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Experience of and access to maternity care in the UK by immigrant women: a narrative synthesis systematic review (2019)
Journal Article
G., H., Evans, C., M., M., K., K., J., E., & B., H. (2019). Experience of and access to maternity care in the UK by immigrant women: a narrative synthesis systematic review. BMJ Open, 9(12), https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-029478

© 2019 Author(s). One in four births in the UK is to foreign-born women. In 2016, the figure was 28.2%, the highest figure on record, with maternal and perinatal mortality also disproportionately higher for some immigrant women. Our objective was to... Read More about Experience of and access to maternity care in the UK by immigrant women: a narrative synthesis systematic review.

A randomised controlled trial of an exercise intervention promoting activity, independence and stability in older adults with mild cognitive impairment and early dementia (PrAISED) - A Protocol (2019)
Journal Article
Bajwa, R. K., Goldberg, S. E., Van Der Wardt, V., Burgon, C., Di Lorito, C., Godfrey, M., …Harwood, R. H. (2019). A randomised controlled trial of an exercise intervention promoting activity, independence and stability in older adults with mild cognitive impairment and early dementia (PrAISED) - A Protocol. Trials, 20(1), Article 815. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-019-3871-9

© 2019 The Author(s). Background: People with dementia progressively lose cognitive and functional abilities. Interventions promoting exercise and activity may slow decline. We developed a novel intervention to promote activity and independence and p... Read More about A randomised controlled trial of an exercise intervention promoting activity, independence and stability in older adults with mild cognitive impairment and early dementia (PrAISED) - A Protocol.

The Effectiveness of Digital Interventions for Psychological Well-Being in the Workplace: A Systematic Review Protocol (2019)
Journal Article
Armaou, M., Konstantinidis, S., & Blake, H. (2019). The Effectiveness of Digital Interventions for Psychological Well-Being in the Workplace: A Systematic Review Protocol. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(1), https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17010255

Objective: Psychological well-being has been associated with desirable individual and organisational outcomes. This systematic review aims to assess the effectiveness of digital interventions for the improvement of psychological well-being and/or the... Read More about The Effectiveness of Digital Interventions for Psychological Well-Being in the Workplace: A Systematic Review Protocol.

The mechanisms and processes of connection: developing a causal chain model capturing impacts of receiving recorded mental health recovery narratives (2019)
Journal Article
Ng, F., Charles, A., Pollock, K., Rennick-Egglestone, S., Cuijpers, P., Gillard, S., …Slade, M. (2019). The mechanisms and processes of connection: developing a causal chain model capturing impacts of receiving recorded mental health recovery narratives. BMC Psychiatry, 19, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-019-2405-z

Background: Mental health recovery narratives are a core component of recovery-oriented interventions such as peer support and anti-stigma campaigns. A substantial number of recorded recovery narratives are now publicly available online in different... Read More about The mechanisms and processes of connection: developing a causal chain model capturing impacts of receiving recorded mental health recovery narratives.

Effectiveness of Lifestyle Health Promotion Interventions for Nurses: A Systematic Review (2019)
Journal Article
Stanulewicz, N., Knox, E., Narayanasamy, M., Shivji, N., Khunti, K., & Blake, H. (2019). Effectiveness of Lifestyle Health Promotion Interventions for Nurses: A Systematic Review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(1), Article 17. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17010017

Background: Prior research has investigated various strategies to improve health, wellbeing and the job-related outcomes of nurses. However, the scope of this evidence is not clear and the types of intervention most likely to have positive outcomes a... Read More about Effectiveness of Lifestyle Health Promotion Interventions for Nurses: A Systematic Review.

Capturing the Real Impact of Clinical Academics in Practice (2019)
Journal Article
Coad, J., Manning, J., Mills, E., Semple, C., Johnston, B., & McMahon, A. (2019). Capturing the Real Impact of Clinical Academics in Practice. International journal of practice-based learning in health and social care, 7(2), 47-56. https://doi.org/10.18552/ijpblhsc.v7i2.647

The Clinical Academic Careers Framework proposes an over-arching structure to develop the clinical academic workforce whose activities have patient benefit within a clear UK programme. Traditionally this has centred on professionals from medicine and... Read More about Capturing the Real Impact of Clinical Academics in Practice.

