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Dose-response effects of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor monotherapy for the treatment of depression: systematic review of reviews and meta-narrative synthesis (2022)
Journal Article
Johnson, C., Maxwell, M., Williams, B., Dougall, N., & MacGillivray, S. (2022). Dose-response effects of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor monotherapy for the treatment of depression: systematic review of reviews and meta-narrative synthesis. BMJ Medicine, 1(1), Article e000017. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjmed-2021-000017

Objective: To assess and clarify the relations between selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) dose efficacy, acceptability (early treatment discontinuation (dropouts)), and tolerability (reported adverse drug effects), and critically evaluate... Read More about Dose-response effects of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor monotherapy for the treatment of depression: systematic review of reviews and meta-narrative synthesis.

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.

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.

A process evaluation of 'We Can Quit': a community-based smoking cessation intervention targeting women from areas of socio-disadvantage in Ireland (2022)
Journal Article
Darker, C. D., Burke, E., Castello, S., O'Sullivan, K., O'Connell, N., Vance, J., Reynolds, C., Buggy, A., Dougall, N., Loudon, K., Williams, P., Dobbie, F., Bauld, L., & Hayes, C. B. (2022). A process evaluation of 'We Can Quit': a community-based smoking cessation intervention targeting women from areas of socio-disadvantage in Ireland. BMC Public Health, 22(1), Article 1528. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-13957-5

Background: Smoking poses a serious risk of early preventable death and disease especially for women living with socio-economic disadvantage (SED). A smoking cessation programme, ‘We Can Quit’, was developed in Ireland tailored to SED women. This inc... Read More about A process evaluation of 'We Can Quit': a community-based smoking cessation intervention targeting women from areas of socio-disadvantage in Ireland.

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.

The effectiveness of smoking cessation interventions for socio-economically disadvantaged women: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2022)
Journal Article
O'Connell, N., Burke, E., Dobbie, F., Dougall, N., Mockler, D., Darker, C., Vance, J., Bernstein, S., Gilbert, H., Bauld, L., & Hayes, C. (2022). The effectiveness of smoking cessation interventions for socio-economically disadvantaged women: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Systematic Reviews, 11, Article 111. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-022-01922-7

Introduction
This systematic review and meta-analysis assessed the effectiveness of smoking cessation interventions among women smokers in low socio-economic status (SES) groups or women living in disadvantaged areas who are historically underserved... Read More about The effectiveness of smoking cessation interventions for socio-economically disadvantaged women: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Law enforcement and mental health: The missing middle (2022)
Book Chapter
Thomas, S., White, C., Dougall, N., & Heyman, I. (2022). Law enforcement and mental health: The missing middle. In I. Bartkowiak-Théron, J. Clover, D. Martin, R. Southby, & N. Crofts (Eds.), Law enforcement and public health: Partners for Community Safety and Wellbeing (111-123). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83913-0_8

Commonly, in the course of their duties, the police will come into contact with people who have a lived experience of mental illness. It is acknowledged that these contacts can and do happen for a wide variety of reasons and in a broad range of circu... Read More about Law enforcement and mental health: The missing middle.

The We Can Quit2 smoking cessation trial: knowledge exchange and dissemination following a community-based participatory research approach (2022)
Journal Article
Castello, S., Darker, C., Vance, J., Dougall, N., Bauld, L., & Hayes, C. B. (2022). The We Can Quit2 smoking cessation trial: knowledge exchange and dissemination following a community-based participatory research approach. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(4), Article 2333. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19042333

Background: ‘We Can Quit2’ pilot randomised controlled trial determined the feasibility [of conducting a community-based trial of We Can Quit, a peer-delivered stop-smoking programme (group support, combination nicotine replacement therapy (NRT), and... Read More about The We Can Quit2 smoking cessation trial: knowledge exchange and dissemination following a community-based participatory research approach.

Naloxone In Police Scotland: Pilot evaluation (2022)
Report
Hillen, P., Speakman, E., Dougall, N., Heyman, I., Murray, J., Jamieson, M., …McAuley, A. (2022). Naloxone In Police Scotland: Pilot evaluation. Edinburgh: Drug Deaths Taskforce, Scottish Government

This report describes the independent findings of an evaluation of a Police Scotland test of change (pilot) of the carriage and administration of naloxone as an emergency first aid measure to persons suspected of experiencing an opioid overdose. The... Read More about Naloxone In Police Scotland: Pilot evaluation.

An Application of PRECIS-2 to Evaluate Trial Design in a Pilot Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial of a Community-based Smoking Cessation Intervention for Women Living in Disadvantaged Areas of Ireland (2022)
Journal Article
Darker, C., Loudon, K., O'Connell, N., Castello, S., Burke, E., Vance, J., Reynolds, C., Buggy, A., Dougall, N., Williams, P., Dobbie, F., Bauld, L., & Hayes, C. B. (2022). An Application of PRECIS-2 to Evaluate Trial Design in a Pilot Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial of a Community-based Smoking Cessation Intervention for Women Living in Disadvantaged Areas of Ireland. Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 8(1), Article 19. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-022-00969-6

Background
“We Can Quit2” (WCQ2) was a pilot cluster randomised controlled trial with an embedded process evaluation assessing the feasibility and acceptability of ‘We Can Quit’ (WCQ), a peer-delivered community-based stop-smoking programme for wome... Read More about An Application of PRECIS-2 to Evaluate Trial Design in a Pilot Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial of a Community-based Smoking Cessation Intervention for Women Living in Disadvantaged Areas of Ireland.