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Dementia friendly care : methods to improve stakeholder engagement and decision making (2021)
Journal Article
Innes, A., Smith, S., & Bushell, S. (2021). Dementia friendly care : methods to improve stakeholder engagement and decision making. Journal of Healthcare Leadership, 13, 183-197. https://doi.org/10.2147/JHL.S292939

Dementia friendly (DF) is a term that has been increasingly used in the international literature to describe approaches that include and involve people living with dementia within their communities and wider society. How to support the involvement of... Read More about Dementia friendly care : methods to improve stakeholder engagement and decision making.

The loci of Stroop effects: a critical review of methods and evidence for levels of processing contributing to color-word Stroop effects and the implications for the loci of attentional selection (2021)
Journal Article
Parris, B. A., Hasshim, N., Wadsley, M., Augustinova, M., & Ferrand, L. (2021). The loci of Stroop effects: a critical review of methods and evidence for levels of processing contributing to color-word Stroop effects and the implications for the loci of attentional selection. Psychological Research, 86, 1029--1053. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-021-01554-x

Despite instructions to ignore the irrelevant word in the Stroop task, it robustly influences the time it takes to identify the color, leading to performance decrements (interference) or enhancements (facilitation). The present review addresses two q... Read More about The loci of Stroop effects: a critical review of methods and evidence for levels of processing contributing to color-word Stroop effects and the implications for the loci of attentional selection.

Mental Health : a non-specialist introduction for nursing and health care (2021)
Book
Chadwick, A., Foster, C., Davis, K., Burns, E., Garth, E., Street, E., …Bluff, L. (2021). A. Chadwick, & N. Murphy (Eds.), Mental Health : a non-specialist introduction for nursing and health care. Banbury: Lantern

Mental Health is an accessible introductory textbook aimed primarily at nursing and health care students who are not in the mental health field of practice but are seeking to understand mental health and become rounded practitioners. It will also be... Read More about Mental Health : a non-specialist introduction for nursing and health care.

Clinical and Biomechanical Effects of the Traditional Chinese Medical Treatments in Individuals with Medial Knee Osteoarthritis (2021)
Thesis
Zhang, M. Clinical and Biomechanical Effects of the Traditional Chinese Medical Treatments in Individuals with Medial Knee Osteoarthritis. (Thesis). Univeristy of Salford

Background: Knee otesoarthritis (OA) is the most common of the arthritises, affecting an estimated over 300 million people worldwide. Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) therapies have been widely used in the management of knee OA in China, however, t... Read More about Clinical and Biomechanical Effects of the Traditional Chinese Medical Treatments in Individuals with Medial Knee Osteoarthritis.

Post-pandemic futures: Social security reimagined (2021)
Report
Kaufman, J., Patrick, R., & Power, M. (2021). Post-pandemic futures: Social security reimagined. Covid Realities

The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed and exacerbated the shortcomings of the UK’s social security system. As we move out of the pandemic, there is a need to grasp this opportunity to debate and start planning for a new and better social security settlem... Read More about Post-pandemic futures: Social security reimagined.

Rethinking housing supply and design : Feminist Green New Deal policy paper (2021)
Other
Gibbons, A. (2021). Rethinking housing supply and design : Feminist Green New Deal policy paper

Housing is fundamental to life, security and wellbeing as well as tackling climate change and working towards a zero-carbon future. It also remains a key site of gender and intersectional inequality, with design that does not accommodate diverse need... Read More about Rethinking housing supply and design : Feminist Green New Deal policy paper.

Investigating facilitatory versus inhibitory effects of dynamic social and non-social cues on attention in a realistic space (2021)
Journal Article
Gregory, S. (2021). Investigating facilitatory versus inhibitory effects of dynamic social and non-social cues on attention in a realistic space. Psychological Research, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-021-01574-7

This study aimed to investigate the facilitatory versus inhibitory effects of dynamic non-predictive central cues presented in a realistic environment. Realistic human-avatars initiated eye contact and then dynamically looked to the left, right or ce... Read More about Investigating facilitatory versus inhibitory effects of dynamic social and non-social cues on attention in a realistic space.

Stroke survivors’ perceptions of participating in a high repetition arm training trial early after stroke (2021)
Journal Article
Hammerbeck, U., Hargreaves, M., Hollands, K., & Tyson, S. (2021). Stroke survivors’ perceptions of participating in a high repetition arm training trial early after stroke. Disability and Rehabilitation, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638288.2021.1955984

Purpose The study explored the acceptability of high repetition arm training as part of a randomised controlled trial, early after stroke, when fatigue levels and emotional strain are often high. Materials and methods 36 sub-acute stroke surviv... Read More about Stroke survivors’ perceptions of participating in a high repetition arm training trial early after stroke.

