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Co-Creation of a Continuing Professional Development Toolkit focused on self-management of respiratory health issues in people with intellectual disabilities (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
O'Leary, L., Dicksit, D., Ring, N., Roberts, N., Dunham, M., Devitt, J., Taylor, J., Mcglade, I., & Theurer, M. (2025, September). Co-Creation of a Continuing Professional Development Toolkit focused on self-management of respiratory health issues in people with intellectual disabilities. Presented at European Respiratory Society Congress, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Nurses and smoking: barriers and support for quitting (2025)
Journal Article
Donovan, H., Nuttall, M., Roberts, N. J., Haws, J., & Ross, L. (2025). Nurses and smoking: barriers and support for quitting. Practice Nursing, 36(6), 189-194. https://doi.org/10.12968/pnur.2025.0012

This article describes a short project aiming to understand the prevalence of smoking among nurses, explore the barriers to smoking cessation for nurses who smoke and provide smoking cessation support. The ultimate goal was to enable nurses to help t... Read More about Nurses and smoking: barriers and support for quitting.

Co-Creation of a Continuing Professional Development Toolkit focused on self-management of respiratory health issues in people with learning disabilities (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
O'Leary, L., Dicksit, D., Ring, N., Roberts, N., Dunham, M., Devitt, J., Taylor, J., Mcglade, I., & Theurer, M. (2025, May). Co-Creation of a Continuing Professional Development Toolkit focused on self-management of respiratory health issues in people with learning disabilities. Presented at ENclusion Conference: Connecting EDI Research and Action at and by ENU, Edinburgh Napier University

Introduction

Individuals with ID (intellectual Disabilities) need self-management support from nurses (all fields) to avoid risk of hospital admissions due to respiratory illness. We aimed to co-design a CPD toolkit focused on providing nurses wit... Read More about Co-Creation of a Continuing Professional Development Toolkit focused on self-management of respiratory health issues in people with learning disabilities.

Assessing the Confidence of Graduating Pre-Registration Nurses to Use and Embed Respiratory Clinical Skills in Practice: A Mixed Methods Analysis (2025)
Journal Article
Roberts, N. J., A Kelly, C., A Lippiett, K., E Barker, R., & Welch, L. (2025). Assessing the Confidence of Graduating Pre-Registration Nurses to Use and Embed Respiratory Clinical Skills in Practice: A Mixed Methods Analysis. EC Pulmonology and Respiratory Medicine, 14(6), 1-14

Background: The incidence of respiratory disease is increasing; all nurses will care for respiratory patients during their career.
There is disparity in the teaching of pre-registration respiratory nursing education. In the UK, revised Nursing and M... Read More about Assessing the Confidence of Graduating Pre-Registration Nurses to Use and Embed Respiratory Clinical Skills in Practice: A Mixed Methods Analysis.

Remote pulmonary rehab - what are the considerations for adapting PR to be delivered remotely (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Roberts, N. J., Tang, C., & Cox, N. (2025, March). Remote pulmonary rehab - what are the considerations for adapting PR to be delivered remotely. Presented at Webinar: jointly with Monash University, Victoria University and Edinburgh Napier University, Melbourne

Delivery of remote rehab has increased significantly worldwide in the last few year, accelerated by COVID. Despite well recognised potential outcomes and similar costs, widespread implementation of pulmonary telerehabilitation has not happened at th... Read More about Remote pulmonary rehab - what are the considerations for adapting PR to be delivered remotely.

Is videoconference pulmonary rehabilitation associated with improvements in knowledge in people living with COPD? A propensity-matched service-evaluation (2025)
Journal Article
J Roberts, N., Cheung, C. Y., Yam, W. S., Palmer, M. D., Clarke, S., DC Man, W., & M Nolan, C. (2025). Is videoconference pulmonary rehabilitation associated with improvements in knowledge in people living with COPD? A propensity-matched service-evaluation. Chronic Respiratory Disease, 22, https://doi.org/10.1177/14799731241310895

Introduction: Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) services are increasingly using alternative programme delivery modes, for example telerehabilitation strategies including videoconferencing, to improve patient choice and accessibility. Although telerehabil... Read More about Is videoconference pulmonary rehabilitation associated with improvements in knowledge in people living with COPD? A propensity-matched service-evaluation.

