David Ekers

Affiliations

Department of Health Science, University of York, UK; Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust, UK.

Publications (26)

How well do Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Behavioural Activation for depression repair anhedonia? A secondary analysis of the COBRA randomized controlled trial.

Behaviour research and therapy

Avec: Batool Alsayednasser , Emily Widnall , Heather O'Mahen , Kim Wright , Fiona Warren , Asha Ladwa , Gabriela Kattan Khazanov , Sarah Byford , Willem Kuyken , Ed Watkins , David Ekers , Nigel Reed , Emily Fletcher , Dean McMillan , Paul Farrand , David Richards , Barnaby D Dunn

Effectiveness and implementation of psychological interventions for depression in people with non-communicable diseases in South Asia: Systematic review and meta-analysis.

International journal of mental health

Avec: Gerardo A Zavala , Hannah Maria Jennings , Saima Afaq , Ashraful Alam , Naveed Ahmed , Faiza Aslam , Aatik Arsh , Karen Coales , David Ekers , Mumtahana Nabi , Anum Naz , Nayeema Shakur , Najma Siddiqi , Judy M Wright , Ian Kellar

A comparison of the effects of sudden gains and depression spikes on short- and long-term depressive symptoms in a randomized controlled trial of behavioral activation and cognitive behavioural therapy.

Journal of consulting and clinical psychology

Avec: Heather A O'Mahen , Adele Hayes , Claire Harries , Asha Ladwa , Mohammod Mostazir , David Ekers , Dean McMillan , David Richards , Kimberly Wright

Can we mitigate the psychological impacts of social isolation using behavioural activation? Long-term results of the UK BASIL urgent public health COVID-19 pilot randomised controlled trial and living systematic review.

Evidence-based mental health

Avec: Elizabeth Littlewood , Dean McMillan , Carolyn Chew Graham , Della Bailey , Samantha Gascoyne , Claire Sloane , Lauren Burke , Peter Coventry , Suzanne Crosland , Caroline Fairhurst , Andrew Henry , Catherine Hewitt , Kalpita Baird , Eloise Ryde , Leanne Shearsmith , Gemma Traviss-Turner , Rebecca Woodhouse , Judith Webster , Nick Meader , Rachel Churchill , Elizabeth Eddy , Paul Heron , Nisha Hicklin , Roz Shafran , Osvaldo Almeida , Andrew Clegg , Tom Gentry , Andrew Hill , Karina Lovell , Sarah Dexter-Smith , David Ekers , Simon Gilbody

Innovations in Practice: A randomised controlled feasibility trial of Behavioural Activation as a treatment for young people with depression.

Child and adolescent mental health

Avec: Charlotte E W Kitchen , Paul A Tiffin , Sue Lewis , Lina Gega , David Ekers

Behavioural activation therapy for depression in adults with non-communicable diseases.

The Cochrane database of systematic reviews

Avec: Eleonora Uphoff , Malini Pires , Corrado Barbui , Deepa Barua , Rachel Churchill , Doriana Cristofalo , David Ekers , Edward Fottrell , Papiya Mazumdar , Marianna Purgato , Rusham Rana , Judy Wright , Najma Siddiqi

Community Pharmacies Mood Intervention Study (CHEMIST): feasibility and external pilot randomised controlled trial protocol.

Pilot and feasibility studies

Avec: Elizabeth Littlewood , Shehzad Ali , Jay Badenhorst , Della Bailey , Clare Bambra , Carolyn Chew-Graham , Elizabeth Coleman , Suzanne Crosland , Samantha Gascoyne , Simon Gilbody , Catherine Hewitt , Claire Jones , Ada Keding , Charlotte Kitchen , Dean McMillan , Caroline Pearson , Shelley Rhodes , Claire Sloan , Adam Todd , Michelle Watson , Cate Whittlesea , David Ekers

Can We Prevent Depression in At-Risk Older Adults Using Self-Help? The UK SHARD Trial of Behavioral Activation.

The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry

Avec: Simon Gilbody , Sally Brabyn , Alex Mitchell , David Ekers , Dean McMillan , Della Bailey , Deborah Hems , Carolyn A Chew Graham , Ada Keding , Kate Bosanquet , Auteur inconnu

Acceptability of a behavioural intervention to mitigate the psychological impacts of COVID-19 restrictions in older people with long-term conditions: a qualitative study.

