Peter Blundell Jones

Datos Biográficos

ID1677510
NOMBREPeter Blundell Jones
NOMBRESPeter Blundell
APELLIDOJones
FIRMAJONES P B
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Cambridge
ORCID0000-0002-0387-880X
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS43
TOTAL DE CITAS45
TOTAL COMO AUTOR43
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1981
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H4

  • A Longitudinal Study of Child Wellbeing Assessment via Online Interactions with a Social Robot

    Open AccessNida Itrat Abbasi, Guy Laban et al.ARTICLEACM Transactions on Human-Robot…2025

    Socially Assistive Robots are studied in different child–robot interaction settings. However, logistical constraints limit accessibility, particularly affecting timely support for mental wellbeing. In this work, we have investigated whether online interactions with a robot can be used for the assessment of mental wellbeing in children. The children (N = 40, 20 girls and 20 boys; 8–13 years) interacted with the Nao robot (30–45 mins) over three se…

  • Migrant integration policies, regional social disadvantage, ethnicity and psychosis risk

    Open AccessSalomé M Xavier, Hannah E Jongsma et al.ARTICLESSM - Mental Health2025

    Compared with individual-level factors, macro-level exposures have received less attention in research on the increased risk of psychosis among ethnic minorities. We aimed to investigate the impact of migrant integration policies and area-level social deprivation on higher incidence rates among ethnic minorities. This study, conducted between 2010 and 2015, analysed incidence data from five countries from the EUropean network of national schizoph…

  • The New Zealand System Level Measures Programme – a New Policy to Implement a Whole of System Performance Framework Using Health Alliances

    Open AccessKanchan M Sharma, Peter Blundell JonesARTICLEInternational Journal of…2025Referencias: 3

    New Zealand's SLM programme was a unique experiment with a new system performance framework to improve integration across the health system. Its implementation provides important lessons on the role of centre to create the right conditions for integrated care initiatives, such as the SLM programme, to succeed. We conclude that successful implementation of integrated care initiatives requires sponsorship and leadership from senior leaders, adequat…

  • The social determinants of mental health and disorder

    Open AccessJ B Kirkbride, Deidre M Anglin et al.ARTICLEWorld Psychiatry2024

    People exposed to more unfavourable social circumstances are more vulnerable to poor mental health over their life course, in ways that are often determined by structural factors which generate and perpetuate intergenerational cycles of disadvantage and poor health. Addressing these challenges is an imperative matter of social justice. In this paper we provide a roadmap to address the social determinants that cause mental ill health. Relying as f…

  • The Lancet Psychiatry Commission on youth mental health

    Open AccessPatrick D Mcgorry, Cristina Mei et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet Psychiatry2024

  • Analysing Children’s Responses from Multiple Modalities During Robot-Assisted Assessment of Mental Wellbeing

    Open AccessNida Itrat Abbasi, Micol Spitale et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Social…2024

    According to the World Health Organization, the early identification of mental wellbeing issues in children is extremely important for children’s growth and development. However, the available health services are not sufficient to address children’s needs in this area. Literature suggests that robots can provide the support needed to promote mental wellbeing in children, but how robots can help with the assessment of mental wellbeing is relativel…

  • Common mental disorders in Peruvian immigrant in Chile

    Open AccessAntonia Errazuriz, Kristin Schmidt et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2023

    Our results evidence high levels of current CMD in this immigrant group, particularly amongst women. However, lower adjusted prevalence of any CMD in immigrants compared to non-immigrants was limited to preliminary statistical models, thus failing to provide clear support for a "healthy immigrant effect". The study sheds new light on differences in CMD prevalence by immigrant status in Latin America by examining differential exposure to risk fact…

  • Age at onset of mental disorders worldwide

    Open AccessMarco Solmi, Joaquim Radua et al.ARTICLEMolecular Psychiatry2022

    Promotion of good mental health, prevention, and early intervention before/at the onset of mental disorders improve outcomes. However, the range and peak ages at onset for mental disorders are not fully established. To provide robust, global epidemiological estimates of age at onset for mental disorders, we conducted a PRISMA/MOOSE-compliant systematic review with meta-analysis of birth cohort/cross-sectional/cohort studies, representative of the…

