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View article: A longitudinal study of the impacts of a stay in a Prevention and Recovery Care service in Victoria, Australia
A longitudinal study of the impacts of a stay in a Prevention and Recovery Care service in Victoria, Australia Open
Background: Prevention and Recovery Care services are residential sub-acute services in Victoria, Australia, guided by a commitment to recovery-oriented practice. The evidence regarding the effectiveness of this service model is limited, l…
View article: Group Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Recovery From Psychosis: Protocol for a Single-Group Waitlist Trial
Group Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Recovery From Psychosis: Protocol for a Single-Group Waitlist Trial Open
Background Psychological interventions, along with antipsychotic medications, are recommended for adults diagnosed with a psychotic disorder. While initially designed to mitigate positive symptoms, psychological interventions targeting per…
View article: Acceptability and feasibility of recovery-oriented group acceptance and commitment therapy for psychosis in routine practice: an uncontrolled pilot study
Acceptability and feasibility of recovery-oriented group acceptance and commitment therapy for psychosis in routine practice: an uncontrolled pilot study Open
Background: Personal recovery is a persisting concern for people with psychotic disorders. Accordingly, mental health services have adopted frameworks of personal recovery, prioritizing adaptation to psychosis alongside symptom remission. …
View article: Recovery after psychosis: Qualitative study of service user experiences of lived experience videos on a recovery-oriented website
Recovery after psychosis: Qualitative study of service user experiences of lived experience videos on a recovery-oriented website Open
Background: Digital interventions offer an innovative way to make the experiences of people living with mental illness available to others. As part of the Self-Management And Recovery Technology (SMART) research program on the use of digit…
View article: Using the Internet to integrate peer stories and self-management resources into mental health services
Using the Internet to integrate peer stories and self-management resources into mental health services Open
The Self-Management and Recovery Technology (SMART) project is a Victorian government-funded research program being conducted at the National eTherapy Centre in conjunction with five mental health organisations in Victoria. This is a resea…
View article: Systematic review of early warning signs of relapse and behavioural antecedents of symptom worsening in people living with schizophrenia spectrum disorders
Systematic review of early warning signs of relapse and behavioural antecedents of symptom worsening in people living with schizophrenia spectrum disorders Open
Background: Identification of the early warning signs (EWS) of relapse is key to relapse prevention in schizophrenia spectrum disorders, however, limitations to their precision have been reported. Substantial methodological innovations hav…
View article: Group Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Recovery From Psychosis: Protocol for a Single-Group Waitlist Trial (Preprint)
Group Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Recovery From Psychosis: Protocol for a Single-Group Waitlist Trial (Preprint) Open
BACKGROUND Psychological interventions, along with antipsychotic medications, are recommended for adults diagnosed with a psychotic disorder. While initially designed to mitigate positive symptoms, psychological interventions targeting pe…
View article: Fear of psychotic relapse: exploring dynamic relationships with common early warning signs of relapse using electronic once-a-day self-reports
Fear of psychotic relapse: exploring dynamic relationships with common early warning signs of relapse using electronic once-a-day self-reports Open
Background: Fear of relapse into psychosis is an independent risk factor for future relapse events, indicating its importance as a novel intervention target. Methods: Twenty-five participants responded to daily ecological momentary assessm…
View article: Do recovery‐oriented messages improve self‐efficacy and positive emotions amongst people with lived experience of psychosis? Experimental investigation
Do recovery‐oriented messages improve self‐efficacy and positive emotions amongst people with lived experience of psychosis? Experimental investigation Open
Objectives Recovery‐oriented perspectives have become accepted worldwide as an alternative to the biomedical approach to conceptualizing and managing severe mental health problems. It has been proposed that one advantage of this is to supp…
View article: EMPOWER in Daily Life: A Qualitative Investigation of End User Experience of a blended digital intervention for relapse prevention in schizophrenia in a cluster randomised controlled feasibility trial.
EMPOWER in Daily Life: A Qualitative Investigation of End User Experience of a blended digital intervention for relapse prevention in schizophrenia in a cluster randomised controlled feasibility trial. Open
Objectives: To study the end-user experiences of participants randomised to receive a blended digital intervention for relapse prevention in schizophrenia in the context of a cluster randomised controlled feasibility trial.Design: A qualit…
View article: Digital smartphone intervention to recognise and manage early warning signs in schizophrenia to prevent relapse: the EMPOWER feasibility cluster RCT
Digital smartphone intervention to recognise and manage early warning signs in schizophrenia to prevent relapse: the EMPOWER feasibility cluster RCT Open
Background Relapse is a major determinant of outcome for people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia. Early warning signs frequently precede relapse. A recent Cochrane Review found low-quality evidence to suggest a positive effect of early wa…
View article: Impact of Jointly Using an e–Mental Health Resource (Self-Management And Recovery Technology) on Interactions Between Service Users Experiencing Severe Mental Illness and Community Mental Health Workers: Grounded Theory Study
Impact of Jointly Using an e–Mental Health Resource (Self-Management And Recovery Technology) on Interactions Between Service Users Experiencing Severe Mental Illness and Community Mental Health Workers: Grounded Theory Study Open
Background e–Mental health resources are increasingly available for people who experience severe mental illness, including those who are users of community mental health services. However, the potential for service users (SUs) living with …
View article: Fear of psychotic relapse: exploring dynamic relationships with common early warning signs of relapse using electronic once-a-day self-reports
