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An exploration of the factors that influence the physical activity promotion practices of healthcare professionals caring for adults with chronic diseases (2021)
Thesis
Forrest, B. An exploration of the factors that influence the physical activity promotion practices of healthcare professionals caring for adults with chronic diseases. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2859686

Background: Physical activity (PA) benefits physical and mental health and is effective in the prevention and treatment of non-communicable diseases. Globally, one in four adults are insufficiently active to benefit health and levels of physical acti... Read More about An exploration of the factors that influence the physical activity promotion practices of healthcare professionals caring for adults with chronic diseases.

Ratings of Perceived Exertion at the Ventilatory Anaerobic Threshold in People with Coronary Heart Disease: A CARE CR study (2021)
Journal Article
Nichols, S., Engin, B., Carroll, S., Buckley, J., & Ingle, L. (2021). Ratings of Perceived Exertion at the Ventilatory Anaerobic Threshold in People with Coronary Heart Disease: A CARE CR study. Annals of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, 64(6), Article 101462. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rehab.2020.101462

Background
Exercise prescription guidelines for individuals undergoing cardiovascular rehabilitation (CR) are often based on heart rate training zones and rating of perceived exertion (RPE). United Kingdom guidelines indicate that patients should ex... Read More about Ratings of Perceived Exertion at the Ventilatory Anaerobic Threshold in People with Coronary Heart Disease: A CARE CR study.

Strategies supporting sustainable prescribing safety improvement interventions in English primary care: A qualitative study (2021)
Journal Article
Binti Mohd Shamsuddin, A., Jeffries, M., Sheikh, A., Laing, L., Salema, N., Avery, A., Chuter, A., Waring, J., & Keers, R. (2021). Strategies supporting sustainable prescribing safety improvement interventions in English primary care: A qualitative study. British Journal of General Practice, 5(5), https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGPO.2021.0109

Background: While the use of prescribing safety indicators (PSI) can reduce potentially hazardous prescribing, there is a need to identify actionable strategies for the successful implementation and sustainable delivery of PSI-based interventions in... Read More about Strategies supporting sustainable prescribing safety improvement interventions in English primary care: A qualitative study.

Active Living Becomes Achievable (ALBA): An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of a Behaviour Change Intervention at Promoting Physical Activity for Improved Mental Wellbeing (2021)
Journal Article
Peddie, N., Snowden, A., & Westbury, T. (2022). Active Living Becomes Achievable (ALBA): An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of a Behaviour Change Intervention at Promoting Physical Activity for Improved Mental Wellbeing. Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health, 9(2), 135-148. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40737-021-00246-4

Physical activity (PA) has been shown to be beneficial for physical and mental wellbeing. However, there is evidence to indicate people with mental health conditions are significantly less active than the general population. The aim of the research i... Read More about Active Living Becomes Achievable (ALBA): An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of a Behaviour Change Intervention at Promoting Physical Activity for Improved Mental Wellbeing.

Exploring nurses’ online perspectives and social networks during a global pandemic COVID‐19 (2021)
Journal Article
O'Leary, L., Erikainen, S., Peltonen, L., Ahmed, W., Thelwall, M., & O'Connor, S. (2022). Exploring nurses’ online perspectives and social networks during a global pandemic COVID‐19. Public Health Nursing, 39(3), 586-600. https://doi.org/10.1111/phn.12994

Objectives

Examine the online interactions, social networks, and perspectives of nursing actors on COVID-19 from conversations on Twitter to understand how the profession responded to this global pandemic.

Design
Mixed methods.

Sample
Ten-... Read More about Exploring nurses’ online perspectives and social networks during a global pandemic COVID‐19.

Young women’s knowledge and attitudes towards cervical cancer screening at a selected higher education institution in Lesotho (2021)
Preprint / Working Paper
Nyangu, I., & Moteane, T. Young women’s knowledge and attitudes towards cervical cancer screening at a selected higher education institution in Lesotho

Background: In Lesotho, cervical cancer is the most common female cancer and leading cause of death amongst women. In 2019, the annual number of new cancer cases was 477 and 346 women died from cancer related complications in Lesotho.

