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Introducing the tablet-based Oxford Cognitive Screen-Plus (OCS-Plus) as an assessment tool for subtle cognitive impairments
(2021-04)
Here, we present the Oxford Cognitive Screen-Plus, a computerised tablet-based screen designed to briefly assess domain-general cognition and provide more fine-grained measures of memory and executive function. The OCS-Plus ...
Digital health innovation to support sensitive enquiry about female genital mutilation
(2021-05)
Health professionals working in community settings are increasingly using mobile technologies to access information and support clients. A Mary Seacole Leadership Award enabled the production of an app, ‘Let's talk FGM’ ...
The sugar content of foods in the UK by category and company: A repeated cross sectional study, 2015-2018
(2021-05)
Consumption of free sugars in the UK greatly exceeds dietary recommendations. Public Health England (PHE) has set voluntary targets for industry to reduce the sales-weighted mean sugar content of key food categories ...
Looking ahead in working memory to guide sequential behaviour
(2021-06)
Working memory can maintain multiple sensory representations to serve unfolding sequential behaviour, such as while making tea or planning a route. How the human mind juggles internal representations as they become relevant ...
Public mental health and nature: a paradigm shift
(2021-08)
Purpose
Drawing on experience of working in the area of mental health and the environment, key issues are examined, and the theoretical framework is explained, including the benefits to communities and to the local ...
Changes to management of hypertension in pregnancy, and attitudes to self-management: An online survey of obstetricians, before and following the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic
(2021-12)
Objective
This study aimed to understand the views and practice of obstetricians regarding self-monitoring for hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (blood pressure (BP) and proteinuria), the potential for self-management ...
Bilateral Permanent Childhood Hearing Loss and Health-Related Quality of Life in Adolescence
(2021-06)
Little is known about the impact of bilateral permanent childhood hearing loss (PCHL) on
health-related quality of life (HRQoL). The objective of this study was to describe preference-based
and non-preference based HRQoL ...
Exploring The Use of Health and Wellbeing Measures During Pregnancy and The First Year Following Birth in Women Living With Pre-Existing Long-Term Conditions: Qualitative Interviews With Women and Healthcare Professionals
(2021-02)
Background
One way in which care for pregnant and postpartum women living with long-term health conditions (LTCs) may be improved is through the adoption of standardised measures to provide evidence of health outcomes and ...
Roadblock: improved annotations do not necessarily translate into new functional insights
(2021-11)
The advent of cost-effective high-throughput nucleotide sequencing means that information about the transcriptome is accruing at an exponential rate, rapidly refining our understanding of the diversity of gene products. ...
Delineating between-subject heterogeneity in alpha networks with Spatio-Spectral Eigenmodes
(2021-10)
Between subject variability in the spatial and spectral structure of oscillatory networks can be highly informative but poses a considerable analytic challenge. Here, we describe a data-driven modal decomposition of a ...