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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.

Using timelines as part of recovery-focused practice in psychosis: Timelines and recovery in psychosis (2011)
Journal Article
Marland, G., McNay, L., Fleming, M., & McCaig, M. (2011). Using timelines as part of recovery-focused practice in psychosis: Timelines and recovery in psychosis. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 18(10), 869-877. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2850.2011.01738.x

The value of timelines is discussed with regard to the promotion of recovery, particularly emphasizing relapse signature and concordance in medicine-taking. Recovery approaches in contemporary mental health care rely on understanding motivations, asp... Read More about Using timelines as part of recovery-focused practice in psychosis: Timelines and recovery in psychosis.

Genes and schizophrenia: a pseudoscientific disenfranchisement of the individual: Genes and schizophrenia (2011)
Journal Article
FLEMING, M. P., & MARTIN, C. R. (2011). Genes and schizophrenia: a pseudoscientific disenfranchisement of the individual: Genes and schizophrenia. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 18(6), 469-478. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2850.2011.01690.x

The biological model of schizophrenia remains the dominant model within mental health services. It has a powerful influence on the culture of mental health services; providing the structure for the delivery and selection of mental health treatments.... Read More about Genes and schizophrenia: a pseudoscientific disenfranchisement of the individual: Genes and schizophrenia.

Giving Them Something to Hate: Using Prototypes as a Vehicle for Early Engagement in Virtual Organizations (2009)
Journal Article
Ure, J., Rakebrandt, F., Lloyd, S., Khanban, A., Procter, R., Anderson, S., Hanley, J., Hartswood, M., Pagliari, C., McKinstry, B., Tarling, A., Kidd, G., & Corscadden, P. (2009). Giving Them Something to Hate: Using Prototypes as a Vehicle for Early Engagement in Virtual Organizations. Social Science Computer Review, 27(4), 569-582. https://doi.org/10.1177/0894439309332664

There are recognized problems in the course of requirements analysis and design for heterogeneous, distributed, and dynamic systems. These are particularly evident where the context of future use is not yet clear to users, and where the implementatio... Read More about Giving Them Something to Hate: Using Prototypes as a Vehicle for Early Engagement in Virtual Organizations.

Issues in Quality of Life Assessment in Schizophrenia (2010)
Book Chapter
Martin, C. R., & Fleming, M. (2010). Issues in Quality of Life Assessment in Schizophrenia. In Handbook of Disease Burdens and Quality of Life Measures, 3607-3624. Springer Science + Business Media. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-78665-0_209

Quality of Life is an important aspect of everyday functioning to patients with a primary diagnosis of schizophrenia. The multifactorial nature of schizophrenia enmeshed within a biopsychosocial phenomena and the impact of pharmacological therapy mak... Read More about Issues in Quality of Life Assessment in Schizophrenia.

Telemonitoring for chronic heart failure: the views of patients and healthcare professionals - a qualitative study (2013)
Journal Article
Fairbrother, P., Ure, J., Hanley, J., McCloughan, L., Denvir, M., Sheikh, A., & McKinstry, B. (2014). Telemonitoring for chronic heart failure: the views of patients and healthcare professionals - a qualitative study. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 23(1-2), 132-144. https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.12137

Aims and objectives To understand the views of patients and professionals on the acceptability and perceived usefulness of telemonitoring in the management of chronic heart failure in the context of day-to-day care provision. Background There... Read More about Telemonitoring for chronic heart failure: the views of patients and healthcare professionals - a qualitative study.

The utility of the Illness Perception Questionnaire in the evaluation of mental health practitioners' perspectives on patients with schizophrenia (2008)
Journal Article
Fleming, M. P., Martin, C. R., Miles, J., & Atkinson, J. (2009). The utility of the Illness Perception Questionnaire in the evaluation of mental health practitioners' perspectives on patients with schizophrenia. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 15(5), 826-831. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2753.2008.01103.x

Rationale, aims, objectives  The Illness Perception Questionnaire (IPQ) was designed as a measure of illness perception and has been used extensively for measuring the perceptions of people with physical illness. Latterly modified versions of the IPQ... Read More about The utility of the Illness Perception Questionnaire in the evaluation of mental health practitioners' perspectives on patients with schizophrenia.

