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Stories of survival: children’s narratives of psychosocial well-being following paediatric critical illness or injury (2017)
Journal Article

Survival from critical illness can expose children to an array of negative physical and psychological problems. While the perspective of parents and professionals have been well documented, there is limited understanding of how childhood critical car... Read More about Stories of survival: children’s narratives of psychosocial well-being following paediatric critical illness or injury.

Survived so what?: identifying priorities for research with children and families post-paediatric intensive care unit (2017)
Journal Article

The involvement of patients and the public in the development, implementation and evaluation of health care services and research is recognized to have tangible benefits in relation to effectiveness and credibility. However, despite >96% of children... Read More about Survived so what?: identifying priorities for research with children and families post-paediatric intensive care unit.

Validation, Optimal Threshold Determination, and Clinical Utility of the Infant Risk of Overweight Checklist for Early Prevention of Child Overweight (2016)
Journal Article

Background: Previous research has demonstrated the predictive validity of the Infant Risk of Overweight Checklist (IROC). This study further establishes the predictive accuracy of the IROC using data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Ch... Read More about Validation, Optimal Threshold Determination, and Clinical Utility of the Infant Risk of Overweight Checklist for Early Prevention of Child Overweight.

Protocol for a longitudinal qualitative study: survivors of childhood critical illness exploring long-term psychosocial well-being and needs—The SCETCH Project (2014)
Journal Article

Introduction Life-threatening critical illness affects over a quarter of a million children and adolescents (0–18 years old) annually in the USA and the UK. Death from critical illness is rare; however, survivors and their families can be exposed to... Read More about Protocol for a longitudinal qualitative study: survivors of childhood critical illness exploring long-term psychosocial well-being and needs—The SCETCH Project.

UK health visitors' role in identifying and intervening with infants at risk of developing obesity: Health visitors' and infant obesity risk (2012)
Journal Article

Childhood obesity is associated with a number of modifiable risk factors that can be identified during infancy or earlier. In the UK, health visitors advise parents about infant feeding, but little is known about their role in obesity prevention. The... Read More about UK health visitors' role in identifying and intervening with infants at risk of developing obesity: Health visitors' and infant obesity risk.

Preventing childhood obesity during infancy in UK primary care: a mixed-methods study of HCPs' knowledge, beliefs and practice (2011)
Journal Article

Background There is a strong rationale for intervening in early childhood to prevent obesity. Over a quarter of infants gain weight more rapidly than desirable during the first six months of life putting them at greater risk of obesity in childhoo... Read More about Preventing childhood obesity during infancy in UK primary care: a mixed-methods study of HCPs' knowledge, beliefs and practice.

Patients’ expectations of ‘first-contact care’ consultations with nurse and general practitioners in primary care (2007)
Journal Article

Background Patients’ attending UK primary care currently receive first-contact care services from nurses as well as general practitioners (GPs). Although randomised trials have reported higher satisfaction following nurse consultations,the relati... Read More about Patients’ expectations of ‘first-contact care’ consultations with nurse and general practitioners in primary care.