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Effects of text messaging in addition to emails on physical activity among university and college employees in the UK (2013)
Journal Article
Suggs, S., Blake, H., Bardus, M., & Lloyd, S. (2013). Effects of text messaging in addition to emails on physical activity among university and college employees in the UK. Journal of Health Services Research and Policy, 18(1 Supp), https://doi.org/10.1177/1355819613478001

Objectives

To test the effects of adding text messages to weekly email communications on recipients’ total physical activity (leisure-time; workplace; domestic and garden; and active transportation) in employees of universities and colleges in th... Read More about Effects of text messaging in addition to emails on physical activity among university and college employees in the UK.

Peer education for advance care planning: volunteers’ perspectives on training and community engagement activities (2013)
Journal Article
Seymour, J. E., Almack, K., Kennedy, S., & Froggatt, K. (2013). Peer education for advance care planning: volunteers’ perspectives on training and community engagement activities. Health Expectations, 16(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1369-7625.2011.00688.x

Background  Peer education by volunteers may aid attitudinal change, but there is little understanding of factors assisting the preparation of peer educators. This study contributes to conceptual understandings of how volunteers may be prepared to wo... Read More about Peer education for advance care planning: volunteers’ perspectives on training and community engagement activities.

The use of coercive measures in forensic psychiatric care: legal, ethical and practical challenges (2013)
Journal Article
Hui, A. M., Middleton, H., & Völlm, B. (2013). The use of coercive measures in forensic psychiatric care: legal, ethical and practical challenges. International Journal of Forensic Mental Health, 12(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/14999013.2012.740649

The use of coercive measures, namely restraint, seclusion and involuntary medication, remain controversial methods of practice within forensic psychiatry. Ethical and moral debates surrounding the use of coercive measures are compounded by the need t... Read More about The use of coercive measures in forensic psychiatric care: legal, ethical and practical challenges.

What is the extent of potentially avoidable admissions amongst hospital inpatients with palliative care needs? (2013)
Journal Article
Gott, M., Gardiner, C., Ingleton, C., Cobb, M., Noble, B., Bennett, M. I., & Seymour, J. (2013). What is the extent of potentially avoidable admissions amongst hospital inpatients with palliative care needs?. BMC Palliative Care, 12(Februa), Article 8. https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-684X-12-9

Background
There is clear evidence that the full range of services required to support people dying at home are far from being implemented, either in England or elsewhere. No studies to date have attempted to identify the proportion of hospital admi... Read More about What is the extent of potentially avoidable admissions amongst hospital inpatients with palliative care needs?.

Early pushing urge in labour and midwifery practice: A prospective observational study at an Italian maternity hospital (2013)
Journal Article
Borrelli, S. E., Locatelli, A., & Nespoli, A. (2013). Early pushing urge in labour and midwifery practice: A prospective observational study at an Italian maternity hospital. Midwifery, 29(8), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2012.09.010

OBJECTIVE: to investigate the early pushing urge (EPU) incidence in one maternity unit and explore how it is managed by midwives. The relation to some obstetric outcomes was also observed but not analysed in depth.
DESIGN: prospective observational... Read More about Early pushing urge in labour and midwifery practice: A prospective observational study at an Italian maternity hospital.

A benchmark too far: national survey of surgical site infection surveillance (2013)
Journal Article
Tanner, J., Padley, W., Kiernan, M., Leaper, D., Norrie, P., & Baggot, R. (2013). A benchmark too far: national survey of surgical site infection surveillance. Journal of Hospital Infection, 83(2), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2012.11.010

Background

The national surgical site infection (SSI) surveillance service in England collates and publishes SSI rates that are used for benchmarking and to identify the prevalence of SSIs. However, research studies using high-quality SSI surveill... Read More about A benchmark too far: national survey of surgical site infection surveillance.

Surveillance of surgical site infection: more accurate definitions and more intensive recordings needed (2013)
Journal Article
Leaper, D., Tanner, J., & Kiernan, M. (in press). Surveillance of surgical site infection: more accurate definitions and more intensive recordings needed. Journal of Hospital Infection, 83(2), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2012.11.013

Surgical site infection (SSI) continues to be a burden on systems that deliver healthcare and on patients who suffer morbidity, and mortality, associated with this complication of medical intervention. Surveillance of SSI is often an integral part of... Read More about Surveillance of surgical site infection: more accurate definitions and more intensive recordings needed.

User requirements for the development of smartphone self-reporting applications in healthcare (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Craven, M. P., Selvarajah, K., Miles, R., Schnädelbach, H., Massey, A., Vedhara, K., Raine-Fenning, N., & Crowe, J. User requirements for the development of smartphone self-reporting applications in healthcare. Presented at HCI International 2013: 15th International Conference

Two case studies of the development of Smartphone self-reporting mHealth applications are described: a wellness diary for asthma management combined with Bluetooth pulse oximeter and manual peak flow measurements; and a questionnaire for ecological a... Read More about User requirements for the development of smartphone self-reporting applications in healthcare.

Creative practice as mutual recovery in mental health (2013)
Journal Article
Crawford, P., Lewis, L., Brown, B., & Manning, N. (2013). Creative practice as mutual recovery in mental health. Mental Health Review Journal, 18(2), https://doi.org/10.1108/MHRJ-11-2012-0031

Abstract
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the value of approaches to mental health based on
creative practice in the humanities and arts, and explore these in relation to the potential contribution to
mutual recovery.
Design/meth... Read More about Creative practice as mutual recovery in mental health.