Dr Peter Bower 

2012

• 116. Lamb J, Rogers A, Bower P, Dowrick C, Gask L. (2012). Access to mental health in primary care: a qualitative meta-synthesis of evidence from the experience of people from 'hard to reach' groups. Health, 16(1), 76-104. eScholarID:143599 | DOI:10.1177/1363459311403945
• Blakeman T, Chew-Graham C, Reeves D, Bower P. (In-press). The Quality and Outcomes Framework and self-management dialogue in primary care consultations: a qualitative study. British Journal of General Practice, eScholarID:143601
• Bower P, MacDonald W, Harkness E, Gask L, Kendrick T, Valderas J, Dickens C, Blakeman T, Sibbald B. (In-press). Multimorbidity, service organisation and clinical decision-making in primary care: a qualitative study. eScholarID:143603
• Gask L, MacDonald W, Bower P. (In-press). What is the relationship between diabetes and depression? A qualitative meta-synthesis of patient experience of co-morbidity. eScholarID:143607
• Harrison M, Fullwood C, Bower P, Kennedy A, Rogers A, Reeves D. (In-press). Exploring the mechanisms of change in the chronic disease self-management programme: Secondary analysis of data from a randomised controlled trial. eScholarID:143608
• Harrison M, Reeves D, Harkness E, Valderas J, Kennedy A, Rogers A, Hann M, Bower P. (In-press). What is the moderating effect of depression and multimorbidity on the effectiveness of a chronic disease self-management programme? Secondary analysis of a randomised controlled trial. eScholarID:143610

2010

• Gilbody S, Bower P. (Ed.) (2010). Depression in primary care: evidence and practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. eScholarID:103527
• Mead NJ, Lester HE, Chew-Graham CA, Gask LL, Bower PJ. (2010). A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effects of befriending on depressive symptoms and distress in the community. British Journal of Psychiatry, 196, 96-101. eScholarID:1d28389 | DOI:10.1192/bjp.bp.109.064089
• Protheroe J, Blakeman T, Bower P, Chew-Graham C, Kennedy A. (2010). An intervention to promote patient participation and self-management in long term conditions: development and feasibility testing. BMC Health Services Research, 10, 206. eScholarID:103481 | DOI:10.1186/1472-6963-10-206

2009

• Macdonald WJ, Kontopantelis E, Bower PJ, Kennedy AP, Rogers AE, Reeves D. (2009). What makes a successful volunteer Expert Patients Programme tutor? Factors predicting satisfaction, productivity and intention to continue tutoring of a new public health workforce in the United Kingdom. Patient Educ Couns, 75(1), 128-134. eScholarID:1d20433 | DOI:10.1016/j.pec.2008.09.024

2008

• Bee PE, Lovell K, Bower PJ, Gilbody S, Richards DA, Gask LL, Barnes P. (2008). Psychotherapy mediated by remote communication technologies: a meta-analytic review. BMC Psychiatry, 8: 60, eScholarID:1d15686
• Cheraghi-Sohi S, Hole A, Mead N, McDonald R, Whalley D, Bower P, Roland M. (2008). What patients want from a primary care consultation. A discrete choice experiment to identify patients' priorities. Annals of Family Medicine, 6(2), 107-115. eScholarID:149233 | DOI:10.1370/afm.816
• Lovell, K, Bower, PJ, Richards, DA, Barkham, M, Sibbald, BS, Roberts, C, Davies, LM, Rogers, AE, Gellatly, JL, Hennessy, S. (2008). Developing guided self-help for depression using the Medical Research Council complex interventions framework: a description of the modelling phase and results of an exploratory randomised controlled trial. BMC Psychiatry, 8:91 (24 November 2008), eScholarID:1d18186 | DOI:10.1186/1471-244X-8-91
• Macdonald WJ, Rogers AE, Blakeman T, Bower PJ. (2008). Practice nurses and the facilitation of self-management in primary care. J Adv Nurs, 62( 2), eScholarID:1d32180 | DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2648.2007.04585.x
• Richards, D, Lovell, K, Gilbody, S, Gask, LL, Torgerson, D, Barkham, M, Bland, M, Bower, PJ, Lankshear, A, Simpson, A, Fletcher, J, Escott, D, Hennessy, S, Richardson, R. (2008). Collaborative care for depression in UK primary care: a randomized controlled trial. Psychol Med, 38( 2), eScholarID:1d20605 | DOI:10.1017/S0033291707001365
• Rogers AE, Kennedy AP, Bower PJ, Gardner CJ, Gately C, Lee V, Reeves D, Richardson GGA. (2008). The United Kingdom Expert Patients Programme: results and implications from a national evaluation. Med J Aust, 189( 10 Suppl), eScholarID:1d20430

