Psychology (Scholarly Publications)
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Three Decades of Adolescent Health: Unveiling Global Trends Across 41 Countries in Psychological and Somatic Complaints (1994-2022)
(2024)Objectives: This study examined (non-)monotonic time trends in psychological and somatic complaints among adolescents, along with gender differences. Methods: Repeated cross-sectional Health Behaviour in School-aged ... -
Prior probability cues bias sensory encoding with increasing task exposure
(2023)When observers have prior knowledge about the likely outcome of their perceptual decisions, they exhibit robust behavioural biases in reaction time and choice accuracy. Computa- tional modelling typically attributes these ... -
Parental supportive and intrusive directives during dyadic interactions in relation to concurrent skills of preterm and full-term toddlers at age 2 years
(Springer, Current Psychology, 2024)This study investigates whether parental supportive (following) and intrusive (redirecting child’s attention) verbal directives are influenced by parent gender and birth status, and whether any associations between parental ... -
Integrated Model for Supervision Handbook For Mental Health and Psychosocial Support
(2023)The IMS is the product of extensive engagement and consultation. Throughout its development, participatory methods were used to consult on all aspects of its content to reflect the voices of the broadest range of ... -
Adolescents perception of the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions and associated mental health and well-being: gender, age and socioeconomic differences in 22 countries
(2024)Background: The COVID-19-pandemic has had a profound impact on the lives of adolescents worldwide. This study examined the subjective perception of the COVID-19 pandemic measures and its association with mental health and ... -
Overcoming socioeconomic adversity: Academic resilience in mathematics achievement among children and adolescents in Ireland.
(2024)Although socioeconomic disadvantage is linked with academic underachievement, many children from low-income backgrounds perform well in school. Which modifiable factors predict this academic resilience? We examine ... -
Physiological Indicators for Real-Time Detection of Operator's Attention
(Research Publishing, Singapore., 2022)Attention is a safety-critical operator ability that needs to be sustained over the course of specific tasks. However, many internal factors (e.g.: cognitive underload or overload, fatigue, etc.) and external factors ... -
A systematic review of older drivers in a level 3 autonomous vehicle: A cognitive load perspective
(Springer, 2021)With current advancement in technology, it is expected and hoped that even a conditional or level 3 (L3) autonomous vehicle could alleviate older adults’ mobility issues. These conditional or level 3 autonomous vehicles ... -
Safety Management Systems and Safety Culture in Aircraft Maintenance Organisations
(2000)A self-regulatory model was proposed to examine how different organisations manage safety, with particular emphasis on the human and organisational aspects. The relationships of different aspects of safety culture and ... -
A scoping review of therapist behaviors in guided digital mental health interventions
(2024)Guided digital mental health interventions are more effective than unguided interventions. While research often emphasizes the frequency and intensity of guidance, less attention has been paid to the behaviors enacted by ... -
Incorporating a deep-learning client outcome prediction tool as feedback in supported internet-delivered cognitive behavioural therapy for depression and anxiety: A randomised controlled trial within routine clinical practice
(2024)Introduction: Machine learning techniques have been leveraged to predict client psychological treatment outcomes. Few studies, however, have tested whether providing such model predictions as feedback to therapists improves ... -
Artificial intelligence and psychotherapy: A counterpoint
(2024)Psychotherapy practice is a human endeavour. Research on the specific and non‐specific factors of treatment has helped crystallise its relevance and clinical impact. The challenges currently faced by the field revolve ... -
The Transformational Simulation for Trauma-Informed Care (TS4TIC) Implementation Toolkit
(2024)Welcome to the Transformative Simulation for Trauma-Informed Care (TS4TIC) Toolkit. This toolkit provides guidance on how to use a form of healthcare simulation, transformative simulation (TS), to introduce or explore the ... -
The Trauma-Informed Care Teaching Aid Toolkit (TICTAT)
(2023)Trauma-informed care (TIC) takes the knowledge that trauma is common and could affect anyone who accesses health care services, and applies that to general principles that can be applied to any care discipline. TIC has ... -
IntEgrating smoking cessation treAtment into usual online psychological care for people with common mEntal illness: Protocol for an online randomised feasibility and pilot study (ESCAPE digital)
(2024)Background: In the UK, smoking prevalence in people with depression (34%) and anxiety (29%) is more than double that of the general population (13%). People who stop smoking improve their mental health with comparable ... -
Midwives� views of an evidence-based intervention to reduce caesarean section rates in Ireland
(2022)Problem: A worldwide increase of caesarean section (CS) rates has been estimated at a rate of 4% per year and numerous interventions to reduce the rates have not been successful, perhaps because they are not acceptable to ... -
Sensory Interventions
(Springer, 2022)Sensory processing difficulties are recognized as a core diagnostic criterion for Autism. These difficulties can vary broadly in topography and have been proposed to impact on many aspects of daily living. Sensory interventions ... -
A socio-technical systems analysis of the application of RFID-enabled technology to the transport of precious laboratory samples in a large acute teaching hospital
(2022)The scale and pace of improvement in patient safety in healthcare has been unacceptably slow. A paucity of research into the application of systems-thinking concepts and a failure to appreciate health systems complexity ... -
A focus on adolescent peer violence and bullying in Europe, central Asia and Canada
(World Health Organization, 2024)The Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study is a large school-based survey carried out every four years in collaboration with the WHO Regional Office for Europe. HBSC data are used at national/regional and ...