Publications by authors named "Kamelia Harris"
Background: Clinical guidelines recommend cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) for people with psychosis, however, implementation is poor and not everyone wishes to engage with therapy. Understanding service user (SU) preferences for receiving such treatments is a priority for services.
Aims: To explore SU preferences and outcomes of different methods of delivering CBT for psychosis.
Objectives Shared decision-making is the pinnacle of patient-centred care; mental health stakeholders value shared decision-making but find it difficult to enact. The objective was to compare and synthesise mental health stakeholder views on antipsychotic prescribing in one NHS Trust, to understand potential reasons for the difficult enactment of shared decision-making in practice. Methods We conducted 12 interviews and 5 focus groups with 33 mental health stakeholders, after obtaining their informed consent.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: As a response to evidence that mental health service users and carers expect greater involvement in decisions about antipsychotic medication choice and prescribing, shared decision-making (SDM) has increasingly come to be viewed as an essential element of person-centred care and practice. However, this aspiration has yet to be realised in practice, as service users and carers continue to feel alienated from healthcare services. Existing understanding of the factors affecting the use of tools to support SDM is limited to inter-individual influences and wider factors affecting potential implementation are underexplored.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: The objective of this study was to systematically review existing empirical research assessing levels and correlates of distress in significant others of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME).
Methods: Systematic searches in CINAHL, Web of Science and PsycINFO were conducted in August 2014. The search was repeated in January 2015 to check for newly published articles.
Article Synopsis
- Prominent models of insomnia suggest that how people pay attention to sleep-related stimuli influences their experience of insomnia.
- A systematic review examined 13 studies using reaction time tasks to assess sleep-related attentional bias, revealing that poor sleepers generally show different attention patterns compared to healthy sleepers.
- Despite some studies showing significant group differences, the limited number of studies and varied methodologies prevent firm conclusions about how attentional bias contributes to the development or persistence of insomnia, indicating a need for more focused research.