Aim: The aim... Read More about Young women’s knowledge and attitudes towards cervical cancer screening at a selected higher education institution in Lesotho.

Midwives providing woman-centred care during the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia: A national qualitative study (2021)
Journal Article
Stulz, V. M., Bradfield, Z., Cummins, A., Catling, C., Sweet, L., McInnes, R., McLaughlin, K., Taylor, J., Hartz, D., & Sheehan, A. (2022). Midwives providing woman-centred care during the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia: A national qualitative study. Women and Birth, 35(5), 475-483. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wombi.2021.10.006

Background
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused isolation, fear, and impacted on maternal healthcare provision.

Aim
To explore midwives’ experiences about how COVID-19 impacted their ability to provide woman-centred care, and what lessons they have... Read More about Midwives providing woman-centred care during the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia: A national qualitative study.

Exploring moral distress in Australian midwifery practice (2021)
Journal Article
Foster, W., McKellar, L., Fleet, J., & Sweet, L. (2022). Exploring moral distress in Australian midwifery practice. Women and Birth, 35(4), 349-359. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wombi.2021.09.006

Problem
Australian midwives are considering leaving the profession. Moral distress may be a contributing factor, yet there is limited research regarding the influence of moral distress on midwifery practice.

Background
Moral distress was first u... Read More about Exploring moral distress in Australian midwifery practice.

Mental health of adults in Ireland during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic: Results from a nationally representative, longitudinal study (2021)
Journal Article
Hyland, P., Vallières, F., McBride, O., Murphy, J., Shevlin, M., Bentall, R. P., Butter, S., Hartman, T. K., Karatzias, T., Maclachlan, M., Maguire, R., Mchugh Power, J., Spikol, E., & Daly, M. (2023). Mental health of adults in Ireland during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic: Results from a nationally representative, longitudinal study. Psychological Medicine, 53(8), 3766 - 3768. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291721004360

No abstract available.

Co-occurrence of severe PTSD, Somatic Symptoms and Dissociation in a large sample of childhood trauma inpatients: A Network Analysis (2021)
Journal Article
Kratzer, L., Knefel, M., Haselgruber, A., Heinz, P., Schennach, R., & Karatzias, T. (2022). Co-occurrence of severe PTSD, Somatic Symptoms and Dissociation in a large sample of childhood trauma inpatients: A Network Analysis. European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, 272(5), 897-908. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00406-021-01342-z

Co-occurrence of mental disorders including severe PTSD, somatic symptoms, and dissociation in the aftermath of trauma is common and sometimes associated with poor treatment outcomes. However, the interrelationships between these conditions at sympto... Read More about Co-occurrence of severe PTSD, Somatic Symptoms and Dissociation in a large sample of childhood trauma inpatients: A Network Analysis.

Documentary Analysis within a Realist Evaluation: recommendations from a study of Sexual Assault Referral Centres (2021)
Journal Article
Price, H., Domoney, J., Ariss, S., Hughes, E., & Trevillion, K. (2021). Documentary Analysis within a Realist Evaluation: recommendations from a study of Sexual Assault Referral Centres. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 20, https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069211047818

Realist approaches are increasingly used in studies of complex health interventions/evaluations to understand how programmes work, for whom, and under what circumstances. Mixed-method data sources can be used to generate, refine and test realist prog... Read More about Documentary Analysis within a Realist Evaluation: recommendations from a study of Sexual Assault Referral Centres.

Adding experiential layers to the transnational-athlete concept: A narrative review of real-world heterogeneous mobility experiences (2021)
Journal Article
Bobrownicki, R., & Valentin, S. (2022). Adding experiential layers to the transnational-athlete concept: A narrative review of real-world heterogeneous mobility experiences. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 58, Article 102075. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2021.102075

Objective
With rising mobility and greater recognition of the diversity of origins, cultures, and outlooks, there has been increasing interest in transnational perspectives in sport psychology scholarship and practice. Based on personal and professi... Read More about Adding experiential layers to the transnational-athlete concept: A narrative review of real-world heterogeneous mobility experiences.

