Dementia in the workplace: are employers supporting employees living with dementia? (2019)
Journal Article
Egdell, V., Cook, M., Stavert, J., Ritchie, L., Tolson, D., & Danson, M. (2021). Dementia in the workplace: are employers supporting employees living with dementia?. Aging & mental health, 25(1), 134-141. https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2019.1667299

Objectives
As working lives extend and there is better recognition of early-onset dementias, employers need to consider dementia as a workplace concern. With suitable support, people living with dementia can continue employment – although this is no... Read More about Dementia in the workplace: are employers supporting employees living with dementia?.

Target Audience and Preferences Related to an Australian Coronary Heart Disease Specific Mobile App: A Mixed Methods Study (2019)
Journal Article
Gallagher, R., Parker, H., Zhang, L., Kirkness, A., Roach, K., Belshaw, J., Glinatsis, H., Gallagher, P., & Neubeck, L. (2020). Target Audience and Preferences Related to an Australian Coronary Heart Disease Specific Mobile App: A Mixed Methods Study. Heart, Lung and Circulation, 29(5), 696-702. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hlc.2019.05.178

Background:
Widespread availability of mobile technologies offers the opportunity to support secondary prevention of coronary heart disease (CHD) via mobile apps, however, the target audience and their app preferences are unknown. This study aims to... Read More about Target Audience and Preferences Related to an Australian Coronary Heart Disease Specific Mobile App: A Mixed Methods Study.

A methodological systematic review of meta-ethnography conduct to articulate the complex analytical phases (2019)
Journal Article
France, E. F., Uny, I., Ring, N., Turley, R. L., Maxwell, M., Duncan, E. A. S., Jepson, R. G., Roberts, R., & Noyes, J. (2019). A methodological systematic review of meta-ethnography conduct to articulate the complex analytical phases. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 19, Article 35. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-019-0670-7

Background: Decision making in health and social care requires robust syntheses of both quantitative and qualitative evidence. Meta-ethnography is a seven-phase methodology for synthesising qualitative studies. Developed in 1988 by sociologists in ed... Read More about A methodological systematic review of meta-ethnography conduct to articulate the complex analytical phases.

A review of the impact of utilising electronic medical records for clinical research recruitment (2019)
Journal Article
Lai, Y. S., & Afseth, J. D. (2019). A review of the impact of utilising electronic medical records for clinical research recruitment. Clinical Trials, 16(2), 194-203. https://doi.org/10.1177/1740774519829709

Introduction:
Recruitment is an important aspect of clinical research, as poor recruitment could undermine the scientific value of a trial or delay the development process of new treatments. The development of electronic medical records provides a n... Read More about A review of the impact of utilising electronic medical records for clinical research recruitment.

Improving reporting of meta-ethnography: The eMERGe reporting guidance (2019)
Journal Article
France, E. F., Cunningham, M., Ring, N., Uny, I., Duncan, E. A. S., Jepson, R. G., Maxwell, M., Roberts, R. J., Turley, R. L., Booth, A., Britten, N., Flemming, K., Gallagher, I., Garside, R., Hannes, K., Lewin, S., Noblit, G. W., Pope, C., Higginbottom, G. M. A., Thomas, J., …Noyes, J. (2019). Improving reporting of meta-ethnography: The eMERGe reporting guidance. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 19(1), Article 25. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-018-0600-0

Aims
The aim of this study was to provide guidance to improve the completeness and clarity of meta‐ethnography reporting.
Background
Evidence‐based policy and practice require robust evidence syntheses which can further understanding of people'... Read More about Improving reporting of meta-ethnography: The eMERGe reporting guidance.

Improving reporting of meta-ethnography: The eMERGe reporting guidance (2019)
Journal Article
France, E. F., Cunningham, M., Ring, N., Uny, I., Duncan, E. A., Jepson, R. G., Maxwell, M., Roberts, R. J., Turley, R. L., Booth, A., Britten, N., Flemming, K., Gallagher, I., Garside, R., Hannes, K., Lewin, S., Noblit, G. W., Pope, C., Thomas, J., Vanstone, M., …Noyes, J. (2019). Improving reporting of meta-ethnography: The eMERGe reporting guidance. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 75(5), 1126-1139. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.13809

Background
Evidence-based policy and practice require robust evidence syntheses which can further understanding of people’s experiences and associated social processes. Meta-ethnography is a rigorous seven-phase qualitative evidence synthesis method... Read More about Improving reporting of meta-ethnography: The eMERGe reporting guidance.

