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A qualitative study of the views of ethnic minority healthcare workers towards COVID-19 Vaccine Education (CoVE) to support vaccine promotion and uptake (2024)
Journal Article
Blake, H., Premakumar, V., Premakumar, A., Fecowycz, A., Khulumula, S. K., Jones, W., & Somerset, S. (in press). A qualitative study of the views of ethnic minority healthcare workers towards COVID-19 Vaccine Education (CoVE) to support vaccine promotion and uptake. New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy,

Alcohol Prevention in Urgent and Emergency Care (APUEC): Development and Evaluation of Workforce Digital Training on Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral for Treatment (2023)
Journal Article
Blake, H., Adams, E. J., Chaplin, W. J., Morris, L., Mahmood, I., Taylor, M. G., …Coffey, F. (2023). Alcohol Prevention in Urgent and Emergency Care (APUEC): Development and Evaluation of Workforce Digital Training on Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral for Treatment. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(22), Article 7028. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20227028

Excessive alcohol consumption carries a significant health, social and economic burden. Screening, brief intervention and referral to treatment (SBIRT) is one approach to identifying patients with excessive alcohol consumption and providing intervent... Read More about Alcohol Prevention in Urgent and Emergency Care (APUEC): Development and Evaluation of Workforce Digital Training on Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral for Treatment.

The Web-Based Pain-at-Work Toolkit With Telephone Support for Employees With Chronic or Persistent Pain: Protocol for a Cluster Randomized Feasibility Trial (2023)
Journal Article
Blake, H., Chaplin, W., Wainwright, E., Taylor, G., McNamee, P., McWilliams, D., …Walker-Bone, K. (2023). The Web-Based Pain-at-Work Toolkit With Telephone Support for Employees With Chronic or Persistent Pain: Protocol for a Cluster Randomized Feasibility Trial. JMIR Research Protocols, 12, Article e51474. https://doi.org/10.2196/51474

Background: Chronic or persistent pain affects people’s ability to work or be productive at work, generating high societal and economic burden. However, the provision of work-related advice and support for people with chronic pain is variable or lack... Read More about The Web-Based Pain-at-Work Toolkit With Telephone Support for Employees With Chronic or Persistent Pain: Protocol for a Cluster Randomized Feasibility Trial.

COVID-19 Vaccine Education (CoVE) for Health and Care Workers to Facilitate Global Promotion of the COVID-19 Vaccines (2022)
Journal Article
Blake, H., Fecowycz, A., Starbuck, H., & Jones, W. (2022). COVID-19 Vaccine Education (CoVE) for Health and Care Workers to Facilitate Global Promotion of the COVID-19 Vaccines. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(2), Article 653. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19020653

The COVID-19 vaccine is being rolled out globally. High and ongoing public uptake of the vaccine relies on health and social care professionals having the knowledge and confidence to actively and effectively advocate it. An internationally relevant,... Read More about COVID-19 Vaccine Education (CoVE) for Health and Care Workers to Facilitate Global Promotion of the COVID-19 Vaccines.

Employers' views of the 'Healthy Hub Roadshow': a workplace HIV testing intervention in England (2018)
Journal Article
Blake, H., Hussain, B., Hand, J., Juma, A., & Evans, C. (2018). Employers' views of the 'Healthy Hub Roadshow': a workplace HIV testing intervention in England. AIDS Care, 31(2), 181-185. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540121.2018.1500010

We explored employer uptake and perceptions of workplace HIV testing delivered to employees as part of Healthy Hub Roadshow, a multi-component general health check. Intervention included health checks with tailored advice delivered to 776 employees a... Read More about Employers' views of the 'Healthy Hub Roadshow': a workplace HIV testing intervention in England.

Employer attitudes towards general health checks and HIV testing in the workplace (2018)
Journal Article
Blake, H., Banerjee, A., & Evans, C. (2018). Employer attitudes towards general health checks and HIV testing in the workplace. Public Health, 156, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2017.12.004

Objective: There is a need to increase HIV testing rates in the UK. One approach is to increase access to testing through general health checks (GHCs) in the workplace. However, it is unclear whether GHCs are routinely offered by organisations, and e... Read More about Employer attitudes towards general health checks and HIV testing in the workplace.

A systematic review of outcome measures utilised to assess self-management in clinical trials in patients with chronic pain (2017)
Journal Article
Banerjee, A., Hendrick, P., Bhattacharjee, P., & Blake, H. (2018). A systematic review of outcome measures utilised to assess self-management in clinical trials in patients with chronic pain. Patient Education and Counseling, 101(5), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2017.12.002

Objectives The aim of this review was to identify, appraise and synthesise the outcome measures used to assess self-management in patients with chronic pain. Methods Medline, Embase, CINAHL, PsycINFO, the Cochrane Library and Google Scholar were... Read More about A systematic review of outcome measures utilised to assess self-management in clinical trials in patients with chronic pain.

