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Respecting the autonomy of the living and dying (2020)
Journal Article
Stavert, J. (2020). Respecting the autonomy of the living and dying. Journal of Integrated Care, 28(4), 379-385. https://doi.org/10.1108/JICA-06-2020-0038

Purpose
To inform those who are supporting persons who are dying and are responsible for planning, commissioning or delivering palliative care about the need to support and maximise the decision-making ability and choices of persons with advanced de... Read More about Respecting the autonomy of the living and dying.

Linkage of national health and social care data: a cross-sectional study of multimorbidity and social care use in people aged over 65 years in Scotland (2020)
Journal Article
Henderson, D. A., Atherton, I., McCowan, C., Mercer, S. W., & Bailey, N. (2021). Linkage of national health and social care data: a cross-sectional study of multimorbidity and social care use in people aged over 65 years in Scotland. Age and ageing, 50(1), 176-182. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afaa134

Background: Little is known about the relationship between multimorbidity and social care use (also known as long-term care). The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between receipt of formal social care services and multimorbidity.... Read More about Linkage of national health and social care data: a cross-sectional study of multimorbidity and social care use in people aged over 65 years in Scotland.

Our Natural Health Service - Gathering the views of key individuals with an operational or strategic role in the Green Health Partnership Intervention (2020)
Report
Hanson, C., McHale, S., Pearsons, A., & Neubeck, L. (2020). Our Natural Health Service - Gathering the views of key individuals with an operational or strategic role in the Green Health Partnership Intervention. Inverness: Scottish Natural Heritage

Background:
Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) is the lead organisation in the Our Natural Health Service (ONHS) programme, which aims to make better use of Scotland’s natural environment as a resource to improve health and wellbeing and tackle health... Read More about Our Natural Health Service - Gathering the views of key individuals with an operational or strategic role in the Green Health Partnership Intervention.

Pre- and during-labour predictors of low birth satisfaction among Iranian women: a prospective analytical study (2020)
Journal Article
Nahaee, J., Mohammad-Alizadeh-Charandabi, S., Abbas-Alizadeh, F., Martin, C. R., Hollins Martin, C. J., Mirghafourvand, M., & Hassankhani, H. (2020). Pre- and during-labour predictors of low birth satisfaction among Iranian women: a prospective analytical study. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 20, Article 408 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-020-03105-5

Background
Maternal childbirth dissatisfaction has short- and long-term negative effects on the mothers’ health and life, as well as on relation with her child and family. Due to lack of studies in Iran and other counties, we aimed to determine pre-... Read More about Pre- and during-labour predictors of low birth satisfaction among Iranian women: a prospective analytical study.

Posttraumatic stress symptoms and associated comorbidity during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ireland: A population based study (2020)
Journal Article
Karatzias, T., Shevlin, M., Murphy, J., Mcbride, O., Ben-Ezra, M., Bentall, R. P., Vallières, F., & Hyland, P. (2020). Posttraumatic stress symptoms and associated comorbidity during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ireland: A population based study. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 33(4), 365-370. https://doi.org/10.1002/jts.22565

The prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as it relates to people’s experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic has yet to determined. This study was conducted to determine rates of COVID-19 related PTSD in the Irish general population, the lev... Read More about Posttraumatic stress symptoms and associated comorbidity during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ireland: A population based study.

Current Insights into Exercise-based Cardiac Rehabilitation in Patients with Coronary Heart Disease and Chronic Heart Failure (2020)
Journal Article
Nichols, S., McGregor, G., Breckon, J., & Ingle, L. (2021). Current Insights into Exercise-based Cardiac Rehabilitation in Patients with Coronary Heart Disease and Chronic Heart Failure. International Journal of Sports Medicine, 42(01), 19-26. https://doi.org/10.1055/a-1198-5573

Cardiac rehabilitation is a package of lifestyle secondary prevention strategies designed for patients with coronary heart disease and chronic heart failure. A community-based cardiac rehabilitation programme provides patients with a structured exerc... Read More about Current Insights into Exercise-based Cardiac Rehabilitation in Patients with Coronary Heart Disease and Chronic Heart Failure.

