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| Christopher DowrickSummaryAffiliation: University of Liverpool Country: UK Publications
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Get into Reading as an intervention for common mental health problems: exploring catalysts for changeChristopher Dowrick
Department of Mental Health and Behavioural Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Med Humanit 38:15-20. 2012..Further research is needed, including assessment of the social and economic impact and substantial trials of the clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of this intervention...
Normalisation process theory: a framework for developing, evaluating and implementing complex interventionsElizabeth Murray
Research Department of Primary Care and Population Health, University College London, Upper Floor 3, Royal Free Hospital, Rowland Hill Street, London NW3 2PF, UK
BMC Med 8:63. 2010..The Normalisation Process Theory (NPT) addresses the factors needed for successful implementation and integration of interventions into routine work (normalisation)...- Understanding the implementation of complex interventions in health care: the normalization process modelCarl May
Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University, 21 Claremont Place, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4AA, UK
BMC Health Serv Res 7:148. 2007..It offers a framework for process evaluation and also for comparative studies of complex interventions. It focuses on the factors that promote or inhibit the routine embedding of complex interventions in health care practice... - Process evaluation for complex interventions in primary care: understanding trials using the normalization process modelCarl R May
Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
BMC Fam Pract 8:42. 2007..It focuses on the ways that the implementation of complex interventions is shaped by problems of workability and integration... - Estimating probability of sustained recovery from mild to moderate depression in primary care: evidence from the THREAD studyC Dowrick
Division of Primary Care, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Psychol Med 41:141-50. 2011..Our objectives were to predict the probability of sustained recovery for patients presenting with mild to moderate depression in primary care and to devise a means of estimating this probability on an individual basis... - Predicting long-term recovery from depression in community settings in Western Europe: evidence from ODINChristopher Dowrick
School of Population, Community and Behavioural Sciences, University of Liverpool, Whelan Building, Liverpool, L69 3GB, UK
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 46:119-26. 2011..To test the impact of socio-economic and psychological adversity and healthcare on long-term recovery from depression... - Resilience and depression: perspectives from primary careChristopher Dowrick
University of Liverpool, UK
Health (London) 12:439-52. 2008..We conclude that personal resilience is important in the minds of our respondents, and that these elements should be actively considered in future research involving people with experience of mental health problems... - Problem solving treatment and group psychoeducation for depression: multicentre randomised controlled trial. Outcomes of Depression International Network (ODIN) GroupC Dowrick
Department of Primary Care, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3GB
BMJ 321:1450-4. 2000..To determine the acceptability of two psychological interventions for depressed adults in the community and their effect on caseness, symptoms, and subjective function... 
Chickens and eggs: examining the links between mental health and chronic diseaseChristopher Dowrick
University of Liverpool, UK
Int J Psychiatry Med 36:263-7. 2006..There is an expanding evidence base for the efficacy of interventions at the psychological level. Patients' views on their healthcare remain crucial...- Normalisation of unexplained symptoms by general practitioners: a functional typologyChristopher F Dowrick
Department of Primary Care, University of Liverpool, Liverpool
Br J Gen Pract 54:165-70. 2004..Patients often present in primary care with physical symptoms that doctors cannot readily explain. The process of reassuring these patients is challenging, complex and poorly understood... - Why may older people with depression not present to primary care? Messages from secondary analysis of qualitative dataCarolyn Chew-Graham
Health Sciences Research Group Primary Care, School of Community Based Medicine, University of Manchester, UK
Health Soc Care Community 20:52-60. 2012..Interventions offered to older people need to encourage social engagement, such as befriending, and enhancement of creative, physical and social activity... - Peering through the barriers in GPs' explanations for declining to participate in research: the role of professional autonomy and the economy of timePeter Salmon
Division of Clinical Psychology, University of Liverpool, Whelan Building, Brownlow Hill, Liverpool L69 3GB, UK
Fam Pract 24:269-75. 2007..Previous reports of the reasons why practitioners decline opportunities for research participation have tended to recount the barriers that they describe as if they are objective accounts... - General practitioners' views on reattribution for patients with medically unexplained symptoms: a questionnaire and qualitative studyChristopher Dowrick
Division of Primary Care, School of Population, Community and Behavioural Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3GB, UK
BMC Fam Pract 9:46. 2008.... - Why do general practitioners decline training to improve management of medically unexplained symptoms?Peter Salmon
Division of Clinical Psychology, University of Liverpool, Brownlow Hill, Liverpool, UK
