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Establishing a nurse-led thyroid cancer follow-up clinic (2021)
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Fishburn, A., & Fishburn, N. (2021). Establishing a nurse-led thyroid cancer follow-up clinic. British Journal of Nursing, 30(4), S28-S35. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2021.30.4.s28

Thyroid cancer is a complex disease requiring management by a large multidisciplinary team. The number of patients with a diagnosis of thyroid cancer is significantly increasing year-on-year, and traditional models of consultant-led follow up are no... Read More about Establishing a nurse-led thyroid cancer follow-up clinic.

Dancing with health : quality of life and physical improvements from an EU collaborative dance programme with women following breast cancer treatment (2021)
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Karcou, V., Dudley-Swarbrick, I., Starkey, J., Parsons, A., Aithal, S., Omylinska-Thurston, J., …Parisi, A. (2021). Dancing with health : quality of life and physical improvements from an EU collaborative dance programme with women following breast cancer treatment. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 635578. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.635578

Background Women’s health has received renewed attention in the last few years including the rehabilitation of women whose health has been affected by breast cancer. Dancing has often been regarded as attractive for women but research with women rec... Read More about Dancing with health : quality of life and physical improvements from an EU collaborative dance programme with women following breast cancer treatment.

The test–retest reliability of bilateral and unilateral force plate–derived parameters of the countermovement push-up in elite boxers (2021)
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Parry, G., Herrington, L., Horsley, I., & Gatt, I. (2021). The test–retest reliability of bilateral and unilateral force plate–derived parameters of the countermovement push-up in elite boxers. Journal of Sport Rehabilitation, 30(7), 1106-1110. https://doi.org/10.1123/jsr.2020-0340

Context: Maximal power describes the ability to immediately produce power with the maximal velocity at the point of release, impact, and/or take off—the greater an athlete’s ability to produce maximal power, the greater the improvement of athletic pe... Read More about The test–retest reliability of bilateral and unilateral force plate–derived parameters of the countermovement push-up in elite boxers.

Slip-resistant footwear to reduce slips among health-care workers : the SSHeW RCT (2021)
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Cockayne, S., Fairhurst, C., Zand, M., Frost, G., Liddle, M., Cunningham-Burley, R., …Torgerson, D. (2021). Slip-resistant footwear to reduce slips among health-care workers : the SSHeW RCT. Public Health Research, 9(3), 1-150. https://doi.org/10.3310/phr09030

Background In Great Britain, 100,000 injuries due to slips, trips and falls on the level (as opposed to falls from a height, e.g. a ladder) occur in the workplace each year. They are the most common cause of non-fatal injury in the workplace, acco... Read More about Slip-resistant footwear to reduce slips among health-care workers : the SSHeW RCT.

Children’s views and experiences of treatment adherence and parent/child co-management in eczema : a qualitative study (2021)
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Teasdale, E., Sivyer, K., Muller, I., Ghio, D., Roberts, A., Lawton, S., & Santer, M. (2021). Children’s views and experiences of treatment adherence and parent/child co-management in eczema : a qualitative study. Children, 8(2), 158. https://doi.org/10.3390/children8020158

Eczema affects one in five children and can have a substantial impact on quality of life. This qualitative study aimed to explore children’s views and experiences of eczema and what may affect treatment adherence from their perspective. We conducted... Read More about Children’s views and experiences of treatment adherence and parent/child co-management in eczema : a qualitative study.

Relationship between fatness, physical fitness, and academic performance in normal weight and overweight schoolchild handball players in Qatar State (2021)
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Hermassi, S., Chelly, M. S., Michalsik, L. B., Sanal, N. E. M., D. Hayes, L., & Cadenas-Sanchez, C. (in press). Relationship between fatness, physical fitness, and academic performance in normal weight and overweight schoolchild handball players in Qatar State. PloS one, 16(2), e0246476. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0246476

The aim of this study was to examine the correlation between physiological parameters (namely fatness and physical fitness) with academic performance (namely mathematics and science grade point average [GPA]) in normal weight and overweight schoolchi... Read More about Relationship between fatness, physical fitness, and academic performance in normal weight and overweight schoolchild handball players in Qatar State.

The effect of high-frequency rTMS of the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex on the resolution of response, semantic and task conflict in the colour-word Stroop task (2021)
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Parris, B. A., Wadsley, M. G., Arabaci, G., Hasshim, N., Augustinova, M., & Ferrand, L. (2021). The effect of high-frequency rTMS of the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex on the resolution of response, semantic and task conflict in the colour-word Stroop task. Brain Structure and Function, 226, 1241--1252. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00429-021-02237-4

Previous work investigating the effect of rTMS of left Dorso-Lateral Prefrontal Cortex (DLPFC) on Stroop task performance reports no changes to the Stroop effect but reduced reaction times on both congruent and incongruent trials relative to sham sti... Read More about The effect of high-frequency rTMS of the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex on the resolution of response, semantic and task conflict in the colour-word Stroop task.

The relationship between pain sensitivity, pain catastrophizing and hangover severity (2021)
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Saeed, H., Sips, A., Owen, L., & Verster, J. (2021). The relationship between pain sensitivity, pain catastrophizing and hangover severity. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(4), e2047. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18042047

Recent research found a significant and positive correlation between hangover severity and pain catastrophizing. The current study aimed to verify these findings. Data from N = 673 subjects with a mean (SD) age of 42.2 (19.1) years old (range: 18 to... Read More about The relationship between pain sensitivity, pain catastrophizing and hangover severity.

Hannah Lambie-Mumford and Tiina Silvasti (eds) (2020), The Rise of Food Charity in Europe, Bristol: Policy Press, £75.00, pp. 272, hbk. (2021)
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Beck, D. (2021). Hannah Lambie-Mumford and Tiina Silvasti (eds) (2020), The Rise of Food Charity in Europe, Bristol: Policy Press, £75.00, pp. 272, hbk. Journal of Social Policy, 50(2), 446-447. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279421000064

Question; what is significant about the rise of food charity across various European countries? Explored with significant detail, this edited volume sufficiently answers this question by drawing on four key areas associated with the rise of food pove... Read More about Hannah Lambie-Mumford and Tiina Silvasti (eds) (2020), The Rise of Food Charity in Europe, Bristol: Policy Press, £75.00, pp. 272, hbk..

Can they stomach it? Parent and practitioner acceptability of a trial comparing Gastric Residual Volume measurement versus no Gastric Residual Volume in UK NNU and PICU’s : a feasibility study (2021)
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Deja, B., Roper, L., Tume, L., Dorling, J., Gale, C., Arch, B., …Woolfall, K. (2021). Can they stomach it? Parent and practitioner acceptability of a trial comparing Gastric Residual Volume measurement versus no Gastric Residual Volume in UK NNU and PICU’s : a feasibility study. Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 7(1), 49. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-021-00784-5

Background: Routine measurement of gastric residual volume (GRV) to guide feeding in neonatal and paediatric intensive care is widespread. However, this practice is not evidence based and may cause harm. As part of a feasibility study we explored par... Read More about Can they stomach it? Parent and practitioner acceptability of a trial comparing Gastric Residual Volume measurement versus no Gastric Residual Volume in UK NNU and PICU’s : a feasibility study.