All Outputs (272)

The experience of ICD patients and their partners with regards to adjusting to an imposed driving ban: A qualitative study (2001)
Journal Article

This paper describes the impact of an imposed medico-legal driving ban on a group of internal cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) recipients and their partners, an area where there is little good quality research. A qualitative framework was adopted and... Read More about The experience of ICD patients and their partners with regards to adjusting to an imposed driving ban: A qualitative study.

The prevention of childhood unintentional injury (2001)
Journal Article

Unintentional injury is the main cause of death and a major cause of ill health and disability in childhood. A steeper social gradient is found for injury than any other cause of death. Children are particularly vulnerable to injury because of their... Read More about The prevention of childhood unintentional injury.

Correlates and predictors of self-reported psychological and physical morbidity in chronic caregiver stress (2001)
Journal Article

An investigation was conducted to explore: (1) whether psychological and physical morbidity share similar psychosocial determinants; (2) the long-term stability of these determinants; and (3) the role of neuroticism in predicting psychological and ph... Read More about Correlates and predictors of self-reported psychological and physical morbidity in chronic caregiver stress.

Midwifery in Brazil (2001)
Journal Article

The safer primary schools project pack. Practical strategies for safety initiatives in schools (2001)
Other

People in communities initiative: An interim evaluation (2001)
Report

Lesbian and gay parents: Resistance and normalisation (2001)
Journal Article

The psychology and politics of lesbian and gay parenting: Having our cake and eating it? (2001)
Journal Article

What works in preventing unintentional injuries in children and young adolescents? An updated systematic review (2001)
Report

Understanding relationships in context as a core competence for psychiatric rehabilitation (2001)
Journal Article

Mapping the social consequences of alcohol consumption (2001)
Book Chapter

Meeting the needs of non-UK trained European physiotherapists seeking employment within the United Kingdom (2001)
Journal Article

Adaptation courses aim to help non-UK trained European physiotherapists to gain United Kingdom State registration. Recent experience of a period of adaptation supported by the University of the West of England (UWE) indicates that the adaptation peri... Read More about Meeting the needs of non-UK trained European physiotherapists seeking employment within the United Kingdom.

Equipment: Is it the answer? An audit of equipment provision (2001)
Journal Article

Whose evidence counts? An exploration of health professionals' perceptions of evidence-based practice, focusing on the maternity services (2001)
Journal Article

Objectives: to gain an insight into how health professionals in the maternity services define evidence and how they perceive different types of evidence are valued in maternity care. Design: using a qualitative approach data were collected by semi-st... Read More about Whose evidence counts? An exploration of health professionals' perceptions of evidence-based practice, focusing on the maternity services.

Consensus and variation between speech and language therapists in the assessment and selection of preschool children for intervention: A body of knowledge or idiosyncratic decisions? (2001)
Journal Article

The aim was to investigate consensus between speech and language therapists (SLT) during the initial assessment of preschool children. A multimethod design was used. The qualitative component provided SLT's own views of the process as the starting po... Read More about Consensus and variation between speech and language therapists in the assessment and selection of preschool children for intervention: A body of knowledge or idiosyncratic decisions?.

Personal and professional development: A survey of radiographers employed in the South West Region (2001)
Journal Article

Purpose: To identify the personal and professional development characteristics amongst a group of qualified radiographers, employed in the South West Region. Methods: A survey design was employed to explore the characteristics relating to personal an... Read More about Personal and professional development: A survey of radiographers employed in the South West Region.

An investigation into the degree of difference in image quality between images taken on varying speed film-screen systems (2001)
Journal Article

Purpose: Film-screen speed is one of the most critical factors affecting radiation dose to the patient, with faster speed systems requiring less radiation dose than slower speed systems for equivalent examinations. However, this is not without a cost... Read More about An investigation into the degree of difference in image quality between images taken on varying speed film-screen systems.

Policy convergence: Restructuring long-term care in Australia and the UK (2001)
Journal Article

Australia and the UK have historically had very different systems of long-term care for older persons and others. Recent restructuring has led to interesting convergences of those systems - in large part, we argue, because of the limited set of polic... Read More about Policy convergence: Restructuring long-term care in Australia and the UK.

Parents' quality of life and respiratory symptoms in young children with mild wheeze (2001)
Journal Article

Sonographic detection of a meniscal cyst (2001)
Journal Article

Purpose: This case report formed part of a larger study undertaken to establish whether certain types of knee pathology can be assessed using diagnostic ultrasound. Methods: A patient with a persistently painful knee joint was scanned using sonograph... Read More about Sonographic detection of a meniscal cyst.