Til Wykes
Biographic Data
| ID | 1264814 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Til Wykes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Til |
| FAMILY NAME | Wykes |
| SIGNATURE | WYKES T |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5881-8003 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
How Lived Experience Advisory Groups Contribute to the Design and Conduct of Mental Health Research
INTRODUCTION: The positive impact of patient and public involvement (PPI) on the relevance, accessibility and acceptability of mental health research is well documented. Much of this reporting comes from researchers; less is known about the perspectives of PPI contributors. We are interested in exploring which issues people with lived experience (LE) prioritise when reviewing mental health research, with a view to identifying some of the underlyi…
Cost-Effectiveness of Positive Memory Training (PoMeT) for the Treatment of Depression in Schizophrenia
The Positive Memory Training (PoMeT) trial demonstrated reduced depression symptoms at 3 months for schizophrenia, but its longer-term outcome and cost impacts remain unknown. This study is a within-trial cost-utility analysis with quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) as outcome based on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) measurement and secondary outcome analyses of capability well-being. The incremental cost-effectiveness of PoMeT was compar…
How mental health care should change as a consequence of the Covid-19 pandemic
Research priorities for the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) that has caused the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic represents the greatest international biopsychosocial emergency the world has faced for a century, and psychological science has an integral role to offer in helping societies recover. The aim of this paper is to set out the shorter- and longer-term priorities for research in psychological science that will (a) frame t…
Impact of subthreshold symptoms on cognitive performance and psychosocial functioning in patients with bipolar disorder
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Defining continuity of care from the perspectives of mental health service users and professionals
BACKGROUND: Continuity of care (COC) is central to the organization and delivery of mental health services. Traditional definitions have excluded service users, and this lack of involvement has been linked to poor conceptual clarity surrounding the term. Consequently, very little is known about the differences and similarities in the conceptualization of COC by mental health service users and professionals. OBJECTIVE: To explore and compare menta…
Cognitive Remediation in Schizophrenia
It is well established that many people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia experience significant problems with thinking skills such as concentration, memory, comprehension of social information, reasoning, and organization. These are often experienced by the individuals themselves as debilitating and demoralizing, but crucially, they also can limit people in their capacity to achieve fundamental life goals, such as working, having fulfilling rela…
Expectations of new treatment in rheumatoid arthritis
BACKGROUND: Service-user partnerships in research exist in mental health, but there have been few advances in other disciplines, apart from cancer. OBJECTIVES: To develop a patient-generated expectancy measure for new treatments in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), using a participatory method. METHOD: Stage 1: three repeated focus groups and two expert panels with patients with RA conducted by a patient researcher to generate items for the draft questi…
Hearing the voices of service user researchers in collaborative qualitative data analysis
BACKGROUND: Health research is frequently conducted in multi-disciplinary teams, with these teams increasingly including service user researchers. Whilst it is common for service user researchers to be involved in data collection--most typically interviewing other service users--it is less common for service user researchers to be involved in data analysis and interpretation. This means that a unique and significant perspective on the data is abs…
Continuity of care for carers of people with severe mental illness
INTRODUCTION: Continuity of care has been demonstrated to be important for service users and carer groups have voiced major concerns over disruptions of care. We aimed to assess the experienced continuity of care in carers of patients with both psychotic and non-psychotic disorders and explore its association with carer characteristics and psychological well-being. METHODS: Friends and relatives caring for two groups of service users in the care …
Continuity of care for people with psychotic illness
BACKGROUND: The relationship between continuity of care and user characteristics or outcomes has rarely been explored. The ECHO study operationalized and tested a multi-axial definition of continuity of care, producing a seven-factor model used here. AIMS: To assess the relationship between user characteristics and established components of continuity of care, and the impact of continuity on clinical and social functioning. METHODS: The sample co…
Close to the bench as well as at the bedside
Aim The paper aims to develop a model of translational research in which service user and other stakeholder involvement are central to each phase. Background ‘Translational’ is the current medical buzzword: translational research has been termed ‘bench to bedside’ research and promises to fast‐track biomedical advances in the service of patient benefit. Models usually conceive of translational research as a ‘pipeline’ that is divided into phases:…
Holding blame at bay? ‘Gene talk’ in family members’ accounts of schizophrenia aetiology
We provide the first detailed analysis of how, for what purposes and with what consequences people related to someone with a diagnosis of schizophrenia use 'gene talk'. The article analyses findings from a qualitative interview study conducted in London and involving 19 participants (mostly women). We transcribed the interviews verbatim and analysed them using grounded theory methods. We analyse how and for what purposes participants mobilized 'g…
