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The use of general anaesthesia in special care dentistry: A clinical guideline from the British Society for Disability and Oral Health
(2022-01)Background: General anaesthesia (GA) may be required to support the care of those seen in Special Care Dentistry (SCD) services for various reasons, such as enabling extensive dental care for people with severe learning ... -
The use of Intensive Interaction within a Positive Behavioural Support framework
(2021-01)Positive Behavioural Support (PBS) provides an overarching framework for supporting quality‐of‐life improvements for people who use challenging behaviour. Rapport, or the lack of it, is well understood as a setting factor ... -
Use of online cultural content for mental health and well-being during COVID-19 restrictions: cross-sectional survey
(2021-11)Aims and method To gain a deeper understanding of the use of online culture and its potential benefits to mental health and well-being, sociodemographic characteristics and self-reported data on usage, perceived mental ... -
Use of Over-The-Counter Analgesics for Pain and Psychological Distress Among Adolescents: A Mixed Effects Approach in Cross-Sectional Survey Data From Norway
(2020-10)Background: Over-the-counter analgesics (OTCA) such as Paracetamol and Ibuprofen are frequently used by adolescents, and the route of administration and access at home allows unsupervised use. Psychological distress and ... -
The use of punishment with autistic children who use behaviour that challenges
(2021)"This essay will focus on the use, effectiveness, and ethics of punishment, a topic that often attracts controversy, but is also well installed within our society (e.g. Bunting, Webb & Healy, 2010; Lacey & Pickard, 2015). ... -
Using a modified Delphi methodology to gain consensus on the use of dressings in chronic wounds management
(2018-03-06)Objective:Managing chronic wounds is associated with a burden to patients, caregivers, health services and society and there is a lack of clarity regarding the role of dressings in improving outcomes. This study aimed to ... -
Using an implementation science approach to implement and evaluate patient-reported outcome measures (PROM) initiatives in routine care settings
(2020-07)Purpose Patient-reported outcome and experience measures (PROMs/PREMs) are well established in research for many health conditions, but barriers persist for implementing them in routine care. Implementation science (IS) ... -
Using Computational Psychiatry to Rule Out the Hidden Causes of Depression
(2017-08)In an ideal world, our understanding of the causes of psychiatric disorders would progress by testing mechanistic hypotheses in experimental studies, using the results of these studies to identify situations in which the ... -
Using digital monitoring alongside psychosocial interventions in patients who self-harm
(2021-05)With more than 200,000 presentations to hospital for self-harm each year in England, there is a clear requirement to reduce self-harm and improve well-being in this population. This service evaluation examined the potential ... -
Using local communities to establish geographical boundaries for case studies
(2019-02)Background Case studies are widely used in the social sciences to explore complex phenomena in natural settings. Applying boundaries is vital to ensure cases are easily identifiable and similar enough to be treated as ... -
Using the 11-item Version of the RCADS to Identify Anxiety and Depressive Disorders in Adolescents
(2021)The purpose of this study was to identify items from the Revised Children’s Anxiety and Depression Scale – RCADS-C/P that provided a brief, reliable and valid screen for anxiety and/or depressive disorders in adolescents. ... -
Using therapy outcome measures to identify the speech and language therapy needs of children and young people with severe acquired brain injury
(2022-12)Children and young people often require speech and language therapy input following severe acquired brain injury. However, there is limited understanding of the impact of post-acute neurorehabilitation on children and young ... -
Utilizing Teledentistry to Manage Cleft Lip and Palate Patients in an Outpatient Setting.
(2021-06)As a result of the current global pandemic, the dental profession has utilized teledentistry to reduce footfall in the hospitals and clinics where possible. Pediatric dental consultants form a vital part of a multidisciplinary ... -
Validation of the UK English Oxford Cognitive Screen-Plus in Sub-Acute and Chronic Stroke Survivors.
(2022-06)Stroke survivors are routinely screened for cognitive impairment with tools that often fail to detect subtle impairments. The Oxford Cognitive Screen-Plus (OCS-Plus) is a brief tablet-based screen designed to detect subtle ... -
Validation of UK Biobank data for mental health outcomes: A pilot study using secondary care electronic health records
(2022-02)UK Biobank (UKB) is widely employed to investigate mental health disorders and related exposures; however, its applicability and relevance in a clinical setting and the assumptions required have not been sufficiently and ... -
A validation study to trigger nicotine craving in virtual reality
(2022-04)We built a virtual beer garden that contained various smoking cues (both verbal and non-verbal) using a motion capture system to record the realistic smoking behaviour related animations. Our 3-min long VR experience was ... -
Valproate in dementia: time to move on? Commentary on…Cochrane Corner
(2019-02)Baillon et al ’s Cochrane review included 430 participants with agitation in dementia from five randomised controlled trials. Overall, the reviewers found that valproate was no better than placebo for the treatment of ... -
Value of monitoring negative emotional bias in primary care in England for personalised antidepressant treatment: a modelling study
(2019-11)Depressed patients often focus on negative life events. Effective antidepressant therapy reverses this negative emotional bias (NEB) within 1 week. Clinical therapeutic effect usually requires 4–6 weeks. The value of ... -
The value of nurse mentoring relationships: Lessons learnt from a work‐based resilience enhancement programme for nurses working in the forensic setting
(2020-06)This study aimed to evaluate a mento ring programme embedded in a work-based personal resilience enhancement intervention for forensic nurses. This qualitative study formed part of a wider mixed-methods study that aimed ... -
‘Van Gogh’ syndrome: a term to approach with caution
(2020-06)If Van Gogh syndrome is indeed synonymous with NSSI, then authors would be advised to keep to the latter term and the clear criteria provided by DSM-V. If the literature continues to suggest that there is a specific ...