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Developmental Journal for Children and Young People with Multiple Needs
Mengoni, Silvana; Oates, John (National Children's Bureau: London, 2013)The Developmental Journal for Children and Young People with Multiple Needs has been produced to help families and practitioners support the achievements of children whose development is affected by multiple factors that ... -
Dietary determinants of childhood obesity : the role of the family
McCaffrey, T.A.; Rennie, K.L.; Wallace, J.M.; Livingstone, M.B.E. (2008)The article reviews the evidence regarding the role of the family in determining dietary risk factors for childhood obesity. The factors that may contribute to the association between healthy eating habits and dining with ... -
Differences in bone mineral status between urban and rural Chinese men and women
Gu, W.; Rennie, K.L.; Lin, X.; Wang, Y.; Yu, Z. (2007)Background: Few studies have investigated differences in bone health and associated lifestyle factors between urban and rural populations in countries, such as China, undergoing rapid nutrition transition. Such a study may ... -
Disease-specific predictive formulas for energy expenditure in the dialysis population
Vilar, Enric; Machado, Ashwini; Garrett, Andrew; Kozarski, Robert; Wellsted, D.; Farrington, Ken (2014-04-28)OBJECTIVE: Metabolic rate is poorly understood in advanced kidney disease because direct measurement is expensive and time-consuming. Predictive equations for resting energy expenditure (REE) are needed based on simple ... -
Distinct Depression Symptom Trajectories over the First Year of Dialysis : Associations with Illness Perceptions
Chilcot, Joseph; Norton, Sam; Wellsted, D.; Davenport, Andrew; Firth, John; Farrington, Ken (2013-02)BACKGROUND: Depression in the dialysis population is common, but trajectories of depression symptoms are unknown. PURPOSE: This study aims to (1) examine whether different patterns of depression symptoms exist over the ... -
Distinct psychological distress trajectories in rheumatoid arthritis : Findings from an inception cohort
Norton, Sam; Sacker, Amanda; Young, Adam; Done, D.J. (2011)Objective: As with other chronic physical illness, rates of depressive disorder are high in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The aim of the current study was to identify distinct trajectories of psychological distress over 10 ... -
Do Interventions Designed to Support Shared Decision-Making Reduce Health Inequalities? : A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Durand, Marie-Anne; Carpenter, Lewis; Dolan, Hayley; Bravo, Paulina; Mann, Mala; Bunn, Frances; Elwyn, Glyn (2014-04-15)Background: Increasing patient engagement in healthcare has become a health policy priority. However, there has been concern that promoting supported shared decision-making could increase health inequalities. Objective: ... -
Do patients with rheumatoid arthritis want SMS text messages to remind them about hospital appointments and drug adherence?
Hughes, Lyndsay; Russell, Bridget; Jenkins, Suzanne; Done, D.J.; Young, Adam (2012-05-03) -
Does antifungal prophylaxis with daily oral fluconazole reduce the risk of fungal peritonitis in peritoneal dialysis patients? The Pan Thames Renal Audit
Davenport, Andrew; Wellsted, D.; Pan Thames Renal Audit Peritoneal (2011)Background and Objectives: Fungal peritonitis increases the risk of transfer to haemodialysis and mortality. Methods: We audited the effect of co-prescription of daily oral fluconazole with antibiotics in the Pan Thames ... -
Early Years Developmental Journal
Oates, John; Mengoni, Silvana (National Children's Bureau: London, 2013)The Early Years Developmental Journal is designed for families, practitioners and others to use as a way of recording, celebrating and supporting children's progress. It is also for people who who would like to find out ... -
Effect of magnesium supplementation on blood pressure : a meta-analysis
Kass, Lindsy; Weekes, J.; Carpenter, Lewis (2012)To date, there has been inconclusive evidence regarding the effect of magnesium supplements on blood pressure (BP). This meta-analysis was conducted to assess the effect of magnesium supplementation on BP and to establish ... -
Energy density of the diet and change in body fatness from childhood to adolescence : is there a relation?
McCaffrey, T.A.; Rennie, K.L.; Kerr, M.A.; Wallace, J.M.; Hannon-Fletcher, M.P.; Coward, W.A.; Jebb, S.A.; Livingstone, M.B.E. (2008)Background: The contribution of energy density (ED) of the total diet to increased risk of obesity from childhood into adolescence is unclear. Objective: We assessed the relation between the ED of the diet in childhood, ... -
Epilepsy in people with learning disabilities : Evaluating a novel intervention
Gates, Robert; Mengoni, Silvana; Durand, Marie-Anne (2015)This article reports on an on-going novel feasibility randomised controlled trial [RCT] that is being undertaken to inform the design of a definitive RCT, which will assess the impact of Getting on with Epilepsy, from the ... -
Estimating under-reporting of energy intake in dietary surveys using an individualised method
Rennie, K.L.; Coward, A.; Jebb, S.A. (2007)Under-reporting (UR) of energy intake (EI) by self-reported dietary methods is well-documented but the methods used to estimate UR in population-based studies commonly assume a sedentary lifestyle. We compared estimated ... -
An evaluation of key working for families of children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities
Mengoni, Silvana; Bardsley, Janet; Oates, John (2015-12-01)Key working is a way of supporting children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and their families, and is highly regarded by families and practitioners. However, there is a lack of ... -
Evaluation of waist-to-height ratio to predict 5 year cardiometabolic risk in sub-Saharan African adults
Ware, L.J.; Rennie, Kirsten; Kruger, H. Salome; Kruger, I.M.; Greeff, M.; Fourie, C.M.T.; Huisman, H.W.; Scheepers, J.D.W.; Uys, A.S.; Kruger, R.; Van Rooyen, J.M.; Schutte, R.; Schutte, A.E. (2014-08)Simple, low-cost central obesity measures may help identify individuals with increased cardiometabolic disease risk, although it is unclear which measures perform best in African adults. We aimed to: 1) cross-sectionally ... -
Evidence for a dissociation of structural and semantic knowledge in dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT)
Hajilou, B.B.; Done, D.J. (2007)Object recognition and naming deficits in dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT) have typically been attributed to deficits in semantic processing, with only a few studies proposing loci of deficits other than semantic. One ... -
Evidence of improved fluid management in patients receiving haemodialysis following a self-affirmation theory based intervention : a randomised controlled trial
Wileman, Vari; Chilcot, Joseph; Armitage, Christopher J.; Farrington, Ken; Wellsted, D.; Norton, Sam; Davenport, Andrew; Franklin, Gail; Da Silva Gane, Maria; Horne, Robert; Almond, Mike (2016-01-02)Objective Haemodialysis patients are at risk of serious health complications, yet treatment non-adherence remains high. Warnings about health-risks associated with non-adherence may trigger defensive reactions. We studied ... -
Evidence That Self-Affirmation Improves Phosphate Control in Hemodialysis Patients : A Pilot Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial
Wileman, Vari; Farrington, Ken; Chilcot, Joseph; Norton, Sam; Wellsted, D.; Almond, Michael K.; Davenport, Andrew; Franklin, Gail; Gane, Maria Da Silva; Armitage, Christopher J. (2014-10)Hemodialysis patients are at risk of serious health complications, yet treatment non-adherence remains high. -
Exploring the rationality of patients with delusions through semi-structure discourse
Done, D.J. (2015-10-26)What patients reveal in their first person verbal accounts forms the basis of the clinical assessment (e.g. PANSS) and diagnosis ( DSM ) upon which all subsequent research hinges. Much of the rich experience (phenomenology) ...