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Enquiry into learning and teaching in the life sciences (2018)
Book Chapter
Scott, G., & Tierney, A. (2018). Enquiry into learning and teaching in the life sciences. In E. Cleaver, M. Lintern, & M. McLinden (Eds.), Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: Disciplinary Approaches to Educational Enquiry. SAGE Publications

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Intricacies of Professional Learning in Health Care: The Case of Supporting Self-management in Paediatric Diabetes (2018)
Book Chapter
Doyle, S. (2018). Intricacies of Professional Learning in Health Care: The Case of Supporting Self-management in Paediatric Diabetes. In D. Kember, & M. Corbett (Eds.), Structuring the Thesis (339-347). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0511-5_34

What is an appropriate structure for reporting a sociomaterial study of healthcare professional learning, when drawing from Karen Barad’s agential realist framework?

Evaluation of an integrated service delivering post diagnostic care and support for people living with dementia and their families (2018)
Journal Article
Piercy, H., Fowler-Davis, S., Dunham, M., & Cooper, C. (2018). Evaluation of an integrated service delivering post diagnostic care and support for people living with dementia and their families. Health and Social Care in the Community, 26(6), 819-828. https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.12592

Greater integration of health and social care services is considered vital to ensure sustainable long-term quality provision for the growing numbers of people living with dementia and their families. Integration of services is at the heart of governm... Read More about Evaluation of an integrated service delivering post diagnostic care and support for people living with dementia and their families.

Protective factors of suicide and suicidal behaviour relevant to emergency healthcare settings: A systematic review and narrative synthesis of post-2007 reviews (2018)
Journal Article
McClatchey, K., Murray, J., Rowat, A., & Chouliara, Z. (2019). Protective factors of suicide and suicidal behaviour relevant to emergency healthcare settings: A systematic review and narrative synthesis of post-2007 reviews. Archives of Suicide Research, 23(3), 411-427. https://doi.org/10.1080/13811118.2018.1480983

Objectives: Suicide is a major public health concern and, with recent societal changes, such as economic and technological changes, there may be emerging protective factors that mitigate suicide risk which are unrecognised in emergency healthcare. Th... Read More about Protective factors of suicide and suicidal behaviour relevant to emergency healthcare settings: A systematic review and narrative synthesis of post-2007 reviews.

Migrants’ healthcare experience: a meta-ethnography review of the literature (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Macedo, S. P., Patel, H., Ali, P., Heckemann, B., Ghosh, S., Watson, R., Kydd, A., & Dekker-van Doorn, C. M. (2018, July). Migrants’ healthcare experience: a meta-ethnography review of the literature. Paper presented at 29th International Nursing Research Congress

Purpose: Worldwide, more than 214 million people have left their country of origin. Such unprecedented mass migration impacts on health care in host countries. This paper explores and synthesizes literature on the health care experiences of migrants.... Read More about Migrants’ healthcare experience: a meta-ethnography review of the literature.

Protocol for a longitudinal mixed methods realist evaluation of holistic needs assessment and care planning for people affected by cancer (2018)
Journal Article
Johnston, L., & Campbell, K. (2018). Protocol for a longitudinal mixed methods realist evaluation of holistic needs assessment and care planning for people affected by cancer. BMC Health Services Research, 18, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-018-3373-6

Background: In 2012, approximately 14 million new cases of cancer were diagnosed. As a result of advances in treatment, screening and prevention programmes the number of people surviving cancer globally is also increasing. The growing understanding... Read More about Protocol for a longitudinal mixed methods realist evaluation of holistic needs assessment and care planning for people affected by cancer.

Implementing telemonitoring in primary care: learning from a large qualitative dataset gathered during a series of studies (2018)
Journal Article
Hanley, J., Pinnock, H., Paterson, M., & McKinstry, B. (2018). Implementing telemonitoring in primary care: learning from a large qualitative dataset gathered during a series of studies. BMC Family Practice, 19(1), 118. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12875-018-0814-6

Background: Telemonitoring for long term conditions such as hypertension and diabetes has not been widely adopted despite evidence of efficacy in trials and policy support. The Telescot programme comprised a series of seven trials and observational s... Read More about Implementing telemonitoring in primary care: learning from a large qualitative dataset gathered during a series of studies.

