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What influences the sustainability of an effective psychosocial intervention for people with dementia living in care homes? A 9 to 12-month follow-up of the perceptions of staff in care homes involved in the wheld randomised controlled trail
(2019-03)
The study aims to understand the factors that care home staff felt enabled or hindered them in
continuing to use the well-being and health for people with dementia (WHELD) psychosocial approach in their
care home and ...
The WHELD programme: showing the benefits
(2019-01)
The WHELD study demonstrates that with support home care teams can incorporate into practice a focused approach to person centred care, augmented with other therapeutic elements of personalised social activities and ...
Mechanisms of implementing public health interventions: a pooled causal mediation analysis of randomised trials.
(2018-03)
The World Health Organization recommends that nations implement evidence-based nutritional guidelines and policies in settings such as schools and childcare services to improve public health nutrition. Understanding the ...
“We should see her like part of the team”: an investigation into care home staff’s experiences of being part of an RCT of a complex psychosocial intervention
(2018-12)
To contribute to improvements in the design and delivery of intervention research in care homes by adopting a collaborative approach that listens to the experiences of care home staff who had participated in a clinical ...
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 ...
Newly qualified health visitor: Resilience in practice
(2019-09)
As a new cohort of health visitors qualify, Bethany Boddy reflects on the importance of resilience and the way individuals, teams and organisations can support staff as they develop their skills as practitioners through ...
Newly qualified health visitor: Mandated contacts and achieving the best start in life
(2019-08)
There has been much in the news recently about how to achieve the best start for children in the UK. Bethany Boddy reflects on the importance of the health visitor contacts for families in the UK and the challenges faced ...
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 ...
Newly qualified health visitor: Discussing vaccinations with families through health visiting contacts
(2019-10)
Bethany Boddy considers the important role health visitors have in discussing vaccinations with families through mandated contacts and sharing evidence-based research to promote vaccination uptake.
Newly qualified health visitor: Mitigating the effects of loneliness
(2018-06-20)
Mental health problems are prevalent in many of the families on a health visitor's caseload and a common factor linking these is loneliness.