A Meta-Analysis of Cognitive Remediation for Schizophrenia
Illness careers and continuity of care in mental health services
The New Long Stay in an Inner City Service
We assessed the long-stay inpatients (length of stay >6 months) from a deprived inner-city catchment area with a population of 210000 in 1993 and 1995 on a variety of measures, following up both cohorts after 24 months. Total numbers of long-stay inpatients were reduced from 56 (26.7 per 100,000 total population) to 35 (16.7 per 100,000) between 1993 and 1995, in line with the closure of dedicated long-stay beds. The 1995 cohort were more symptom…
The Homeless Clients of a Community Psychiatric Nursing Service in Inner London
The records of Community Psychiatric Nursing service (CPNs) clients over a period of two years have been analysed. The clients had been classified into 'homeless' and 'home-based' according to their accommodation. The two groups were then compared in respect of their socio-demographic characteristics; and presenting mental health problems. The CPNs' homeless clients were more likely to be unemployed, single and from an ethnic minority. The presen…
The Homeless Clients of a Community Psychiatric Nursing Service in Inner London
The 'homeless' and 'home-based' clients of the Community Psychiatric Nursing service (CPNs) in Bloomsbury described in the first paper were examined further. The referral process and the CPN intervention were compared in the two groups. The homeless clients had different referral pattern, different types of care provided, and had less time spent with them even when control for the type of problems they were presenting with was made. It seems that…
The Camberwell Assessment of Need
BACKGROUND: People with severe mental illness often have a complex mixture of clinical and social needs. The Camberwell Assessment of Need (CAN) is a new instrument which has been designed to provide a comprehensive assessment of these needs. There are two versions of the instrument: the clinical version has been designed to be used by staff to plan patients' care; whereas the research version is primarily a mental health service evaluation tool.…
Violence and Health Care Professionals
The Homeless Mentally Ill
This literature review summarises the historical background of homelessness. It suggests that the current view of homeless people as chronic mentally ill is the latest phase in a series of the different ways in which society has perceived and labelled the homeless. We have argued that homelessness is a product of the lack of housing provision to the poorest section of society and that the psychiatric needs of many of the homeless might be a direc…
The psychological difference between temporally predictable and unpredictable stressful events
Illness careers and continuity of care in mental health services
Research priorities for the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) that has caused the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic represents the greatest international biopsychosocial emergency the world has faced for a century, and psychological science has an integral role to offer in helping societies recover. The aim of this paper is to set out the shorter- and longer-term priorities for research in psychological science that will (a) frame t…
The psychological difference between temporally predictable and unpredictable stressful events
The Homeless Mentally Ill
This literature review summarises the historical background of homelessness. It suggests that the current view of homeless people as chronic mentally ill is the latest phase in a series of the different ways in which society has perceived and labelled the homeless. We have argued that homelessness is a product of the lack of housing provision to the poorest section of society and that the psychiatric needs of many of the homeless might be a direc…
Violence and Health Care Professionals
The Camberwell Assessment of Need
BACKGROUND: People with severe mental illness often have a complex mixture of clinical and social needs. The Camberwell Assessment of Need (CAN) is a new instrument which has been designed to provide a comprehensive assessment of these needs. There are two versions of the instrument: the clinical version has been designed to be used by staff to plan patients' care; whereas the research version is primarily a mental health service evaluation tool.…
The Homeless Clients of a Community Psychiatric Nursing Service in Inner London
The records of Community Psychiatric Nursing service (CPNs) clients over a period of two years have been analysed. The clients had been classified into 'homeless' and 'home-based' according to their accommodation. The two groups were then compared in respect of their socio-demographic characteristics; and presenting mental health problems. The CPNs' homeless clients were more likely to be unemployed, single and from an ethnic minority. The presen…
The Homeless Clients of a Community Psychiatric Nursing Service in Inner London
The 'homeless' and 'home-based' clients of the Community Psychiatric Nursing service (CPNs) in Bloomsbury described in the first paper were examined further. The referral process and the CPN intervention were compared in the two groups. The homeless clients had different referral pattern, different types of care provided, and had less time spent with them even when control for the type of problems they were presenting with was made. It seems that…
The New Long Stay in an Inner City Service
We assessed the long-stay inpatients (length of stay >6 months) from a deprived inner-city catchment area with a population of 210000 in 1993 and 1995 on a variety of measures, following up both cohorts after 24 months. Total numbers of long-stay inpatients were reduced from 56 (26.7 per 100,000 total population) to 35 (16.7 per 100,000) between 1993 and 1995, in line with the closure of dedicated long-stay beds. The 1995 cohort were more symptom…
Illness careers and continuity of care in mental health services
A Meta-Analysis of Cognitive Remediation for Schizophrenia
Close to the bench as well as at the bedside
Aim The paper aims to develop a model of translational research in which service user and other stakeholder involvement are central to each phase. Background ‘Translational’ is the current medical buzzword: translational research has been termed ‘bench to bedside’ research and promises to fast‐track biomedical advances in the service of patient benefit. Models usually conceive of translational research as a ‘pipeline’ that is divided into phases:…
