All Outputs (7)

Accelerating the development of a psychological intervention to restore treatment decision-making capacity in patients with schizophrenia-spectrum disorder: An umbrella trial (2025)
Journal Article
Hutton, P., Taylor, C. D., Kelly, J., Emsley, R., Vikram, A., Alexander, C. H., McCann, A., Saddington, D., Eliasson, E., Burke, J., Harper, S., Karatzias, T., Taylor, P. J., Watson, A., Dougall, N., Stavert, J., O'Rourke, S., Glasgow, A., Murphy, R., Palmer, K., …Woodrow, A. (2025). Accelerating the development of a psychological intervention to restore treatment decision-making capacity in patients with schizophrenia-spectrum disorder: An umbrella trial. Schizophrenia Research, 282, 184-197. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2025.06.018

Introduction
Many individuals with schizophrenia-spectrum disorder (‘psychosis’) lack capacity to make decisions about psychiatric treatment (‘incapacity’), however we lack robust evidence from clinical trials on interventions to improve it. To acce... Read More about Accelerating the development of a psychological intervention to restore treatment decision-making capacity in patients with schizophrenia-spectrum disorder: An umbrella trial.

COVID-19 Public Inquiry: Research Report for Portfolio 3: The Provision of Health and Social Care: Social Care for Children (2025)
Report
McKay, C., Stavert, J., Breen, C., McKay, E., Spassiani, N., Rose, S., Petropoulou, E., Davey, J., Sterman, J., Thompson, K., Higgins, A., Woodrow, A., & King, M. COVID-19 Public Inquiry: Research Report for Portfolio 3: The Provision of Health and Social Care: Social Care for Children. Scottish COVID-19 Public Inquiry

This report reviews available evidence regarding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on social care for children in Scotland, focusing on the strategic response of the Scottish Government. It was commissioned by the Scottish COVID-19 Public Inquiry,... Read More about COVID-19 Public Inquiry: Research Report for Portfolio 3: The Provision of Health and Social Care: Social Care for Children.

COVID-19 Public Inquiry: Research Report for Portfolio 3 The Provision of Health and Social Care Services Adult Social Care (2024)
Report
McKay, C., Stavert, J., Johnston, L., Murray, J., Rek, J., Breen, C., Zarins, A., Woodrow, A., Anderson, L., & King, M. (2024). COVID-19 Public Inquiry: Research Report for Portfolio 3 The Provision of Health and Social Care Services Adult Social Care. Scottish COVID-19 Public Inquiry

Report commissioned by Scottish COVID-19 Public Inquiry into the Scottish Government's strategic response to the COVID pandemic in relation to the provision of healthcare services and social care support to adults, excluding residential care

Accelerating the development of a psychological intervention to restore treatment decision-making capacity in patients with schizophrenia-spectrum disorder: a study protocol for a multi-site, assessor-blinded, pilot Umbrella trial (the DEC:IDES trial) (2023)
Journal Article
Hutton, P., Kelly, J., Taylor, C. D., Williams, B., Emsley, R., Alexander, C. H., Vikram, A., Saddington, D., McCann, A., Burke, J., Eliasson, E., Harper, S., Karatzias, T., Taylor, P. J., Watson, A., Dougall, N., Stavert, J., O’Rourke, S., Glasgow, A., Murphy, R., …Woodrow, A. (2023). Accelerating the development of a psychological intervention to restore treatment decision-making capacity in patients with schizophrenia-spectrum disorder: a study protocol for a multi-site, assessor-blinded, pilot Umbrella trial (the DEC:IDES trial). Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 9, Article 117. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-023-01323-0

Background:
A high proportion of patients diagnosed with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders will at some point in their lives be assessed as not having the capacity to make their own decisions about pharmacological treatment or inpatient care (‘capaci... Read More about Accelerating the development of a psychological intervention to restore treatment decision-making capacity in patients with schizophrenia-spectrum disorder: a study protocol for a multi-site, assessor-blinded, pilot Umbrella trial (the DEC:IDES trial).

Trauma and psychosis: synthesising evidence, network modelling and expanding into an interventionist-causal paradigm to investigate mediating mechanisms (2021)
Thesis
Woodrow, A. Trauma and psychosis: synthesising evidence, network modelling and expanding into an interventionist-causal paradigm to investigate mediating mechanisms. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2851957

The link between childhood trauma and the development of psychosis in adulthood is already well established, but factors which explain this relationship are currently less well understood. This thesis firstly aims to review the current state of evide... Read More about Trauma and psychosis: synthesising evidence, network modelling and expanding into an interventionist-causal paradigm to investigate mediating mechanisms.

Effectiveness of interpersonal psychotherapy for community living depressed women involved with the justice system (2021)
Journal Article
Black, S., Bowyer, D., Graham, P., Irvine Fitzpatrick, L., Pate, K., Woodrow, A., & Schwannauer, M. (2021). Effectiveness of interpersonal psychotherapy for community living depressed women involved with the justice system. Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, 31(3), 183-197. https://doi.org/10.1002/cbm.2199

Background
Despite the prevalence of depression among women in the justice system, and its potentially significant consequences, there is a dearth of studies investigating psychological treatments for depression in this context, especially outside p... Read More about Effectiveness of interpersonal psychotherapy for community living depressed women involved with the justice system.

Decision-making ability in psychosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the magnitude, specificity and correlates of impaired performance on the Iowa and Cambridge Gambling Tasks (2018)
Journal Article
Woodrow, A., Sparks, S., Bobrovskaia, V., Paterson, C., Murphy, P., & Hutton, P. (2019). Decision-making ability in psychosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the magnitude, specificity and correlates of impaired performance on the Iowa and Cambridge Gambling Tasks. Psychological Medicine, 49(1), 32-48. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291718002660

To identify factors which may help or hinder decision-making ability in people with psychosis, we did a systematic review and meta-analysis of their performance on the Iowa and Cambridge Gambling Tasks. Analysis of 47 samples found they had moderatel... Read More about Decision-making ability in psychosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the magnitude, specificity and correlates of impaired performance on the Iowa and Cambridge Gambling Tasks.