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Cognitive therapy for people with a schizophrenia spectrum diagnosis not taking antipsychotic medication: an exploratory trial (2011)
Journal Article
Morrison, A. P., Hutton, P., Wardle, M., Spencer, H., Barratt, S., Brabban, A., …Turkington, D. (2012). Cognitive therapy for people with a schizophrenia spectrum diagnosis not taking antipsychotic medication: an exploratory trial. Psychological Medicine, 42(05), 1049-1056. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0033291711001899

Although antipsychotic medication is the first line of treatment for schizophrenia, many service users choose to refuse or discontinue their pharmacological treatment. Cognitive therapy (CT) has been shown to be effective when delivered in combinatio... Read More about Cognitive therapy for people with a schizophrenia spectrum diagnosis not taking antipsychotic medication: an exploratory trial.

Meaning Making: Psychological Adjustment to Breast Cancer by Chinese Women (2011)
Journal Article
Ching, S. S. Y., Martinson, I. M., & Wong, T. K. S. (2012). Meaning Making: Psychological Adjustment to Breast Cancer by Chinese Women. Qualitative Health Research, 22(2), 250-262. https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732311421679

Based on a study exploring the phenomenon of coping among Hong Kong Chinese women afflicted with breast cancer, from diagnosis to completion of treatment, we report the findings on meaning making by the informants. Using the grounded theory method, w... Read More about Meaning Making: Psychological Adjustment to Breast Cancer by Chinese Women.

Lifestyle risk reduction interventions in atrial fibrillation: a systematic review (2011)
Journal Article
Lowres, N., Neubeck, L., Freedman, S. B., Briffa, T., Bauman, A., & Redfern, J. (2012). Lifestyle risk reduction interventions in atrial fibrillation: a systematic review. European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, 19(5), 1091-1100. https://doi.org/10.1177/1741826711422505

Background: The burden of atrial fibrillation (AF) is escalating even though it is potentially modifiable. Affected persons, at high risk of stroke and death, are typically not targeted for risk reduction. We aimed to determine if risk-factor interve... Read More about Lifestyle risk reduction interventions in atrial fibrillation: a systematic review.

Managing blood glucose during and after exercise in Type 1 diabetes: reproducibility of glucose response and a trial of a structured algorithm adjusting insulin and carbohydrate intake: Managing blood glucose during exercise (2011)
Journal Article
Kilbride, L., Charlton, J., Aitken, G., Hill, G. W., Davison, R. C., & McKnight, J. A. (2011). Managing blood glucose during and after exercise in Type 1 diabetes: reproducibility of glucose response and a trial of a structured algorithm adjusting insulin and carbohydrate intake: Managing blood glucose during exercise. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 20(23-24), 3423-3429. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2702.2011.03771.x

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: To enable people with Type 1 diabetes to exercise safely by investigating the reproducibility of the glucose response to an algorithm for carbohydrate and insulin adjustment during and after exercise compared to their self-manag... Read More about Managing blood glucose during and after exercise in Type 1 diabetes: reproducibility of glucose response and a trial of a structured algorithm adjusting insulin and carbohydrate intake: Managing blood glucose during exercise.

The AB-York crescent of sound: An apparatus for assessing spatial-listening skills in children and adults (2011)
Journal Article
Kitterick, P. T., Lovett, R. E. S., Goman, A. M., & Summerfield, A. Q. (2011). The AB-York crescent of sound: An apparatus for assessing spatial-listening skills in children and adults. Cochlear Implants International, 12(3), 164-169. https://doi.org/10.1179/146701011x13049348987832

Modern health services need efficient tools for measuring outcomes from interventions, that is, tools of proven efficacy which make minimal demands on the time of clinicians in learning to administer tests and in interpreting results. This paper desc... Read More about The AB-York crescent of sound: An apparatus for assessing spatial-listening skills in children and adults.

