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Workplace Health and Wellbeing during and beyond COVID-19 (2023)
Book
Blake, H. (Ed.). (2023). Workplace Health and Wellbeing during and beyond COVID-19. MDPI. https://doi.org/10.3390/books978-3-0365-8339-6

In this reprint, we focus on health and wellbeing in the workforce within the context of the global COVID-19 pandemic, and the post-pandemic era. We begin by exploring the impacts of the pandemic on diverse occupational groups, considering the broade... Read More about Workplace Health and Wellbeing during and beyond COVID-19.

Mental Health Promotion, Psychological Therapies and Young People's Mental Health (2023)
Book Chapter
Horrocks, M. (2023). Mental Health Promotion, Psychological Therapies and Young People's Mental Health. In The essential guide to public health and health promotion. (Second edition). Routledge

The mental health and well-being of young people is a key consideration for modern societies, and this chapter will focus on mental health promotion for young people. In particular, this chapter will explore the application of Cognitive Behavioural p... Read More about Mental Health Promotion, Psychological Therapies and Young People's Mental Health.

Enablers and barriers to mental health initiatives in construction SMEs (2023)
Journal Article
Blake, H., Bullock, H., & Chouliara, N. (2023). Enablers and barriers to mental health initiatives in construction SMEs. Occupational Medicine, 73(6), 317-323. https://doi.org/10.1093/occmed/kqad075

Background Mental ill-health is prevalent in the construction industry, and workers in small- to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are at high risk. Knowledge about the implementation of mental health initiatives in construction SMEs is limited. Ai... Read More about Enablers and barriers to mental health initiatives in construction SMEs.

Examining the Impact of a Third Culture Kid Upbringing: Wellbeing, Attachment and Ethnic Identity Strength in Adult Third Culture Kids (2023)
Journal Article
Doherty, L., Lieu, J., Aledeh, M., Edwards, A., & Kotera, Y. (2023). Examining the Impact of a Third Culture Kid Upbringing: Wellbeing, Attachment and Ethnic Identity Strength in Adult Third Culture Kids. Journal of Research in International Education, 22(2), 164-180. https://doi.org/10.1177/14752409231189364

Third Culture Kids (TCK) are generally considered to be children who spend a significant period living outside of their home country but reside only temporarily in one or more host country/ies. TCKs’ upbringing, it is argued, may lead to a number of... Read More about Examining the Impact of a Third Culture Kid Upbringing: Wellbeing, Attachment and Ethnic Identity Strength in Adult Third Culture Kids.

Self-Compassion during COVID-19 in Non-WEIRD Countries: A Narrative Review (2023)
Journal Article
Kotera, Y., Kirkman, A., Beaumont, J., Komorowska, M. A., Such, E., Kaneda, Y., & Rushforth, A. (2023). Self-Compassion during COVID-19 in Non-WEIRD Countries: A Narrative Review. Healthcare, 11(14), Article 2016. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11142016

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic impacted people’s mental health negatively worldwide, including in non-WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich and Democratic) countries. Self-compassion, kindness and understanding towards ones... Read More about Self-Compassion during COVID-19 in Non-WEIRD Countries: A Narrative Review.

Post-intensive care syndrome in pediatrics—enhancing understanding through a novel bioecological theory of human development lens (2023)
Journal Article
Rahmaty, Z., Manning, J. C., Macdonald, I., Perez, M., & Ramelet, A. (in press). Post-intensive care syndrome in pediatrics—enhancing understanding through a novel bioecological theory of human development lens. Intensive Care Medicine – Paediatric and Neonatal, 1, Article 9. https://doi.org/10.1007/s44253-023-00007-0

Background: The Post Intensive Care Syndrome in pediatrics (PICS-p) framework offers a new understanding of the long-term impact of critical illness on child’s and family’s health. However, a comprehensive theoretical guide to investigate potential f... Read More about Post-intensive care syndrome in pediatrics—enhancing understanding through a novel bioecological theory of human development lens.

Nurses’ experiences of perceiving violence and abuse of women in Saudi Arabia: A phenomenological study (2023)
Journal Article
Alshammari, A., Evans, C., & Mcgarry, J. (2023). Nurses’ experiences of perceiving violence and abuse of women in Saudi Arabia: A phenomenological study. International Nursing Review, 70(4), 501-509. https://doi.org/10.1111/inr.12859

Aim: To explore the practices, understanding, and experiences of nurses and nursing students about domestic violence and abuse in Saudi Arabia. Background: Domestic violence and abuse is a well-known public health issue and a clear violation of human... Read More about Nurses’ experiences of perceiving violence and abuse of women in Saudi Arabia: A phenomenological study.

