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Increasing uptake of National Health Service Health Checks in primary care: a pragmatic randomized controlled trial of enhanced invitation letters in Northamptonshire, England (2019)
Journal Article
Sallis, A., Gold, N., Agbebiyi, A., James, R. J. .., Berry, D., Bonus, A., …Chadborn, T. (2019). Increasing uptake of National Health Service Health Checks in primary care: a pragmatic randomized controlled trial of enhanced invitation letters in Northamptonshire, England. Journal of Public Health, https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdz134

Disease Activity Flares and Pain Flares in an early rheumatoid arthritis inception cohort; characteristics, antecedents and sequelae (2019)
Journal Article
McWilliams, D. F., Rahman, S., James, R., Ferguson, E., Kiely, P., Young, A., & Walsh, D. (2019). Disease Activity Flares and Pain Flares in an early rheumatoid arthritis inception cohort; characteristics, antecedents and sequelae. BMC Rheumatology, 3, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41927-019-0100-9

Background RA flares are common and disabling. They are described in terms of worsening inflammation but pain and inflammation are often discordant. To inform treatment decisions, we investigated whether inflammatory and pain flares are discrete ent... Read More about Disease Activity Flares and Pain Flares in an early rheumatoid arthritis inception cohort; characteristics, antecedents and sequelae.

The dynamic relationship between pain, depression and cognitive function in a sample of newly diagnosed arthritic adults: a cross-lagged panel model (2019)
Journal Article
James, R. J. E., & Ferguson, E. (2020). The dynamic relationship between pain, depression and cognitive function in a sample of newly diagnosed arthritic adults: a cross-lagged panel model. Psychological Medicine, 50(10), 1663-1671. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291719001673

Background: Pain and depression are common in the population and co-morbid with each other. Both are also predictive of one another other, and are also associated with cognitive function; people who are in greater pain and more depressed respectively... Read More about The dynamic relationship between pain, depression and cognitive function in a sample of newly diagnosed arthritic adults: a cross-lagged panel model.

Web Scraping Using R (2019)
Journal Article
Bradley, A., & James, R. J. E. (2019). Web Scraping Using R. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 2(3), 264-270. https://doi.org/10.1177/2515245919859535

The ubiquitous use of the Internet in daily life means that there are now large reservoirs of data that can provide fresh insights into human behavior. One of the key barriers preventing more researchers from utilizing online data is that they do not... Read More about Web Scraping Using R.

Disease Activity Flares and Pain Flares in an early rheumatoid arthritis inception cohort; characteristics, antecedants and sequelae (2019)
Presentation / Conference
McWilliams, D., Rahman, S., James, R., Ferguson, E., Kiely, P., Young, A., & Walsh, D. (2019, April). Disease Activity Flares and Pain Flares in an early rheumatoid arthritis inception cohort; characteristics, antecedants and sequelae. Poster presented at Rheumatology 2019

Background RA flares are common and disabling. They are described in terms of worsening pain, swelling, or other symptoms. We aimed to determine characteristics, antecedants and sequelae of painful and inflammatory flare subtypes during the first 11... Read More about Disease Activity Flares and Pain Flares in an early rheumatoid arthritis inception cohort; characteristics, antecedants and sequelae.

How are major gambling brands using Twitter? (2019)
Journal Article
James, R. J. E., & Bradley, A. (2019). How are major gambling brands using Twitter?. International Gambling Studies, 19(3), 451-470. https://doi.org/10.1080/14459795.2019.1606927

This paper is the first to compare how major gambling brands are using the popular social media platform Twitter, looking at how gambling brands vary in the frequency of their messages, the content of their tweets and engagement with their Twitter ac... Read More about How are major gambling brands using Twitter?.

Trajectories of pain predict disabilities affecting daily living in arthritis (2019)
Journal Article
James, R. J., Walsh, D. A., & Ferguson, E. (2019). Trajectories of pain predict disabilities affecting daily living in arthritis. British Journal of Health Psychology, 24(3), 465-496. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjhp.12364

Purpose: To examine the interplay between pain and disability in arthritis when adjusting for patient heterogeneity in pain progression. There is consistent evidence to suggest that people experience osteoarthritis heterogeneously, with subgroups of... Read More about Trajectories of pain predict disabilities affecting daily living in arthritis.

Gambling on smartphones: a study of a potentially addictive behaviour in a naturalistic setting (2019)
Journal Article
James, R. J., O 'Malley, C., & Tunney, R. J. (2019). Gambling on smartphones: a study of a potentially addictive behaviour in a naturalistic setting. European Addiction Research, 25(1), 30-40. https://doi.org/10.1159/000495663

Smartphone users engage extensively with their devices, on an intermittent basis for short periods of time. These patterns of behaviour have the potential to make mobile gambling especially perseverative. This paper reports the first empirical study... Read More about Gambling on smartphones: a study of a potentially addictive behaviour in a naturalistic setting.