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Newly qualified health visitor: Working with families to support breastfeeding
(2020-11)Bethany Boddy explores the barriers to breastfeeding in the UK and how practitioners can promote breastfeeding within health visitor practice -
Online patient feedback as a measure of quality in primary care: a multimethod study using correlation and qualitative analysis
(2020-02)Objectives To ascertain the relationship between online patient feedback and the General Practice Patient Survey (GPPS) and the Friends and Family Test (FFT). To consider the potential benefit it may add by describing the ... -
The Oxford Textbook of Inpatient Psychiatry
(Oxford University Press, 2019-05)Inpatient mental health care is an essential part of community-based mental health care in the UK. Patients admitted to acute mental health wards are often experiencing high levels of distress and acute mental illness and ... -
Paediatric contacts with the UK out-of-hours primary care service and contact outcomes: a regional service evaluation
(2020-07)Background Demand on hospital emergency departments for paediatric problems is increasing. However, the volume and nature of paediatric health demands placed on other parts of the urgent care system have not been explored. ... -
Patterns in Weight and Physical Activity Tracking Data Preceding a Stop in Weight Monitoring: Observational Analysis
(2020-03)Background: Self-regulation for weight loss requires regular self-monitoring of weight, but the frequency of weight tracking commonly declines over time. Objective: This study aimed to investigate whether it is a decline ... -
Paul Harrison—investigating the psychiatric sequelae of COVID-19
(2022-04)Paul Harrison describes his academic career as being low profile until several large studies on the psychiatric effects of COVID-19, including those linked to so called long-COVID, thrust him and his team into the limelight. ... -
Point-of- care blood tests during home visits by out-of- hours primary care clinicians; a mixed methods evaluation of a service improvement
(2020-01)Objectives We aimed to evaluate test usage and patient and clinician experience following the introduction of point-of- care (POC) blood tests into a primary care out-of- hours service. Design A mixed methods service ... -
Pre-analytical error for three point of care venous blood testing platforms in acute ambulatory settings: A mixed methods service evaluation
(2020-02)Introduction Point of care blood testing to aid diagnosis is becoming increasingly common in acute ambulatory settings and enables timely investigation of a range of diagnostic markers. However, this testing allows scope ... -
Predicting clinical deterioration after initial assessment in out-of-hours primary care: a retrospective service evaluation
(2017-01)Background: Accurate assessment of the need for admission is challenging in out-of-hours (OOH) primary care. Understanding more about patient contacts where the decision to continue care in the community may have been ... -
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 ... -
The prevalence of anxiety in general hospital inpatients: A systematic review and meta-analysis
(2021-08)Objective To determine the prevalence of anxiety in general hospital inpatients by conducting a systematic review and meta-analysis of all relevant published studies. Method We searched Ovid Medline, Ovid Embase and ... -
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 ... -
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’ ... -
Promoting safety in the home during the pandemic and beyond
(2021-03)With families home schooling their children, caring for young babies and managing housework during lockdown, it is important for health visitors to promote home safety advice to help prevent unintentional accidents and injuries -
Psychological framework to understand interpersonal violence by forensic patients with psychosis
(2023-10)Forensic patients with psychosis often engage in violent behaviour. There has been significant progress in understanding risk factors for violence, but identification of causal mechanisms of violence is limited. Aims To ... -
Public opinion on global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines
(2021-03)To the Editor—Vaccination programs for COVID-19 in ‘high-income countries’ (HICs) have benefited from their ability to secure contracts for preferential supply for several vaccines1. For the rest of the world, vaccine ... -
A qualitative analysis of trainer/coach experiences of changing care home practice in the Well-being and Health in Dementia randomised control trial
(2018-04-26)Objectives This study explored the experiences of a range of health and social care professionals employed in the role of trainer/coaches to support care home staff to implement a psychosocial intervention for residents ... -
Rasch analysis of the long-term conditions questionnaire (LTCQ) and development of a short-form (LTCQ-8)
(2020-12)Background The aim of the current study was to evaluate the structural validity of the 20-item long-term conditions questionnaire (LTCQ) and to explore a potential short-form version of the scale using Rasch analysis. ... -
Reactogenicity and immunogenicity after a late second dose or a third dose of ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 in the UK: a substudy of two randomised controlled trials (COV001 and COV002)
(2021-09)COVID-19 vaccine supply shortages are causing concerns about compromised immunity in some countries as the interval between the first and second dose becomes longer. Conversely, countries with no supply constraints are ... -
REBT with Forensic Populations
(2019-02)For the purpose of this chapter, we are defining a forensic population as comprising individuals who are being managed or restricted by the criminal justice system. Usually, this means that they are people who have committed ...