BMJ open

Avec: Leanne Shearsmith , Peter A Coventry , Claire Sloan , Andrew Henry , Liz Newbronner , Elizabeth Littlewood , Della Bailey , Samantha Gascoyne , Lauren Burke , Eloise Ryde , Rebecca Woodhouse , Dean McMillan , David Ekers , Simon Gilbody , Carolyn Chew-Graham

Cost-effectiveness of behavioral activation compared to treatment as usual for depressed older adults in primary care: A cluster randomised controlled trial.

Journal of affective disorders

Avec: Noortje P Janssen , Gert-Jan Hendriks , Renate Sens , Peter Lucassen , Richard C Oude Voshaar , David Ekers , Harm van Marwijk , Jan Spijker , Judith E Bosmans

Behavioural activation therapy for depression in adults.

The Cochrane database of systematic reviews

Avec: Eleonora Uphoff , David Ekers , Lindsay Robertson , Sarah Dawson , Emily Sanger , Emily South , Zainab Samaan , David Richards , Nicholas Meader , Rachel Churchill

Pharmacy-based management for depression in adults.

The Cochrane database of systematic reviews

Avec: Jennifer Valeska Elli Brown , Nick Walton , Nicholas Meader , Adam Todd , Lisa Ad Webster , Rachel Steele , Stephanie J Sampson , Rachel Churchill , Dean McMillan , Simon Gilbody , David Ekers

Behavioural activation to prevent depression and loneliness among socially isolated older people with long-term conditions: The BASIL COVID-19 pilot randomised controlled trial.

PLoS medicine

Avec: Simon Gilbody , Elizabeth Littlewood , Dean McMillan , Carolyn A Chew-Graham , Della Bailey , Samantha Gascoyne , Claire Sloan , Lauren Burke , Peter Coventry , Suzanne Crosland , Caroline Fairhurst , Andrew Henry , Catherine Hewitt , Kalpita Joshi , Eloise Ryde , Leanne Shearsmith , Gemma Traviss-Turner , Rebecca Woodhouse , Andrew Clegg , Tom Gentry , Andrew J Hill , Karina Lovell , Sarah Dexter Smith , Judith Webster , David Ekers

Living with depression and diabetes: A qualitative study in Bangladesh and Pakistan.

PLOS global public health

Avec: Hannah Maria Jennings , Ashraful Anas , Sara Asmat , Anum Naz , Saima Afaq , Naveed Ahmed , Faiza Aslam , Gerardo Zavala Gomez , Najma Siddiqi , David Ekers

Behavioural Activation versus Treatment as Usual for Depressed Older Adults in Primary Care: A Pragmatic Cluster-Randomised Controlled Trial.

Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

Avec: Noortje P Janssen , Peter Lucassen , Marcus J H Huibers , David Ekers , Theo Broekman , Judith E Bosmans , Harm Van Marwijk , Jan Spijker , Richard Oude Voshaar , Gert-Jan Hendriks

Food insecurity in adults with severe mental illness living in Northern England: A co-produced cross-sectional study.

Nutrition & dietetics: the journal of the Dietitians Association of Australia

Avec: Jo Smith , Fatemeh Eskandari , Grant J McGeechan , Scott B Teasdale , Amelia A Lake , Suzy Ker , Kevin Williamson , Alex Augustine , Nikita Le Sauvage , Chris Lynch , Hannah Moore , Steph Scott , David Ekers , Vicki Whittaker , Jonathan Robinson , Emma L Giles

Behavioural activation to mitigate the psychological impacts of COVID-19 restrictions on older people in England and Wales (BASIL+): a pragmatic randomised controlled trial.

The lancet. Healthy longevity

Avec: Simon Gilbody , Elizabeth Littlewood , Dean McMillan , Lucy Atha , Della Bailey , Kalpita Baird , Samantha Brady , Lauren Burke , Carolyn A Chew-Graham , Peter Coventry , Suzanne Crosland , Caroline Fairhurst , Andrew Henry , Kelly Hollingsworth , Elizabeth Newbronner , Eloise Ryde , Leanne Shearsmith , Han-I Wang , Judith Webster , Rebecca Woodhouse , Andrew Clegg , Sarah Dexter-Smith , Tom Gentry , Catherine Hewitt , Andrew Hill , Karina Lovell , Claire Sloan , Gemma Traviss-Turner , Steven Pratt , David Ekers , Auteur inconnu

Behavioural activation in nursing homes to treat depression (BAN-Dep): study protocol for a pragmatic randomised controlled trial.