Promoting activity, Independence and stability in early dementia (PrAISED): a, multisite, randomised controlled, feasibility trial (2019)
Journal Article
Goldberg, S. E., van der Wardt, V., Brand, A., Burgon, C., Bajwa, R., Hoare, Z., …on behalf of the PrAISED Study Group. (2019). Promoting activity, Independence and stability in early dementia (PrAISED): a, multisite, randomised controlled, feasibility trial. BMC Geriatrics, 19(1), Article 353. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-019-1379-5

BACKGROUND: We tested the feasibility of delivering and evaluating a complex therapy intervention which aimed to promote activity and independence for people with early dementia (PrAISED). Feasibility questions were on: recruitment, randomisation, in... Read More about Promoting activity, Independence and stability in early dementia (PrAISED): a, multisite, randomised controlled, feasibility trial.

Interventions to Improve Discharge from Acute Adult Mental Health Inpatient Care to the Community: Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis (2019)
Journal Article
Tyler, N., Wright, N., & Waring, J. (2019). Interventions to Improve Discharge from Acute Adult Mental Health Inpatient Care to the Community: Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis. BMC Health Services Research, 19, Article 883. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-019-4658-0

Background: The transition from acute mental health inpatient to community care is often a vulnerable period in the pathway, where people can experience additional risks and anxiety. Researchers globally have developed and tested a number of interven... Read More about Interventions to Improve Discharge from Acute Adult Mental Health Inpatient Care to the Community: Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis.

'The calm before the storm': A qualitative study of fathers' experiences of early labour (2019)
Journal Article
Roberts, J., & Spiby, H. (2020). 'The calm before the storm': A qualitative study of fathers' experiences of early labour. Women and Birth, 33(5), 490-495. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wombi.2019.11.002

Background Early labour care presents a challenge for maternity services and is a cause of dissatisfaction for women planning birth in an obstetric or midwifery unit who may feel unsupported or unwelcome at their planned place of birth. Little is kn... Read More about 'The calm before the storm': A qualitative study of fathers' experiences of early labour.

An exploration of the experiences of professionals supporting patients approaching the end of life in medicines management at home. A qualitative study. An exploration of the experiences of professionals supporting patients approaching the end of life in medicines management at home. A qualitative study. (2019)
Working Paper
Wilson, E., Caswell, G., Latif, A., Anderson, C., Faull, C., & Pollock, K. An exploration of the experiences of professionals supporting patients approaching the end of life in medicines management at home. A qualitative study. An exploration of the experiences of professionals supporting patients approaching the end of life in medicines management at home. A qualitative study

Background: The management of medicines towards the end of life can place increasing burdens and responsibilities on patients and families. This has received little attention yet it can be a source of great difficulty and distress patients and famili... Read More about An exploration of the experiences of professionals supporting patients approaching the end of life in medicines management at home. A qualitative study. An exploration of the experiences of professionals supporting patients approaching the end of life in medicines management at home. A qualitative study..

End-of-life care for frail older people (2019)
Journal Article
Harwood, R. H., & Enguell, H. (2019). End-of-life care for frail older people. BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care, https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjspcare-2019-001953

Most people die when they are old, but predicting exactly when this will occur is unavoidably uncertain. The health of older people is challenged by multimorbidity, disability and frailty. Frailty is the tendency to crises or episodes of rapid deteri... Read More about End-of-life care for frail older people.

‘New Medicine Service’: supporting adherence in people starting a new medication for a long-term condition: 26-week follow-up of a pragmatic randomised controlled trial (2019)
Journal Article
Elliott, R. A., Boyd, M., Tanajewski, L., Barber, N., Gkountouras, G., Avery, A. J., …Chuter, A. (2019). ‘New Medicine Service’: supporting adherence in people starting a new medication for a long-term condition: 26-week follow-up of a pragmatic randomised controlled trial. BMJ Quality and Safety, 29(4), 286-295. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjqs-2018-009177

The SIPHER Consortium: Introducing the new UK hub for systems science in public health and health economic research [version 1; peer review: 2 approved] (2019)
Journal Article
Meier, P., Purshouse, R., Bain, M., Bambra, C., Bentall, R., Birkin, M., …Watkins, C. (2019). The SIPHER Consortium: Introducing the new UK hub for systems science in public health and health economic research [version 1; peer review: 2 approved]. Wellcome Open Research, 4, Article 174. https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15534.1

The conditions in which we are born, grow, live, work and age are key drivers of health and inequalities in life chances. To maximise health and wellbeing across the whole population, we need well-coordinated action across government sectors, in area... Read More about The SIPHER Consortium: Introducing the new UK hub for systems science in public health and health economic research [version 1; peer review: 2 approved].

