixon, N., Guo, B., Kaylor-Hughes, C., Simpson, S., Garland, A., Dalgleish, T., & Morriss, R. (2024). Specialist treatment for persistent depression in secondary care: Sustained effects from a multicentre UK study at 24 and 36 months. Journal of Affective Disorders, 345, 70-77. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2023.10.105

Background: Despite the known health costs of persistent depression, there is no established service framework for the treatment of this disorder and a lack of long-term outcome data to inform commissioning. To address this gap, we report the long-te... Read More about Specialist treatment for persistent depression in secondary care: Sustained effects from a multicentre UK study at 24 and 36 months.

Clinical effectiveness of active Alpha-Stim AID versus sham Alpha-Stim AID in major depression in primary care in England (Alpha-Stim-D): a multicentre, parallel group, double-blind, randomised controlled trial (2023)
Journal Article
Morriss, R., Patel, S., Boutry, C., Patel, P., Guo, B., Briley, P. M., Butler, D., Craven, M., Duncan, A., Griffiths, C., Higton, F., McNaughton, R., Nixon, N., Prasad, V., Sayal, K., Smart, D., Zafar, A., & Kai, J. (2023). Clinical effectiveness of active Alpha-Stim AID versus sham Alpha-Stim AID in major depression in primary care in England (Alpha-Stim-D): a multicentre, parallel group, double-blind, randomised controlled trial. Lancet Psychiatry, 10(3), 172-183. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366%2823%2900007-X

Background: Randomised sham-controlled trials of cranial electrostimulation with the Alpha-Stim Anxiety Insomnia and Depression (AID) device have reported improved anxiety and depression symptoms; however, no adequately powered sham-controlled trials... Read More about Clinical effectiveness of active Alpha-Stim AID versus sham Alpha-Stim AID in major depression in primary care in England (Alpha-Stim-D): a multicentre, parallel group, double-blind, randomised controlled trial.

A randomised controlled trial investigating the clinical and cost-effectiveness of Alpha-Stim AID cranial electrotherapy stimulation (CES) in patients seeking treatment for moderate severity depression in primary care (Alpha-Stim-D Trial) (2022)
Journal Article
Patel, S., Boutry, C., Patel, P., Craven, M. P., Guo, B., Zafar, A., Kai, J., Smart, D., Butler, D., Higton, F., McNaughton, R., Briley, P. M., Griffiths, C., Nixon, N., Sayal, K., & Morriss, R. (2022). A randomised controlled trial investigating the clinical and cost-effectiveness of Alpha-Stim AID cranial electrotherapy stimulation (CES) in patients seeking treatment for moderate severity depression in primary care (Alpha-Stim-D Trial). Trials, 23(1), Article 250. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-022-06192-1

Background: Major depression is the second leading cause of years lost to disability worldwide and is a leading contributor to suicide. However, first-line antidepressants are only fully effective for 33%, and only 40% of those offered psychological... Read More about A randomised controlled trial investigating the clinical and cost-effectiveness of Alpha-Stim AID cranial electrotherapy stimulation (CES) in patients seeking treatment for moderate severity depression in primary care (Alpha-Stim-D Trial).

Design and Evaluation of Virtual Human Mediated Tasks for Assessment of Depression and Anxiety (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Egede, J. O., Jaiswal, S., Galvez Trigo, M. J., Price, D., Elliot, N., Nixon, N., Krishnan, D. B., Morriss, R., Liddle, P., Greenhalgh, C., & Valstar, M. (2021, September). Design and Evaluation of Virtual Human Mediated Tasks for Assessment of Depression and Anxiety. Presented at 21st ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA ’21), Virtual Event, Kyoto, Japan

Virtual human technologies are now being widely explored as therapy tools for mental health disorders including depression and anxiety. These technologies leverage the ability of the virtual agents to engage in naturalistic social interactions with a... Read More about Design and Evaluation of Virtual Human Mediated Tasks for Assessment of Depression and Anxiety.

The bi-factor structure of the 17-item Hamilton Depression Rating Scale in persistent major depression; dimensional measurement of outcome (2020)
Journal Article
Nixon, N., Guo, B., Garland, A., Kaylor-Hughes, C., Nixon, E., & Morriss, R. (2020). The bi-factor structure of the 17-item Hamilton Depression Rating Scale in persistent major depression; dimensional measurement of outcome. PLoS ONE, 15(10), Article e0241370. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241370

Background:
The 17-item Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS17) is used world-wide as an observer-rated measure of depression in randomised controlled trials (RCTs) despite continued uncertainty regarding its factor structure. This study investiga... Read More about The bi-factor structure of the 17-item Hamilton Depression Rating Scale in persistent major depression; dimensional measurement of outcome.

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.

Biological vulnerability to depression: Linked structural and functional brain network findings (2014)
Journal Article
Worwood, G., Nixon, E., Palaniyappan, L., Nixon, N. L., Liddle, P. F., Nixon, N. L., Liddle, P., Nixon, E., Worwood, G., Liotti, M., & Palaniyappan, L. (2014). Biological vulnerability to depression: Linked structural and functional brain network findings. British Journal of Psychiatry, 204(4), 283-289. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.bp.113.129965

Background: Patients in recovery following episodes of major depressive disorder (MDD) remain highly vulnerable to future recurrence. Although psychological determinants of this risk are well established, little is known about associated biological m... Read More about Biological vulnerability to depression: Linked structural and functional brain network findings.