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The identification and management of depression in UK Kidney Care: Results from the Mood Maps Study
Chilcot, Joe; Pearce, Christina; Hall, Natalie; Busby, Amanda; Hawkins, Janine; Vraitch, Balvinder; Rathjen, Mandy; Hamilton, Alexander; Bevin, Amanda; Mackintosh, Lucy; Hudson, Joanna; Wellsted, David; Jones, Julia; Sharma, Shivani; Norton, Sam; Ormandy, Paula; Palmer, Nick; Farrington, Kenneth (2024-02-11)Background Depression is common in people with chronic kidney disease, yet little is known about how depression is identified and managed as part of routine kidney care. Objectives The primary objective was to survey all ... -
Illness perceptions account for variation in positive outlook as well as psychological distress in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Van Os, Sandra; Norton, Sam; Hughes, Lyndsay D.; Chilcot, Joseph (2012-08-01)Psychological distress in Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is associated with adverse clinical outcomes, and appears highly related to patients' illness perceptions. This study aimed to investigate the association between illness ... -
The impact of dementia on service use by individuals with a comorbid health condition: a comparison of two cross-sectional analyses conducted approximately ten-years apart
Bennett, Holly; Norton, Sam; Bunn, Frances; Robinson, Louise; Rait, Greta; Goodman, Claire; Brayne, Carol; Matthews, Fiona (2018-07-24)Background The presence of concomitant medical conditions in people with dementia is common. Dementia may be related to differential use of health, social and informal care. Methods Data from two large UK population-based ... -
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Services for Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease: Findings of a National Survey of UK Kidney Centres
Mackintosh, Lucy; Busby, Amanda; Farrington, Kenneth; Hawkins, Janine; Afuwape, Sarah; Bristow, Paul; Da Silva-Gane, Maria; Hall, Natalie; Harris, Tess; Hudson, Joanna; Norton, Sam; Ormandy, Paula; Pearce, Christina J.; Santhakumaran, Shalini; Sharma, Shivani; Sridharan, Sivakumar; Steenkamp, Retha; Slevin, Julie; Wellsted, David; Chilcot, Joseph (2023-12-04)Background Services for patients with kidney disease underwent radical adaptations in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. We undertook an online national survey of UK kidney centres to understand the nature, range, and ... -
Influence of Social Support, Financial Status, and Lifestyle on the Disparity Between Inflammation and Disability in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Gwinnutt, James M.; Norton, Sam; Hyrich, Kimme L.; Lunt, Mark; Combe, Bernard; Rincheval, Nathalie; Ruyssen‐Witrand, Adeline; Fautrel, Bruno; McWilliams, Daniel F.; Walsh, David A.; Nikiphorou, Elena; Kiely, Patrick D. W.; Young, Adam; Chipping, Jacqueline R.; MacGregor, Alex; Verstappen, Suzanne M. M. (2023-04-24)Objective: To investigate how social support, financial status, and lifestyle influence the development of excess disability in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Methods: Data were obtained from the Étude et Suivi des Polyarthrites ... -
Negative and positive illness representations of rheumatoid arthritis : a latent profile analysis
Norton, Sam; Hughes, Lyndsay D.; Chilcot, Joseph; Sacker, Amanda; van Os, Sandra; Young, Adam; Done, D.J. (2014-06)This study extends previous work to consider whether individuals with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) can be categorised into groups with similar illness representations. Data from 227 RA patients attending outpatient clinics ... -
Not all moderate disease is the same - Identification of disability trajectories among patients with rheumatoid arthritis and moderate disease activity
Pan, Yi; Norton, Sam; Gwinnutt, James M.; Kearsley-Fleet, Lianne; Symmons, Deborah P.M.; Lunt, Mark; Young, Adam; Hyrich, Kimme L.; Verstappen, Suzanne M.M. (2019-05-20)BACKGROUND: United Kingdom guidelines for the use of biologic disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (bDMARDS) for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) require patients to have active disease (Disease Activity Score [DAS28] >5.1) and ... -
Output from culturally adapted and translated depression screening questionnaires with South Asian haemodialysis patients in England
Sharma, Shivani; Norton, Sam; Kamaldeep, Bhui; Mooney, Roisin; Caton, Emma; Bansal, Tarun; Day, Clara; Davenport, Andrew; Duncan, Neill; Kalra, Philip A; Da Silva-Gane, Maria; Randhawa, Gurch; Warwick, Graham; Wellsted, David; Yaqoob, Magdi; Farrington, Ken (2023-02-22)Patients completed three depression screening tools which had been culturally-adapted and translated in the four most common South Asian languages spoken amongst haemodialysis patients in England: Gujarati, Punjabi, Urdu ... -
Quality of Life and Survival in Patients with Advanced Kidney Failure Managed Conservatively or by Dialysis
