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Providing activity for people with dementia in care homes: A cluster randomised controlled trial (2013)
Journal Article
Wenborn, J., Challis, D., Head, J., Miranda-Castillo, C., Popham, C., Thakur, R., Illes, J., & Orrell, M. (2013). Providing activity for people with dementia in care homes: A cluster randomised controlled trial. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 28(12), 1296-1304. https://doi.org/10.1002/gps.3960

Background: Activity levels remain low in care homes, but activity engagement can enhance residents' quality of life. Aim: This study aimed to assess an occupational therapy programme designed to enable care home staff to increase activity provision.... Read More about Providing activity for people with dementia in care homes: A cluster randomised controlled trial.

Talking about obesity with clients: preferred terms and communication styles of UK pre-registration dieticians, doctors and nurses (2013)
Journal Article
Swift, J. A., Choi, E., Puhl, R. M., & Glazebrook, C. (2013). Talking about obesity with clients: preferred terms and communication styles of UK pre-registration dieticians, doctors and nurses. Patient Education and Counseling, 91(2), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2012.12.008

Objective
To describe trainee healthcare professionals’ preferred terms when talking about obesity, their beliefs about initiating discussions about weight, and their confidence about consulting with obese people.

Methods
A self-completed questi... Read More about Talking about obesity with clients: preferred terms and communication styles of UK pre-registration dieticians, doctors and nurses.

The balance of care approach to health and social care planning: Lessons from a systematic literature review (2013)
Journal Article
Tucker, S., Brand, C., Wilberforce, M., & Challis, D. (2013). The balance of care approach to health and social care planning: Lessons from a systematic literature review. Health Services Management Research, 26(1), 18-28. https://doi.org/10.1177/0951484813481966

The strategic allocation of resources is one the most difficult tasks facing health and social care decision makers, with multiple organisations delivering complex services to heterogeneous populations. The enduring appeal of the balance of care appr... Read More about The balance of care approach to health and social care planning: Lessons from a systematic literature review.

Examining psychosocial and physical hazards in the Ghanaian mining industry and their implications for employees' safety experience (2013)
Journal Article
Amponsah-Tawiah, K., Jain, A., Leka, S., Hollis, D., & Cox, T. (2013). Examining psychosocial and physical hazards in the Ghanaian mining industry and their implications for employees' safety experience. Journal of Safety Research, 45, 75-84. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsr.2013.01.003

Introduction In addition to hazardous conditions that are prevalent in mines, there are various physical and psychosocial risk factors that can affect mine workers' safety and health. Without due diligence to mine safety, these risk factors can affec... Read More about Examining psychosocial and physical hazards in the Ghanaian mining industry and their implications for employees' safety experience.

Commissioning social care for older people: Influencing the quality of direct care (2013)
Journal Article
Chester, H., Hughes, J., & Challis, D. (2014). Commissioning social care for older people: Influencing the quality of direct care. Ageing and Society, 34(6), 930-950. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X12001249

The delivery of personalised support to vulnerable older people is largely contingent on those staff who provide direct care. These care workers play an invaluable role in supporting vulnerable older people that may have increasingly complex needs ei... Read More about Commissioning social care for older people: Influencing the quality of direct care.

Light drinking in pregnancy and mid-childhood mental health and learning outcomes (2013)
Journal Article
Sayal, K., Draper, E. S., Fraser, R., Barrow, M., Smith, G. D., & Gray, R. (2013). Light drinking in pregnancy and mid-childhood mental health and learning outcomes. BMJ Open, 98(2), https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2012-302436

OBJECTIVE:
To investigate whether light drinking in pregnancy is associated with adverse child mental health and academic outcomes.
DESIGN:
Using data from the prospective, population-based Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC),... Read More about Light drinking in pregnancy and mid-childhood mental health and learning outcomes.

UK police custody officers’ psychosocial hazard exposures and burnout (2013)
Journal Article
Houdmont, J. (2013). UK police custody officers’ psychosocial hazard exposures and burnout. Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies and Management, 36(3), https://doi.org/10.1108/PIJPSM-11-2012-0109

Purpose – Stress research in the UK policing has largely neglected to account for variance in the type of psychosocial hazard officers are exposed to across policing roles, highlighting the need for role-specific research that is capable of informing... Read More about UK police custody officers’ psychosocial hazard exposures and burnout.

Social care in older people's services-facilitating the flexible use of resources (2012)
Journal Article
Sutcliffe, C., Hughes, J., Xie, C., Chester, H., & Challis, D. (2012). Social care in older people's services-facilitating the flexible use of resources. Care Management Journals, 13(3), 100-107. https://doi.org/10.1891/1521-0987.13.3.100

Personal budgets in social care are a mechanism for the allocation of resources for care that permits users' greater choice and flexibility. This study was designed to explore developments in care coordination arrangements by examining the flexible u... Read More about Social care in older people's services-facilitating the flexible use of resources.

Revisiting the Causes of Stress in Social Work: Sources of Job Demands, Control and Support in Personalised Adult Social Care (2012)
Journal Article
Wilberforce, M., Jacobs, S., Challis, D., Manthorpe, J., Stevens, M., Jasper, R., Fernandez, J. L., Glendinning, C., Jones, K., Knapp, M., Moran, N., & Netten, A. (2014). Revisiting the Causes of Stress in Social Work: Sources of Job Demands, Control and Support in Personalised Adult Social Care. British Journal of Social Work, 44(4), 812-830. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcs166

Social workers in adult social care are at particular risk of job-related stress, although the contribution of different organisational and policy changes to this phenomenon is subject to debate. This paper explores a theoretical framework from the o... Read More about Revisiting the Causes of Stress in Social Work: Sources of Job Demands, Control and Support in Personalised Adult Social Care.