J Gen Intern Med 22:565-71. 2007..Several reports indicate that GPs have negative attitudes about patients with MUS. If these attitudes deter participation in training or other methods to improve communication, practitioners who most need help will not receive it... - Health service use by adults with depression: community survey in five European countries. Evidence from the ODIN studyCherie McCracken
Division of Psychiatry, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Br J Psychiatry 189:161-7. 2006..The association between social support and service use suggests that interventions may be needed for those who lack social support... - Patients' and doctors' views on depression severity questionnaires incentivised in UK quality and outcomes framework: qualitative studyChristopher Dowrick
University of Liverpool School of Population, Community and Behavioural Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3GB, UK
BMJ 338:b663. 2009..To gain understanding of general practitioners' and patients' opinions of the routine introduction of standardised measures of severity of depression through the UK general practice quality and outcomes framework... - Access to primary mental health care for hard-to-reach groups: from 'silent suffering' to 'making it work'Marija Kovandzic
University of Liverpool, UK
Soc Sci Med 72:763-72. 2011..We conclude that there is a need to provide local care that is pluralistic, adaptive, holistic, resonant and socially conscious in order to ensure that equitable access to mental health services can become a reality... - Turning theory into practice: rationale, feasibility and external validity of an exploratory randomized controlled trial of training family practitioners in reattribution to manage patients with medically unexplained symptoms (the MUST)Richard Morriss
Division of Psychiatry, School of Behavioural, Community and Population Science, University of Liverpool, Royal Liverpool University Hospital, L69 3GA Liverpool, UK
Gen Hosp Psychiatry 28:343-51. 2006..The evidence for the effectiveness of reattribution training are limited, and optimal service delivery is not yet established... - Depression in men attending a rural general practice: factors associated with prevalence of depressive symptoms and diagnosisChristopher Shiels
Department of Primary Care, Whelan Building, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3GB, UK
Br J Psychiatry 185:239-44. 2004..Little research has been conducted to explore the underlying reasons for this in rural settings, or to compare primary care doctors' and male patients' ratings of perceived depression... - Do patients with unexplained physical symptoms pressurise general practitioners for somatic treatment? A qualitative studyAdele Ring
Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Liverpool, Whelan Building, Brownlow Hill, Liverpool L69 3GB
BMJ 328:1057. 2004.... - Voiced but unheard agendas: qualitative analysis of the psychosocial cues that patients with unexplained symptoms present to general practitionersPeter Salmon
Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool
Br J Gen Pract 54:171-6. 2004..Symptomatic investigation and treatment of unexplained physical symptoms is often attributed to patients' beliefs and demands for physical treatments... - Implementation of RCGP guidelines for acute low back pain: a cluster randomised controlled trialPaola Dey
Centre for Cancer Epidemiology, University of Manchester, Withington
Br J Gen Pract 54:33-7. 2004..An increase in referral to physiotherapy or educational programmes followed the provision of a triage service... - Doctors' attachment style and their inclination to propose somatic interventions for medically unexplained symptomsPeter Salmon
Division of Clinical Psychology, University of Liverpool, Brownlow Hill, Liverpool L69 3GB, UK
Gen Hosp Psychiatry 30:104-11. 2008..We predicted that GPs most likely to respond somatically after patients indicated symptomatic or psychosocial needs had attachment style characterised by negative models of self and others... - Doctors' responses to patients with medically unexplained symptoms who seek emotional support: criticism or confrontation?Peter Salmon
Division of Clinical Psychology, University of Liverpool, Brownlow Hill, L69 3GB Liverpool, UK
Gen Hosp Psychiatry 29:454-60. 2007.... - The somatising effect of clinical consultation: what patients and doctors say and do not say when patients present medically unexplained physical symptomsAdele Ring
Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Liverpool, Whelan Building, Brownlow Hill, Liverpool L69 3GB, UK
Soc Sci Med 61:1505-15. 2005.... - Primary care consultations about medically unexplained symptoms: patient presentations and doctor responses that influence the probability of somatic interventionPeter Salmon
Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Liverpool, Whelan Building, Brownlow Hill, Liverpool, UK
Psychosom Med 69:571-7. 2007.... - What do general practice patients want when they present medically unexplained symptoms, and why do their doctors feel pressurized?Peter Salmon
Division of Clinical Psychology, University of Liverpool, Whelan Building, Brownlow Hill, L69 3GB Liverpool, United Kingdom
J Psychosom Res 59:255-60; discussion 261-2. 2005.... - Considering the case for an antidepressant drug trial involving temporary deception: a qualitative enquiry of potential participantsChristopher F Dowrick
Division of Primary Care, University of Liverpool, Whelan Building, Liverpool, UK
BMC Health Serv Res 7:64. 2007..This study aimed to ascertain views of potential study participants of the ethics and pragmatics of various balanced placebo designs, in order to inform the design of future antidepressant drug trials... - Why do primary care physicians propose medical care to patients with medically unexplained symptoms? A new method of sequence analysis to test theories of patient pressurePeter Salmon
Division of Clinical Psychology, Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, England
Psychosom Med 68:570-7. 2006....