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Weight Change Following Diagnosis With Psychosis: A 25 Year Perspective in Greater Manchester, UK
- Adrian Heald, Lamiece Hassan, Joseph Firth, Mark Livingston, Martin Gibson, Christopher Daly
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- BJPsych Open / Volume 9 / Issue S1 / July 2023
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- 07 July 2023, pp. S51-S52
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Weight gain in the months/years after diagnosis/treatment severe enduring mental illness (SMI) is a major predictor of future diabetes, dysmetabolic profile and increased cardiometabolic risk in people treated with antipsychotic agents. There is limited data on the longer term profile of weight change in people with a history of SMI and how this may differ between individuals. We here report a 25-year perspective on weight change post-SMI diagnosis in Greater Manchester UK, an ethnically and culturally diverse community, with particular focus on a history of psychosis vs bipolar affective disorder.
MethodsWe undertook an anonymised search in the Greater Manchester Care Record (GMCR). We reviewed the health records of anyone who had been diagnosed for the first time with first episode psychosis, schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, delusional disorder (non-affective psychosis = NAP) also bipolar disorder = BPD). We analysed body mass index (BMI) change in the period before and after first prescription of anti-psychotic medication.
ResultsWe identified 9125 people with the diagnoses above. NAP (n = 5618; 37.5% female) mean age 49.3 years; BPD (n = 4131; 63.3% female) mean age 48.1 years. Follow-up period was up to 25 years. 27.0% of NAP were of non-white ethnicity vs 17.8% of BAP individuals.
A higher proportion of people diagnosed with NAP were in the highest quintile of social disadvantage 52.4% vs 39.5% for BPD. There were no significant differences in baseline BMI profile but mean HbA1c in those 2103 people where available was higher in NAP at baseline at 40.4mmol/mol vs 36.7mmol/mol for BPD.
At 5-year follow-up 53.6% of those NAP with a normal healthy BMI transitioned to obese / overweight BMI vs 55.6% with BPD. 43.7% of those NAP with normal BMI remained at a healthy BMI vs 42.7 % with BPD. At 5-year FU for NAP, 83.1% of those with BMI ≥30kg/m2 stayed in this category vs 81.5% of BPD.
At 5-year follow-up there was similarity in the overall % NAP in the obese ≥30kg/m2 category (42.4%) vs BPD (44.1%).
ConclusionThe results of this 25-year real world longitudinal cohort study suggest that the changes in BMI with treatment of non-affective psychosis vs bipolar disorder are not significantly different, highlighting the importance of regular physical health monitoring in all people with SMI.
Using longitudinal population data in this way has the potential to open up new avenues of research in psychiatry in terms of physical and mental health outcomes.
Strengthening patient outcome evidence in health technology assessment: a coproduction approach
- Mark Rasburn, Heidi Livingstone, Sarah E. Scott
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- International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care / Volume 37 / Issue 1 / 2021
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The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) worked with patients and staff from six patient organizations to review existing health technology assessment (HTA) methods and coproduce proposals to improve the following: patient involvement, how patient evidence is identified and considered by committees, and the support offered to patient stakeholders. This engagement identified important factors that HTA bodies need to understand to enable meaningful patient and public involvement (PPI), such as having clearly documented processes, appropriate evidence submission processes, transparent decisions, and suitable support. This work demonstrated the benefits of HTA bodies working collaboratively with patient stakeholders to improve PPI. By doing so, HTA bodies can increase their knowledge and understanding of the barriers faced by patient stakeholders to develop appropriate solutions to remove them. The coproduction approach improved stakeholder engagement methods, provided a better analysis of data, supported the development of meaningful conclusions, and improved stakeholder relationships.
OP184 Strengthening Patient Outcome Evidence In Health Technology Assessments: A Co-Production Approach
- Mark Rasburn, Heidi Livingstone, Gillian Leng
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- International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care / Volume 36 / Issue S1 / December 2020
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- 28 December 2020, p. 3
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Involving patients is a core principle which governs the work of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). To improve how patient evidence is identified and considered in health technology assessments (HTAs), NICE worked with patient organizations to review existing HTA methods and co-designed proposals for change.
MethodsA working group, including six patient organizations, oversaw the project, identifying and co-designing options for improvement. We held a stakeholder event with twenty-two patient organizations to identify themes for improving how we find and use patient evidence. We then ran an online quantitative and qualitative survey for targeted consultation with patient organizations to capture broader views.
ResultsThe fifty-two people who responded to the consultation made the following suggestions:
(i) Provide information about uncertainties that patient evidence might help to address;
(ii) Explore the role of real-world evidence in patient involvement;
(iii) Provide training and support to patient organizations;
(iv) Create inclusive committee cultures; and
(v) Include additional touchpoints during HTAs to incorporate patient evidence.
ConclusionsThis work identified improvements in seeking and incorporating patient evidence into HTA processes. Precise guidance for patient organizations will help them to submit evidence that will make the most impact. This is particularly important when assessing disruptive technologies where there are likely to be greater uncertainties and cost pressures. The results of this work will be developed into formal options for NICE to consider when updating its methods guides.
