Publications by authors named "N A Cusack"

Article Synopsis
  • Families play a crucial yet often overlooked role in the mental health care process, highlighting the need for their inclusion in decision-making and recovery partnerships.
  • This paper assessed a family information program led by clinicians and peers, focusing on its impact on participants' knowledge and confidence regarding mental health.
  • Results showed significant improvements in family members' understanding, communication with mental health teams, and mutual support, emphasizing the value of collaborative program development with families.
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Background: The co-production and co-facilitation of recovery-focused education programmes is one way in which service users may be meaningfully involved as partners.

Objectives: To evaluate the impact of a clinician and peer co-facilitated information programme on service users' knowledge, confidence, recovery attitudes, advocacy and hope, and to explore their experience of the programme.

Methods: A sequential design was used involving a pre-post survey to assess changes in knowledge, confidence, advocacy, recovery attitudes and hope following programme participation.

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Aim: Current monitoring practices fail to diagnose patients with post-transplant hyperglycaemia and tend to delay initiation of treatment, which potentially results in adverse graft and morbidity outcomes. This real-world study set out to assess the impact on insulin resistance indices of a new clinical pathway for diagnosis and treatment of hyperglycaemia following renal transplantation.

Methods: A hundred and forty-seven adult renal transplant recipients, without pre-existing diabetes, from a single centre were included.

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Health policy is increasingly advocating for involvement of service users and family members in service development. In the present study, we evaluated the impact of a 4-day education programme in co-facilitation skills on clinician and peer (service users and family members) knowledge, confidence, and subsequent experience as co-facilitators. The programme was designed to train peers and clinicians as co-facilitators on a clinician and peer-led information programme for people experiencing mental health problems.

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CP-64131 (CP), an aminobenzazepine with cytokine-like, physiologic effects similar to granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) and granulocyte macrophage (GM)-CSF, increases the number of neutrophils and stimulates marrow recovery after doxirubicin ablation. CP can also function as a neutrophil agonist, like formyl-Met-leu-Phe (fMLP). In these studies, we show that CP is unique in that it stimulates the p38-mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathway but not extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK)1/2 or c-jun N-terminal kinase MAPKs in human neutrophils from peripheral blood.

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