5 results on '"Thompson, Ellen J."'
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2. Characterising patterns of COVID-19 and long COVID symptoms: evidence from nine UK longitudinal studies
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Bowyer, Ruth CE, Huggins, Charlotte, Toms, Renin, Shaw, Richard J, Hou, Bo, Thompson, Ellen J, Kwong, Alex SF, Williams, Dylan M, Kibble, Milla, Ploubidis, George B, Timpson, Nicholas J, Sterne, Jonathan AC, Chaturvedi, Nishi, Steves, Claire J, Tilling, Kate, Silverwood, Richard J, CONVALESCENCE Study, Bowyer, Ruth CE [0000-0002-6941-8160], Huggins, Charlotte [0000-0001-5960-4771], Toms, Renin [0000-0002-6922-1448], Shaw, Richard J [0000-0002-7906-6066], Hou, Bo [0000-0001-5337-6560], Thompson, Ellen J [0000-0003-2118-821X], Kwong, Alex SF [0000-0003-1953-2771], Williams, Dylan M [0000-0002-3825-2487], Ploubidis, George B [0000-0002-8198-5790], Timpson, Nicholas J [0000-0002-7141-9189], Sterne, Jonathan AC [0000-0001-8496-6053], Chaturvedi, Nishi [0000-0002-6211-2775], Steves, Claire J [0000-0002-4910-0489], Tilling, Kate [0000-0002-1010-8926], Silverwood, Richard J [0000-0002-2744-1194], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
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Long COVID ,Post-Acute COVID-19 Syndrome ,Dyspnea ,Longitudinal studies ,COVID-19 ,Humans ,Pain ,Symptom patterns ,Clustering ,Fatigue ,United Kingdom - Abstract
Funder: Chronic Disease Research Foundation; doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100011721, Funder: Zoe Global Ltd, Multiple studies across global populations have established the primary symptoms characterising Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and long COVID. However, as symptoms may also occur in the absence of COVID-19, a lack of appropriate controls has often meant that specificity of symptoms to acute COVID-19 or long COVID, and the extent and length of time for which they are elevated after COVID-19, could not be examined. We analysed individual symptom prevalences and characterised patterns of COVID-19 and long COVID symptoms across nine UK longitudinal studies, totalling over 42,000 participants. Conducting latent class analyses separately in three groups ('no COVID-19', 'COVID-19 in last 12 weeks', 'COVID-19 > 12 weeks ago'), the data did not support the presence of more than two distinct symptom patterns, representing high and low symptom burden, in each group. Comparing the high symptom burden classes between the 'COVID-19 in last 12 weeks' and 'no COVID-19' groups we identified symptoms characteristic of acute COVID-19, including loss of taste and smell, fatigue, cough, shortness of breath and muscle pains or aches. Comparing the high symptom burden classes between the 'COVID-19 > 12 weeks ago' and 'no COVID-19' groups we identified symptoms characteristic of long COVID, including fatigue, shortness of breath, muscle pain or aches, difficulty concentrating and chest tightness. The identified symptom patterns among individuals with COVID-19 > 12 weeks ago were strongly associated with self-reported length of time unable to function as normal due to COVID-19 symptoms, suggesting that the symptom pattern identified corresponds to long COVID. Building the evidence base regarding typical long COVID symptoms will improve diagnosis of this condition and the ability to elicit underlying biological mechanisms, leading to better patient access to treatment and services.
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3. A cross‐lagged twin study of emotional symptoms, social isolation and peer victimisation from early adolescence to emerging adulthood.
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Morneau‐Vaillancourt, Geneviève, Oginni, Olakunle, Assary, Elham, Krebs, Georgina, Thompson, Ellen J., Palaiologou, Elisavet, Lockhart, Celestine, Arseneault, Louise, and Eley, Thalia C.
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AFFINITY groups ,GENETICS ,SELF-evaluation ,ECOLOGY ,TWINS ,SOCIAL isolation ,CRIME victims ,ALEXITHYMIA ,INTERPERSONAL relations ,RESEARCH funding ,PHENOTYPES ,LONGITUDINAL method ,DISEASE risk factors ,DISEASE complications - Abstract
Background: Emotional symptoms, such as anxiety and depressive symptoms, are common during adolescence, often persist over time, and can precede the emergence of severe anxiety and depressive disorders. Studies suggest that a vicious cycle of reciprocal influences between emotional symptoms and interpersonal difficulties may explain why some adolescents suffer from persisting emotional symptoms. However, the role of different types of interpersonal difficulties, such as social isolation and peer victimisation, in these reciprocal associations is still unclear. In addition, the lack of longitudinal twin studies conducted on emotional symptoms during adolescence means that the genetic and environmental contributions to these relationships during adolescence remain unknown. Methods: Participants (N = 15,869) from the Twins Early Development Study completed self‐reports of emotional symptoms, social isolation and peer victimisation at 12, 16 and 21 years old. A phenotypic cross‐lagged model examined reciprocal associations between variables over time, and a genetic extension of this model examined the aetiology of the relationships between variables at each timepoint. Results: First, emotional symptoms were reciprocally and independently associated with both social isolation and peer victimisation over time, indicating that different forms of interpersonal difficulties uniquely contributed to emotional symptoms during adolescence and vice versa. Second, early peer victimisation predicted later emotional symptoms via social isolation in mid‐adolescence, indicating that social isolation may constitute an intermediate pathway through which peer victimisation predicts longer‐term emotional symptoms. Finally, individual differences in emotional symptoms were mostly accounted for by non‐shared environmental factors at each timepoint, and both gene–environment and individual‐specific environmental mechanisms were involved in the relationships between emotional symptoms and interpersonal difficulties. Conclusions: Our study highlights the necessity to intervene early in adolescence to prevent the escalation of emotional symptoms over time and to consider social isolation and peer victimisation as important risk factors for the long‐term persistence of emotional symptoms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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4. Long COVID burden and risk factors in 10 UK longitudinal studies and electronic health records
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Thompson, Ellen J., Williams, Dylan M., Walker, Alex J., Mitchell, Ruth E., Niedzwiedz, Claire L., Yang, Tiffany C., Huggins, Charlotte F., Kwong, Alex S. F., Silverwood, Richard J., Di Gessa, Giorgio, Bowyer, Ruth C. E., Northstone, Kate, Hou, Bo, Green, Michael J., Dodgeon, Brian, Doores, Katie J., Duncan, Emma L., Williams, Frances M. K., Steptoe, Andrew, Porteous, David J., McEachan, Rosemary R. C., Tomlinson, Laurie, Goldacre, Ben, Patalay, Praveetha, Ploubidis, George B., Katikireddi, Srinivasa Vittal, Tilling, Kate, Rentsch, Christopher T., Timpson, Nicholas J., Chaturvedi, Nishi, and Steves, Claire J.
