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Linda Gask is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans medicine, psychology, and health professions, focusing on psychiatry, mental health, and clinical as well as social psychology.

Their scholarly output includes multiple recent papers addressing aspects of severe mental illness and collaborative care models. Notable publications include:

  • Collaborative care approaches for people with severe mental illness, 2024, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
  • Status of primary and secondary mental healthcare of people with severe mental illness: an epidemiological study from the UK PARTNERS2 programme, 2021, BJPsych Open
  • The effectiveness of a primary care-based collaborative care model to improve quality of life in people with severe mental illness: PARTNERS2 cluster randomised controlled trial, 2023, The British Journal of Psychiatry
  • Evaluation of a primary care-based collaborative care model (PARTNERS2) for people with diagnoses of schizophrenia, bipolar, or other psychoses: study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial, 2021, BJGP Open
  • Everybody's business: call to all NHS staff to oppose the influence of racism and the far right, 2025, BMJ

Linda Gask frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including:

  • Siobhán Reilly
  • John Gibson
  • Charley Hobson-Merrett
  • Humera Plappert
  • Michael Clark

Their work has been published in a variety of venues, with prominent contributions to:

  • The British Journal of Psychiatry
  • Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
  • BJPsych Open
  • BJGP Open
  • BMC Digital Health

Research topics Linda Gask covers include:

  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Mental Health and Patient Involvement
  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Chronic Disease Management Strategies
  • Family Caregiving in Mental Illness
  • Primary Care and Health Outcomes
  • Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation

The scientist's subfields include general health professions, psychiatry and mental health, social psychology, clinical psychology, and epidemiology.

Best Publications

  • Collaborative care for depression and anxiety problems

    Janine Archer;Peter Bower;Simon Gilbody;Karina Lovell

  • Understanding the implementation of complex interventions in health care: the normalization process model.

    Carl James May;Tracy Finch;Frances S. Mair;Luciana Ballini

  • Computerised cognitive behaviour therapy (cCBT) as treatment for depression in primary care (REEACT trial): large scale pragmatic randomised controlled trial

    Simon Gilbody;Elizabeth Littlewood;Catherine Hewitt;Gwen Brierley

  • Reducing the treatment gap for mental disorders: a WPA survey.

    Vikram Patel;Mario Maj;Alan J Flisher;Mary J De Silva

  • Integrated primary care for patients with mental and physical multimorbidity: cluster randomised controlled trial of collaborative care for patients with depression comorbid with diabetes or cardiovascular disease

    Peter Coventry;Karina Lovell;Chris Dickens;Peter Bower

  • Resisting and promoting new technologies in clinical practice: the case of telepsychiatry.

    Carl May;Linda Gask;Theresa Atkinson;Nicola Ellis

  • The treatment of somatization: Teaching techniques of reattribution

    David Goldberg;Linda Gask;Terry O'Dowd

  • Framing the doctor-patient relationship in chronic illness:A comparative study of general practitioners' accounts

    Carl May;Gayle Allison;Alison Chapple;Carolyn Chew-Graham

  • Clinical effectiveness of collaborative care for depression in UK primary care (CADET): cluster randomised controlled trial

    David A Richards;Jacqueline J Hill;Linda Gask;Karina Lovell

  • Evaluating models of working at the interface between mental health services and primary care.

    Linda Gask;Bonnie Sibbald;Francis Creed

  • Brazilian multicentre study of common mental disorders in primary care: rates and related social and demographic factors

    Daniel Almeida Gonçalves;Jair de Jesus Mari;Peter Bower;Linda Gask

  • Psychotherapy mediated by remote communication technologies: a meta-analytic review.

    Penny E Bee;Peter Bower;Karina Lovell;Simon Gilbody

  • Characteristics of effective collaborative care for treatment of depression: a systematic review and meta-regression of 74 randomised controlled trials.

    Peter A. Coventry;Joanna L. Hudson;Evangelos Kontopantelis;Janine Archer

  • Multimorbidity, service organization and clinical decision making in primary care: a qualitative study.

    Peter Bower;Wendy Macdonald;Elaine Harkness;Linda Gask

  • Effects of befriending on depressive symptoms and distress: systematic review and meta-analysis

    Nicola Mead;Helen Lester;Carolyn Chew-Graham;Linda Gask

  • Improving the psychiatric skills of the general practice trainee: An evaluation of a group training course

    L. Gask;D. Goldberg;A. L. Lesser;T. Millar

  • What Do Patients Choose to Tell Their Doctors? Qualitative Analysis of Potential Barriers to Reattributing Medically Unexplained Symptoms

    Sarah Peters;Anne Rogers;Peter Salmon;Linda Gask

  • Collaborative care for depression in UK primary care: a randomized controlled trial.

    David Richards;Karina Lovell;Simon Gilbody;L Gask

  • Clinical Review. Personality disorder.

    Linda Gask;Mark Evans;David Kessler

  • Patient Health Questionnaire

    C Dowrick;C Chew-Graham;K Lovell;J Lamb

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Bower
Peter Bower University of Manchester
David Richards
David Richards University of Bristol
Richard Morriss
Richard Morriss University of Nottingham
Anne Rogers
Anne Rogers University of Southampton
Michael Barkham
Michael Barkham University of Sheffield
Philip Clarke
Philip Clarke University of Oxford
Ricardo Araya
Ricardo Araya King's College London
Simon Gilbody
Simon Gilbody University of York
David Goldberg
David Goldberg King's College London
Martin Roland
Martin Roland University of Cambridge

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