All Outputs (14)

Transforming transnational intercultural sensitivity for midwifery students through an inclusive mobility model (TOTEMM) (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Karema, A., Mets-Oja, S., Borrelli, S., Spiby, H., Coolin, K., Walker, L., Konstantinidis, S., Nespoli, A., Fumagalli, S., Smit, A.-M., van Oost, M., & Falkenhagen, K. (2023, October). Transforming transnational intercultural sensitivity for midwifery students through an inclusive mobility model (TOTEMM). Presented at 7th EMA Education Conference, Athens, Greece

Introduction:
The benefits for students who engage in study mobility experiences should include developing soft skills, interaction skills with individuals from different cultures, adaptability, and proficiency and communication skills in foreign la... Read More about Transforming transnational intercultural sensitivity for midwifery students through an inclusive mobility model (TOTEMM).

Co-Design of a Reusable Learning Object (RLO) to Address Caregiver Responsive Infant Feeding Behaviours (CRIB) to Prevent Childhood Obesity: A Mixed-Method Protocol (2023)
Journal Article
Porter, L., Matvienko-Sikar, K., Wharrad, H., Spiby, H., Siriwardena, A. N., Howitt, C., Green, K., & Redsell, S. (2024). Co-Design of a Reusable Learning Object (RLO) to Address Caregiver Responsive Infant Feeding Behaviours (CRIB) to Prevent Childhood Obesity: A Mixed-Method Protocol. Healthcare, 12(1), Article 29. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare12010029

Responsive infant feeding is a key strategy for childhood obesity prevention. Responsive feeding involves caregivers responding to infant hunger and satiety cues in a timely and developmentally appropriate manner. There is a dearth of evidence-based... Read More about Co-Design of a Reusable Learning Object (RLO) to Address Caregiver Responsive Infant Feeding Behaviours (CRIB) to Prevent Childhood Obesity: A Mixed-Method Protocol.

Social reintegration of fistula survivors in North Central Nigeria: A case for rehabilitation (2023)
Journal Article
Degge, H. M., Olorunsaiye, C. Z., Laurenson, M., Hayter, M., Behera, D., & Behera, M. R. (2023). Social reintegration of fistula survivors in North Central Nigeria: A case for rehabilitation. Health Care for Women International, https://doi.org/10.1080/07399332.2023.2283424

Obstetric fistula remains one of the neglected forms of chronic maternal morbidity that occurs mainly in low- and middle-income countries. We explored the rehabilitation and reintegration experiences of 15 fistula survivors in North Central Nigeria.... Read More about Social reintegration of fistula survivors in North Central Nigeria: A case for rehabilitation.

Knowledge and practice of complementary feeding among mothers in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania: Community-based cross-sectional study (2023)
Journal Article
Sichalwe, M. M., Ranjan Behera, M., Behera, D., Kumar Dehury, R., & Degge, H. (2023). Knowledge and practice of complementary feeding among mothers in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania: Community-based cross-sectional study. Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health, 24, Article 101430. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cegh.2023.101430

Introduction
This study examines mothers' complementary feeding (CF) knowledge and practices for children aged 6–24 months, highlighting links to adverse health outcomes and childhood malnutrition from both delayed and early CF initiation (before si... Read More about Knowledge and practice of complementary feeding among mothers in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania: Community-based cross-sectional study.

Journey for a cure: Illness narratives of obstetric fistula survivors in North Central Nigeria (2023)
Journal Article
Degge, H. M., Laurenson, M., W. Dumbili, E., Saxby, H., & Hayter, M. (2024). Journey for a cure: Illness narratives of obstetric fistula survivors in North Central Nigeria. Sociology of Health & Illness, 46(3), 437-456. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13715

Obstetric fistula is a life transforming event resulting in embodied biographical disruption. Survivors suffer myriad long-term physical and emotional consequences. This paper is an account of a narrative inquiry, conducted with 15 fistula survivors... Read More about Journey for a cure: Illness narratives of obstetric fistula survivors in North Central Nigeria.

RCT-based Social Return on Investment (SROI) of a home exercise programme for people with early dementia comparing in-person and blended delivery before and during the COVID-19 pandemic (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper
Doungsong, K., Hartfiel, N., Gladman, J., Harwood, R. H., & Edwards, R. T. (2023). RCT-based Social Return on Investment (SROI) of a home exercise programme for people with early dementia comparing in-person and blended delivery before and during the COVID-19 pandemic

Background Regular exercise and community engagement may slow the rate of function loss for people with dementia. However, the evidence is uncertain regarding the cost-effectiveness and social return on investment (SROI) of home exercise with communi... Read More about RCT-based Social Return on Investment (SROI) of a home exercise programme for people with early dementia comparing in-person and blended delivery before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Thinking ahead about medical treatments in advanced illness: a qualitative study of barriers and enablers in end-of-life care planning with patients and families from ethnically diverse backgrounds (2023)
Journal Article
Islam, Z., Pollock, K., Patterson, A., Hanjari, M., Wallace, L., Mururajani, I., Conroy, S., & Faull, C. (2023). Thinking ahead about medical treatments in advanced illness: a qualitative study of barriers and enablers in end-of-life care planning with patients and families from ethnically diverse backgrounds. Health and Social Care Delivery Research, 11(7), https://doi.org/10.3310/jvfw4781

Background
This study explored whether or not, and how, terminally ill patients from ethnically diverse backgrounds and their family caregivers think ahead about deterioration and dying, and explored their engagement with health-care professionals i... Read More about Thinking ahead about medical treatments in advanced illness: a qualitative study of barriers and enablers in end-of-life care planning with patients and families from ethnically diverse backgrounds.

