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Psychological wellbeing and mental health amongst medical undergraduates: A descriptive study assessing more than 1,000 medical students in Sri Lanka
(2021-06)Studies from around the world have shown higher rates of anxiety, depression, alcohol and other drug use, and burnout in medical students. Aims: The aim of this study was to identify the socio-demographic factors and ... -
Psychological wellbeing, burnout and substance use amongst medical students in New Zealand
(2019-11)Medical students are thought to have increased pressures in study life beyond that of their peers. This could impact their psychological wellbeing, burnout and substance use, impeding a smooth transition into the health ... -
Qualitative study of barriers to clinical trial retention in adults with recently diagnosed type 1 diabetes
(2018-07)Objectives: Regular physical exercise may preserve β cell function in newly diagnosed adults with type 1 diabetes (T1D). However, clinical trials to test this theory require the recruitment and retention of adults with ... -
R package to identify sudden gains
(PsyArXiv, 2019)Sudden gains are large and stable changes on an outcome variable between consecutive measurements, for example during a psychological intervention with multiple assessments. Researching these occurrences could help understand ... -
Reducing attendance at trauma clinics by providing first-point-of-contact treatment
(2019-09-02)In 2016, the urgent and ambulatory care service in Oxfordshire formed part of a cross-organisational partnership working group. The group consisted of Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust community minor injury units (MIUs) ... -
Reducing waste in the NHS: an overview of the literature and challenges for the nursing profession
(2016-04-20)Waste in the NHS is estimated to account for 20% of health expenditure. This article examines the literature on reducing waste, analyses some approaches to waste reduction, and identifies the role that nurses and other ... -
Reflecting Team Practices outside the therapy room: A thematic analysis of a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) away-day process with a team undergoing change
(2022-03)This paper evaluates whether Reflecting Team Practices (RTP) are a helpful tool to a team (i) undergoing change and (ii) to facilitate staff being heard across the hierarchy. We hypothesised that RTP would enable staff to ... -
ROB-MEN: a tool to assess risk of bias due to missing evidence in network meta-analysis
(2021-11)Selective outcome reporting and publication bias threaten the validity of systematic reviews and meta-analyses and can affect clinical decision-making. A rigorous method to evaluate the impact of this bias on the results ... -
The Role of Laboratory Medicine in Value-Based Healthcare
(2020-09)Background The innovation pathway by which a newly discovered biomarker is developed into a medical test and used in routine clinical practice comprises a number of different processes split between 2 phases. The first ... -
The Role of Self-Management Practices as Mechanisms for Re-Establishing Normality in Cancer Survivors
(2016)This article explores the relationship between cancer survivors' use of self-management practices and their search for normality. Using Frank's illness narratives and other theoretical literature on normality in chronic ... -
The role of the assistant practitioner in the clinical setting: a focus group study
(2018-09-10)Background Assistant practitioners have knowledge and skills beyond the level of traditional support workers, and work in many clinical settings. However, some assistant practitioners lack a clearly defined role and may ... -
The Role of the Clinical Practice Educator in a large integrated NHS Trust
(2017-10)This article examines the work of a team of six clinical practice educators employed by a large integrated Mental Health and Community Health NHS Trust over a two year period. The article assesses how the role of the ... -
Safety measurement and monitoring in healthcare: a framework to guide clinical teams and healthcare organisations in maintaining safety
(2014)Patients, clinicians and managers all want to be reassured that their healthcare organisation is safe. But there is no consensus about what we mean when we ask whether a healthcare organisation is safe or how this is ... -
Safety of service users with severe mental illness receiving inpatient care on medical and surgical wards
(2018-01)This review aimed to synthesize the evidence on the likelihood of harm and mortality on medical and surgical inpatient wards for people with severe mental illness (SMI). From 937 results identified through database ... -
Screening of minor psychiatric disorders and burnout among a sample of medical students in St. Petersburg, Russia: a descriptive study
(2021-08)Despite the general interest of researchers around the world, there are few studies on the psychological wellbeing and burnout among medical students in Russia. The aim of this study was to perform screening for minor ... -
Sepsis recognition tools in acute ambulatory care: associations with process of care and clinical outcomes in a service evaluation of an Emergency Multidisciplinary Unit in Oxfordshire
(2018-04)Objective: To assess the performance of currently available sepsis recognition tools in patients referred to a community-based acute ambulatory care unit. Design: Service evaluation of consecutive patients over a 4-month ... -
Sham sleep feedback delivered via actigraphy biases daytime symptom reports in people with insomnia: Implications for insomnia disorder and wearable devices
(2018-07)This study investigated whether providing sham feedback about sleep to individuals with insomnia influenced daytime symptom reports, sleep‐related attentional bias and psychomotor vigilance. Sixty‐three participants meeting ... -
The social networks of hospital staff: A realist synthesis
(2022-05)Objectives: The social ties people have with one another are known to influence behaviour, and how information is accessed and interpreted. It is unclear, however, how the social networks that exist in multi-professional ... -
SPICE-19: a 3-Month Prospective Cohort Study of 640 Medical Students and Foundation Doctors
(2021)Introduction There is paucity of data around the support that medical students have been provided with, need to be provided with, and would like to be provided with during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study sought to explore ... -
Strategies for preventing occupational stress in healthcare workers: past evidence, current problems
(2021)The problem of occupational stress in healthcare workers is hardly new, but effective interventions in this area are lacking despite being sorely needed – especially in the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. The review ...