Development and evaluation of an educational training package to promote health and wellbeing (2017)
Journal Article
Gartshore, E., Briggs, L., & Blake, H. (2018). Development and evaluation of an educational training package to promote health and wellbeing. British Journal of Nursing, 26(21), 1182-1186. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2017.26.21.1182

Background: Supporting the health and wellbeing of healthcare employees is a UK national priority. Aims: To design, deliver and evaluate an educational package to promote health and wellbeing for nurses and midwives Methods: An online training pack... Read More about Development and evaluation of an educational training package to promote health and wellbeing.

Health beliefs predict self-care practices and glycaemic control in Malaysian patients with insulin-treated diabetes: a longtitudal study (2017)
Journal Article
Aris, A., Blake, H., & Adams, G. (2017). Health beliefs predict self-care practices and glycaemic control in Malaysian patients with insulin-treated diabetes: a longtitudal study. Malaysian Journal of Public Health Medicine, 17(2), 80-89

The practice of diabetes self-care plays an important role in achieving and maintaining good glycaemic control. However, not all patients with insulin-treated diabetes engage in their self-care activities. There is some evidence that self-care practi... Read More about Health beliefs predict self-care practices and glycaemic control in Malaysian patients with insulin-treated diabetes: a longtitudal study.

Office workers' perceived barriers and facilitators to taking regular micro-breaks at work: a diary-probed interview study (2017)
Journal Article
Huang, Y., Benford, S., Hendrickx, H., Treloar, R., & Blake, H. (2017). Office workers' perceived barriers and facilitators to taking regular micro-breaks at work: a diary-probed interview study. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 10171, 149-161. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55134-0_12

Research has suggested regular breaks in sedentary office work are im-portant for health, wellbeing and long-term productivity. Although many comput-erized break reminders exist, few are based on user needs and requirements as determined by formative... Read More about Office workers' perceived barriers and facilitators to taking regular micro-breaks at work: a diary-probed interview study.

Healthy lifestyle behaviors and health promotion attitudes in preregistered nurses: a questionnaire study (2017)
Journal Article
Blake, H., Stanulewicz, N., & Griffiths, K. (2017). Healthy lifestyle behaviors and health promotion attitudes in preregistered nurses: a questionnaire study. Journal of Nursing Education, 56(2), 94-103. https://doi.org/10.3928/01484834-20170123-06

Background: Nurses report inadequacies in health promotion practices and recognise their own lifestyle choices influence their willingness to give health promotion advice. The aim of this study was to investigate attitudes towards being role models f... Read More about Healthy lifestyle behaviors and health promotion attitudes in preregistered nurses: a questionnaire study.

Feasibility of an online intervention (STAK-D) to promote physical activity in children with type 1 diabetes: protocol for a randomised controlled trial (2016)
Journal Article
Blake, H., Quirk, H., Leighton, P., Randell, T., Greening, J., Guo, B., & Glazebrook, C. (2016). Feasibility of an online intervention (STAK-D) to promote physical activity in children with type 1 diabetes: protocol for a randomised controlled trial. Trials, 17(283), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-016-1719-0

Background: Regular physical activity has important health benefits for children with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM), yet children and their parents face barriers to participation such as lack of self-efficacy or concerns around hypoglycaemia. Multi... Read More about Feasibility of an online intervention (STAK-D) to promote physical activity in children with type 1 diabetes: protocol for a randomised controlled trial.

Supporting Kids with diabetes In Physical activity (SKIP): protocol for a randomized feasibility trial of an online intervention to promote physical activity in children with type 1 diabetes (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Blake, H., Quirk, H., Leighton, P., Randell, T., Greening, J., Knox, E., …Glazebrook, C. (2016, December). Supporting Kids with diabetes In Physical activity (SKIP): protocol for a randomized feasibility trial of an online intervention to promote physical activity in children with type 1 diabetes. Paper presented at UK Society for Behavioural Medicine 12th Annual Scientific Meeting

Predictors of physical activity and barriers to exercise in nursing and medical students (2016)
Journal Article
Blake, H., Stanulewicz, N., & McGill, F. (2017). Predictors of physical activity and barriers to exercise in nursing and medical students. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 73(4), 917-929. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.13181

Aims To investigate physical activity levels of nursing and medicine students; examine predictors of physical activity level; and examine the most influential benefits and barriers to exercise. Background Healthcare professionals have low leve... Read More about Predictors of physical activity and barriers to exercise in nursing and medical students.

Effectiveness of cognitive-behavioural therapy on glycaemic control and psychological outcomes in adults with diabetes mellitus: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (2016)
Journal Article
Uchendu, C., & Blake, H. (in press). Effectiveness of cognitive-behavioural therapy on glycaemic control and psychological outcomes in adults with diabetes mellitus: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Diabetic Medicine, 34(3), https://doi.org/10.1111/dme.13195

Aim Diabetes is a chronic progressive condition presenting physical, social and psychological challenges that increase the risk of comorbid mental health problems. Cognitive–behavioural therapy (CBT) is effective in treating a variety of psycholog... Read More about Effectiveness of cognitive-behavioural therapy on glycaemic control and psychological outcomes in adults with diabetes mellitus: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.