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The romantic experiences of adolescents with a visible difference: Exploring concerns, protective factors and support needs (2012)
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Injuries or conditions that affect appearance can increase adolescents' risk of psychosocial and interpersonal difficulties and may also impact on romantic relationships-an important aspect of adolescent development.A mixed method online approach exp... Read More about The romantic experiences of adolescents with a visible difference: Exploring concerns, protective factors and support needs.

Community participation and recovery for mental health service users: An action research inquiry (2012)
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Introduction: The social inclusion of individuals with mental health problems is an issue for mental health services, for the individuals who experience stigma, discrimination and exclusion, and for society at large. To develop community-orientated s... Read More about Community participation and recovery for mental health service users: An action research inquiry.

Obesity is a risk factor for musculoskeletal pain in adolescents: Findings from a population-based cohort (2012)
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Obesity is a risk factor for fibromyalgia in adults, but whether a similar relationship exists in children is uncertain. This study examined whether obesity is associated with reporting of musculoskeletal pain, including chronic regional pain (CRP) a... Read More about Obesity is a risk factor for musculoskeletal pain in adolescents: Findings from a population-based cohort.

A fresh look at the predictors of naming accuracy and errors in Alzheimer's disease (2012)
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In recent years, a considerable number of studies have tried to establish which characteristics of objects and their names predict the responses of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) in the picture-naming task. The frequency of use of words and t... Read More about A fresh look at the predictors of naming accuracy and errors in Alzheimer's disease.

Redeveloping the research section of Meningitis UK’s website: A case study report (2012)
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Using service rationalisation to build a research network: Lessons from the centralisation of UK services for children with cleft lip and palate (2012)
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In the UK around a thousand children are born annually with a cleft lip and/or palate that requires treatment. In the last decade services have been centralised in the UK reducing the 57 centres operating on these children in 1998, down to 11 centres... Read More about Using service rationalisation to build a research network: Lessons from the centralisation of UK services for children with cleft lip and palate.

Food sustainability education as a route to healthier eating: Evaluation of a multi-component school programme in English primary schools (2012)
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Promising approaches to the promotion of healthier eating among children in primary school settings include the opportunity to practise practical cooking and growing, promoting the take up of healthier school meals and nutritional education. However,... Read More about Food sustainability education as a route to healthier eating: Evaluation of a multi-component school programme in English primary schools.

Impact of metacognitive acceptance on body dissatisfaction and negative affect: Engagement and efficacy (2012)
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Objective: To investigate engagement in metacognitive acceptance and subsequent efficacy with respect to decreasing 2 risk factors for disordered eating, body dissatisfaction (BD), and negative affect (NA). Method: In a pilot experiment, 20 female un... Read More about Impact of metacognitive acceptance on body dissatisfaction and negative affect: Engagement and efficacy.

The effect of stimulus number on the stability of responses for an extensive heat pain test (2012)
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Background.The use of relatively lower stimulus presentation numbers in quantitative sensory testing may influence the computation accuracy of participants' discriminability. The minimum trial number for obtaining a stabilized participant discriminat... Read More about The effect of stimulus number on the stability of responses for an extensive heat pain test.

Transdermal fentanyl in deliberate overdose in pediatrics (2012)
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The use of the fentanyl skin patch to provide pain relief in chronic pain conditions and oncology in adult practice has been common for several years, and an increase in use is now being seen in pediatric practice. Its use in drug misuse and suicide... Read More about Transdermal fentanyl in deliberate overdose in pediatrics.

Out of sequence communications can affect causal judgement (2012)
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In some practical uncertain situations decision makers are presented with described events that are out of sequence when having to make a causal attribution. A theoretical perspective concerning the causal coherence of the explanation is developed to... Read More about Out of sequence communications can affect causal judgement.

Pain intensity and quality of life perception in children with hypermobility syndrome (2012)
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Hypermobility syndrome (HMS) is a major source of morbidity in children. Impaired quality of life (QoL) has been observed recently in adults with HMS; however, this issue is yet to be investigated in children with this condition. This study compared... Read More about Pain intensity and quality of life perception in children with hypermobility syndrome.

Questioning the use value of qualitative research findings (2012)
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In this paper the use value of qualitative research findings to nurses in practice is questioned. More precisely it is argued that, insofar as action follows belief then, in all but the rarest of cases, the beliefs that nurses in practice can justifi... Read More about Questioning the use value of qualitative research findings.

Identifying facilitators and barriers for home injury prevention interventions for pre-school children: A systematic review of the quantitative literature (2012)
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Injuries are the leading cause of childhood death internationally; steep social gradients exist in mortality and morbidity. The majority of pre-school injuries occur in the home, but implementing research into practice for injury prevention has recei... Read More about Identifying facilitators and barriers for home injury prevention interventions for pre-school children: A systematic review of the quantitative literature.

Somatosensory abnormalities in knee OA (2012)
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Objective: The aim of this study was to use quantitative sensory testing (QST) to explore the range and prevalence of somatosensory abnormalities demonstrated by patients with advanced knee OA. Methods: One hundred and seven knee OA patients and 50 a... Read More about Somatosensory abnormalities in knee OA.

Facilitating and disrupting speech perception in word deafness (2012)
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Background: Word deafness is a rare condition where pathologically degraded speech perception results in impaired repetition and comprehension but otherwise intact linguistic skills. Although impaired linguistic systems in aphasia resulting from dama... Read More about Facilitating and disrupting speech perception in word deafness.

Tackling ageing continence through theory, tools & technology (TACT3) (2012)
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After dementia, nothing is more feared by older people than the loss of continence. It is often the reason many people enter care facilities and can contribute to the breakdown of caring relationships. This paper reports on a three-year research proj... Read More about Tackling ageing continence through theory, tools & technology (TACT3).

Wernicke's aphasia reflects a combination of acoustic-phonological and semantic control deficits: A case-series comparison of Wernicke's aphasia, semantic dementia and semantic aphasia (2012)
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Wernicke's aphasia (WA) is the classical neurological model of comprehension impairment and, as a result, the posterior temporal lobe is assumed to be critical to semantic cognition. This conclusion is potentially confused by (a) the existence of pat... Read More about Wernicke's aphasia reflects a combination of acoustic-phonological and semantic control deficits: A case-series comparison of Wernicke's aphasia, semantic dementia and semantic aphasia.

Revealing and quantifying the impaired phonological analysis underpinning impaired comprehension in Wernicke's aphasia (2012)
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Wernicke's aphasia is a condition which results in severely disrupted language comprehension following a lesion to the left temporo-parietal region. A phonological analysis deficit has traditionally been held to be at the root of the comprehension im... Read More about Revealing and quantifying the impaired phonological analysis underpinning impaired comprehension in Wernicke's aphasia.

Molecular mechanism of Myosin Va recruitment to dense core secretory granules (2012)
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The brain-spliced isoform of Myosin Va (BR-MyoVa) plays an important role in the transport of dense core secretory granules (SGs) to the plasma membrane in hormone and neuropeptide-producing cells. The molecular composition of the protein complex tha... Read More about Molecular mechanism of Myosin Va recruitment to dense core secretory granules.