CO-CREATION OF A VIRTUAL INTERACTIVE TEACHING PACKAGE FOR AUDITORS OF HEALTHCARE PLACEMENTS – TOWARDS ASSURANCE OF QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE TRAINEESHIPS (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Konstantinidis, S., Tilley, Z., Ko, S., Henderson, J., Cunningham, S., Hodge, P., …Hall, C. (2023). CO-CREATION OF A VIRTUAL INTERACTIVE TEACHING PACKAGE FOR AUDITORS OF HEALTHCARE PLACEMENTS – TOWARDS ASSURANCE OF QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE TRAINEESHIPS. In EDULEARN23 Proceedings (3189-3195). https://doi.org/10.21125/edulearn.2023.0886

To provide medical and allied health professionals students with the best clinical learning environments, quality processes must be in place, and these require innovation to assure audit material resources that are fit for purpose, can work well with... Read More about CO-CREATION OF A VIRTUAL INTERACTIVE TEACHING PACKAGE FOR AUDITORS OF HEALTHCARE PLACEMENTS – TOWARDS ASSURANCE OF QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE TRAINEESHIPS.

Middle Eastern nurses’ views/experiences of work and well-being with the support measures during past disease outbreaks and COVID-19: a qualitative systematic review (2023)
Journal Article
Marair, S. A., & Slater, N. (2023). Middle Eastern nurses’ views/experiences of work and well-being with the support measures during past disease outbreaks and COVID-19: a qualitative systematic review. BMC Nursing, 22, Article 230. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12912-023-01343-4

Background: The potential psychological health impact of pandemics on nurses has been increasingly widely recognised, as have recommendations to establish support measures for nurses’ well-being. Despite the availability of support measures significa... Read More about Middle Eastern nurses’ views/experiences of work and well-being with the support measures during past disease outbreaks and COVID-19: a qualitative systematic review.

Does knowledge of liver fibrosis affect high-risk drinking behaviour (KLIFAD): an open-label pragmatic feasibility randomised controlled trial (2023)
Journal Article
Subhani, M., Enki, D. G., Knight, H., Jones, K. A., Sprange, K., Rennick-Egglestone, S., …Ryder, S. D. (2023). Does knowledge of liver fibrosis affect high-risk drinking behaviour (KLIFAD): an open-label pragmatic feasibility randomised controlled trial. eClinicalMedicine, 61, Article 102069. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2023.102069

Background: Early identification followed by effective behaviour interventions is pivotal to changing the natural history of alcohol-related liver disease. We examined the feasibility of using transient elastography based advice and alcohol recovery... Read More about Does knowledge of liver fibrosis affect high-risk drinking behaviour (KLIFAD): an open-label pragmatic feasibility randomised controlled trial.

Evaluation of the APUEC package: Alcohol prevention in urgent and emergency care (2023)
Other
Blake, H. (2023). Evaluation of the APUEC package: Alcohol prevention in urgent and emergency care

As part of a wider health improvement project (SCALES), we have conducted preliminary work (records analysis, staff survey and staff interviews) which is currently being written up for publication. This work suggests that emergency staff do conduct h... Read More about Evaluation of the APUEC package: Alcohol prevention in urgent and emergency care.

Understanding the co-construction of safety in the paediatric intensive care unit: a meta- ethnography of parents' experiences (2023)
Journal Article
Seaton, S. E., Manning, J., Draper, E. S., Davis, P. J., & Mackintosh, N. (2024). Understanding the co-construction of safety in the paediatric intensive care unit: a meta- ethnography of parents' experiences. Child: Care, Health and Development, 50(1), Article e13151. https://doi.org/10.1111/cch.13151

Background Children experiencing critical illness or injury may require admission to a paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) to receive life-sustaining or life-saving treatment. Studies have explored the experience of parents with a child in PICU bu... Read More about Understanding the co-construction of safety in the paediatric intensive care unit: a meta- ethnography of parents' experiences.

Differences Between Online Trial Participants Who Have Used Statutory Mental Health Services and Those Who Have Not: Analysis of Baseline Data From 2 Pragmatic Trials of a Digital Health Intervention. (2023)
Journal Article
Rennick-Egglestone, S., Newby, C., Robinson, C., Yeo, C., Ng, F., Elliott, R., …Slade, M. (2023). Differences Between Online Trial Participants Who Have Used Statutory Mental Health Services and Those Who Have Not: Analysis of Baseline Data From 2 Pragmatic Trials of a Digital Health Intervention. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 25, Article e44687. https://doi.org/10.2196/44687

Background: Digital health interventions (DHIs) are an established element of mental health service provision internationally. Regulators have positioned the best practice standard of evidence as an interventional study with a comparator reflective o... Read More about Differences Between Online Trial Participants Who Have Used Statutory Mental Health Services and Those Who Have Not: Analysis of Baseline Data From 2 Pragmatic Trials of a Digital Health Intervention..

