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Alcohol Prevention in Urgent and Emergency Care (APUEC): Development and Evaluation of Workforce Digital Training on Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral for Treatment (2023)
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Blake, H., Adams, E. J., Chaplin, W. J., Morris, L., Mahmood, I., Taylor, M. G., …Coffey, F. (2023). Alcohol Prevention in Urgent and Emergency Care (APUEC): Development and Evaluation of Workforce Digital Training on Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral for Treatment. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(22), Article 7028. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20227028

Excessive alcohol consumption carries a significant health, social and economic burden. Screening, brief intervention and referral to treatment (SBIRT) is one approach to identifying patients with excessive alcohol consumption and providing intervent... Read More about Alcohol Prevention in Urgent and Emergency Care (APUEC): Development and Evaluation of Workforce Digital Training on Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral for Treatment.

The Web-Based Pain-at-Work Toolkit With Telephone Support for Employees With Chronic or Persistent Pain: Protocol for a Cluster Randomized Feasibility Trial (2023)
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Blake, H., Chaplin, W., Wainwright, E., Taylor, G., McNamee, P., McWilliams, D., …Walker-Bone, K. (2023). The Web-Based Pain-at-Work Toolkit With Telephone Support for Employees With Chronic or Persistent Pain: Protocol for a Cluster Randomized Feasibility Trial. JMIR Research Protocols, 12, Article e51474. https://doi.org/10.2196/51474

Background: Chronic or persistent pain affects people’s ability to work or be productive at work, generating high societal and economic burden. However, the provision of work-related advice and support for people with chronic pain is variable or lack... Read More about The Web-Based Pain-at-Work Toolkit With Telephone Support for Employees With Chronic or Persistent Pain: Protocol for a Cluster Randomized Feasibility Trial.

Quantifiable correlation of ToF-SIMS and XPS data from polymer surfaces with controlled amino acid and peptide content (2022)
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Taylor, M., Simoes, F., Smith, J., Genapathy, S., Canning, A., Lledos, M., …Zelzer, M. (2022). Quantifiable correlation of ToF-SIMS and XPS data from polymer surfaces with controlled amino acid and peptide content. Surface and Interface Analysis, 54(4), 417-432. https://doi.org/10.1002/sia.7052

Peptide-coated surfaces are widely employed in biomaterial design, but quantifiable correlation between surface composition and biological response is challenging due to, for example, instrumental limitations, a lack of suitable model surfaces or lim... Read More about Quantifiable correlation of ToF-SIMS and XPS data from polymer surfaces with controlled amino acid and peptide content.

COVID-19 Vaccine Education (CoVE) for Health and Care Workers to Facilitate Global Promotion of the COVID-19 Vaccines (2022)
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Blake, H., Fecowycz, A., Starbuck, H., & Jones, W. (2022). COVID-19 Vaccine Education (CoVE) for Health and Care Workers to Facilitate Global Promotion of the COVID-19 Vaccines. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(2), Article 653. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19020653

The COVID-19 vaccine is being rolled out globally. High and ongoing public uptake of the vaccine relies on health and social care professionals having the knowledge and confidence to actively and effectively advocate it. An internationally relevant,... Read More about COVID-19 Vaccine Education (CoVE) for Health and Care Workers to Facilitate Global Promotion of the COVID-19 Vaccines.

Mental health of people with multiple sclerosis during the COVID-19 outbreak: A prospective cohort and cross-sectional case–control study of the UK MS Register (2021)
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Garjani, A., Hunter, R., Law, G. R., Middleton, R. M., Tuite-Dalton, K. A., Dobson, R., …das Nair, R. (2022). Mental health of people with multiple sclerosis during the COVID-19 outbreak: A prospective cohort and cross-sectional case–control study of the UK MS Register. Multiple Sclerosis Journal, 28(7), 1060-1071. https://doi.org/10.1177/13524585211020435

Background: People with MS (pwMS) have had higher rates of anxiety and depression than the general population before the COVID-19 pandemic, placing them at higher risk of experiencing poor psychological wellbeing during the pandemic. Objective: To as... Read More about Mental health of people with multiple sclerosis during the COVID-19 outbreak: A prospective cohort and cross-sectional case–control study of the UK MS Register.