BMJ open

Avec: Diana Velasquez Reyes , Hema Patel , Nicola Lautenschlager , Andrew H Ford , Eleanor Curran , Rachael Kelly , Rhoda Lai , Terence Chong , Leon Flicker , David Ekers , Simon Gilbody , Christopher Etherton-Beer , Dina Lo Giudice , Kathryn A Ellis , Angelita Martini , Osvaldo P Almeida

Behavioural activation for overweight and obese adolescents with low mood delivered in a community setting: feasibility study.

BMJ paediatrics open

Avec: Bronia Arnott , Charlotte Emma Wray Kitchen , David Ekers , Lina Gega , Paul Alexander Tiffin

An evaluation of a combined psychological and parenting intervention for HIV-positive women depressed in the perinatal period, to enhance child development and reduce maternal depression: study protocol for the Insika Yomama cluster randomised controlled trial.

Trials

Avec: Tamsen J Rochat , Samukelisiwe Dube , Kobus Herbst , Cecilia A Hoegfeldt , Stephanie Redinger , Thandeka Khoza , Ruth Margret Bland , Linda Richter , Louise Linsell , Chris Desmond , Aisha K Yousafzai , Michelle Craske , Ed Juszczak , Melanie Abas , Taygen Edwards , David Ekers , Alan Stein

The feasibility and acceptability of a brief psychological intervention for adults with long-term health conditions and subthreshold depression delivered via community pharmacies: a mixed methods evaluation-the Community Pharmacies Mood Intervention Study (CHEMIST).

Pilot and feasibility studies

Avec: Carolyn A Chew-Graham , Charlotte E W Kitchen , Samantha Gascoyne , Elizabeth Littlewood , Elizabeth Coleman , Della Bailey , Suzanne Crosland , Caroline Pearson , Shehzad Ali , Jay Badenhorst , Clare Bambra , Catherine Hewitt , Claire Jones , Ada Keding , Dean McMillan , Claire Sloan , Adam Todd , Paul Toner , Cate Whittlesea , Michelle Watson , Simon Gilbody , David Ekers

Behavioural Activation for Social IsoLation (BASIL+) trial (Behavioural activation to mitigate depression and loneliness among older people with long-term conditions): Protocol for a fully-powered pragmatic randomised controlled trial.

PloS one

Avec: Lauren Burke , Elizabeth Littlewood , Samantha Gascoyne , Dean McMillan , Carolyn A Chew-Graham , Della Bailey , Claire Sloan , Caroline Fairhurst , Kalpita Baird , Catherine Hewitt , Andrew Henry , Eloise Ryde , Leanne Shearsmith , Peter Coventry , Suzanne Crosland , Elizabeth Newbronner , Gemma Traviss-Turner , Rebecca Woodhouse , Andrew Clegg , Tom Gentry , Andrew Hill , Karina Lovell , Sarah Dexter Smith , Judith Webster , David Ekers , Simon Gilbody

Behavioral Activation in Nursing Homes to Treat Depression (BAN-Dep): Results From a Clustered, Randomized, Single-Blinded, Controlled Clinical Trial.

The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry

Avec: Osvaldo P Almeida , Hema Patel , Diana Velasquez , Rachael Kelly , Rhoda Lai , Andrew H Ford , Eleanor Curran , Leon Flicker , Terence W H Chong , Christopher Etherton-Beer , Dina LoGiudice , Kathryn A Ellis , Angelita Martini , Alissa Westphal , David Ekers , Simon Gilbody , Nicola T Lautenschlager

Barriers and enablers for young people, parents and therapists undertaking behavioural activation for depression: A qualitative evaluation within a randomised controlled trial.

Psychology and psychotherapy

Avec: Charlotte E W Kitchen , Sue Lewis , David Ekers , Lina Gega , Paul A Tiffin

Behavioral Activation for Comorbid Depression in People With Noncommunicable Disease in India: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Feasibility Trial.

JMIR research protocols

Avec: Rayeesa Zainab , Arun Kandasamy , Naseer Ahmad Bhat , Chrishma Violla Dsouza , Hannah Jennings , Cath Jackson , Papiya Mazumdar , Catherine Elizabeth Hewitt , David Ekers , Gitanjali Narayanan , Girish N Rao , Karen Coales , Krishna Prasad Muliyala , Santosh K Chaturvedi , Pratima Murthy , Najma Siddiqi

Food insecurity in adults with severe mental illness living in Northern England: Peer research interview findings.

