Publications by authors named "A Kandola"
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- The study tested the efficacy of "juli," a digital self-management app for depression, in a remote randomized controlled trial involving 908 participants who self-identified as having depression.
- Participants were randomly assigned to either use the app for 8 weeks or a placebo app, with the main focus on changes in depression scores over time.
- Results showed that the juli group experienced a significant reduction in depression scores compared to the control group, with higher rates of remission and clinically meaningful improvement, but there were no significant differences in health-related quality of life or worsening of depression.
Background: Asthma is one of the most common chronic conditions worldwide, with a substantial individual and health care burden. Digital apps hold promise as a highly accessible, low-cost method of enhancing self-management in asthma, which is critical to effective asthma control.
Objective: We conducted a fully remote randomized controlled trial (RCT) to assess the efficacy of juli, a commercially available smartphone self-management platform for asthma.
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- This study looks at why older LGBTQ+ people are more likely to feel depressed than straight people, especially focusing on loneliness.
- Researchers used data from a study on older adults, checking their sexual orientation, loneliness levels, and signs of depression over a few years.
- They found that loneliness is a big factor in this, explaining part of why LGBTQ+ adults tend to have more depressive symptoms.
Air pollution is associated with unipolar depression and other mental health problems. We assessed the real-time association between localised mean air quality index and the severity of depression and mania symptoms in people with bipolar disorder. We found that as air quality worsened, symptoms of depression increased.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Chronic physical illness increases the risk of subsequent depressive symptoms, but we know little about the mechanisms underlying this association that interventions can target. We investigated whether loneliness might explain associations between chronic illness and subsequent depressive symptoms.
Methods: We used English Longitudinal Study of Ageing data, a prospective cohort of adults over 50.