The socio-economic and psychosocial impact of Covid-19 pandemic on urban refugees in Uganda (2020)
Journal Article
Bukuluki, P., Mwenyango, H., Katongole, S. P., Sidhva, D., & Palattiyil, G. (2020). The socio-economic and psychosocial impact of Covid-19 pandemic on urban refugees in Uganda. Social Sciences & Humanities Open, 2(1), Article 100045. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssaho.2020.100045

Considering the COVID-19 global public health crisis, this paper examines the socio-cultural, economic and psychosocial impact of the pandemic on urban refugees in Uganda. We analyse the living conditions of urban refugees that make it problematic fo... Read More about The socio-economic and psychosocial impact of Covid-19 pandemic on urban refugees in Uganda.

Charging ‘overseas visitors’ for NHS treatment, from Bevan to Windrush and beyond (2020)
Journal Article
McHale, J. V., & Speakman, E. M. (2020). Charging ‘overseas visitors’ for NHS treatment, from Bevan to Windrush and beyond. Legal Studies, 40(4), 565-588. https://doi.org/10.1017/lst.2020.26

This paper explores the development and operation of law and policy concerning the charging of overseas visitors for healthcare in England from the beginnings of the NHS to the present day. It highlights how this has been a highly contentious issue f... Read More about Charging ‘overseas visitors’ for NHS treatment, from Bevan to Windrush and beyond.

Scottish Mental Health and Capacity Law: Replacing the Old with the New or the Old in Policy, Law and Practice? (2020)
Book Chapter
Stavert, J. (2020). Scottish Mental Health and Capacity Law: Replacing the Old with the New or the Old in Policy, Law and Practice?. In C. Spivakovsky, L. Steele, & P. Weller (Eds.), The Legacies of Institutionalisation: Disability, Law and Policy in the ‘Deinstitutionalised’ Community. Hart Publishing

When enacted Scottish capacity and mental health legislation was internationally regarded as world leading in terms of presenting human rights-based approaches to interventions. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilitie... Read More about Scottish Mental Health and Capacity Law: Replacing the Old with the New or the Old in Policy, Law and Practice?.

Trauma, PTSD, and Complex PTSD in the Republic of Ireland: Prevalence, service use, comorbidity, and risk factors (2020)
Journal Article
Hyland, P., Vallières, F., Cloitre, M., Ben-Ezra, M., Karatzias, T., Olff, M., Murphy, J., & Shevlin, M. (2021). Trauma, PTSD, and Complex PTSD in the Republic of Ireland: Prevalence, service use, comorbidity, and risk factors. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 56, Article 649-658 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-020-01912-x

Purpose: This study represents the first assessment of the prevalence of trauma exposure, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Complex PTSD (CPTSD), ever conducted in the general population of the Republic of Ireland. Additionally, prevalence... Read More about Trauma, PTSD, and Complex PTSD in the Republic of Ireland: Prevalence, service use, comorbidity, and risk factors.

A Pledge to Mobilize Against Racism (2020)
Journal Article
Stanley, M., Rogers, S., Forwell, S., Hocking, C., Nayar, S., Laliberte Rudman, D., Prodinger, B., Vera, L. F., Townsend, E. E., Magalhães, L., Simaan, J., Reid, H., & Pols, V. (2020). A Pledge to Mobilize Against Racism. Journal of Occupational Science, 27(3), 294-295. https://doi.org/10.1080/14427591.2020.1793446

[Abstract not available.]

