ArticleSocial psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology2014
Persecutory delusions and psychological well-being.
Article in Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07408934 (A Randomized Controlled Trial of Group Cognitive Behavioral Therapy), which is not on this map. Cited by 22 papers.
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A Randomized Controlled Trial of Group Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (the Feeling Safe Programme) for Psychosis
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22 citing papers in PubMed, 62 citations in OpenAlex.
- Virtual-reality cognitive behavior therapy versus cognitive behavior therapy for paranoid ideation: A pragmatic, single-blind, multicenter randomized clinical superiority trial.Psychological medicine · 2025Trial
- Prior Expectations of Volatility Following Psychotherapy for Delusions: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2025Trial
- Comparison of a theoretically driven cognitive therapy (the Feeling Safe Programme) with befriending for the treatment of persistent persecutory delusions: a parallel, single-blind, randomised controlled trial.The lancet. Psychiatry · 2021Trial
- Targeting Recovery in Persistent Persecutory Delusions: A Proof of Principle Study of a New Translational Psychological Treatment (the Feeling Safe Programme).Behavioural and cognitive psychotherapy · 2016Trial
- An early Phase II randomised controlled trial testing the effect on persecutory delusions of using CBT to reduce negative cognitions about the self: the potential benefits of enhancing self confidence.Schizophrenia research · 2014Trial
- Is Happiness a Possible Outcome for People With Schizophrenia?Alpha psychiatry · 2026Article
- A definitive randomised controlled trial of a group mindfulness-based psychological therapy for people with psychosis: the MIND-P study.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- Using machine learning to predict persecutory beliefs based on aetiological models of delusions identified in a systematic literature search.Communications psychology · 2025Article
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- Potential research priorities for understanding and treating severe paranoia (persecutory delusions): a priority-setting partnership between patients, carers, mental health staff, and researchers.BMJ mental health · 2024Article
- Associations between social engagement, internalizing symptoms, and delusional ideation in the general population.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2024Article
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- Worry Intervention in an Older Adult With a Persecutory Delusion: A Single Case Experimental Design.Clinical psychology in Europe · 2023Article
- Relationships between cognitive biases, decision-making, and delusions.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Belief Updating and Paranoia in Individuals With Schizophrenia.Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging · 2022Article
- A three-timepoint network analysis of Covid-19's impact on schizotypal traits, paranoia and mental health through loneliness.UCL open. Environment · 2022Article
- The experience of body image concerns in patients with persecutory delusions: 'People don't want to sit next to me'.Psychology and psychotherapy · 2020Article
- Models of persecutory delusions: a mechanistic insight into the early stages of psychosis.Molecular psychiatry · 2019Review
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- Is It Possible to Predict the Future in First-Episode Psychosis?Frontiers in psychiatry · 2018Review
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Abstract
purposePersecutory delusions are one of the key problems seen in psychotic conditions. The aim of the study was to assess for the first time the levels of psychological well-being specifically in patients with current persecutory delusions.
methodOne hundred and fifty patients with persecutory delusions in the context of a diagnosis of non-affective psychosis, and 346 non-clinical individuals, completed the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale and symptom assessments.
resultsWell-being scores were much lower in the persecutory delusions group compared with the non-clinical control group. 47 % of the persecutory delusions group scored lower than two standard deviations below the control group mean score. Within the patient group, psychological well-being was negatively associated with depression, anxiety, and hallucinations. In both groups, lower levels of well-being were associated with more severe paranoia.
conclusionsLevels of psychological well-being in patients with current persecutory delusions are strikingly low. This is likely to arise from the presence of affective symptoms and psychotic experiences. Measurement of treatment change in positive mental health for patients with psychosis is recommended.
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