2007

• Gellatly JL, Bower PJ, Hennessy S, Richards DA, GilbodyS, Lovell K. (2007). What makes self help interventions effective in the management of depressive symptoms? Meta analysis and meta regression. Psychological Medicine, 37 (9), 1217-1228. eScholarID:1d27619
• Kennedy AP, Reeves D, Bower PJ, Lee V, E Middleton, G Richardson, Rogers AE. (2007). The effectiveness and cost effectiveness of a national lay led self care support programme for patients with long term conditions: a pragmatic randomised controlled trial. Journal of Epidemiology Community Health, 61, 254-261. eScholarID:1d14970 | DOI:10.1136/jech.2006.053538
• Macdonald WJ, Mead NJ, Bower PJ, Richards D, Lovell K. (2007). A qualitative study of patients' perceptions of a 'minimal' psychological therapy. International Journal of Socical Psychiatry, 53( 1), eScholarID:1d15491
• S Gilbody, Bower PJ, J Fletcher. (2007). Collaborative care for depression: systematic review and cumulative meta-analysis. Archives of Internal Medicine, eScholarID:1d14967 | DOI:10.1001/archinte.166.21.2314

2006

• Bower PJ, Kennedy AP, Reeves D, Gately C, Lee V, Rogers AE. (2006). Recruitment to a trial of self-care skills training in long-term health conditions: Analysis of the impact of patient attitudes and preferences. Contemporary clinical trials, eScholarID:1d12524
• Gilbody S, Bower PJ, Whitty P. (2006). Costs and consequences of enhanced primary care for depression: systematic review of randomised economic evaluations. Br J Psychiatry, 189, 297-308. eScholarID:1d14507

2005

• Archer JJE, Lovell K, Bower PJ, Campbell MG, Dickens C. (2005). Process and outcome of a non-guided self-help manual for anxiety and depression in primary care: A pilot study. Behavioural & Cognitive Psycotherapy, 33, 319-331. eScholarID:1d25784 | DOI:10.1017/S1352465805002079
• Bower PJ, Gilbody S. (2005). Stepped care in psychological therapies: access, effectiveness and efficiency: Narrative literature review. Br J Psychiatry, 186, 11-7. eScholarID:1d9577
• Bower PJ, King M, Nazareth I, Lampe F, Sibbald BS. (2005). Patient preferences in randomised controlled trials: conceptual framework and implications for research. Soc Sci Med, 61( 3), 685-95. eScholarID:1d12525 | DOI:10.1016/j.socscimed.2004.12.010
• M King, I Nazareth, F Lampe, Bower PJ, M Chandler, M Morou. (2005). Conceptual framework and systematic review of the effects of participants' and professionals preferences in randomised controlled trials. Health Technology Assessment, 35, 1-186. eScholarID:1d13896
• M King, I Nazareth, F Lampe, Bower PJ, M Chandler, M Morou. (2005). Impact of participant and physician intervention preferences on randomized trials. A systematic review. Journal of the American Medical Association, 9, 1089-99. eScholarID:1d13897 | DOI:10.1001/jama.293.9.1089
• Mead NJ, Macdonald WJ, Bower PJ, Lovell K, Richards DA, Roberts C, A Bucknall. (2005). The clinical effectiveness of guided self-help versus waiting list control in the management of anxiety and depression: a randomised controlled trial. Psychological Medicine, 35, 1633-1643. eScholarID:1d12534 | DOI:10.1017/S003329170500560X