Sex and age differences in ICD-11 PTSD and Complex PTSD: An analysis of four general 2 population samples (2021)
Journal Article
McGinty, G., Fox, R., Ben-Ezra, M., Cloitre, M., Karatzias, T., Shevlin, M., & Hyland, P. (2021). Sex and age differences in ICD-11 PTSD and Complex PTSD: An analysis of four general 2 population samples. European Psychiatry, 64(1), https://doi.org/10.1192/j.eurpsy.2021.2239

Background. Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is traditionally understood as a disorder that occurs more commonly in women than in men, and in younger age groups than in older age groups. The objective of this study was to determine if these patte... Read More about Sex and age differences in ICD-11 PTSD and Complex PTSD: An analysis of four general 2 population samples.

Complex post-traumatic stress disorder in asylum seekers and victims of trafficking: treatment considerations (2021)
Journal Article
Jowett, S., Argyriou, A., Scherrer, O., Karatzias, T., & Katona, C. (2021). Complex post-traumatic stress disorder in asylum seekers and victims of trafficking: treatment considerations. BJPsych Open, 7(6), Article e181. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2021.1007

Asylum-seekers experience high levels of traumatic events pre, post, and during migration. Polytraumatisation is associated with Complex PTSD (CPTSD), which has not yet been extensively explored in this population. CPTSD is a prevalent and highly dis... Read More about Complex post-traumatic stress disorder in asylum seekers and victims of trafficking: treatment considerations.

Joining the workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic: views of Allied Health Profession students (2021)
Journal Article
Porter-Armstrong, A., Daly-Lynn, J., Turtle, B., Abercrombie, W., McLean, A., Martin, S., & Stinson, M. (2022). Joining the workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic: views of Allied Health Profession students. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 36(5), 651-659. https://doi.org/10.1080/13561820.2021.1976122

In the United Kingdom, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic placed great pressures on universities to ensure final year health care students completed their studies earlier than planned in order to join the National Health Service workforce. This study... Read More about Joining the workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic: views of Allied Health Profession students.

Delay discounting and under-valuing of recent information predict poorer adherence to social distancing measures during the COVID-19 pandemic (2021)
Journal Article
Lloyd, A., McKay, R., Hartman, T. K., Vincent, B. T., Murphy, J., Gibson-Miller, J., Levita, L., Bennett, K., McBride, O., Martinez, A. P., Stocks, T. V., Vallières, F., Hyland, P., Karatzias, T., Butter, S., Shevlin, M., Bentall, R. P., & Mason, L. (2021). Delay discounting and under-valuing of recent information predict poorer adherence to social distancing measures during the COVID-19 pandemic. Scientific Reports, 11(1), Article 19237. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-98772-5

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about unprecedented global changes in individual and collective behaviour. To reduce the spread of the virus, public health bodies have promoted social distancing measures while attempting to mitigate their mental he... Read More about Delay discounting and under-valuing of recent information predict poorer adherence to social distancing measures during the COVID-19 pandemic.

CN25 The haemato-oncology patient experience of the process of palliative care: A constructivist grounded theory study (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Campbell, K. (2021). CN25 The haemato-oncology patient experience of the process of palliative care: A constructivist grounded theory study. Annals of Oncology, 32(suppl_5), S1265. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annonc.2021.08.651

Background
Haemato-oncology (HO) patients comprise 8.5% of the overall adult cancers within the UK. Despite advances in treatment, eventually the majority will enter into a palliative care phase. Evidence suggests palliative care is late or non-exis... Read More about CN25 The haemato-oncology patient experience of the process of palliative care: A constructivist grounded theory study.