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Resistance Exercise Increases Endothelial Progenitor Cells and Angiogenic Factors (2014)
Journal Article
Ross, M. D., Wekesa, A. L., Phelan, J. P., & Harrison, M. (2014). Resistance Exercise Increases Endothelial Progenitor Cells and Angiogenic Factors. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 46(1), 16-23. https://doi.org/10.1249/mss.0b013e3182a142da

Bone marrow-derived endothelial progenitor cells (EPC) are involved in vascular growth and repair. They increase in the circulation after a single bout of aerobic exercise, potentially related to muscle ischemia. Muscular endurance resistance exercis... Read More about Resistance Exercise Increases Endothelial Progenitor Cells and Angiogenic Factors.

Assessing risk of victim crossover with children and young people who display Harmful Sexual Behaviours. (2013)
Journal Article
Allardyce, S., & Yates, P. M. (2013). Assessing risk of victim crossover with children and young people who display Harmful Sexual Behaviours. Child Abuse Review, 22, 255-267. https://doi.org/10.1002/car.2277

Assessments of children and young people who display harmful sexual behaviours need to consider – at a broad level – the safety of other children at home, in the community and in the wider family. To date, issues of victim selection have been margina... Read More about Assessing risk of victim crossover with children and young people who display Harmful Sexual Behaviours..

Adolescents' awareness of cancer risk factors and associations with health-related behaviours (2013)
Journal Article
Kyle, R. G., Nicoll, A., Forbat, L., & Hubbard, G. (2013). Adolescents' awareness of cancer risk factors and associations with health-related behaviours. Health Education Research, 28, 816-827. https://doi.org/10.1093/her/cyt055

Increasing adolescents' awareness of the contribution of modifiable lifestyle factors to cancer risk may influence life-long patterns of healthy behaviour. However, little is known about adolescents' awareness of cancer risk factors and the effective... Read More about Adolescents' awareness of cancer risk factors and associations with health-related behaviours.

The Injury/Illness Performance Project (IIPP): A Novel Epidemiological Approach for Recording the Consequences of Sports Injuries and Illnesses (2013)
Journal Article
Palmer-Green, D., Fuller, C., Jaques, R., & Hunter, G. (2013). The Injury/Illness Performance Project (IIPP): A Novel Epidemiological Approach for Recording the Consequences of Sports Injuries and Illnesses. Journal of sports medicine, 2013, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/523974

Background. Describing the frequency, severity, and causes of sports injuries and illnesses reliably is important for quantifying the
risk to athletes and providing direction for prevention initiatives. Methods. Time-loss and/or medical-attention de... Read More about The Injury/Illness Performance Project (IIPP): A Novel Epidemiological Approach for Recording the Consequences of Sports Injuries and Illnesses.

The effects of high-intensity exercise on neural responses to images of food (2013)
Journal Article
Crabtree, D. R., Chambers, E. S., Hardwick, R. M., & Blannin, A. K. (2014). The effects of high-intensity exercise on neural responses to images of food. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 99(2), 258-267. https://doi.org/10.3945/ajcn.113.071381

Background: Acute bouts of high-intensity exercise modulate peripheral appetite regulating hormones to transiently suppress hunger. However, the effects of physical activity on central appetite regulation have yet to be fully investigated.
Objectiv... Read More about The effects of high-intensity exercise on neural responses to images of food.

ADePT (algorithm for decision-making after pilot and feasibility trials): a decision aid for progression from feasibility study to main trial (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bugge, C., Williams, B., & Hagen, S. (2013, November). ADePT (algorithm for decision-making after pilot and feasibility trials): a decision aid for progression from feasibility study to main trial. Presented at 2nd Clinical Trials Methodology Conference: Methodology Matters, 18 – 19 November 2013,, Edinburgh, Scotland

Background: Complex intervention guidance advocates pilot trials and feasibility studies as part of a phased approach to development, testing and evaluation of healthcare interventions. In this paper an example of a feasibility study and pilot trial... Read More about ADePT (algorithm for decision-making after pilot and feasibility trials): a decision aid for progression from feasibility study to main trial.

Activity profiles of soccer players during the 2010 world cup. (2013)
Journal Article
Clemente, F. M., Couceiro, M. S., Lourenço Martins, F. M., Ivanova, M. O., & Mendes, R. (2013). Activity profiles of soccer players during the 2010 world cup. Journal of Human Kinetics, 38, 201-211. https://doi.org/10.2478/hukin-2013-0060

The main objective of this study was to analyse the distance covered and the activity profile that players presented at the FIFA World Cup in 2010. Complementarily, the distance covered by each team within the same competition was analysed. For the p... Read More about Activity profiles of soccer players during the 2010 world cup..

Goal-setting intervention in patients with active asthma: Protocol for a pilot cluster-randomised controlled trial (2013)
Journal Article
Hoskins, G., Abhyankar, P., Taylor, A. D., Duncan, E., Sheikh, A., Pinnock, H., van der Pol, M., Donnan, P. T., & Williams, B. (2013). Goal-setting intervention in patients with active asthma: Protocol for a pilot cluster-randomised controlled trial. Trials, 14, Article 289. https://doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-14-289

Background: Supporting self-management behaviours is recommended guidance for people with asthma. Preliminary work suggests that a brief, intensive, patient-centred intervention may be successful in supporting people with asthma to participate in lif... Read More about Goal-setting intervention in patients with active asthma: Protocol for a pilot cluster-randomised controlled trial.

