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Professor HOLLY BLAKE's Outputs (319)

Exercise intervention in acquired brain injury rehabilitation: a discussion (2008)
Journal Article
Blake, H., & Batson, M. (2008). Exercise intervention in acquired brain injury rehabilitation: a discussion. International Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation, 15(4), 180-185. https://doi.org/10.12968/ijtr.2008.15.4.29037

Physical activity is essential for health and well-being. The importance of an active lifestyle is increasingly being recognized in rehabilitation for its benefits to quality of life and the prevention and management of secondary disease resulting fr... Read More about Exercise intervention in acquired brain injury rehabilitation: a discussion.

Innovation in practice: mobile phone technology in patient care (2008)
Journal Article
Blake, H. (2008). Innovation in practice: mobile phone technology in patient care. British Journal of Community Nursing, 13(4), https://doi.org/10.12968/bjcn.2008.13.4.29024

Mobile phones are becoming increasingly important in everyday life and now in healthcare. There has been a steady growth of information and communication technologies in health communication and technology is used progressively in telemedicine, wirel... Read More about Innovation in practice: mobile phone technology in patient care.

Sexual and reproductive health in pregnant teenagers presenting for antenatal care or for termination (2006)
Journal Article
Collier, J., & Blake, H. (2006). Sexual and reproductive health in pregnant teenagers presenting for antenatal care or for termination. Current Paediatrics, 16(3), 211-215. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cupe.2006.03.008

Sexual health is an important public health issue with attention being paid to the development of national policy strategies for teenage pregnancy and reproductive health. A substantial proportion of pregnant adolescents engage in unprotected interco... Read More about Sexual and reproductive health in pregnant teenagers presenting for antenatal care or for termination.

Cognitive impairments following a stroke: the strain on caregivers (2005)
Book Chapter
Blake, H., & Lincoln, N. (2005). Cognitive impairments following a stroke: the strain on caregivers. In Stroke: therapy and rehabilitation (173-179)

Objectives: The aim was to investigate the relation between cognitive impairment in stroke patients and strain in their spouses.
Setting: Hospital.
Methods: Patients were assessed for cognitive impairment on tests of general mental state, language,... Read More about Cognitive impairments following a stroke: the strain on caregivers.

A randomised controlled trial of a care home rehabilitation service to reduce long-term institutionalisation for elderly people (2004)
Journal Article
Fleming, S. A., Blake, H., Gladman, J. R., Hart, E., Lymbery, M., Dewey, M. E., McCloughry, H., Walker, M. F., & Miller, P. (in press). A randomised controlled trial of a care home rehabilitation service to reduce long-term institutionalisation for elderly people. Age and Ageing, 33(4), https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afh126

Objectives: to evaluate the effect of a care home rehabilitation service on institutionalisation, health outcomes and service use.

Design: randomised controlled trial, stratified by Barthel ADL index, social service sector and whether living alone... Read More about A randomised controlled trial of a care home rehabilitation service to reduce long-term institutionalisation for elderly people.

Caregiver strain in spouses of stroke patients (2003)
Journal Article
Blake, H., Lincoln, N. B., & Clarke, D. D. (2003). Caregiver strain in spouses of stroke patients. Clinical Rehabilitation, 17(3), 312-317. https://doi.org/10.1191/0269215503cr613oa

Objective: To test the ability of a previously generated logistic regression model to predict caregiver strain from carer mood, negative affectivity and perceived patient functional ability.

Design: Postal prospective survey.

Setting: Spouses o... Read More about Caregiver strain in spouses of stroke patients.

An evaluation of screening measures for cognitive impairment after stroke (2002)
Journal Article
Blake, H., McKinney, M., Treece, K., Lee, E., & Lincoln, N. (2002). An evaluation of screening measures for cognitive impairment after stroke. Age and Ageing, 31(6), https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/31.6.451

Objectives: to assess the sensitivity and specificity of a screening battery for detecting cognitive impairment after stroke.

Design: a randomized controlled trial.

Methods: stroke patients were recruited from hospitals in three centres. Pati... Read More about An evaluation of screening measures for cognitive impairment after stroke.

Factors associated with strain in co-resident spouses of patients following stroke (2000)
Journal Article
Blake, H., & Lincoln, N. (2000). Factors associated with strain in co-resident spouses of patients following stroke. Clinical Rehabilitation, 14(3), https://doi.org/10.1191/026921500667530134

Objective: To identify the factors associated with carer strain following stroke.

Design: Co-resident spouses of stroke patients were sent questionnaire measures of their perceptions of strain, stress, mood, handicap, adjustment, social support, l... Read More about Factors associated with strain in co-resident spouses of patients following stroke.

The inverse forecast effect (1997)
Journal Article
Clarke, D., & Blake, H. (1997). The inverse forecast effect

Social behaviour depends crucially on the way events are linked over time, and on how these linkages are perceived. From a given event, people may be able to infer what followed, or what preceded it. However these two tasks are not as similar as they... Read More about The inverse forecast effect.