Guest Editorial Small Things and Big Data: Controversies and Challenges in Digital Healthcare (2019)
Journal Article
Bamidis, P. D., Konstantinidis, S. T., Rodrigues, P. P., Antani, S., & Giordano, D. (2019). Guest Editorial Small Things and Big Data: Controversies and Challenges in Digital Healthcare. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 23(6), 2208-2210. https://doi.org/10.1109/JBHI.2019.2944776

The papers in this special section focus on the challenges faced in the digital healthcare market. Recent advances in information and communication technologies (ICT), as well as biomedical engineering, sensor technology and data science, have acted... Read More about Guest Editorial Small Things and Big Data: Controversies and Challenges in Digital Healthcare.

Internet of Things in Education (2019)
Book Chapter
Konstantinidis, S. (2019). Internet of Things in Education. In S. Konstantinidis, P. Bamidis, & N. Zary (Eds.), Digital Innovations in Healthcare Education and TrainingElsevier

Healthcare Education is continuously looking for new ways of delivering learning and teaching. Recently the Internet of Things came into the foreground envisioning a future in which digital and physical entities can be linked. While the idea of perva... Read More about Internet of Things in Education.

Trained facilitators’ experiences with structured advance care planning conversations in oncology: an international focus group study within the ACTION trial (2019)
Journal Article
Zwakman, M., On behalf of the ACTION consortium, Pollock, K., Bulli, F., Caswell, G., Červ, B., …Kars, M. C. (2019). Trained facilitators’ experiences with structured advance care planning conversations in oncology: an international focus group study within the ACTION trial. BMC Cancer, 19(1), Article 1026. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-019-6170-7

Abstract Background: In oncology, Health Care Professionals often experience conducting Advance Care Planning (ACP) conversations as difficult and are hesitant to start them. A structured approach could help to overcome this. In the ACTION trial,... Read More about Trained facilitators’ experiences with structured advance care planning conversations in oncology: an international focus group study within the ACTION trial.

Not the story you want? Assessing the fit of a conceptual framework characterising mental health recovery narratives (2019)
Journal Article
Llewellyn-Beardsley, J., Rennick-Egglestone, S., Bradstreet, S., Davidson, L., Franklin, D., Hui, A., …Slade, M. (2020). Not the story you want? Assessing the fit of a conceptual framework characterising mental health recovery narratives. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 55, 295–308. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-019-01791-x

Narratives of recovery have been central to the development of the recovery approach in mental health. However, there has been a lack of clarity around definitions. A recent conceptual framework characterised recovery narratives based on a systematic... Read More about Not the story you want? Assessing the fit of a conceptual framework characterising mental health recovery narratives.

Relationship between Lipohypertrophy, Injection Techniques and Education in adults with Type 2 Diabetes: A Systematic Review (2019)
Journal Article
Thomas, J., Meal, A., & Adams, G. G. (2019). Relationship between Lipohypertrophy, Injection Techniques and Education in adults with Type 2 Diabetes: A Systematic Review. Journal of Diabetes and Treatment, 4(2), https://doi.org/10.29011/2574-7568.001074

Introduction: This systematic review examines Lipohypertrophy (LH) in patients presenting with Type 1/2 Diabetes (T1/2DM) in relation to education and injection techniques. LH is a condition, which occurs in diabetes individuals at injection sights.... Read More about Relationship between Lipohypertrophy, Injection Techniques and Education in adults with Type 2 Diabetes: A Systematic Review.

Towards equity: a qualitative exploration of the implementation and impact of a digital educational intervention for pharmacy professionals in England (2019)
Journal Article
Latif, A., Waring, J., Pollock, K., Solomon, J., Gulzar, N., Choudhary, S., & Anderson, C. (2019). Towards equity: a qualitative exploration of the implementation and impact of a digital educational intervention for pharmacy professionals in England. International Journal for Equity in Health, 18, Article 151. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-019-1069-0

Background Patients belonging to marginalised (medically under-served) groups experience problems with medicines (i.e. non-adherence, side effects) and poorer health outcomes largely due to inequitable access to healthcare (arising from poor governa... Read More about Towards equity: a qualitative exploration of the implementation and impact of a digital educational intervention for pharmacy professionals in England.