Background: Similar to global and regional trends, Saudi students face significant behavioural changes as they leave their home environment, enter university, and develop new habits, which can include unhealthy diets, skipping meals, dining out, and... Read More about An Investigative Study on University Students’ Knowledge and Attitudes towards the Food Dome in the Eastern Province of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Background: Individuals with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD), a condition caused by alcohol exposure in the womb, are 19 times more likely to be involved with the criminal justice system (CJS). Despite the potential for a high prevalence of... Read More about Exploring the Vulnerabilities of Individuals with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders to, and within, Criminal Justice System Encounters.
Organisational change is a frequent practice within organisations. Research has shown organisational change to be highly complex, with many challenging considerations. Employees are identified as a significant influe... Read More about An Exploration of the Experiences of Nursing Staff during the Time of a Large Reconfiguration of Cancer Services at an NHS Hospital.
Background: Construction is an important industry, estimated to employ 7% of the UK workforce and accounting for 6% of the total economic output. A poor state of health and wellbeing of construction labourers has been widely recognised, with workers... Read More about Designing and evaluating a participatory workplace nutrition intervention to improve the health and wellbeing of blue-collar (construction) workers.
Male Clients' Perspective Of Their Experience Of Counselling In Prisons Stephen Brian Fauguel (2023)
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The use of psycho-therapeutic interventions within prisons in recent years has been widespread. In order to improve the results of therapy, it is necessary to measure the effectiveness of the outcome (Castonguay, 2013). However, the measureme... Read More about Male Clients' Perspective Of Their Experience Of Counselling In Prisons Stephen Brian Fauguel.
Exploring psychological distress and expressive writing in Chinese breast cancer patients (2023)
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Breast cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy experience intense psychological distress and emotional suppression, which lowers the survivors’ quality of life and impacts their adherence to treatment. Given the insufficient identification and interv... Read More about Exploring psychological distress and expressive writing in Chinese breast cancer patients.
Background: The measurement of plantar pressure is recommended as a clinical tool for risk assessment, prevention and treatment of diabetic foot ulceration. To first assess comprehensively the available evidence on the use of plantar pressure assessm... Read More about Podiatrists’ and orthotists’ views and experiences of using plantar pressure measurement in the assessment and treatment of diabetic foot syndrome.
A narrative exploration of the lived experience of pastoral staff employed in social, emotional, and mental health (SEMH) secondary schools to gain a deeper understanding of the psychological impact of their work (2022)
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Bowes, E. A narrative exploration of the lived experience of pastoral staff employed in social, emotional, and mental health (SEMH) secondary schools to gain a deeper understanding of the psychological impact of their work. (Thesis). University of SalfordThis study aimed to explore how the experiences of working in social, emotional, and mental health (SEMH) secondary schools impacts the psychological wellbeing of pastoral staff. Psychological wellbeing is a complex concept, widely used in the litera... Read More about A narrative exploration of the lived experience of pastoral staff employed in social, emotional, and mental health (SEMH) secondary schools to gain a deeper understanding of the psychological impact of their work.
Putting the 'Slave' in 'Anti-Slavery': A Critical Analysis of the UK National Referral Mechanism (2022)
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Findlay, J. Putting the 'Slave' in 'Anti-Slavery': A Critical Analysis of the UK National Referral Mechanism. (Thesis). University of SalfordThis thesis presents a critical analysis of the UK government’s National Referral Mechanism (NRM), which supposedly exists to identify and support victims of ‘modern slavery and human trafficking’ (MSHT). Critical scholarship on MSHT has argued that... Read More about Putting the 'Slave' in 'Anti-Slavery': A Critical Analysis of the UK National Referral Mechanism.
Evaluation of socioeconomic and nutritional status in an arsenic-exposed population of Bihar, India (2022)
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Suman, S. Evaluation of socioeconomic and nutritional status in an arsenic-exposed population of Bihar, India. (Thesis). University of SalfordBackground: Arsenic contamination of groundwater and food has become a challenging public health problem in the world. This study is a part of the UK-India bilateral project NutriSAM (2017-2020) and includes a population-based household survey in ars... Read More about Evaluation of socioeconomic and nutritional status in an arsenic-exposed population of Bihar, India.
