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Ensuring robust OSCE assessments: a reflective account from a Scottish School of Nursing (2024)
Journal Article
Sharp, S., Snowden, A., Stables, I., & Paterson, R. (2024). Ensuring robust OSCE assessments: a reflective account from a Scottish School of Nursing. Nurse Education in Practice, 78, Article 104021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nepr.2024.104021

Aim
This paper reflects on the experience of one Scottish University in conducting a face-to-face Objective Structured Examination (OSCE) for large cohorts of student nurses. It outlines the challenges experienced and learning gained.

Borton’s mo... Read More about Ensuring robust OSCE assessments: a reflective account from a Scottish School of Nursing.

Can proactive support prevent unscheduled care? A controlled observational retrospective cohort study in cancer patients in Scotland (2024)
Journal Article
Snowden, A., Young, J., & Savinc, J. (2024). Can proactive support prevent unscheduled care? A controlled observational retrospective cohort study in cancer patients in Scotland. BMC Health Services Research, 24, Article 457. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-024-10923-2

Introduction: Preventative spend is a global health and social care strategy. Improving Cancer Journeys (ICJ) is a proactive, holistic, multidisciplinary project consistent with this agenda, currently being rolled out across Scotland and parts of UK.... Read More about Can proactive support prevent unscheduled care? A controlled observational retrospective cohort study in cancer patients in Scotland.

Holistic needs assessment in outpatient cancer care: a randomised controlled trial (2023)
Journal Article
Snowden, A., Young, J., Roberge, D., Schipani, S., Murray, E., Richard, C., Lussier, M.-T., & White, C. (2023). Holistic needs assessment in outpatient cancer care: a randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open, 13(5), Article e066829. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-066829

Design Analyst blinded, parallel, multi-centre, randomised controlled trial (RCT).

Participants People with confirmed diagnoses of cancer (head and neck, skin or colorectal) attending follow-up consultation 3 months post-treatment between 2015 and... Read More about Holistic needs assessment in outpatient cancer care: a randomised controlled trial.

Can mental healthcare for Muslim patients be person-centred without consideration of religious identity? A concurrent analysis (2022)
Journal Article
Jabeen, T., & Snowden, A. (2022). Can mental healthcare for Muslim patients be person-centred without consideration of religious identity? A concurrent analysis. Nurse Education in Practice, 64, Article 103449. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nepr.2022.103449

Background
Muslims constitute the largest, fastest growing religious minority in the UK. Globally, nurses are legally, morally and ethically obliged to provide non-discriminatory, person-centred, culturally sensitive care. This obligation includes s... Read More about Can mental healthcare for Muslim patients be person-centred without consideration of religious identity? A concurrent analysis.

Men's Perspectives of Caring for a Female Partner with Cancer: A Longitudinal Narrative Study (2022)
Journal Article
Young, J., Snowden, A., Kyle, R., & Stenhouse, R. (2022). Men's Perspectives of Caring for a Female Partner with Cancer: A Longitudinal Narrative Study. Health and Social Care in the Community, 30(6), e5346-e5355. https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.13956

Increasing evidence on men's involvement in informal, unpaid care has not transferred to the research literature around men's experiences. The aim was to explore the perspectives of men who are caring for a female partner with cancer over 1 year. Lon... Read More about Men's Perspectives of Caring for a Female Partner with Cancer: A Longitudinal Narrative Study.

Chaplains Work in Primary Care (2022)
Journal Article
Snowden, A., Telfer, I., Vandenhoeck, A., Verhoef, J., & Gibbon, A. (2023). Chaplains Work in Primary Care. Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy, 29(2), 211-228. https://doi.org/10.1080/08854726.2022.2077555

Health is holistic, but health services are often not. Primary care is the first point of contact for patients in the UK, and at least two in every three present with complex bio-psycho-socio-economic issues. In Scotland, the Community Chaplaincy Lis... Read More about Chaplains Work in Primary Care.

Active Living Becomes Achievable (ALBA): An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of a Behaviour Change Intervention at Promoting Physical Activity for Improved Mental Wellbeing (2021)
Journal Article
Peddie, N., Snowden, A., & Westbury, T. (2022). Active Living Becomes Achievable (ALBA): An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of a Behaviour Change Intervention at Promoting Physical Activity for Improved Mental Wellbeing. Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health, 9(2), 135-148. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40737-021-00246-4

Physical activity (PA) has been shown to be beneficial for physical and mental wellbeing. However, there is evidence to indicate people with mental health conditions are significantly less active than the general population. The aim of the research i... Read More about Active Living Becomes Achievable (ALBA): An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of a Behaviour Change Intervention at Promoting Physical Activity for Improved Mental Wellbeing.

‘Pinholes in my arms’: the vicious cycle of vascular access (2021)
Journal Article
Kelly, L., & Snowden, A. (2021). ‘Pinholes in my arms’: the vicious cycle of vascular access. British Journal of Nursing, 30(14), https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2021.30.14.S4

Background:
Vascular access devices (VADs) are essential for delivery of intravenous therapies. There are notable gaps in the literature regarding a focus on patient experience and meaning-making related to living with a VAD, specifically a central... Read More about ‘Pinholes in my arms’: the vicious cycle of vascular access.