Comparison of three clinical facilitation models for midwifery students undertaking clinical placement in south Australia (2018)
Journal Article
McKellar, L., Fleet, J., Vernon, R., Graham, K., & Cooper, M. (2018). Comparison of three clinical facilitation models for midwifery students undertaking clinical placement in south Australia. Nurse Education in Practice, 32, 64-71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nepr.2018.07.010

Clinical placement is a core feature of Australian midwifery education programs, with clinical supervision acknowledged as a key component for student success. The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical facilitation models in South Australia,... Read More about Comparison of three clinical facilitation models for midwifery students undertaking clinical placement in south Australia.

Social media in nursing and midwifery education: a mixed study systematic review (2018)
Journal Article
O'Connor, S., Jolliffe, S., Stanmore, E., Renwick, L., & Booth, R. (2018). Social media in nursing and midwifery education: a mixed study systematic review. Journal of Advanced Nursing, https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.13799

Aim To synthesize evidence on the effectiveness of social media in nursing and midwifery education. Background Social media are being explored to see if these online tools can support teaching, learning and assessment. Design A mixed study s... Read More about Social media in nursing and midwifery education: a mixed study systematic review.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for antipsychotic-free schizophrenia spectrum disorders: Does therapy dose influence outcome? (2018)
Journal Article
Spencer, H. M., McMenamin, M., Emsley, R., Turkington, D., Dunn, G., Morrison, A. P., Brabban, A., Hutton, P., & Dudley, R. (2018). Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for antipsychotic-free schizophrenia spectrum disorders: Does therapy dose influence outcome?. Schizophrenia Research, 202, 385-386. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2018.07.016

This study investigated the effect of “dose” and the components of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) on treatment effects. It is a secondary analysis of the ACTION (Assessment of Cognitive Therapy Instead of Neuroleptics) trial which investigated CB... Read More about Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for antipsychotic-free schizophrenia spectrum disorders: Does therapy dose influence outcome?.

‘ISeeYou’: A woman-centred care education and research project in Dutch bachelor midwifery education (2018)
Journal Article
Fontein-Kuipers, Y., Romeijn, E., Zwijnenberg, A., Eekhof, W., & van Staa, A. (2018). ‘ISeeYou’: A woman-centred care education and research project in Dutch bachelor midwifery education. Health Education Journal, 77(8), 899-914. https://doi.org/10.1177/0017896918784618

Objective: To examine how student midwives in higher education learn to become competent and confident woman-centred practitioners. Design: Participant observation study using a ‘buddy’ approach. Setting: Bachelor of Midwifery students in one h... Read More about ‘ISeeYou’: A woman-centred care education and research project in Dutch bachelor midwifery education.

Cognitive behavioural therapy in clozapine-resistant schizophrenia (FOCUS): an assessor-blinded, randomised controlled trial (2018)
Journal Article
Morrison, A. P., Pyle, M., Gumley, A., Schwannauer, M., Turkington, D., MacLennan, G., Norrie, J., Hudson, J., Bowe, S. E., French, P., Byrne, R., Syrett, S., Dudley, R., McLeod, H. J., Griffiths, H., Barnes, T. R. E., Davies, L., Kingdon, D., Aydinlar, S., Courtley, J., …Tully, S. (2018). Cognitive behavioural therapy in clozapine-resistant schizophrenia (FOCUS): an assessor-blinded, randomised controlled trial. Lancet Psychiatry, 5(8), 633-643. https://doi.org/10.1016/s2215-0366%2818%2930184-6

Background Although clozapine is the treatment of choice for treatment-refractory schizophrenia, 30–40% of patients have an insufficient response, and others are unable to tolerate it. Evidence for any augmentation strategies is scarce. We aimed to... Read More about Cognitive behavioural therapy in clozapine-resistant schizophrenia (FOCUS): an assessor-blinded, randomised controlled trial.

