Publications

Lay summaries 

Lay summaries for each of the SCENE work packages can be found here.  The aim of these summaries is to explain our findings in non-technical terms to a general audience. This helps to make our findings accessible and understandable to people outside of academia, including the public, patients and policy makers. 

Peer-reviewed journals

Giacco D, Chevalier A, McNamee P, Barber N, Shafiq K, Wells I (2023). Patient and Public Involvement in Developing and Tesing Mental Health-Care Interventions: Strategies and Reflections from Three Research Programs. World Social Psychiatry 5(1) https://journals.lww.com. This paper reports on the PPI activities of three research programs developing and testing mental health interventions including SCENE. This article was written in collaboration with people with lived experience.

Ngamaba K, Webber M, Xanthopoulou P, Chevalier A, Giacco K (2023). Participation in leisure activities and quality of life of people with psychosis in England: a multi-site cross-sectional study. Ann of Gen Psychiatry vol 13 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12991-023-00438-1 Secondary paper from our survey of 533 people with psychosis across England focusing on participation in leisure activities and their relationship with quality of life. 

Giacco D (2022). Tackling social isolation in people with psychosis: promising developments but need for conceptual clarity. Journal of Mental Health 31(3). https://doi.org/10.1080/09638237.2022.2069725. Editorial summarising the research on interventions to reduce the social isolation of people with psychosis. This paper proposes a framework to provide some conceptual clarity to the field. 

Tee H, Chevalier A, Webber M, Xanthopoulou P, Priebe S, Giacco D (2022). Who wants more social contacts? A cross-sectional study of people with psychotic disorders in England. Schizophrenia Research vol 240. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2021.11.047. This reports on the main findings of our survey with 548 people with psychosis across England and the predictors of wanting to or not wanting to increase social contacts. 

Xanthopoulou P, Mbanu J, Chevalier A, Webber M, Giacco D (2022). Social Isolation and Psychosis: Perspectives from People with Psychosis, Family Caregivers and Mental Health Professionals. Community Mental Health Journal vol 58. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10597-022-00941-x. This paper explores the subjective experiences of mental health practitioners, people with psychosis and carers, on social isolation and community integration of people with psychosis.

Giacco D, Chevalier A, Patterson M, Hamborg T, Mortimer R, Feng Y, Webber M, Xanthopoulou P, Priebe S (2021). Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a structured social coaching intervention for people with psychosis (SCENE): protocol for a randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open 2021;11. 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-050627. Published protocol for the randomised controlled trial testing the effectiveness of the social coaching intervention. 

Donaghy J, Buhagiar K, Xanthopoulou P, Ngamaba K, Priebe S, Giacco D (2021). Routine participation in sports and fitness activities among out-patients with psychotic disorders: A multi-site cross-sectional survey in England. Journal of Mental Health and Physical Activity vol 20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mhpa.2021.100402 Cross-sectional study survey exploring participation in sports and fitness activities among out-patients with psychotic disorders. The study establishes whether the sample meet the WHO recommendations for weekly physical exercise and the relationship between levels of activity and participant variables (e.g. age, gender, etc.)

Tee H, Priebe S, Santos C, Xanthopoulou P, Webber M, Giacco D (2020). Helping people with psychosis to expand their social networks: the stakeholders' views. BMC Psychiatry vol. 20, (1) 10.1186/s12888-020-2445-4 Qualitative study exploring service-user and professional stakeholders' views of the main considerations required when developing interventions that aim to reduce social isolation in people with psychosis.  

Mbanu J (2020). Understanding how patients with psychosis would prefer to be contacted about research. Psychosis vol 12. 10.1080/17522439.2020.1798490 Qualitative study exploring preference of contact method for research by service users with schizophrenia, highlighting attitudes towards methods of contact and discussing implications for research engagement. 

Please read the literature that informed the background to the research here.