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Communication strategies and persuasion as core components of shared decision-making for children with life-limiting conditions: A multiple case study (2021)
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Background Families and professionals caring for children with life-limiting conditions face difficult healthcare decisions. Shared decision-making is promoted in many countries, however little is known about factors influencing these processes.... Read More about Communication strategies and persuasion as core components of shared decision-making for children with life-limiting conditions: A multiple case study.

The Pain at Work Toolkit for Employees with Chronic or Persistent Pain: A Collaborative-Participatory Study (2021)
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Self-management tools for people with chronic or persistent pain tend to focus on symptom reporting, treatment programmes or exercise and do not address barriers to work, facilitators of work ability, or workplace pain self-management strategies. We... Read More about The Pain at Work Toolkit for Employees with Chronic or Persistent Pain: A Collaborative-Participatory Study.

Depressive symptoms, social support, and health-related quality of life: A community-based study in Shanghai, China (2021)
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Background Depressive symptoms erode both physical and mental aspects of health-related quality of life (HRQoL). Social support (SS) may improve HRQoL through its direct effects or buffering effects. The association among depressive symptoms, SS, an... Read More about Depressive symptoms, social support, and health-related quality of life: A community-based study in Shanghai, China.

Family Outcomes After the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit: A Scoping Review (2021)
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Background: Intensivists are increasingly attuned to the post-discharge outcomes experienced by families because patient recovery and family outcomes are interdependent after childhood critical illness. In this scoping review of international contemp... Read More about Family Outcomes After the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit: A Scoping Review.

Management of urinary incontinence in athletic women: the POsITIve feasibility study (2021)
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Objectives: To investigate the feasibility and acceptability of conducting a future trial of physiotherapy to manage urinary incontinence (UI) in athletic women. Design: Feasibility study with nested qualitative interviews. Setting: Community clinics... Read More about Management of urinary incontinence in athletic women: the POsITIve feasibility study.

Maternal prenatal anxiety and depression and trajectories of cardiometabolic risk factors across childhood and adolescence: a prospective cohort study (2021)
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Objectives: Quantifying long-term offspring cardiometabolic health risks associated with maternal prenatal anxiety and depression can guide cardiometabolic risk prevention. This study examines associations between maternal prenatal anxiety and depres... Read More about Maternal prenatal anxiety and depression and trajectories of cardiometabolic risk factors across childhood and adolescence: a prospective cohort study.

The impact of COVID-19 on the wellbeing of the UK nursing and midwifery workforce during the first pandemic wave: A longitudinal survey study (2021)
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Background: The specific challenges experienced by the nursing and midwifery workforce in previous pandemics have exacerbated pre-existing professional and personal challenges, and triggered new issues. We aimed to determine the psychological impact... Read More about The impact of COVID-19 on the wellbeing of the UK nursing and midwifery workforce during the first pandemic wave: A longitudinal survey study.

Nominal group technique to establish the core components of home-based rehabilitation for survivors of stroke with severe disability (2021)
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In the UK, over 20% of patients leaving hospital after a stroke will be severely disabled. Despite this, limited clinical guidance is available to teams tasked with providing support for this complex population at home. Additionally, many areas acros... Read More about Nominal group technique to establish the core components of home-based rehabilitation for survivors of stroke with severe disability.

Post-traumatic growth in psychosis: a systematic review and narrative synthesis (2021)
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Background and objective: People with psychosis report experiences of highly traumatic events. Positive change or post-traumatic growth (PTG) can occur as a result of traumatic experiences. Yet there is limited attention on PTG in psychosis, possibly... Read More about Post-traumatic growth in psychosis: a systematic review and narrative synthesis.

Obesity and diet predict attitudes towards health promotion in pre-registered nurses and midwives (2021)
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Nurses and midwives are integral to public health promotion; in the UK, they are advised to act as role models by their governing body, but overweight or obesity rates are high. We explored whether obesity and dietary habits are related to attitudes... Read More about Obesity and diet predict attitudes towards health promotion in pre-registered nurses and midwives.

