Publications by authors named "Sarah McKenna"

Despite the efficacy of digital mental health technologies (DMHTs) in clinical trials, low uptake and poor engagement are common in real-world settings. Accordingly, digital technology experts or "digital navigators" are increasingly being used to enhance engagement and shared decision-making between health professionals and clients. However, this area is relatively underexplored and there is a lack of data from naturalistic settings.

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Given the rapid development of digital mental health technologies and a focus on connecting with youth, there is an urgent need to enhance the engagement of young people with lived expertise in research. Even so, youth with lived experience of accessing mental health services are particularly affected by power imbalances and may receive limited compensation in academic settings. Therefore, an emphasis on how research engagement not only improves the work but can benefit young people themselves is required.

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Objectives: Despite high levels of mental ill-health amongst young people (aged 15-30), this group demonstrates low help-seeking and high drop-out from mental health services (MHS). Whilst shared decision-making can assist people in receiving appropriate and effective health care, young people frequently report that they do not feel involved in treatment decisions. The current study focused on co-design of a clinical education and participant information programme for the Brain and Mind Centre Youth Model of Care.

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Globally, 75% of depressive, bipolar, and psychotic disorders emerge by age 25 years. However, these disorders are often preceded by non-specific symptoms or attenuated clinical syndromes. Difficulties in determining optimal treatment interventions for these emerging mental disorders, and uncertainties about accounting for co-occurring psychopathology and illness trajectories, have led many youth mental health services to adopt transdiagnostic clinical staging frameworks.

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  • - The study tests a new mental health care model called 'highly personalised and measurement-based care' (HP&MBC) for adolescents and young adults with mood disorders, aiming to improve education, employment, and social functioning compared to standard care.
  • - It involves a 24-month trial with 1500 participants aged 15-25 who will be randomly assigned to either HP&MBC or standard care, with social and occupational functioning evaluated after 12 months.
  • - The trial is ethically approved, and results will be shared through various channels while ensuring participant data remains confidential.
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Background: As the demand for youth mental health care continues to rise, managing wait times and reducing treatment delays are key challenges to delivering timely and quality care. Clinical staging is a heuristic model for youth mental health that can stratify care allocation according to individuals' risk of illness progression. The application of staging has been traditionally limited to trained clinicians yet leveraging digital technologies to apply clinical staging could increase the scalability and usability of this model in services.

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Background: Highly personalized care is substantially improved by technology platforms that assess and track patient outcomes. However, evidence regarding how to successfully implement technology in real-world mental health settings is limited.

Objective: This study aimed to naturalistically monitor how a health information technology (HIT) platform was used within 2 real-world mental health service settings to gain practical insights into how HIT can be implemented and sustained to improve mental health service delivery.

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Background: Despite increasing support for stakeholder inclusion in research, there is limited evaluative research to guide safe (i.e., youth-friendly) and meaningful (i.

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Aims: Children in contact with social services are at high risk for mental ill health, but it is not known what proportion of the child population has contact with social services or how risk varies within this group compared to unexposed peers. We aim to quantify the extent and nature of contact with social services within the child population in Northern Ireland (NI) and the association with mental ill health. We also examine which social care experiences identify those most at risk.

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  • Olaparib plus bevacizumab maintenance therapy shows improved survival outcomes for women with newly diagnosed, advanced ovarian cancer that has homologous recombination deficiency.
  • The Myriad myChoice diagnostic tested 2829 tumor samples, with 87% and 77% successfully undergoing mutation and Genomic Instability Score (GIS) testing, respectively.
  • The results reveal 16% of tumors had BRCA mutations and 37% had GIS rates ≥42, indicating the need for high-quality tumor samples to minimize testing failures, reflecting a successful implementation of testing across the NHS in the UK.
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Objective: This study utilised digital technology to assess the clinical needs of young people presenting for care at centres across Australia.

Method: 1490 young people (12-25 years) who presented to one of 11 services from four geographical locations (urban New South Wales, urban South Australia, regional New South Wales, and regional Queensland) completed a digital multidimensional assessment at initial presentation. Characteristics were compared between services and geographical locations.

