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Biomechanical Effects of a 6-Week Change of Direction Speed and Technique Modification Intervention: Implications for Change of Direction Side step Performance (2021)
Journal Article
Dos'Santos, T., Thomas, C., Comfort, P., & Jones, P. A. (2021). Biomechanical Effects of a 6-Week Change of Direction Speed and Technique Modification Intervention: Implications for Change of Direction Side step Performance. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 36(10), 2780-2791. https://doi.org/10.1519/jsc.0000000000003950

The aim of this study was to evaluate the biomechanical effects of change of direction (COD) speed and technique modification training on COD performance (completion time, ground contact time [GCT], and exit velocity) during 45° (CUT45) and 90° (CUT9... Read More about Biomechanical Effects of a 6-Week Change of Direction Speed and Technique Modification Intervention: Implications for Change of Direction Side step Performance.

Prescribing issues in the COVID-19 pandemic (2021)
Journal Article
Robertson, D. (2021). Prescribing issues in the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Prescribing Practice, 3(3), 102-103. https://doi.org/10.12968/jprp.2021.3.3.102

Deborah Robertson provides an overview of recently published articles that may be of interest to non-medical prescribers. Should you wish to look at any of the papers in more detail, a full reference is provided

Effects of intermittent claudication due to arterial disease on pain-free gait (2021)
Journal Article
Evangelopoulou, E., Jones, R., Jameel, M., Boyd, P., & Nester, C. (2021). Effects of intermittent claudication due to arterial disease on pain-free gait. Clinical Biomechanics, 83, 105309. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clinbiomech.2021.105309

Studies of intermittent claudication gait report inconsistent outcomes. Changes in gait are often attributed to degradation of calf muscles, but causation has not been proven through real-time electromyographic data. Neither have effects of walking s... Read More about Effects of intermittent claudication due to arterial disease on pain-free gait.

Carry-over of attentional settings between distinct tasks : a transient effect independent of top-down contextual biases (2021)
Journal Article
Thompson, C., Pasquini, A., & Hills, P. (2021). Carry-over of attentional settings between distinct tasks : a transient effect independent of top-down contextual biases. Consciousness and Cognition, 90, 103104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2021.103104

Top-down attentional settings can persist between two unrelated tasks, influencing visual attention and performance. This study investigated whether top-down contextual information in a second task could moderate this “attentional inertia” effect. Fo... Read More about Carry-over of attentional settings between distinct tasks : a transient effect independent of top-down contextual biases.

Impact of COVID-19 lockdown on flash and real-time glucose sensor users with type 1 diabetes in England (2021)
Journal Article
Prabhu Navis, J., Leelarathna, L., Mubita, W., Urwin, A., K. Rutter, M., Schofield, J., & Thabit, H. (2021). Impact of COVID-19 lockdown on flash and real-time glucose sensor users with type 1 diabetes in England. Acta diabetologica, 58, 231–237. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00592-020-01614-5

Aims People with type 1 diabetes (T1D) face the daily task of implementing self-management strategies to achieve their glycaemic goals. The UK COVID-19 lockdown has had an impact on day-to-day behaviour, which may affect diabetes self-management and... Read More about Impact of COVID-19 lockdown on flash and real-time glucose sensor users with type 1 diabetes in England.

Supervising and assessing student nurses and midwives in clinical practice : a practical guide (2021)
Book
Leigh, J., & Roberts, D. (2021). J. Leigh, & D. Roberts (Eds.), Supervising and assessing student nurses and midwives in clinical practice : a practical guide. Lantern Publishing Limited

Nursing and midwifery practice along with the provision of nurse and midwife education are in a constant state of flux. The practice of these two professions and the provision of nurse and midwife education are and should always be dynamic entitie... Read More about Supervising and assessing student nurses and midwives in clinical practice : a practical guide.

Chapter 9 – The future of practice learning (2021)
Book Chapter
Leigh, J. (2021). Chapter 9 – The future of practice learning. In J. Leigh, & D. Roberts (Eds.), Supervising and assessing student nurses and midwives in clinical practice : a practical guide (209-236). Lantern Publishing Limited

This chapter explores the future of practice learning, applying the core concepts of a learning organisation to promote excellence (quality and governance); it therefore looks at the whole picture, considering strategies that enable creative thinking... Read More about Chapter 9 – The future of practice learning.

Chapter 2 : Developing the education team (2021)
Book Chapter
Leigh, J., & Roberts, D. (2021). Chapter 2 : Developing the education team. In J. Leigh, & D. Roberts (Eds.), Supervising and assessing student nurses and midwives in clinical practice : a practical guide (27-60). Lantern Publishing Limited

This chapter explores the culture for practice learning through developing the education team. The education team will of course include the three new roles outlined by the NMC: practice supervisor, practice assessor and academic assessor; but it has... Read More about Chapter 2 : Developing the education team.

Chapter 3 : Using coaching conversations and coaching models to promote effective supervision and assessment (2021)
Book Chapter
Leigh, J., Anderson, K., Medcalf, A., Surtees, A., & Sutton, W. (2021). Chapter 3 : Using coaching conversations and coaching models to promote effective supervision and assessment. In J. Leigh, & D. Roberts (Eds.), Supervising and assessing student nurses and midwives in clinical practice : a practical guide (61-88). Lantern Publishing Limited

According to NMC Standards for education and training, Part 2 (Standards for student supervision and Assessment) (2018b: 4): “Students in practice or work-placed learning must be supported to learn. This may include being supernumerary, meaning that... Read More about Chapter 3 : Using coaching conversations and coaching models to promote effective supervision and assessment.

The challenge of security and accessibility : critical perspectives on the rapid move to online therapies in the age of COVID‐19 (2021)
Journal Article
Ioane, J., Knibbs, C., & Tudor, K. (2021). The challenge of security and accessibility : critical perspectives on the rapid move to online therapies in the age of COVID‐19. Psychotherapy and Politics International, 19(1), e1581. https://doi.org/10.1002/ppi.1581

This article offers some critiques of the rapid move to online therapies in response to the restriction of movement and in‐person psychotherapeutic and psychological practice, imposed by necessary responses to the COVID‐19 pandemic. The critique is i... Read More about The challenge of security and accessibility : critical perspectives on the rapid move to online therapies in the age of COVID‐19.

Remittance sending among Somalis in London : experiences, motivations, and practices (2021)
Thesis
Abdillahi, A. Remittance sending among Somalis in London : experiences, motivations, and practices. (Dissertation). University of Salford

An estimated 1 billion people globally (200 million of whom were senders) were involved in the process of remittance sending and receiving between family members (UN International Day of Family Remittances: 2019). While much of the discourse around r... Read More about Remittance sending among Somalis in London : experiences, motivations, and practices.

Establishing a nurse-led thyroid cancer follow-up clinic (2021)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

The prevalence of cyberbullying and related mental health among academic employees in a university in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (2021)
Thesis
Ateyah, M. The prevalence of cyberbullying and related mental health among academic employees in a university in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. (Thesis). University of Salford

Rationale: The increased usage of technology and online social media has brought about a rise in harmful cyberbullying behaviours. Most of the research into cyberbullying has focused on child and adolescent populations, and less is known about the... Read More about The prevalence of cyberbullying and related mental health among academic employees in a university in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Children’s views and experiences of treatment adherence and parent/child co-management in eczema : a qualitative study (2021)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.