Improving reporting of meta-ethnography: The eMERGe reporting guidance (2019)
Journal Article
France, E. F., Cunningham, M., Ring, N., Uny, I., Duncan, E. A. S., Jepson, R. G., Maxwell, M., Roberts, R. J., Turley, R. L., Booth, A., Britten, N., Flemming, K., Gallagher, I., Garside, R., Hannes, K., Lewin, S., Noblit, G. W., Pope, C., Thomas, J., Vanstone, M., …Noyes, J. (2019). Improving reporting of meta-ethnography: The eMERGe reporting guidance. Review of Education, 7(2), 430-451. https://doi.org/10.1002/rev3.3147

The aim of this study was to provide guidance to improve the completeness and clarity of meta‐ethnography reporting. Evidence‐based policy and practice require robust evidence syntheses which can further understanding of people's experiences and asso... Read More about Improving reporting of meta-ethnography: The eMERGe reporting guidance.

Improving reporting of meta-ethnography: The eMERGe reporting guidance (2019)
Journal Article
France, E. F., Cunningham, M., Ring, N., Uny, I., Duncan, E. A., Jepson, R. G., Maxwell, M., Roberts, R. J., Turley, R. L., Booth, A., Britten, N., Flemming, K., Gallagher, I., Garside, R., Hannes, K., Lewin, S., Noblit, G. W., Pope, C., Thomas, J., Vanstone, M., …Noyes, J. (2019). Improving reporting of meta-ethnography: The eMERGe reporting guidance. Psycho-Oncology, 28(3), 447-458. https://doi.org/10.1002/pon.4915

Aims
The aim of this study was to provide guidance to improve the completeness and clarity of meta‐ethnography reporting.
Background
Evidence‐based policy and practice require robust evidence syntheses which can further understanding of people's e... Read More about Improving reporting of meta-ethnography: The eMERGe reporting guidance.

Migrants’ Healthcare Experience: A Meta‐Ethnography Review of the Literature. (2018)
Journal Article
Luiking, M.-L., Heckemann, B., Ali, P., Dekker-van Doorn, C., Ghosh, S., Kydd, A., Watson, R., & Patel, H. (2019). Migrants’ Healthcare Experience: A Meta‐Ethnography Review of the Literature. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 51(1), 58-67. https://doi.org/10.1111/jnu.12442

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..

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.

Breastfeeding and opiate dependency (2017)
Journal Article
MacVicar, S. (2017). Breastfeeding and opiate dependency. RcM Midwives, 34

Breastfeeding and opiate dependency: My PhD Summary. A lecturer at Edinburgh Napier University on her doctoral study.

Media and Social Media representations of the HPV vaccine. (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gray Brunton, C., & Carnegie, E. (2017, July). Media and Social Media representations of the HPV vaccine. Paper presented at 10th Biennial International Society for Critical Health Psychology Conference

Public health interventions such as immunizations for the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine are not neutral but occur within a socio-cultural, historical context. They are given meaning through language and discourse. There are multiple meanings ava... Read More about Media and Social Media representations of the HPV vaccine..

To screen or not to screen? Examining the arguments against screening for atrial fibrillation. (2017)
Journal Article
Neubeck, L., Orchard, J., Lowres, N., & Freedman, S. B. (2017). To screen or not to screen? Examining the arguments against screening for atrial fibrillation. Heart, Lung and Circulation, 26(9), 880-886. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hlc.2017.05.118

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia, with a lifetime risk of 1 in 4 of developing AF over the age of 40 years. Around 40% of patients are asymptomatic, which is of concern as AF is a major risk factor for stroke. Early dete... Read More about To screen or not to screen? Examining the arguments against screening for atrial fibrillation..

A qualitative exploration into the concept of service users as ‘Physical Activity Champions’ to support stroke survivors participate in community based exercise (2017)
Thesis
Hutton, G. H. A qualitative exploration into the concept of service users as ‘Physical Activity Champions’ to support stroke survivors participate in community based exercise. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/979167

Background
Peer support can facilitate exercise following stroke however limited evidence exists in relation to incorporating individual peer support interventions. A possible method of providing individual peer support in a community based exercise... Read More about A qualitative exploration into the concept of service users as ‘Physical Activity Champions’ to support stroke survivors participate in community based exercise.

