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Successful recruitment to trials: findings from the SCIMITAR+ Trial
(2018-01-19)Background: Randomised controlled trials (RCT) can struggle to recruit to target on time. This is especially the case with hard to reach populations such as those with severe mental ill health. The SCIMITAR+ trial, a trial ... -
Sustain and reinforce transition from child to adult mental health care in Switzerland: study protocol
(2020-11)A suboptimal transition in mental health care affects a young person’s wellbeing and health in the long run. We aim to identify a large cohort of young people approaching the transition boundary between child and adolescent ... -
Sustainability in quality improvement: measuring impact
(2018-06)Sustainable value’ considers patient and population outcomes against environmental, social and economic costs or impacts, providing a framework for driving sustainable improvements in healthcare for current and ... -
Synthesizing cross-design evidence and cross-format data using network meta-regression
(2022-03)In network meta-analysis (NMA), we synthesize all relevant evidence about health outcomes with competing treatments. The evidence may come from randomized controlled trials (RCT) or non-randomized studies (NRS) as individual ... -
A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis to Explore the Effectiveness of Exercise-Based Interventions in Improving Fatigue, Dyspnea, and Depression in Lung Cancer Survivors.
(2018-05)Lung cancer survival rates are increasing; however, lung cancer survivors' mental and physical well-being can suffer from experiencing symptoms of fatigue, dyspnea, and depression. Exercise can improve these symptoms. ... -
A Systematic Review of the Reporting Quality of Observational Studies That Use Mediation Analyses
(2022-02)Mediation analysis is a common statistical method used to investigate mechanisms of health exposure and interventions. The reporting quality of mediation studies used in randomised controlled trials has been considered ... -
A systematic review to explore influences on parental attitudes towards antibiotic prescribing in children
(2018-03)Aims and objectives: To understand the factors influencing parental attitudes towards antibiotic prescribing. Background: Overuse of antibiotics and inappropriate prescribing has resulted in rapid development of antimicrobial ... -
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Task shifting Midwifery Support Workers as the second health worker at a home birth in the UK: A qualitative study
(2018-03)Objective: Traditionally two midwives attend home births in the UK. This paper explores the implementation of a new home birth care model where births to low risk women are attended by one midwife and one Midwifery Support ... -
The theory-practice gap in wound care: effective ways of embedding your learning into clinical practice
(2020-12)It has been suggested that there are approximately 2.2 million patients in the UK with a chronic wound (Guest et al, 2016). The cost of managing these wounds and associated comorbidities is approximately £5.3 billion (Guest ... -
Trainee Leadership Board: learning about NHS leadership
(2018-03-27)Introduction: The development of a new generation of clinical leaders in the NHS has been increasingly endorsed by most recent literature in medical leadership and management. Despite providing academic rationale and ... -
Training and service provision for people with intellectual disability and mental illness: the views of psychiatrists
(2018-10-24)Objectives: The objectives of this mixed methods study are to 1) investigate the knowledge and skills of mainstream psychiatrists in managing patients with Intellectual Disability (ID) and comorbid mental health disorders, ... -
Typologies for Restructuring Relationships in Cancer Survivorship
(2017-07)Background: Cancer survivors with good social support are generally more motivated to undertake self-management behaviors and make lifestyle changes. However, the impact of changes in social support over time, from ... -
Understanding and working with suicide risk
(2015-07)Key learning points: Understanding risk factors associated with suicide; Considering a framework for understanding suicide; How to assess and manage suicide risk -
A usability study to test the effectiveness, efficiency and simplicity of a newly developed Internet-based Exercise-focused Health App for Lung cancer survivors (iEXHALE): Protocol paper
(2019-10)The Internet-based Exercise-focused Health App for Lung cancer survivors (iEXHALE) is a mobile web app being developed to provide lung cancer survivors with an algorithm-based, tailor-made, self-management programme to ... -
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 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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...