2004

• Bower PJ, Jerrim S, Gask LL. (2004). Primary care mental health workers: role expectations, conflict and ambiguity. Health Soc Care Community, 12( 4), 336-45. eScholarID:1d9313
• Bower PJ. (2004). Peoples' understandings of a primary care-based mental health self-help clinic. Patient Educ Couns, 53( 1), 41-6. eScholarID:1d9578
• Macdonald WJ, Macdonald WJ, Bradley S, Bower PJ, Kramer T, Sibbald BS, Garralda E, Harrington R. (2004). Primary mental health workers in child and adolescent mental health services. J Adv Nurs, 46( 1), 78-87. eScholarID:1d9580
• Janine Fletcher, Bower PJ, Richards DA, Dr Tim Saunders. Enhanced Services Specification for depression under the new GP contract - a commissioning guidebook, NIMHE. 2004. eScholarID:19d125

2003

• Bower PJ, ByfordS, BarberJ, BeechamJ, SimpsonS, FriedliK, CorneyR, KingM, HarveyI. (2003). Meta-analysis of data on costs from trials of counselling in primary care: using individual patient data toovercome sample size limitations in economic analyses. British Medical Journal, 326, 7401, eScholarID:1d5495 | DOI:10.1136/bmj.326.7401.1247
• Bower PJ, Campbell S, Bojke C, Sibbald BS. (2003). Team structure, team climate and the quality of care in primary care: an observational study. Qual Saf Health Care, 12( 4), 273-9. eScholarID:1d9582
• Bower PJ, Campbell SM, BojkeC, Sibbald BS. (2003). Team structure, team climate and the quality of care in primary care: an observational study. Quality and Safety in Health Care, 12, 4, eScholarID:1d5432
• Bower PJ, Macdonald WJ, Sibbald BS, GarraldaE, KramerT, BradleyS, HarringtonR. (2003). Postal survey of services for child and adolescent mental health problems in general practice in England. Primary Care Mental Health, 1, 1, eScholarID:1d5433
• Bower PJ, Roland M, Campbell SM, Mead NJ. (2003). Setting standards based on patients' views on access and continuity:secondary analysis of data from the general practice assesment survey. British Medical Journal, 326, 7383, eScholarID:1d5476
• Bower PJ, Roland M. (2003). Bias in patient assessments of general practice: General Practice Assessment Survey scores in surgery and postal responders. British Journal of General Practice, 53, 487, eScholarID:1d5475
• Bower PJ, RowlandN, HardyR. (2003). The Clinical effectiveness of counselling in primary care: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Psychological Medicine, 33, 2, eScholarID:1d5496 | DOI:10.1017/S0033291702006979
• GabbayM, ShielsP, Bower PJ, Sibbald BS, KingM, WardE. (2003). Patient-practitioner agreement: does it matter? Psychological Medicine, 33, 2, eScholarID:1d5434
• Lovell K, Richards DA, Bower PJ. (2003). Improving access to primary mental health care: uncontrolled evaluation of a pilot self-help clinic. British Journal Of General Practice, 53(2), 133-135. eScholarID:1d23671
• S Bradley, T Kramer, E Garralda, Bower PJ, Macdonald WJ, Sibbald BS. (2003). Child and Adolescent Mental Health Interface Work with Primary Care Services: A Survey of NHS Provider Trusts. Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 170-176. eScholarID:1d12564

