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Obioha C. Ukoumunne

Obioha C. Ukoumunne

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84
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26363
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15073
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1391

Overview

Obioha C. Ukoumunne is affiliated with the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Medicine, with a particular focus on Clinical Psychology, Education, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, General Health Professions, and Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology.

Their work concentrates on topics such as Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Early Childhood Education and Development, Aging and Gerontology Research, Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum, Health Disparities and Outcomes, Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction, and Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions.

Ukoumunne has published extensively in various academic journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • BMJ Open
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • Trials
  • Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Evidence-Based Mental Health

Recent papers co-authored by or including Ukoumunne's work cover mental health and well-being interventions, as well as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on young populations. Notable papers include:

  • Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of universal school-based mindfulness training compared with normal school provision in reducing risk of mental health problems and promoting well-being in adolescence: the MYRIAD cluster randomised controlled trial, 2022, Evidence-Based Mental Health
  • School-based mindfulness training in early adolescence: what works, for whom and how in the MYRIAD trial?, 2022, Evidence-Based Mental Health
  • Annual Research Review: The impact of Covid-19 on psychopathology in children and young people worldwide: systematic review of studies with pre- and within-pandemic data, 2022, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  • The Role of Schools in Early Adolescents' Mental Health: Findings From the MYRIAD Study, 2021, Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Visual Impairment, Eye Diseases, and Dementia Risk: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, 2021, Journal of Alzheimer s Disease

Ukoumunne has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Tamsin Ford
  • Linda Clare
  • Serena Sabatini
  • Clive Ballard
  • Willem Kuyken

Best Publications

  • Methods for evaluating area-wide and organisation-based interventions in health and health care: a systematic review.

    O. C. Ukoumunne;M. C. Gulliford;S. Chinn;J. A.C. Sterne

  • Attention Restoration Theory: A systematic review of the attention restoration potential of exposure to natural environments

    Heather Ohly;Mathew P. White;Benedict W. Wheeler;Alison Bethel

  • Mediterranean diet, cognitive function, and dementia: a systematic review.

    Ilianna Lourida;Maya Soni;Joanna Thompson-Coon;Nitin Purandare

  • Effectiveness of the Mindfulness in Schools Programme: non-randomised controlled feasibility study.

    Willem Kuyken;Katherine Weare;Obioha C. Ukoumunne;Rachael Vicary

  • Components of variance and intraclass correlations for the design of community-based surveys and intervention studies: data from the Health Survey for England 1994.

    Martin C. Gulliford;Obioha C. Ukoumunne;Susan Chinn

  • Patterns of intra-cluster correlation from primary care research to inform study design and analysis.

    Geoffrey Adams;Martin C. Gulliford;Obioha C. Ukoumunne;Sandra Eldridge

  • Association of a difference in systolic blood pressure between arms with vascular disease and mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Christopher E Clark;Rod S Taylor;Angela C Shore;Obioha C Ukoumunne

  • The influence of patients' hopes of receiving a prescription on doctors' perceptions and the decision to prescribe: a questionnaire survey

    Nicky Britten;Obioha Ukoumunne

  • Predicting language outcomes at 4 years of age: findings from Early Language in Victoria Study

    Sheena Reilly;Melissa Wake;Obioha C Ukoumunne;Edith Bavin

  • Stroke and dementia risk: A systematic review and meta-analysis

    Elżbieta Kuźma;Ilianna Lourida;Sarah F. Moore;Deborah A. Levine

  • Predicting language at 2 years of age: a prospective community study.

    Sheena Reilly;Melissa Wake;Edith L Bavin;Margot Prior

  • Prevalence of Parent-Reported ASD and ADHD in the UK: Findings from the Millennium Cohort Study

    Ginny Russell;Lauren R. Rodgers;Obioha C. Ukoumunne;Tamsin Ford

  • Lessons for cluster randomized trials in the twenty-first century: a systematic review of trials in primary care

    Sandra M Eldridge;Deborah Ashby;Gene S Feder;Alicja R Rudnicka

  • Exposure to and colonisation by antibiotic-resistant E. coli in UK coastal water users: Environmental surveillance, exposure assessment, and epidemiological study (Beach Bum Survey).

    Anne F.C. Leonard;Lihong Zhang;Andrew J. Balfour;Ruth Garside

  • Predicting Stuttering Onset by the Age of 3 Years: A Prospective, Community Cohort Study

    Sheena Reilly;Mark Onslow;Ann Packman;Melissa Wake

  • A parent-focused intervention to reduce infant obesity risk behaviors: a randomized trial.

    Karen J Campbell;Sandrine Lioret;Sarah A McNaughton;David A Crawford

  • Thromboelastography (TEG) and rotational thromboelastometry (ROTEM) for trauma-induced coagulopathy in adult trauma patients with bleeding

    Harriet Hunt;Simon Stanworth;Simon Stanworth;Nicola Curry;Tom Woolley

  • Outcome data from the LEAP (Live, Eat and Play) trial: a randomized controlled trial of a primary care intervention for childhood overweight/mild obesity

    Zoe McCallum;Melissa Wake;Bibi Gerner;Louise Baur

  • Peer support for parents of children with chronic disabling conditions: a systematic review of quantitative and qualitative studies

    Valerie Shilling;Christopher Morris;Jo Thompson-Coon;Obioha Ukoumunne

  • Randomized controlled trial of brief cognitive behaviour therapy versus treatment as usual in recurrent deliberate self-harm: the POPMACT study.

    P. Tyrer;S. Thompson;U. Schmidt;V. Jones

Frequent Co-Authors

Melissa Wake
Melissa Wake University of Melbourne
Tamsin Ford
Tamsin Ford University of Cambridge
Sheena Reilly
Sheena Reilly Griffith University
Rod S Taylor
Rod S Taylor University of Glasgow
Chris Hyde
Chris Hyde University of Exeter
Jordana K. Bayer
Jordana K. Bayer La Trobe University
Eric Taylor
Eric Taylor King's College London
Martin Gulliford
Martin Gulliford King's College London
Linda Clare
Linda Clare University of Exeter
Clive Ballard
Clive Ballard University of Exeter

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