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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.

Development and evaluation of the INSPIRE measure of staff support for personal recovery (2014)
Journal Article
Williams, J., Leamy, M., Bird, V., Le Boutillier, C., Norton, S., Pesola, F., & Slade, M. (2015). Development and evaluation of the INSPIRE measure of staff support for personal recovery. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 50(5), 777-786. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-014-0983-0

© 2014, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. Background: No individualised standardised measure of staff support for mental health recovery exists. Aims: To develop and evaluate a measure of staff support for recovery. Method: Development: initial draf... Read More about Development and evaluation of the INSPIRE measure of staff support for personal recovery.

Evaluation of occupational health checks for hospital employees (2014)
Journal Article
Blake, H., Bennett, E., & E. Batt, M. (2014). Evaluation of occupational health checks for hospital employees. International Journal of Workplace Health Management, 7(4), 247-266. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijwhm-07-2013-0027

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to ascertain which employees choose to access occupational health checks (OHCs), their perceptions of the usefulness of information received and whether they choose to act on tailored advice provided.

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Mental Health Service User Experience of Positive Psychotherapy (2014)
Journal Article
Brownell, T., Schrank, B., Jakaite, Z., Larkin, C., & Slade, M. (2015). Mental Health Service User Experience of Positive Psychotherapy. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 71(1), 85-92. https://doi.org/10.1002/jclp.22118

© 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Objective: Service user satisfaction with therapy is a key part of the therapeutic process. The aim of this study was to investigate service user experiences of an 11-week group positive psychology intervention for psyc... Read More about Mental Health Service User Experience of Positive Psychotherapy.

Reliability and validity of the transport and physical activity questionnaire (TPAQ) for assessing physical activity behaviour (2014)
Journal Article
Adams, E. J., Goad, M., Sahlqvist, S., Bull, F. C., Cooper, A. R., & Ogilvie, D. (2014). Reliability and validity of the transport and physical activity questionnaire (TPAQ) for assessing physical activity behaviour. PLoS ONE, 9(9), Article e107039. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0107039

Background
No current validated survey instrument allows a comprehensive assessment of both physical activity and travel behaviours for use in interdisciplinary research on walking and cycling. This study reports on the test-retest reliability and v... Read More about Reliability and validity of the transport and physical activity questionnaire (TPAQ) for assessing physical activity behaviour.

Constructing notions of healthcare productivity: The call for a new professionalism? (2014)
Journal Article
Moffatt, F., Martin, P., & Timmons, S. (2014). Constructing notions of healthcare productivity: The call for a new professionalism?. Sociology of Health and Illness, 36(5), 686-702. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12093

Improving performance is an imperative for most healthcare systems in industrialised countries. This article considers one such system, the UK's National Health Service (NHS). Recent NHS reforms and strategies have advocated improved healthcare produ... Read More about Constructing notions of healthcare productivity: The call for a new professionalism?.