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Marital stability and quality in families created by assisted reproduction techniques: A follow-up study (2012)
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An increasing number of children are being born with the use of assisted reproduction techniques such as donor insemination, egg donation and surrogacy. There have been concerns that the use of these third-party reproduction techniques may have a neg... Read More about Marital stability and quality in families created by assisted reproduction techniques: A follow-up study.

To what extent can the core conditions of therapeutic change championed by Carl Rogers (1957) be present in an individual psychodynamic therapy encounter? (2012)
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Content and Focus: Person-centred therapy (PCT) and psychodynamic therapy frequently comprise two of the modalities that counselling psychologists are exposed to during their training, while the key concepts drawn from these domains continue to infor... Read More about To what extent can the core conditions of therapeutic change championed by Carl Rogers (1957) be present in an individual psychodynamic therapy encounter?.

Theoretical directions for an emancipatory concept of patient and public involvement (2012)
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Patient and public involvement (PPI) is now firmly embedded in the policies of the Department of Health in England. This article commences with a review of the changing structures of PPI in English health and social care, largely in terms of their ow... Read More about Theoretical directions for an emancipatory concept of patient and public involvement.

Deconstructing 'barriers' to access: Minority ethnic women and medicalised maternal health services in Vietnam (2012)
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Low maternal health service utilisation amongst minority ethnic women in Vietnam is often attributed to 'traditional customs'. Drawing on secondary data and original, qualitative research amongst Hmong and Thai communities, this paper analyses minori... Read More about Deconstructing 'barriers' to access: Minority ethnic women and medicalised maternal health services in Vietnam.

The secret food diary of a person diagnosed with schizophrenia (2012)
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The objective was to consider the feasibility of food diaries as a method of understanding the dietary behaviour of people with schizophrenia. Examination of the food diaries completed in 1 week by eight patients with schizophrenia. All the patients... Read More about The secret food diary of a person diagnosed with schizophrenia.

Policies on smoking in the casino workplace and their impact on smoking behavior among employees: Case study of casino workers in Macao (2012)
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Exposure to second hand smoke (SHS) is a major health concern. This study sought to examine the smoking behaviors of casino workers in Macao, and explore how workplace smoking policies might affect that behavior. A majority of casino workers who smok... Read More about Policies on smoking in the casino workplace and their impact on smoking behavior among employees: Case study of casino workers in Macao.

Think of your art-eries: Arts participation, behavioural cardiovascular risk factors and mental well-being in deprived communities in London (2012)
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Objectives: To investigate the association of participation in arts and cultural activities with health behaviours and mental well-being in low-income populations in London. Study design: Cross-sectional, community-based observational study. Methods:... Read More about Think of your art-eries: Arts participation, behavioural cardiovascular risk factors and mental well-being in deprived communities in London.

Adapting needs assessment methodologies to build integrated health pathways for people in the criminal justice system (2012)
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Criminal justice health services should be underpinned with good public health evidence about the population's health needs. Health needs assessment methodologies can provide valuable intelligence for commissioners to evaluate the quality of services... Read More about Adapting needs assessment methodologies to build integrated health pathways for people in the criminal justice system.

Cues to fertility: Perceived attractiveness and facial shape predict reproductive success (2012)
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Attractive facial features in women are assumed to signal fertility, but whether facial attractiveness predicts reproductive success in women is still a matter of debate. We investigated the association between facial attractiveness at young adulthoo... Read More about Cues to fertility: Perceived attractiveness and facial shape predict reproductive success.

Time Since Menarche and Sport Participation as Predictors of Self-Objectification: A Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Girls (2012)
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This study aimed to prospectively examine the role of time since menarche and sport participation in the development of self-objectification in adolescent girls. Participants were 141 female adolescents (M = 14. 45 years at Time 1) from Adelaide, Sou... Read More about Time Since Menarche and Sport Participation as Predictors of Self-Objectification: A Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Girls.

The Devon Active Villages Evaluation (DAVE) trial: Study protocol of a stepped wedge cluster randomised trial of a community-level physical activity intervention in rural southwest England (2012)
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Background: Although physical inactivity has been linked with numerous chronic health conditions and overall mortality, the majority of English adults report doing insufficient physical activity. To increase population physical activity levels, resea... Read More about The Devon Active Villages Evaluation (DAVE) trial: Study protocol of a stepped wedge cluster randomised trial of a community-level physical activity intervention in rural southwest England.

The impact of social anxiety on student learning and well-being in higher education (2012)
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Background This paper reports findings from two complementary web-surveys conducted in the UK, in which 787 university students described their experiences of social anxiety.Aims The aim was to explore the impact of social anxiety on student learning... Read More about The impact of social anxiety on student learning and well-being in higher education.

Compression of morbidity outcomes key to investment in public health (2012)
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Trying to be Something You Are Not: Masculine Performances within a Prison Setting (2012)
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Prisons are social communities where people commonly conform to normative institutional and cultural values and ideologies. Conforming as a man in prison may involve performing or projecting prison masculinities to ensure emotional, psychological, an... Read More about Trying to be Something You Are Not: Masculine Performances within a Prison Setting.

Evaluation of a final-year module using online asynchronous discussion (2012)
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This report evaluates the use of online asynchronous discussions as a main delivery strategy in a third (final) year undergraduate counselling psychology module. These discussions were student-facilitated and the discussion assessment criteria emphas... Read More about Evaluation of a final-year module using online asynchronous discussion.

Bristol Girls Dance Project Feasibility Trial: Outcome and process evaluation results (2012)
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Background: Many adolescent girls do not engage in sufficient physical activity (PA). This study examined the feasibility of conducting a cluster randomized controlled trial (RCT) to evaluate an after-school dance program to increase PA among 11-12 y... Read More about Bristol Girls Dance Project Feasibility Trial: Outcome and process evaluation results.

Learning together, working together: An evaluation of experiences of a pilot programme for partnership between unions and management in the health service (2012)
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This article describes an innovative initiative to support partnership working between trade unions and management in three National Health Service Trusts, by means of shared participation in a series of learning and development days. Although there... Read More about Learning together, working together: An evaluation of experiences of a pilot programme for partnership between unions and management in the health service.

Politics and affect (2012)
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Until very recently Political Studies has largely ignored the role of the human passions. Understanding the difference between emotion and affect seems vital to this task, as without the latter emotion becomes cognitivised and over-civilised. In this... Read More about Politics and affect.

(Book Review) Third wave feminism and the politics of gender in late modernity, Shelley Budgeon. Palgrave Macmillan (2011), 208 pages, ISBN: 9780230580909 (2012)
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Book review

Assessing cardiovascular risk in patients with severe mental illness (2012)
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Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a term mainly used to describe disorders affecting the heart and/or the arteries and veins that are associated with atherosclerosis (the build up of fatty deposits and debris inside blood vessels). CVDs, such as coron... Read More about Assessing cardiovascular risk in patients with severe mental illness.