Care professionals’ accounts of providing support and treatment for people with co-occurring alcohol use disorder and depression in the North East of England, UK: A qualitative study informed by complexity theory

Amy O’Donnell; Eileen Kaner; Barbara Hanratty; Eilish Gilvarry; Sarah Wigham; Katherine Jackson

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0334524

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Care professionals’ accounts of providing support and treatment for people with co-occurring alcohol use disorder and depression in the North East of England, UK: A qualitative study informed by complexity theory

Amy O’Donnell ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: amy.odonnell@newcastle.ac.uk

Affiliation Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4071-9434

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Eileen Kaner,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
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Barbara Hanratty,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
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Eilish Gilvarry,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, Cumbria, Northumberland Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust, St. Nicholas Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
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Sarah Wigham,

Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, Cumbria, Northumberland Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust, St. Nicholas Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
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Katherine Jackson

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
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Care professionals’ accounts of providing support and treatment for people with co-occurring alcohol use disorder and depression in the North East of England, UK: A qualitative study informed by complexity theory

Amy O’Donnell,
Eileen Kaner,
Barbara Hanratty,
Eilish Gilvarry,
Sarah Wigham,
Katherine Jackson

Published: October 15, 2025
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0334524

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