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Umair Akram
Researcher at Sheffield Hallam University
Publications - 45
Citations - 511
Umair Akram is an academic researcher from Sheffield Hallam University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Anxiety & Attentional bias. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 45 publications receiving 239 citations. Previous affiliations of Umair Akram include University of Oxford & Northumbria University.
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Prevalence and psychiatric correlates of suicidal ideation in UK university students
Umair Akram,Umair Akram,Antonia Ypsilanti,Maria Gardani,Kamila R. Irvine,Sarah F. Allen,Asha Akram,Jennifer Drabble,Eleanor Bickle,Lauren Kaye,Damian Lipinski,Eva Matuszyk,Helia Sarlak,Ellie Steedman,Lambros Lazuras +14 more
TL;DR: The results indicate the prevalence of suicidal ideation in a large sample of university students in the UK, and highlight associated mental health risk factors associated with it, have implications for mental health practitioners working with University students.
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Anxiety Mediates the Relationship between Perfectionism and Insomnia Symptoms: A Longitudinal Study.
TL;DR: Observations suggest that treatments for insomnia should address anxiety symptoms with the prospect of preventing the accentuation of aspects of perfectionism due to poor sleep, however these relationships appear to be mediated by symptoms of anxiety.
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Misperception of tiredness in young adults with insomnia.
TL;DR: The findings suggest that individuals with insomnia exhibit a misperception of their facial attributes of tiredness, interpreting them in a disorder‐consistent manner, adding to the body of literature on cognitive models of insomnia, demonstrating more general cognitive biases in the disorder.
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Anxiety and depression mediate the relationship between self-disgust and insomnia disorder.
TL;DR: This is the first study that demonstrated the association between clinically-diagnosed insomnia in young adults and self-disgust, and highlighted the mediating effects of anxiety and depression.
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A systematic review and meta-analysis of poor sleep, insomnia symptoms and stress in undergraduate students
Maria Gardani,Daneil Bradford,Kirsten Russell,Stephanie Allan,Louise Beattie,Jason Ellis,Umair Akram +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a systematic review and meta-analysis of the relationships between sleep quality and/or insomnia with stress in students was conducted, with an aim to conduct a systematic analysis of the relationship between stress and poor sleep quality.