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Living well while providing support: validation of LTCQ-Carer for assessing informal carers’ quality of life
(2023-08)Despite international policies to support the health and wellbeing of informal (family) caregivers, there is no consensus on how to evaluate the effectiveness of carer support. We aimed to develop and validate a new ... -
School readiness and the health visitor role
(2023-06)Supporting children to be school ready starts before birth, and the health visiting service has a crucial role in supporting, promoting health, identifying risks and referring for early help and support -
The importance of scalable, evidence-based clinical assessment instruments in forensic psychiatry
(2023-06)Seamless assimilation of a new generation of rapid empirical instruments within forensic mental health services would free up clinicians’ time to focus on compassionate, patient-centred care, by replacing cumbersome ... -
Learning from school nursing practices and new ways of working during the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative study
(2023-05)Aims: To explore school nurses' experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on: methods enabling service delivery, factors affecting school nurses' ability to support children, work with the interdisciplinary team, ... -
Data-Driven Identification of Unusual Prescribing Behavior: Analysis and Use of an Interactive Data Tool Using 6 Months of Primary Care Data From 6500 Practices in England
(2023-04)Background: Approaches to addressing unwarranted variation in health care service delivery have traditionally relied on the prospective identification of activities and outcomes, based on a hypothesis, with subsequent ... -
State of Health Visiting survey: A profession under pressure
(2023-02)The latest survey published by the Institute of Health Visiting has provided an insight into the complex issues facing the profession and the state of child health in the UK, as Bethany Boddy explains -
External Locus of Control but not Self-Esteem Predicts Increasing Social Anxiety Among Bullied Children
(2022-06)Background: Elevated social anxiety is more likely among bullied children than those who have not been bullied but it is not inevitable and may be influenced by cognitive factors. Lower self-esteem and more external locus ... -
School Nurse Perspectives of Working with Children and Young People in the United Kingdom during the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Online Survey Study
(2022-12)School nurses are public health specialists with an integral role in the safeguarding of children and young people. This study gathered information about school nurses’ approaches to overcome practice restrictions as a ... -
Prediction of violent reoffending in people released from prison in England: External validation study of a risk assessment tool (OxRec)
(2023-05)We aimed to externally validate the Oxford Risk of Recidivism (OxRec) tool to estimate 1- and 2-year risk of violent reoffending in people released from prison in England. We identified individuals using admiistrative ... -
Supporting health literacy and managing minor illnesses
(2022-12)Health visitors have an important role in education, signposting and giving advice to families in relation to managing minor illnesses -
Happenstance and regulatory culture: the evolution of innovative community mental health services in Oxfordshire in the late twentieth century
(2022-12)This paper uses co-produced historical material to explore the evolution of two innovative mental healthcare institutions that emerged in Oxfordshire in the 1960s. We highlight how the trajectories of both institutions ... -
The development of supported mental health accommodation and community psychiatric nursing in Oxfordshire
(2022-11)Overcrowding in British mental hospitals was a major service and political concern when the NHS was introduced in 1948. From 1959, a number of projects were initiated locally in Oxfordshire, based from Littlemore Hospital ... -
Primary school-based screening for childhood mental health problems and intervention delivery: a qualitative study of parents in challenging circumstances
(2022-10)Few children with mental health problems access evidence-based interventions. Primary schools may be an ideal setting to improve access to treatment through screening and intervention programmes, but some families’ ... -
Why do ambulance employees (not) seek organisational help for mental health support? A mixed-methods systematic review protocol of organisational support available and barriers/facilitators to uptake
(2022-10)Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic is exacerbating a wide range of symptoms of poor mental health among emergency medical service (EMS) ambulance populations. Evidence suggests that using organisational support can improve ... -
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Associated Control Measures on the Mental Health of the General Population:A Systematic Review and Dose–Response Meta-analysis
(2022-11)To what extent the COVID-19 pandemic and its containment measures influenced mental health in the general population is still unclear. Purpose: To assess the trajectory of mental health symptoms during the first year ... -
The Prevalence of Problem Gambling and Gambling Disorder Among Homeless People: A Systematic Review And Meta-Analysis
(2022-07)Gambling problems are often associated with homelessness and linked to elevated psychiatric morbidity and homelessness chronicity. We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis on prevalence rates of problem gambling ... -
Exposure to phenytoin associates with a lower risk of post-COVID cognitive deficits: a cohort study
(2022-08)Post-COVID cognitive deficits (often referred to as ‘brain fog’) are common and have large impacts on patients’ level of functioning. No specific intervention exists to mitigate this burden. This study tested the hypothesis, ... -
Neurological and psychiatric risk trajectories after SARS-CoV-2 infection: an analysis of 2-year retrospective cohort studies including 1 284 437 patients
(2022-08)COVID-19 is associated with increased risks of neurological and psychiatric sequelae in the weeks and months thereafter. How long these risks remain, whether they affect children and adults similarly, and whether SARS-CoV-2 ... -
Integrating static and modifiable risk factors in violence risk assessment for forensic psychiatric patients: a feasibility study of FoVOx
(2022-06)Introduction: Risk assessment is integral to forensic psychiatry. Previous work has highlighted the benefits of using scalable and evidence-based actuarial risk tools developed within forensic populations, such as the ... -
Reliability and validity of the FORUM-P and FORUM-C: two novel instruments for outcome measurement in forensic mental health
(2022-05)We conducted a series of tests on the FORensic oUtcome Measure (FORUM), a novel tool for measuring outcomes in forensic mental health services, which consists of complementary patientreported (FORUM-P) and clinician-reported ...
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