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Filter by:Patients who self-harm are a heterogeneous population. Outpatient treatments structured for borderline personality disorder are often recommended and hospitalization kept to a minimum. However, few studies have focused on the most severe, complex conditions with extreme suicide risk. A recent national investigation from Norway (2017) demonstrated a far larger cohort of extensively hospitalized inpatients with extreme self-harming behaviors than was expected (N=427) - identified in all health regions. Reported challenges were high-risk situations, severe medical sequelae, difficult collaborations across services, and uncertainty about psychiatric diagnoses. Severe, often bizarre, self-harm is thus a major challenge for both patients and health services. In hospitals, safety measures can involve restrictions and involuntary regimes. As research on this target population is sparse, the current project seeks further understanding of complex conditions - psychopathology, treatment experiences and service collaboration. The project is a national, multi-center cooperation including patients in psychiatric hospitals in all health regions. It is cross sectional. Data is based on diagnostic interviews, patients' self-reported symptoms and both patients and service providers treatment experiences. The inclusion period for inpatients (N=300) and a comparison sample of outpatients (N=300) is one year. The target group is inpatients with extreme hospitalization and severe self-mutilation. A comparison group is patients with personality pathology attending outpatient treatments. Recruitment is across health regions. Aim 1: Investigate psychopathology of patients in the target population and compare to a clinical sample admitted to outpatient treatment Aim 2: Investigate personality functioning in the target population and compare to a clinical sample admitted to outpatient treatment Aim 3: a) Investigate health service use in the target population and compare to a clinical sample admitted to outpatient treatment. b) Investigate treatment experiences and health service collaborations in the target population. The project will provide rational for future preventive treatment interventions
This is an open-labelled randomised controlled trial (RCT) that aims to examine the effectiveness of exercise coaching approach in improving the physical activity engagement in patients with psychosis.
Community-based treatments for adolescents at risk for psychosis are not widely available, nor are there established, gold-standard psychosocial group interventions for this population. The HOPE TEAM, Helping Overcome Prodromal Experiences through Treatment and Evaluation of Adolescent Minds (PI: Bachman; funded by The Pittsburgh Foundation) is an early detection and intervention program for youth at clinical high risk for psychosis which aims to help them by engaging existing community resources, providing assessment, and offering trauma-informed psychotherapy. Embedded within the Family Care Connection Center at Turtle Creek, the HOPE TEAM offers individual psychotherapy as part of its clinical service model. The present study seeks to evaluate, in a small and preliminary sample (n = 20), the feasibility and effectiveness of a 24-week Cognitive-Behavioral Social Skills Therapy (CBSST) group intervention for CHR adolescents who are part of the HOPE TEAM. To that end, the current proposal will seek to conduct brief research assessments to assess the group members' perceptions of the group's utility, as well as their current clinical symptoms and functioning prior to, during, and after participating in this group. The goals of this pilot project are to 1) identify which aspects of the group perceived to be most and least helpful by participating adolescents, and 2) evaluate whether participation in the group meaningfully improves participants' clinical symptoms and functioning. The investigators aim to use these pilot data to guide future selection of treatment targets in this clinical practice, and to identify future strategies for increasing satisfaction and retention in community-based group interventions for CHR adolescents.
People with a diagnosis of psychosis often experience low motivation and pleasure when thinking about doing future activities. This leads, quite understandably, to doing fewer activities they used to enjoy and not taking up opportunities to do new activities. One model suggests that this may be partly due to difficulties using memories of previous events to help boost motivation and anticipation before a future activity. Research shows that people with psychosis may recall previous events in less detail. These memories therefore may not be as helpful as they could be for motivation. This study will investigate this by asking people with experience of psychosis and low motivation who are seen by a care team in South London and Maudsley NHS Trust to attend two research sessions. In the first session they will be asked to recall memories of events from their lives and the researcher will assess how detailed they are and how much they refer to the past and future. Alongside this task people will also be asked to complete measures of symptoms such as low pleasure and motivation as well as a measure of depression. These will be used to find out if the detail and specificity of the memories are related to these symptoms in people with psychosis. The second half of the study will then investigate whether additional prompts to support positive memory retrieval can increase the specificity of this and subsequently improve mood, motivation and self-belief. Participants will be randomised to one of two groups. The clinical group will be guided through their memory recall using prompts and a control group will be asked to recall positive memories without prompts. If we show that supporting memory recall is beneficial then memories for past events may be an important target for future therapies.
The overall objective is to develop scalable interventions to address the physical health needs of patients affected by early psychosis. The objective of this project is to conduct a feasibility study of a high intensity technology-enabled collaborative care model (CCM) compared to lower intensity self-help modules and email support for early identification and treatment of cardio-metabolic risk factors in youth, ages 16-29, affected by early psychosis.
