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Stephen Platt

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[HTML][HTML] Suicide risk and prevention during the COVID-19 pandemic

…, S O'Neill, A Page, MR Phillips, S Platt… - The Lancet …, 2020 - thelancet.com
The mental health effects of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic might be
profound1 and there are suggestions that suicide rates will rise, although this is not inevitable. …

Unemployment and suicidal behaviour: a review of the literature

S Platt - Social science & medicine, 1984 - Elsevier
In order to provide a framework for reviewing the voluminous literature on unemployment
and suicidal behaviour, the author distinguishes between two categories of deliberately self-…

[PDF][PDF] Turtles and tortoises are in trouble

…, GA Meyer, VP Páez, K Platt, SG Platt… - Current Biology, 2020 - cell.com
… If turtle extinctions continue, we face the imminent loss of a key component of Earth’s
biodiversity [7]. We review causes of recent precipitous declines in the world’s turtle and tortoise …

[HTML][HTML] The Warwick-Edinburgh mental well-being scale (WEMWBS): development and UK validation

…, L Hiller, R Fishwick, S Platt, S Joseph, S Weich… - Health and Quality of life …, 2007 - Springer
Background There is increasing international interest in the concept of mental well-being and
its contribution to all aspects of human life. Demand for instruments to monitor mental well-…

[HTML][HTML] SARS-CoV-2 infection rates of antibody-positive compared with antibody-negative health-care workers in England: a large, multicentre, prospective cohort …

…, S Organ, J Osbourne, A Otter, M Patel, S Platt… - The Lancet, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background Increased understanding of whether individuals who have recovered from
COVID-19 are protected from future SARS-CoV-2 infection is an urgent requirement. We aimed to …

High secondary aerosol contribution to particulate pollution during haze events in China

…, JJ Cao, Y Han, KR Daellenbach, JG Slowik, SM Platt… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
… emissions, reducing the emissions of secondary aerosol precursors from, for example, fossil
fuel combustion and biomass burning is likely to be important for controlling China’s PM 2.5 …

[HTML][HTML] Suicide trends in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic: an interrupted time-series analysis of preliminary data from 21 countries

…, RC O'Connor, M Pearson, MR Phillips, S Platt… - The Lancet …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background The COVID-19 pandemic is having profound mental health consequences for
many people. Concerns have been expressed that, at their most extreme, these …

Mental health and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic: longitudinal analyses of adults in the UK COVID-19 Mental Health & Wellbeing study

…, RE O'Carroll, DB O'Connor, S Platt… - The British journal of …, 2021 - cambridge.org
… lockdown was announced by the UK government with the public instructed to stay at
home, socially distance and self-isolate with strict guidance about movement outside of one’s

COVID-19 vaccine coverage in health-care workers in England and effectiveness of BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine against infection (SIREN): a prospective, multicentre …

…, S Organ, J Osbourne, A Otter, M Patel, S Platt… - The Lancet, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background BNT162b2 mRNA and ChAdOx1 nCOV-19 adenoviral vector vaccines have
been rapidly rolled out in the UK from December, 2020. We aimed to determine the factors …

[HTML][HTML] Internal construct validity of the Warwick-Edinburgh mental well-being scale (WEMWBS): a Rasch analysis using data from the Scottish health education …

S Stewart-Brown, A Tennant, R Tennant, S Platt… - Health and quality of life …, 2009 - Springer
Background The Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale (WEMWBS) was developed
to meet demand for instruments to measure mental well-being. It comprises 14 positively …