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Use of removable support boot versus cast for early mobilisation after ankle fracture surgery: cost-effectiveness analysis and qualitative findings of the Ankle Recovery Trial (ART). (2024)
Journal Article
Baji, P., Barbosa, E. C., Heaslip, V., Sangar, B., Tbaily, L., Martin, R., …Marques, E. M. R. (2024). Use of removable support boot versus cast for early mobilisation after ankle fracture surgery: cost-effectiveness analysis and qualitative findings of the Ankle Recovery Trial (ART). BMJ Open, 14(1), e073542. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-073542

To estimate the cost-effectiveness of using a removable boot versus a cast following ankle fracture from the National Health Service and Personal Social Services (NHS+PSS) payer and societal perspectives and explore the impact of both treatments on p... Read More about Use of removable support boot versus cast for early mobilisation after ankle fracture surgery: cost-effectiveness analysis and qualitative findings of the Ankle Recovery Trial (ART)..

Do extreme temperatures affect cognition? A short review of the impact of acute heat stress on cognitive performance of firefighters (2024)
Journal Article
Thompson, C., Ferrie, L., Pearson, S. J., Highlands, B., & Matthews, M. J. (in press). Do extreme temperatures affect cognition? A short review of the impact of acute heat stress on cognitive performance of firefighters. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1270898. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1270898

Research shows that exposure to high environmental temperatures can affect task performance. Theoretical explanations outline that heat is a source of stress that competes for limited-capacity resources, therefore if a task is resource-intensive, and... Read More about Do extreme temperatures affect cognition? A short review of the impact of acute heat stress on cognitive performance of firefighters.

Modern welfare in the United Kingdom is a universal (dis)credit to Beveridge. Is it time for a basic income? (2024)
Journal Article
Beck, D., Peters, R., Bridge, G., Poitier, F., & Pearson, B. (2024). Modern welfare in the United Kingdom is a universal (dis)credit to Beveridge. Is it time for a basic income?. Social Policy and Administration, https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.13002

Universal Credit signalled a revolution in the delivery and costs of welfare provisioning. UC aimed to reduce spending on welfare, but in doing so now threatens the stability of a functioning and cohesive society. Over recent years, and most notably... Read More about Modern welfare in the United Kingdom is a universal (dis)credit to Beveridge. Is it time for a basic income?.

Student midwives' lived experiences of caring for bereaved parents following perinatal loss using actor-based simulation: A phenomenological study. (2024)
Journal Article
Leyland, A., & Choucri, L. (in press). Student midwives' lived experiences of caring for bereaved parents following perinatal loss using actor-based simulation: A phenomenological study. Midwifery, 130, 103913. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2023.103913

Student midwives frequently encounter bereaved parents in clinical practice; however, the experience of caring for bereaved parents can be a significant source of traumatic stress. Although the use of simulation to teach bereavement care is considere... Read More about Student midwives' lived experiences of caring for bereaved parents following perinatal loss using actor-based simulation: A phenomenological study..

Midwives’ experiences of discussing health behaviour change within routine maternity care: A qualitative systematic review and meta-synthesis (2024)
Journal Article
Talbot, H., Peters, S., Furber, C., & Smith, D. M. (2024). Midwives’ experiences of discussing health behaviour change within routine maternity care: A qualitative systematic review and meta-synthesis. Women and Birth, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wombi.2024.01.002

Problem Behaviours, such as smoking, alcohol use, unhealthy diet, lack of physical activity and vaccination non-adherence may lead to adverse pregnancy outcomes. Background Pregnancy has been identified as an opportune time for midwives to suppo... Read More about Midwives’ experiences of discussing health behaviour change within routine maternity care: A qualitative systematic review and meta-synthesis.

The four-day working week (2024)
Book Chapter
Frayne, D., Kamerade, D., & Burchell, B. (in press). The four-day working week. In Elgar Encyclopedia of Occupational Health Psychology. Edward Elgar Publishing

The four-day working week is an organisational practice that involves reducing the standard full-time working week by the equivalent of one working day, usually with no reduction in pay. The policy has been tested across a number of national pilots,... Read More about The four-day working week.