Research suggests that imagination is a powerful tool to change images inside our heads (e.g. memories) and make them less upsetting. It is thought that this occurs through changing the meaning attached to the memory (e.g. I am weak), therefore making it less upsetting to remember. Research has also linked some people's experience of psychosis to distressing trauma memories. Despite this, little is known about whether using imagination to change memories is helpful for people with psychosis. This project will look at whether a talking therapy that uses imagination to change trauma memories helps people with psychosis. This project will specifically look at whether this therapy helps; change the meaning linked to memory, make the memory less upsetting and frequent, and increase sense of control over the memory. This project will recruit six to twelve people with psychosis. Participants will be recruited from services within South London and the Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust's Psychosis Clinical Academic Group. Participants will first be interviewed about their posttraumatic stress difficulties, experiences of psychosis, mental health, and wellbeing. In this appointment, participants will also identify a traumatic memory to focus on during the talking therapy. Four questions about the trauma memory will be asked every day for the remainder of the project. Participants will then wait between one to three weeks before they receive three therapy sessions. Comparing participants to themselves for different periods of time makes sure that their memories do not become less upsetting over time, without therapy. After therapy, participants will continue daily measures for two weeks, with an appointment in the middle (i.e. one week post therapy). This appointment will include questions about posttraumatic stress difficulties, wellbeing and satisfaction with therapy. Participation will last between 6-8 weeks. Participants will be reimbursed for their time
Severe mental illness (SMI) refers to the most burdensome psychiatric conditions. The need to pre-empt the onset of SMI is pressing because once SMI develops, quality of life is poor and available treatments have limited efficacy. Most risk factors for SMI are either unchangeable (e.g., genetics) or difficult to alter (e.g., low socio-economic status). In contrast, cannabis use is one specific risk factor that could be avoided. Certain individuals are more vulnerable to the harmful effects of cannabis. Genetic factors can help us identify these high-risk individuals. One in three individuals are carriers of a higher-risk genetic variant, and cannabis users with this genotype are at up to 7-fold increased risk of developing schizophrenia. In our study, genetic counselling will be provided to participants by a board-certified genetic counsellor. During the genetic counselling session, participants will have the option to receive their genotype. Participants will be counselled regarding their individualized risk of developing and of not developing SMI based on family history, whether or not they choose to use cannabis, and genotype (if the participants accept the genetic test results). The investigators hypothesize that this intervention will reduce exposure to cannabis compared to the youth who are not offered the intervention.
This research project aims at early detection, early intervention, and recovery of individuals with psychosis and prevention of their family members who are at high risk of having developmental problems and developing psychosis episode in later stages of their life. It consists of two major parts with the following study designs & aims: Part I : Developing a comprehensive and integrative psychosocial and community skills training programme (IPCST) and conducing a pilot randomised controlled trial to compare the study outcomes between the two settings in Hong Kong and Beijing. 1. To develop IPCST as an innovative intervention model targeting individuals with first or recent onset of psychosis to reduce their stay in mental hospital and bridges them to independent living in the community with optimal social and professional support; 2. To evaluate IPCST in terms of the clinical, vocational, and psychosocial outcomes of participants using a randomized controlled trial design and compare these outcomes between Hong Kong and Beijing; 3. To examine the cost-effectiveness of IPCST in the two cities; and 4. To train professionals and research personnel in Hong Kong and mainland for implementation Part II: Exploring the health needs of younger family members of individuals with early psychosis and the strategies in preventing this clinical high risk group from developing psychotic episode and developmental problems in later stages of their lives. 1. To identify the potential developmental problems or sufferings of theses younger family members living with patients with mental illness; 2. To provide baseline assessment of their psychosocial stress, mental health, and quality of life; 3. To identify interventions that may prevent them from developing psychosis and other developmental problems and improve their mental health.
About 1 in 100 people will experience an episode of psychosis. Some people will only experience one 'psychotic episode' and about a quarter of people make a full recovery. Others will have recurring periods of problems ('relapses'), perhaps at times of particular stress. As people often find psychosis distressing, this study looks at ways to help them stay well in the future. There is growing evidence that 'early signs' interventions can prevent relapses of psychosis. Early signs are things that might happen when people start to become unwell. For example some people start to sleep badly when they are becoming unwell. Most people with psychosis can identify early signs emerging in the weeks before relapse. In early signs interventions, service users are taught to recognise early signs that their mental health may be deteriorating so that they can take action to avoid becoming unwell. Although early signs interventions show promise, the investigators suggest that they can be improved by more accurate assessment of relapse risk. This might be achieved by monitoring 'basic symptoms' in addition to conventional early signs of relapse. Basic symptoms are subtle, subclinical disturbances in one's experience of oneself and the world. Typical basic symptoms include: changes in perceptions, such as increased vividness of colour vision; impaired tolerance to certain stressors; difficulty finding or understanding common words. In this study the investigators want to design and test a mobile phone app to help monitor basic symptoms. They hope that the app might help service users to stay well in the future. During the study the investigators will ask participants to use the app once a week for 6 months. At the end of the study they will interview them about their experiences of using the phone app and participating in the study.
The aim of the current study is to pilot a novel intervention to help people explore their decision making around the use of neuroleptic medication. A case series design will be used, with outcome variables measured at multiple time points pre-, during- and post-intervention. Participants will also be asked to complete an evaluation interview post-intervention. The primary aim is to investigate the feasibility and acceptability of offering the intervention.