Are dementia services and support organisations meeting the needs of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) caregivers of LGBT people living with dementia? A scoping review of the literature (2021)
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Objectives. More than 60% of people with dementia live at home, where assistance is usually provided by informal caregivers. Research on the experiences of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) caregivers is limited. This scoping review o... Read More about Are dementia services and support organisations meeting the needs of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) caregivers of LGBT people living with dementia? A scoping review of the literature.

Delivery of antimicrobial stewardship competencies in UK pre-registration nurse education programmes: a national cross-sectional survey (2021)
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Background: Registered nurses perform numerous functions critical to the success of antimicrobial stewardship, but only 63% of pre-registration nursing programmes include any teaching about stewardship. Updated nursing standards indicate that nurses... Read More about Delivery of antimicrobial stewardship competencies in UK pre-registration nurse education programmes: a national cross-sectional survey.

Managing medicines at the end of life: a position paper for health policy and practice (2021)
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Purpose: The impact of population ageing is significant, multifaceted and characterised by frailty and multi-morbidity. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated care pathways and policies promoting self-management and home-based care. One under-research... Read More about Managing medicines at the end of life: a position paper for health policy and practice.

Managing medicines at the end of life: a position paper for health policy and practice (2021)
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Purpose The impact of population aging is significant, multifaceted and characterised by frailty and multi-morbidity. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated care pathways and policies promoting self-management and home-based care. One under-researched... Read More about Managing medicines at the end of life: a position paper for health policy and practice.

Midwifery students' perspectives of physical and virtual mobility activities including preferences for e-learning: A cross-sectional survey (2021)
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Background: Contemporary higher education requires that all midwifery students have insight and understanding of global health practice and demonstrate intercultural sensitivity. However, the mobility models currently offered do not often fit the liv... Read More about Midwifery students' perspectives of physical and virtual mobility activities including preferences for e-learning: A cross-sectional survey.

Trends in hospital admissions for childhood fractures in England (2021)
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Purpose Fractures to the axial and appendicular skeleton are common in children causing loss of opportunities and disability. There are relatively few studies available to quantify the number of children who have their fractures diagnosed in the emer... Read More about Trends in hospital admissions for childhood fractures in England.

Does knowledge of liver fibrosis affect high-risk drinking behaviour (KLIFAD)? protocol for a feasibility randomised controlled trial (2021)
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Introduction Heavy drinkers in contact with alcohol services do not routinely have access to testing to establish the severity of potential liver disease. Transient elastography by FibroScan can provide this information. A recent systematic review su... Read More about Does knowledge of liver fibrosis affect high-risk drinking behaviour (KLIFAD)? protocol for a feasibility randomised controlled trial.

Q methodology in the covid-19 era (2021)
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All face-to-face studies were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, as they could not be run in person due to rules and guidance linked to social distancing which were in force during the outbreak. Finding and testing an available COVID-secure approach... Read More about Q methodology in the covid-19 era.

Learning from Lean: a quality improvement project using a Lean-based improvement approach to improve discharge for patients with frailty in an acute care hospital (2021)
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A Lean-based improvement approach was used to complete a quality improvement project (QIP) focused on improving speed and quality of discharge of frail patients on two wards at a large teaching hospital in the UK. This was part of a national initiati... Read More about Learning from Lean: a quality improvement project using a Lean-based improvement approach to improve discharge for patients with frailty in an acute care hospital.

School-based behaviour change intervention to increase physical activity levels among children: A feasibility cluster non-randomised controlled trial in Yangzhou, China (2021)
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Children in China have low levels of physical activity. We developed a school-based behaviour change intervention to increase their physical activity levels. The study aimed to determine the feasibility of undertaking a cluster randomised controlled... Read More about School-based behaviour change intervention to increase physical activity levels among children: A feasibility cluster non-randomised controlled trial in Yangzhou, China.