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“Having diabetes shouldn’t stop them”: healthcare professionals’ perceptions of physical activity in children with Type 1 diabetes (2015)
Journal Article

Background Healthcare professionals (HCP) working with children who have Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (T1DM) have an important role in advising about and supporting the control of blood glucose level in relation to physical activity. Regular physical... Read More about “Having diabetes shouldn’t stop them”: healthcare professionals’ perceptions of physical activity in children with Type 1 diabetes.

A systematic review on outcome measures utilised to measure change in selfmanagement in chronic pain: PROTOCOL (2015)
Presentation / Conference

Text messaging to encourage uptake of HIV testing amongst African communities: findings from a theory based feasibility study (2015)
Journal Article

Background: There is a public health need to tackle high levels of undiagnosed (or late diagnosed) HIV amongst the UK's African communities. This research aimed to assess the feasibility and acceptability of using a text messaging intervention to enc... Read More about Text messaging to encourage uptake of HIV testing amongst African communities: findings from a theory based feasibility study.

Prescribing opioid analgesics for chronic non-malignant pain in general practice - a survey of attitudes and practice (2015)
Journal Article

Background: This study replicates a previous postal survey of general practitioners (GPs) to explore whether attitudes to opioid prescribing have changed at a time when the number of opioid prescriptions issued in primary care has increased. Metho... Read More about Prescribing opioid analgesics for chronic non-malignant pain in general practice - a survey of attitudes and practice.

Employee perceptions of a pedometer walking intervention in a hospital workplace (2015)
Journal Article

Paediatric nurses' attitudes towards the promotion of healthy eating (2015)
Journal Article

This study assessed paediatric nurses' attitudes towards promoting healthy eating and their opinions regarding nurses as role models for health. In all, 67 nurses from 14 wards at an acute hospital trust completed questionnaires on weight, diet, phys... Read More about Paediatric nurses' attitudes towards the promotion of healthy eating.

“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

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.

Behavioural intervention to increase physical activity among patients with coronary heart disease (CHD): randomised controlled trial (2014)
Conference Proceeding

Evaluation of occupational health checks for hospital employees (2014)
Conference Proceeding

Employee perceptions of a pedometer walking intervention in a hospital workplace (2014)
Conference Proceeding

Prescribing opioid analgesics for chronic non-malignant pain in general practice - a survey of attitudes and practice (2014)
Conference Proceeding

Development and evaluation of a computer based e-learning tool to enhance knowledge of workplace wellness in a healthcare setting (2014)
Conference Proceeding

A longitudinal study of the effect of workplace exercise intervention - a field experiment in China (2014)
Conference Proceeding

“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)
Conference Proceeding

Physical activity interventions in children and young people with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus: a systematic review with meta-analysis (2014)
Conference Proceeding

Nurses' experiences and perceptions of complementary and alternative therapies for workplace stress management (2014)
Conference Proceeding

School-based educational intervention to improve children’s oral health-related knowledge (2014)
Journal Article

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

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

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.

Nurses recognise their own health can affect care quality (2014)
Journal Article