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Amisulpride for very late-onset schizophrenia-like psychosis: the ATLAS three-arm RCT (2018)
Journal Article
Howard, R., Cort, E., Bradley, R., Harper, E., Kelly, L., Bentham, P., …Gray, R. (2018). Amisulpride for very late-onset schizophrenia-like psychosis: the ATLAS three-arm RCT. Health Technology Assessment, 22(67), 1-62. https://doi.org/10.3310/hta22670

© Queen's Printer and Controller of HMSO 2018. Background: Very late-onset (aged ≥60 years) schizophrenia-like psychosis (VLOSLP) occurs frequently but no placebo-controlled, randomised trials have assessed the efficacy or risks of antipsychotic trea... Read More about Amisulpride for very late-onset schizophrenia-like psychosis: the ATLAS three-arm RCT.

Managing employees with dementia: a systematic review (2018)
Journal Article
Thomson, L., Stanyon, M., Dening, T., Heron, R., & Griffiths, A. (2019). Managing employees with dementia: a systematic review. Occupational Medicine, 69(2), 89–98. https://doi.org/10.1093/occmed/kqy161

Background: The experience of developing dementia while in employment has been explored from the point of view of the employee, but less is known about the perspectives, experiences and needs of employers. Aims: To review systematically literature... Read More about Managing employees with dementia: a systematic review.

Repeat missing child reports in Wales (2018)
Journal Article
Hutchings, E., Browne, K. D., Chou, S., & Wade, K. (2019). Repeat missing child reports in Wales. Child Abuse and Neglect, 88, 107-117. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2018.11.004

Background: There were approximately 306,000 reports of missing persons in the UK from 2012 to 2013, 64% involved children. Repeat missing incidents account for approximately 38% of reported missing incidences. Within their research Biehal et al. (20... Read More about Repeat missing child reports in Wales.

Determinants of motivation to quit in smokers screened for the early detection of lung cancer: a qualitative study (2018)
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Young, B., Vedhara, K., Kendrick, D., Littleford, R., Robertson, J. F. R., Sullivan, F. M., …in collaboration with the ECLS study team. (2018). Determinants of motivation to quit in smokers screened for the early detection of lung cancer: a qualitative study. BMC Public Health, 18(1), Article 1276. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-6211-1

Background: The promotion of smoking cessation within lung cancer screening could lead to benefits for smoking-related disease and improve cost-effectiveness of screening. Little is known about how smokers respond to lung cancer screening and how thi... Read More about Determinants of motivation to quit in smokers screened for the early detection of lung cancer: a qualitative study.

Hospital admissions and place of death of residents of care homes receiving specialist healthcare services: Protocol for a systematic review (2018)
Journal Article
Tucker, S., Buck, D., Roe, B., Hughes, J., & Challis, D. (2019). Hospital admissions and place of death of residents of care homes receiving specialist healthcare services: Protocol for a systematic review. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 75(2), 443-451. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.13866

© 2018 John Wiley & Sons Ltd Aim: To synthesize the evidence relating to the ability of specialist care home support services to prevent the hospital admission of older care home residents, including hospital admission at the end-of-life. Design: S... Read More about Hospital admissions and place of death of residents of care homes receiving specialist healthcare services: Protocol for a systematic review.

The social construction of dementia: Systematic review and metacognitive model of enculturation (2018)
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Bosco, A., Schneider, J., Coleston-Shields, D. M., Higgs, P., & Orrell, M. (2019). The social construction of dementia: Systematic review and metacognitive model of enculturation. Maturitas, 120, 12-22. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.maturitas.2018.11.009

© 2018 Elsevier B.V. Background: The stigma associated with dementia may be influenced by how the condition has been socially constructed throughout history. Objectives: To conduct a systematic review tracing the historical representations of dementi... Read More about The social construction of dementia: Systematic review and metacognitive model of enculturation.