The effect of physical activity on mediators of inflammation (2013)
Journal Article
Nimmo, M. A., Leggate, M., Viana, J. L., & King, J. A. (2013). The effect of physical activity on mediators of inflammation. Diabetes, obesity & metabolism, 15(s3), 51-60. https://doi.org/10.1111/dom.12156

Being physically active and undertaking exercise on a regular basis are critical lifestyle behaviours which protect against the development of numerous chronic metabolic conditions. One of the key mechanisms by which physical activity exerts favourab... Read More about The effect of physical activity on mediators of inflammation.

Is disgust the driver behind the selection of images for UK tobacco packets? (2013)
Journal Article
Humphris, G., & Williams, B. (2014). Is disgust the driver behind the selection of images for UK tobacco packets?. Health Education Journal, 73(5), 522-529. https://doi.org/10.1177/0017896913496399

Objective: The use of pictorial warning labels on tobacco packets has gained almost universal international acceptance. In a public consultation exercise in 2006, the Department of Health in England, through a web-based answering system, asked people... Read More about Is disgust the driver behind the selection of images for UK tobacco packets?.

Understanding barriers to exercise implementation 5-year post-breast cancer diagnosis: a large-scale qualitative study (2013)
Journal Article
Hefferon, K., Murphy, H., McLeod, J., Mutrie, N., & Campbell, A. (2013). Understanding barriers to exercise implementation 5-year post-breast cancer diagnosis: a large-scale qualitative study. Health Education Research, 28(5), 843-856. https://doi.org/10.1093/her/cyt083

Due to the amount of literature supporting exercise participation after cancer diagnosis, there has been recent interest in barriers to exercise engagement among cancer patients. However, little is known regarding reasons why people choose to disenga... Read More about Understanding barriers to exercise implementation 5-year post-breast cancer diagnosis: a large-scale qualitative study.

Cartilage to bone transitions in health and disease (2013)
Journal Article
Staines, K. A., Pollard, A. S., McGonnell, I. M., Farquharson, C., & Pitsillides, A. A. (2013). Cartilage to bone transitions in health and disease. Journal of Endocrinology, 219(1), R1-R12. https://doi.org/10.1530/joe-13-0276

Aberrant redeployment of the 'transient' events responsible for bone development and postnatal longitudinal growth has been reported in some diseases in what is otherwise inherently 'stable' cartilage. Lessons may be learnt from the molecular mechani... Read More about Cartilage to bone transitions in health and disease.

How the stigma of low literacy can impair patient-professional spoken interactions and affect health: Insights from a qualitative investigation (2013)
Journal Article
Easton, P., Entwistle, V. A., & Williams, B. (2013). How the stigma of low literacy can impair patient-professional spoken interactions and affect health: Insights from a qualitative investigation. BMC Health Services Research, 13(319), https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-13-319

Background
Low literacy is a significant problem across the developed world. A considerable body of research has reported associations between low literacy and less appropriate access to healthcare services, lower likelihood of self-managing health... Read More about How the stigma of low literacy can impair patient-professional spoken interactions and affect health: Insights from a qualitative investigation.

Investigating the experience of outdoor and adventurous project work in an educational setting using a self-determination framework (2013)
Journal Article
Sproule, J., Martindale, R., Wang, J., Allison, P., Nash, C., & Gray, S. (2013). Investigating the experience of outdoor and adventurous project work in an educational setting using a self-determination framework. European Physical Education Review, 19(3), 315-328. https://doi.org/10.1177/1356336x13495629

The purpose of this study was to carry out a preliminary investigation to explore the use of
outdoor and adventurous project work (PW) within an educational setting. Specifically, differences
between the PW and normal academic school experiences we... Read More about Investigating the experience of outdoor and adventurous project work in an educational setting using a self-determination framework.

An evaluation of the efficacy of the exercise on referral scheme in Northumberland, UK: association with physical activity and predictors of engagement. A naturalistic observation study (2013)
Journal Article
Hanson, C. L., Allin, L. J., Ellis, J. G., & Dodd-Reynolds, C. J. (2013). An evaluation of the efficacy of the exercise on referral scheme in Northumberland, UK: association with physical activity and predictors of engagement. A naturalistic observation study. BMJ Open, 3(8), Article e002849. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2013-002849

ABSTRACT
Objectives: Exercise on referral schemes (ERS) are widely commissioned in the UK but there is little evidence of their association with physical activity levels. We sought to assess the Northumberland
exercise on referral scheme in terms o... Read More about An evaluation of the efficacy of the exercise on referral scheme in Northumberland, UK: association with physical activity and predictors of engagement. A naturalistic observation study.

Substance, structure and stigma: Parents in the UK accounting for opioid substitution therapy during the antenatal and postnatal periods (2013)
Journal Article
Chandler, A., Whittaker, A., Cunningham-Burley, S., Williams, N., McGorm, K., & Mathews, G. (2013). Substance, structure and stigma: Parents in the UK accounting for opioid substitution therapy during the antenatal and postnatal periods. International Journal of Drug Policy, 24(6), e35-e42. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2013.04.004

Background

Parenting and pregnancy in the context of drug use is a contentious topic, high on the policy agenda. Providing effective support to parents who are opioid dependent, through early intervention, access to drug treatment and parenting sk... Read More about Substance, structure and stigma: Parents in the UK accounting for opioid substitution therapy during the antenatal and postnatal periods.