Background:
Depression is a leading cause of disability and is characterised by a loss of interest in
activities as well as difficulty carrying out everyday activities. Occupational therapy aims
to enable people to participate in the daily activi... Read More about The effectiveness of occupational therapy in enabling adults with a diagnosis of depression to improve their function and meaningful participation; a mixed methods study.
Psychotic creativity. A Foucauldian discourse analysis of alternative conversations about mental illness and mental health (2022)
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Haslam, J. (in press). Psychotic creativity. A Foucauldian discourse analysis of alternative conversations about mental illness and mental health. (Thesis). University of SalfordMy study has investigated how the practice of channelling symptoms of psychosis through the medium of creative art forms has empowered three young adults to create alternative discourses to trouble and unsettle the dynamic of power between service p... Read More about Psychotic creativity. A Foucauldian discourse analysis of alternative conversations about mental illness and mental health.
Experiences of maternity care from women's and providers' perspectives in a peri-urban setting in Ghana (2022)
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Obeng, J. Experiences of maternity care from women's and providers' perspectives in a peri-urban setting in Ghana. (Thesis). University of SalfordThe provision of quality maternity care is an important public health issue because a healthy
pregnancy can be the basis for a mother’s and child’s lifelong good health. However, the global
effort to reduce maternal and new-born mortality and morbi... Read More about Experiences of maternity care from women's and providers' perspectives in a peri-urban setting in Ghana.
Interrogating the possibilities and problems of YouTube sex edutainment content : an Actor-Network Theory approach (2022)
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British Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) has gained public attention in recent years due to several reports highlighting gaps in provision and a change of statutory guidance for RSE in 2019. Historically RSE has linked sex with risk and shame, s... Read More about Interrogating the possibilities and problems of YouTube sex edutainment content : an Actor-Network Theory approach.
Piloting digital tools to understand cancer prevention in Uganda: a case study of cervical cancer prevention in Western Uganda (2022)
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In Uganda cancer of the cervix is still a public health problem ranked as the leading cause of female cancer related deaths. According to the World Health Organisation (2018) Uganda has one of the highest incidence rates in the world est... Read More about Piloting digital tools to understand cancer prevention in Uganda: a case study of cervical cancer prevention in Western Uganda.
Incident reporting in the nursing home sector: an interpretative phenomenological analysis study (2022)
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MacKie, S. Incident reporting in the nursing home sector: an interpretative phenomenological analysis study. (Thesis). University of SalfordIntroduction
Patient safety is a cause for concern across health-care systems worldwide with data suggesting that approximately 10% of patients experience harm whilst receiving care. Today, incident reporting systems are well established in the NHS... Read More about Incident reporting in the nursing home sector: an interpretative phenomenological analysis study.
The paediatric journey to and through the emergency department: the parent’s experience (2022)
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department: the parent’s experience. (Thesis). University of SalfordParenthood will inevitably include caring for a child suffering from a mild to moderate illness requiring access to health care. Most childhood illnesses can be managed in the community, and a variety of primary care services are available with patie... Read More about The paediatric journey to and through the emergency department: the parent’s experience.
Introduction: In the UK, it is recommended that people diagnosed with intermittent claudication (IC) receive exercise therapy as first-line treatment of their condition. The optimal delivery of this treatment is a hospital-based, supervised exercise... Read More about Integrating patients with intermittent claudication into an established cardiac rehabilitation programme: a feasibility study with embedded pilot.
An innovative resuscitation training strategy for primary care nurses: feasibility study for a randomised controlled trial (2022)
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Chalk, A. An innovative resuscitation training strategy for primary care nurses: feasibility study for a randomised controlled trial. (Thesis). University of SalfordUnexpected cardiac arrest remains a significant cause of out-of-hospital death world-wide, and prompt recognition of cardiac arrest and initiation of resuscitation is the predominating factor in quadrupling survival from out-of-hospital cardiac arres... Read More about An innovative resuscitation training strategy for primary care nurses: feasibility study for a randomised controlled trial.
A biomechanical analysis of weightlifting pulling derivatives and their application to performance programming (2022)
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Meechan, D. A biomechanical analysis of weightlifting pulling derivatives and their application to performance programming. (Thesis). University of SalfordThe aims of the studies within this thesis were to determine if kinetics and kinematics differences occur between weightlifting pulling derivatives across loads, and to provide greater context regarding biomechanical time series data across loads. Ad... Read More about A biomechanical analysis of weightlifting pulling derivatives and their application to performance programming.