Leaveism in English and Welsh police forces: baseline reference values (2018)
Journal Article
Houdmont, J., Elliott-Davies, M., & Donnelly, J. (2018). Leaveism in English and Welsh police forces: baseline reference values. Occupational Medicine, 68(9), 593–599. https://doi.org/10.1093/occmed/kqy147

Background: Leaveism is a recently coined term for alternative attendance behaviours to sickness absence and sickness presence. Initial studies suggest that leaveism might mask the true extent of sickness in organisations and represent a response to... Read More about Leaveism in English and Welsh police forces: baseline reference values.

Quality improvement collaborative aiming for Proactive HEAlthcare of Older People in Care Homes (PEACH): a realist evaluation protocol (2018)
Journal Article
Devi, R., Meyer, J., Banerjee, J., Goodman, C., Gladman, J. R., Dening, T., …Gordon, A. L. (2018). Quality improvement collaborative aiming for Proactive HEAlthcare of Older People in Care Homes (PEACH): a realist evaluation protocol. BMJ Open, 8(11), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023287

Introduction: This protocol describes a study of a Quality Improvement Collaborative (QIC) to support implementation and delivery of Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) in UK care homes. The QIC will be formed of health and social care professio... Read More about Quality improvement collaborative aiming for Proactive HEAlthcare of Older People in Care Homes (PEACH): a realist evaluation protocol.

(Un) doing gender for achieving equality at work: The role of corporate social responsibility (2018)
Journal Article
Torres, L. D., Jain, A., & Leka, S. (2019). (Un) doing gender for achieving equality at work: The role of corporate social responsibility. Business Strategy and Development, 2(1), 32-39. https://doi.org/10.1002/bsd2.40

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) research has been largely interested in answering the question of why more women at work is good for business, leaving unattended the question of how to achieve this, and how feminist theories can be integrated w... Read More about (Un) doing gender for achieving equality at work: The role of corporate social responsibility.

Service users’ first accounts of experiencing endings from a psychological service or therapy: a systematic review and meta-ethnographic synthesis (2018)
Journal Article
Webb, K., Schroder, T. A., & Gresswell, D. M. (2018). Service users’ first accounts of experiencing endings from a psychological service or therapy: a systematic review and meta-ethnographic synthesis. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, https://doi.org/10.1111/papt.12201

Purpose: To review and synthesis the qualitative literature on service users’ experiences of endings from a psychological service or therapy. Methods: A systematic search of the peer-reviewed literature was conducted. Studies were identified using... Read More about Service users’ first accounts of experiencing endings from a psychological service or therapy: a systematic review and meta-ethnographic synthesis.

Promoting Independence in Dementia (PRIDE): protocol for a feasibility trial of the PRIDE intervention for living well with mild dementia (2018)
Journal Article
Csipke, E., Yates, L., Moniz-Cook, E., Leung, P., Charlesworth, G., Walton, H., …Orrell, M. (2018). Promoting Independence in Dementia (PRIDE): protocol for a feasibility trial of the PRIDE intervention for living well with mild dementia. International Journal of Clinical Trials, 5(4), 177-185

Background: Dementia can lead to social exclusion, loss of identity and independence, due to deterioration in cognition and activities of daily living. The aim of the study is to investigate the feasibility of the Promoting Independence in Dementia (... Read More about Promoting Independence in Dementia (PRIDE): protocol for a feasibility trial of the PRIDE intervention for living well with mild dementia.

Conceptual framework for social connectedness in mental disorders: systematic review and narrative synthesis (2018)
Journal Article
Hare Duke, L., Dening, T., de Oliveira, D., Milner, K., & Slade, M. (2019). Conceptual framework for social connectedness in mental disorders: systematic review and narrative synthesis. Journal of Affective Disorders, 245, 188-199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2018.10.359

Background: Adults with mental disorders are at high risk of loneliness. Loneliness has been implicated in a wide variety of physical and mental health problems. Social connectedness interventions are one means to tackle loneliness but have shown mix... Read More about Conceptual framework for social connectedness in mental disorders: systematic review and narrative synthesis.

Care management in social and primary health care: The gateshead community care scheme (2018)
Book
Challis, D., Chesterman, J., Luckett, R., Stewart, K., & Chessum, R. (2018). Care management in social and primary health care: The gateshead community care scheme. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315185217

This book provides an evaluation of the Gateshead Community Care Scheme which was devised as an alternative to residential and hospital care for frail elderly people. An important feature of the scheme was the decentralization of control of resources... Read More about Care management in social and primary health care: The gateshead community care scheme.

