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Ageing in forensic psychiatric secure settings: the views of members of staff (2018)
Journal Article

Background: Although the prevalence of older patients in forensic psychiatric services is increasing, research around service provision for this population is very limited. We aimed to gather the views of members of staff on how well secure services... Read More about Ageing in forensic psychiatric secure settings: the views of members of staff.

Getting back to life after stroke: co-designing a peer-led coaching intervention to enable stroke survivors to rebuild a meaningful life after stroke (2018)
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Purpose Rebuilding one’s life after stroke is a key priority persistently identified by patients yet professionally led interventions have little impact. This co-design study constructs and tests a novel peer-led coaching intervention to improve pos... Read More about Getting back to life after stroke: co-designing a peer-led coaching intervention to enable stroke survivors to rebuild a meaningful life after stroke.

Quality improvement collaborative aiming for Proactive HEAlthcare of Older People in Care Homes (PEACH): a realist evaluation protocol (2018)
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Introduction: This protocol describes a study of a Quality Improvement Collaborative (QIC) to support implementation and delivery of Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) in UK care homes. The QIC will be formed of health and social care professio... Read More about Quality improvement collaborative aiming for Proactive HEAlthcare of Older People in Care Homes (PEACH): a realist evaluation protocol.

Action Plan for Stroke in Europe 2018–2030 (2018)
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Two previous pan-European consensus meetings, the 1995 and 2006 Helsingborg meetings, were convened to review the scientific evidence and the state of current services to identify priorities for research and development and to set targets for the dev... Read More about Action Plan for Stroke in Europe 2018–2030.

Effect of care assistant communication style on communicative behaviours of residents with dementia: a systematic multiple case-study (2018)
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Objectives: To determine whether varying the communication style of care assistants, encouraging them to use direct instructions and allowing more time for residents’ responses, influenced the communicative behaviour of care home residents living wit... Read More about Effect of care assistant communication style on communicative behaviours of residents with dementia: a systematic multiple case-study.

How does parental social mobility during childhood affect socioeconomic status over the life course? (2018)
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The gap in occupational earnings between children from parents of higher versus lower socioeconomic background widens over the life course. This gap can be at least partly explained by family background characteristics in childhood but the extent to... Read More about How does parental social mobility during childhood affect socioeconomic status over the life course?.

Addendum to the Acknowledgements: How Online Communities of People With Long-Term Conditions Function and Evolve: Network Analysis of the Structure and Dynamics of the Asthma UK and British Lung Foundation Online Communities (2018)
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The authors of “How Online Communities of People With Long-Term Conditions Function and Evolve: Network Analysis of the Structure and Dynamics of the Asthma UK and British Lung Foundation Online Communities” (J Med Internet Res 2018;20(7):e238) wish... Read More about Addendum to the Acknowledgements: How Online Communities of People With Long-Term Conditions Function and Evolve: Network Analysis of the Structure and Dynamics of the Asthma UK and British Lung Foundation Online Communities.

Measuring health related quality of life of care home residents, comparison of self-report with staff proxy responses for EQ-5D-5L and HowRu: protocol for assessing proxy reliability in care home outcome testing (2018)
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Introduction Research into interventions to improve health and wellbeing for older people living in care homes is increasingly common. Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) is frequently used as an outcome measure but collecting both self-reported... Read More about Measuring health related quality of life of care home residents, comparison of self-report with staff proxy responses for EQ-5D-5L and HowRu: protocol for assessing proxy reliability in care home outcome testing.

SUpporting well-being through PEeR-Befriending (SUPERB) trial: an exploration of fidelity in peer-befriending for people with aphasia (2018)
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Blinding participants and assessors in a feasibility randomised controlled trial of peer-befriending for people with aphasia post-stroke (2018)
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Who participates in aphasia research? An analysis of the REhabilitation and recovery of peopLE with Aphasia after StrokE (RELEASE) data set (2018)
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Do individual versus illness belief schema differ in the prediction of post-stroke recovery? (2018)
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This longitudinal observational study examined how individual versus illness belief schema compare as predictors of post-stroke recovery. Forty-two stroke survivors (mean age=66.9 years/range=29-96 years; 68% male), were involved. The primary outcome... Read More about Do individual versus illness belief schema differ in the prediction of post-stroke recovery?.