Prioritising topics for developing e-learning resources in healthcare curricula: A comparison between students and educators using a modified Delphi survey (2021)
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Lim, H. M., Ng, C. J., Teo, C. H., Lee, P. Y., Kassim, P. S. J., Nasharuddin, N. A., …Wharrad, H. (2021). Prioritising topics for developing e-learning resources in healthcare curricula: A comparison between students and educators using a modified Delphi survey. PLoS ONE, 16(6), Article e0253471. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0253471

Background Engaging students in the e-learning development process enhances the effective implementation of e-learning, however, students’ priority on the topics for e-learning may differ from that of the educators. This study aims to compare the dif... Read More about Prioritising topics for developing e-learning resources in healthcare curricula: A comparison between students and educators using a modified Delphi survey.

Improving occupational therapists’ confidence in completing the Allied Health Professions Health and Work Report: Results from the CREATE feasibility study (2021)
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Ablewhite, J., Coole, C., Konstantinidis, S. T., Fecowycz, A., Khan, S., & Drummond, A. (2021). Improving occupational therapists’ confidence in completing the Allied Health Professions Health and Work Report: Results from the CREATE feasibility study. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 84(8), 516-525. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308022621998582

Introduction: There is a concern that occupational therapists lack confidence in advising on fitness to work. The aim of this study was to compare two training methods of improving occupational therapists’ confidence in completing the Allied Health P... Read More about Improving occupational therapists’ confidence in completing the Allied Health Professions Health and Work Report: Results from the CREATE feasibility study.

The development of an mHealth educational intervention for first-time hearing aid users: combining theoretical and ecologically valid approaches (2020)
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Maidment, D. W., Coulson, N. S., Wharrad, H., Taylor, M., & Ferguson, M. A. (2020). The development of an mHealth educational intervention for first-time hearing aid users: combining theoretical and ecologically valid approaches. International Journal of Audiology, 59(7), 492-500. https://doi.org/10.1080/14992027.2020.1755063

© 2020 British Society of Audiology, International Society of Audiology, and Nordic Audiological Society. Objective: This paper describes the development of a novel mobile health (mHealth) educational intervention, called m2Hear, designed for first-t... Read More about The development of an mHealth educational intervention for first-time hearing aid users: combining theoretical and ecologically valid approaches.

The development and validation of the LIMPRINT methodology (2019)
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Moffatt, C. J., Murray, S., Mercier, G., Quere, I., & Franks, P. (2019). The development and validation of the LIMPRINT methodology. Lymphatic Research and Biology, 17(2), 127-134. https://doi.org/10.1089/lrb.2018.0081

The acronym Limprint stands for Lymphedema IMpact and PRevalence INTernational and was run under theauspices of the International Lymphedema Framework (ILF), a charity dedicated to improving provision of careglobally. The primary aim was to identify... Read More about The development and validation of the LIMPRINT methodology.

Conceptual framework for an episode of rehabilitative care after hip fracture surgery (2019)
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Sheehan, K., Smith, T., Martin, F., Johansen, A., Drummond, A., Beaupre, L., …Sackley, C. (2019). Conceptual framework for an episode of rehabilitative care after hip fracture surgery. Physical Therapy, 99(3), 276–285. https://doi.org/10.1093/ptj/pzy145

Researchers face a challenge when evaluating the effectiveness of rehabilitation after hip fracture surgery. Reported outcomes of rehabilitation will vary depending on the endpoint of the episode of care. Evaluation at an inappropriate endpoint may s... Read More about Conceptual framework for an episode of rehabilitative care after hip fracture surgery.

