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Healthcare leaders and professionals’ perspectives of the ICON programme to prevent abusive head trauma in infants: A qualitative study (2025)
Journal Article

Background: Abusive head trauma (AHT) in infants is the most common abusive injury in young children, and increased awareness has resulted in the development of prevention programmes. Most research evaluating AHT prevention programmes report parental... Read More about Healthcare leaders and professionals’ perspectives of the ICON programme to prevent abusive head trauma in infants: A qualitative study.

Trajectories of change in experiences of Multiple Sclerosis: Insights from an online group psychological intervention (2025)
Journal Article

Purpose: Literature on psychological interventions for people affected by MS highlights the necessity for integrative and flexible approaches. Here, we present a subset of the qualitative findings of a feasibility and acceptability study of an 8-week... Read More about Trajectories of change in experiences of Multiple Sclerosis: Insights from an online group psychological intervention.

A Scottish survey exploring diagnostic radiography students’ attitudes towards a career in nuclear medicine (2025)
Journal Article

Introduction
The career aspirations of undergraduate radiography students have previously been surveyed but there is little in the literature exploring nuclear medicine as a career specialism. This study aimed to explore the relationship between cli... Read More about A Scottish survey exploring diagnostic radiography students’ attitudes towards a career in nuclear medicine.

Evaluating the effectiveness of a Roblox video game (Super U Story) in improving body image among children and adolescents in the United States: Randomized controlled trial (2025)
Journal Article

Body dissatisfaction is a global public health issue negatively impacting young people's mental and physical well-being, underscoring an urgent need to develop early interventions. Emerging evidence suggests that microinterventions are acceptable and... Read More about Evaluating the effectiveness of a Roblox video game (Super U Story) in improving body image among children and adolescents in the United States: Randomized controlled trial.

Emotional Skills Groups: A qualitative study exploring client experiences of online emotional skills group interventions in an NHS Talking Therapies service (2025)
Journal Article

Background: Many people treated in Talking Therapies services have highly complex needs which are not always met by the treatment offered. Emotional skills groups based on adaptations of dialectical behavioural therapy (DBT) have been offered to meet... Read More about Emotional Skills Groups: A qualitative study exploring client experiences of online emotional skills group interventions in an NHS Talking Therapies service.

Invasive urodynamic investigations in the management of women with refractory overactive bladder symptoms: FUTURE, a superiority RCT and economic evaluation (2025)
Journal Article

Background Overactive bladder is a common problem affecting the United Kingdom adult female population. Symptoms include urinary urgency, with or without urgency incontinence, increased daytime urinary frequency and nocturia. Initial conservative tre... Read More about Invasive urodynamic investigations in the management of women with refractory overactive bladder symptoms: FUTURE, a superiority RCT and economic evaluation.

The visible difference parenting toolkit: Development of an ACT-based intervention to improve the wellbeing of parents and caregivers of children with appearance-affecting conditions and injuries (2025)
Journal Article

Objectives: Caregivers of children with appearance-affecting conditions or injuries can experience common psychosocial challenges, regardless of the cause or nature of their child’s visible difference. Despite these common challenges, there is a lack... Read More about The visible difference parenting toolkit: Development of an ACT-based intervention to improve the wellbeing of parents and caregivers of children with appearance-affecting conditions and injuries.

Bridging the gap: Exploring the potential of virtual reality for supporting autistic individuals in interview and recruitment processes through a realist review (2025)
Journal Article

The aim of this realist review was to systematically analyse the peer-reviewed academic literature, reports and blogs to determine: (1) the mechanisms and contexts by which recruitment and early employment experiences lead to poor outcomes for autist... Read More about Bridging the gap: Exploring the potential of virtual reality for supporting autistic individuals in interview and recruitment processes through a realist review.

What helps or hinders GPs and nurses discussing physical activity with patients with heart failure, and referring patients as appropriate to community exercise resources? (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Abstract - The Problem
Nearly 1 million people in the UK live with heart failure (HF). Most people diagnosed with HF are managed in primary care. Physical activity (PA) can increase wellbeing, reduce hospitalisation and improve mortality rates for p... Read More about What helps or hinders GPs and nurses discussing physical activity with patients with heart failure, and referring patients as appropriate to community exercise resources?.

The acceptability of musculoskeletal community appointment days: A mixed‐methods service evaluation (2025)
Journal Article

Background: Musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions represent an increasing challenge within the NHS. Rising demand has driven a national shift towards more community‐based care and supported self‐management. Community Appointment Days (CAD) are community‐b... Read More about The acceptability of musculoskeletal community appointment days: A mixed‐methods service evaluation.

Challenges to overcome in a randomised trial for Proper Understanding of Recurrent Stress Urinary Incontinence Treatment in women: The PURSUIT RCT (2025)
Journal Article

Recurrence or persistence of symptoms after interventions to treat stress urinary incontinence in women is common, but without robust evidence to base treatment recommendations. To investigate whether endoscopic or surgical treatments for stress urin... Read More about Challenges to overcome in a randomised trial for Proper Understanding of Recurrent Stress Urinary Incontinence Treatment in women: The PURSUIT RCT.

Implementation of a hospice community service redesign: Qualitative research identifying lessons learned (2025)
Journal Article

Background: The need to improve equity of access to palliative care is well recognized; however, much less is known about how new models of hospice community services can be successfully introduced. Aim: We aimed to capture learning from the implemen... Read More about Implementation of a hospice community service redesign: Qualitative research identifying lessons learned.

Provision of multidisciplinary specialist pain services for people with chronic cancer-related late effects pain across England (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Introduction: Pain can be a significant problem for cancer survivors. The provision of pain services in England for people with cancer-related late effects pain, and the epidemiology of service users, is poorly understood.(1–3)
Aim: To identify th... Read More about Provision of multidisciplinary specialist pain services for people with chronic cancer-related late effects pain across England.