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Differences Between Online Trial Participants Who Have Used Statutory Mental Health Services and Those Who Have Not: Analysis of Baseline Data From 2 Pragmatic Trials of a Digital Health Intervention. (2023)
Journal Article
Rennick-Egglestone, S., Newby, C., Robinson, C., Yeo, C., Ng, F., Elliott, R., …Slade, M. (2023). Differences Between Online Trial Participants Who Have Used Statutory Mental Health Services and Those Who Have Not: Analysis of Baseline Data From 2 Pragmatic Trials of a Digital Health Intervention. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 25, Article e44687. https://doi.org/10.2196/44687

Background: Digital health interventions (DHIs) are an established element of mental health service provision internationally. Regulators have positioned the best practice standard of evidence as an interventional study with a comparator reflective o... Read More about Differences Between Online Trial Participants Who Have Used Statutory Mental Health Services and Those Who Have Not: Analysis of Baseline Data From 2 Pragmatic Trials of a Digital Health Intervention..

It's Snazzy, but is it Useful? Practitioner's Views on Meaningful Use Cases for Healthcare XR (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Antoniou, P., Reppou, S., Konstantinidis, S. T., Stathakarou, N., Economou, D., Jonathon, R., & Bamidis, P. (2023). It's Snazzy, but is it Useful? Practitioner's Views on Meaningful Use Cases for Healthcare XR. In Practitioner Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN 2023). https://doi.org/10.56198/itig2ulbj

The global virtual reality (VR) market size, valued at 21.83 billion USD in 2021, is expected to expand with an annual growth rate of 15.0% from 2022 to 2030. Virtual Reality, although massively known for immersive gaming and entert... Read More about It's Snazzy, but is it Useful? Practitioner's Views on Meaningful Use Cases for Healthcare XR.

Framing the wider determinants of health and health inequalities: local stakeholder views in England (2023)
Journal Article
Such, E. (2023). Framing the wider determinants of health and health inequalities: local stakeholder views in England. Evidence and Policy, 19(4), 513-535. https://doi.org/10.1332/174426421X16848470383584

Background: Despite decades of concern, health inequalities persist and collaborations to address them at a local level are yet to prove effective. One potential way of improving actions to address health inequalities is to pay greater attention to... Read More about Framing the wider determinants of health and health inequalities: local stakeholder views in England.

Stakeholder-identified barriers and enablers to ultrasound implementation in inflammatory bowel disease services in the UK: a qualitative interview study. (2023)
Journal Article
Radford, S., Leighton, P., Coad, J., & Moran, G. (2023). Stakeholder-identified barriers and enablers to ultrasound implementation in inflammatory bowel disease services in the UK: a qualitative interview study. BMJ Open, 13(6), Article e067528. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-067528

The study sought to explore and better understand the perceptions and experiences of stakeholders in relation to the use of ultrasound for the assessment of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in adults in the UK. A qualitative semistructured interview... Read More about Stakeholder-identified barriers and enablers to ultrasound implementation in inflammatory bowel disease services in the UK: a qualitative interview study..

Self-Compassion Interventions to Target Secondary Traumatic Stress in Healthcare Workers: A Systematic Review (2023)
Journal Article
Rushforth, A., Durk, M., Rothwell-Blake, G. A., Kirkman, A., Ng, F., & Kotera, Y. (2023). Self-Compassion Interventions to Target Secondary Traumatic Stress in Healthcare Workers: A Systematic Review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(12), Article 6109. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20126109

Healthcare professionals’ wellbeing can be adversely affected by the intense demands of, and the secondary traumatic stress associated with, their job. Self-compassion is associated with positive wellbeing outcomes across a variety of workforce popul... Read More about Self-Compassion Interventions to Target Secondary Traumatic Stress in Healthcare Workers: A Systematic Review.

Evaluation of Virtual Reality via 360° videos Reusable e-Resources Embedded in Healthcare Curricula (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schiza, E., Frangoudes, F., Pattichis, C., Pears, M., Konstantinidis, S., & Gkougkoudi, E. (2023). Evaluation of Virtual Reality via 360° videos Reusable e-Resources Embedded in Healthcare Curricula. In 2023 24th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP) (1-4). https://doi.org/10.1109/dsp58604.2023.10167929

Recent advancements in Virtual Reality (VR) immersive technologies provide new tools for the development of novel and promising applications for Medical Education courses. This paper presents an evaluation process for teaching the clinical skills cou... Read More about Evaluation of Virtual Reality via 360° videos Reusable e-Resources Embedded in Healthcare Curricula.