005 Association between prescription drugs and vaccines commonly prescribed to older people and bullous pemphigoid: a UK population-based study (2023)
Journal Article
Swiderski, M., Vinogradova, Y., Knaggs, R., Harman, K., Harwood, R., Prasad, V., Persson, M. S. M., Figueredo, G., Layfield, C., & Gran, S. (2023). 005 Association between prescription drugs and vaccines commonly prescribed to older people and bullous pemphigoid: a UK population-based study. British Journal of Dermatology, 188(Supplement_4), Article ljad113.005. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjd/ljad113.005

Bullous pemphigoid (BP) is the most common autoimmune blistering skin disease, manifested by painful itching of the skin and mucous membranes. Despite high mortality, poor quality of life and increasing incidence in older people, BP can be overlooked... Read More about 005 Association between prescription drugs and vaccines commonly prescribed to older people and bullous pemphigoid: a UK population-based study.

Fatigue in stroke survivors: a 5-year follow-up of the Fall study of Gothenburg (2023)
Journal Article
Schnitzer, L., Hansson, P.-O., Samuelsson, C. M., Drummond, A., & Persson, C. U. (2023). Fatigue in stroke survivors: a 5-year follow-up of the Fall study of Gothenburg. Journal of Neurology, 270, 4812-4819. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-023-11812-0

Longer term knowledge of post-stroke fatigue (PSF) is limited. Our aim was to describe the prevalence of, and to identify baseline predictors associated with, PSF 5 years after stroke. We undertook a follow-up of stroke survivors from the 504 consecu... Read More about Fatigue in stroke survivors: a 5-year follow-up of the Fall study of Gothenburg.

Prevalence of pelvic floor dysfunction in recreational athletes: a cross-sectional survey (2023)
Journal Article
Campbell, K. G., Batt, M. E., & Drummond, A. (2023). Prevalence of pelvic floor dysfunction in recreational athletes: a cross-sectional survey. International Urogynecology Journal, 34(10), 2429-2437. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00192-023-05548-8

Introduction and hypothesis: Pelvic floor dysfunction (PFD) affects many women and participation in elite sport and high-impact exercise has been reported as a potential risk. However, few studies have investigated the effects of exercising at recrea... Read More about Prevalence of pelvic floor dysfunction in recreational athletes: a cross-sectional survey.

Assessing the Contraceptive Attitudes of US-Born and Foreign-Born Black Women Living in the USA: a Descriptive Cross-Sectional Study (2023)
Journal Article
Olorunsaiye, C. Z., Brunner Huber, L. R., Degge, H. M., Yada, F. N., & Yusuf, K. K. (2024). Assessing the Contraceptive Attitudes of US-Born and Foreign-Born Black Women Living in the USA: a Descriptive Cross-Sectional Study. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, 11(2), 874-884. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40615-023-01569-7

Background
Racially and ethnically marginalized US women experience unintended pregnancy at twice the rate of White women. Understanding contraceptive attitudes can help identify women at increased risk of contraceptive non-use and unintended pregna... Read More about Assessing the Contraceptive Attitudes of US-Born and Foreign-Born Black Women Living in the USA: a Descriptive Cross-Sectional Study.

Eliciting Co-Creation Best Practices of Virtual Reality Reusable e-Resources (2023)
Journal Article
Antoniou, P. E., Pears, M., Schiza, E. C., Frangoudes, F., Pattichis, C. S., Wharrad, H., Bamidis, P. D., & Konstantinidis, S. T. (2023). Eliciting Co-Creation Best Practices of Virtual Reality Reusable e-Resources. Virtual Worlds, 2(1), 75-89. https://doi.org/10.3390/virtualworlds2010005

Immersive experiential technologies find fertile grounds to grow and support healthcare education. Virtual, Augmented, or Mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) have proven to be impactful in both the educational and the affective state of the healthcare student’s... Read More about Eliciting Co-Creation Best Practices of Virtual Reality Reusable e-Resources.

Factors influencing COVID-19 health protective behaviours in Zambian university students with symptoms of low mood (2023)
Journal Article
Ncheka, J. M., Menon, J. A., Davies, E. B., Paul, R., Mwaba, S. O. C., Mudenda, J., Wharrad, H., Toutounchi, P., & Glazebrook, C. (2023). Factors influencing COVID-19 health protective behaviours in Zambian university students with symptoms of low mood. BMC Public Health, 23(1), Article 336. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-15073-4

Background
Health protective behaviours are crucial in the prevention of the spread of COVID-19, particularly in university students who typically live and study in large groups. Depression and anxiety are common in students and can impact young peo... Read More about Factors influencing COVID-19 health protective behaviours in Zambian university students with symptoms of low mood.

Developing a Patient Care Pathway for Emotional Support around the point of Multiple Sclerosis diagnosis: A Stakeholder Engagement Study (2023)
Journal Article
Tindall, T., Topcu, G., Thomas, S., Bale, C., Evangelou, N., Drummond, A., & das Nair, R. (2023). Developing a Patient Care Pathway for Emotional Support around the point of Multiple Sclerosis diagnosis: A Stakeholder Engagement Study. Health Expectations, 26(2), 858-868. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.13711

Background: Diagnosing multiple sclerosis (MS) can be a lengthy process, which can impact psychological wellbeing, condition management, and future engagement with health services. Therefore, providing timely and appropriate emotional support may imp... Read More about Developing a Patient Care Pathway for Emotional Support around the point of Multiple Sclerosis diagnosis: A Stakeholder Engagement Study.