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“You can’t just jump on a bike and go”: a qualitative study exploring parents’ perceptions of physical activity in children with type 1 diabetes (2014)
Journal Article
Quirk, H., Blake, H., Dee, B., & Glazebrook, C. (2014). “You can’t just jump on a bike and go”: a qualitative study exploring parents’ perceptions of physical activity in children with type 1 diabetes. BMC Pediatrics, 14(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12887-014-0313-4

Background

Parents of children with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (T1DM) have an important role in supporting diabetes management behaviours and helping to maintain their child’s healthy lifestyle. Physical activity has known benefits for children with... Read More about “You can’t just jump on a bike and go”: a qualitative study exploring parents’ perceptions of physical activity in children with type 1 diabetes.

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.

Reasons for participating and not participating in a e-health workplace physical activity intervention (2014)
Journal Article
Bardus, M., Blake, H., Lloyd, S., & Suzanne Suggs, L. (2014). Reasons for participating and not participating in a e-health workplace physical activity intervention. International Journal of Workplace Health Management, 7(4), https://doi.org/10.1108/IJWHM-11-2013-0040

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to investigate the reasons for participating and not participating in an e-health workplace physical activity (PA) intervention.

Design/methodology/approach
– Semi-structured interviews and two focus groups... Read More about Reasons for participating and not participating in a e-health workplace physical activity intervention.

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.

Design... Read More about Evaluation of occupational health checks for hospital employees.

Physical activity interventions in children and young people with Type 1 diabetes mellitus: a systematic review with meta-analysis (2014)
Journal Article
Quirk, H., Blake, H., Tennyson, R., Randell, T., & Glazebrook, C. (2014). Physical activity interventions in children and young people with Type 1 diabetes mellitus: a systematic review with meta-analysis. Diabetic Medicine, 31(10), 1163-1173. https://doi.org/10.1111/dme.12531

© 2014 The Authors. Aim: To synthesize evidence from randomized and non-randomized studies of physical activity interventions in children and young people with Type 1 diabetes so as to explore clinically relevant health outcomes and inform the promot... Read More about Physical activity interventions in children and young people with Type 1 diabetes mellitus: a systematic review with meta-analysis.