Outputs (323)

Heart failure and participation in physical activity (The HAPPY + study): Health professional support and availability of community physical activity services (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Abstract

Background Nearly 1 million people in the UK are living with heart failure (HF). Most people diagnosed with HF are managed in primary care. Physical activity can increase wellbeing, reduce hospitalisation and improve mortality rates for... Read More about Heart failure and participation in physical activity (The HAPPY + study): Health professional support and availability of community physical activity services.

From classroom to clinic: Innovating radiotherapy treatment planning education through real-world end-to-end case study simulation with an anthropomorphic phantom (2025)
Journal Article

The incorporation of simulation-based learning in healthcare education, particularly in radiotherapy, is necessary for enhancing training and professional competencies to serve patient safety and treatment accuracy. This study aimed to incorporate an... Read More about From classroom to clinic: Innovating radiotherapy treatment planning education through real-world end-to-end case study simulation with an anthropomorphic phantom.

Physical activity support for people with heart failure: mixed-methods study protocol (2025)
Journal Article

Heart failure (HF) is a common condition affecting 1-2 in every hundred adults in the UK and one in six people aged over 85 years. Physical activity is important for people with HF (PWHF) as it can increase exercise capacity and is shown to improve q... Read More about Physical activity support for people with heart failure: mixed-methods study protocol.

Patient perspectives on the impact of appearance and weight changes attributed to systemic glucocorticoid treatment of rheumatic diseases (2025)
Journal Article

Objectives To explore patients’ perspectives on the impact of appearance changes attributed to glucocorticoid treatment. Methods We conducted a secondary inductive thematic analysis of the ‘Steroid PRO’ semi-structured interviews with patients with r... Read More about Patient perspectives on the impact of appearance and weight changes attributed to systemic glucocorticoid treatment of rheumatic diseases.

Does daily happiness and nervousness differ in adolescents and young adults in three Latin American cities: An experience sampling study (2025)
Journal Article

Background:

Experience Sampling Methods (ESM) have been used in clinical research to collect data on emotional and behavioural states in real life contexts among different populations. Although the use of ESM in mental health has increased, it has... Read More about Does daily happiness and nervousness differ in adolescents and young adults in three Latin American cities: An experience sampling study.

Parental engagement with complementary feeding information and their information-seeking behaviours in the United Kingdom (2025)
Thesis

Background - Complementary feeding describes the transition from milk to family foods from around six months until two years of age. Parents often seek information about complementary feeding to guide their feeding behaviours.

Aims - To explore ho... Read More about Parental engagement with complementary feeding information and their information-seeking behaviours in the United Kingdom.

Development and validation of a patient knowledge questionnaire for rheumatoid arthritis (PKQ-RA-11) in Danish and German (2025)
Journal Article

Objective
Patient education is a cornerstone of rheumatology care, enabling patients to effectively and safely manage their condition. Standardized patient knowledge assessments are essential for benchmarking care quality and tailoring education to... Read More about Development and validation of a patient knowledge questionnaire for rheumatoid arthritis (PKQ-RA-11) in Danish and German.

Measuring the impact of managing incontinence on people with dementia and informal caregivers: Cognitive debriefing interviews of ‘ICIQ-Cog’ (English translation) (2025)
Journal Article

Aim:
The ICIQ-Cog questionnaire was developed in German to measure the impact of incontinence and/or toilet use problems on people living with dementia and their paid carers and unpaid caregivers; it has been translated into English. This study aime... Read More about Measuring the impact of managing incontinence on people with dementia and informal caregivers: Cognitive debriefing interviews of ‘ICIQ-Cog’ (English translation).

Exploring patient experience of rehabilitation within the surgical pathway for lower limb soft tissue sarcoma in the UK: A single-centre study (2025)
Journal Article

The primary treatment for localised soft tissue sarcoma (STS) is surgery. Surgery for lower limb sarcoma is associated with poorer functional outcomes than other anatomical sites. Rehabilitation is essential, yet provision is not standardised, and pa... Read More about Exploring patient experience of rehabilitation within the surgical pathway for lower limb soft tissue sarcoma in the UK: A single-centre study.

Treatment utilisation and satisfaction with management in individuals with osteoarthritis and metabolic multimorbidity: A cross‐sectional multi‐country study (2025)
Journal Article

Purpose: To compare treatment utilisation for osteoarthritis (OA) and satisfaction with OA management between individuals with and without comorbid metabolic conditions (e.g., diabetes, obesity, dyslipidaemia, hypertension). Methods: Secondary analys... Read More about Treatment utilisation and satisfaction with management in individuals with osteoarthritis and metabolic multimorbidity: A cross‐sectional multi‐country study.

