Outputs (95)

Randomised controlled trial of the effectiveness of community group and home-based falls prevention exercise programmes on bone health in older people: the ProAct65+ bone study (2015)
Journal Article
Duckham, R. L., Masud, T., Taylor, R., Kendrick, D., Carpenter, H., Iliffe, S., …Brooke-Wavell, K. (2015). Randomised controlled trial of the effectiveness of community group and home-based falls prevention exercise programmes on bone health in older people: the ProAct65+ bone study. Age and Ageing, 44(4), 573-579. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afv055

Background: exercise can reduce osteoporotic fracture risk by strengthening bone or reducing fall risk. Falls prevention exercise programmes can reduce fall incidence, and also include strengthening exercises suggested to load bone, but there is litt... Read More about Randomised controlled trial of the effectiveness of community group and home-based falls prevention exercise programmes on bone health in older people: the ProAct65+ bone study.

Personality and gene expression: do individual differences exist in the leukocyte transcriptome? (2015)
Journal Article
Vedhara, K., Gill, S., Eldesouky, L., Campbell, B. K., Arevalo, J. M., Ma, J., & Cole, S. W. (2015). Personality and gene expression: do individual differences exist in the leukocyte transcriptome?. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 52, 72-82. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2014.10.028

Background
The temporal and situational stability of personality has led generations of researchers to hypothesize that personality may have enduring effects on health, but the biological mechanisms of such relationships remain poorly understood. In... Read More about Personality and gene expression: do individual differences exist in the leukocyte transcriptome?.

School-based educational intervention to improve children’s oral health-related knowledge (2014)
Journal Article
Blake, H., Dawett, B., Leighton, P., Rose-Brady, L., & Deery, C. (2015). School-based educational intervention to improve children’s oral health-related knowledge. Health Promotion Practice, 16(4), 571-582. https://doi.org/10.1177/1524839914560568

Objective. To evaluate a brief oral health promotion intervention delivered in schools by a primary care dental practice, aimed at changing oral health care knowledge and oral health–related behaviors in children. Design. Cohort study with pretest–po... Read More about School-based educational intervention to improve children’s oral health-related knowledge.

Is polypharmacy always hazardous?: a retrospective cohort analysis using linked electronic health records from primary and secondary care (2014)
Journal Article
Payne, R. A., Abel, G. A., Avery, A. J., Mercer, S. W., & Roland, M. O. (2014). Is polypharmacy always hazardous?: a retrospective cohort analysis using linked electronic health records from primary and secondary care. British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 77(6), 1073-1082. https://doi.org/10.1111/bcp.12292

GPs’ views about their role when children and young people disclose a history of bullying in the community: a qualitative study
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Prasad, V., & Condon, L. GPs’ views about their role when children and young people disclose a history of bullying in the community: a qualitative study. Presented at BJGP Research Conference 2019, London, UK

Background

Bullying among children and young people (CYP) can lead to both physical and mental health consequences. CYP may disclose episodes of bullying and seek help from their GP. Therefore GPs have an important role in dealing with the mental... Read More about GPs’ views about their role when children and young people disclose a history of bullying in the community: a qualitative study.