BEVERLEY BROWN's Outputs (11)

Pet ownership and grief - Exploring how pet ownership effects owners' mental wellbeing during times of grief, a qualitative pilot study (2023)
Journal Article
French, B., Anctil, Z., Brown, B., & Hall, S. (2023). Pet ownership and grief - Exploring how pet ownership effects owners' mental wellbeing during times of grief, a qualitative pilot study. Pet Behaviour Science, 15, 1-19

Animal-assisted interventions (AAIs) have exhibited encouraging outcomes in enhancing human mental health. However, research has investigated the potential benefits of untrained pets for human mental wellbeing, as training animals for AAI can be cost... Read More about Pet ownership and grief - Exploring how pet ownership effects owners' mental wellbeing during times of grief, a qualitative pilot study.

Online Remote Behavioural Intervention for Tics in 9 to 17-year-olds: the ORBIT RCT with embedded process and economic evaluation (2023)
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Hollis, C., Hall, C. L., Khan, K., Le Novere, M., Marston, L., Jones, R., Hunter, R., Brown, B. J., Sanderson, C., Andrén, P., Bennett, S. D., Chamberlain, L. R., Bethan Davies, E., Evans, A., Kouzoupi, N., McKenzie, C., Heyman, I., Kilgariff, J., Glazebrook, C., Mataix-Cols, D., …Murphy, T. (2023). Online Remote Behavioural Intervention for Tics in 9 to 17-year-olds: the ORBIT RCT with embedded process and economic evaluation. Health Technology Assessment, 27(18), 1-120. https://doi.org/10.3310/cpms3211

Background:

Behavioural therapy for tics is difficult to access, and little is known about its effectiveness when delivered online.

Objective:

To investigate the clinical and cost-effectiveness of an online-delivered, therapist and parent-... Read More about Online Remote Behavioural Intervention for Tics in 9 to 17-year-olds: the ORBIT RCT with embedded process and economic evaluation.

A national survey of current provision of waiting list initiatives offered by child and adolescent mental health services in England (2023)
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Valentine, A. Z., Sayal, K., Brown, B. J., & Hall, C. L. (2023). A national survey of current provision of waiting list initiatives offered by child and adolescent mental health services in England. British Journal of Child Health, 4(2), 78-83. https://doi.org/10.12968/chhe.2023.4.2.78

Background: Children and young people accessing child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) often report delays in receiving an assessment and commencing treatment. In 2018, the James Lind Alliance acknowledged developing CAMHS waiting-list i... Read More about A national survey of current provision of waiting list initiatives offered by child and adolescent mental health services in England.

Long-term clinical and cost-effectiveness of a therapist-supported online remote behavioural intervention for tics in children and adolescents: extended 12- and 18-month follow-up of a single-blind randomised controlled trial (2023)
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Hollis, C., Hall, C. L., Khan, K., Jones, R., Marston, L., Le Novere, M., …Murphy, T. (2023). Long-term clinical and cost-effectiveness of a therapist-supported online remote behavioural intervention for tics in children and adolescents: extended 12- and 18-month follow-up of a single-blind randomised controlled trial. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 64(6), 941-951. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13756

Background: Little is known about the long-term effectiveness of behavioural therapy for tics. We aimed to assess the long-term clinical and cost-effectiveness of online therapist-supported exposure and response prevention (ERP) therapy for tics 12 a... Read More about Long-term clinical and cost-effectiveness of a therapist-supported online remote behavioural intervention for tics in children and adolescents: extended 12- and 18-month follow-up of a single-blind randomised controlled trial.

The COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on tic symptoms in children and young people: a prospective cohort study (2022)
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Hall, C. L., Marston, L., Khan, K., Brown, B. J., Sanderson, C., Andrén, P., …Murphy, T. (2023). The COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on tic symptoms in children and young people: a prospective cohort study. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 54(6), 1499–1509. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-022-01348-1

To understand how children and young people with tic disorders were affected by COVID-19, we compared pre and during pandemic scores on the Yale Global Tic Severity Scale (YGTSS). Participants were young people (N = 112; male:78%; 9–17 years) randomi... Read More about The COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on tic symptoms in children and young people: a prospective cohort study.

