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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Men accepting rewards for sex, sexual content and performance: A qualitative study of the health and wellbeing needs of 'male sex workers' (2024)
Thesis

Background
Male sex workers continue to be underrepresented in both the academic literature and across health care provision. Previous attempts to address health and wellbeing needs are limited to a sexual health focus or are based on the comparativ... Read More about Men accepting rewards for sex, sexual content and performance: A qualitative study of the health and wellbeing needs of 'male sex workers'.

Operation CHOLINERGIC (2024)
Digital Artefact

#OperationCHOLINERGIC concluded at UWE Bristol on Friday after an intense 3-days of high-fidelity simulation. The scenario for this year’s event depicted an agricultural disaster, in which a group of contractors were undertaking a renovation project... Read More about Operation CHOLINERGIC.