Statistical Fit is like Beauty: a Rasch and Factor Analysis of the Scottish PROM (2021)
Journal Article
Snowden, A., Karimi, L., & Tan, H. (2022). Statistical Fit is like Beauty: a Rasch and Factor Analysis of the Scottish PROM. Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy, 28(3), 415-430. https://doi.org/10.1080/08854726.2021.1916336

Chaplains help people face some of the most complex, intractable and traumatic issues in their lives. Spiritual care works. Unfortunately, spiritual needs are rarely met in health and social care because a) spiritual distress is not recognised as suc... Read More about Statistical Fit is like Beauty: a Rasch and Factor Analysis of the Scottish PROM.

‘It was quite a shock’: A qualitative study of the impact of organisational and personal factors on newly qualified nurses' experiences (2021)
Journal Article
Ho, S., Stenhouse, R., & Snowden, A. (2021). ‘It was quite a shock’: A qualitative study of the impact of organisational and personal factors on newly qualified nurses' experiences. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 30(15-16), 2373-2385. https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.15777

Background: Nurses are critical to achieving the goal of universal health coverage. However, shortages of nursing staff are endemic. Of particular concern, newly qualified nurses are more likely to leave the nursing workforce. The point of transition... Read More about ‘It was quite a shock’: A qualitative study of the impact of organisational and personal factors on newly qualified nurses' experiences.

What did Chaplains do During the Covid Pandemic? An international survey (2021)
Journal Article
Snowden, A. (2021). What did Chaplains do During the Covid Pandemic? An international survey. Journal of Pastoral Care & Counseling, 75(1 (supplement)), 6-16. https://doi.org/10.1177/1542305021992039

A survey was designed to learn from chaplain experiences of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic across the globe. In June 2020, 1657 chaplains responded from 36 countries. They all experienced disruption to their usual practice, and whilst some were... Read More about What did Chaplains do During the Covid Pandemic? An international survey.

Understanding the outcomes of spiritual care as experienced by patients (2020)
Journal Article
Tan, H., Rumbold, B., Gardner, F., Snowden, A., Glenister, D., Forest, A., Bossie, C., & Wyles, L. (2022). Understanding the outcomes of spiritual care as experienced by patients. Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy, 28(2), 147-161. https://doi.org/10.1080/08854726.2020.1793095

In moving toward professionalising spiritual care in the healthcare system, as an equal partner in whole person care, it has become increasingly important to develop an evidence base for spiritual care interventions, their value and longer-term outco... Read More about Understanding the outcomes of spiritual care as experienced by patients.

"Nobody will put Baby in the Corner!" A Qualitative Evaluation of a Physical Activity Intervention to Improve Mental Health (2020)
Journal Article
Snowden, A., Westbury, T., & Peddie, N. (2020). "Nobody will put Baby in the Corner!" A Qualitative Evaluation of a Physical Activity Intervention to Improve Mental Health. Health and Social Care in the Community, 28(6), 2060-2075. https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.13017

Physical activity is beneficial for mental health, but people with mental health issues are less likely to be physically active than the general population. Socially prescribed programmes of activity are rarely adhered to, with high levels of drop ou... Read More about "Nobody will put Baby in the Corner!" A Qualitative Evaluation of a Physical Activity Intervention to Improve Mental Health.

Meeting psychosocial needs to improve health: a prospective cohort study (2020)
Journal Article
Snowden, A., Young, J., & Savinc, J. (2020). Meeting psychosocial needs to improve health: a prospective cohort study. BMC Cancer, 20(1), Article 528. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-020-07022-w

Background
Cancer impacts on patients and their families across a range of different domains. For that reason, optimal cancer care has moved away from a disease-centric focus to a more holistic approach in order to proactively support people with th... Read More about Meeting psychosocial needs to improve health: a prospective cohort study.

How to synthesise original findings back into the literature when the literature has moved on. An Introduction to Concurrent Analysis (2020)
Journal Article
Kelly, L., & Snowden, A. (2020). How to synthesise original findings back into the literature when the literature has moved on. An Introduction to Concurrent Analysis. Nurse Researcher, 28(2), 32-27. https://doi.org/10.7748/nr.2020.e1710

Background
All studies need to integrate their findings back in to the literature to explain how the new knowledge changes understanding. This process can be anxiety provoking, especially where the new literature appears to threaten the originality... Read More about How to synthesise original findings back into the literature when the literature has moved on. An Introduction to Concurrent Analysis.

Undergraduate nursing and midwifery student’s attitudes to mental illness (2020)
Journal Article
Hawthorne, A., Fagan, R., Leaver, E., Baxter, J., Logan, P., & Snowden, A. (2020). Undergraduate nursing and midwifery student’s attitudes to mental illness. Nursing Open, 7(4), 1118-1128. https://doi.org/10.1002/nop2.494

Aim
To explore levels of stigma in students of all fields of nursing and midwifery at different years, and examine the impact of exposure to people with mental illness.

Design
A cross-sectional survey was used.

Methods
The Community Attitude... Read More about Undergraduate nursing and midwifery student’s attitudes to mental illness.

A J-curve of interprofessional change: co-locating non-health partners in an oncology unit (2020)
Journal Article
Young, J., & Snowden, A. (2020). A J-curve of interprofessional change: co-locating non-health partners in an oncology unit. British Journal of Nursing, 29(3),

Background
Internationally, clinicians face increased demand, pressure on resources and unmet patient needs. A community social support service was co-located within cancer clinics in Scotland to help meet some of these needs.
Aim
Aims were to ana... Read More about A J-curve of interprofessional change: co-locating non-health partners in an oncology unit.