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Does preoperative weight loss in a specialist medical weight management centre influence postoperative weight loss after bariatric surgery? (2022)
Journal Article
Slater, C., Santhosh, S., Ellison, J., Majeed, W., Summers, L., Senapati, S., …Syed, A. (2022). Does preoperative weight loss in a specialist medical weight management centre influence postoperative weight loss after bariatric surgery?. Clinical Obesity, https://doi.org/10.1111/cob.12560

Summary: Weight loss of 5%–10% is advised in medical weight management (MWM) programmes prior to bariatric surgery but it remains to be established whether it influences postoperative weight loss outcomes. We studied postoperative percent total weigh... Read More about Does preoperative weight loss in a specialist medical weight management centre influence postoperative weight loss after bariatric surgery?.

Determinants of nutrition practice and food choice in UK construction workers (2022)
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Wronska, M., Coffey, M., & Robins, A. (2022). Determinants of nutrition practice and food choice in UK construction workers. Health Promotion International, 37(5), https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daac129

Summary The workplace is considered an effective setting for health and wellbeing interventions, including programmes focusing on nutrition, and provides opportunities to tailor programmes to meet the specific needs of industry and employees. This st... Read More about Determinants of nutrition practice and food choice in UK construction workers.

A Qualitative Study Exploring the Impact the Self-Compassion App Has on Levels of Compassion, Self-Criticism, and Wellbeing (2022)
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Beaumont, E., Irons, C., & McAndrew, S. (2022). A Qualitative Study Exploring the Impact the Self-Compassion App Has on Levels of Compassion, Self-Criticism, and Wellbeing. OBM integrative and complimentary medicine, https://doi.org/10.21926/obm.icm.2203045

Self-guided, smartphone apps may be helpful in reducing symptoms associated with psychological distress and may boost wellbeing, and levels of compassion. To our knowledge this is the first study to examine the impact a 28-day app based on Compassion... Read More about A Qualitative Study Exploring the Impact the Self-Compassion App Has on Levels of Compassion, Self-Criticism, and Wellbeing.

Exploring the role of the UK renal social worker: the nexus between health and social care for renal patients (2022)
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Seekles, M., & Ormandy, P. (2022). Exploring the role of the UK renal social worker: the nexus between health and social care for renal patients. PLoS ONE, 17(9), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0275007

Introduction Patients living with progressive chronic kidney disease may face a variety of ongoing physical, emotional, financial and/or social challenges along the disease pathway. In most UK renal units, psychosocial support has traditionally been... Read More about Exploring the role of the UK renal social worker: the nexus between health and social care for renal patients.

Social work practice with self-neglect and homelessness: Findings from vignette-based interviews (2022)
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Harris, J., Martineau, S., Manthorpe, J., Burridge, S., Ornelas, B., Tinelli, M., & Cornes, M. (2023). Social work practice with self-neglect and homelessness: Findings from vignette-based interviews. The British Journal of Social Work, 53(4), 2256-2276. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcac180

This article reports social workers’ attitudes and approaches to working with people experiencing multiple exclusion homelessness (MEH) who self-neglect, and whether these people receive services, including safeguarding, differently from other popula... Read More about Social work practice with self-neglect and homelessness: Findings from vignette-based interviews.

Fully remote intensive trauma-focused treatment for PTSD and complex PTSD (2022)
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Bongaerts, H., Voorendonk, E. M., Van Minnen, A., Rozendaal, L., Telkamp, B., & de Jongh, A. (2022). Fully remote intensive trauma-focused treatment for PTSD and complex PTSD. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 13(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/20008066.2022.2103287

Background: It is unknown whether remotely delivered intensive trauma-focused therapy not only is an effective treatment for PTSD, but also for Complex PTSD. Objective: Testing the hypothesis that a brief, fully remotely administered intensive tra... Read More about Fully remote intensive trauma-focused treatment for PTSD and complex PTSD.