Therapist-supported online remote behavioural intervention for tics in children and adolescents in England (ORBIT): a multicentre, parallel group, single-blind, randomised controlled trial (2021)
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Hollis, C., Hall, C. L., Jones, R., Marston, L., Novere, M. L., Hunter, R., …Murray, E. (2021). Therapist-supported online remote behavioural intervention for tics in children and adolescents in England (ORBIT): a multicentre, parallel group, single-blind, randomised controlled trial. Lancet Psychiatry, 8(10), 871-882. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366%2821%2900235-2

Background: Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) is a form of behavioural therapy for tics; however, its effectiveness remains uncertain. We aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of internet-delivered, therapist-supported, and parent-assisted ERP for... Read More about Therapist-supported online remote behavioural intervention for tics in children and adolescents in England (ORBIT): a multicentre, parallel group, single-blind, randomised controlled trial.

Opportunities and challenges of delivering digital clinical trials: lessons learned from a randomised controlled trial of an online behavioural intervention for children and young people (2020)
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Hall, C. L., Sanderson, C., Brown, B. J., Andrén, P., Bennett, S., Chamberlain, L. R., …Murray, E. (2020). Opportunities and challenges of delivering digital clinical trials: lessons learned from a randomised controlled trial of an online behavioural intervention for children and young people. Trials, 21(1), Article 1011. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-020-04902-1

Background: Despite being the gold standard of research to determine effectiveness, randomised controlled trials (RCTs) often struggle with participant recruitment, engagement and retention. These issues may be exacerbated when recruiting vulnerable... Read More about Opportunities and challenges of delivering digital clinical trials: lessons learned from a randomised controlled trial of an online behavioural intervention for children and young people.

A systematic review evaluating the implementation of technologies to assess, monitor and treat neurodevelopmental disorders: A map of the current evidence (2020)
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Valentine, A. Z., Brown, B. J., Groom, M. J., Young, E., Hollis, C., & Hall, C. L. (2020). A systematic review evaluating the implementation of technologies to assess, monitor and treat neurodevelopmental disorders: A map of the current evidence. Clinical Psychology Review, 80, 101870. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2020.101870

Technology-based interventions provide an attractive option for improving service provision for neurodevelopmental disorders (NDD), for example, widening access to interventions, objective assessment, and monitoring; however, it is unclear whether th... Read More about A systematic review evaluating the implementation of technologies to assess, monitor and treat neurodevelopmental disorders: A map of the current evidence.

Protocol for the Process Evaluation of the Online Remote Behavioural Intervention for Tics (ORBIT) randomized controlled trial for children and young people (2020)
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Khan, K., Hollis, C., Hall, C. L., Davies, E. B., Mataix-Cols, D., Andrén, P., …Glazebrook, C. (2020). Protocol for the Process Evaluation of the Online Remote Behavioural Intervention for Tics (ORBIT) randomized controlled trial for children and young people. Trials, 21(1), Article 6. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-019-3974-3

Background

Process evaluations are an important component in the interpretation and understanding of outcomes in trials. The Online Remote Behavioural Intervention for Tics (ORBIT) study is a randomized controlled trial evaluating the effectivenes... Read More about Protocol for the Process Evaluation of the Online Remote Behavioural Intervention for Tics (ORBIT) randomized controlled trial for children and young people.

Investigating a therapist-guided, parent-assisted remote digital behavioural intervention for tics in children and adolescents: 'Online Remote Behavioural Intervention for Tics' (ORBIT) trial: protocol of an internal pilot study and single randomised controlled trial (2019)
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Hall, C. L., Davies, E. B., Andrén, P., Murphy, T., Bennett, S., Brown, B. J., …Hollis, C. (2019). Investigating a therapist-guided, parent-assisted remote digital behavioural intervention for tics in children and adolescents: 'Online Remote Behavioural Intervention for Tics' (ORBIT) trial: protocol of an internal pilot study and single randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open, 9(1), Article e027583. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-027583

Introduction

Tourette syndrome and chronic tic disorder are common, disabling childhood-onset conditions. Guidelines recommend that behavioural therapy should be offered as first-line treatment for children with tics. However, there are very few t... Read More about Investigating a therapist-guided, parent-assisted remote digital behavioural intervention for tics in children and adolescents: 'Online Remote Behavioural Intervention for Tics' (ORBIT) trial: protocol of an internal pilot study and single randomised controlled trial.

A Neural Basis for Contagious Yawning (2017)
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Brown, B. J., Kim, S., Saunders, H., Bachmann, C., Thompson, J., Ropar, D., …Jackson, G. M. (2017). A Neural Basis for Contagious Yawning. Current Biology, 27(17), 2713-2717.e2. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2017.07.062

Contagious yawning, in which yawning is triggered involuntarily when we observe another person yawn, is a common form of echophenomena—the automatic imitation of another’s words (echolalia) or actions (echopraxia) [1]. The neural basis for echophenom... Read More about A Neural Basis for Contagious Yawning.