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Development of theory-based text message prompts to promote engagement with a workplace digital intervention (pain-at-work toolkit) using the com-b model (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
J. Chaplin, W., Porter, L., Kouraki, A., Salimian, M., Dellow, V., Abbott-Fleming, V., Wainwright, E., Taylor, G., McNamee, P., McWilliams, D., Walsh, D., Walker-Bone, K., & Blake, H. (2025, June). Development of theory-based text message prompts to promote engagement with a workplace digital intervention (pain-at-work toolkit) using the com-b model. Presented at 17th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, Palma, Spain

Chronic pain, affecting over a quarter of the UK workforce, places a high economic burden on individuals, employers, and healthcare services. The Pain-at-Work (PAW) Toolkit is a digital intervention which aims to provide education and self-management... Read More about Development of theory-based text message prompts to promote engagement with a workplace digital intervention (pain-at-work toolkit) using the com-b model.

A comparison of the costs and patterns of expenditure for care for severe mental illness in five countries with different levels of economic development (2025)
Journal Article
Park, A.-L., Jez, O., Kilian, R., Charles, A., Kalha, J., Korde, P., Lachmann, M., Mahlke, C., Moran, G., Nakku, J., Ngakongwa, F., Niwemuhwezi, J., Nixdorf, R., Ryan, G., Shamba, D., Slade, M., & Waldmann, T. (2025). A comparison of the costs and patterns of expenditure for care for severe mental illness in five countries with different levels of economic development. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, 34, Article e40. https://doi.org/10.1017/s2045796025100140

Aims
The aim of the article is to undertake the first economic analysis exploring the costs of illness (COIs) and factors affecting COIs in people living with mental disorders using individual patient-level data across five countries with different... Read More about A comparison of the costs and patterns of expenditure for care for severe mental illness in five countries with different levels of economic development.

Five years of patient and public involvement and engagement (PPIE) in the development and evaluation of the Pain-at-Work Toolkit to support employees’ self-management of chronic pain at work (2025)
Journal Article
Blake, H., Abbott-Fleming, V., Greaves, S., Somerset, S., Chaplin, W. J., Wainwright, E., & Walker-Bone, K. (2025). Five years of patient and public involvement and engagement (PPIE) in the development and evaluation of the Pain-at-Work Toolkit to support employees’ self-management of chronic pain at work. Research Involvement and Engagement, 11, Article 81. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40900-025-00757-5

Background
Patient and public involvement and engagement (PPIE) is essential for the design, delivery and dissemination of high-quality, meaningful research. However, reporting of PPIE contributions is seldom transparent or consistent. We aimed to d... Read More about Five years of patient and public involvement and engagement (PPIE) in the development and evaluation of the Pain-at-Work Toolkit to support employees’ self-management of chronic pain at work.

Development and evaluation of a mental health recovery priority measure for cross-cultural research: Global INSPIRE (2025)
Journal Article
Kotera, Y., Hara, A., Newby, C., Miyamoto, Y., Ozaki, A., Ali, Y., Clinton, P., Felix, S., John, C., Inta, N., & Slade, M. (2025). Development and evaluation of a mental health recovery priority measure for cross-cultural research: Global INSPIRE. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-025-02946-9

Purpose
This study developed and evaluated a new personal recovery scale—Global INSPIRE—in English and Japanese, and compared responses between Japan and the UK. Personal recovery—living a satisfying and meaningful life despite mental health challen... Read More about Development and evaluation of a mental health recovery priority measure for cross-cultural research: Global INSPIRE.

A Mapping Survey of Digital Clinical Consultations in Maternity Care in England (2025)
Journal Article
Clancy, G., Evans, K., Spiby, H., Barrett, V., Sunney, C., & Evans, C. (in press). A Mapping Survey of Digital Clinical Consultations in Maternity Care in England. PLOS Digital Health,

Many areas of healthcare are exploring the use of digital technologies with the aim of improving and expanding care to service users. In England, maternity care is currently undergoing a digital transformation in line with the National Health Service... Read More about A Mapping Survey of Digital Clinical Consultations in Maternity Care in England.

The ActiveText@T2D text messaging behavioural intervention to increase physical activity in adults with type 2 diabetes: a prospective single-arm feasibility trial (2025)
Journal Article
Blake, H., Alsahli, M. J., Chaplin, W. J., & Konstantinidis, S. T. (in press). The ActiveText@T2D text messaging behavioural intervention to increase physical activity in adults with type 2 diabetes: a prospective single-arm feasibility trial. PLOS Digital Health,

Physical activity is a core aspect of type 2 diabetes (T2DM) self-management, but most Saudi adults do not meet physical activity recommendations and there are no culturally tailored interventions to promote physical activity in Saudi adults with T2D... Read More about The ActiveText@T2D text messaging behavioural intervention to increase physical activity in adults with type 2 diabetes: a prospective single-arm feasibility trial.