Attitudes and current practice in alcohol screening, brief intervention, and referral for treatment among staff working in urgent and emergency settings: a survey (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Blake, H., Yildirim, M., Premakumar, V., Morris, L., Miller, P., & Coffey, F. (2023, June). Attitudes and current practice in alcohol screening, brief intervention, and referral for treatment among staff working in urgent and emergency settings: a survey. Presented at Tomorrow’s Doctors Conference 2023, London, UK

Breast Cancer Understanding Among University Students: A Rapid Review of Cross-country Comparisons (2023)
Journal Article
Colman, R., Kirkman, A., Jackson, J., Golbourn, L., Ozaki, A., & Kotera, Y. (2023). Breast Cancer Understanding Among University Students: A Rapid Review of Cross-country Comparisons. Archives of Breast Cancer, 10(2), 114-123. https://doi.org/10.32768/abc.2023102114-123

Background: In alignment with the World Health Organization’s Global Breast Cancer Initiative objectives, this rapid review sought to determine the extent to which breast cancer understanding is being researched globally in undergraduate student popu... Read More about Breast Cancer Understanding Among University Students: A Rapid Review of Cross-country Comparisons.

Anticipatory prescribing in community end-of-life care: systematic review and narrative synthesis of the evidence since 2017 (2023)
Journal Article
Bowers, B., Antunes, B. C. P., Etkind, S., Hopkins, S. A., Winterburn, I., Kuhn, I., …Barclay, S. (2023). Anticipatory prescribing in community end-of-life care: systematic review and narrative synthesis of the evidence since 2017. BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care, 13, e612-e623. https://doi.org/10.1136/spcare-2022-004080

Background: The anticipatory prescribing of injectable medications is recommended practice in controlling distressing symptoms in the last days of life. A 2017 systematic review found practice and guidance was based on inadequate evidence. Since then... Read More about Anticipatory prescribing in community end-of-life care: systematic review and narrative synthesis of the evidence since 2017.

“Nothing's changed, baby”: How the mental health narratives of people with multiple and complex needs disrupt the recovery framework (2023)
Journal Article
Llewellyn-Beardsley, J., Rennick-Egglestone, S., Callard, F., Pollock, K., Slade, M., & Edgley, A. (2023). “Nothing's changed, baby”: How the mental health narratives of people with multiple and complex needs disrupt the recovery framework. SSM - Mental Health, 3, Article 100221. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmmh.2023.100221

The dominant narrative in mental health policy and practice has shifted in the 21st century from one of chronic ill health to a ‘recovery’ orientation. Knowledge of recovery is based on narratives of people with lived experience of mental distress. H... Read More about “Nothing's changed, baby”: How the mental health narratives of people with multiple and complex needs disrupt the recovery framework.

Stress and Coping Mechanism among Students Residing in Private School Hostels (2023)
Journal Article
Shrestha, R., Timalsina, S., Shakya, R., Shrestha, N., Kotera, Y., Hashemy, T., & Ozaki, A. (2023). Stress and Coping Mechanism among Students Residing in Private School Hostels. Mental Illness, 2023, Article 6535583. https://doi.org/10.1155/2023/6535583

Background. Mental health problems can significantly impact a student’s academic performance, career, health, and future if they are not identified and managed in time. The poor mental health of young people is a global problem, including in Nepal. H... Read More about Stress and Coping Mechanism among Students Residing in Private School Hostels.

Statistical analysis plans for two randomised controlled trials of the Narrative Experiences Online (NEON) Intervention: impact of receiving recorded mental health recovery narratives on quality of life in people experiencing psychosis (NEON) and people experiencing non-psychosis mental health problems (NEON-O) (2023)
Journal Article
Robinson, C., Newby, C., Rennick-Egglestone, S., Llewellyn-Beardsley, J., Ng, F., Elliott, R. A., & Slade, M. (2023). Statistical analysis plans for two randomised controlled trials of the Narrative Experiences Online (NEON) Intervention: impact of receiving recorded mental health recovery narratives on quality of life in people experiencing psychosis (NEON) and people experiencing non-psychosis mental health problems (NEON-O). Trials, 24, Article 343. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-023-07246-8

Background: Mental health recovery narratives are a first-hand account of an individual’s recovery from mental health distress, access to narratives can aid recovery. The NEON Intervention is a web-application providing access to a managed collection... Read More about Statistical analysis plans for two randomised controlled trials of the Narrative Experiences Online (NEON) Intervention: impact of receiving recorded mental health recovery narratives on quality of life in people experiencing psychosis (NEON) and people experiencing non-psychosis mental health problems (NEON-O).

