All Outputs (557)

A web-based intervention (RESTORE) to support self-management of cancer-related fatigue following primary cancer treatment: a multi-centre proof of concept randomised controlled trial (2015)
Journal Article
Foster, C., Grimmett, C., May, C. M., Ewings, S., Myall, M., Hulme, C., …Richardson, A. (2015). A web-based intervention (RESTORE) to support self-management of cancer-related fatigue following primary cancer treatment: a multi-centre proof of concept randomised controlled trial. Supportive Care in Cancer, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00520-015-3044-7

Purpose: Cancer-related fatigue (CRF) is a frequent and distressing symptom experienced after cancer treatment. RESTORE is the first web-based resource designed to enhance self-efficacy to manage CRF following curative-intent treatment. The aim of th... Read More about A web-based intervention (RESTORE) to support self-management of cancer-related fatigue following primary cancer treatment: a multi-centre proof of concept randomised controlled trial.

From the rhetoric to the real: a critical review of how the concepts of recovery and social inclusion may inform mental health nurse advanced level curricula – the eMenthe project (2015)
Journal Article
Stickley, T., Higgins, A., Meade, O., Sitvast, J., Doyle, L., Ellilä, H., …Kilkku, N. (2016). From the rhetoric to the real: a critical review of how the concepts of recovery and social inclusion may inform mental health nurse advanced level curricula – the eMenthe project. Nurse Education Today, 37, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2015.11.015

Objectives
This critical review addresses the question of how the concepts of recovery and social inclusion may inform mental health nurse education curricula at Master’s level in order to bring about significant and positive change to practice.
D... Read More about From the rhetoric to the real: a critical review of how the concepts of recovery and social inclusion may inform mental health nurse advanced level curricula – the eMenthe project.

First-time mothers’ experiences of early labour in Italian maternity care services (2015)
Journal Article
Cappelletti, G., Nespoli, A., Fumagalli, S., & Borrelli, S. E. (2016). First-time mothers’ experiences of early labour in Italian maternity care services. Midwifery, 34, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2015.09.012

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study is to explore first-time mothers' experiences of early labour in Italian maternity care services when admitted to hospital or advised to return home after maternity triage assessment.
SETTING: The study was conducted... Read More about First-time mothers’ experiences of early labour in Italian maternity care services.

Pastoral power in the community pharmacy: a Foucauldian analysis of services to promote patient adherence to new medicine use (2015)
Journal Article
Waring, J., Latif, A., Boyd, M., Barber, N., & Elliott, R. (2016). Pastoral power in the community pharmacy: a Foucauldian analysis of services to promote patient adherence to new medicine use. Social Science and Medicine, 148, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.11.049

Community pharmacists play a growing role in the delivery of primary healthcare. This has led manyto consider the changing power of the pharmacy profession in relation to other professions and patient groups. This paper contributes to these debates t... Read More about Pastoral power in the community pharmacy: a Foucauldian analysis of services to promote patient adherence to new medicine use.

Risk and protective factors for falls on one level in young children: multicentre case-control study (2015)
Journal Article
Benford, P., Young, B., Coupland, C., Watson, M., Hindmarch, P., Hayes, M., …Kendrick, D. (2015). Risk and protective factors for falls on one level in young children: multicentre case-control study. Injury Prevention, 21(6), https://doi.org/10.1136/injuryprev-2015-041581

Background: Childhood falls are an important global public health problem, but there is a lack of evidence about their prevention. Falls on one level result in considerable morbidity and they are costly to health services.

Objective: To estimate o... Read More about Risk and protective factors for falls on one level in young children: multicentre case-control study.

Text messaging to encourage uptake of HIV testing amongst African communities: findings from a theory-based feasibility study (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Evans, C., Turner, K., Juma, A., Suggs, L. S., Occa, A., & Blake, H. (2015). Text messaging to encourage uptake of HIV testing amongst African communities: findings from a theory-based feasibility study.

