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Dehydration in hospital admitted stroke patients: detection, frequency and association (2012)
Journal Article
Rowat, A., Graham, C., & Dennis, M. (2012). Dehydration in hospital admitted stroke patients: detection, frequency and association. Stroke, 43(3), 857-859. https://doi.org/10.1161/STROKEAHA.111.640821

Background and Purpose—We aimed to determine the frequency of dehydration, risk factors, and associations with outcomes at hospital discharge after stroke.

Methods—We linked clinical data from stroke patients in 2 prospective hospital registers w... Read More about Dehydration in hospital admitted stroke patients: detection, frequency and association.

Embracing patient choice - Reply (2012)
Journal Article
Morrison, A. P., Hutton, P., Shiers, D., & Turkington, D. (2012). Embracing patient choice - Reply. British Journal of Psychiatry, 201, 494-495

Reply to the article - "Embracing patient choice" - Lobban, F in The British Journal of Psychiatry Dec 2012, 201 (6) 494; DOI: 10.1192/bjp.201.6.494

People with Aphasia: Capacity to Consent, Research Participation and Intervention Inequalities (2012)
Journal Article
Brady, M. C., Fredrick, A., & Williams, B. (2013). People with Aphasia: Capacity to Consent, Research Participation and Intervention Inequalities. International Journal of Stroke, 8(3), 193-196. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-4949.2012.00900.x

Of 14 randomized controlled trials included in the recent Cochrane review of the evidence relating to information provision after stroke, only one included people with aphasia with the remainder either excluding this patient sub-group (10/14 trials)... Read More about People with Aphasia: Capacity to Consent, Research Participation and Intervention Inequalities.

Self-attacking and self-reassurance in persecutory delusions: A comparison of healthy, depressed and paranoid individuals (2012)
Journal Article
Hutton, P., Kelly, J., Lowens, I., Taylor, P. J., & Tai, S. (2013). Self-attacking and self-reassurance in persecutory delusions: A comparison of healthy, depressed and paranoid individuals. Psychiatry Research, 205(1), 127-136. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2012.08.010

Previous research has found that reduced self-reassurance and heightened verbal 'self-attacking' of a sadistic and persecutory nature are both associated with greater subclinical paranoia. Whether these processes are also linked to clinical paranoia... Read More about Self-attacking and self-reassurance in persecutory delusions: A comparison of healthy, depressed and paranoid individuals.

Antipsychotics: is it time to introduce patient choice? (2012)
Journal Article
Morrison, A. P., Hutton, P., Shiers, D., & Turkington, D. (2012). Antipsychotics: is it time to introduce patient choice?. British Journal of Psychiatry, 201(2), 83-84. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.bp.112.112110

Evidence regarding overestimation of the efficacy of antipsychotics and underestimation of their toxicity, as well as emerging data regarding alternative treatment options, suggests it may be time to introduce patient choice and reconsider whether ev... Read More about Antipsychotics: is it time to introduce patient choice?.

Effects of drop-out on efficacy estimates in five Cochrane reviews of popular antipsychotics for schizophrenia: Drop-out in Cochrane reviews of antipsychotics (2012)
Journal Article
Hutton, P., Morrison, A. P., Yung, A. R., Taylor, P. J., French, P., & Dunn, G. (2012). Effects of drop-out on efficacy estimates in five Cochrane reviews of popular antipsychotics for schizophrenia: Drop-out in Cochrane reviews of antipsychotics. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 126(1), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0447.2012.01858.x

Objective:
Our aim was to find out how Cochrane reviews of five popular or frequently prescribed second-generation antipsychotics in the UK (olanzapine, risperidone, quetiapine, amisulpride and aripiprazole) approached the problem of high drop-out i... Read More about Effects of drop-out on efficacy estimates in five Cochrane reviews of popular antipsychotics for schizophrenia: Drop-out in Cochrane reviews of antipsychotics.

From classical psychodynamics to evidence synthesis: the motif of repression and a contemporary understanding of a key mediatory mechanism in psychosis (2012)
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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/10.1007/s11920-012-0260-4

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.

Tricyclic antidepressant self poisoning and admission for acute care (2011)
Journal Article
Marland, G., Snowden, A., McNay, L., McCaig, M., & Boyd, G. (2011). Tricyclic antidepressant self poisoning and admission for acute care. British Journal of Cardiac Nursing, 6(12), 589-596. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjca.2011.6.12.589

Self-poisoning by ingestion of antidepressants is a common method of suicide. Although tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs) are no longer the first choice treatment for depression they are still commonly taken in overdose causing poisoning and admission... Read More about Tricyclic antidepressant self poisoning and admission for acute care.

Introduction to the stroke series (2011)
Journal Article
Rowat, A. M. (2011). Introduction to the stroke series. Nursing Standard, 26, 35-36

THIS ARTICLE is an introduction to a series of articles outlining the priorities of stroke care. The aim of these articles is to raise nurses’ awareness of caring for stroke patients with complex problems in a range of care environments, to enhance k... Read More about Introduction to the stroke series.

A pilot study to assess if urine specific gravity and urine colour charts are useful indicators of dehydration in acute stroke patients (2011)
Journal Article
Rowat, A. M., Smith, L., Graham, C., Lyle, D., Horsburgh, D., & Dennis, M. S. (2011). A pilot study to assess if urine specific gravity and urine colour charts are useful indicators of dehydration in acute stroke patients. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 67, 1976-1983. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2648.2011.05645.x

AIM: The purpose of this pilot study was to examine whether urine specific gravity and urine colour could provide an early warning of dehydration in stroke patients compared with standard blood indicators of hydration status.