2002

• Bower PJ, FosterJ, Mellor-ClarkJ. (2002). Quality in Counselling in Primary Care: A Guide for Effective Commissioning and Clinical Governance. Primary Health Care - The RCN Community Health Nursing Journal, 12, 3, eScholarID:1d5494
• Bower PJ, Gask LL. (2002). The changing nature of consultation-liaison in primary care: bridging the gap between research and practice. General Hospital Psychiatry, 24, 2, 63-70. eScholarID:1d5493
• Bower PJ, Mead NJ, Roland M. (2002). What dimensions underlie patient responses to the General Practice Assessment Survey. Family Practice, 19, 5, eScholarID:1d5474
• Bower PJ, RowlandN, Mellor-ClarkJ, HeywoodP, GodfreyC, HardyR. (2002). Effectiveness and cost effectiveness of counselling in primary care. (Cochrane Review). Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, eScholarID:1d5492
• Bower PJ. (2002). Interventions to promote patient-centred clinical consultation may improve patient satisfaction. Evidence-based Healthcare, 6, 3, eScholarID:1d5491
• Bower PJ. (2002). Primary care mental health workers: models of working and evidence of effectiveness. British Journal of General Practice, 52, 484, eScholarID:1d5490
• ByfordS, Bower PJ. (2002). Cost-effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral therapy for depression: current evidence and future research priorities. Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research: informing decision-making in the delivery of cost-effective healthcare, 2, 5, eScholarID:1d5497
• Mead NJ, Bower PJ. (2002). Patient-centred consultations and outsomes in primary care: a review of the literature. Patient Education and Counseling, 48, 1, eScholarID:1d5486
• Bower PJ, Macdonald WJ, Sibbald BS, GarraldaE, KramerT, BradleyS, HarringtonR. (2002). Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) in Primary Care. Final Report to the Department of Health. Manchester: NPCRDC. eScholarID:5d12

2001

• Bower PJ, GarraldaE, KramerT, Harrington R, Sibbald BS. (2001). The treatment of child and adolescent mental health problems in primary care: a systematic review. Family Practice, 18, 4, eScholarID:1d5431
• Bower PJ, Gask LL, MayC, Mead NJ. (2001). Domains of consultation research in primary care. Patient Education and Counseling, 45, 1, 3-11. eScholarID:1d5879
• Bower PJ, RichardsD, Lovell K. (2001). The clinical and cost-effectiveness of self-help treatments for anxiety and depressive disorders in primary care: a systematic review. British Journal of General Practice, 51, 471, eScholarID:1d5489
• Bower PJ, FosterJ, Mellor-ClarkJ. (2001). Quality in Counselling in Primary Care. A Guide for effective Commissioning and Clinical Governance. NPCRDC, eScholarID:16d3

2000

• Bower PJ, R West, A Tylee, Hann M. (2000). Symptom attribution and the recognition of psychiatric morbidity. Journal Of Psychosomatic Research, 48(2), 157-160. eScholarID:1d23511
• Bower PJ, S Byford, Sibbald BS, E Ward, M King, M Lloyd. (2000). Randomised controlled trial of non-directive counselling, cognitive-behaviour therapy, and usual general practitioner care for patients with depression. II. Cost effectiveness. British Medical Journal, 321(7273), 1389-1392. eScholarID:1d23509
• Bower PJ, Sibbald BS. (2000). Systematic review of the effect of on-site mental health professionals on the clinical behaviour of general practitioners. British Medical Journal, 320(7235), 614-617. eScholarID:1d23568
• E Ward, M King, M Lloyd, Bower PJ, Sibbald BS, S Farrelly. (2000). Randomised controlled trial of non-directive counselling, cognitive-behaviour therapy, and usual general practitioner care for patients with depression. I. Clinical Effectiveness. British Medical Journal, 321(7273), 1383-1388. eScholarID:1d23512
• Mead NJ, Bower PJ. (2000). Measuring patient-centredness: a comparison of three observation-based instruments. Patient Education and Counseling, 39, 71-80. eScholarID:1d23545
• Mead NJ, Bower PJ. (2000). Patient-centredness: a conceptual framework and review of the empirical literature. Social Science And Medicine, 51(7), 1087-1110. eScholarID:1d23546

1999

• Bower PJ, R West, A Tylee, Hann M. (1999). Patients perceptions of the role of the general practitioner in the management of emotional problems. British Journal of Health Psychology, 4, 41-52. eScholarID:1d23508