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Fiona Lobban is affiliated with Lancaster University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology, medicine, and health professions, with a focus on clinical psychology, psychiatry and mental health, general health professions, social psychology, and speech and hearing. The main topics in their work include bipolar disorder and treatment, family caregiving in mental illness, adolescent and pediatric healthcare, mental health treatment and access, schizophrenia research and treatment, suicide and self-harm studies, and mental health and patient involvement.

Their frequent coauthors include Steven Jones, Jasper Palmier-Claus, Paul Marshall, Paul Rayson, and Zoe Glossop. Fiona Lobban's research has often been published in journals such as JMIR Mental Health, BMC Psychiatry, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal of Affective Disorders, and Psychology and Psychotherapy Theory Research and Practice.

Representative recent publications include the following:

  • Clinical effectiveness of a web-based peer-supported self-management intervention for relatives of people with psychosis or bipolar (REACT): online, observer-blind, randomised controlled superiority trial, 2020, BMC Psychiatry
  • Natural Language Processing Methods and Bipolar Disorder: Scoping Review, 2022, JMIR Mental Health
  • Personal recovery in bipolar disorder: Systematic review and "best fit" framework synthesis of qualitative evidence - a POETIC adaptation of CHIME, 2021, Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Understanding inequalities in access to adult mental health services in the UK: a systematic mapping review, 2023, BMC Health Services Research
  • Physical health comorbidities in older adults with bipolar disorder: A systematic review, 2023, Journal of Affective Disorders

The scientific scope of their work spans a variety of interrelated mental health disciplines, with notable emphasis on the challenges faced by individuals with bipolar disorder, alongside considerations for family caregiving and accessibility of mental health services.

Best Publications

  • #WhyWeTweetMH: Understanding Why People Use Twitter to Discuss Mental Health Problems.

    Natalie Berry;Fiona Lobban;Maksim Belousov;Richard Emsley

  • Acceptability of Interventions Delivered Online and Through Mobile Phones for People Who Experience Severe Mental Health Problems: A Systematic Review

    Natalie Berry;Fiona Lobban;Richard Emsley;Sandra Bucci

  • Values associated with public involvement in health and social care research: a narrative review.

    Felix Gradinger;Nicky Britten;Katrina Wyatt;Katherine Froggatt

  • A review of the role of illness models in severe mental illness

    Fiona Lobban;Christine Barrowclough;Steve Jones

  • Group cognitive-behavioural therapy for schizophrenia. Randomised controlled trial.

    Christine Barrowclough;Gillian Haddock;Fiona Lobban;Steven H. Jones

  • Illness representations in depression.

    Gillian Fortune;Christine Barrowclough;Fiona Lobban

  • A systematic review of randomised controlled trials of interventions reporting outcomes for relatives of people with psychosis

    Fiona Lobban;Adam Postlethwaite;David Glentworth;Vanessa Pinfold

  • A qualitative exploration of service user views about using digital health interventions for self-management in severe mental health problems.

    Natalie Berry;Fiona Lobban;Sandra Bucci

  • An investigation of models of illness in carers of schizophrenia patients using the Illness Perception Questionnaire

    Christine Barrowclough;Fiona Lobban;Chris Hatton;Joanne Quinn

  • The impact of beliefs about mental health problems and coping on outcome in schizophrenia

    Fiona Lobban;Christine Barrowclough;Steven H. Jones

  • The role of metacognitive beliefs in auditory hallucinations

    Fiona Lobban;Gillian Haddock;Peter Kinderman;Adrian Wells

  • Assessing cognitive representations of mental health problems. I. The illness perception questionnaire for schizophrenia.

    Fiona Lobban;Christine Barrowclough;Steven H. Jones

  • Exploring perceived barriers, drivers, impacts and the need for evaluation of public involvement in health and social care research: a modified Delphi study

    Dee Snape;Jamie Kirkham;Nicky Britten;Katherine Froggatt

  • Use of the Internet and Mobile Phones for Self-Management of Severe Mental Health Problems: Qualitative Study of Staff Views

    Natalie Berry;Sandra Bucci;Fiona Lobban

  • Recovery-focused cognitive-behavioural therapy for recent-onset bipolar disorder: randomised controlled pilot trial

    Steven H. Jones;Gina Smith;Lee D. Mulligan;Fiona Lobban

  • Exploring areas of consensus and conflict around values underpinning public involvement in health and social care research: a modified Delphi study.

    Dee Snape;Jamie Kirkham;Jenny Preston;Jennie Popay

  • Factors affecting implementation of digital health interventions for people with psychosis or bipolar disorder, and their family and friends: a systematic review

    Golnar Aref-Adib;Golnar Aref-Adib;Tayla McCloud;Jamie Ross;Puffin O'Hanlon

  • A web-based self-management intervention for Bipolar Disorder ‘Living with Bipolar’: A feasibility randomised controlled trial

    Nicholas J. Todd;Steven H. Jones;Anna Hart;Fiona A. Lobban

  • Assessing cognitive representations of mental health problems. II. The illness perception questionnaire for schizophrenia: Relatives' version

    Fiona Lobban;Christine Barrowclough;Steven H. Jones

  • Psychotic experiences in people who have been sexually assaulted

    Aoiffe M. Kilcommons;Aoiffe M. Kilcommons;Anthony P. Morrison;Anthony P. Morrison;Alice Knight;Fiona Lobban

  • “Recovery” in bipolar disorder: How can service users be supported through a self-management intervention? A qualitative focus group study

    Nicholas J Todd;Steven H Jones;Fiona A Lobban

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven Jones
Steven Jones Lancaster University
Christine Barrowclough
Christine Barrowclough University of Manchester
Richard Drake
Richard Drake University of Manchester
Richard Morriss
Richard Morriss University of Nottingham
Alison Wearden
Alison Wearden University of Manchester
Sarah Peters
Sarah Peters University of Manchester
Elizabeth Murray
Elizabeth Murray University College London
Gillian Haddock
Gillian Haddock Manchester Academic Health Science Centre
Sandra Bucci
Sandra Bucci University of Manchester
Richard Emsley
Richard Emsley King's College London

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