Long Term Conditions

Further Reading

Diabetes

• Emotional and Psychological Support and Care in Diabetes - Report from the emotional and psychological support working group of NHS Diabetes and Diabetes UK

 

• Dialogue on Diabetes and Depression: Research forum for discussion of diabetes and depression

 

• Psychosocial Aspects of Diabetes Study Group of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes

 

• European Depression in Diabetes (EDID) Research Consortium

 

Cardiovascular disease

• A systematic review and meta-analysis of the link between depression and cardiovascular disease

 

• A review of the association between severe mental illness and coronary heart disease

 

COPD

• 'The effectiveness of a group cognitive-behavioural breathlessness intervention on health status, mood and hospital admissions in elderly patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease', Howard C, Dupont S, Haselden, Lynch & Wills, Psycholog y, Health & Medicine (20 10), 15: 4, 371-385

 

• Using cognitive behavioural therapy to address the psychological needs of patients with COPD.  Heslop K & Foley T (2009), Nursing Times. 105:38, 18-19.
  

Older People

• Age UK depression in later life campaign 

 

• e-learning RCGP

 

• A randomized controlled trial to test the feasibility of a collaborative care model for the management of depression in older people. Chew-Grah am CA, Lovell K, Roberts C, Baldwin R, Morley M, Burns A, Richards D, Burroughs H. BJGP 2007 57; 538: 364-9 
  

 

General Long Term Conditions

• European Position Statement on Cardiovascular disease and diabetes in people with severe mental illness, from the European Psychiatric Association (EPA), supported by the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) and the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). De Hert M, Dekker JM, Wood D, Kahl KG, Holt RI, Möller HJ. Eur Psychiatry. 2009 Sep;24(6):412-24. Epub 2009 Aug 13.

 

• Collaborative Care for patients with Depression and Long term physical conditions, Katon et al  NEJM  Dec 2010 363:2611- 20

 

• Coventry P, Hays R, Dickens C, Bundy C, Garrett C, Cherrington A, Chew-Graham CA.Talking about depression: barriers to managing depression in people with long term conditions in primary care. BMC Family Practice 2011, 12:10

 

• 'Essentials of Physical Health in Psychiatry' from RCPsych Publications

 

 

• Briefing paper from NHS Confederation Long-term health gains: in emotional and psycholgical wellbeing for patients with long-term conditions and medically unexplained symptoms
  

 

 

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