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Background: There is limited data on the comparative economic and humanistic burden of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) in the United States. The objective was to examine the burden of disease comparing NASH to a representative sample of the general population and separately to a type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) cohort by assessing health-related quality of life (HRQoL) measures, healthcare resource use (HRU) and work productivity and activity impairment (WPAI).

Methods: Data came from the 2016 National Health and Wellness Survey, a nationally representative patient-reported outcomes survey conducted in the United States.

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  • The study focuses on developing a machine learning model to predict how long it takes for patients with chronic urticaria to achieve clinical remission.
  • It analyzed data from over 112,000 patients, finding that 73.5% achieved remission, typically within about 336 days.
  • The model identified key factors affecting remission time, such as age, diagnosis delays, and comorbidities, and demonstrated a good performance in predictions, indicating its potential usefulness in clinical settings.
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Over the past decade, clinicians have increasingly prescribed acetaminophen (APAP) for patients in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Acetaminophen has been shown to reduce postoperative opiate burden, and may provide similar efficacy for closure of the patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) as nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). Despite these potential benefits, APAP exposures have spread to increasingly less mature infants, a highly vulnerable population for whom robust pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic data for APAP are lacking.

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Although adolescents' perspective on the parent-adolescent relationship uniquely predicts their mental health and wellbeing, there is limited research using qualitative methodologies to explore rich descriptions of adolescents' expectations, attitudes, and beliefs towards parents. The current study qualitatively analyzed adolescent narratives regarding their relationships with their parents. Seventy-two adolescents (68% female; M age = 16.

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Purpose: This is the first comprehensive review of empirical research that investigated the association between receipt of child welfare services and adult mental health outcomes. The review summarised the results of studies about mental health outcomes of adults with a history of child welfare involvement.

Methods: A scoping review methodology was used to search five electronic databases (MEDLINE, EMBASE, PsychINFO, IBSS, Social Policy and Practice).

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The β-cell response to injury may be as critical for the development of diabetes as the specific insult. In the current study, we used streptozotocin (STZ) to injure the β-cell in order to study the response with a focus on NFκB. MIN6 cells were exposed to STZ (0.

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Thompson-Hollands et al.'s (2020) commentary on our systematic review of exposure-based writing therapies for subthreshold and clinical posttraumatic stress symptoms (Dawson et al., 2020) emphasizes important questions about the impact of heterogeneity in drawing inferences from evidence reviews.

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We undertook a systematic review to assess the efficacy of exposure-based writing therapies (WTs) for trauma-exposed adults with subthreshold or clinical levels of posttraumatic stress disorder. Four databases (PsycINFO, Medline, Wiley Online, PILOTS) were searched for randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of exposure-based WTs. A total of 13 RCTs that reported on results from 17 WT versus control comparisons were included.

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Although the quality of the parent-teen relationship is key to understanding both psychopathology and well-being in adolescence, there are limited assessments of adolescents' underlying attitudes regarding their parents. This study aimed to evaluate a novel and brief method of coding adolescents' 3-min speech samples regarding their affective attitudes (e.g.

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Background & Aims: Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is associated with an increase in healthcare resource use and poor health-related quality of life (HRQoL). We assessed the humanistic and economic burden of NASH, disease management, and patient journey.

Methods: We performed a cross-sectional analysis of data, collected from July through November 2017, from the Growth from Knowledge Disease Atlas Real-World Evidence program, reported by physicians in United States, France, and Germany.

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Sterile inflammation contributes to many pathological states associated with mitochondrial injury. Mitochondrial injury disrupts calcium homeostasis and results in the release of CpG-rich mitochondrial DNA. The role of CpG-stimulated TLR9 innate immune signalling and sterile inflammation is well studied; however, how calcium dyshomeostasis affects this signalling is unknown.

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Unlabelled: Data on the economic and humanistic burden of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) are scarce. This study assessed the comparative burden of NASH, relative to a representative sample from the general population and a type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) cohort, in terms of health-related quality of life, work productivity and activity impairment (WPAI), and healthcare resource use.

Methods: Data across 5 European countries came from the 2016 National Health and Wellness Survey, a nationally representative patient-reported outcomes survey.

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