All Outputs (315)

“Having diabetes shouldn’t stop them”: healthcare professionals’ perceptions of physical activity in children with Type 1 diabetes (2015)
Journal Article
Quirk, H., Blake, H., Dee, B., & Glazebrook, C. (2015). “Having diabetes shouldn’t stop them”: healthcare professionals’ perceptions of physical activity in children with Type 1 diabetes. BMC Pediatrics, 15(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12887-015-0389-5

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 Contribution
Banerjee, A., Hendrick, P., Bhattacharjee, P., & Blake, H. (2015, May). A systematic review on outcome measures utilised to measure change in selfmanagement in chronic pain: PROTOCOL. Presented at 4th JBI European Symposium: Innovations in Evidence Synthesis and Implementation, Nottingham, UK

Text messaging to encourage uptake of HIV testing amongst African communities: findings from a theory based feasibility study (2015)
Journal Article
Evans, C., Turner, K., Blake, H., Juma, A., Suggs, S., & Occa, A. (in press). Text messaging to encourage uptake of HIV testing amongst African communities: findings from a theory based feasibility study. HIV Medicine, 16(S2), https://doi.org/10.1111/hiv.12265

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
Blake, H., Leighton, P., van der Walt, G., & Ravenscroft, A. (2015). Prescribing opioid analgesics for chronic non-malignant pain in general practice - a survey of attitudes and practice. British Journal of Pain, 9(4), https://doi.org/10.1177/2049463715579284

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
Blake, H., & Batt, M. E. (in press). Employee perceptions of a pedometer walking intervention in a hospital workplace. International Journal of Health Promotion and Education, 53(5), https://doi.org/10.1080/14635240.2015.1016621

Paediatric nurses' attitudes towards the promotion of healthy eating (2015)
Journal Article
Blake, H., & Patterson, J. (in press). Paediatric nurses' attitudes towards the promotion of healthy eating. British Journal of Nursing, 24(2), https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2015.24.2.108

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
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.

Behavioural intervention to increase physical activity among patients with coronary heart disease (CHD): randomised controlled trial (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Blake, H., Alsaleh, E., & Windle, R. (2014). Behavioural intervention to increase physical activity among patients with coronary heart disease (CHD): randomised controlled trial.

Evaluation of occupational health checks for hospital employees (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Blake, H., Bennett, E., & Batt, M. E. (2014). Evaluation of occupational health checks for hospital employees.

Employee perceptions of a pedometer walking intervention in a hospital workplace (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Blake, H., Leighton, P., & Batt, M. E. (2014). Employee perceptions of a pedometer walking intervention in a hospital workplace.

Prescribing opioid analgesics for chronic non-malignant pain in general practice - a survey of attitudes and practice (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Blake, H., Leighton, P., van der Walt, G., & Ravenscroft, A. (2014). Prescribing opioid analgesics for chronic non-malignant pain in general practice - a survey of attitudes and practice.

Development and evaluation of a computer based e-learning tool to enhance knowledge of workplace wellness in a healthcare setting (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gartshore, E., & Blake, H. (2014). Development and evaluation of a computer based e-learning tool to enhance knowledge of workplace wellness in a healthcare setting.

A longitudinal study of the effect of workplace exercise intervention - a field experiment in China (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lai, B., Griffiths, A., & Blake, H. (2014). A longitudinal study of the effect of workplace exercise intervention - a field experiment in China.

“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)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
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.

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

Nurses' experiences and perceptions of complementary and alternative therapies for workplace stress management (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wright, N., Zakarian, M., & Blake, H. (2014). Nurses' experiences and perceptions of complementary and alternative therapies for workplace stress management.

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.

Nurses recognise their own health can affect care quality (2014)
Journal Article
Blake, H. (2014). Nurses recognise their own health can affect care quality. Nursing Times, 110(38),