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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/

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

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.