Outputs (18)

From classical psychodynamics to evidence synthesis: the motif of repression and a contemporary understanding of a key mediatory mechanism in psychosis (2012)
Journal Article
Fleming, M. P., & Martin, C. R. (2012). From classical psychodynamics to evidence synthesis: the motif of repression and a contemporary understanding of a key mediatory mechanism in psychosis. Current psychiatry reports, 14(3), 252-258. https://doi.org/10

The stress vulnerability model has proven to be a politically important model for two reasons. It has provided the framework that defines a temporal and dynamic process whereby a person’s uniquely determined biopsychosocial vulnerability to schizophr... Read More about From classical psychodynamics to evidence synthesis: the motif of repression and a contemporary understanding of a key mediatory mechanism in psychosis.

Nutrition and quality of life in adults receiving palliative care. (2011)
Book Chapter
Fleming, M., Martin, C. R., & Hollins Martin, C. J. (2011). Nutrition and quality of life in adults receiving palliative care. In V. R. Preedie (Ed.), Diet and Nutrition in palliative care (75-88). Routledge

Palliative care refers to treatment and care delivered when the disease/illness is not responsive to curative treatment. The World Health Organization defines palliative care as ‘an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their fam... Read More about Nutrition and quality of life in adults receiving palliative care..

Nutritional intervention and quality of life in palliative care patients (2011)
Journal Article
Fleming, M., Hollins Martin, C. J., & Martin, C. R. (2011). Nutritional intervention and quality of life in palliative care patients. British Journal of Nursing, 20, 1320-1324

Quality of life measures can be used by health professionals to assess effectiveness of nutritional interventions administered to palliative care patients. Stabilizing, maintaining and attempting to increase weight in palliative care patients through... Read More about Nutritional intervention and quality of life in palliative care patients.

Using timelines as part of recovery-focused practice in psychosis: Timelines and recovery in psychosis (2011)
Journal Article
Marland, G., McNay, L., Fleming, M., & McCaig, M. (2011). Using timelines as part of recovery-focused practice in psychosis: Timelines and recovery in psychosis. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 18(10), 869-877. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.

The value of timelines is discussed with regard to the promotion of recovery, particularly emphasizing relapse signature and concordance in medicine-taking. Recovery approaches in contemporary mental health care rely on understanding motivations, asp... Read More about Using timelines as part of recovery-focused practice in psychosis: Timelines and recovery in psychosis.

The Impact of Dietary Restrictions on Quality of Life in Kidney Disease (2011)
Book Chapter
Glover, C., Banks, P., Carson, A., Fleming, M. P., & Martin, C. R. (2011). The Impact of Dietary Restrictions on Quality of Life in Kidney Disease. In Handbook of Behavior, Food and Nutrition, 3187-3197. Springer Science + Business Media. https://doi.org

Kidney disease represents a chronic, distressing, and debilitating diagnosis with relatively few treatment options and those options that are available are associated with a number of complications that impact deleteriously on the individual patient’... Read More about The Impact of Dietary Restrictions on Quality of Life in Kidney Disease.

Issues in Quality of Life Assessment in Schizophrenia (2010)
Book Chapter
Martin, C. R., & Fleming, M. (2010). Issues in Quality of Life Assessment in Schizophrenia. In Handbook of Disease Burdens and Quality of Life Measures, 3607-3624. Springer Science + Business Media. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-78665-0_209

Quality of Life is an important aspect of everyday functioning to patients with a primary diagnosis of schizophrenia. The multifactorial nature of schizophrenia enmeshed within a biopsychosocial phenomena and the impact of pharmacological therapy mak... Read More about Issues in Quality of Life Assessment in Schizophrenia.

Low-grade psychotic symptoms in a non-clinical population: a study (2010)
Journal Article
Fleming, M., & Martin, C. R. (2010). Low-grade psychotic symptoms in a non-clinical population: a study. British Journal of Wellbeing, 1(8), 21-25

Low-grade psychotic symptoms have consistently been found to be experienced by members of the general population. Evidence suggests that they are less frequent, intrusive and severe than those experienced by people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia.... Read More about Low-grade psychotic symptoms in a non-clinical population: a study.

The utility of the Illness Perception Questionnaire in the evaluation of mental health practitioners' perspectives on patients with schizophrenia (2008)
Journal Article
Fleming, M. P., Martin, C. R., Miles, J., & Atkinson, J. (2009). The utility of the Illness Perception Questionnaire in the evaluation of mental health practitioners' perspectives on patients with schizophrenia. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice,

Rationale, aims, objectives  The Illness Perception Questionnaire (IPQ) was designed as a measure of illness perception and has been used extensively for measuring the perceptions of people with physical illness. Latterly modified versions of the IPQ... Read More about The utility of the Illness Perception Questionnaire in the evaluation of mental health practitioners' perspectives on patients with schizophrenia.