Development of the REFOCUS intervention to increase mental health team support for personal recovery (2015)
Journal Article
Slade, M., Bird, V., Le Boutillier, C., Grey, B., Larsen, J., Leamy, M., …Williams, J. (2015). Development of the REFOCUS intervention to increase mental health team support for personal recovery. British Journal of Psychiatry, 207(6), https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.bp.114.155978

Background: There is an emerging evidence base about best practice in supporting recovery. This is usually framed in relation to general principles, and specific pro-recovery interventions are lacking.
Aims: To develop a theoretically-based and empi... Read More about Development of the REFOCUS intervention to increase mental health team support for personal recovery.

Psychometric evaluation of the Questionnaire about the Process of Recovery (QPR) (2015)
Journal Article
Williams, J., Leamy, M., Pesola, F., Bird, V., Le Boutillier, C., & Slade, M. (2015). Psychometric evaluation of the Questionnaire about the Process of Recovery (QPR). British Journal of Psychiatry, 207(6), https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.bp.114.161695

Background: Supporting recovery is the aim of national mental health policy in many countries, including England. There is a need for standardised measures of recovery, to assess policy implementation and inform clinical practice. Only one measure of... Read More about Psychometric evaluation of the Questionnaire about the Process of Recovery (QPR).

Attitudes towards health promotion practices in pre-registered nurses: relationship with body weight and self- perception (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Blake, H., Griffiths, K., & Stanulewicz, N. (2015). Attitudes towards health promotion practices in pre-registered nurses: relationship with body weight and self- perception.

Paediatric nurses and healthy eating promotion (2015)
Journal Article
Blake, H., & Patterson, J. (2015). Paediatric nurses and healthy eating promotion

Motive8!: feasibility of a text messaging intervention to promote physical activity in knee osteoarthritis (2015)
Journal Article
Blake, H., Roberts, A. L., Batt, M. E., & Moses, J. P. (2015). Motive8!: feasibility of a text messaging intervention to promote physical activity in knee osteoarthritis

Aim: To develop and test the feasibility of using a SMS text messaging intervention to promote physical activity in patients with knee OA.

Methods: 27 people (6 male, 21 female; aged 25-81 years) with knee osteoarthritis received 4 text messages... Read More about Motive8!: feasibility of a text messaging intervention to promote physical activity in knee osteoarthritis.

Agency in the context of social death: dying alone at home (2015)
Journal Article
Caswell, G., & O'Connor, M. (in press). Agency in the context of social death: dying alone at home. Contemporary Social Science, 10(3), https://doi.org/10.1080/21582041.2015.1114663

Each year a number of bodies are found of people who have died alone at home and whose absence from daily life has not been noticed. Media reports tend either to cast these individuals as deviant, or wider society as having abandoned them to a lonely... Read More about Agency in the context of social death: dying alone at home.

Active8! Technology-based intervention to promote physical activity in hospital employees (2015)
Journal Article
Blake, H., Suggs, L. S., Coman, E., Aguirre, L., & Batt, M. E. (2017). Active8! Technology-based intervention to promote physical activity in hospital employees. American Journal of Health Promotion, 31(2), https://doi.org/10.4278/ajhp.140415-QUAN-143

Purpose: Increase physical activity in healthcare employees using health messaging, and compare email with mobile phone short-message service (SMS) as delivery channels.
Design: Randomised controlled trial
Setting: UK hospital workplace
Subjects:... Read More about Active8! Technology-based intervention to promote physical activity in hospital employees.

Aspirin for venous ulcers: randomised trial (AVURT): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial (2015)
Journal Article
Tilbrook, H., Forsythe, R. O., Rolfe, D., Clark, L., Bland, M., Buckley, H., …Hinchliffe, R. J. (2015). Aspirin for venous ulcers: randomised trial (AVURT): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. Trials, 16, Article 513. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-015-1039-9

Background: Venous leg ulcers (VLUs) are the commonest cause of leg ulceration, affecting 1 in 100 adults. There is a significant health burden associated with VLUs – it is estimated that the cost of treatment for 1 ulcer is up to £1300 per year in t... Read More about Aspirin for venous ulcers: randomised trial (AVURT): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.