“I always felt I was a bit of a guinea pig”: Illness perceptions, experience of treatment and coping in liver transplant patients with Hepatitis C Virus recurrence. (2017)
Thesis
Krzeczkowska, A. “I always felt I was a bit of a guinea pig”: Illness perceptions, experience of treatment and coping in liver transplant patients with Hepatitis C Virus recurrence. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/977827

The current study aimed to gain an in-depth understanding of the lived experience of liver transplant patients with Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) recurrence. The semi-structured interviews with seven male participants were audio-recorded, transcribed verba... Read More about “I always felt I was a bit of a guinea pig”: Illness perceptions, experience of treatment and coping in liver transplant patients with Hepatitis C Virus recurrence..

Examination of an eHealth literacy scale and a health literacy scale in a population with moderate to high cardiovascular risk: Rasch analyses (2017)
Journal Article
Richtering, S. S., Morris, R., Soh, S.-E., Barker, A., Bampi, F., Neubeck, L., Coorey, G., Mulley, J., Chalmers, J., Usherwood, T., Peiris, D., Chow, C. K., & Redfern, J. (2017). Examination of an eHealth literacy scale and a health literacy scale in a population with moderate to high cardiovascular risk: Rasch analyses. PLOS ONE, 12(4), Article e0175372. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0175372

Introduction
Electronic health (eHealth) strategies are evolving making it important to have valid scales to assess eHealth and health literacy. Item response theory methods, such as the Rasch measurement model, are increasingly used for the psychom... Read More about Examination of an eHealth literacy scale and a health literacy scale in a population with moderate to high cardiovascular risk: Rasch analyses.

Patient Reported Outcome Measure of Spiritual Care as Delivered by Chaplains (2017)
Journal Article
Snowden, A., & Telfer, I. (2017). Patient Reported Outcome Measure of Spiritual Care as Delivered by Chaplains. Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy, 23(4), 131-155. https://doi.org/10.1080/08854726.2017.1279935

Chaplains are employed by health organizations around the world to support patients in recognizing and addressing their spiritual needs. There is currently no generalizable measure of the impact of these interventions and so the clinical and strategi... Read More about Patient Reported Outcome Measure of Spiritual Care as Delivered by Chaplains.

Readiness for Delivering Digital Health at Scale: Lessons From a Longitudinal Qualitative Evaluation of a National Digital Health Innovation Program in the United Kingdom (2017)
Journal Article
Lennon, M. R., Bouamrane, M.-M., Devlin, A. M., O'Connor, S., O'Donnell, C., Chetty, U., Agbakoba, R., Bikker, A., Grieve, E., Finch, T., Watson, N., Wyke, S., & Mair, F. S. (2017). Readiness for Delivering Digital Health at Scale: Lessons From a Longitudinal Qualitative Evaluation of a National Digital Health Innovation Program in the United Kingdom. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 19(2), Article e42. https://doi.org/10.2196/jmir.6900

Background: Digital health has the potential to support care delivery for chronic illness. Despite positive evidence from localized implementations, new technologies have proven slow to become accepted, integrated, and routinized at scale.

Objecti... Read More about Readiness for Delivering Digital Health at Scale: Lessons From a Longitudinal Qualitative Evaluation of a National Digital Health Innovation Program in the United Kingdom.

eHealth Literacy: Predictors in a Population With Moderate-to-High Cardiovascular Risk (2017)
Journal Article
Richtering, S. S., Hyun, K., Neubeck, L., Coorey, G., Chalmers, J., Usherwood, T., Peiris, D., Chow, C. K., & Redfern, J. (2017). eHealth Literacy: Predictors in a Population With Moderate-to-High Cardiovascular Risk. JMIR Human Factors, 4(1), e4. https://doi.org/10.2196/humanfactors.6217

Background: Electronic health (eHealth) literacy is a growing area of research parallel to the ongoing development of eHealth interventions. There is, however, little and conflicting information regarding the factors that influence eHealth literacy,... Read More about eHealth Literacy: Predictors in a Population With Moderate-to-High Cardiovascular Risk.

Examining Dementia Caregivers’ Experiences (2016)
Journal Article
Joy, J., Whitelaw, T., Oldfather, I., & Willis, D. (2016). Examining Dementia Caregivers’ Experiences. International Journal of Aging and Society, 7(2), 59-72. https://doi.org/10.18848/2160-1909/CGP/v07i02/59-72

There are 46.8 million people living with dementia in the world and this number is expected to rise (The World Alzheimer Report 2015). The burden on caregivers can be enormous, yet in the UK they save the NHS and Social care services millions of pou... Read More about Examining Dementia Caregivers’ Experiences.