Claire Carswell

Biographic Data

ID3800032
NAMEClaire Carswell
GIVEN NAMESClaire
FAMILY NAMECarswell
SIGNATURECARSWELL C
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of York
ORCID0000-0003-3781-3286
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Prevalence and associated factors of prehypertension in Afghanistan

    Open AccessShah Jahan Shayan, Noreen Siddiqi et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2026

    Background: In Afghanistan, approximately 40% of adults aged 30-79 years are living with hypertension. The stage of prehypertension represents a critical point for early detection and prevention of hypertension and its complications. This study aims to determine the prevalence of prehypertension and explore its associations with socio-demographic, behavioural, and biological factors in the Afghan adult population. Methods: This study utilised dat…

  • Improving kidney care for people with severe mental health difficulties

    Open AccessClodagh Cogley, Jessica Bramham et al.ARTICLEJournal of Health Psychology2025References: 25

    People with severe mental health difficulties (SMHDs) often have poorer access to kidney healthcare. To better understand the barriers and facilitators to kidney healthcare for this population, we conducted interviews with nine individuals with SMHDs and four family members. Through reflexive thematic analysis, we generated three themes: (1) ' One size doesn't fit all ' describes the need for individualised kidney healthcare, adapted to meet the …

  • The Lived Experience of Informal Caregivers of People Who Have Severe Mental Illness and Coexisting Long‐Term Conditions

    Open AccessClaire Carswell, J V E Brown et al.ARTICLEHealth Expectations2024

    BACKGROUND: People with severe mental illness (SMI) experience higher rates and poorer outcomes of physical long-term conditions (LTCs). The management of SMI and LTCs is highly complex and many people with SMI rely on informal carers for support, which may lead to high levels of caregiver burden, and caregiver burnout. Caregiver burnout can result in poor health outcomes for informal carers and a reduction in the quality of care they are able to…

  • Improving kidney care for people with severe mental health difficulties

    Open AccessClodagh Cogley, Claire Carswell et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2023

    Introduction People with severe mental health difficulties (SMHDs) and concurrent kidney disease have less access to quality kidney care and worse clinical outcomes. Our research investigates the barriers and facilitators to effective kidney care for people with SMHDs, and how care might be improved for this underserved population. Methods We conducted semi-structured interviews with twenty-two physical ( n = 14) and mental ( n = 8) healthcare pr…

  • The DIAMONDS intervention to support self-management of type 2 diabetes in people with severe mental illness

    Open AccessJ V E Brown, R Ajjan et al.ARTICLESSM - Mental Health2022

    Introduction : The DIAMONDS programme aims to evaluate a novel supported diabetes self-management intervention for people with severe mental illness (the “DIAMONDS intervention”). The purpose of this study is to test the feasibility of intervention delivery and data collection procedures to inform a definitive randomised controlled trial (RCT). Methods : Adults aged 18 years or over with a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes and severe mental illness (s…

  • Complex arts-based interventions for patients receiving haemodialysis

    Claire Carswell, Joanne Reid et al.ARTICLEArts & Health2020

    Many patients with end-stage kidney disease require haemodialysis, a treatment that requires attending hospital three times a week for four hours each visit. This treatment impacts profoundly on mental health. Arts-based interventions for patients receiving haemodialysis could address the impact of this treatment; however, there is no consensus on methods of implementation and mechanisms underlying these interventions in specific clinical context…