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Mobile phone messaging to promote uptake of HIV testing among migrant African communities in the UK (2018)
Journal Article
Evans, C., Suggs, L. S., Turner, K., Occa, A., Juma, A., & Blake, H. (2018). Mobile phone messaging to promote uptake of HIV testing among migrant African communities in the UK. Health Education Journal, https://doi.org/10.1177/0017896918785928

Background: In the UK, African communities are a focus of public health efforts to increase uptake of HIV testing. Mobile phone interventions may be an innovative way of reaching migrant groups who are known to face multiple obstacles in accessing ma... Read More about Mobile phone messaging to promote uptake of HIV testing among migrant African communities in the UK.

Sleep Tight: an evaluation of acommunity based intervention on thesleep behaviours of young children (2016)
Journal Article
Turner, K., Bullock, L., Down, A., Brown, K., Foulkes, K., & Thomson, L. (2016). Sleep Tight: an evaluation of acommunity based intervention on thesleep behaviours of young children. Journal of Health Visiting, 4(11), doi:10.12968/johv.2016.4.11.572

The aim of this study was to explore the impact of Sleep Tight, a behavioural sleep programme, on child sleep problems and family wellbeing. A service evaluation of 40 families with a child aged 0–12 years who completed Sleep Tight through Sure Start... Read More about Sleep Tight: an evaluation of acommunity based intervention on thesleep behaviours of young children.

Reliability and responsiveness of measures of pain in people with osteoarthritis of the knee: a psychometric evaluation (2016)
Journal Article
Turner, K. V., Moreton, B. M., Walsh, D. A., & Lincoln, N. (2017). Reliability and responsiveness of measures of pain in people with osteoarthritis of the knee: a psychometric evaluation. Disability and Rehabilitation, 39(8), https://doi.org/10.3109/09638288.2016.1161840

PURPOSE: To examine the fit between data from the Short Form McGill Pain Questionnaire (SF-MPQ-2) and the Rasch model, and to explore the reliability and internal responsiveness of measures of pain in people with knee osteoarthritis. METHODS: Partic... Read More about Reliability and responsiveness of measures of pain in people with osteoarthritis of the knee: a psychometric evaluation.