Mood and smoking in schizophrenia (2008)
Journal Article
Martin, C. R., Allan, R., Fleming, M., & Atkinson, J. (2008). Mood and smoking in schizophrenia. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 15(9), 722-727. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2850.2008.01295.x

There have been few investigations into the relationship of smoking to the presentation of anxiety and depression in clients with a primary diagnosis of schizophrenia. Using a survey design, the current study sought to determine if there was a signif... Read More about Mood and smoking in schizophrenia.

Exploring telemonitoring and self-management by patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: A qualitative study embedded in a randomized controlled trial (2013)
Journal Article
Fairbrother, P., Pinnock, H., Hanley, J., McCloughan, L., Sheikh, A., Pagliari, C., & McKinstry, B. (2013). Exploring telemonitoring and self-management by patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: A qualitative study embedded in a randomized controlled trial. Patient Education and Counseling, 93(3), 403-410. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2013.04.003

Objective To explore patient and professional views on self-management in the context of telemonitoring in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Methods Semi-structured interviews with patients with COPD and healthcare professionals... Read More about Exploring telemonitoring and self-management by patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: A qualitative study embedded in a randomized controlled trial.

Scoping the nursing and midwifery research and development capacity in Scotland to inform the development of a future strategy (2002)
Journal Article
Fyffe, T., & Hanley, J. (2002). Scoping the nursing and midwifery research and development capacity in Scotland to inform the development of a future strategy. NT research, 7(4), 255-262. https://doi.org/10.1177/136140960200700404

Scotland is currently developing a nursing and midwifery research strategy. This paper briefly describes the process and the groundwork carried out so far. Consultation on initial proposals took place during May 2002 and, as this issue of NT Research... Read More about Scoping the nursing and midwifery research and development capacity in Scotland to inform the development of a future strategy.

Clinical trial of incontinence garments: recognition of the possible influence of the Hawthorne effect (1988)
Journal Article
Hanley, J., Beveridge, M., Aitken, C., Hunter, J., Dick, T., & Prescott, R. (1988). Clinical trial of incontinence garments: recognition of the possible influence of the Hawthorne effect. Clinical Rehabilitation, 2(4), 285-290. https://doi.org/10.1177/026921558800200403

The results of clinical trials must be interpreted with care, recognizing that they may be affected by factors other than the items being tested. Different garments were routinely supplied from two distribution centres in Edinburgh, Urocare to the ma... Read More about Clinical trial of incontinence garments: recognition of the possible influence of the Hawthorne effect.

The patient experience of being a delayed discharge (2008)
Journal Article
Kydd, A. (2008). The patient experience of being a delayed discharge. Journal of Nursing Management, 16(2), 121-126. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2834.2008.00848.x

Aim  To explore what life was like for frail older people, classed as ‘delayed discharges’. Background  Delayed discharge or ‘bed blocking’ is when a patient is inappropriately occupying a hospital bed. Most delayed discharges are frail older pe... Read More about The patient experience of being a delayed discharge.

Nursing knowledge as a response to societal needs: a framework for promoting nursing as a profession (2011)
Journal Article
Savič, B., & Kydd, A. (2011). Nursing knowledge as a response to societal needs: a framework for promoting nursing as a profession. Slovenian Journal of Public Health, 50(4), https://doi.org/10.2478/v10152-011-0007-3

Introduction: As the population needs for health care at the local level become integrated into the global context, nurses are given the opportunity to make a significant contribution to the modernization of the healthcare system and gain importance... Read More about Nursing knowledge as a response to societal needs: a framework for promoting nursing as a profession.