  • Determining stakeholder priorities and core components for school-based identification of mental health difficulties

    Open AccessEmma Soneson, Anne‐marie Burns et al.ARTICLEJournal of School Psychology2022

    Only approximately half of children and young people (CYP) with mental health difficulties access mental health services in England, with under-identification of need as a contributing factor. Schools may be an ideal setting for identifying mental health difficulties in CYP, but uncertainty remains about the processes by which these needs can best be identified and addressed. In this study, we conducted a two-round, three-panel Delphi study with …

  • Setting national research priorities for difficult-to-treat depression in the UK between 2021-2026

    Open AccessNatalya Chapman, Michael Browning et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2022

    Background: Difficult-to-treat depression (DTD) presents a substantial health care challenge, with around one-third of people diagnosed with a depressive episode in the UK finding that their symptoms persist following treatment. This study aimed to identify priority research questions (RQs) that could inform the development of new and improved treatments, interventions, and support for people with DTD. Methods: Using an adapted Child Health and N…

  • Cardiometabolic Disorders in the Offspring of Parents With Severe Mental Illness

    Open AccessMaria Protsenko, Martta Kerkelä et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine2022

    OBJECTIVE: The elevated prevalence of cardiometabolic disorders is consistently reported in patients with severe mental illness (SMI). We explored the association between parental SMI and offspring cardiometabolic morbidity. Our hypothesis was that offspring of people with SMI have increased morbidity risk. METHOD: The Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 is a study of offspring whose date of birth was expected in 1966. The follow-up lasted until 2…

  • Qualitative study of candidacy and access to secondary mental health services during the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessElisa Liberati, Naomi Richards et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2022Citada por: 13Referencias: 18

    Candidacy, a construct describing how people's eligibility for care is negotiated between themselves and services, has received limited attention in the context of mental health care. In addition, candidacy research has only rarely studied the views of carers and health professionals. In this article, we use concepts relating to candidacy to enable a theoretically informed examination of experiences of access to secondary mental health services d…

  • Effectiveness of providing university students with a mindfulness-based intervention to increase resilience to stress

    Open AccessJulieta Galante, Jan Štochl et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2021Referencias: 28

    Background There is concern that increasing demand for student mental health services reflects deteriorating student well-being. We designed a pragmatic, parallel, single-blinded randomised controlled trial hypothesising that providing mindfulness courses to university students would promote their resilience to stress up to a year later. Here we present 1-year follow-up outcomes. Methods University of Cambridge students without severe mental illn…

  • Establishing a Theory-Based Multi-Level Approach for Primary Prevention of Mental Disorders in Young People

    Open AccessGiuseppina Lo Moro, Emma Soneson et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2020

    The increasing prevalence of mental health disorders and psychosocial distress among young people exceeds the capacity of mental health services. Social and systemic factors determine mental health as much as individual factors. To determine how best to address multi-level risk factors, we must first understand the distribution of risk. Previously, we have used psychometric methods applied to two epidemiologically-principled samples of people age…

  • The contribution of cannabis use to variation in the incidence of psychotic disorder across Europe (EU-GEI)

    Open AccessMarta Di Forti, Diego Quattrone et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet Psychiatry2019

    BACKGROUND: Cannabis use is associated with increased risk of later psychotic disorder but whether it affects incidence of the disorder remains unclear. We aimed to identify patterns of cannabis use with the strongest effect on odds of psychotic disorder across Europe and explore whether differences in such patterns contribute to variations in the incidence rates of psychotic disorder. METHODS: -tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in the different types o…

  • Developmental cognitive neuroscience using latent change score models

    Open AccessRogier Kievit, Andreas M Brandmaier et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Cognitive…2018

    Assessing and analysing individual differences in change over time is of central scientific importance to developmental neuroscience. However, the literature is based largely on cross-sectional comparisons, which reflect a variety of influences and cannot directly represent change. We advocate using latent change score (LCS) models in longitudinal samples as a statistical framework to tease apart the complex processes underlying lifespan developm…

  • A mindfulness-based intervention to increase resilience to stress in university students (the Mindful Student Study)

