Prachi Kaistha's Outputs (5)

Switching Antipsychotics to Support the Physical Health of People With Severe Mental Illness: A Qualitative Study of Patient and Caregiver Perceptions and Experiences (2025)
Journal Article
Kaistha, P., Beddow, M., Kingstone, T., Farooq, S., & Chew-Graham, C. (2025). Switching Antipsychotics to Support the Physical Health of People With Severe Mental Illness: A Qualitative Study of Patient and Caregiver Perceptions and Experiences. BJPsych Open, 11(S1), S23-S23. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2025.10199

Aims: People with Severe Mental Illness (SMI) have a reduced life expectancy of 15–20 years compared with the general population. This disparity is largely due to preventable health conditions like cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Certain antipsy... Read More about Switching Antipsychotics to Support the Physical Health of People With Severe Mental Illness: A Qualitative Study of Patient and Caregiver Perceptions and Experiences.

Developing iSWITCHED (Implementing SWITCHing EDucational Intervention): A Co-Designed Intervention to Support Safer Antipsychotic Switching in Severe Mental Illness (2025)
Journal Article
Kaistha, P., Beddow, M., Kingstone, T., Maidment, I., & Farooq, S. (2025). Developing iSWITCHED (Implementing SWITCHing EDucational Intervention): A Co-Designed Intervention to Support Safer Antipsychotic Switching in Severe Mental Illness. BJPsych Open, 11(S1), S48-S49. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2025.10157

Aims: Individuals with severe mental illness (SMI) face two–three times higher-risk of early death; over 60% are deaths linked to preventable physical health issues. Commonly prescribed antipsychotics (APs) like olanzapine, quetiapine, and risperidon... Read More about Developing iSWITCHED (Implementing SWITCHing EDucational Intervention): A Co-Designed Intervention to Support Safer Antipsychotic Switching in Severe Mental Illness.

Blood pressure lowering efficacy of antihypertensive drugs and their combinations: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 500 randomised, double-blind placebo-controlled trials (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wang, N., Salam, A., Pant, R., Kota, V., Dhurjati, R., Kumar, A., Haghdoost, F., Gnanenthiran, S., Kaistha, P., Prasad, H., Kanukula, R., & Rodgers, A. Blood pressure lowering efficacy of antihypertensive drugs and their combinations: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 500 randomised, double-blind placebo-controlled trials. Presented at ESC Congress 2024 30 August – 02 September London, UK Abstract Supplement

Background Each 1 mmHg reduction in systolic blood pressure (SBP) reduces the risk of major cardiovascular disease events by about 2%. However, there are currently no tools to provide randomised trial-derived estimates of blood pressure (BP)-lowering... Read More about Blood pressure lowering efficacy of antihypertensive drugs and their combinations: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 500 randomised, double-blind placebo-controlled trials.

Traditional healers working with primary care and mental health for early intervention in psychosis in young persons: protocol for the feasibility cluster randomised controlled trial (2023)
Journal Article
Farooq, S., Sheikh, S., Dikomitis, L., Haq, M. M. U., Khan, A. J., Sanauddin, N., Ali, M. W., Ali, J., Khan, M. F., Chaudhry, I., Husain, N., Gul, M., Irfan, M., Andrews, G., Kaistha, P., Shah, S. M. U., Azeemi, I., Hamid, S., Minhaz, A., Mallen, C., & Lewis, M. (2023). Traditional healers working with primary care and mental health for early intervention in psychosis in young persons: protocol for the feasibility cluster randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open, 13(7), Article e072471. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-072471

Objectives In low/middle-income countries (LMICs), more than half of patients with first-episode psychosis initially seek treatment from traditional and religious healers as their first care. This contributes to an excessively long duration of untrea... Read More about Traditional healers working with primary care and mental health for early intervention in psychosis in young persons: protocol for the feasibility cluster randomised controlled trial.

Traditional healers working with primary care and mental health for early intervention in psychosis in young persons: protocol for the feasibility cluster randomised controlled trial (2023)
Journal Article
Farooq, S., Sheikh, S., Dikomitis, L., Haq, M. M. U., Khan, A. J., Sanauddin, N., Ali, M. W., Ali, J., Khan, M. F., Chaudhry, I., Husain, N., Gul, M., Irfan, M., Andrews, G., Kaistha, P., Shah, S. M. U., Azeemi, I., Hamid, S., Minhaz, A., Mallen, C., & Lewis, M. (2023). Traditional healers working with primary care and mental health for early intervention in psychosis in young persons: protocol for the feasibility cluster randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open, 13(7), e072471. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-072471

Objectives: In low/middle-income countries (LMICs), more than half of patients with first-episode psychosis initially seek treatment from traditional and religious healers as their first care. This contributes to an excessively long duration of untre... Read More about Traditional healers working with primary care and mental health for early intervention in psychosis in young persons: protocol for the feasibility cluster randomised controlled trial.