Life interrupted: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of young people and their family/significant other living with malignant melanoma (2020)
Thesis
McInally, W. Life interrupted: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of young people and their family/significant other living with malignant melanoma. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2701710

Introduction
Melanoma is one of the most common human malignancies. Yet, it is often thought of as a disease of adulthood rather than one affecting children and young people. Although melanoma is rare in children, the incidence is rising in adolesc... Read More about Life interrupted: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of young people and their family/significant other living with malignant melanoma.

District nurses' experiences with a caseload profiling tool: a service evaluation (2020)
Journal Article
Harper-Mcdonald, B. (2020). District nurses' experiences with a caseload profiling tool: a service evaluation. British Journal of Community Nursing, 25(7), 318-326. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjcn.2020.25.7.318

Caseload profiling is being advocated as a method to measure, manage and evidence increasingly complex caseloads in district nursing. However, there is no qualitative work on district nurses’ experiences of applying caseload profiling to their caselo... Read More about District nurses' experiences with a caseload profiling tool: a service evaluation.

An exploratory Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) of childbearing women's perceptions of risk associated with having a high Body Mass Index (BMI) (2020)
Journal Article
Norris, G., Hollins Martin, C. J., & Dickson, A. (2020). An exploratory Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) of childbearing women's perceptions of risk associated with having a high Body Mass Index (BMI). Midwifery, 89(October 2020), Article 102789. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2020.102789

Background: In 2016, the World Health Organization (WHO) labelled 13% of the world's adult population as obese. This increase in obesity is accompanied by mortality and morbidity problems, with maternal obesity and its accompanying risk for mother an... Read More about An exploratory Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) of childbearing women's perceptions of risk associated with having a high Body Mass Index (BMI).

‘The lion's den’: Social workers' understandings of risk to infants (2020)
Journal Article
Critchley, A. (2020). ‘The lion's den’: Social workers' understandings of risk to infants. Child and Family Social Work, 25(4), 895-903. https://doi.org/10.1111/cfs.12774

Recent research has highlighted the increasing trends in newborn and very young children entering child welfare processes and care proceedings in a number of countries. Furthermore, differential responses to risk within young families across differen... Read More about ‘The lion's den’: Social workers' understandings of risk to infants.

A Core Outcome Set for Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome (2020)
Journal Article
Kelly, L. E., Shan, F., MacVicar, S., Czaplinksi, E., Moulsdale, W., Simpson, S., Allegaert, K., Jansson, L. M., & Offringa, M. (2020). A Core Outcome Set for Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome. Pediatrics, 146(1), Article e20200018. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2020-0018

BACKGROUND: As rates of neonatal opioid withdrawal are increasing, the need for research to evaluate new treatments is growing. Large heterogeneity exists in health outcomes reported in current literature. Our objective is to develop an evidence-info... Read More about A Core Outcome Set for Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome.

Identifying the priorities for midwifery education across Australia and New Zealand: A Delphi study (2020)
Journal Article
Sidebotham, M., McKellar, L., Walters, C., Gilkison, A., Davis, D., & Gamble, J. (2021). Identifying the priorities for midwifery education across Australia and New Zealand: A Delphi study. Women and Birth, 34(2), 136-144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wombi.2020.05.011

Problem
In countries where education programmes are assessed as meeting international standards there is limited knowledge about the challenges facing midwifery education.

Background/aim
The positive impact of quality midwifery education on mate... Read More about Identifying the priorities for midwifery education across Australia and New Zealand: A Delphi study.

Patient safety from executive hospital management to wards: a qualitative study identifying factors influencing implementation (2020)
Journal Article
Conner, T., Unsworth, J., & Machin, A. (2020). Patient safety from executive hospital management to wards: a qualitative study identifying factors influencing implementation. Journal of Nursing Management, 28(5), 1134-1143. https://doi.org/10.1111/jonm.13062

Aim: To examine the journey of safety initiatives from executive hospital management to ward. Background Hospital management teams are often responsible for identifying safety priorities and ensuring delivery of these.

Method: Naturalistic study d... Read More about Patient safety from executive hospital management to wards: a qualitative study identifying factors influencing implementation.