    Open AccessJulieta Galante, Géraldine Dufour et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet Public Health2018

    BACKGROUND: The rising number of young people going to university has led to concerns about an increasing demand for student mental health services. We aimed to assess whether provision of mindfulness courses to university students would improve their resilience to stress. METHODS: We did this pragmatic randomised controlled trial at the University of Cambridge, UK. Students aged 18 years or older with no severe mental illness or crisis (self-ass…

  • Acceptability of screening for mental health difficulties in primary schools

    Open AccessEmma Soneson, Jasmine Childs‐Fegredo et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2018

    Results suggest that most parents within the socio-demographic context of our study will accept MHD screening within primary schools, and that school-based screening is viable from the perspective of parents. The comments provided about potential harms as well as suggestions for programme delivery are relevant to inform the development and evaluation of acceptable and sustainable school-based identification models. Implementation and scale-up of …

  • Attachment styles and clinical correlates in people at ultra high risk for psychosis

    Open AccessDebra A Russo, Jan Štochl et al.ARTICLEBritish Journal of Psychology2018Referencias: 48

    Evidence suggests that attachment styles may influence subclinical psychosis phenotypes (schizotypy) and affective disorders and may play a part in the association between psychosis and childhood adversity. However, the role of attachment in the initial stages of psychosis remains poorly understood. Our main aim was to describe and compare attachment styles in 60 individuals at ultra high risk for psychosis ( UHR ) and a matched sample of 60 heal…

  • A scoping literature review of service-level barriers for access and engagement with mental health services for children and young people

    Open AccessJoanna Anderson, Joanna K Anderson et al.ARTICLEChildren and Youth Services Review2017Citada por: 13Referencias: 6

  • Sexual violence and general functioning among formerly abducted girls in Northern Uganda

    Open AccessKennedy Amone-P’olak, Tlholego Molemane Lekhutlile et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2016

    Thus, poor functioning among formerly abducted girls is largely mediated by stigma and poor community relations. However, due to the relatively small effect sizes of the associations, targeted interventions to prevent impaired functioning may have only modest benefits to the formerly abducted girls. Interventions to alleviate the toxic effects of sexual violence in formerly abducted girls would benefit from a holistic approach that targets stigma…

  • The effects of sexual violence on psychosocial outcomes in formerly abducted girls in Northern Uganda

    Open AccessKennedy Amone-P’olak, Emilio Ovuga et al.ARTICLEBMC Psychology2015

    This study highlighted the risks of psychosocial problems among different categories of formerly abducted girls regarding sexual violence. Vulnerability to psychosocial problems among formerly abducted girls is further compounded by sexual violence, child care, stigma, and poverty

  • Postwar environment and long-term mental health problems in former child soldiers in Northern Uganda

    Kennedy Amone-P’olak, Jan Štochl et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2014Citada por: 4Referencias: 30

    BACKGROUND: War experiences (WE) and postwar environments (PWE) are associated with mental ill-health. The present study aims to investigate the pathways from WE and PWE to mental ill-health and to define opportunities for intervention through analysis of the war-affected youths study (WAYS) cohort study. METHOD: WAYS is an ongoing study of a large cohort of former child soldiers being conducted in Uganda. Mental health problems, subjective WE an…

  • Adult mental health disorders and their age at onset

    Open AccessPeter Blundell JonesARTICLEThe British Journal of Psychiatry2013

    The study of age at onset of mental health disorders is technically and conceptually difficult. It is important to consider these age distributions in order to understand causes and mechanisms of illness and to intervene at an appropriate juncture for primary and secondary prevention. This article reviews some of the approaches to studying age at onset, sets out the evidence to support the assertion that adult mental disorders begin in adolescenc…

  • Satisfaction with inpatient treatment for first-episode psychosis among different ethnic groups

    Open AccessJane Boydell, Craig Morgan et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Social…2012

    Background: There is concern about the level of satisfaction with mental healthcare among minority ethnic patients in the UK, particularly as black patients have more compulsory admissions to hospital. Aims: To determine and compare levels of satisfaction with mental healthcare between patients from different ethnic groups in a three-centre study of first-onset psychosis. Method: Data were collected from 216 patients with first-episode psychosis …