5 - Living in the Urban Renaissance? Opportunity and Challenge for 21st-Century Glasgow
- Edited by Keith Kintrea, Rebecca Madgin, University of Glasgow
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Promoted as ‘one of the best examples of urban regeneration in existence’, Glasgow presents a confident face to the world. However, this bold statement of success belies the more complex reality of life in the 21st-century city. This chapter explores the rebirth of Glasgow as a desirable urban centre, while questioning the extent to which this success might obscure a more textured picture of winners and losers in the changing city. The latter half of the 20th century brought a reversal of fortune to Glasgow, leaving swathes of derelict post-industrial land and urban depopulation. As with many cities in Europe, the United States and beyond, more affluent people left the city with poorer citizens from working class suffering from stigmatisation (Harvey, 1996; Hothi, 2005; High et al, 2017). Although, historically, poverty has been focussed in inner cities, surrounded by relatively wealthy suburbs, there are indications of a shift in this pattern across the affluent world, including cities in Australia, the US and more recently in the UK (Kneebone and Berube, 2013, Hunter, 2014, Pawson et al, 2015). There is evidence that greater urban densification may have positive social and economic benefits (Rodriguez-Pose, 2018). However, the picture is not straightforward: countries that exhibit increases in urban concentration also show increasing levels of inequality (Castells-Quintana and Royuela, 2015).
It is against this backdrop that we examine Glasgow in the 21st century, as it grapples with the challenge of economic transition. Globalisation has required a new agility from municipal authorities, as they strive to attract investment, new visitors and new citizens (Wise and Clark, 2017). While efforts to revitalise the city and mitigate the disadvantages faced by some inhabitants have been predominantly portrayed as positive, regeneration strategies can easily serve as gentrifying forces, marginalising or displacing those that they were intended to benefit (Marcuse, 1985). There are considerable tensions involved in maximising economic growth at the same time as supporting social and environmental goals (Couch et al, 2011). We begin by considering Glasgow in relation to aspirations for urban renaissance, offering a thumbnail sketch of the city's urban structure.
Effectiveness of START psychological intervention in reducing abuse by dementia family carers: randomized controlled trial
- Claudia Cooper, Julie Barber, Mark Griffin, Penny Rapaport, Gill Livingston
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- International Psychogeriatrics / Volume 28 / Issue 6 / June 2016
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Family carers of people with dementia frequently report acting abusively toward them and carer psychological morbidity predicts this. We investigated whether START (STrAtegies for RelaTives), a psychological intervention which reduces depression and anxiety in family carers also reduces abusive behavior in carers of people living in their own homes. We also explored the longitudinal course of carer abusive behavior over two year.
Methods:We included self-identified family carers who gave support at least weekly to people with dementia referred in the previous year to three UK mental health services and a neurological dementia service. We randomly assigned these carers to START, an eight-session, manual-based coping intervention, or treatment as usual (TAU). Carer abusive behavior (Modified Conflict Tactic Scale (MCTS) score ≥2 representing significant abuse) was assessed at baseline, 4, 8, 12, and 24 months.
Results:We recruited 260 carers, 173 to START and 87 to TAU. There was no evidence that abusive behavior levels differed between randomization groups or changed over time. A quarter of carers still reported significant abuse after two years, but those not acting abusively at baseline did not become abusive.
Conclusion:There was no evidence that START, which reduced carer anxiety and depression, reduced carer abusive behavior. For ethical reasons, we frequently intervened to manage concerning abuse reported in both groups, which may have disguised an intervention effect. Future dementia research should include elder abuse as an outcome, and consider carefully how to manage detected abuse.
‘All in it Together’? Social Cohesion in a Divided Society: Attitudes to Income Inequality and Redistribution in a Residential Context – CORRIGENDUM
- ADE KEARNS, NICK BAILEY, MARIA GANNON, MARK LIVINGSTON, ALASTAIR LEYLAND
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- Journal of Social Policy / Volume 43 / Issue 3 / July 2014
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‘All in it Together’? Social Cohesion in a Divided Society: Attitudes to Income Inequality and Redistribution in a Residential Context
- ADE KEARNS, NICK BAILEY, MARIA GANNON, MARK LIVINGSTON, ALASTAIR LEYLAND
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This paper asks whether where someone lives bears any association with their attitudes to inequality and income redistribution, focusing on the relative contribution of neighbourhood income, density and ethnic composition. People on higher incomes showed higher support for redistribution when living in more deprived neighbourhoods. People with lower levels of altruism had higher levels of support for redistribution in neighbourhoods of higher density. People living in more ethnically mixed neighbourhoods had higher levels of support for redistribution on average, but this support declined for Whites with low levels of altruism as the deprivation of the neighbourhood increased. Current trends which sustain or extend income and wealth inequalities, reflected in patterns of residence, may undermine social cohesion in the medium- to long-term. This may be offset to some extent by trends of rising residential ethnic diversity.
