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Alison Wearden is a researcher affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses primarily on medicine and psychology, with significant contributions in psychiatry and mental health, public health, environmental and occupational health, clinical psychology, general health professions, and hematology.

Their main research topics include fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome, palliative care and end-of-life issues, autoimmune and inflammatory disorders, grief, bereavement, and mental health, rheumatoid arthritis research and therapies, dialysis and renal disease management, and family support in illness.

Alison Wearden has published extensively, with recent papers including:

  • Remotely delivered cognitive behavioural and personalised exercise interventions for fatigue severity and impact in inflammatory rheumatic diseases (LIFT): a multicentre, randomised, controlled, open-label, parallel-group trial (2022, The Lancet Rheumatology)
  • Quality of life improved for patients after starting dialysis but is impaired, initially, for their partners: a multi-centre, longitudinal study (2020, BMC Nephrology)
  • Understanding what affects psychological morbidity in informal carers when providing care at home for patients at the end of life: a systematic qualitative evidence synthesis (2023, Health and Social Care Delivery Research)
  • What factors are associated with informal carers' psychological morbidity during end-of-life home care? A systematic review and thematic synthesis of observational quantitative studies (2023, Health and Social Care Delivery Research)
  • The role of partners' fatigue and the patient-partner relationship in the outcome of cognitive behavioural therapy for chronic fatigue syndrome (2020, Journal of Psychosomatic Research)

Their frequent co-authors include Eva-Maria Bachmair, Emma Dures, Karina Lovell, Lorna Paul, and Gary J. Macfarlane. This collaboration highlights a multi-disciplinary approach across various health and social care domains.

Common publication venues for Alison Wearden's work include:

  • Health and Social Care Delivery Research
  • Lara D. Veeken
  • BMC Nephrology
  • Rheumatology Advances in Practice
  • The Lancet Rheumatology

Best Publications

  • A critical evaluation of the use of interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) in health psychology

    Joanna M. Brocki;Alison J. Wearden

  • A review of expressed emotion research in health care.

    Alison J Wearden;Nicholas Tarrier;Christine Barrowclough;Thomas R Zastowny

  • Randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled treatment trial of fluoxetine and graded exercise for chronic fatigue syndrome.

    Alison J. Wearden;Richard K. Morriss;Ricky Mullis;P. L. Strickland

  • A review of the role of adult attachment style in psychosis: unexplored issues and questions for further research.

    Katherine Berry;Christine Barrowclough;Alison Wearden

  • The associations of anxiety, depression and personal illness representations with glycaemic control and health-related quality of life in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.

    C. Paschalides;A.J. Wearden;R. Dunkerley;C. Bundy

  • Attachment theory: A framework for understanding symptoms and interpersonal relationships in psychosis

    Katherine Berry;Christine Barrowclough;Alison Wearden

  • Attachment styles, interpersonal relationships and psychotic phenomena in a non-clinical student sample

    Katherine Berry;Alison Wearden;Christine Barrowclough;Tom Liversidge

  • Adult attachment, alexithymia, and symptom reporting: an extension to the four category model of attachment.

    Alison J. Wearden;Naomi Lamberton;Nicola Crook;Victoria Walsh

  • Exploring the validity of the Chalder Fatigue scale in chronic fatigue syndrome.

    Richard K. Morriss;Alison J. Wearden;Ricky Mullis

  • Expressed emotion, attributions and depression in mothers of children with problem behaviour.

    Catherine Bolton;Rachel Calam;Christine Barrowclough;Sarah Peters

  • Age and IQ effects on stimulus and response timing

    J. H. Wearden;A. J. Wearden;P. M. A. Rabbitt

  • A meta-analysis of cognitive impairment following adult cancer chemotherapy.

    Oana C. Lindner;Bob Phillips;Martin G. McCabe;Andrew Mayes

  • Adult attachment, alexithymia, symptom reporting, and health-related coping

    Alison Wearden;Lucy Cook;Joanne Vaughan-Jones

  • Nurse led, home based self help treatment for patients in primary care with chronic fatigue syndrome: randomised controlled trial

    Alison J Wearden;Christopher Dowrick;Carolyn Chew-Graham;Richard P Bentall

  • Adult attachment, parenting experiences, and core beliefs about self and others

    Alison Wearden;Isabel Peters;Katherine Berry;Christine Barrowclough

  • A comparison of salivary cortisol in chronic fatigue syndrome, community depression and healthy controls

    Paul Strickland;Richard Morriss;Alison Wearden;Bill Deakin

  • Attachment styles, earlier interpersonal relationships and schizotypy in a non-clinical sample

    Katherine Berry;Rebecca Band;Rhiannon Corcoran;Christine Barrowclough

  • Making the diagnosis of chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalitis in primary care: a qualitative study

    Carolyn Chew-Graham;Christopher Dowrick;Alison Wearden;Victoria Richardson

  • The relation of sleep difficulties to fatigue, mood and disability in chronic fatigue syndrome

    R.K. Morriss;A.J. Wearden;L. Battersby

  • A Pilot Study Investigating the Use of Psychological Formulations to Modify Psychiatric Staff Perceptions of Service Users with Psychosis

    Katherine Berry;Christine Barrowclough;Alison Wearden

  • Research on cognitive complaints and cognitive functioning in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS): What conclusions can we draw?

    Alison J. Wearden;Louis Appleby

Frequent Co-Authors

Christine Barrowclough
Christine Barrowclough University of Manchester
Katherine Berry
Katherine Berry University of Manchester
Richard Drake
Richard Drake University of Manchester
Judith Holler
Judith Holler Max Planck Society
Christopher J. Armitage
Christopher J. Armitage University of Manchester
Andrew R. Mayes
Andrew R. Mayes University of Manchester
Belinda Borrelli
Belinda Borrelli Boston University
Richard Emsley
Richard Emsley King's College London
Nicholas Tarrier
Nicholas Tarrier University of Manchester
Richard P. Bentall
Richard P. Bentall University of Sheffield

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