A5008057614- Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Health and Well-being Studies
- Asthma and respiratory diseases
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Media Influence and Health
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Workplace Health and Well-being
- IL-33, ST2, and ILC Pathways
- Hemodynamic Monitoring and Therapy
- Health Policy Implementation Science
- Chronic Disease Management Strategies
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
- Public Health Policies and Education
- Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Child and Adolescent Health
- Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research
- Health, psychology, and well-being
- Diabetes Management and Research
Southampton City Council
2024
University of Southampton
2018-2022
Background Population level behaviour change, requiring individual change such as hand hygiene and physical distancing, are central to reducing transmission of infectious diseases, including COVID-19, but little is known about how best communicate this type risk information, populations might respond. We conducted a rapid systematic review identify synthesise evidence relating to: a) What characterises effective public-health messages for managing preventing disease, b) influences people’s...
Abstract Asthma outcomes remain suboptimal, despite effective pharmacotherapy. Psychological dysfunction (such as anxiety) is common, and associated with poorer outcomes. We evaluated a digital mindfulness programme an intervention to improve asthma-related quality of life for primary care patients, in prospectively registered randomized-controlled feasibility study. offered ‘Headspace’, widely-used intervention, adults asthma through 16 UK GP practices. Participants were randomized on 2:1...
Difficult asthma describes in which comorbidities, inadequate treatment, suboptimal inhaler technique and/or poor adherence impede good control. The association of anxiety and depression with difficult outcomes (exacerbations, hospital admissions, control, etc.) is unclear. This study assessed the clinical associations patients a specialist diagnosis asthma. Using real-world data, we retrospectively phenotyped from Wessex Asthma Cohort (N = 441) using diagnoses against those without or...
Background Individualised Placement and Support (IPS) is a tailored, client-centred employment intervention for people with chronic health conditions. It involves the integration of vocational advisers within teams to optimise return-to-work strategies. The aims get clients into by complementing traditional job searching skills placements, one-to-one mentoring alongside work-focused intervention. Aim To explore concept IPS individuals pain. Design & setting A multi-method qualitative...
Background: Public health teams need to understand how the public responds vaccination messages in a pandemic or epidemic inform successful campaigns encouraging uptake of new vaccines as they become available. Methods: A rapid systematic review was performed by searching PsycINFO, MEDLINE, healthevidence.org, OSF Preprints and PsyArXiv May 2020 for studies including at least one message promoting vaccine droplet spread viruses. Non-English language dissertations were excluded line with...
ObjectivesPhysical distancing, that is keeping 1-2m apart when co-located, can prevent cases of droplet or aerosol transmitted infectious diseases such as SARS-COV2. During the COVID-19 pandemic, distancing was a recommendation requirement in many countries. This systematic review aimed to determine which interventions and behaviour change techniques (BCTs) are effective promoting adherence through potential mechanisms action (MOAs). MethodsSix databases were searched. The included studies...
Abstract Background Individual Placement and Support (IPS) is a model of vocational rehabilitation originally developed to help people with severe mental illness obtain maintain employment. Work disability common amongst chronic pain conditions, yet few effective interventions exist. As part mixed-methods feasibility research as forerunner pilot trial (In STEP), we investigated the barriers facilitators carrying out future randomised controlled IPS set in primary care unemployed pain....
Introduction: Despite effective pharmacotherapy, patient-reported asthma outcomes such as quality of life remain suboptimal. Digital mindfulness interventions may be helpful for people with by targeting psychological dysfunction illness perceptions, anxiety and depression.Methods: In a mixed-methods process evaluation, we examined how ‘Headspace’, widely-used digital intervention, was used in randomised controlled feasibility trial adults from 16 UK GP practices. 94 who were allocated to the...
<b>Background:</b> Mindfulness (meditation-based therapy facilitating adaptive mental/emotional responses) can improve quality of life for asthma patients although challenges remain about uptake and engagement. Digital interventions (DIs) may treatment access as an effective alternative to face-to-face psychotherapy. <b>Aim:</b> We conducted a well-powered randomised controlled feasibility trial 'Headspace', digital mindfulness intervention. <b>Method:</b> 160 (36% male, age M 51.4, SD 14.9)...
Abstract Objective Asthma outcomes remain suboptimal, despite effective pharmacotherapy. Psychological dysfunction (such as anxiety) is common, and associated with poorer outcomes. We evaluated a digital mindfulness programme an intervention to improve asthma-related quality of life for primary care patients, in prospectively registered randomized-controlled feasibility study. Methods offered ‘Headspace’, widely-used intervention, adults asthma through 16 UK GP practices. Participants were...