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Stewart, Cynthia Stokes Brown, Ken Stone, Anne Stott, Elizabeth Stuart, Monya Stubbs, Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki, David Kwang-sun Suh, Scott W. Sunquist, Keith Suter, Douglas Sweeney, Charles H. Talbert, Shawqi N. Talia, Elsa Tamez, Joseph B. Tamney, Jonathan Y. Tan, Yak-Hwee Tan, Kathryn Tanner, Feiya Tao, Elizabeth S. Tapia, Aquiline Tarimo, Claire Taylor, Mark Lewis Taylor, Bishop Abba Samuel Wolde Tekestebirhan, Eugene TeSelle, M. Thomas Thangaraj, David R. Thomas, Andrew Thornley, Scott Thumma, Marcelo Timotheo da Costa, George E. “Tink” Tinker, Ola Tjørhom, Karen Jo Torjesen, Iain R. Torrance, Fernando Torres-Londoño, Archbishop Demetrios [Trakatellis], Marit Trelstad, Christine Trevett, Phyllis Trible, Johannes Tromp, Paul Turner, Robert G. Tuttle, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Peter Tyler, Anders Tyrberg, Justin Ukpong, Javier Ulloa, Camillus Umoh, Kristi Upson-Saia, Martina Urban, Monica Uribe, Elochukwu Eugene Uzukwu, Richard Vaggione, Gabriel Vahanian, Paul Valliere, T. J. 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Yee, Viktor Yelensky, Yeo Khiok-Khng, Gustav K. K. Yeung, Angela Yiu, Amos Yong, Yong Ting Jin, You Bin, Youhanna Nessim Youssef, Eliana Yunes, Robert Michael Zaller, Valarie H. Ziegler, Barbara Brown Zikmund, Joyce Ann Zimmerman, Aurora Zlotnik, Zhuo Xinping
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- The Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity
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Cerebral function monitoring in paediatric intensive care: useful features for predicting outcome
- Deborah Murdoch-Eaton, Mark Darowski, John Livingston
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- Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology / Volume 43 / Issue 2 / February 2001
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- 14 February 2001, pp. 91-96
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Neurological integrity in sick children is difficult to assess clinically. The aim of this study was to determine the predictive value of EEG activity recorded with a bedside EEG analysing monitor in an intensive care unit. EEG activity was monitored in 108 children (age range 2 weeks to 16 years, median 1.7 years) considered at risk for cerebral abnormalities with a cerebral function analysing monitor (CFAM). Recordings were evaluated for features of background EEG activity including mean amplitude, frequencies, and symmetry. Electrical seizure activity was quantified if present. Predictive value of the EEG features was evaluated relative to the clinical neurological outcome after one year. Asymmetrical recordings were not seen in any child with a normal outcome. Suppression of background activity was seen in 75% of the children who died. Seizures were present in 68% of children with a poor outcome. Seventeen of the 32 children (65%) who died had prolonged seizures. Absence of seizures and the presence of superimposed fast EEG activity in response to benzodiazepine infusions correlated with good outcome. A combination of two or more predictive EEG features demonstrated >90% specificity and positive predictive likelihood of poor outcome. EEG features provide information about the functional cerebral integrity of sick children. Changes in cerebral activity detected by the CFAM aid decision making by providing such information readily at the bedside in intensive care.
Preliminary Analysis of the Masonry of the Hagia Sophia Basilica, Istanbul
- Richard A. Livingston, P.E. Stutzman, R. Mark, M. Erdik
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- MRS Online Proceedings Library Archive / Volume 267 / 1992
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- 28 February 2011, 721
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- 1992
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Specimens of brick and mortar taken from the Hagia Sophia Basilica in Istanbul, Turkey, are being analyzed as part of an investigation of the construction history and present state of structural stability of the building. The analysis, covering both chemical composition and physical properties, involves a suite of instrumental methods including quantitative X-ray diffraction, thermal analysis, and automated image analysis of polished sections under SEM. These conventional methods are being supplemented by neutron diffraction and neutron and Xray small angle scattering. Preliminary results suggest the presence of cementitious materials including plombierite and tetracalcium aluminum carbonate in the mortar as well as calcium carbonate. The mortar contains significant amount of brick dust and also large chunks of brick as coarse aggregate. Given the pozzolanic nature of brick dust, it is possible that the mortar is actually not a conventional carbonated lime material, but rather a proto-concrete. The type of masonry construction involving very wide mortar joints, comparable to the width of the bricks, suggests that the Byzantine architects took advantage of this property of the mortar. This sophisticated materials technology may help to explain how the Basilica was constructed in such a short time period, and also to allow us to understand and model subsequent structural problems, including major deformations of the main piers. Also, the feasibility of dating by radiocarbon and thermoluminescence methods is being investigated to determine which parts of the elaborate buttress system are the original Byzantine structure as opposed to later Ottoman additions.