Statistical analysis plans for two randomised controlled trials of the Narrative Experiences Online (NEON) Intervention: impact of receiving recorded mental health recovery narratives on quality of life in people experiencing psychosis (NEON) and people experiencing non-psychosis mental health problems (NEON-O) (2023)
Journal Article
Robinson, C., Newby, C., Rennick-Egglestone, S., Llewellyn-Beardsley, J., Ng, F., Elliott, R. A., & Slade, M. (2023). Statistical analysis plans for two randomised controlled trials of the Narrative Experiences Online (NEON) Intervention: impact of receiving recorded mental health recovery narratives on quality of life in people experiencing psychosis (NEON) and people experiencing non-psychosis mental health problems (NEON-O). Trials, 24, Article 343. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-023-07246-8

Background Mental health recovery narratives are a first-hand account of an individual’s recovery from mental health distress, access to narratives can aid recovery. The NEON Intervention is a web-application providing access to a managed collection... Read More about Statistical analysis plans for two randomised controlled trials of the Narrative Experiences Online (NEON) Intervention: impact of receiving recorded mental health recovery narratives on quality of life in people experiencing psychosis (NEON) and people experiencing non-psychosis mental health problems (NEON-O).

The association between prescription drugs and vaccines commonly prescribed to older people and bullous pemphigoid: a UK population-based study (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper
Swiderski, M., Vinogradova, Y., Knaggs, R., Harman, K., Harwood, R., Prasad, V., …Gran, S. The association between prescription drugs and vaccines commonly prescribed to older people and bullous pemphigoid: a UK population-based study

Introduction Bullous pemphigoid (BP) is a serious skin disease that results in large painful blisters developing over the body and occurs most commonly in older people (over 70 years). Despite several comorbidities such as stroke and a threefold inc... Read More about The association between prescription drugs and vaccines commonly prescribed to older people and bullous pemphigoid: a UK population-based study.

The effectiveness of occupational therapy supporting return to work for people who sustain serious injuries or develop long-term (physical or mental) health conditions: A systematic review (2023)
Journal Article
De Dios Perez, B., McQueen, J., Craven, K., Radford, K., Blake, H., Smith, B., …Holmes, J. (2023). The effectiveness of occupational therapy supporting return to work for people who sustain serious injuries or develop long-term (physical or mental) health conditions: A systematic review. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 86(7), 467-481. https://doi.org/10.1177/03080226231170996

Introduction: People with long-term conditions or recovering from serious injuries can struggle to return to work. The evidence for occupational therapy supporting return to work is limited. We aimed to identify and explain how occupational therapy i... Read More about The effectiveness of occupational therapy supporting return to work for people who sustain serious injuries or develop long-term (physical or mental) health conditions: A systematic review.

The challenges faced by women-owned companies in Afghanistan under COVID-19 and Taliban (2023)
Journal Article
Hashemy, T., Shrestha, R., Hashemy, S. M., Kotera, Y., Kaneda, Y., Bhandari, D., …Mousavi, S. H. (2023). The challenges faced by women-owned companies in Afghanistan under COVID-19 and Taliban. Cogent Social Sciences, 9(1), Article 2195231. https://doi.org/10.1080/23311886.2023.2195231

The COVID-19 pandemic and the shift of power to the Taliban have negatively affected women-owned companies. This study aimed to explore the external and internal challenges of women-owned businesses from March 2020 to January 2022 in Afghanistan. In-... Read More about The challenges faced by women-owned companies in Afghanistan under COVID-19 and Taliban.

A house is not a home: housing disadvantage, homelessness, and modern slavery (2023)
Journal Article
Clare, N., Iafrati, S., Reeson, C., Wright, N., Gray, C., & Baptiste, H. (2023). A house is not a home: housing disadvantage, homelessness, and modern slavery. Journal of the British Academy, 11, 83-93. https://doi.org/10.5871/jba/011.083

This commentary focuses on the underexplored links between housing disadvantage, homelessness, and modern slavery. Despite significant anecdotal evidence, there is a pressing need for proper theorisation of the connections between housing situation a... Read More about A house is not a home: housing disadvantage, homelessness, and modern slavery.

Workplace Health Promotion among UK employers: A longitudinal analysis (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Roper, S., Bourke, J., Wishart, M., Belt, V., Leka, S., Hassard, J., …Blake, H. (2023, May). Workplace Health Promotion among UK employers: A longitudinal analysis. Presented at Irish Economic Association Annual Conference 2023, Athlone, Co. Westmeath, Ireland

IEAAC Conference Abstract 2023

National norms of mental health for Denmark (2023)
Journal Article
Moeller, S. B., Gondan, M., Austin, S. F., Slade, M., & Simonsen, S. (2023). National norms of mental health for Denmark. Nordic Journal of Psychiatry, 77(6), 617-623. https://doi.org/10.1080/08039488.2023.2202637

Introduction: To facilitate interpretation and clinical utility of patient-reported outcomes, normative data provide a reference for a person’s score on a particular outcome in relation to the general population. This study reports Danish general pop... Read More about National norms of mental health for Denmark.