An electronic clinical decision support system for the assessment and management of suicidality in primary care (2018)
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Horrocks, M., Michail, M., Aubeeluck, A., Wright, N., & Morriss, R. (2018). An electronic clinical decision support system for the assessment and management of suicidality in primary care. JMIR Research Protocols, 7(12), Article e11135. https://doi.org/10.2196/11135

Background: Suicide is a global public health concern, but it is preventable. Increased contact with primary care before the suicide or attempted suicide raises opportunities for intervention and prevention. However, suicide assessment and management... Read More about An electronic clinical decision support system for the assessment and management of suicidality in primary care.

A staff training intervention to improve communication between people living with dementia and health-care professionals in hospital: the VOICE mixed-methods development and evaluation study (2018)
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Harwood, R. H., O’Brien, R., Goldberg, S. E., Allwood, R., Pilnick, A., Beeke, S., …Schneider, J. (2018). A staff training intervention to improve communication between people living with dementia and health-care professionals in hospital: the VOICE mixed-methods development and evaluation study. Health Services and Delivery Research, 6(41), 1-134. https://doi.org/10.3310/hsdr06410

Background 25% of hospital beds are occupied by a person living with dementia. Dementia affects expressive communication and understanding. Healthcare professionals report lack of communication skills training. Objectives To identify teachable ef... Read More about A staff training intervention to improve communication between people living with dementia and health-care professionals in hospital: the VOICE mixed-methods development and evaluation study.

The impact of Recovery Colleges on mental health staff, services and society (2018)
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Crowther, A., Taylor, A., Toney, R., Meddings, S., Whale, T., Jennings, H., …Slade, M. (2019). The impact of Recovery Colleges on mental health staff, services and society. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, 28(5), 481-488. https://doi.org/10.1017/S204579601800063X

Aims Recovery Colleges are opening internationally. The evaluation focus has been on outcomes for Recovery College students who use mental health services. However, benefits may also arise for: staff who attend or co-deliver courses; the mental heal... Read More about The impact of Recovery Colleges on mental health staff, services and society.

‘If you can’t see a dilemma in this situation you should probably regard it as a warning’: a metasynthesis and theoretical modelling of general practitioners’ opioid prescription experiences in primary care (2018)
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Kennedy, M., Pallotti, P., Dickinson, R., & Harley, C. (2019). ‘If you can’t see a dilemma in this situation you should probably regard it as a warning’: a metasynthesis and theoretical modelling of general practitioners’ opioid prescription experiences in primary care. British Journal of Pain, 13(3), 159-176. https://doi.org/10.1177/2049463718804572

Background: The prescribing of opioids has increased internationally in developed countries in recent decades within primary and secondary care.1 The majority of patients with chronic non-malignant pain (CNMP) are managed by their GP.2 Recent qualit... Read More about ‘If you can’t see a dilemma in this situation you should probably regard it as a warning’: a metasynthesis and theoretical modelling of general practitioners’ opioid prescription experiences in primary care.

A systematic review and meta-analysis of pain neuroscience education for chronic low back pain: Short-and long-term outcomes of pain and disability (2018)
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Wood, L., & Hendrick, P. A. (2019). A systematic review and meta-analysis of pain neuroscience education for chronic low back pain: Short-and long-term outcomes of pain and disability. European Journal of Pain, 23(2), 234-249. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejp.1314

Background and Objective Pain neuroscience education (PNE) has shown promising ability in previous reviews to improve pain and disability in chronic low back pain (CLBP). This review aimed to evaluate randomized controlled trials comparing the eff... Read More about A systematic review and meta-analysis of pain neuroscience education for chronic low back pain: Short-and long-term outcomes of pain and disability.

Workplace policies and practices promoting physical activity across England: what is commonly used and what works? (2018)
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Knox, E., Musson, H., & Adams, E. (2018). Workplace policies and practices promoting physical activity across England: what is commonly used and what works?. International Journal of Workplace Health Management, 10(5), 391-403. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJWHM-01-2017-0004

Purpose Many adults fail to achieve sufficient moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA). Understanding how workplaces most effectively promote physical activity can benefit public health. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected via tw... Read More about Workplace policies and practices promoting physical activity across England: what is commonly used and what works?.