Dr Holly Blake: Increasing engagement with nutrition programmes
(2018)
Digital Artefact
Blake, H. (2018). Dr Holly Blake: Increasing engagement with nutrition programmes. [Website]
All Outputs (279)
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/10.1080/09540121.2018.1500010We 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.
Baseline quality of life evaluation in older women with primary operable breast cancer and its relationship with different treatments (2018)
Journal Article
Zahit, R. A., Parks, R. M., Howard, P., Blake, H., & Cheung, K.-L. (2018). Baseline quality of life evaluation in older women with primary operable breast cancer and its relationship with different treatments. Journal of Clinical Oncology, 36(15/Sup), Article e12601. https://doi.org/10.1200/JCO.2018.36.15_suppl.e12601
Digital interventions to reduce sedentary behaviors of office workers: Scoping review (2018)
Preprint / Working Paper
Huang, Y., Benford, S., & Blake, H. Digital interventions to reduce sedentary behaviors of office workers: Scoping review
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.2017.12.004Objective: 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.2017.12.002Objectives
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.2017.26.21.1182Background: 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.
Feasibility of a physical activity intervention for children with type 1 diabetes: Steps to Active Kids with Diabetes (STAK-D) (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Quirk, H., Blake, H., & Glazebrook, C. (2017, October). Feasibility of a physical activity intervention for children with type 1 diabetes: Steps to Active Kids with Diabetes (STAK-D). Presented at International Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Diabetes 2017, Innsbruck, Austria
Validation of a shortened 11-item version of the Problem Areas in Diabetes scale to measure distress in adults with type 1 diabetes (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mansell, P., Stanulewicz, N., Hopkins, D., Cooke, D., & Blake, H. (2017, September). Validation of a shortened 11-item version of the Problem Areas in Diabetes scale to measure distress in adults with type 1 diabetes. Presented at 53rd Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD 2017), Lisbon, Portugal
What happens to your body when you're stressed (2017)
Journal Article
Blake, H. (2017). What happens to your body when you're stressed. The Conversation,
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), 80-89The 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.
Response to commentary on Blake, Stanulewicz & McGill (2017) Predictors of physical activity and barriers to exercise in nursing and medical students. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 73(4), 917-929 (2017)
Journal Article
Blake, H., Stanulewicz, N., & McGill, F. (2017). Response to commentary on Blake, Stanulewicz & McGill (2017) Predictors of physical activity and barriers to exercise in nursing and medical students. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 73(4), 917-929
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_12Research 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/10.3928/01484834-20170123-06Background: 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.
Promoting an active lifestyle (2016)
Journal Article
Blake, H. (2016). Promoting an active lifestyle. Nursing in Practice, 93,
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/s13063-016-1719-0Background: 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
A systematic review of outcome measures utilised to measure change in self-management in clinical trials in non-cancer chronic pain (2016)
Journal Article
Banerjee, A., Hendrick, P., Bhattacharjee, P., & Blake, H. (2016). A systematic review of outcome measures utilised to measure change in self-management in clinical trials in non-cancer chronic pain. Physiotherapy, 102(Suppl. 1), e135. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physio.2016.10.153
Nurses' views on workplace wellbeing programmes (2016)
Journal Article
Workplace stress is prevalent amongst nurses. Healthcare employers have implemented complementary and alternative therapies (CATs) for relaxation and stress management, within workplace wellbeing programmes for their employees. In-depth interviews we... Read More about Nurses' views on workplace wellbeing programmes.
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.13181Aims
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.