International journal of mental health nursing

Avec: Emma L Giles , Fatemeh Eskandari , Grant McGeechan , Steph Scott , Amelia A Lake , Scott Teasdale , David Ekers , Alex Augustine , Nikita Le Savauge , Chris Lynch , Hannah Moore , Jo Smith

Réseau de co-auteurs

Dean McMillan 11 collaborations

Simon Gilbody 11 collaborations

Della Bailey 8 collaborations

Elizabeth Littlewood 7 collaborations

Samantha Gascoyne 6 collaborations

Suzanne Crosland 6 collaborations

Catherine Hewitt 6 collaborations

Claire Sloan 6 collaborations

Lauren Burke 5 collaborations

Andrew Henry 5 collaborations

Eloise Ryde 5 collaborations

Leanne Shearsmith 5 collaborations

Rebecca Woodhouse 5 collaborations

Najma Siddiqi 4 collaborations

Peter Coventry 4 collaborations

Caroline Fairhurst 4 collaborations

Gemma Traviss-Turner 4 collaborations

Judith Webster 4 collaborations

Rachel Churchill 4 collaborations

Andrew Clegg 4 collaborations

Tom Gentry 4 collaborations

Karina Lovell 4 collaborations

Carolyn A Chew-Graham 4 collaborations

David Richards 3 collaborations

Kalpita Baird 3 collaborations

Andrew Hill 3 collaborations

Charlotte E W Kitchen 3 collaborations

Lina Gega 3 collaborations

Ada Keding 3 collaborations

Adam Todd 3 collaborations

Asha Ladwa 2 collaborations

Hannah Maria Jennings 2 collaborations

Saima Afaq 2 collaborations

Naveed Ahmed 2 collaborations

Faiza Aslam 2 collaborations

Karen Coales 2 collaborations

Anum Naz 2 collaborations

Sarah Dexter-Smith 2 collaborations

Paul A Tiffin 2 collaborations

Sue Lewis 2 collaborations

Eleonora Uphoff 2 collaborations

Papiya Mazumdar 2 collaborations

Shehzad Ali 2 collaborations

Jay Badenhorst 2 collaborations

Clare Bambra 2 collaborations

Carolyn Chew-Graham 2 collaborations

Elizabeth Coleman 2 collaborations

Claire Jones 2 collaborations

Caroline Pearson 2 collaborations

Michelle Watson 2 collaborations

Cate Whittlesea 2 collaborations

None None 2 collaborations

Noortje P Janssen 2 collaborations

Gert-Jan Hendriks 2 collaborations

Peter Lucassen 2 collaborations

Jan Spijker 2 collaborations

Judith E Bosmans 2 collaborations

Nicholas Meader 2 collaborations

Sarah Dexter Smith 2 collaborations

Jo Smith 2 collaborations

Fatemeh Eskandari 2 collaborations

Amelia A Lake 2 collaborations

Alex Augustine 2 collaborations

Chris Lynch 2 collaborations

Hannah Moore 2 collaborations

Steph Scott 2 collaborations

Emma L Giles 2 collaborations

Elizabeth Newbronner 2 collaborations

Hema Patel 2 collaborations

Andrew H Ford 2 collaborations

Eleanor Curran 2 collaborations

Rachael Kelly 2 collaborations

Rhoda Lai 2 collaborations

Leon Flicker 2 collaborations

Christopher Etherton-Beer 2 collaborations

Kathryn A Ellis 2 collaborations

Angelita Martini 2 collaborations

Osvaldo P Almeida 2 collaborations

Batool Alsayednasser 1 collaboration

Emily Widnall 1 collaboration

Heather O'Mahen 1 collaboration

Kim Wright 1 collaboration

Fiona Warren 1 collaboration

Gabriela Kattan Khazanov 1 collaboration

Sarah Byford 1 collaboration

Willem Kuyken 1 collaboration

Ed Watkins 1 collaboration

Nigel Reed 1 collaboration

Emily Fletcher 1 collaboration

Paul Farrand 1 collaboration

Barnaby D Dunn 1 collaboration

Gerardo A Zavala 1 collaboration

Ashraful Alam 1 collaboration

Aatik Arsh 1 collaboration

Mumtahana Nabi 1 collaboration

Nayeema Shakur 1 collaboration

Judy M Wright 1 collaboration

Ian Kellar 1 collaboration

Heather A O'Mahen 1 collaboration

Adele Hayes 1 collaboration