Accessing and engaging women from socio-economically disadvantaged areas: a participatory approach to the design of a public health intervention for delivery in a Bingo club (2016)
Journal Article
Shepherd, A., Jepson, R., Gray, C., Mackison, D., Evans, J., Ryde, G., Ireland, A., McMurdo, M., Williams, B., Evans, J. M. M., Ryde, G., Jepson, R., Gray, C., Shepherd, A., Mackison, D., Ireland, A. V., McMurdo, M. E. T., & Williams, B. (2016). Accessing and engaging women from socio-economically disadvantaged areas: a participatory approach to the design of a public health intervention for delivery in a Bingo club. BMC Public Health, 16, Article 345. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-3013-1

Background Our aim was to use participatory methods to investigate the feasibility and acceptability of using Bingo clubs for the design and delivery of an evidence-based physical activity and/or healthy eating intervention to socio-economically dis... Read More about Accessing and engaging women from socio-economically disadvantaged areas: a participatory approach to the design of a public health intervention for delivery in a Bingo club.

Assessing Asthma control in UK primary care: Use of routinely collected prospective observational consultation data to determine appropriateness of a variety of control assessment models (2011)
Journal Article
Hoskins, G., Williams, B., Jackson, C., Norman, P. D., & Donnan, P. T. (2011). Assessing Asthma control in UK primary care: Use of routinely collected prospective observational consultation data to determine appropriateness of a variety of control assessment models. BMC Family Practice, 12, Article 105. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2296-12-105

Background: Assessing asthma control using standardised questionnaires is recommended as good clinical practice but there is little evidence validating their use within primary care. There is however, strong empirical evidence to indicate that age, w... Read More about Assessing Asthma control in UK primary care: Use of routinely collected prospective observational consultation data to determine appropriateness of a variety of control assessment models.

Profile of atrial fibrillation inpatients: cardiovascular risk factors and cardiac rehabilitation programme delivery and referral patterns: atrial fibrillation inpatient profile (2014)
Journal Article
Gallagher, R., Zhang, L., Roach, K., Sadler, L., Belshaw, J., Kirkness, A., Proctor, R., & Neubeck, L. (2015). Profile of atrial fibrillation inpatients: cardiovascular risk factors and cardiac rehabilitation programme delivery and referral patterns: atrial fibrillation inpatient profile. International Journal of Nursing Practice, 21(6), 749-755. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijn.12337

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is increasingly common; however, the cardiovascular risk factor profile and the patterns of delivery and referral to cardiac rehabilitation (CR) in this population are poorly described. We conducted an audit of medical record... Read More about Profile of atrial fibrillation inpatients: cardiovascular risk factors and cardiac rehabilitation programme delivery and referral patterns: atrial fibrillation inpatient profile.

Police Management of Mental Health Crises in the Community: Law Enforcement and Mental Health Special Interest Group (LEMH SIG) Guideline (2019)
Report
Kesic, D., Thomas, S., Bonomo, A., Bruno, R., Chambers, J., Dougall, N., Heyman, I., Sinclair, E., Watson, A., Young, L., & Zoeteman, J. (2019). Police Management of Mental Health Crises in the Community: Law Enforcement and Mental Health Special Interest Group (LEMH SIG) Guideline. GLEPHA

Overview This guideline aims to improve the outcomes of situations where police respond to people who are experiencing mental health crises in the community. This guideline focuses on: i) enhancing police responses to managing mental health crises, a... Read More about Police Management of Mental Health Crises in the Community: Law Enforcement and Mental Health Special Interest Group (LEMH SIG) Guideline.

Cancer diagnosis: An opportune time to help patients and their families stop smoking? (2010)
Journal Article
Ozakinci, G., Wells, M., Williams, B., Munro, A., & Donnelly, P. (2010). Cancer diagnosis: An opportune time to help patients and their families stop smoking?. Public Health, 124(8), 479-482. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2010.04.006

Tobacco use is the most preventable cause of cancer, ill health and premature death in developed countries. Although the decrease in smoking prevalence among adults over the last few decades has been responsible for improvements in cancer mortality r... Read More about Cancer diagnosis: An opportune time to help patients and their families stop smoking?.