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Educating healthcare professionals to act on the physical health needs of people with serious mental illness: A systematic search for evidence (2011)
Journal Article

Accessible summary: All healthcare professionals caring for people with serious mental illness should be aware of the signs of physical problems and take action to help patients improve their health. Our objective is to develop education for healthca... Read More about Educating healthcare professionals to act on the physical health needs of people with serious mental illness: A systematic search for evidence.

How midwives' discursive practices contribute to the maintenance of the status quo in English maternity care (2011)
Journal Article

Background: poor relationships between maternity care professionals still contribute to poor outcomes for childbearing women, although issues concerning power, gender, professionalism and the medicalisation of birth have been identified and discussed... Read More about How midwives' discursive practices contribute to the maintenance of the status quo in English maternity care.

Beyond greener pastures: Exploring contexts surrounding Filipino nurse migration in Canada through oral history (2011)
Journal Article

Beyond greener pastures: exploring contexts surrounding Filipino nurse migration in Canada through oral history The history of immigrant Filipino nurses in Canada has received little attention, yet Canada is a major receiving country of a growing num... Read More about Beyond greener pastures: Exploring contexts surrounding Filipino nurse migration in Canada through oral history.

Adolescent girls' and parents' views on recruiting and retaining girls into an after-school dance intervention: Implications for extra-curricular physical activity provision (2011)
Journal Article

Background: Many adolescents are not sufficiently active and girls are less active than boys. Physical activity interventions delivered during curriculum time have reported weak effects. More sustained changes in physical activity may be obtained by... Read More about Adolescent girls' and parents' views on recruiting and retaining girls into an after-school dance intervention: Implications for extra-curricular physical activity provision.

Identifying preliminary domains to detect and measure rheumatoid arthritis flares: Report of the OMERACT 10 RA Flare Workshop (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Background. While disease flares in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are a recognized aspect of the disease process, there is limited formative research to describe them. Methods. The Outcome Measures in Rheumatology Clinical Trials (OMERACT) RA Flare Defin... Read More about Identifying preliminary domains to detect and measure rheumatoid arthritis flares: Report of the OMERACT 10 RA Flare Workshop.

OMERACT 10 patient perspective virtual campus: Valuing health; measuring outcomes in rheumatoid arthritis fatigue, RA sleep, arthroplasty, and systemic sclerosis; and clinical significance of changes in health (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This workshop reviewed progress in a number of areas related to patient perspective outcomes that were not specifically included within other areas of the program. A substantial review of the work of the valuing health outcomes group (the "QALY" work... Read More about OMERACT 10 patient perspective virtual campus: Valuing health; measuring outcomes in rheumatoid arthritis fatigue, RA sleep, arthroplasty, and systemic sclerosis; and clinical significance of changes in health.

Patient perspective workshop: Moving towards OMERACT guidelines for choosing or developing instruments to measure patient-reported outcomes (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The workshop Choosing or Developing Instruments held at the Outcome Measures in Rheumatology (OMERACT) 10 meeting was designed to help participants think about the underlying methods of instrument development. Conference pre-reading material and 3 br... Read More about Patient perspective workshop: Moving towards OMERACT guidelines for choosing or developing instruments to measure patient-reported outcomes.

A randomised, controlled study of outcome and cost effectiveness for RA patients attending nurse-led rheumatology clinics: Study protocol of an ongoing nationwide multi-centre study (2011)
Journal Article

Background: The rise in the number of patients with arthritis coupled with understaffing of medical services has seen the deployment of Clinical Nurse Specialists in running nurse-led clinics alongside the rheumatologist clinics. There are no systema... Read More about A randomised, controlled study of outcome and cost effectiveness for RA patients attending nurse-led rheumatology clinics: Study protocol of an ongoing nationwide multi-centre study.

The Active for Life Year 5 (AFLY5) school based cluster randomised controlled trial: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial (2011)
Journal Article

Background: Low levels of physical activity, high levels of sedentary behaviour and low levels of fruit and vegetable consumption are common in children and are associated with adverse health outcomes. The aim of this paper is to describe the protoco... Read More about The Active for Life Year 5 (AFLY5) school based cluster randomised controlled trial: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.

The serious mental illness health improvement profile [HIP]: Study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial (2011)
Journal Article

Background: The serious mental illness Health Improvement Profile [HIP] is a brief pragmatic tool, which enables mental health nurses to work together with patients to screen physical health and take evidence-based action when variables are identifie... Read More about The serious mental illness health improvement profile [HIP]: Study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial.

'Chemobrain': Concentration and memory effects in people receiving chemotherapy - a descriptive phenomenological study (2011)
Journal Article

There is an international literature which claims that there is a link between chemotherapeutic agents and cognitive impairment. Deficits in concentration and memory can have a major impact on decision making about education and careers, and on gener... Read More about 'Chemobrain': Concentration and memory effects in people receiving chemotherapy - a descriptive phenomenological study.

Is prevention better than cure? a re-evaluation of the potential use of nicotine conjugate vaccine in children (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Despite worldwide efforts to reduce the consumption of tobacco, legislative and educational measures have failed to eradicate the practice of cigarette smoking. Indeed, in many populations, particularly in the developing world, its prevalence is incr... Read More about Is prevention better than cure? a re-evaluation of the potential use of nicotine conjugate vaccine in children.

Is the use of symphysis-fundal height measurement and ultrasound examination effective in detecting small or large fetuses? (2011)
Journal Article

We investigated the accuracy of using symphysis pubis-fundal height measurement and ultrasonically derived estimation of fetal weight for identifying small-for-gestational-age (SGA) and large-for-gestational-age (LGA) fetuses. A retrospective cohort... Read More about Is the use of symphysis-fundal height measurement and ultrasound examination effective in detecting small or large fetuses?.

Propriety, process and purpose: Considerations of the use of the telephone interview method in an educational research study (2011)
Journal Article

While the use of the telephone has increased as a means of collecting research data in a range of areas, there are few examples of studies where telephone interviews have been conducted to collect qualitative data. The field of educational research i... Read More about Propriety, process and purpose: Considerations of the use of the telephone interview method in an educational research study.

“Which are the best outcome measures when assessing treatments for lower urinary tract dysfunction?” (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A think tank was convened at the third ICI-RS meeting held in the UK, June 2011, to consider the best outcome measures when assessing treatments for lower urinary tract dysfunction (LUTD). Given the vast array of measures available a focus on questio... Read More about “Which are the best outcome measures when assessing treatments for lower urinary tract dysfunction?”.