Claire Harries 1 collaboration

Mohammod Mostazir 1 collaboration

Kimberly Wright 1 collaboration

Carolyn Chew Graham 1 collaboration

Claire Sloane 1 collaboration

Nick Meader 1 collaboration

Elizabeth Eddy 1 collaboration

Paul Heron 1 collaboration

Nisha Hicklin 1 collaboration

Roz Shafran 1 collaboration

Osvaldo Almeida 1 collaboration

Malini Pires 1 collaboration

Corrado Barbui 1 collaboration

Deepa Barua 1 collaboration

Doriana Cristofalo 1 collaboration

Edward Fottrell 1 collaboration

Marianna Purgato 1 collaboration

Rusham Rana 1 collaboration

Judy Wright 1 collaboration

Charlotte Kitchen 1 collaboration

Shelley Rhodes 1 collaboration

Sally Brabyn 1 collaboration

Alex Mitchell 1 collaboration

Deborah Hems 1 collaboration

Carolyn A Chew Graham 1 collaboration

Kate Bosanquet 1 collaboration

Peter A Coventry 1 collaboration

Liz Newbronner 1 collaboration

Renate Sens 1 collaboration

Richard C Oude Voshaar 1 collaboration

Harm van Marwijk 1 collaboration

Lindsay Robertson 1 collaboration

Sarah Dawson 1 collaboration

Emily Sanger 1 collaboration

Emily South 1 collaboration

Zainab Samaan 1 collaboration

Jennifer Valeska Elli Brown 1 collaboration

Nick Walton 1 collaboration

Lisa Ad Webster 1 collaboration

Rachel Steele 1 collaboration

Stephanie J Sampson 1 collaboration

Kalpita Joshi 1 collaboration

Andrew J Hill 1 collaboration

Ashraful Anas 1 collaboration

Sara Asmat 1 collaboration

Gerardo Zavala Gomez 1 collaboration

Marcus J H Huibers 1 collaboration

Theo Broekman 1 collaboration

Harm Van Marwijk 1 collaboration

Richard Oude Voshaar 1 collaboration

Grant J McGeechan 1 collaboration

Scott B Teasdale 1 collaboration

Suzy Ker 1 collaboration

Kevin Williamson 1 collaboration

Nikita Le Sauvage 1 collaboration

Vicki Whittaker 1 collaboration

Jonathan Robinson 1 collaboration

Lucy Atha 1 collaboration

Samantha Brady 1 collaboration

Kelly Hollingsworth 1 collaboration

Han-I Wang 1 collaboration

Steven Pratt 1 collaboration

Diana Velasquez Reyes 1 collaboration

Nicola Lautenschlager 1 collaboration

Terence Chong 1 collaboration

Dina Lo Giudice 1 collaboration

Bronia Arnott 1 collaboration

Charlotte Emma Wray Kitchen 1 collaboration

Paul Alexander Tiffin 1 collaboration

Tamsen J Rochat 1 collaboration

Samukelisiwe Dube 1 collaboration

Kobus Herbst 1 collaboration

Cecilia A Hoegfeldt 1 collaboration

Stephanie Redinger 1 collaboration

Thandeka Khoza 1 collaboration

Ruth Margret Bland 1 collaboration

Linda Richter 1 collaboration

Louise Linsell 1 collaboration

Chris Desmond 1 collaboration

Aisha K Yousafzai 1 collaboration

Michelle Craske 1 collaboration

Ed Juszczak 1 collaboration

Melanie Abas 1 collaboration

Taygen Edwards 1 collaboration

Alan Stein 1 collaboration

Paul Toner 1 collaboration

Diana Velasquez 1 collaboration

Terence W H Chong 1 collaboration

Dina LoGiudice 1 collaboration

Alissa Westphal 1 collaboration

Nicola T Lautenschlager 1 collaboration

Rayeesa Zainab 1 collaboration

Arun Kandasamy 1 collaboration

Naseer Ahmad Bhat 1 collaboration

Chrishma Violla Dsouza 1 collaboration

Hannah Jennings 1 collaboration

Cath Jackson 1 collaboration

Catherine Elizabeth Hewitt 1 collaboration

Gitanjali Narayanan 1 collaboration

Girish N Rao 1 collaboration

Krishna Prasad Muliyala 1 collaboration

Santosh K Chaturvedi 1 collaboration

Pratima Murthy 1 collaboration

Grant McGeechan 1 collaboration

Scott Teasdale 1 collaboration

Nikita Le Savauge 1 collaboration