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Sarah Peters is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple areas within medicine and psychology, focusing heavily on clinical psychology, psychiatry and mental health, as well as public health and pediatric health.

Their work frequently addresses topics such as schizophrenia research and treatment, suicide and self-harm studies, psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, pediatric pain management techniques, radiation therapy and dosimetry, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, and issues related to obesity, physical activity, and diet.

Notable recent papers include:

  • Factors influencing health behaviour change during pregnancy: a systematic review and meta-synthesis, 2021, published in Health Psychology Review
  • Antipsychotic medication versus psychological intervention versus a combination of both in adolescents with first-episode psychosis (MAPS): a multicentre, three-arm, randomised controlled pilot and feasibility study, 2020, published in The Lancet Psychiatry
  • From Self-Esteem to Selflessness: An Evidence (Gap) Map of Self-Related Processes as Mechanisms of Mindfulness-Based Interventions, 2021, published in Frontiers in Psychology
  • Recovery from postpartum psychosis: a systematic review and metasynthesis of women's and families' experiences, 2020, published in Archives of Women's Mental Health
  • Understanding pregnancy as a teachable moment for behaviour change: a comparison of the COM-B and teachable moments models, 2021, published in Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine

Sarah Peters has collaborated extensively with several researchers, including Patricia Gooding, Gillian Haddock, Kamelia Harris, Wendy Jones, and Beate Timmermann. Coauthorship counts indicate sustained scientific partnerships.

Their publications have appeared predominantly in venues such as BMC Psychiatry, Psychology and Psychotherapy Theory Research and Practice, Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, Health Expectations, and Annals of Oncology. These journals reflect a focus on psychiatric conditions, psychotherapy, rheumatic and chronic diseases, patient expectations, and oncology-related research.

The main fields of study covered by their research are Medicine, with 141 publications, and Psychology, with 51 publications. Subfields include Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health.

Best Publications

  • Patients' perceptions of medical explanations for somatisation disorders: qualitative analysis.

    Peter Salmon;Sarah Peters;Ian Stanley

  • Patients with medically unexplained symptoms: sources of patients' authority and implications for demands on medical care.

    Sarah Peters;Ian Stanley;Michael Rose;Peter Salmon

  • Patterns of genome evolution that have accompanied host adaptation in Salmonella.

    Gemma C. Langridge;Maria Fookes;Thomas R. Connor;Theresa Feltwell

  • 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

  • Access to primary mental health care for hard-to-reach groups: From 'silent suffering' to 'making it work'

    Marija Kovandžić;Carolyn Chew-Graham;Joanne L. Reeve;Suzanne Edwards

  • Genomic signatures of human and animal disease in the zoonotic pathogen Streptococcus suis

    Lucy A. Weinert;Roy R. Chaudhuri;Jinhong Wang;Sarah E. Peters

  • Psychosocial interventions for the management of chronic orofacial pain.

    Vishal R Aggarwal;Karina Lovell;Sarah Peters;Hanieh Javidi

  • Short sleep duration and poor sleep quality predict next-day suicidal ideation: an ecological momentary assessment study.

    Donna L Littlewood;Simon D Kyle;Lesley-Anne Carter;Sarah Peters

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

    Catherine Bolton;Rachel Calam;Christine Barrowclough;Sarah Peters

  • Disorganized attachment representation and atypical parenting in young school age children with externalizing disorder

    Jonathan Green;Charlie Stanley;Sarah Peters

  • Qualitative Research Methods in Mental Health

    Sarah Peters

  • Why do General Practitioners Decline Training to Improve Management of Medically Unexplained Symptoms

    Peter Salmon;Sarah E. Peters;Rebecca Clifford;Wendy Iredale

  • Peering through the barriers in GPs' explanations for declining to participate in research: the role of professional autonomy and the economy of time

    Peter Salmon;Sarah Peters;Anne Rogers;Linda Gask

  • Maternal attributions and expressed emotion as predictors of attendance at parent management training

    Sarah Peters;Rachel Calam;Richard Harrington

  • Cluster randomised controlled trial of training practices in reattribution for medically unexplained symptoms.

    Richard Morriss;Christopher Dowrick;Peter Salmon;Sarah Peters

  • 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

  • Reattribution reconsidered: Narrative review and reflections on an educational intervention for medically unexplained symptoms in primary care settings

    Linda Gask;Christopher Dowrick;Christopher Dowrick;Christopher Dowrick;Peter Salmon;Peter Salmon;Peter Salmon;Sarah Peters;Sarah Peters;Sarah Peters

  • Randomised comparison of the effectiveness and costs of community and hospital based mental health services for children with behavioural disorders.

    Richard Harrington;Sarah Peters;Jonathan Green;Sarah Byford

  • General practitioners' views on reattribution for patients with medically unexplained symptoms: a questionnaire and qualitative study

    Christopher Dowrick;Linda Gask;John G Hughes;Huw Charles-Jones

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

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

  • Does health coaching improve health-related quality of life and reduce hospital admissions in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease? A systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Hannah Long;Kelly Howells;Sarah Peters;Amy Blakemore

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard Morriss
Richard Morriss University of Nottingham
Duncan J. Maskell
Duncan J. Maskell University of Melbourne
Patricia A. Gooding
Patricia A. Gooding University of Manchester
Peter Salmon
Peter Salmon University of Liverpool
Alison Wearden
Alison Wearden University of Manchester
Gillian Haddock
Gillian Haddock Manchester Academic Health Science Centre
Paul R. Langford
Paul R. Langford Imperial College London
Brendan W. Wren
Brendan W. Wren London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Daniel Pratt
Daniel Pratt University of British Columbia
Steven Jones
Steven Jones Lancaster University

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