How Online Communities of People With Long-Term Conditions Function and Evolve: Network Analysis of the Structure and Dynamics of the Asthma UK and British Lung Foundation Online Communities (2018)
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Background: Self-management support can improve health and reduce health care utilization by people with long-term conditions. Online communities for people with long-term conditions have the potential to influence health, usage of health care resour... Read More about How Online Communities of People With Long-Term Conditions Function and Evolve: Network Analysis of the Structure and Dynamics of the Asthma UK and British Lung Foundation Online Communities.

Development of the Social Participation Restrictions Questionnaire (SPaRQ) through consultation with adults with hearing loss, researchers, and clinicians: a content evaluation study (2018)
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Objective - This research aimed to evaluate the content of the Social Participation Restrictions Questionnaire (SPaRQ) in terms of its relevance, clarity, comprehensiveness, acceptability to adults with hearing loss, and responsiveness. Design -... Read More about Development of the Social Participation Restrictions Questionnaire (SPaRQ) through consultation with adults with hearing loss, researchers, and clinicians: a content evaluation study.

Evaluating a stroke-specific version of the Illness Perception Questionnaire–Revised, using the Think-Aloud method (2018)
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The main purpose was to evaluate, using the Think-Aloud method, a version of the Illness Perception Questionnaire-Revised (IPQ-R) for stroke survivors (the Stroke IPQ-R). Six stroke survivors (mean age=58.8 years, range=31 to 78 years, SD=18.9 years)... Read More about Evaluating a stroke-specific version of the Illness Perception Questionnaire–Revised, using the Think-Aloud method.

Musculoskeletal pain and exercise—challenging existing paradigms and introducing new (2018)
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Traditional pain models that describe tissue pathology as a source of nocioceptive input directly linked with pain expression, have been insufficient for assessing and treating musculoskeletal pain. The need for pain to be avoided or alleviated as m... Read More about Musculoskeletal pain and exercise—challenging existing paradigms and introducing new.

Early, specialist vocational rehabilitation to facilitate return to work after traumatic brain injury: the FRESH feasibility RCT (2018)
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Background Up to 160,000 people incur traumatic brain injury (TBI) each year in the UK. TBI can have profound effects on many areas of human functioning, including participation in work. There is limited evidence of the clinical effectiveness and... Read More about Early, specialist vocational rehabilitation to facilitate return to work after traumatic brain injury: the FRESH feasibility RCT.

Informing evaluation of a smartphone application for people with acquired brain injury: a stakeholder engagement study (2018)
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Background Brain in Hand is a smartphone application (app) that allows users to create structured diaries with problems and solutions, attach reminders, record task completion and has a symptom monitoring system. Brain in Hand was designed to supp... Read More about Informing evaluation of a smartphone application for people with acquired brain injury: a stakeholder engagement study.

A practical guide to analysing online support forums (2018)
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As the number of online support forums continues to grow and the amount of user-generated content increases, analysing forum messages can provide researchers and others working in health-related fields with important new insights into the needs, opin... Read More about A practical guide to analysing online support forums.

Anticholinergic drug burden tools/scales and adverse outcomes in different clinical settings: a systematic review of reviews (2018)
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Background: Cumulative anticholinergic exposure (anticholinergic burden) has been linked to a number of adverse outcomes. To conduct research in this area, an agreed approach to describing anticholinergic burden is needed. Objective: This review set... Read More about Anticholinergic drug burden tools/scales and adverse outcomes in different clinical settings: a systematic review of reviews.