Decision support for building thermal comfort monitoring with a sustainable GenAI system (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Staff expenses can account for up to 70% of business costs, with indoor conditions playing a critical role in employee health, behavior, and productivity. Optimal thermal comfort, typically around 21°C with 40-70% humidity, maximizes productivity. Ho... Read More about Decision support for building thermal comfort monitoring with a sustainable GenAI system.

Do we have sufficient evidence to derive innovative approaches to assessing unmet need, delivering education on bladder and bowel continence health, and providing a better environment for joint decision-making? ICI-RS 2024 (2025)
Journal Article

Context: Improved continence outcomes are reliant on identification of unmet need, education delivery, and shared decision‐making. The evidence base on which to derive innovative approaches in these areas was unclear.

Methods: A debate held at the... Read More about Do we have sufficient evidence to derive innovative approaches to assessing unmet need, delivering education on bladder and bowel continence health, and providing a better environment for joint decision-making? ICI-RS 2024.

Effects of partnered dance in people with Parkinson’s (PWP) - A scoping review (2024)
Journal Article

ABSTRACT

Background: The European Physiotherapy Guidelines for Parkinson’s Disease (APPDE) suggest partnered dance shows benefits for people with Parkinson’s (PWP). However, the details of partnered dance for PWP are still ambiguous with regards t... Read More about Effects of partnered dance in people with Parkinson’s (PWP) - A scoping review.

Understanding fitness professionals’ weight biases and uptake of weight-inclusive practices: Findings from a mixed-methods survey (2024)
Journal Article

Weight bias is highly prevalent in the fitness industry, posing significant challenges for fat people seeking to engage in health-promoting behaviours, such as physical activity. Despite small ideological shifts in the fitness industry towards more w... Read More about Understanding fitness professionals’ weight biases and uptake of weight-inclusive practices: Findings from a mixed-methods survey.

What factors are associated with patients being active partners in the management fibromyalgia? A mixed methods systematic review protocol (2024)
Journal Article

Background: Fibromyalgia Syndrome (FMS) is characterised by widespread and persistent pain, intrusive fatigue and cognitive issues, affecting approximately 5.4% of the UK population. Non‐pharmacological therapies and education are current management... Read More about What factors are associated with patients being active partners in the management fibromyalgia? A mixed methods systematic review protocol.

Facilitators and barriers to access to midwife-led birth settings for racialized women in the UK: A scoping review (2024)
Journal Article

Background
In UK maternity care, racialized women have worse experiences and clinical outcomes than White women. Midwife-led birth settings (MLBS), including home births and midwife-led units, both freestanding and alongside hospitals, are all avail... Read More about Facilitators and barriers to access to midwife-led birth settings for racialized women in the UK: A scoping review.

High-Fidelity Simulation: How to get the most out of it? (2024)
Newspaper / Magazine

Simulation-Based-Learning (SBL) is a rapidly developing discipline within contemporary healthcare education, especially amongst teaching and learning institutions wishing to be recognised as leaders of ‘practice-led’ education. The necessity to optim... Read More about High-Fidelity Simulation: How to get the most out of it?.

A qualitative exploratory study into medical, nursing and allied health professional experiences of elective withdrawal of non-invasive ventilation in a motor neurone disease cohort (2024)
Journal Article

Rationale, aims and objectives With absence of a cure, the mainstay of management for patients with motor neurone disease (MND) is holistic supportive care and symptom control. Non-invasive ventilation (NIV) can provide relief from distressing dyspno... Read More about A qualitative exploratory study into medical, nursing and allied health professional experiences of elective withdrawal of non-invasive ventilation in a motor neurone disease cohort.

Rotator cuff-related shoulder pain (RCRSP): Semistructured patient interviews to explore the barriers and enablers to rehabilitation exercises (2024)
Journal Article

This study aimed to explore the barriers and enablers to physiotherapist-prescribed rehabilitation exercises for people with rotator cuff-related shoulder pain (RCRSP) and to guide the development of a theoretically informed intervention for people w... Read More about Rotator cuff-related shoulder pain (RCRSP): Semistructured patient interviews to explore the barriers and enablers to rehabilitation exercises.

Rehabilitation interventions for adults With complex regional pain syndrome: A scoping review protocol (2024)
Journal Article

Objectives: This scoping review will explore the literature related to rehabilitation interventions for the treatment of adults living with complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), describe the domains and outcome measures used to assess their effectiv... Read More about Rehabilitation interventions for adults With complex regional pain syndrome: A scoping review protocol.