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Post-Acute COVID-19 Syndrome ,Multidisciplinary ,Risk Factors ,Surveys and Questionnaires ,COVID-19 ,Electronic Health Records ,Humans ,General Physics and Astronomy ,Female ,Longitudinal Studies ,General Chemistry ,United Kingdom ,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology - Abstract
The frequency of, and risk factors for, long COVID are unclear among community-based individuals with a history of COVID-19. To elucidate the burden and possible causes of long COVID in the community, we coordinated analyses of survey data from 6907 individuals with self-reported COVID-19 from 10 UK longitudinal study (LS) samples and 1.1 million individuals with COVID-19 diagnostic codes in electronic healthcare records (EHR) collected by spring 2021. Proportions of presumed COVID-19 cases in LS reporting any symptoms for 12+ weeks ranged from 7.8% and 17% (with 1.2 to 4.8% reporting debilitating symptoms). Increasing age, female sex, white ethnicity, poor pre-pandemic general and mental health, overweight/obesity, and asthma were associated with prolonged symptoms in both LS and EHR data, but findings for other factors, such as cardio-metabolic parameters, were inconclusive.
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5. Mental and social wellbeing and the UK coronavirus job retention scheme: Evidence from nine longitudinal studies.
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Jacques Wels, Booth, Charlotte, Wielgoszewska, Bożena, Green, Michael J., Di Gessa, Giorgio, Huggins, Charlotte F., Griffith, Gareth J., Kwong, Alex S.F., Bowyer, Ruth C.E., Maddock, Jane, Patalay, Praveetha, Silverwood, Richard J., Fitzsimons, Emla, Shaw, Richard, Thompson, Ellen J., Steptoe, Andrew, Hughes, Alun, Chaturvedi, Nishi, Steves, Claire J., and Katikireddi, Srinivasa Vittal
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WELL-being , *CONFIDENCE intervals , *HEALTH status indicators , *SATISFACTION , *EMPLOYMENT , *DESCRIPTIVE statistics , *LONELINESS , *STAY-at-home orders , *ODDS ratio , *COVID-19 pandemic , *EMPLOYEE retention , *LONGITUDINAL method , *PSYCHOLOGICAL distress - Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to major economic disruptions. In March 2020, the UK implemented the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme – known as furlough – to minimize the impact of job losses. We investigate associations between change in employment status and mental and social wellbeing during the early stages of the pandemic. Data were from 25,670 respondents, aged 17–66, across nine UK longitudinal studies. Furlough and other employment changes were defined using employment status pre-pandemic and during the first lockdown (April–June 2020). Mental and social wellbeing outcomes included psychological distress, life satisfaction, self-rated health, social contact, and loneliness. Study-specific modified Poisson regression estimates, adjusting for socio-demographic characteristics and pre-pandemic mental and social wellbeing, were pooled using meta-analysis. Associations were also stratified by sex, age, education, and household composition. Compared to those who remained working, furloughed workers were at greater risk of psychological distress (adjusted risk ratio, ARR = 1.12; 95%CI: 0.97, 1.29), low life satisfaction (ARR = 1.14; 95%CI: 1.07, 1.22), loneliness (ARR = 1.12; 95%CI: 1.01, 1.23), and poor self-rated health (ARR = 1.26; 95%CI: 1.05, 1.50). Nevertheless, compared to furloughed workers, those who became unemployed had greater risk of psychological distress (ARR = 1.30; 95%CI: 1.12, 1.52), low life satisfaction (ARR = 1.16; 95%CI: 0.98, 1.38), and loneliness (ARR = 1.67; 95%CI: 1.08, 2.59). Effects were not uniform across all sub-groups. During the early stages of the pandemic, those furloughed had increased risk of poor mental and social wellbeing, but furloughed workers fared better than those who became unemployed, suggesting that furlough may have partly mitigated poorer outcomes. • The relationship between furlough and mental health and wellbeing is not well known. • We use 9 UK studies to assess this relationship at the early stage of the pandemic. • Furlough is associated with a slight decline in mental and social wellbeing. • However, the excess risk is smaller than for those no longer being employed. • Furlough occupies an intermediary position between employment and unemployment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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