Publications by authors named "K Lovell"
Background: Acne treatment can take weeks to deliver noticeable improvements, which may diminish patients' perception of treatment effectiveness and undermine treatment adherence. Combination topical treatments that target multiple acne pathophysiological pathways are more efficacious than topical monotherapies, and simplifying combination treatment by delivering multiple active ingredients as fixed combinations may improve adherence.
Methods: This review provides an overview of efficacy with 4 weeks of treatment in pivotal trials of fixed-combination topical treatments for acne.
Article Synopsis
- Psychosis can lead to serious negative outcomes if not addressed promptly; care coordinators are vital for early intervention services to improve recovery for first-episode psychosis patients.
- A study explored the acceptability and implementation of a talking therapy, Method of Levels (MOL), via interviews and focus groups involving service users and care coordinators.
- Key themes from the study indicated that MOL helped service users develop personal solutions, care coordinators felt prepared after training, but heavy workloads hindered their ability to utilize supervision and effectively implement the therapy.
Objectives: Talk, Understand and Listen for InPatient Settings (TULIPS) was a multi-centred randomized control trial of an intervention that aimed to increase patient access to psychological therapies on acute mental health wards. This paper aims to: (i) describe a strategy for designing a psychological intervention that is implementable in inpatient mental health settings; (ii) describe methods for assessing the fidelity of interventions within these settings; (iii) report on the extent to which fidelity was achieved in the TULIPS trial.
Methods: The TULIPS intervention was designed using information from a systematic review, stakeholder interviews, pilot work and a consensus workshop.