Population-based interventions for preventing falls and fall-related injuries in older people (2024)
Journal Article
Lewis, S. R., McGarrigle, L., Pritchard, M. W., Bosco, A., Yang, Y., Gluchowski, A., …Todd, C. (in press). Population-based interventions for preventing falls and fall-related injuries in older people. Cochrane Library, 1(1), CD013789. https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD013789.pub2

Around one-third of older adults aged 65 years or older who live in the community fall each year. Interventions to prevent falls can be designed to target the whole community, rather than selected individuals. These population-level interventions may... Read More about Population-based interventions for preventing falls and fall-related injuries in older people.

Developing a strategy to scale up place-based arts initiatives that support mental health and wellbeing: A realist evaluation of ‘Arts for the Blues’ (2024)
Journal Article
Karkou, V., Omylinska-Thurston, J., Thurston, S., Clark, R., Perris, E., Kaehne, A., & Pearson, M. (in press). Developing a strategy to scale up place-based arts initiatives that support mental health and wellbeing: A realist evaluation of ‘Arts for the Blues’. PloS one, 19(1), e0296178. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0296178

Place-based arts initiatives are regarded as rooted in local need and as having capacity to engage local assets. However, many place-based arts initiatives remain poorly funded and short-lived, receiving little attention on how to scale up and sustai... Read More about Developing a strategy to scale up place-based arts initiatives that support mental health and wellbeing: A realist evaluation of ‘Arts for the Blues’.

Developing a strategy to scale up place-based arts initiatives that support mental health and wellbeing: A realist evaluation of ‘Arts for the Blues’ (2024)
Journal Article
Karkou, V., Omylinska-Thurston, J., Thurston, S., Clark, R., Perris, E., Kaehne, A., & Pearson, M. (2024). Developing a strategy to scale up place-based arts initiatives that support mental health and wellbeing: A realist evaluation of ‘Arts for the Blues’. PLoS ONE, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0296178

Place-based arts initiatives are regarded as rooted in local need and as having capacity to engage local assets. However, many place-based arts initiatives remain poorly funded and short-lived, receiving little attention on how to scale up and sustai... Read More about Developing a strategy to scale up place-based arts initiatives that support mental health and wellbeing: A realist evaluation of ‘Arts for the Blues’.

Prescribing pre-exposure prophylaxis therapy (2024)
Journal Article
Robertson, D. (2024). Prescribing pre-exposure prophylaxis therapy. Journal of Prescribing Practice, 6(1), 12-14. https://doi.org/10.12968/jprp.2024.6.1.12

Last month, the research round-up provided you with an overview of articles looking at the issue of prescribing cascades. This month we will investigate the prescribing of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) therapy for the prevention of HIV infection. T... Read More about Prescribing pre-exposure prophylaxis therapy.

Weight Loss Following Bariatric Surgery in People with or without Metabolic Syndrome: A 5-Year Observational Comparative Study (2024)
Journal Article
Ragavan, S., Elhelw, O., Majeed, W., Alkhaffaf, B., Senapati, S., Ammori, B. J., …Syed, A. A. (in press). Weight Loss Following Bariatric Surgery in People with or without Metabolic Syndrome: A 5-Year Observational Comparative Study. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 13(1), 256. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm13010256

Aim: Whilst bariatric surgery is the most effective treatment for severe obesity, the aim of this study was to evaluate whether postoperative weight loss is similar in patients with or without metabolic syndrome. Methods: We performed a 5-year observ... Read More about Weight Loss Following Bariatric Surgery in People with or without Metabolic Syndrome: A 5-Year Observational Comparative Study.

Starting Well Project Evaluation (2023)
Report
Lythgoe, J., & Cameron, H. (2023). Starting Well Project Evaluation. University of Salford: Homestart

The purpose of this report is to evaluate the impact of the Starting Well Project delivered by Home-Start Manchester (HSM) & Home-Start Trafford, Salford & Wigan (HSTSW) with funding from the government’s Health & Wellbeing Fund 2020-21. This pilo... Read More about Starting Well Project Evaluation.

