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Absorption of the nerve agent VX (O-ethyl-S-[2(di-isopropylamino)ethyl] methyl phosphonothioate) through pig, human and guinea pig skin in vitro
Dalton, Christopher H.; Hattersley, Ian J.; Rutter, Stephen J.; Chilcott, Robert (2006-12)The physico-chemical properties of VX make the skin the most likely route of absorption into the human body. The development of effective medical countermeasures against such percutaneous threat agents relies on the use ... -
Active over Alcohol
Wills, Wendy; Bottoms, Lindsay; Leighton, Dean (University of Hertfordshire, 2021-01-20)The aims are to study the feasibility of conducting an RCT and to determine the effectiveness of the exercise programme to reduce alcohol consumption, improve physical and mental health among people drinking harmful amounts ... -
Addressing patients’ communication support needs through speech-language pathologist-nurse information-sharing: Employing ethnography to understand the acute stroke context
Barnard, Rachel; Jones, Julia; Cruice, Madeline (2022-02-22)Purpose: To explore how speech-language pathologists and nurses share information about the communication support needs of stroke patients through structured information-sharing routes and to consider how the two disciplines ... -
Addressing the mental health needs of looked after children in foster care: : the experiences of foster carers
York, W; Jones, Julia (2017-03-08)WHAT IS KNOWN ON THE SUBJECT?: In the UK and internationally, the number of looked after children is increasing year on year. Mental health problems among looked after children are significantly higher than in the general ... -
Advances in Problematic Usage of the Internet Research – A Narrative Review by Experts from the European Network for Problematic Usage of the Internet
Fineberg, Naomi; Menchon, Josè M; Hall, Natalie; Dell'Osso, Bernardo; Brand, Matthias; Potenza, Marc; Chamberlain, Samuel R; Cirnigliaro, Giovanna; Lochner, Christine; Billieux, Joël; Demetrovics, Zsolt; Rumpf, Hans Jürgen; Muller, Astrid; Castro-Calvo, Jesús; Hollander, Eric; Burkauskas, Julius; Grünblatt, Edna; Walitza, Susanne; Corazza, Ornella; King, Daniel L; Stein, Dan J.; Grant, Jon E; Pallanti, Stefano; Bowden-Jones, Henrietta; Van Ameringen, Michael; Ioannidis, Konstantinos; Carmi, Lior; Goudriaan, Anna E; Martinotti, Giovanni; Sales, Celia M; Jones, Julia; Gjoneska, Biljiana; Király, Orsolya; Benatti, Beatrice; Vismara, Matteo; Pellegrini, Lucas; Conti, Dario; Cataldo, Ilaria; Riva, Gianluigi M; Yücel, Murat; Flayelle, Maèva; Hall, Thomas; Griffiths, Morgan; Zohar, Joseph (2022-10-30)Global concern about problematic usage of the internet (PUI), and its public health and societal costs, continues to grow, sharpened in focus under the privations of the COVID-19 pandemic. This narrative review reports the ... -
Affective and Enjoyment Responses to 12 weeks of High Intensity Interval Training and Moderate Continuous Training in Adults with Crohn’s Disease : Enjoyment Responses to Exercise Training in Adults with Crohn’s Disease
Bottoms, Lindsay; Leighton, Dean; Carpenter, Roger; Anderson, Simon; Langmead, Louise; Ramage, John; Faulkner, James; Coleman, Elizabeth; Fairhurst, Caroline; Seed, Michael; Tew, Garry (2019-09-20)The aim was to undertake secondary data analysis from a three-arm randomised feasibility trial of high intensity interval training (HIIT), moderate intensity continuous training (MICT), and usual care control in adults ... -
After critical care : patient support after critical care. A mixed method longitudinal study using email interviews and questionnaires
Pattison, Natalie; O'Gara, Geraldine; Rattray, Janice (2015-08-01)PURPOSE: To explore experiences and needs over time, of patients discharged from ICU using the Intensive Care Experience (ICE-q) questionnaire, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) and EuroQoL (EQ-5D), associated ... -
Aggression on haemodialysis units : a mixed method study
Jones, Julia; Nijman, Henk; Ross, Jamie; Ashman, Neil; Callaghan, Patrick (2014-08-15)BACKGROUND: Aggression on haemodialysis units is a growing problem internationally that has received little research attention to date. Aggressive behaviour by patients or their relatives can compromise the safety and ... -
Ambulance clinicians’ attitudes to older patients’ self‐determination when the patient has impaired decision‐making ability: A Delphi study
Svensson, Anders; Bremer, Anders; Rantala, Andreas; Andersson, Henrik; Devenish, Scott; Williams, Julia; Holmberg, Mats (2021-09-12)Abstract: Objective: The proportion of older people is increasing and reflects in the demand on ambulance services (AS). Patients can be more vulnerable and increasingly dependent, especially when their decision‐making ... -
