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Professor CATRIN EVANS's Outputs (93)

The burden of chronic respiratory diseases in adults in Nepal: A systematic review (2021)
Journal Article
Ekezie, W., Jenkins, A. R., Hall, I. P., Evans, C., Koju, R., Kurmi, O. P., & Bolton, C. E. (2021). The burden of chronic respiratory diseases in adults in Nepal: A systematic review. Chronic Respiratory Disease, 18, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1177/1479973121994572

While chronic lung disease causes substantial global morbidity and mortality, global estimates have primarily been based on broad assumptions. Specific country data from low-income countries such as Nepal are limited. This review assessed primary evi... Read More about The burden of chronic respiratory diseases in adults in Nepal: A systematic review.

A systematic review of supportive interventions to promote women's comfort and well-being during induction of labour (2020)
Journal Article
Evans, K., Sands, G., Spiby, H., Evans, C., Pallotti, P., & Eldridge, J. (2021). A systematic review of supportive interventions to promote women's comfort and well-being during induction of labour. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 77(5), 2185-2196. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.14711

© 2020 John Wiley & Sons Ltd Aims: To evaluate the effectiveness of non-pharmacological non-invasive supportive interventions for impacts on women's comfort and well-being during induction of labour. Design: A quantitative systematic review without... Read More about A systematic review of supportive interventions to promote women's comfort and well-being during induction of labour.

Test@Work Texts: Mobile Phone Messaging to Increase Awareness of HIV and HIV Testing in UK Construction Employees during the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020)
Journal Article
Middleton, M., Somerset, S., Evans, C., & Blake, H. (2020). Test@Work Texts: Mobile Phone Messaging to Increase Awareness of HIV and HIV Testing in UK Construction Employees during the COVID-19 Pandemic. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(21), Article 7819. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17217819

© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Background: HIV poses a threat to global health. With effective treatment options available, education and testing strategies are essential in preventing transmission. Text messaging is an eff... Read More about Test@Work Texts: Mobile Phone Messaging to Increase Awareness of HIV and HIV Testing in UK Construction Employees during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Factors influencing self-management in relation to type 2 diabetes in Africa: A qualitative systematic review (2020)
Journal Article
Suglo, J. N., & Evans, C. (2020). Factors influencing self-management in relation to type 2 diabetes in Africa: A qualitative systematic review. PLoS ONE, 15(10), Article e0240938. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0240938

© 2020 Suglo, Evans. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are cre... Read More about Factors influencing self-management in relation to type 2 diabetes in Africa: A qualitative systematic review.

Mixed-methods systematic review: Childbearing women's views, experiences, and decision-making related to epidural analgesia in labour (2020)
Journal Article
Borrelli, S., Evans, K., Pallotti, P., Evans, C., Eldridge, J., & Spiby, H. (2020). Mixed-methods systematic review: Childbearing women's views, experiences, and decision-making related to epidural analgesia in labour. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 76(12), 3273-3292. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.14555

© 2020 John Wiley & Sons Ltd Aims: To investigate childbearing women's views, experiences and decision-making related to epidural analgesia in labour. Design: Mixed-methods systematic review. Data Sources: A comprehensive literature search was impl... Read More about Mixed-methods systematic review: Childbearing women's views, experiences, and decision-making related to epidural analgesia in labour.

WHIRL Study: Workplace Health Interprofessional Learning in the Construction Industry (2020)
Journal Article
Blake, H., Somerset, S., Whittingham, K., Middleton, M., Yildirim, M., & Evans, C. (2020). WHIRL Study: Workplace Health Interprofessional Learning in the Construction Industry. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(18), Article 6815. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17186815

© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Interprofessional learning (IPL) is essential to prepare healthcare trainees as the future public health workforce. WHIRL (Workplace Health InteRprofessional Learning) was an innovative IPL in... Read More about WHIRL Study: Workplace Health Interprofessional Learning in the Construction Industry.

WHIRL Study: Workplace Health Interprofessional Learning in the Construction Industry (2020)
Preprint / Working Paper
Blake, H., Somerset, S., Whittingham, K., Middleton, M., Yildirim, M., & Evans, C. WHIRL Study: Workplace Health Interprofessional Learning in the Construction Industry

Interprofessional learning (IPL) is essential to prepare healthcare trainees as the future public health workforce. WHIRL was an innovative IPL intervention that engaged multi-professional teams of volunteer healthcare trainees (n=20) to deliver heal... Read More about WHIRL Study: Workplace Health Interprofessional Learning in the Construction Industry.

Advanced clinical practitioners in primary care in the UK: A qualitative study of workforce transformation (2020)
Journal Article
Evans, C., Pearce, R., Greaves, S., & Blake, H. (2020). Advanced clinical practitioners in primary care in the UK: A qualitative study of workforce transformation. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(12), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17124500

© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Escalating costs and changing population demographics are putting pressure on primary care systems to meet ever more complex healthcare needs. Non-medical ‘advanced clinical practitioner’ (ACP... Read More about Advanced clinical practitioners in primary care in the UK: A qualitative study of workforce transformation.