Age does not influence erector spinae muscle activity during treadmill walking and running in healthy adults (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Valentin, S., & Licka, T. (2018, July). Age does not influence erector spinae muscle activity during treadmill walking and running in healthy adults. Paper presented at 8th World Conference of Biomechanics (WCB 2018), Dublin, Ireland

Introduction Changes in motor control patterns [1] and muscle synergies [2] are known to occur with ageing. Although the activation of trunk musculature during walking and running has been evaluated previously [3], the effect of ageing on muscle act... Read More about Age does not influence erector spinae muscle activity during treadmill walking and running in healthy adults.

An electromyographic study on the effects of slope and distance constraints on forearm muscle activity during golf putting (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Finnie, K. P., Valentin, S., Gu, Y., Baker, J. S., & Ugbolue, U. C. (2018, July). An electromyographic study on the effects of slope and distance constraints on forearm muscle activity during golf putting. Paper presented at 8th World Conference of Biomechanics (WCB 2018), Dublin, Ireland

Introduction Golf mechanics incorporates specific coordinated movements of the body together with controlled low-velocity movements with precision to dictate performance [1]. Golf putting involves mainly upper body limb movement that has been likene... Read More about An electromyographic study on the effects of slope and distance constraints on forearm muscle activity during golf putting.

Affiliative Response to Stress: an empirical investigation of Tend-and-Befriend model (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Karastoyanova, K. V., & Sharp, M. A. (2018, July). Affiliative Response to Stress: an empirical investigation of Tend-and-Befriend model. Poster presented at 30th annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Amsterdam

Stress research in humans has been considered predominantly within the conceptual framework of Cannon’s Fight-or-Flight model. However, observations that it was primarily tested on males led to the development of the tend-befriend model in females (T... Read More about Affiliative Response to Stress: an empirical investigation of Tend-and-Befriend model.

Nurse-led mobile health intervention to promote cardiovascular medication adherence in a cardiac rehabilitation setting: a pilot feasibility study (2018)
Thesis
Khonsari, S. Nurse-led mobile health intervention to promote cardiovascular medication adherence in a cardiac rehabilitation setting: a pilot feasibility study. (Thesis). University of Edinburgh. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/3489682

Background - Mobile health (mHealth) interventions to promote medication adherence have shown promise; among patients primarily diagnosed with Coronary Heart Disease (CHD), however, there is a lack of evidence for nurse-led mHealth interventions, in... Read More about Nurse-led mobile health intervention to promote cardiovascular medication adherence in a cardiac rehabilitation setting: a pilot feasibility study.

Transforming Care After Treatment Partnership, Integration and Co-ordination (2018)
Report
Campbell, K., & Johnston, L. (2018). Transforming Care After Treatment Partnership, Integration and Co-ordination. Scotland: Macmillan Cancer Support

This Bulletin presents the evidence and learning on the implementation of holistic needs assessment (HNA) within 11 completed local projects from the national evaluative perspective. The data sources used are given in Appendix One. It focuses on dif... Read More about Transforming Care After Treatment Partnership, Integration and Co-ordination.

Cardiovascular complications of spinal cord injury (2018)
Journal Article
Chakrabarty, J., & Varghese, R. (2018). Cardiovascular complications of spinal cord injury. Biomedicine (India), 38(3), 283-289

Patients with spinal cord injury have a high risk of cardiovascular complications. Complex anatomy and physiology of the brain and spinal cord make it difficult to understand the pathophysiological changes and the complications of an injury to the sp... Read More about Cardiovascular complications of spinal cord injury.

Prevalence of depression among post-stroke survivors in South Asian Region: A narrative review (2018)
Journal Article
Varghese, R., & Barboza, L. A. (2018). Prevalence of depression among post-stroke survivors in South Asian Region: A narrative review. Manipal Journal of Nursing and Health Sciences, 4(2),

Stroke is the third biggest reason for mortality and has a massive emotional effect on clients and the members of their family. Depression is a debilitative complication of stroke, with repeated occurrences of depressive ailments after the stroke. Pr... Read More about Prevalence of depression among post-stroke survivors in South Asian Region: A narrative review.