A realist review of acute pain management in children and young people attended by ambulance (2025)
Journal Article
Whitley, G., Nicholls, G., Baliousis, M., Bujor, T., Eaton, G., Hodgson, J., Leighton, P., Lord, B., Ortega, M., Redsell, S., Siriwarden, N., & Sumera, K. (2025). A realist review of acute pain management in children and young people attended by ambulance. Paramedicine, https://doi.org/10.1177/27536386251356690

Acute pain management in children and young people (CYP) attended by ambulance services is a significant challenge due to the complex nature of pain, the variation of approach needed across the age range, and the unpredictability of the environment.... Read More about A realist review of acute pain management in children and young people attended by ambulance.

Psychiatric Comorbidity in Intellectual Developmental Disorders: A Systematic Review (2025)
Journal Article
Astilleros Martínez, B., Pilar Martin, M., & Kotera, Y. (2025). Psychiatric Comorbidity in Intellectual Developmental Disorders: A Systematic Review. British Journal of Hospital Medicine, https://doi.org/10.12968/hmed.2024.0686

Aims/Background Intellectual developmental disorders (IDD) are characterized by significant limitations in intellectual functioning and adaptive behavior, affecting conceptual, social, and practical skills. They impact 1% of the global population, w... Read More about Psychiatric Comorbidity in Intellectual Developmental Disorders: A Systematic Review.

Employees' experiences of chronic pain in the workplace (2025)
Journal Article
Blake, H., Giannoulatou, M., & Chaplin, W. (2025). Employees' experiences of chronic pain in the workplace. Occupational Medicine, Article kqaf052. https://doi.org/10.1093/occmed/kqaf052

This qualitative study focused on how people experience chronic pain at work. Employees with chronic pain placed high value on flexible and hybrid working, and employee support networks. Inequity in access to protective workplace policies, occupation... Read More about Employees' experiences of chronic pain in the workplace.

Factors influencing physical healthcare quality for people with intellectual disability: the psychiatry multidisciplinary team perspective (2025)
Journal Article
Majid, M., Rennick-Egglestone, S., Harris, B., Roy, A., & Crawford, H. (2025). Factors influencing physical healthcare quality for people with intellectual disability: the psychiatry multidisciplinary team perspective. BJPsych Open, 11(4), Article e137. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2025.10051

Background There is a need for better collaborative care between services to improve healthcare provision for people with intellectual disabilities (ID). In the UK, the learning disabilities (LD) psychiatry multidisciplinary team (MDT) is a specialis... Read More about Factors influencing physical healthcare quality for people with intellectual disability: the psychiatry multidisciplinary team perspective.

Establishing proof-of-concept for the pain-at-work toolkit: a digital intervention to support people at work with chronic pain (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Blake, H., Abbott-Fleming, V., J. Chaplin, W., Wainwright, E., Taylor, G., McNamee, P., McWilliams, D., Walsh, D., & Walker-Bone, K. (2025, June). Establishing proof-of-concept for the pain-at-work toolkit: a digital intervention to support people at work with chronic pain. Presented at 17th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, Palma, Spain

Chronic pain affects over a quarter of the workforce with high economic burden for individuals, employers and healthcare services. Providing education and advice to people with chronic pain about self-management strategies is recommended within clini... Read More about Establishing proof-of-concept for the pain-at-work toolkit: a digital intervention to support people at work with chronic pain.

Assessing the fidelity of adjunct opt-in support calls for participants in the pain-at-work feasibility trial (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
J. Chaplin, W., Porter, L., Holmes, J., Abbott-Fleming, V., Wainwright, E., Taylor, G., McNamee, P., McWilliams, D., Walsh, D., Walker-Bone, K., & Blake, H. (2025, June). Assessing the fidelity of adjunct opt-in support calls for participants in the pain-at-work feasibility trial. Presented at 17th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, Palma, Spain

Chronic pain affects over a quarter of the UK workforce with a high economic burden for individuals, employers and healthcare services. The Pain-at-Work (PAW) feasibility trial is a cluster randomised controlled trial (cRCT) to assess the feasibility... Read More about Assessing the fidelity of adjunct opt-in support calls for participants in the pain-at-work feasibility trial.

Effectiveness of peer support for people with severe mental health conditions in high-, middle-and low-income countries: a multicentre randomised controlled trial (UPSIDES-RCT) (2025)
Journal Article
Puschner, B., Nakku, J., Hiltensperger, R., Wolf, P., Adler Ben-Dor, I., Bugeiga, F., Charles, A., Gai Meir, L., Garber-Epstein, P., Goldfarb, Y., Grayzman, A., Hadas-Grundman, S., Haun, M., Heuer, I., Iboma, B., Kalha, J., Kamwaga, L., Korde, P., Kotera, Y., Krumm, S., …Slade, M. (2025). Effectiveness of peer support for people with severe mental health conditions in high-, middle-and low-income countries: a multicentre randomised controlled trial (UPSIDES-RCT). British Journal of Psychiatry, https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2025.10299

Background
Some trials have evaluated peer support for people with mental ill-health in high-income, mainly English-speaking countries, but the quality of the evidence is weak.
Aims
We investigated the effectiveness of UPSIDES peer support in high... Read More about Effectiveness of peer support for people with severe mental health conditions in high-, middle-and low-income countries: a multicentre randomised controlled trial (UPSIDES-RCT).