Genetic haemochromatosis: diagnosis and treatment of an iron overload disorder (2022)
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Johnson, M., & Mortimore, G. (2022). Genetic haemochromatosis: diagnosis and treatment of an iron overload disorder. Nursing Standard, 37(11), 77-82. https://doi.org/10.7748/ns.2022.e11896

Genetic haemochromatosis is a potentially serious iron overload disorder, yet there is a lack of awareness of the condition among the public and many healthcare professionals. In the UK, around one in 150 people have the genetic mutations that cause... Read More about Genetic haemochromatosis: diagnosis and treatment of an iron overload disorder.

Prevalence of painful temporomandibular disorders, awake bruxism and sleep bruxism among patients with severe post‐traumatic stress disorder (2022)
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Knibbe, W., Lobbezoo, F., Voorendonk, E., Visscher, C., & de Jongh, A. (2022). Prevalence of painful temporomandibular disorders, awake bruxism and sleep bruxism among patients with severe post‐traumatic stress disorder. Journal of Oral Rehabilitation, 49(11), 1031-1040. https://doi.org/10.1111/joor.13367

Background: Post‐traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with painful temporomandibular disorder (TMD) and may be part of the aetiology of awake bruxism (AB) and sleep bruxism (SB). Investigating the associations between PTSD symptoms on the o... Read More about Prevalence of painful temporomandibular disorders, awake bruxism and sleep bruxism among patients with severe post‐traumatic stress disorder.

Implementation of the infection control estimate : A case study on the use of a newly developed digital tool for outbreak management in the acute setting (2022)
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Wynn, M., Brady, S., McKenna, J., Swanson, L., & George, R. (2022). Implementation of the infection control estimate : A case study on the use of a newly developed digital tool for outbreak management in the acute setting. Journal of Infection Prevention, 24(1), 45-49. https://doi.org/10.1177/17571774221127576

Aim An Infection Control Estimate (ICE) Tool was developed based on a previously published concept of applying military planning techniques to Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) management strategies in the acute healthcare setting. Methods Initi... Read More about Implementation of the infection control estimate : A case study on the use of a newly developed digital tool for outbreak management in the acute setting.

Why does my prosthetic hand not always do what it is told? (2022)
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Chadwell, A., Prince, M., Head, J., Galpin, A., Thies, S., & Kenney, L. (2022). Why does my prosthetic hand not always do what it is told?. Frontiers for Young Minds, 10, https://doi.org/10.3389/frym.2022.786663

There are online videos that appear to show electrically powered prosthetic (artificial) hands to be near-perfect replacements for a missing hand. However, for many users, the reality can be quite different. Prosthetic hands do not always respond as... Read More about Why does my prosthetic hand not always do what it is told?.

Application of The Terrorist Radicalization Assessment Protocol (TRAP-18) to the case of the Army-Navy recruiting center attacker in Little Rock, Arkansas (2022)
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Tassin, C., & Allely, C. (2022). Application of The Terrorist Radicalization Assessment Protocol (TRAP-18) to the case of the Army-Navy recruiting center attacker in Little Rock, Arkansas. Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression, https://doi.org/10.1080/19434472.2022.2118349

We applied the Path to Intended Violence (PTIV; Calhoun & Weston, 2003) model and the Terrorist Radicalization Assessment Protocol (TRAP-18; Meloy et al., 2015) to study the case of a lone-actor jihadist who carried out a fatal shooting at a joint... Read More about Application of The Terrorist Radicalization Assessment Protocol (TRAP-18) to the case of the Army-Navy recruiting center attacker in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Theoretical and methodological approaches to activism during the COVID-19 pandemic — between continuity and change (2022)
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Coen, S., Vezzoli, M., & Zogmaister, C. (2022). Theoretical and methodological approaches to activism during the COVID-19 pandemic — between continuity and change. Frontiers in Political Science, 4, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpos.2022.844591

In order to understand the way in which scholars approach the study of activism at a time of crisis, a scoping review was conducted to identify the extant empirical work on activism during the COVID-19 crisis. Our search resulted in 23 published pape... Read More about Theoretical and methodological approaches to activism during the COVID-19 pandemic — between continuity and change.

