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Associations Between Demographic Variables, Psychosocial Health, Quality of Life, and Happiness in the Context of COVID-19 (2023)
Journal Article
Østertun Geirdal, A. K., Leung, J., Price, D., Kabelenga, I., Lamph, G., Thygesen, H., …Bonsaksen, T. (2023). Associations Between Demographic Variables, Psychosocial Health, Quality of Life, and Happiness in the Context of COVID-19. Applied Research in Quality of Life, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11482-023-10255-z

Purpose The purpose was to examine the association between demographic variables, psychosocial health, quality of life, and happiness in the context of COVID. The hypothesis was that psychosocial health variables have mediating roles between demogra... Read More about Associations Between Demographic Variables, Psychosocial Health, Quality of Life, and Happiness in the Context of COVID-19.

Relational practice in health, education, criminal justice, and social care: a scoping review (2023)
Journal Article
Lamph, G., Nowland, R., Boland, P., Pearson, J., Connell, C., Jones, V., …McKeown, M. (2023). Relational practice in health, education, criminal justice, and social care: a scoping review. Systematic Reviews, 12, Article 194. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-023-02344-9

Background Establishing and maintaining relationships and ways of connecting and being with others is an important component of health and wellbeing. Harnessing the relational within caring, supportive, educational, or carceral settings as a systems... Read More about Relational practice in health, education, criminal justice, and social care: a scoping review.

Exploring Ethnicity and Personality Disorder in a UK Context: A scoping review of the literature (2023)
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Lamph, G., Mulongo, P., Bowland, P., Jeynes, T., King, C., Burrell, R., … shorrock, S. (2023). Exploring Ethnicity and Personality Disorder in a UK Context: A scoping review of the literature. Mental Health Review Journal, https://doi.org/10.1108/MHRJ-12-2022-0075

Purpose The UK Mental Health Act (MHA) Reform (2021) on race and ethnicity promotes new governmental strategies to tackle inequalities faced by ethnically racialised communities detained under the MHA. However, there is a scarcity in personality dis... Read More about Exploring Ethnicity and Personality Disorder in a UK Context: A scoping review of the literature.

A pedagogic evaluation comparing face to face and online formats of a multi-professional offender personality disorder (OPD) higher education training programme (2023)
Journal Article
Lamph, G., Elliott, A., Wheatcroft, S., Rayner, G., Gardner, K., Haslam, M. B., …Wright, K. (2023). A pedagogic evaluation comparing face to face and online formats of a multi-professional offender personality disorder (OPD) higher education training programme. Journal of Forensic Practice, https://doi.org/10.1108/JFP-02-2023-0004

Purpose The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of a novel offender personality disorder (OPD) higher education programme and the research evaluation results collected over a three-year period. Data from Phase 1 was collected from a face-to-... Read More about A pedagogic evaluation comparing face to face and online formats of a multi-professional offender personality disorder (OPD) higher education training programme.

Factors Associated with Trust in Public Authorities Among Adults in Norway, United Kingdom, United States, and Australia Two Years after the COVID-19 Outbreak (2023)
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Price, D., Bonsaksen, T., Leung, J., McClure-Thomas, C., Ruffolo, M., Lamph, G., …Ostertun Geirdal, A. (2023). Factors Associated with Trust in Public Authorities Among Adults in Norway, United Kingdom, United States, and Australia Two Years after the COVID-19 Outbreak. International Journal of Public Health, 68, Article 1605846. https://doi.org/10.3389/ijph.2023.1605846

Objectives: This study aimed to examine the levels of trust in information provided by public authorities 2 years after the COVID-19 outbreak and to examine factors associated with trust. Methods: Using a cross-national approach, online survey dat... Read More about Factors Associated with Trust in Public Authorities Among Adults in Norway, United Kingdom, United States, and Australia Two Years after the COVID-19 Outbreak.

Motivation and Hesitancies in Obtaining the COVID-19 Vaccine—A Cross-Sectional Study in Norway, USA, UK, and Australia (2023)
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Leung, J., Price, D., McClure-Thomas, C., Bonsaksen, T., Ruffolo, M., Kabelenga, I., …Østertun Geirdal, A. (2023). Motivation and Hesitancies in Obtaining the COVID-19 Vaccine—A Cross-Sectional Study in Norway, USA, UK, and Australia. Vaccines, 11(6), Article 1086. https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines11061086

Background: Vaccinations protect the public against serious diseases or death; however, some individuals are hesitant in obtaining them. We aim to contribute to the understanding of the challenges of vaccination roll-out by examining the motivations,... Read More about Motivation and Hesitancies in Obtaining the COVID-19 Vaccine—A Cross-Sectional Study in Norway, USA, UK, and Australia.

Working effectively with people who have received a diagnosis of personality disorder (2023)
Journal Article
Elliott, A., Lamph, G., & Kendall, Z. (2023). Working effectively with people who have received a diagnosis of personality disorder. Mental Health Practice, 26(4), 34-41. https://doi.org/10.7748/mhp.2023.e1634

Personality disorder is a contentious diagnostic label that is associated with high levels of stigma, leading many practitioners and people with lived experience to call for a change in its use. Mental health nurses frequently encounter people who ha... Read More about Working effectively with people who have received a diagnosis of personality disorder.

Perceptions of social media challenges and benefits during the Covid-19 pandemic: Qualitative findings from a cross sectional international survey (2023)
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Schoultz, M., Lamph, G., Thygesen, H., Leung, J., Bonsaksen, T., Ruffolo, M., …Østertun Geirdal, A. (2023). Perceptions of social media challenges and benefits during the Covid-19 pandemic: Qualitative findings from a cross sectional international survey. PLOS Global Public Health, 3(1), Article e0001463. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0001463

Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic in January 2020 the need for rapid information spread grew and social media became the ultimate platform for information exchange as well as a tool for connection and entertainment. With the rapid informat... Read More about Perceptions of social media challenges and benefits during the Covid-19 pandemic: Qualitative findings from a cross sectional international survey.

Associations between social media use and loneliness in a cross-national population: do motives for social media use matter? (2023)
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Bonsaksen, T., Ruffolo, M., Price, D., Leung, J., Thygesen, H., Lamph, G., …Østertun Geirdal, A. (2023). Associations between social media use and loneliness in a cross-national population: do motives for social media use matter?. Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine, 11(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/21642850.2022.2158089

Background: We aimed to examine the association between social media use and loneliness two years after the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak. Methods: Participants were 1649 adults who completed a cross-sectional online survey disseminated openly in Norway... Read More about Associations between social media use and loneliness in a cross-national population: do motives for social media use matter?.