Da Silva-Gane, Maria; Wellsted, D.; Greenshields, Hannah; Norton, Sam; Chandna, Shahid M.; Farrington, Ken (2012-12-07)BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Benefits of dialysis in elderly dependent patients are not clearcut. Some patients forego dialysis, opting for conservative kidney management (CKM). This study prospectively compared quality of ... -
Reductions in Radiographic Progression in Early Rheumatoid Arthritis Over Twenty-Five Years: : Changing Contribution From Rheumatoid Factor in Two Multicenter UK Inception Cohorts
Carpenter, Lewis; Norton, Sam; Nikiphorou, Elena; Jayakumar, Keeranur; McWilliams, Daniel F.; Rennie, Kirsten L.; Dixey, Josh; Kiely, Patrick; Walsh, David Andrew; Young, Adam; on behalf of the Early Rheumatoid Arthritis Study and the Early Rheumatoid Arthritis Network (2017-11-28)Objective: To assess the 5-year progression of erosions and joint space narrowing (JSN) and their associations with rheumatoid factor (RF) status in 2 large, multicenter, early rheumatoid arthritis cohorts, spanning 25 ... -
Remission vs low disease activity: function, quality of life and structural outcomes in the Early Rheumatoid Arthritis Study and Network
Nikiphorou, Elena; Norton, Sam; Carpenter, Lewis; Welsh, David; Creamer, Paul; Dixey, Josh; Young, Adam; Kiely, Patrick (2019-10-03)Objectives To examine associations between function, quality of life and structural outcomes in patients achieving remission vs low disease activity in early RA. Methods Demographic, clinical and radiographic variables ... -
Secular Changes in Clinical Features at Presentation of Rheumatoid Arthritis : Increase in Comorbidity But Improved Inflammatory States
Nikiphorou, Elena; Norton, Sam; Carpenter, Lewis; Dixey, Josh; Andrew Walsh, David; Kiely, Patrick; Young, Adam; on behalf of the Early Rheumatoid Arthritis Study and the Early Rheumatoid Arthritis Network Cohorts (2017-01-31)Objective: To examine secular trends in demographics, clinical manifestations, and comorbidity on first presentation of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) prior to disease-modifying antirheumatic drug treatment. Methods: A total ... -
Secular changes in the progression of clinical markers and patient-reported outcomes in early rheumatoid arthritis
Carpenter, Lewis; Nikiphorou, Elena; Kiely, Patrick D W; Walsh, David A; Young, Adam; Norton, Sam (2020-01-03)OBJECTIVES: To examine secular trends in the progression of clinical and patient-reported outcomes in early RA. METHODS: A total of 2701 patients recruited to the Early Rheumatoid Arthritis Study or Early Rheumatoid Arthritis ... -
Statin use and risk of delirium in the critically Ill
Page, V J; Davis, D; Zhao, X B; Norton, Sam; Casarin, Annalisa; Brown, T; Ely, E.W; McAuley, D F (2014-03-15)Rationale: Delirium is common in intensive care unit (ICU) patients and is a predictor of worse outcomes and neuroinflammation is a possible mechanism. The antiinflammatory actions of statins may reduce delirium. Objectives: ... -
The synchronous relationship between somatic symptoms and psychological distress in early rheumatoid arthritis : findings from a prospective observational study.
Norton, Sam; Sacker, Amanda; Done, D.J.; Young, Adam (2012-05)The longitudinal relationship between somatic symptoms and psychological distress in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is often assumed to be strong and bidirectional. However, despite previous research identifying strong ... -
Trajectories of functional limitation in early rheumatoid arthritis and their association with mortality
Norton, Sam; Sacker, Amanda; Dixey, Josh; Done, D.J.; Williams, Peter; Young, Adam; Early Rheumatoid Arthritis Study (2013-11)This study aimed to identify subgroups with distinct trajectories of functional (HAQ) progression over 10 years following diagnosis of RA and identify baseline characteristics associated with the trajectories and their ... -
The use of culturally adapted and translated depression screening questionnaires with South Asian haemodialysis patients in England
Sharma, Shivani; Norton, Sam; Bhui, Kamaldeep; Mooney, Roisin; Caton, Emma; Bansal, Tarun; Day, Clara; Davenport, Andrew; Duncan, Neill; Kalra, Philip A; Da Silva-Gane, Maria; Randhawa, Gurch; Warwick, Graham; Wellsted, David; Yaqoob, Magdi; Farrington, Ken (2023-04-07)Background: Depression is common amongst patients receiving haemodialysis (HD). Assessment and intervention when faced with language and cultural barriers is challenging. To support clinician decisions, we conducted a ... -
Validation of methods for converting the original Disease Activity Score (DAS) to the DAS28
Carpenter, Lewis; Norton, Sam; Nikiphorou, Elena; Kiely, Patrick; Walsh, David; Dixey, Josh; Young, Keith (2018-12-01)The Disease Activity Score (DAS) is integral in tailoring the clinical management of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients and is an important measure in clinical research. Different versions have been developed over the years ...