Public and professional involvement in a systematic review investigating the impact of occupational therapy on the self-management of rheumatoid arthritis (2023)
Journal Article
Gavin, J. P., Rossiter, L., Fenerty, V., Leese, J., Adams, J., Hammond, A., …Backman, C. L. (in press). Public and professional involvement in a systematic review investigating the impact of occupational therapy on the self-management of rheumatoid arthritis. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, https://doi.org/10.1177/03080226231219106

Introduction: Public and health professional involvement (PHPI) is essential in healthcare research yet uncommonly integrated into systematic reviews. We incorporated and evaluated PHPI in a mixed methods review of occupational therapy for self-manag... Read More about Public and professional involvement in a systematic review investigating the impact of occupational therapy on the self-management of rheumatoid arthritis.

Using wearable technology data to explain recreational running injury: A prospective longitudinal feasibility study (2023)
Journal Article
Neal, B. S., Bramah, C., McCarthy-Ryan, M. F., Moore, I. S., Napier, C., Paquette, M. R., & Gruber, A. H. (2024). Using wearable technology data to explain recreational running injury: A prospective longitudinal feasibility study. Physical Therapy in Sport, '65, 130-136. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ptsp.2023.12.010

Objectives Investigate 1) if collecting and analysing wristwatch inertial measurement unit (IMU) and global positioning system (GPS) data using a commercially-available training platform was feasible in recreational... Read More about Using wearable technology data to explain recreational running injury: A prospective longitudinal feasibility study.

Scavenging of Cation Radicals of the Visual Cycle Retinoids by Lutein, Zeaxanthin, Taurine, and Melanin (2023)
Journal Article
Rozanowska, M., Edge, R., Land, E. J., Navaratnam, S., Sarna, T., & Truscott, T. G. (in press). Scavenging of Cation Radicals of the Visual Cycle Retinoids by Lutein, Zeaxanthin, Taurine, and Melanin. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 25(1), 506. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms25010506

In the retina, retinoids involved in vision are under constant threat of oxidation, and their oxidation products exhibit deleterious properties. Using pulse radiolysis, this study determined that the bimolecular rate constants of scavenging cation ra... Read More about Scavenging of Cation Radicals of the Visual Cycle Retinoids by Lutein, Zeaxanthin, Taurine, and Melanin.

Operational and Performance Experience with uMI550 Digital PET-CT during Routine Quality Control Procedures (2023)
Journal Article
Singh, M. K., Mohan, V. S. K., & Kaushik, C. (in press). Operational and Performance Experience with uMI550 Digital PET-CT during Routine Quality Control Procedures. World Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 22(04), 267-275. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0043-1777696

Introduction The quality control (QC) procedures for positron emission tomography (PET) scanners are covered by National Electrical Manufacturers Association and International Electrotechnical Commission. QC must be carried out at regular intervals a... Read More about Operational and Performance Experience with uMI550 Digital PET-CT during Routine Quality Control Procedures.

The Subversive Weber: Subjectivation and World-Confrontation in Max Weber’s Teaching (2023)
Journal Article
Frade, C. (2023). The Subversive Weber: Subjectivation and World-Confrontation in Max Weber’s Teaching. Cosmos and history, 19(2), 73–102

That there is a subversive Max Weber may go unrecognized even by Marxist scholars otherwise appreciative, if critically, of Weber, to say nothing of mainstream Weber scholarship. That the subversive side of Weber’s thought and teaching lies in his fi... Read More about The Subversive Weber: Subjectivation and World-Confrontation in Max Weber’s Teaching.

Impact of COVID-19 on patient experience of kidney care: a rapid review. (2023)
Journal Article
Mackintosh, L., Ormandy, P., Busby, A., Hawkins, J., Klare, R., Silver, C., …Farrington, K. (in press). Impact of COVID-19 on patient experience of kidney care: a rapid review. Journal of Nephrology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40620-023-01823-5

In March 2020, a pandemic state was declared due to SARS-COV-2 (COVID-19). Patients with kidney disease, especially those on replacement therapies, proved more susceptible to severe infection. This rapid literature review aims to help understand how... Read More about Impact of COVID-19 on patient experience of kidney care: a rapid review..