Fear of psychotic relapse: exploring dynamic relationships with common early warning signs of relapse using electronic once-a-day self-reports Open
Background: Fear of relapse is an independent risk factor for future relapse events indicating its importance in clinical management and early warning signs-based relapse prevention monitoring.Methods: 25 participants who were taking part …
View article: Perspectives of Trial Staff on the Barriers to Recruitment in a Digital Intervention for Psychosis and How to Work Around Them: Qualitative Study Within a Trial
Perspectives of Trial Staff on the Barriers to Recruitment in a Digital Intervention for Psychosis and How to Work Around Them: Qualitative Study Within a Trial Open
Background Recruitment processes for clinical trials of digital interventions for psychosis are seldom described in detail in the literature. Although trial staff have expertise in describing barriers to and facilitators of recruitment, a …
View article: Impact of Jointly Using an e–Mental Health Resource (Self-Management And Recovery Technology) on Interactions Between Service Users Experiencing Severe Mental Illness and Community Mental Health Workers: Grounded Theory Study (Preprint)
Impact of Jointly Using an e–Mental Health Resource (Self-Management And Recovery Technology) on Interactions Between Service Users Experiencing Severe Mental Illness and Community Mental Health Workers: Grounded Theory Study (Preprint) Open
BACKGROUND e–Mental health resources are increasingly available for people who experience severe mental illness, including those who are users of community mental health services. However, the potential for service users (SUs) living with…
View article: Perspectives of Trial Staff on the Barriers to Recruitment in a Digital Intervention for Psychosis and How to Work Around Them: Qualitative Study Within a Trial (Preprint)
Perspectives of Trial Staff on the Barriers to Recruitment in a Digital Intervention for Psychosis and How to Work Around Them: Qualitative Study Within a Trial (Preprint) Open
BACKGROUND Recruitment processes for clinical trials of digital interventions for psychosis are seldom described in detail in the literature. Although trial staff have expertise in describing barriers to and facilitators of recruitment, a…
View article: Trial staff views on barriers recruitment in a digital intervention for psychosis and how to work around them: A qualitative study within a trial using focus groups and observation (Preprint)
Trial staff views on barriers recruitment in a digital intervention for psychosis and how to work around them: A qualitative study within a trial using focus groups and observation (Preprint) Open
BACKGROUND Recruitment processes for clinical trials of digital interventions for psychosis are seldom described in detail within the literature. While trial staff have expertise in describing barriers and facilitators to recruitment a sp…
View article: Characterization and Prediction of Clinical Pathways of Vulnerability to Psychosis through Graph Signal Processing
Characterization and Prediction of Clinical Pathways of Vulnerability to Psychosis through Graph Signal Processing Open
There is a growing recognition that psychiatric symptoms have the potential to causally interact with one another. Particularly in the earliest stages of psychopathology dynamic interactions between symptoms could contribute heterogeneous …
View article: Trial staff views on barriers recruitment in a digital intervention for psychosis and how to work around them: A qualitative study within a trial
Trial staff views on barriers recruitment in a digital intervention for psychosis and how to work around them: A qualitative study within a trial Open
Background: Recruitment processes for clinical trials of digital interventions for psychosis are seldom described in detail within the literature. While trial staff have expertise in describing barriers and facilitators to recruitment a sp…
View article: Early Signs Monitoring to Prevent Relapse in Psychosis and Promote Well-Being, Engagement, and Recovery: Protocol for a Feasibility Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial Harnessing Mobile Phone Technology Blended With Peer Support
Early Signs Monitoring to Prevent Relapse in Psychosis and Promote Well-Being, Engagement, and Recovery: Protocol for a Feasibility Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial Harnessing Mobile Phone Technology Blended With Peer Support Open
Background Relapse in schizophrenia is a major cause of distress and disability and is predicted by changes in symptoms such as anxiety, depression, and suspiciousness (early warning signs [EWSs]). These can be used as the basis for timely…
View article: Perspectives of patients, carers and mental health staff on early warning signs of relapse in psychosis: a qualitative investigation
Perspectives of patients, carers and mental health staff on early warning signs of relapse in psychosis: a qualitative investigation Open
Background Relapse prevention strategies based on monitoring of early warning signs (EWS) are advocated for the management of psychosis. However, there has been a lack of research exploring how staff, carers and patients make sense of the …
View article: Understanding Implementation of a Digital Self-Monitoring Intervention for Relapse Prevention in Psychosis: Protocol for a Mixed Method Process Evaluation
Understanding Implementation of a Digital Self-Monitoring Intervention for Relapse Prevention in Psychosis: Protocol for a Mixed Method Process Evaluation Open
Background Relapse is common in people who experience psychosis and is associated with many negative consequences, both societal and personal. People who relapse often exhibit changes (early warning signs [EWS]) in the period before relaps…
View article: Understanding Implementation of a Digital Self-Monitoring Intervention for Relapse Prevention in Psychosis: Protocol for a Mixed Method Process Evaluation (Preprint)
Understanding Implementation of a Digital Self-Monitoring Intervention for Relapse Prevention in Psychosis: Protocol for a Mixed Method Process Evaluation (Preprint) Open
BACKGROUND Relapse is common in people who experience psychosis and is associated with many negative consequences, both societal and personal. People who relapse often exhibit changes (early warning signs [EWS]) in the period before relap…
View article: Developing a Hypothetical Implementation Framework of Expectations for Monitoring Early Signs of Psychosis Relapse Using a Mobile App: Qualitative Study
Developing a Hypothetical Implementation Framework of Expectations for Monitoring Early Signs of Psychosis Relapse Using a Mobile App: Qualitative Study Open
Background Relapse is a common experience for people diagnosed with psychosis, which is associated with increased service costs and profound personal and familial distress. EMPOWER (Early signs Monitoring to Prevent relapse in psychosis an…