It's Snazzy, but is it Useful? Practitioner's Views on Meaningful Use Cases for Healthcare XR (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Antoniou, P., Reppou, S., Konstantinidis, S. T., Stathakarou, N., Economou, D., Jonathon, R., & Bamidis, P. (2023). It's Snazzy, but is it Useful? Practitioner's Views on Meaningful Use Cases for Healthcare XR. In Practitioner Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN 2023). https://doi.org/10.56198/itig2ulbj

The global virtual reality (VR) market size, valued at 21.83 billion USD in 2021, is expected to expand with an annual growth rate of 15.0% from 2022 to 2030. Virtual Reality, although massively known for immersive gaming and entert... Read More about It's Snazzy, but is it Useful? Practitioner's Views on Meaningful Use Cases for Healthcare XR.

Framing the wider determinants of health and health inequalities: local stakeholder views in England (2023)
Journal Article
Such, E. (2023). Framing the wider determinants of health and health inequalities: local stakeholder views in England. Evidence and Policy, 19(4), 513-535. https://doi.org/10.1332/174426421X16848470383584

Background: Despite decades of concern, health inequalities persist and collaborations to address them at a local level are yet to prove effective. One potential way of improving actions to address health inequalities is to pay greater attention to... Read More about Framing the wider determinants of health and health inequalities: local stakeholder views in England.

Stakeholder-identified barriers and enablers to ultrasound implementation in inflammatory bowel disease services in the UK: a qualitative interview study. (2023)
Journal Article
Radford, S., Leighton, P., Coad, J., & Moran, G. (2023). Stakeholder-identified barriers and enablers to ultrasound implementation in inflammatory bowel disease services in the UK: a qualitative interview study. BMJ Open, 13(6), Article e067528. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-067528

The study sought to explore and better understand the perceptions and experiences of stakeholders in relation to the use of ultrasound for the assessment of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in adults in the UK. A qualitative semistructured interview... Read More about Stakeholder-identified barriers and enablers to ultrasound implementation in inflammatory bowel disease services in the UK: a qualitative interview study..

Self-Compassion Interventions to Target Secondary Traumatic Stress in Healthcare Workers: A Systematic Review (2023)
Journal Article
Rushforth, A., Durk, M., Rothwell-Blake, G. A., Kirkman, A., Ng, F., & Kotera, Y. (2023). Self-Compassion Interventions to Target Secondary Traumatic Stress in Healthcare Workers: A Systematic Review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(12), Article 6109. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20126109

Healthcare professionals’ wellbeing can be adversely affected by the intense demands of, and the secondary traumatic stress associated with, their job. Self-compassion is associated with positive wellbeing outcomes across a variety of workforce popul... Read More about Self-Compassion Interventions to Target Secondary Traumatic Stress in Healthcare Workers: A Systematic Review.

Evaluation of Virtual Reality via 360° videos Reusable e-Resources Embedded in Healthcare Curricula (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Schiza, E., Frangoudes, F., Pattichis, C., Pears, M., Konstantinidis, S., & Gkougkoudi, E. (2023). Evaluation of Virtual Reality via 360° videos Reusable e-Resources Embedded in Healthcare Curricula. In 2023 24th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP) (1-4). https://doi.org/10.1109/dsp58604.2023.10167929

Recent advancements in Virtual Reality (VR) immersive technologies provide new tools for the development of novel and promising applications for Medical Education courses. This paper presents an evaluation process for teaching the clinical skills cou... Read More about Evaluation of Virtual Reality via 360° videos Reusable e-Resources Embedded in Healthcare Curricula.

Attitudes and current practice in alcohol screening, brief intervention, and referral for treatment among staff working in urgent and emergency settings: a survey (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Blake, H., Yildirim, M., Premakumar, V., Morris, L., Miller, P., & Coffey, F. (2023, June). Attitudes and current practice in alcohol screening, brief intervention, and referral for treatment among staff working in urgent and emergency settings: a survey. Presented at Tomorrow’s Doctors Conference 2023, London, UK

Breast Cancer Understanding Among University Students: A Rapid Review of Cross-country Comparisons (2023)
Journal Article
Colman, R., Kirkman, A., Jackson, J., Golbourn, L., Ozaki, A., & Kotera, Y. (2023). Breast Cancer Understanding Among University Students: A Rapid Review of Cross-country Comparisons. Archives of Breast Cancer, 10(2), 114-123. https://doi.org/10.32768/abc.2023102114-123

Background: In alignment with the World Health Organization’s Global Breast Cancer Initiative objectives, this rapid review sought to determine the extent to which breast cancerunderstanding is being researched globally in undergraduate student popul... Read More about Breast Cancer Understanding Among University Students: A Rapid Review of Cross-country Comparisons.