Analysing the experiences of undergraduate physiotherapy students transitioning from conventional to e-learning: A phenomenological study
Eccott, Laura; Moulson, Andrea; Atkinson, Karen Ann; Livatino, Salvatore; Lewis, Jeremy; Cairns, Mindy (2023-11-08) -
An analytical review of local and national fall policy and guidelines
Narayanan, Venkat; Simpson, Charles Melvyn; Dickinson, Angela; Victor, Christina; Humphrey, Deborah; Griffiths, Caroline (2011-07-05)The prevalence of falls in the United Kingdom is high with 1 in 3 people aged over 65, and 1 in 2 people over the age of 85 falling each year. The potential for older people to fall is exacerbated by mental health problems, ... -
An analytical review of local and national fall policy and guidelines in England and Wales
Victor, C.; Narayanan, V.; Simpson, C.; Dickinson, Angela; Griffiths, C.; Humphrey, D. (2012-11)There is an urgent need to improve the care of older people at risk of or who experience falls in mental health settings. Falls are the most frequently reported patient safety incident. NICE Guidelines recommends the use ... -
Application of sebomics for the analysis of residual skin surface components to detect potential biomarkers of type-1 diabetes mellitus
Shetage, Satyajit S; Traynor, Matthew J; Brown, Marc B; Galliford, Thomas M; Chilcott, Robert P (2017-08-21)Metabolic imbalance in chronic diseases such as type-1 diabetes may lead to detectable perturbations in the molecular composition of residual skin surface components (RSSC). This study compared the accumulation rate and ... -
Applying Universal Principles of ‘Best Interest’: Practice Challenges across Transnational Jurisdictions, Cultural Norms, and Values
Littlechild, Brian; Housman, Carolyn (2023-03-10)This article sets out key issues in determining and upholding the best interests of children, in need of social service support, who have family networks that span outside of the UK. These issues are then analysed against ... -
Approaches to the identification and management of depression in people living with chronic kidney disease: A scoping review of 860 papers
Pearce, Christina J.; Hall, Natalie; Hudson, Joanna L.; Farrington, Ken; Tucker, Madeleine J. Ryan; Wellsted, David; Jones, Julia; Sharma, Shivani; Norton, Sam; Ormandy, Paula; Palmer, Nick; Quinnell, Anthony; Fitzgerald, Lauren; Griffiths, Sophie; Chilcot, Joseph (2023-01-16)Background: Depression is prevalent across the spectrum of Chronic Kidney Disease and associated with poorer outcomes. There is limited evidence regarding the most effective interventions and care pathways for depression ... -
The appropriateness of the helical axis technique and six available cardan sequences for the representation of 3-d lead leg kinematics during the fencing lunge
Sinclair, Jonathan; Taylor, Paul J.; Bottoms, Lindsay (2013-07)Cardan/Euler angles represent the most common technique for the quantification of segmental rotations. Cardan angles are influenced by their ordered sequence, and sensitive to planar-cross talk from the dominant rotation ... -
Are corticosteroid injections more beneficial than anaesthetic injections alone in the management of rotator cuff-related shoulder pain? A systematic review.
Cook, Tim; Minns Lowe, Catherine; Maybury, Mark; Lewis, Jeremy (2018-04-01)Objective To compare the effectiveness of corticosteroid injections to local anaesthetic injections in the management of rotator cuff-related shoulder pain (RCRSP). Design Systematic review with best evidence synthesis. ... -
An aromatherapy massage intervention on sleep in the ICU: a randomised feasibility study
Pattison, Natalie; O'Gara, Geraldine; Wigmore, Timothy; Dyer, Jeannie (2023-08-02)We conducted a feasibility randomised controlled trial exploring the effect of aromatherapy massage on sleep in critically ill patients. Patients were randomised to receive aromatherapy massage or usual care, and feasibility ... -
Assessing the role of biomarker feedback in a 12-week community weight management programme among overweight men: a pilot study
Grant, Daniel; Smith, Joshua; Bottoms, Lindsay (2024-03-28)Background The primary objective of this study was to examine the feasibility of recruitment, retention, and delivery of biomarker feedback among men partaking in Shape Up, a physical activity for health programme. ... -
Associations between age, years in post, years in the profession and personal experience of mental health problems in UK mental health nurses.
Oates, Jennifer; Jones, Julia; Drey, Nicholas (2017-08-03)Nurses’ own mental health is of paramount important, both in terms of patient safety and the sustainability of the workforce. Age, years in the profession, in post and personal experience or exposure to mental health ...