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Delivering yoga to people with hypertension in the UK: A qualitative study to explore yoga providers' knowledge, experiences, and attitudes (2023)
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Background and Aims: Yoga has become increasingly popular in the world and the UK for improving health and well‐being. A growing body of research suggests that yoga could be used to improve the management of hypertension in addition to current manage... Read More about Delivering yoga to people with hypertension in the UK: A qualitative study to explore yoga providers' knowledge, experiences, and attitudes.

‘It’s just a finger isn’t it…’: patients’ perspectives of recovery following finger fractures and participation in surgical trials – a qualitative interview study (2023)
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Objectives: To (1) generate detailed, person-centred data about the experience of finger injury and treatment and (2) understand the patients’ perspectives of research involvement with a view to informing better designed future studies in hand injury... Read More about ‘It’s just a finger isn’t it…’: patients’ perspectives of recovery following finger fractures and participation in surgical trials – a qualitative interview study.

Disparities in care and outcomes for primary liver cancer in England during 2008–2018: a cohort study of 8.52 million primary care population using the QResearch database (2023)
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Background: Liver cancer has one of the fastest rising incidence and mortality rates among all cancers in the UK, but it receives little attention. This study aims to understand the disparities in epidemiology and clinical pathways of primary liver c... Read More about Disparities in care and outcomes for primary liver cancer in England during 2008–2018: a cohort study of 8.52 million primary care population using the QResearch database.

Women’s knowledge of and attitudes towards group B streptococcus (GBS) testing in pregnancy: a qualitative study (2023)
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Background: 20–25% pregnant women in the UK carry group B streptococcus (GBS) which, if left undetected, is transmitted from pregnant mothers to their babies during birth in 36% of cases. This transmission leads to early onset GBS infection (EOGBS) i... Read More about Women’s knowledge of and attitudes towards group B streptococcus (GBS) testing in pregnancy: a qualitative study.

Have yourself a ‘merry’ little Christmas: Alcohol adverts and alcohol content within adverts in the run-up to Christmas (2023)
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Exposure to alcohol adverts or other audio-visual content (AVC) in the media is associated with alcohol initiation and subsequent use by adolescents and adults, especially those with or at risk of an alcohol use disorder. The Christmas period is char... Read More about Have yourself a ‘merry’ little Christmas: Alcohol adverts and alcohol content within adverts in the run-up to Christmas.

The use of theories, models, and frameworks to inform the uptake of evidence-based practices in veterinary medicine - a scoping review (2023)
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Evidence-based practices (EBPs) provide strategies to improve the health, welfare and productivity of animal species. However, ensuring implementation and uptake into routine practice of these EBPs is often challenging. In human health research, one... Read More about The use of theories, models, and frameworks to inform the uptake of evidence-based practices in veterinary medicine - a scoping review.

Implementation fidelity of the ‘Stay One Step Ahead’ home safety intervention: a mixed-methods analysis (2023)
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Objective: To assess implementation fidelity of the Stay One Step Ahead (SOSA), a complex intervention which was delivered by health visiting teams, children's centres, and family mentors and was aimed at preventing unintentional home injuries in chi... Read More about Implementation fidelity of the ‘Stay One Step Ahead’ home safety intervention: a mixed-methods analysis.

Integrating the patients' voice in designing and delivering a research study: The Yorkshire Cancer Research funded PREHABS study's experience (2023)
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Introduction Engaging with patients when designing a clinical or research project is beneficial; feedback from the intended audience provides invaluable insight form the patients’ perspective. Working with patients can result in developing successfu... Read More about Integrating the patients' voice in designing and delivering a research study: The Yorkshire Cancer Research funded PREHABS study's experience.

Incidence of cognitive impairment and dementia after hospitalisation for pneumonia: a UK population-based matched cohort study (2023)
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Background Survivors of common infections may develop cognitive impairment or dementia; however, the risk of these conditions in people hospitalised with pneumonia is not well established. Methods A matched cohort study was conducted using Hospit... Read More about Incidence of cognitive impairment and dementia after hospitalisation for pneumonia: a UK population-based matched cohort study.

Quality of life, wellbeing, recovery, and progress for older forensic mental health patients: a qualitative investigation based on the perspectives of patients and staff (2023)
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Purpose There is a lack of research informing service requirements for older (aged≥55 years) forensic mental health patients. The aim of this research was to increase knowledge about older forensic mental health patients’ quality of life, wellbeing,... Read More about Quality of life, wellbeing, recovery, and progress for older forensic mental health patients: a qualitative investigation based on the perspectives of patients and staff.

Parents and healthcare professionals' attitudes to Kangaroo Care for preterm infants in the United Kingdom (2023)
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Aim: To explore the attitudes of parents and healthcare professionals (HCPs), and facilitators and barrier to implementation of Kangaroo Care (KC) in the United Kingdom. Methods: Online cross-sectional survey; distributed via the British Association... Read More about Parents and healthcare professionals' attitudes to Kangaroo Care for preterm infants in the United Kingdom.

A grumbling concern: an international survey of gastrointestinal symptoms in cystic fibrosis in the modulator era [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review] (2023)
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Background: Gastrointestinal symptoms in cystic fibrosis (CF) are common and intrusive to daily life. Relieving gastrointestinal symptoms was identified as an important research priority and previously explored in an international survey in 2018. How... Read More about A grumbling concern: an international survey of gastrointestinal symptoms in cystic fibrosis in the modulator era [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review].

An Automated, Online Feasibility Randomized Controlled Trial of a Just-In-Time Adaptive Intervention for Smoking Cessation (Quit Sense) (2023)
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Introduction: Learned smoking cues from a smoker's environment are a major cause of lapse and relapse. Quit Sense, a theory-guided Just-In-Time Adaptive Intervention smartphone app, aims to help smokers learn about their situational smoking cues and... Read More about An Automated, Online Feasibility Randomized Controlled Trial of a Just-In-Time Adaptive Intervention for Smoking Cessation (Quit Sense).

The role of knowledge, primary care and community engagement to improve breast-screening access for Pakistani women in the United Kingdom: A secondary analysis of a qualitative study (2023)
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Objective Breast cancer incidence is rising among Pakistani women in the United Kingdom. However, uptake of breast screening remains low. This study aimed to improve access to breast screening for British-Pakistani women by exploring their knowledge... Read More about The role of knowledge, primary care and community engagement to improve breast-screening access for Pakistani women in the United Kingdom: A secondary analysis of a qualitative study.

Reporting Standards for Diagnostic Testing: Guidance for Authors From Editors of Respiratory, Sleep, and Critical Care Journals (2023)
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Diagnostic testing is fundamental to medicine. However, studies of diagnostic testing in respiratory medicine vary significantly in terms of their methodology, definitions, and reporting of results. This has led to often conflicting or ambiguous resu... Read More about Reporting Standards for Diagnostic Testing: Guidance for Authors From Editors of Respiratory, Sleep, and Critical Care Journals.

Predicting the future risk of lung cancer: development, and internal and external validation of the CanPredict (lung) model in 19·67 million people and evaluation of model performance against seven other risk prediction models (2023)
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Background: Lung cancer is the second most common cancer in incidence and the leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide. Meanwhile, lung cancer screening with low-dose CT can reduce mortality. The UK National Screening Committee recommended targeted l... Read More about Predicting the future risk of lung cancer: development, and internal and external validation of the CanPredict (lung) model in 19·67 million people and evaluation of model performance against seven other risk prediction models.