Outputs (314)

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.

A systematic review of interventions that aim to reduce implicit and explicit weight biases among fitness professionals (2024)
Journal Article

Despite the high prevalence of weight bias among fitness professionals, few resources are currently available to educate fitness professionals about weight bias and no systematic review of weight bias interventions has been conducted among this popul... Read More about A systematic review of interventions that aim to reduce implicit and explicit weight biases among fitness professionals.

Contracture prevention: Knowledge, understanding, and skills of community occupational therapists and physiotherapists: A survey (2024)
Journal Article

Spliceosomal vulnerability of MYCN-amplified neuroblastoma is contingent on PRMT5-mediated regulation of epitranscriptomic and metabolomic pathways (2024)
Journal Article

Approximately 50% of poor prognosis neuroblastomas arise due to MYCN over-expression. We previously demonstrated that MYCN and PRMT5 proteins interact and PRMT5 knockdown led to apoptosis of MYCN amplified (MNA) neuroblastoma. Here we evaluate the hi... Read More about Spliceosomal vulnerability of MYCN-amplified neuroblastoma is contingent on PRMT5-mediated regulation of epitranscriptomic and metabolomic pathways.

Video gaming and sleep in adults: A systematic review (2024)
Journal Article

Video games (VGs) are one of the most common forms of entertainment and their diffusion is constantly increasing. Although largely studied in the framework of their relationship with mental and physical health, the relationship of VGs with sleep are... Read More about Video gaming and sleep in adults: A systematic review.

Geographical differences in the perspective of osteoarthritis care management: A cross-sectional study in Italy, Sweden and Russia (2024)
Journal Article

Background: This study aimed to explore the awareness, experiences, and beliefs of individuals with osteoarthritis (OA) regarding their healthcare management, along with assessing their overall satisfaction levels.

Methods: A cross-sectional onli... Read More about Geographical differences in the perspective of osteoarthritis care management: A cross-sectional study in Italy, Sweden and Russia.

Lessons learnt from the implementation of the Covid-19 vaccination programme in the Southwest of England (2024)
Journal Article

Background
Vaccination remains one of the most successful public health interventions in preventing severe disease and death. The roll-out of Covid-19 vaccination programmes has helped protect billions of people around the world against Covid-19. Mo... Read More about Lessons learnt from the implementation of the Covid-19 vaccination programme in the Southwest of England.

Identifying the key determinants of a community pharmacy based bladder and bowel service (2024)
Journal Article

Objectives
Community pharmacies and their personnel present an opportunity to implement new services for bladder and bowel continence care. Underpinned by the COM-B model of capability (C), opportunity (O), motivation (M), Behaviour (B)), this study... Read More about Identifying the key determinants of a community pharmacy based bladder and bowel service.