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Chronic pain assessments in children and adolescents : a systematic literature review of the selection, administration, interpretation, and reporting of unidimensional pain intensity scales (2017)
Journal Article
Lee, R., Rashid, A., Ghio, D., Thomson, W., & Cordingley, L. (2017). Chronic pain assessments in children and adolescents : a systematic literature review of the selection, administration, interpretation, and reporting of unidimensional pain intensity scales. Pain Research and Management, 2017, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/7603758

Background. Advances in pain assessment approaches now indicate which measures should be used to capture chronic pain experiences in children and adolescents. However, there is little guidance on how these tools should best be administered and report... Read More about Chronic pain assessments in children and adolescents : a systematic literature review of the selection, administration, interpretation, and reporting of unidimensional pain intensity scales.

Comment on : "Anthropometric and physical qualities of elite male youth rugby league players" (2017)
Journal Article
McMahon, J., Jones, P., & Comfort, P. (2017). Comment on : "Anthropometric and physical qualities of elite male youth rugby league players". Sports Medicine, 47(12), 2667-2668. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40279-017-0771-6

We read with interest the recent review on anthropometric and physical qualities of elite male youth rugby league players by Till et al. and congratulate the authors for producing a very informative review. However, we would like to raise an issue th... Read More about Comment on : "Anthropometric and physical qualities of elite male youth rugby league players".

A social norms approach to changing school children’s perceptions of tobacco usage (2017)
Journal Article
Sheikh, A., Vadera, S., Ravey, M., Lovatt, G., & Kelly, G. (2017). A social norms approach to changing school children’s perceptions of tobacco usage. Health Education, 117(6), 530-539. https://doi.org/10.1108/he-01-2017-0006

Purpose: Over 200,000 young people in the UK embark on a smoking career annually, thus continued effort is required to understand the types of interventions that are most effective in changing perceptions about smoking amongst teenagers. Several auth... Read More about A social norms approach to changing school children’s perceptions of tobacco usage.

Seeing real life? Working with the visual to understand landscapes of community (2017)
Journal Article
Clark, A. (2017). Seeing real life? Working with the visual to understand landscapes of community. International Review of Qualitative Research, 10(2), 190-210. https://doi.org/10.1525/irqr.2017.10.2.190

This paper reports on the use of visual techniques and data as part of a multimethod investigation exploring the temporal and spatial contexts of social connections and community formation in an economically and socially heterogeneous inner city neig... Read More about Seeing real life? Working with the visual to understand landscapes of community.

Gather in my name, my skin, my everything...('Gather in my name' : Maya Angelou 1974) (2017)
Journal Article
Hesk, G. (2017). Gather in my name, my skin, my everything...('Gather in my name' : Maya Angelou 1974). Qualitative Research Journal, 17(3), 188-201. https://doi.org/10.1108/QRJ-03-2017-0007

Purpose Based on a performance of a conversation between my white mother and myself – her mixed race black daughter – the purpose of this paper is to deconstruct the complexity of the intersection of migration, racism, sexism, disability, and class... Read More about Gather in my name, my skin, my everything...('Gather in my name' : Maya Angelou 1974).

Improving access to mental health care in an Orthodox Jewish community : a critical reflection upon the accommodation of otherness (2017)
Journal Article
McEvoy, P., Williamson, T., Kada, R., Frazer, D., Dhliwayo, C., & Gask, L. (2017). Improving access to mental health care in an Orthodox Jewish community : a critical reflection upon the accommodation of otherness. BMC Health Services Research, 17(1), 557. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-017-2509-4

The English National Health Service (NHS) has significantly extended the supply of evidence based psychological interventions in primary care for people experiencing common mental health problems. Yet despite the extra resources, the accessibility of... Read More about Improving access to mental health care in an Orthodox Jewish community : a critical reflection upon the accommodation of otherness.

Making it ‘APP’en : service user feedback : developing and implementing a service user APP : reflections from Northern Ireland, England and Scotland (2017)
Journal Article
Westwood, J., Dill, K., Campbell, A., & Shaw, A. (2017). Making it ‘APP’en : service user feedback : developing and implementing a service user APP : reflections from Northern Ireland, England and Scotland. Social Work Education, 36(8), 855-868. https://doi.org/10.1080/02615479.2017.1360857

Despite the advent of social media and increasing use of smart phone technology amongst global and UK populations, APP’s for social work remain in their infancy. Several have been developed which focus on the education of social workers and practitio... Read More about Making it ‘APP’en : service user feedback : developing and implementing a service user APP : reflections from Northern Ireland, England and Scotland.

Glucose turn point as a marker of exercise intensity in elite swimmers (2017)
Journal Article
Swanwick, E., & Matthews, M. (2017). Glucose turn point as a marker of exercise intensity in elite swimmers. International journal of sports and exercise medicine, 3(4), https://doi.org/10.23937/2469-5718/1510067

Purpose: To investigate a blood glucose profile and turn point during incremental exercise. Methods: Thirty-three national and international-level swimmers undertook a 7 × 200 m discontinuous, incremental, training set on a six-minute turnaround. S... Read More about Glucose turn point as a marker of exercise intensity in elite swimmers.