Ashdown-Franks, Dr Garcia

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• Institute of Health and Care Improvement

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Solmi, Marco, Basadonne, Ilaria, Bodini, Luca, Rosenbaum, Simon, Schuch, Felipe B, Smith, Lee, Stubbs, Brendon, Firth, Joseph, Vancampfort, Davy, Ashdown-Franks, Garcia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5032-0171, Carvalho, Andre F, Radua, Joaquim, Fusar-Poli, Laura, Correll, Christoph U and Fusar-Poli, Paolo (2025) Exercise as a transdiagnostic intervention for improving mental health: An umbrella review. Journal of psychiatric research, 184. pp. 91-101.

Ashdown-Franks, Garcia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5032-0171, Atkinson, Michael and Sabiston, Catherine M. (2024) A Therapeutic Landscape for Some but Not for All: An Ethnographic Exploration of the Bethlem Royal Hospital Parkrun. Sociology of Sport Journal, 42 (1). pp. 77-86.

Mansfield, Louise, Daykin, Norma, O'Connell, Neil E, Bailey, Daniel, Forde, Louise, Smith, Robyn, Gifford, Jake and Ashdown-Franks, Garcia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5032-0171 (2024) A mixed methods systematic review on the effects of arts interventions for children and young people at-risk of offending, or who have offended on behavioural, psychosocial, cognitive and offending outcomes: A systematic review. Campbell systematic reviews, 20 (1). e1377.

Ashdown-Franks, Garcia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5032-0171, Sabiston, Catherine M., Stubbs, Brendon, Atkinson, Michael, Quirk, Helen, Bullas, Alice and Haake, Steve (2023) parkrun participation, impact and perceived social inclusion among runners/walkers and volunteers with mental health conditions. Psychology, Health & Medicine, 28 (9). pp. 2621-2634.

Ashdown-Franks, Garcia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5032-0171, Michelle Sabiston, Catherine, Stubbs, Brendon, Atkinson, Michael and Stewart, Robert (2023) “Triggered by the sound of other runners”: An exploration of parkrun mentions in mental health hospital records in the UK. Mental Health and Physical Activity, 24 (10048).

Ashdown-Franks, Garcia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5032-0171, DeJonge, Melissa, Arbour-Nicitopoulos, Kelly P. and Sabiston, Catherine M. (2022) Exploring the feasibility and acceptability of a physical activity programme for individuals with serious mental illness: A case study. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 14 (6). pp. 933-955.

Ashdown-Franks, Garcia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5032-0171, Meadows, Angela and Pila, Eva (2022) "Negative Things That Kids Should Never Have to Hear": Exploring Women's Histories of Weight Stigma in Physical Activity. Journal of sport & exercise psychology, 44 (1). pp. 1-13.

Lucibello, Kristen M., Vani, Madison F., Koulanova, Alyona, deJonge, Melissa L., Ashdown-Franks, Garcia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5032-0171 and Sabiston, Catherine M. (2021) #quarantine15: A content analysis of Instagram posts during COVID-19. Body Image, 38. pp. 148-156.

Ashdown-Franks, Garcia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5032-0171 and Joseph, Janelle (2021) ‘Mind Your Business and Leave My Rolls Alone’: A Case Study of Fat Black Women Runners’ Decolonial Resistance. Societies, 11 (3). p. 95.

Vancampfort, Davy, Stubbs, Brendon, Van Damme, Tine, Smith, Lee, Hallgren, Mats, Schuch, Felipe, Deenik, Jeroen, Rosenbaum, Simon, Ashdown-Franks, Garcia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5032-0171, Mugisha, James and Firth, Joseph (2021) The efficacy of meditation-based mind-body interventions for mental disorders: A meta-review of 17 meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials. Journal of psychiatric research, 134. pp. 181-191.

Firth, Joseph, Solmi, Marco, Wootton, Robyn E, Vancampfort, Davy, Schuch, Felipe B, Hoare, Erin, Gilbody, Simon, Torous, John, Teasdale, Scott B, Jackson, Sarah E, Smith, Lee, Eaton, Melissa, Jacka, Felice N, Veronese, Nicola, Marx, Wolfgang, Ashdown-Franks, Garcia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5032-0171, Siskind, Dan, Sarris, Jerome, Rosenbaum, Simon, Carvalho, André F and Stubbs, Brendon (2020) A meta-review of "lifestyle psychiatry": the role of exercise, smoking, diet and sleep in the prevention and treatment of mental disorders. World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA), 19 (3). pp. 360-380.

Ashdown-Franks, Garcia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5032-0171, Sabiston, Catherine M., Koyanagi, Ai, Vancampfort, Davy, Firth, Joseph, Stewart, Robert and Stubbs, Brendon (2020) Predictors of physical activity recording in routine mental healthcare. Mental Health and Physical Activity, 18. p. 100329.

Kandola, Aaron, Ashdown-Franks, Garcia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5032-0171, Hendrikse, Joshua, Sabiston, Catherine M and Stubbs, Brendon (2019) Physical activity and depression: Towards understanding the antidepressant mechanisms of physical activity. Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews, 107. pp. 525-539.

Ashdown-Franks, Garcia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5032-0171, Firth, Joseph, Carney, Rebekah, Carvalho, Andre F., Hallgren, Mats, Koyanagi, Ai, Rosenbaum, Simon, Schuch, Felipe B., Smith, Lee, Solmi, Marco, Vancampfort, Davy and Stubbs, Brendon (2019) Exercise as Medicine for Mental and Substance Use Disorders: A Meta-review of the Benefits for Neuropsychiatric and Cognitive Outcomes. Sports Medicine, 50 (1). pp. 151-170.

Ashdown-Franks, Garcia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5032-0171, Vancampfort, Davy, Firth, Joseph, Smith, Lee, Sabiston, Catherine M., Stubbs, Brendon and Koyanagi, Ai (2019) Association of leisure-time sedentary behavior with fast food and carbonated soft drink consumption among 133,555 adolescents aged 12–15 years in 44 low- and middle-income countries. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 16 (35).