All Outputs (9)

Improving public health through housing: Critical reflections on current housing delivery approaches in England (2024)
Thesis
McClatchey, R. Improving public health through housing: Critical reflections on current housing delivery approaches in England. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/11622911

Housing may be the most powerful and underused tool at our disposal to improve population health. Despite substantial evidence showing which features of housing are beneficial or detrimental to health, too often people are living in homes which have... Read More about Improving public health through housing: Critical reflections on current housing delivery approaches in England.

An evaluation of blood transfusion service in Saudi Arabia (2024)
Thesis
Mohamoud, A. An evaluation of blood transfusion service in Saudi Arabia. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/10437822

Background: Blood transfusion is needed to support the care given to many medical and surgical patients, and can reduce morbidity and mortality. The blood transfusion service (BTS) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is hospital-based. This study ai... Read More about An evaluation of blood transfusion service in Saudi Arabia.

Strategies used by autistic adults to improve wellbeing: An exploratory mixed methods study in the UK (2024)
Thesis
Neville, F. Strategies used by autistic adults to improve wellbeing: An exploratory mixed methods study in the UK. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/11129780

The wellbeing of autistic adults has been largely ignored in the literature, but recently, neurodiversity-informed researchers have begun to ask autistic adults to define their experiences, needs, and self-managed strategies to improve and maintain t... Read More about Strategies used by autistic adults to improve wellbeing: An exploratory mixed methods study in the UK.

The nuance of compassion: An exploration using reflexive thematic analysis of how NHS staff working in Older Person’s Mental Health talk about their experience and understanding of compassion (2024)
Thesis
Wilson, R. The nuance of compassion: An exploration using reflexive thematic analysis of how NHS staff working in Older Person’s Mental Health talk about their experience and understanding of compassion. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/11530695

According to NHS Wales, compassion is one of the core values of health care (Wales.nhs.uk, 2020) and can be defined as the emotional response to another’s pain or suffering, involving an authentic desire to help (Goetz et al., 2010). Caring for the h... Read More about The nuance of compassion: An exploration using reflexive thematic analysis of how NHS staff working in Older Person’s Mental Health talk about their experience and understanding of compassion.

Living well with pain while seeing an osteopath: An interpretative phenomenological analysis (2023)
Thesis
Miller, D. Living well with pain while seeing an osteopath: An interpretative phenomenological analysis. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/11104902

Background: In the United Kingdom 8 million people are living with chronic pain and health practitioners are encouraged to move towards a biopsychosocial framework to account for the unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with pain. T... Read More about Living well with pain while seeing an osteopath: An interpretative phenomenological analysis.

Developing a complex intervention to reduce subsequent healthcare use for patients presenting to UK emergency departments with acute headache (2023)
Thesis
Roberts, T. Developing a complex intervention to reduce subsequent healthcare use for patients presenting to UK emergency departments with acute headache. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/10888287

Understanding the factors that drive subsequent healthcare resource use in patients who have presented to UK Emergency Departments (EDs) with acute headache, has potential patient and health system benefits. It is important that clinicians provide th... Read More about Developing a complex intervention to reduce subsequent healthcare use for patients presenting to UK emergency departments with acute headache.

The experiences of rock climbing for male British veterans living with combat trauma: An IPA study (2023)
Thesis
Sheen Harker, L. The experiences of rock climbing for male British veterans living with combat trauma: An IPA study. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/10604715

Background: Soldiers are at risk of exposure to combat trauma and experience high rates of conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) (Stevelink et al., 2018). However, several issues currently exist with the first-line psychological tr... Read More about The experiences of rock climbing for male British veterans living with combat trauma: An IPA study.

The impact of participatory budgeting on health and well-being: a qualitative case study of a deprived community in London (2023)
Thesis
Dan-Ogosi, I. The impact of participatory budgeting on health and well-being: a qualitative case study of a deprived community in London. (Thesis). University of East London. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/10910204

Background Participatory budgeting (PB) is a democratic innovation that enables residents to participate directly and collectively decide how to spend public money in their community. Research demonstrates PB improves social well-being through gove... Read More about The impact of participatory budgeting on health and well-being: a qualitative case study of a deprived community in London.

Neural networks underlying essential tremor (2021)
Thesis
Woodward, K. Neural networks underlying essential tremor. (Thesis). University of Bristol. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/11138225

Essential Tremor (ET) is a common movement disorder, causing a postural or kinetic tremor, and has an unknown aetiology. Accumulating evidence suggests abnormalities occurring within cerebellar circuits underlie the pathogenesis of ET, resulting in a... Read More about Neural networks underlying essential tremor.