Implementing digital respiratory technologies for people with respiratory conditions: A protocol for a scoping review (2024)
Journal Article
Hui, C. Y., Condon, K., Kolekar, S., Roberts, N., Sreter, K. B., Simons, S. O., Figueiredo, C., McKeough, Z., Salim, H., Gawlik-Lipinski, A., Gonsard, A., Önal Aral, A., Vanoverschelde, A., Armstrong, M., Kohlbrenner, D., Paixão, C., Stafler, P., Papadopoulou, E., Rabe, A. P., Mohammad, M., …Chan, A. H. Y. (2024). Implementing digital respiratory technologies for people with respiratory conditions: A protocol for a scoping review. PLOS ONE, 19(12), Article e0314914. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0314914

The value of ‘data-enabled’, digital healthcare is evolving rapidly, as demonstrated in the COVID-19 pandemic, and its successful implementation remains complex and challenging. Harmonisation (within/between healthcare systems) of infrastructure and... Read More about Implementing digital respiratory technologies for people with respiratory conditions: A protocol for a scoping review.

Co-Creation of a Continuing Professional Development Toolkit focused on self-management of respiratory health issues in people with learning disabilities (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
O'Leary, L., Dicksit, D., Ring, N., Roberts, N., Devitt, J., & Dunham, M. (2024, December). Co-Creation of a Continuing Professional Development Toolkit focused on self-management of respiratory health issues in people with learning disabilities. Paper presented at 21st Seattle Club Conference, London

Background: Individuals with ID (intellectual Disabilities) are at greater risk of hospital admission or premature mortality due to respiratory associated conditions. They need self-management support from nurses to avoid this risk. Our study aimed t... Read More about Co-Creation of a Continuing Professional Development Toolkit focused on self-management of respiratory health issues in people with learning disabilities.

The Academic Respiratory Research Alliance network (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Roberts, N. J. (2024, November). The Academic Respiratory Research Alliance network. Presented at Scottish Respiratory Nurses Forum, Edinburgh

This was an invited presentation at the Scottish Respiratory Nurses Forum conference on the Academic Respiratory Research Alliance network.

The “what, why, and how?” of story completion in health services research: a scoping review (2024)
Journal Article
Pong, C. Y., Roberts, N. J., & Lum, E. (2024). The “what, why, and how?” of story completion in health services research: a scoping review. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 24, Article 159. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-024-02274-7

Background: The story completion method provides a different way of doing qualitative research. We note the emergent popularity of this method in health-related research, while much remains to be negotiated in terms of best practices for such studies... Read More about The “what, why, and how?” of story completion in health services research: a scoping review.

What do pulmonary rehabilitation participants want their educational sessions to comprise of? Exploring a participant-centered approach to designing pulmonary rehabilitation education (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Roberts, N. J., McAloney-Kocaman, K., Ring, N., Ray, E., Turnbull, L., Jelen, T., & Porter-Armstrong, A. (2024, May). What do pulmonary rehabilitation participants want their educational sessions to comprise of? Exploring a participant-centered approach to designing pulmonary rehabilitation education. Presented at American Thoracic Societey 2024, San Diego, US

A women-centred exploration of postpartum perineal pain when the perineum is diagnosed as intact: A French Gadamerian research study (2023)
Journal Article
Matteo, C., Roome, K., Roberts, N., Hill, G., & Hill, H. (2024). A women-centred exploration of postpartum perineal pain when the perineum is diagnosed as intact: A French Gadamerian research study. Midwifery, 129, Article 103909. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2023.103909

Background
Postpartum perineal pain is a frequent symptom (90%) with consequences on postnatal health regardless of whether the perineum remains intact. The impact of that pain on both short and long-term health has been studied and literature sugge... Read More about A women-centred exploration of postpartum perineal pain when the perineum is diagnosed as intact: A French Gadamerian research study.

A scoping review exploring adoption of digital stress management resources for long-term health conditions – just useful for respiratory conditions? (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Roberts, N., Gebreheat, G., MacLean, F., Connolly, F., Breen, C., & Porter-Armstrong, A. A scoping review exploring adoption of digital stress management resources for long-term health conditions – just useful for respiratory conditions?. Presented at British Thoracic Society Winter Meeting 2023, QEII Centre, Broad Sanctuary, Westminster, London SW1P 3EE, 22 to 24 November 2023, Programme and Abstracts, London, UK

British Thoracic Society Clinical Statement on pulmonary rehabilitation (2023)
Journal Article
Man, W., Chaplin, E., Daynes, E., Drummond, A., Evans, R. A., Greening, N. J., Nolan, C., Pavitt, M. J., Roberts, N. J., Vogiatzis, I., & Singh, S. J. (2023). British Thoracic Society Clinical Statement on pulmonary rehabilitation. Thorax, 78(Supplement 4), https://doi.org/10.1136/thorax-2023-220439

The evidence-based British Thoracic Society (BTS) Guideline for pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) in adults was published in 2013.(1) There is a strong evidence base for the benefits of PR,(2) and it is one of the most cost-effective interventions for ad... Read More about British Thoracic Society Clinical Statement on pulmonary rehabilitation.