Evaluating quality and impact of acute paediatric inpatient care: Defining the domains for a Person Centred Outcome Measure (PCOM) in children and young people admitted with self-harm or eating disorders (2015)
Report
Manning, J. C., Bean, D., Coad, J., Blake, I., Bingham, V., Cooper, J., …Latter, K. (2015). Evaluating quality and impact of acute paediatric inpatient care: Defining the domains for a Person Centred Outcome Measure (PCOM) in children and young people admitted with self-harm or eating disorders. NHS

Background and purpose:
In the United Kingdom, the prevalence of children and young people (CYP), up to the age of 18 years, accessing acute paediatric inpatient care with mental health problems is increasing, with self-harm and eating disorders par... Read More about Evaluating quality and impact of acute paediatric inpatient care: Defining the domains for a Person Centred Outcome Measure (PCOM) in children and young people admitted with self-harm or eating disorders.

The relationship between clinical and recovery dimensions of outcome in mental health (2015)
Journal Article
Macpherson, R., Pesola, F., Leamy, M., Bird, V., Le Boutillier, C., Williams, J., & Slade, M. (2015). The relationship between clinical and recovery dimensions of outcome in mental health. Schizophrenia Research, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2015.10.031

Background: Little is known about the empirical relationship between clinical and personal recovery.

Aims: To examine whether there are separate constructs of clinical recovery and personal recovery dimensions of outcome, how they change over time... Read More about The relationship between clinical and recovery dimensions of outcome in mental health.

Telemedicine and mHealth interventions for children and young people with type one diabetes (T1DM) (2015)
Journal Article
Blake, H., Roberts, A., & Stanulewicz, N. (2015). Telemedicine and mHealth interventions for children and young people with type one diabetes (T1DM)

Development and testing of a text-mining approach to analyse patients’ comments on their experiences of colorectal cancer care (2015)
Journal Article
Wagland, R., Recio Saucedo, A., Simon, M., Bracher, M., Hunt, K., Foster, C., …Corner, J. (in press). Development and testing of a text-mining approach to analyse patients’ comments on their experiences of colorectal cancer care. BMJ Quality and Safety, https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjqs-2015-004063

Background: Quality of cancer care may greatly impact upon patients’ health-related quality of life (HRQoL). Free-text responses to patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) provide rich data but analysis is time and resource-intensive. This study de... Read More about Development and testing of a text-mining approach to analyse patients’ comments on their experiences of colorectal cancer care.

Preferred intensity exercise for adolescents receiving treatment for depression: A pragmatic randomised controlled trial (2015)
Journal Article
Carter, T., Guo, B., Turner, D., Morres, I., Khalil, E., Brighton, E., …Callaghan, P. (2015). Preferred intensity exercise for adolescents receiving treatment for depression: A pragmatic randomised controlled trial. BMC Psychiatry, 15(1), Article 247. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-015-0638-z

© 2015 Carter et al. Background: Exercise has been shown to be effective in treating depression, but trials testing the effect of exercise for depressed adolescents utilising mental health services are rare. The aim of this study was to determine the... Read More about Preferred intensity exercise for adolescents receiving treatment for depression: A pragmatic randomised controlled trial.

The rules of the game in graduate entry nursing: a longitudinal case study (2015)
Journal Article
Stacey, G., Pollock, K., & Crawford, P. (2016). The rules of the game in graduate entry nursing: a longitudinal case study. Nurse Education Today, 36, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2015.09.016

Background

Graduate Entry Nursing programmes are pre-registration nursing curricula designed for candidates who already have a health related degree. The programmes aim to attract highly motivated individuals who have a commitment to nursing and h... Read More about The rules of the game in graduate entry nursing: a longitudinal case study.