Holding blame at bay? ‘Gene talk’ in family members’ accounts of schizophrenia aetiology
We provide the first detailed analysis of how, for what purposes and with what consequences people related to someone with a diagnosis of schizophrenia use 'gene talk'. The article analyses findings from a qualitative interview study conducted in London and involving 19 participants (mostly women). We transcribed the interviews verbatim and analysed them using grounded theory methods. We analyse how and for what purposes participants mobilized 'g…
Hearing the voices of service user researchers in collaborative qualitative data analysis
BACKGROUND: Health research is frequently conducted in multi-disciplinary teams, with these teams increasingly including service user researchers. Whilst it is common for service user researchers to be involved in data collection--most typically interviewing other service users--it is less common for service user researchers to be involved in data analysis and interpretation. This means that a unique and significant perspective on the data is abs…
Continuity of care for carers of people with severe mental illness
INTRODUCTION: Continuity of care has been demonstrated to be important for service users and carer groups have voiced major concerns over disruptions of care. We aimed to assess the experienced continuity of care in carers of patients with both psychotic and non-psychotic disorders and explore its association with carer characteristics and psychological well-being. METHODS: Friends and relatives caring for two groups of service users in the care …
Continuity of care for people with psychotic illness
BACKGROUND: The relationship between continuity of care and user characteristics or outcomes has rarely been explored. The ECHO study operationalized and tested a multi-axial definition of continuity of care, producing a seven-factor model used here. AIMS: To assess the relationship between user characteristics and established components of continuity of care, and the impact of continuity on clinical and social functioning. METHODS: The sample co…
Cognitive Remediation in Schizophrenia
It is well established that many people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia experience significant problems with thinking skills such as concentration, memory, comprehension of social information, reasoning, and organization. These are often experienced by the individuals themselves as debilitating and demoralizing, but crucially, they also can limit people in their capacity to achieve fundamental life goals, such as working, having fulfilling rela…
Expectations of new treatment in rheumatoid arthritis
BACKGROUND: Service-user partnerships in research exist in mental health, but there have been few advances in other disciplines, apart from cancer. OBJECTIVES: To develop a patient-generated expectancy measure for new treatments in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), using a participatory method. METHOD: Stage 1: three repeated focus groups and two expert panels with patients with RA conducted by a patient researcher to generate items for the draft questi…
Defining continuity of care from the perspectives of mental health service users and professionals
BACKGROUND: Continuity of care (COC) is central to the organization and delivery of mental health services. Traditional definitions have excluded service users, and this lack of involvement has been linked to poor conceptual clarity surrounding the term. Consequently, very little is known about the differences and similarities in the conceptualization of COC by mental health service users and professionals. OBJECTIVE: To explore and compare menta…
Impact of subthreshold symptoms on cognitive performance and psychosocial functioning in patients with bipolar disorder
Frontiers Events is a rapidly growing calendar management system dedicated to the scheduling of academic events. This includes announcements and invitations, participant listings and search functionality, abstract handling and publication, related events and post-event exchanges. Whether an organizer or participant, make your event a Frontiers Event
How mental health care should change as a consequence of the Covid-19 pandemic
Research priorities for the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) that has caused the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic represents the greatest international biopsychosocial emergency the world has faced for a century, and psychological science has an integral role to offer in helping societies recover. The aim of this paper is to set out the shorter- and longer-term priorities for research in psychological science that will (a) frame t…
Cost-Effectiveness of Positive Memory Training (PoMeT) for the Treatment of Depression in Schizophrenia
The Positive Memory Training (PoMeT) trial demonstrated reduced depression symptoms at 3 months for schizophrenia, but its longer-term outcome and cost impacts remain unknown. This study is a within-trial cost-utility analysis with quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) as outcome based on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) measurement and secondary outcome analyses of capability well-being. The incremental cost-effectiveness of PoMeT was compar…
How Lived Experience Advisory Groups Contribute to the Design and Conduct of Mental Health Research
INTRODUCTION: The positive impact of patient and public involvement (PPI) on the relevance, accessibility and acceptability of mental health research is well documented. Much of this reporting comes from researchers; less is known about the perspectives of PPI contributors. We are interested in exploring which issues people with lived experience (LE) prioritise when reviewing mental health research, with a view to identifying some of the underlyi…
Psychology (18 works) · Medicine (16 works) · Psychiatry (15 works) · Mental health (12 works) · Mental Health and Patient Involvement (8 works) · Nursing (8 works) · Political science (6 works) · Schizophrenia research and treatment (6 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Mental illness (5 works)