Characterising the evidence base for advanced clinical practice in the UK: A scoping review protocol (2020)
Journal Article
Evans, C., Poku, B., Pearce, R., Eldridge, J., Hendrick, P., Knaggs, R., McCluskey, J., Tomczak, P., Thow, R., Harris, P., Conway, J., & Collier, R. (2020). Characterising the evidence base for advanced clinical practice in the UK: A scoping review protocol. BMJ Open, 10(5), Article e036192. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-036192

© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2020. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. Introduction A global health workforce crisis, coupled with ageing populations, wars and the rise of non-com... Read More about Characterising the evidence base for advanced clinical practice in the UK: A scoping review protocol.

Views and experiences of nurses in providing end-of-life care to patients in an ED context: a qualitative systematic review (2020)
Journal Article
Mughal, A., & Evans, C. (2020). Views and experiences of nurses in providing end-of-life care to patients in an ED context: a qualitative systematic review. Emergency Medicine Journal, 37(5), 265-272. https://doi.org/10.1136/emermed-2018-208278

© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2020. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. Introduction: With an increase in the population living with terminal illness, many patients are accessing EDs during the last days of their... Read More about Views and experiences of nurses in providing end-of-life care to patients in an ED context: a qualitative systematic review.

Access to and interventions to improve maternity care services for immigrant women: a narrative synthesis systematic review (2020)
Journal Article
Higginbottom, G. M., Evans, C., Morgan, M., Bharj, K. K., Eldridge, J., Hussain, B., & Salt, K. (2020). Access to and interventions to improve maternity care services for immigrant women: a narrative synthesis systematic review. Health Services and Delivery Research, 8(14), 1-122. https://doi.org/10.3310/hsdr08140

Limited evidence suggests experiences of immigrant women accessing and using UK maternity services were mixed but largely poor, and there were few rigorously evaluated interventions focused on improving care.

Development and Fidelity Testing of the Test@Work Digital Toolkit for Employers on Workplace Health Checks and Opt-In HIV Testing (2020)
Journal Article
Blake, H., Somerset, S., & Evans, C. (2020). Development and Fidelity Testing of the Test@Work Digital Toolkit for Employers on Workplace Health Checks and Opt-In HIV Testing. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(1), Article 379. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17010379

BACKGROUND: In the UK, few employers offer general health checks for employees, and opt-in HIV testing is rarely included. There is a need to provide evidence-based guidance and support for employers around health checks and HIV testing in the workpl... Read More about Development and Fidelity Testing of the Test@Work Digital Toolkit for Employers on Workplace Health Checks and Opt-In HIV Testing.

Women's information needs, decision-making and experiences of membrane sweeping to promote spontaneous labour (2020)
Journal Article
Spiby, H., Roberts, J., Evans, K., Evans, C., Pallotti, P., & Eldridge, J. (2020). Women's information needs, decision-making and experiences of membrane sweeping to promote spontaneous labour. Midwifery, 83, Article 102626. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2019.102626

© 2019 Objective: To explore and synthesise evidence of women's information needs, decision-making and experiences of membrane sweeping to promote spontaneous labour. Design: A systematic review following the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) meta-aggreg... Read More about Women's information needs, decision-making and experiences of membrane sweeping to promote spontaneous labour.

Experience of and access to maternity care in the UK by immigrant women: a narrative synthesis systematic review (2019)
Journal Article
G., H., Evans, C., M., M., K., K.-B., J., E., & B., H. (2019). Experience of and access to maternity care in the UK by immigrant women: a narrative synthesis systematic review. BMJ Open, 9(12), Article e029478. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-029478

© 2019 Author(s). One in four births in the UK is to foreign-born women. In 2016, the figure was 28.2%, the highest figure on record, with maternal and perinatal mortality also disproportionately higher for some immigrant women. Our objective was to... Read More about Experience of and access to maternity care in the UK by immigrant women: a narrative synthesis systematic review.

Improving care for women and girls who have undergone female genital mutilation/cutting: qualitative systematic reviews (2019)
Journal Article
Evans, C., Tweheyo, R., McGarry, J., Eldridge, J., Albert, J., Nkoyo, V., & Higginbottom, G. (2019). Improving care for women and girls who have undergone female genital mutilation/cutting: qualitative systematic reviews. Health Services and Delivery Research, 7(31), 1-215. https://doi.org/10.3310/hsdr07310

Background: In a context of high migration, there are growing numbers of women living in the UK who have experienced female genital mutilation/cutting. Evidence is needed to understand how best to meet their health-care needs and to shape culturally... Read More about Improving care for women and girls who have undergone female genital mutilation/cutting: qualitative systematic reviews.