Cross-Cultural Adaptation of the Brief Form of the Interpersonal Competence Questionnaire (ICQ-15) into Japanese (2025)
Journal Article
Martínez-Rives, N. L., Martín Chaparro, P., Asano, K., Aliri Lazcano, J., Goñi-Balentziaga, O., Kaneda, Y., Hara, A., & Kotera, Y. (2025). Cross-Cultural Adaptation of the Brief Form of the Interpersonal Competence Questionnaire (ICQ-15) into Japanese. Societies, 15(7), Article 179. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc15070179

(1) Background: This study aimed to translate and develop a culturally adapted Japanese version of the brief form of the Interpersonal Competence Questionnaire (ICQ-15) and to evaluate its psychometric properties for Japanese adults. (2) Methods: In... Read More about Cross-Cultural Adaptation of the Brief Form of the Interpersonal Competence Questionnaire (ICQ-15) into Japanese.

Assessing change and establishing empirical cutoffs: the Brief INSPIRE-O measure for personal recovery in mental health services (2025)
Journal Article
Moeller, S. B., Larsen, P. V., Austin, S. F., Slade, M., Arendt, ·. I.-M. T. P., Kring, L., & Simonsen, S. (2025). Assessing change and establishing empirical cutoffs: the Brief INSPIRE-O measure for personal recovery in mental health services. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-025-02948-7

Introduction
Personal recovery in mental health services, encouraged by the World Health Organization, has gained significance in research and clinical settings. However, measuring personal recovery remains challenging due to the lack of universally... Read More about Assessing change and establishing empirical cutoffs: the Brief INSPIRE-O measure for personal recovery in mental health services.

360-Degree Videos in Healthcare: A Bibliometric Analysis of Research Trends and Emerging Topics (2025)
Journal Article
Alammary, M. A., Halliday, L. E., & Konstantinidis, S. T. (2025). 360-Degree Videos in Healthcare: A Bibliometric Analysis of Research Trends and Emerging Topics. Virtual Worlds, 4(3), Article 29. https://doi.org/10.3390/virtualworlds4030029

This bibliometric analysis aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the use of 360-degree video in healthcare, identifying key research trends and emerging topics in this field. Data was sourced from the Web of Science Core Collection, Scopus, and... Read More about 360-Degree Videos in Healthcare: A Bibliometric Analysis of Research Trends and Emerging Topics.

The PROSPECT Delphi Study: Prioritising methodological research questions for scoping reviews, mapping reviews and evidence and gap maps for health research: a protocol (2025)
Journal Article
Pollock, D., Hasanoff, S., McBride, G., Kanukula, R., Tricco, A., Khalil, H., Campbell, F., Jia, R., Alexander, L., Peters, M., Vieira, A., Aromataris, E., Nunn, J., Saran, A., Evans, C., Godfrey, C., Pieper, D., Brandao De Moraes, B. L., Colquhoun, H., Devane, D., …Davies, E. (in press). The PROSPECT Delphi Study: Prioritising methodological research questions for scoping reviews, mapping reviews and evidence and gap maps for health research: a protocol. BMJ Open,

Introduction: Scoping reviews, mapping reviews and evidence and gap maps (collectively known as ‘big picture reviews’) in health continue to gain popularity within the evidence ecosystem. These big-picture reviews are beneficial for policymakers, gui... Read More about The PROSPECT Delphi Study: Prioritising methodological research questions for scoping reviews, mapping reviews and evidence and gap maps for health research: a protocol.

Barriers and Facilitators to Smoking Cessation Among University Students: A Scoping Review (2025)
Journal Article
Alanazi, F., Mohamed, W. J. M., Konstantinidis, S. T., & Blake, H. (2025). Barriers and Facilitators to Smoking Cessation Among University Students: A Scoping Review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 22(6), Article 947. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph22060947

University students are a vulnerable population for smoking initiation and continuation, often facing unique challenges in accessing cessation support. This scoping review aimed to map existing literature on the barriers and facilitators to smoking c... Read More about Barriers and Facilitators to Smoking Cessation Among University Students: A Scoping Review.

Preventing Adult Sexual and Labor Exploitation in the UK: Findings from a Participatory Evidence Synthesis of What Does or Could Work (2025)
Journal Article
Such, E., Aminu, H., Ariyo, M. D., Barnes, A., Brierley, R., & Hayes, K. (2025). Preventing Adult Sexual and Labor Exploitation in the UK: Findings from a Participatory Evidence Synthesis of What Does or Could Work. Journal of Human Trafficking, 1-30. https://doi.org/10.1080/23322705.2025.2510142

Preventing trafficking and exploitation is an elusive global goal. We completed a participatory evidence synthesis to explore what does or could work in preventing labor and sexual exploitation among UK adults. Electronic database (ASSIA, IBSS, Scopu... Read More about Preventing Adult Sexual and Labor Exploitation in the UK: Findings from a Participatory Evidence Synthesis of What Does or Could Work.