Temporal change in pre-hospital statin use and total cholesterol levels in patients presenting with acute coronary syndromes. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ranasinghe, I., Neubeck, L., Freedman, S. B., Alprandi-Costa, B., Devlin, G., Lefkovits, J., Jeurgens, C., Chew, D., & Brieger, D. (2011, August). Temporal change in pre-hospital statin use and total cholesterol levels in patients presenting with acute coronary syndromes. Poster presented at Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSANZ)

Smoking cessation. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Neubeck, L. (2011, August). Smoking cessation. Presented at Australian Cardiovascular Health and Rehabilitation Association, Perth, Australia. (Unpublished)

Reflections on the development of a dynamic learning, teaching and assessment strategy (2011)
Journal Article
Strickland, K., McLatchie, J., & Pelik, R. (2011). Reflections on the development of a dynamic learning, teaching and assessment strategy. Campus-Wide Information Systems, 28, 294-298. https://doi.org/10.1108/10650741111162761

Developing learning, teaching and assessment strategies that foster ongoing engagement and provide inspiration to academic staff is a particular challenge. This paper demonstrates how an institutional learning, teaching and assessment strategy was d... Read More about Reflections on the development of a dynamic learning, teaching and assessment strategy.

Concurrent analysis: a pragmatic justification. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Snowden, A. (2011, August). Concurrent analysis: a pragmatic justification. Paper presented at 15th International Philosophy of Nursing Conference held in association with the International Philosophy of Nursing Society (IPONS)

Curating Complex, Dynamic and Distributed Data: Telehealth as a Laboratory for Strategy (2011)
Journal Article
Ure, J., Ure, J., Ure, J. P., Hanley, J., Irshad, T., Whyte, A., Pagliari, C., Pinnock, H., & McKinstry, B. (2011). Curating Complex, Dynamic and Distributed Data: Telehealth as a Laboratory for Strategy. International Journal of Digital Curation, 6(2), 128-145. https://doi.org/10.2218/ijdc.v6i2.207

Telehealth monitoring data is now being collected across large populations of patients with chronic diseases such as stroke, hypertension, COPD and dementia. These large, complex and heterogeneous datasets, including distributed sensor and mobile dat... Read More about Curating Complex, Dynamic and Distributed Data: Telehealth as a Laboratory for Strategy.

Service provider response to mental health and alcohol in the North West Region of England: a scoping exercise (2011)
Journal Article
Hughes, E. (2011). Service provider response to mental health and alcohol in the North West Region of England: a scoping exercise. Advances in dual diagnosis, 4(3), 141-151. https://doi.org/10.1108/17570971111183035

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to obtain an insight into how mental health and alcohol services are responding to people presenting with alcohol and mental health problems, as a part of a wider North West Alcohol and Mental Health Project comm... Read More about Service provider response to mental health and alcohol in the North West Region of England: a scoping exercise.

Observations on alcohol-related mental illness in the North West of England: better use of service data can help tackle health inequalities and improve commissioning (2011)
Journal Article
Tocque, K., Currie, J., Hughes, E., & Brooker, C. (2011). Observations on alcohol-related mental illness in the North West of England: better use of service data can help tackle health inequalities and improve commissioning. Advances in dual diagnosis, 4(3), 125-134. https://doi.org/10.1108/17570971111183017

Purpose The North of England characteristically has higher levels of alcohol‐related harm and higher levels of mental illness compared with the South. The purpose of this paper is to present observations on the use of services by people who have bot... Read More about Observations on alcohol-related mental illness in the North West of England: better use of service data can help tackle health inequalities and improve commissioning.

Flying Start NHS™: easing the transition from student to registered health professional: Transition from student to registered practitioner (2011)
Journal Article
Banks, P., Roxburgh, M., Kane, H., Lauder, W., Jones, M., Kydd, A., & Atkinson, J. (2011). Flying Start NHS™: easing the transition from student to registered health professional: Transition from student to registered practitioner. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 20(23-24), 3567-3576. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2702.2011.03796.x

Aims and objectives. To evaluate the impact and effectiveness of Flying Start NHS™ on the confidence, competence and career development of newly qualified practitioners. Background. The first year of practice as a registered nurse, midwife, or all... Read More about Flying Start NHS™: easing the transition from student to registered health professional: Transition from student to registered practitioner.