Participatory arts in care settings: A multiple case study: Innovative practice (2018)
Journal Article
Broome, E., Dening, T., & Schneider, J. (2018). Participatory arts in care settings: A multiple case study: Innovative practice. Dementia, https://doi.org/10.1177/1471301218807554

© The Author(s) 2018. This paper describes two case studies of arts interventions in UK care settings. Visual arts and dance movement interventions were regularly held in two settings. This paper draws on data from qualitative interviews, reflective... Read More about Participatory arts in care settings: A multiple case study: Innovative practice.

Neuropsychological function at first episode in treatment-resistant psychosis: Findings from the ÆsOP-10 study (2018)
Journal Article
MacCabe, J. H., Kravariti, E., Demjaha, A., Zanelli, J., Ibrahim, F., Wise, C., …Murray, R. M. (2018). Neuropsychological function at first episode in treatment-resistant psychosis: Findings from the ÆsOP-10 study. Psychological Medicine, 49(12), 2100-2110. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291718002957

© Cambridge University Press 2018Â This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproductio... Read More about Neuropsychological function at first episode in treatment-resistant psychosis: Findings from the ÆsOP-10 study.

Effect of care assistant communication style on communicative behaviours of residents with dementia: a systematic multiple case-study (2018)
Journal Article
Stanyon, M., Griffiths, A., Gordon, A., & Thomas, S. (2019). Effect of care assistant communication style on communicative behaviours of residents with dementia: a systematic multiple case-study. Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences, 33(1), 207-214. https://doi.org/10.1111/scs.12622

Objectives: To determine whether varying the communication style of care assistants, encouraging them to use direct instructions and allowing more time for residents’ responses, influenced the communicative behaviour of care home residents living wit... Read More about Effect of care assistant communication style on communicative behaviours of residents with dementia: a systematic multiple case-study.

Reconfiguring in-patient services for adults with mental health problems: Changing the balance of care (2018)
Journal Article
Tucker, S., Hughes, J., Jolley, D., Buck, D., Hargreaves, C., & Challis, D. (2018). Reconfiguring in-patient services for adults with mental health problems: Changing the balance of care. BJPsych Open, 4(6), 420-426. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2018.60

© The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2018. Background Research suggests that a significant minority of hospital in-patients could be more appropriately supported in the community if enhanced services were available. However, little is known about the... Read More about Reconfiguring in-patient services for adults with mental health problems: Changing the balance of care.

Effects of long-term methylphenidate use on growth and blood pressure: results of the German Health Interview and Examination Survey for Children and Adolescents (KiGGS) (2018)
Journal Article
McCarthy, S., Neubert, A., Man, K. K. C., Banaschewski, T., Buitelaar, J., Carucci, S., …Wong, I. C. K. (2018). Effects of long-term methylphenidate use on growth and blood pressure: results of the German Health Interview and Examination Survey for Children and Adolescents (KiGGS). BMC Psychiatry, 18(1), Article 327. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-018-1884-7

© 2018 The Author(s). Background: Concerns have been raised over the safety of methylphenidate (MPH), with regard to adverse effects on growth and blood pressure. Our study investigates whether, and to what extent, methylphenidate use in boys with AD... Read More about Effects of long-term methylphenidate use on growth and blood pressure: results of the German Health Interview and Examination Survey for Children and Adolescents (KiGGS).

Endocrinology of transgender medicine (2018)
Journal Article
T’Sjoen, G., Arcelus, J., Gooren, L., Klink, D. T., & Tangpricha, V. (2019). Endocrinology of transgender medicine. Endocrine Reviews, 40(1), 97–117. https://doi.org/10.1210/er.2018-00011

Gender affirming treatment for transgender people requires a multidisciplinary approach in which endocrinologists play a crucial role. The aim of this paper is to review recent data on hormonal treatment of this population and its effect on physical,... Read More about Endocrinology of transgender medicine.