Outputs (127)

Trust and distrust: Identifying recruitment targets for ethnic minority blood donors (2022)
Journal Article
Ferguson, E., Dawe‐Lane, E., Khan, Z., Reynolds, C., Davison, K., Edge, D., & Brailsford, S. R. (2022). Trust and distrust: Identifying recruitment targets for ethnic minority blood donors. Transfusion Medicine, 32(4), 276-287. https://doi.org/10.1111/tme.12867

Background: We explore the role of trust, distrust, and the prevailing socio-political context to better understand why people from ethnic minority communities are less likely to be blood donors compared to people from White communities. Recruiting m... Read More about Trust and distrust: Identifying recruitment targets for ethnic minority blood donors.

Foot and ankle Osteoarthritis and Cognitive impairment in retired UK Soccer players (FOCUS): protocol for a cross-sectional comparative study with general population controls (2022)
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Espahbodi, S., Fernandes, G., Hogervorst, E., Thanoon, A., Batt, M., Fuller, C. W., …Zhang, W. (2022). Foot and ankle Osteoarthritis and Cognitive impairment in retired UK Soccer players (FOCUS): protocol for a cross-sectional comparative study with general population controls. BMJ Open, 12(4), Article e054371. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-054371

INTRODUCTION: Professional footballers commonly experience sports-related injury and repetitive microtrauma to the foot and ankle, placing them at risk of subsequent chronic pain and osteoarthritis (OA) of the foot and ankle. Similarly, repeated head... Read More about Foot and ankle Osteoarthritis and Cognitive impairment in retired UK Soccer players (FOCUS): protocol for a cross-sectional comparative study with general population controls.

Cattle farmer psychosocial profiles and their association with control strategies for bovine viral diarrhea (2022)
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Prosser, N. S., Green, M. J., Ferguson, E., Tildesley, M. J., Hill, E. M., Keeling, M. J., & Kaler, J. (2022). Cattle farmer psychosocial profiles and their association with control strategies for bovine viral diarrhea. Journal of Dairy Science, 105(4), 3559-3573. https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2021-21386

Bovine viral diarrhea (BVD) is endemic in the United Kingdom and causes major economic losses. Control is largely voluntary for individual farmers and is likely to be influenced by psychosocial factors, such as altruism, trust, and psychological prox... Read More about Cattle farmer psychosocial profiles and their association with control strategies for bovine viral diarrhea.

The association of socio-economic and psychological factors with limitations in day-to-day activity over 7 years in newly diagnosed osteoarthritis patients (2022)
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Kouraki, A., Bast, T., Ferguson, E., & Valdes, A. M. (2022). The association of socio-economic and psychological factors with limitations in day-to-day activity over 7 years in newly diagnosed osteoarthritis patients. Scientific Reports, 12(1), Article 943. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-04781-3

Previous research has established links between chronic pain and impaired cognitive ability, as well as between chronic pain and anxiety, in osteoarthritis. Furthermore, there is evidence linking risk of osteoarthritis to lower educational attainment... Read More about The association of socio-economic and psychological factors with limitations in day-to-day activity over 7 years in newly diagnosed osteoarthritis patients.

Assessing medical mistrust in organ donation across countries using item response theory (2021)
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Ghoshal, A., O’Carroll, R. E., Ferguson, E., Shepherd, L., Doherty, S., Mathew, M., Morgan, K., & Doyle, F. (2022). Assessing medical mistrust in organ donation across countries using item response theory. Journal of Health Psychology, 27(12), 2806-2819. https://doi.org/10.1177/13591053211064985

Although medical mistrust (MM) may be an impediment to public health interventions, no MM scale has been validated across countries and the assessment of MM has not been explored using item response theory, which allows generalisation beyond the samp... Read More about Assessing medical mistrust in organ donation across countries using item response theory.

Attitudes and personality of farm managers and association with cow culling rates and longevity in large-scale commercial dairy farms (2021)
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Rilanto, T., Viidu, D.-A., Kaart, T., Orro, T., Viltrop, A., Emanuelson, U., …Mõtus, K. (2022). Attitudes and personality of farm managers and association with cow culling rates and longevity in large-scale commercial dairy farms. Research in Veterinary Science, 142, 31-42. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rvsc.2021.11.006

The farmer has the central role in determining cow culling policies on their farm and thus affecting cow longevity. The present study aimed to examine farm managers´ satisfaction, attitudes, personality traits and analyse the associations with dairy... Read More about Attitudes and personality of farm managers and association with cow culling rates and longevity in large-scale commercial dairy farms.

Australian Perspectives on Opt-In and Opt-Out Consent Systems for Deceased Organ Donation (2021)
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Hyde, M. K., Masser, B. M., Edwards, A. R. A., & Ferguson, E. (2021). Australian Perspectives on Opt-In and Opt-Out Consent Systems for Deceased Organ Donation. Progress in Transplantation, 31(4), 357-367. https://doi.org/10.1177/15269248211046023

Introduction: As many countries change to opt-out systems to address organ shortages, calls for similar reform in Australia persist. Community perspectives on consent systems for donation remain under-researched, therefore Australian perspectives on... Read More about Australian Perspectives on Opt-In and Opt-Out Consent Systems for Deceased Organ Donation.

Australian Perspectives on Opt-In and Opt-Out Consent Systems for Deceased Organ Donation (2021)
Journal Article
Hyde, M. K., Masser, B. M., Edwards, A. R., & Ferguson, E. (2021). Australian Perspectives on Opt-In and Opt-Out Consent Systems for Deceased Organ Donation. Progress in Transplantation, 31(4), 357-367. https://doi.org/10.1177/15269248211046023

Introduction: As many countries change to opt-out systems to address organ shortages, calls for similar reform in Australia persist. Community perspectives on consent systems for donation remain under-researched, therefore Australian perspectives on... Read More about Australian Perspectives on Opt-In and Opt-Out Consent Systems for Deceased Organ Donation.

Identifying multiple knee pain trajectories and the prediction of opioid and NSAID medication used: A latent class growth approach (2021)
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Haybatollahi, S. M., James, R. J., Fernandes, G., Valdes, A., Doherty, M., Zhang, W., …Ferguson, E. (2022). Identifying multiple knee pain trajectories and the prediction of opioid and NSAID medication used: A latent class growth approach. Pain Practice, 22(2), 210-221. https://doi.org/10.1111/papr.13082

Background: Knee pain is a major source of distress and disability, with pain progression highly variable between individuals. Previous studies defining pain trajectories have all used a single measure of pain, and these differ across studies. Differ... Read More about Identifying multiple knee pain trajectories and the prediction of opioid and NSAID medication used: A latent class growth approach.

What blood and organ donation can tell us about cooperation? (2021)
Journal Article
Ferguson, E. (2022). What blood and organ donation can tell us about cooperation?. Current Opinion in Psychology, 44, 202-207. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2021.09.005

High-cost cooperation directed towards strangers is difficult to explain from an evolutionary perspective. Here, it is argued that by studying the behaviours, motivations, and preferences of real-world high-cost cooperators — blood and organ donors —... Read More about What blood and organ donation can tell us about cooperation?.