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New paper on mental defeat as a predictor of future suicide risk
Jenna Gillett won the Best PhD Student Paper Prize (Open Science)
Following rigorous evaluations by an independent committee, her paper has been awarded the accolade "Best PhD Student Open Science Paper in 2023". Very well deserved!
Gillett, Jenna L., Karadag, Paige, Themelis, Kristy, Li, Yu-Mei, Lemola, Sakari, Balasubramanian, Shyam, Singh, Swaran P. and Tang, Nicole K. Y. (2023) Investigating mental defeat in patients with chronic pain : protocol for a longitudinal experience sampling study. BMJ Open, 13 . e066577. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2022-066577 ISSN 2044-6055.
Sleep for multimodal lifestyle intervention for chronic pain
Find out more our thinking on the importance of sleep, in shifting the chronic pain treatment paradigm from tissue- and disease-based approach to multimodal lifestyle interventions. See our Editorial appearing in the Brazilian Journal of Physical Therapy, led by Prof Dr Jo Nijs at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.
Current sleep interventions for shift workers
A mini review led by Dr. Amber Tout is now published in Frontiers in Sleep. We reviewed a variety of strategies that have been employed to help manage the impacts of shift work on sleep, including: CBT-i, adjusting shift schedules, controlled light exposure, sleep hygiene education, planned napping, caffeine consumption, and mind-body interventions (e.g., yogic relaxation).
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsle.2024.1343393/full
New paper alert - mental health & university study completion
Our lab's PhD student, Laura Chandler, has just published a paper in Education Sciences about mental health symptoms during the pandemic and university study completion. It's Open Access - do take a look!
