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The impact of childhood adversity and mental health episodes prior to young person suicide (CHASE): a longitudinal case-control individual-level linked hospital data study, Scotland UK 1981-2017 (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dougall, N., Savinc, J., Maxwell, M., Karatzias, T., O’Connor, R. C., Williams, B., John, A., Cheyne, H., Fyvie, C., Bisson, J. I., Hibberd, C., Abbott-Smith, S., & Nolan, L. (2022, November). The impact of childhood adversity and mental health episodes prior to young person suicide (CHASE): a longitudinal case-control individual-level linked hospital data study, Scotland UK 1981-2017. Poster presented at Annual Scientific Meeting of the NRS Mental Health Network: ‘Changing Minds: Rethinking mental health research’, Glasgow

This poster depicts some main findings from a national linked data study of hospital and death records for those young people who have died by suicide. The study summarised in-patient admissions related to childhood adversity and mental health condit... Read More about The impact of childhood adversity and mental health episodes prior to young person suicide (CHASE): a longitudinal case-control individual-level linked hospital data study, Scotland UK 1981-2017.

Differences in end-of-life health service usage between people who died at home before and during the pandemic in Scotland (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Savinc, J., & Atherton, I. Differences in end-of-life health service usage between people who died at home before and during the pandemic in Scotland. Presented at International Population Data Linkage Conference 2022

Objectives To compare health service usage of people who died at home in Scotland during the Covid-19 pandemic to the population who died at home prior to the pandemic, as a proxy measure of end-of-life care availability during the pandemic. Appr... Read More about Differences in end-of-life health service usage between people who died at home before and during the pandemic in Scotland.

Childhood adversity, mental health and suicide (CHASE): a longitudinal case-control linked data study of lifetime inpatient records associated with suicide (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Savinc, J., Dougall, N., Maxwell, M., Karatzias, T., O'Connor, R., Williams, B., John, A., Cheyne, H., Fyvie, C., Bisson, J., Hibberd, C., Abbott-Smith, S., & Nolan, L. Childhood adversity, mental health and suicide (CHASE): a longitudinal case-control linked data study of lifetime inpatient records associated with suicide. Presented at International Population Data Linkage Conference 2022

Objectives Childhood adversity (CA) carries an increased risk of developing later mental health (MH) problems and suicidal behaviour. This study aimed to summarise lifetime hospital attendances for CA and MH in young people who later died by suicide... Read More about Childhood adversity, mental health and suicide (CHASE): a longitudinal case-control linked data study of lifetime inpatient records associated with suicide.

Reducing patient delay in acute coronary syndrome: Randomized controlled trial testing effect of behaviour change intervention on intentions to seek help (2022)
Journal Article
Farquharson, B., Johnston, M., Williams, B., Smith, K., Dombrowski, S., Jones, C., Treweek, S., Dougall, N., Grindle, M., Savinc, J., & Abyhankar, P. (2023). Reducing patient delay in acute coronary syndrome: Randomized controlled trial testing effect of behaviour change intervention on intentions to seek help. British Journal of Health Psychology, 28(1), 188-207. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjhp.12619

Objectives The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of a behaviour change intervention to reduce patient delay with symptoms of acute coronary syndrome. Design A 3-arm web-based, parallel randomized controlled trial. Methods The in... Read More about Reducing patient delay in acute coronary syndrome: Randomized controlled trial testing effect of behaviour change intervention on intentions to seek help.

Differences in end-of-life hospitalisation patterns between people who died at home before and during the pandemic in Scotland (Preliminary results) (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Savinc, J., & Atherton, I. (2022, June). Differences in end-of-life hospitalisation patterns between people who died at home before and during the pandemic in Scotland (Preliminary results). Paper presented at 19th International Medical Geography Symposium (IMGS 2022), Edinburgh

Deaths at home in Scotland increased by approximately 36% in 2020 and 2021 compared to the 2015-2019 period. Only about 2% of home deaths were Covid-related. This represented a shift of deaths from hospital to home during the pandemic and entailed a... Read More about Differences in end-of-life hospitalisation patterns between people who died at home before and during the pandemic in Scotland (Preliminary results).

Childhood adversity, mental health and suicide (CHASE): a longitudinal case-control linked data study of lifetime inpatient records associated with suicide (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Savinc, J. (2022, March). Childhood adversity, mental health and suicide (CHASE): a longitudinal case-control linked data study of lifetime inpatient records associated with suicide. Paper presented at 2022 Mental Health Data Science meeting, Online

Background Childhood adversity (CA) carries an increased risk of developing later mental health (MH) problems and suicidal behaviour. This study aimed to summarise hospital attendances for CA and MH in young people who later died by suicide. Method... Read More about Childhood adversity, mental health and suicide (CHASE): a longitudinal case-control linked data study of lifetime inpatient records associated with suicide.