Working, living and dying in COVID times : perspectives from frontline adult social care workers in the UK (2021)
Journal Article
Briggs, D., Telford, L., Lloyd, A., & Ellis, A. (2021). Working, living and dying in COVID times : perspectives from frontline adult social care workers in the UK. Safer Communities, 20(3), 208-222. https://doi.org/10.1108/SC-04-2021-0013

Purpose This paper aims to explore 15 UK adult social care workers’ experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. Design/methodology/approach This paper’s 15 open-ended interviews with adult social care workers are complemented by digital ethnograp... Read More about Working, living and dying in COVID times : perspectives from frontline adult social care workers in the UK.

Determination of hand grip strength and its correlates during pregnancy : a cross-sectional study (2021)
Journal Article
Abdullahi, A., Bala, A., Danazumi, S., Abubakar, S., Adamu, R., Truijen, S., …Useh, U. (2021). Determination of hand grip strength and its correlates during pregnancy : a cross-sectional study. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 21(1), 540. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-021-04003-0

Background: Pregnancy results in many changes, including reduced hand grip strength (HGS). However, good HGS is required for physical functions such as carrying and breastfeeding the baby after birth. The aim of this study was to determine the factor... Read More about Determination of hand grip strength and its correlates during pregnancy : a cross-sectional study.

Provision of exercise services in patients with peripheral artery disease in the United Kingdom (2021)
Journal Article
Harwood, A., Pymer, S., Ibeggazene, S., Ingle, L., Caldow, E., & Birkett, S. (2021). Provision of exercise services in patients with peripheral artery disease in the United Kingdom. Vascular, 30(5), 874-881. https://doi.org/10.1177/17085381211035259

Objectives Supervised exercise programmes (SEPs) are a vital treatment for people with intermittent claudication, leading improvements in walking distance and quality of life and are recommended in multiple national and international guidelines. We a... Read More about Provision of exercise services in patients with peripheral artery disease in the United Kingdom.

Effect of a sedation and ventilator liberation protocol vs usual care on duration of invasive mechanical ventilation in pediatric intensive care units : a randomized clinical trial (2021)
Journal Article
units : a randomized clinical trial. Journal of the American Medical Association, 326(5), 401-410. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2021.10296

Importance: There is limited evidence on the optimal strategy for liberating children from invasive mechanical ventilation in the pediatric intensive care unit. Objective: To determine if a ventilator liberation intervention reduces duration of i... Read More about Effect of a sedation and ventilator liberation protocol vs usual care on duration of invasive mechanical ventilation in pediatric intensive care units : a randomized clinical trial.

Antimicrobial prescribing and stewardship (2021)
Journal Article
Robertson, D. (2021). Antimicrobial prescribing and stewardship. Journal of Prescribing Practice, 3(8), 302-303. https://doi.org/10.12968/jprp.2021.3.8.302

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.

Overview of FASD: How Our Understanding of FASD Has Progressed (2021)
Book Chapter
Price, A. D., Cook, P. A., & Mukherjee, R. A. S. Overview of FASD: How Our Understanding of FASD Has Progressed. . Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73966-9_2

Some historical clues suggest an ancient understanding that alcohol should be avoided during pregnancy, but these may have been overstated. Further evidence appears during times of widespread alcohol use in the middle ages, but the current understand... Read More about Overview of FASD: How Our Understanding of FASD Has Progressed.

Nursing and caring for individuals with mental health problems (2021)
Book Chapter
Burns, E., Street, E., Allen, S., & Bluff, L. (2021). Nursing and caring for individuals with mental health problems. In A. Chadwick, & N. Murphy (Eds.), Mental Health : a non-specialist introduction for nursing and health care (43-62). Lantern

Mental Health in adulthood (2021)
Book Chapter
McGlynn, L., Murphy, N., & Allen, S. (2021). Mental Health in adulthood. In A. Chadwick, & N. Murphy (Eds.), Mental Health : a non-specialist introduction for nursing and health care (83-99). Lantern

COVID sex lives : survey 1 report (2021)
Report
Garwood-Cross, L., Hakim, J., Hinds, R., Katz, R., Light, B., Mercer, J., …Upton, M. (2021). COVID sex lives : survey 1 report

This report presents initial findings from the first survey of Covid Sex Lives project. Public health measures to mitigate the spread of coronavirus are translated into media messaging by organisations that target the health of different groups. Th... Read More about COVID sex lives : survey 1 report.

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on end of life care delivery in care homes : a mixed method systematic review (2021)
Journal Article
Spacey, A., Porter, S., Board, M., & Scammell, J. (2021). Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on end of life care delivery in care homes : a mixed method systematic review. Palliative Medicine, 35(8), 1468-1479. https://doi.org/10.1177/02692163211029806

Background: Current evidence suggests that COVID-19 is having a negative impact on the delivery of end of life care in care homes around the world. There is a need to collate current evidence to provide a comprehensive overview to assess extent of t... Read More about Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on end of life care delivery in care homes : a mixed method systematic review.