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Depression, anxiety, and loneliness among adolescents and young adults with IBD in the UK: The role of disease severity, age of onset, and embarrassment of the condition (2020)
Journal Article
Qualter, P., Rouncefield-Swales, A., Bray, L., Blake, L., Allen, S., Probert, C., …Carter, B. (2021). Depression, anxiety, and loneliness among adolescents and young adults with IBD in the UK: The role of disease severity, age of onset, and embarrassment of the condition. Quality of Life Research, 30(2), 497-506. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-020-02653-9

Purpose: Adolescents and young adults (AYA) with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) report higher depressive symptoms and anxiety compared to healthy controls, with disease severity and abdominal pain being important factors. In the current study, buil... Read More about Depression, anxiety, and loneliness among adolescents and young adults with IBD in the UK: The role of disease severity, age of onset, and embarrassment of the condition.

Sustaining, forming, and letting go of friendships for young people with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD): A qualitative interview-based study (2020)
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Rouncefield-Swales, A., Carter, B., Bray, L., Blake, L., Allen, S., Probert, C., …Qualter, P. (2020). Sustaining, forming, and letting go of friendships for young people with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD): A qualitative interview-based study. International Journal of Chronic Diseases, 2020, Article 7254972. https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/7254972

The acceptability and impact of the Xploro digital therapeutic platform to inform and prepare children for planned procedures in a hospital: Before and after evaluation study (2020)
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Bray, L., Sharpe, A., Gichuru, P., Fortune, P. M., Blake, L., & Appleton, V. (2020). The acceptability and impact of the Xploro digital therapeutic platform to inform and prepare children for planned procedures in a hospital: Before and after evaluation study. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 22(8), Article e17367. https://doi.org/10.2196/17367

Background: There is increasing interest in finding novel approaches to improve the preparation of children for hospital procedures such as surgery, X-rays, and blood tests. Well-prepared and informed children have better outcomes (less procedural an... Read More about The acceptability and impact of the Xploro digital therapeutic platform to inform and prepare children for planned procedures in a hospital: Before and after evaluation study.

“I don’t like to make a big thing out of It”: A qualitative interview-based study exploring factors affecting whether young people tell or do not tell their friends about their IBD (2020)
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Carter, B., Rouncefield-Swales, A., Bray, L., Blake, L., Allen, S., Probert, C., …Qualter, P. (2020). “I don’t like to make a big thing out of It”: A qualitative interview-based study exploring factors affecting whether young people tell or do not tell their friends about their IBD. International Journal of Chronic Diseases, 2020, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/1059025

Leveraging implementation science to reduce inequities in children’s mental health care: Highlights from a multidisciplinary international colloquium (2020)
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Stadnick, N. A., Aarons, G. A., Blake, L., Brookman-Frazee, L. I., Dourgnon, P., Engell, T., …Barnett, M. L. (2020). Leveraging implementation science to reduce inequities in children’s mental health care: Highlights from a multidisciplinary international colloquium. BMC Proceedings, 14(S2), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12919-020-00184-2

Background and purpose Access to evidence-based mental health care for children is an international priority. However, there are significant challenges to advancing this public health priority in an efficient and equitable manner. The purpose of thi... Read More about Leveraging implementation science to reduce inequities in children’s mental health care: Highlights from a multidisciplinary international colloquium.

The difficulty in evidencing family estrangement to attain statutory finance in UK Higher Education (2019)
Journal Article
Bland, B., & Blake, L. (2020). The difficulty in evidencing family estrangement to attain statutory finance in UK Higher Education. Higher Education Quarterly, 74(4), 531-542. https://doi.org/10.1111/hequ.12232

Acquiring statutory funding to study in Higher Education brings complex difficulties for UK students under the age of 25 who are estranged from their family, but have not been part of the care system. This paper explores the experiences of 564 estran... Read More about The difficulty in evidencing family estrangement to attain statutory finance in UK Higher Education.

The counseling experiences of individuals who are estranged from a family member (2019)
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Blake, L., Bland, B., & Imrie, S. (2020). The counseling experiences of individuals who are estranged from a family member. Family Relations, 69(4), 820-831. https://doi.org/10.1111/fare.12385

Objective: For the first time, this study explored the counseling experiences of individuals estranged from a family member and the ways in which therapy was helpful, unhelpful, or both. Background: Family relationships are often assumed to be perman... Read More about The counseling experiences of individuals who are estranged from a family member.

“It’s a lifeline”: Generating a sense of social connectedness through befriending parents of disabled children or children with additional need (2019)
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Blake, L., Bray, L., & Carter, B. (2019). “It’s a lifeline”: Generating a sense of social connectedness through befriending parents of disabled children or children with additional need. Patient Education and Counseling, 102(12), 2279-2285. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2019.07.012

Objectives This study explored the influence of a parent-to-parent peer support scheme on the wellbeing of parents of disabled children or children with additional need who joined a befriending scheme. Methods A longitudinal concurrent mixed met... Read More about “It’s a lifeline”: Generating a sense of social connectedness through befriending parents of disabled children or children with additional need.

Delivery, setting and outcomes of paediatric Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT): A scoping review (2018)
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Carter, B., Carrol, E. D., Porter, D., Peak, M., Taylor-Robinson, D., Fisher-Smith, D., & Blake, L. (2018). Delivery, setting and outcomes of paediatric Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT): A scoping review. BMJ Open, 8(11), Article e021603. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-021603

Background There has been little detailed systematic consideration of the delivery, setting and outcomes of paediatric Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT), although individual studies report that it is a safe and effective treatment. O... Read More about Delivery, setting and outcomes of paediatric Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT): A scoping review.

Holding children for procedures: An international survey of health professionals (2018)
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Bray, L., Carter, B., Ford, K., Dickinson, A., Water, T., & Blake, L. (2018). Holding children for procedures: An international survey of health professionals. Journal of Child Health Care, 22(2), 205-215. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367493517752499

Children undergoing clinical procedures can experience pain and/or anxiety. This may result in them being unwilling to cooperate and being held still by parents or health professionals. This study aimed to capture an international perspective of heal... Read More about Holding children for procedures: An international survey of health professionals.