BACKGROUND: Dehydrati... Read More about A pilot study to assess if urine specific gravity and urine colour charts are useful indicators of dehydration in acute stroke patients.

Prevalence of violence risk factors in people at ultra-high risk of developing psychosis: a service audit: Audit of violence risk in a UHR group (2011)
Journal Article
Hutton, P., Parker, S., Bowe, S., & Ford, S. (2012). Prevalence of violence risk factors in people at ultra-high risk of developing psychosis: a service audit: Audit of violence risk in a UHR group. Early Intervention in Psychiatry, 6(1), 91-96. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-7893.2011.00307.x

Background: There is little data available on the prevalence of violence risk factors in people at ultra-high risk of developing psychosis.

Aim: The aim of this study was to provide an estimate of the cross-sectional prevalence of violence risk fa... Read More about Prevalence of violence risk factors in people at ultra-high risk of developing psychosis: a service audit: Audit of violence risk in a UHR group.

Prevalence of suicide risk factors in people at ultra-high risk of developing psychosis: a service audit: Suicide risk in UHR clients (2011)
Journal Article
Hutton, P., Bowe, S., Parker, S., & Ford, S. (2011). Prevalence of suicide risk factors in people at ultra-high risk of developing psychosis: a service audit: Suicide risk in UHR clients. Early Intervention in Psychiatry, 5(4), 375-380. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-7893.2011.00302.x

Aim: The aim of this study was to provide an estimate of the cross-sectional prevalence of possible suicide risk factors in those attending a routine clinical service for people at UHR of developing psychosis.

Methods: For all patients in treatmen... Read More about Prevalence of suicide risk factors in people at ultra-high risk of developing psychosis: a service audit: Suicide risk in UHR clients.

A Controlled Comparison of the Effectiveness and Efficiency of Two Psychological Therapies for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing vs. Emotional Freedom Techniques (2011)
Journal Article
Karatzias, T., Power, K., Brown, K., McGoldrick, T., Begum, M., Young, J., Loughran, P., Chouliara, Z., & Adams, S. (2011). A Controlled Comparison of the Effectiveness and Efficiency of Two Psychological Therapies for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing vs. Emotional Freedom Techniques. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 199(6), 372-378. https://doi.org/10.1097/nmd.0b013e31821cd262

The present study reports on the first ever controlled comparison between eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) and emotional freedom techniques (EFT) for posttraumatic stress disorder. A total of 46 participants were randomized to eit... Read More about A Controlled Comparison of the Effectiveness and Efficiency of Two Psychological Therapies for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing vs. Emotional Freedom Techniques.

Talking Therapy Services for Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse (CSA) in Scotland: Perspectives of Service Users and Professionals (2011)
Journal Article
Chouliara, Z., Karatzias, T., Scott-Brien, G., Macdonald, A., MacArthur, J., & Frazer, N. (2011). Talking Therapy Services for Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse (CSA) in Scotland: Perspectives of Service Users and Professionals. Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 20(2), 128-156. https://doi.org/10.1080/10538712.2011.554340

This study aimed to elicit perceptions and experiences of talking therapy services for CSA survivors and professionals utilizing qualitative interviews and analyzing transcripts using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. Participants included 13... Read More about Talking Therapy Services for Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse (CSA) in Scotland: Perspectives of Service Users and Professionals.

The effectiveness of, and predictors of response to, inpatient treatment of anorexia nervosa (2010)
Journal Article
Collin, P., Power, K., Karatzias, T., Grierson, D., & Yellowlees, A. (2010). The effectiveness of, and predictors of response to, inpatient treatment of anorexia nervosa. European Eating Disorders Review, 18, 464-474. https://doi.org/10.1002/erv.1026

Objective
The inpatient treatment of anorexia nervosa lacks a clear evidence base. We sought to determine the effectiveness of, and predictors of response to, a specialist inpatient programme for adults with anorexia nervosa, and to survey satisfact... Read More about The effectiveness of, and predictors of response to, inpatient treatment of anorexia nervosa.

General psychopathology in anorexia nervosa: the role of psychosocial factors (2010)
Journal Article
Karatzias, T., Chouliara, Z., Power, K., Collin, P., Yellowlees, A., & Grierson, D. (2010). General psychopathology in anorexia nervosa: the role of psychosocial factors. Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 17, 519-527. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpp.701

The aim of the present study was to investigate psychosocial correlates of comorbid psychopathology. Data were collected from a total of 90 female inpatients with anorexia nervosa (AN). Higher levels of general psychopathology were detected in depres... Read More about General psychopathology in anorexia nervosa: the role of psychosocial factors.

A randomized trial of face-to-face counselling versus telephone counselling versus bibliotherapy for occupational stress (2010)
Journal Article
Kilfedder, C., Power, K., Karatzias, T., McCafferty, A., Niven, K., Chouliara, Z., Galloway, L., & Sharp, S. (2010). A randomized trial of face-to-face counselling versus telephone counselling versus bibliotherapy for occupational stress. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 83, 223-242. https://doi.org/10.1348/147608309X476348

Objective. The aim of the present study was to compare the effectiveness and acceptability of three interventions for occupational stress.

Methods/design. A total of 90 National Health Service employees were randomized to face-to-face counselling... Read More about A randomized trial of face-to-face counselling versus telephone counselling versus bibliotherapy for occupational stress.