“Just the freedom to get good at things and stuff like that”: why spending less time at work would be good for individual, social and environmental wellbeing (2022)
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Balderson, U., Burchell, B., Kamerāde, D., Coutts, A., & Wang, S. (2022). “Just the freedom to get good at things and stuff like that”: why spending less time at work would be good for individual, social and environmental wellbeing. Futures, 143, 103035. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2022.103035

A reduction in the average length of the working week is a policy response which is gaining increasing political and popular support for its potential help to address a number of key societal challenges, particularly the declining health and wellbein... Read More about “Just the freedom to get good at things and stuff like that”: why spending less time at work would be good for individual, social and environmental wellbeing.

The efficacy of preliminary clinical evaluation for emergency department chest radiographs with trauma presentations in pre- and post-training situations (2022)
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Stevens, B., & Thompson, J. (2022). The efficacy of preliminary clinical evaluation for emergency department chest radiographs with trauma presentations in pre- and post-training situations. Radiography, 28(4), 1122-1126. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radi.2022.08.011

Introduction The chest X-ray (CXR) is the most frequently performed radiographic examination. This study evaluates radiographers’ ability to localise traumatic CXR pathology and provide a preliminary clinical evaluation (PCE) for these cases. Metho... Read More about The efficacy of preliminary clinical evaluation for emergency department chest radiographs with trauma presentations in pre- and post-training situations.

A case study of implementing interprofessional education in care home settings (2022)
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Stephens, M., Hubbard, L., Kelly, S., Clark, A., & Chesterton, L. (2022). A case study of implementing interprofessional education in care home settings. Working with Older People, https://doi.org/10.1108/WWOP-04-2022-0018

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to report on an interprofessional (IPE) student training scheme recently conducted in three care homes across the Northwest of England. The intervention was designed as a feasibility study to explore the impacts... Read More about A case study of implementing interprofessional education in care home settings.

Taking time: the temporal politics of dementia, care and support in the neighbourhood (2022)
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Ward, R., Rummery, K., Odzakovic, E., Manji, K., Kullberg, A., Keady, J., …Campbell, S. (2022). Taking time: the temporal politics of dementia, care and support in the neighbourhood. Sociology of Health and Illness, 44(9), 1427-1444

Dementia is a global health challenge and currently the focus of a coordinated international response articulated through the notion of ‘dementia-friendly communities and initiatives’ (DFCIs). Yet, while increasing research attention has been paid to... Read More about Taking time: the temporal politics of dementia, care and support in the neighbourhood.

The effect of Nickel hypersensitivity on the outcome of total knee arthroplasty and the value of skin patch testing: a systematic review (2022)
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Peacock, C. J. H., Fu, H., Asopa, V., Clement, N. D., Kader, D., & Sochart, D. (2022). The effect of Nickel hypersensitivity on the outcome of total knee arthroplasty and the value of skin patch testing: a systematic review. Arthroplasty, 4(1), 40. https://doi.org/10.1186/s42836-022-00144-5

BackgroundTo assess the Nickel sensitizing potential of total knee arthroplasty (TKA), explore the relationship between hypersensitivity and clinical outcomes, and evaluate the utility of skin patch testing pre- and/or postoperatively.Materials and m... Read More about The effect of Nickel hypersensitivity on the outcome of total knee arthroplasty and the value of skin patch testing: a systematic review.

Inter and intra-examiner reliability of musculoskeletal ultrasound scanning of anterior talofibular ligament and ankle muscles (2022)
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Ozgul, B., Starbuck, C., Polat, M., Abdeen, R., & Nester, C. (2022). Inter and intra-examiner reliability of musculoskeletal ultrasound scanning of anterior talofibular ligament and ankle muscles. Journal of Ultrasound,

Purpose Although the function of subjects with chronic ankle instability (CAI) has been examined, structural analysis by ultrasound scanning of the structures surrounding the ankle is limited. Before such structural comparisons between injured and un... Read More about Inter and intra-examiner reliability of musculoskeletal ultrasound scanning of anterior talofibular ligament and ankle muscles.