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Prof Alison Brettle's Outputs (79)

Attitudes and Barriers to Patient Participation in Evidence‐Based Practice From Chinese Nurses' Perspectives: A Qualitative Content Analysis (2024)
Journal Article

Patient participation plays a vital role in evidence‐based practice (EBP), yet its development in clinical nursing is slow. Current research has focused on identifying barriers to patient participation in everyday care, with less research on barriers... Read More about Attitudes and Barriers to Patient Participation in Evidence‐Based Practice From Chinese Nurses' Perspectives: A Qualitative Content Analysis.

Pre-treatment assessment of chemotherapy for cancer patients: a multi-site evidence implementation project of 74 hospitals in China (2024)
Journal Article

Background: Chemotherapy, whilst treating tumours, can also lead to numerous adverse reactions such as nausea and vomiting, fatigue and kidney toxicity, threatening the physical and mental health of patients. Simultaneously, misuse of chemotherapeuti... Read More about Pre-treatment assessment of chemotherapy for cancer patients: a multi-site evidence implementation project of 74 hospitals in China.

A Study of the Viability of Implementing a Child Development CounsellingProgrammefor Caregivers of Children with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD)Aged 0–3 Yearsin Uganda (2023)
Thesis

Development remains an immediate problem of health concern in Uganda for children who are of lower economic status. Approximately 15,000 babies are born with sickle cell disease (SCD) in Uganda every year. Children with SCD have special healthcare n... Read More about A Study of the Viability of Implementing a Child Development CounsellingProgrammefor Caregivers of Children with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD)Aged 0–3 Yearsin Uganda.

A qualitative exploration of factors that influenced health literacy among women diagnosed with breast cancer in Kenya during their cancer journey (2023)
Thesis

Background
In Kenya, there are approximately 6,000 new breast cancer (BC) cases annually and 2,550 deaths. Approximately 80% of patients are diagnosed at advanced stages (III–IV), contributing to the high death rate. Research has shown that BC can b... Read More about A qualitative exploration of factors that influenced health literacy among women diagnosed with breast cancer in Kenya during their cancer journey.

Co-creating an app for the self-management of people living with multiple sclerosis: evaluation of a pilot (2023)
Report
Hepburn, P., & Brettle, A. (2023). Co-creating an app for the self-management of people living with multiple sclerosis: evaluation of a pilot. Salford: Salford Clinical Commissioning Group

The purpose of this project was to customise, deploy and
evaluate an App to support the self-management of longterm conditions using Multiple Sclerosis (MS) as a case
exemplar. The App in question was a mature, CE-marked
product. The project w... Read More about Co-creating an app for the self-management of people living with multiple sclerosis: evaluation of a pilot.

Developing digital applications in healthcare: toolkit (2023)
Report
Brettle, A., Hepburn, P., Chapman, C., & Rog, D. (2023). Developing digital applications in healthcare: toolkit. Salford: Salford Integrated Care Service

The purpose of this toolkit is to provide a ‘how to’
manual for projects which aim to engage patients
in co-creating and implementing Apps for the
self-management of long-term conditions.
The toolkit is based on experience gained
together wi... Read More about Developing digital applications in healthcare: toolkit.

Outcomes and care priorities for older people living with frailty and advanced chronic kidney disease: a multi-professional scoping review (2022)
Journal Article
Hurst, H., Young, H., Nixon, A., Brettle, A., & Ormandy, P. (2022). Outcomes and care priorities for older people living with frailty and advanced chronic kidney disease: a multi-professional scoping review. Age and ageing, 51(12), https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afac296

Background
The growing older population with advanced chronic kidney disease (ACKD stages 4-5) poses
a challenge for healthcare worldwide. The high prevalence of frailty and associated adverse
health outcomes highlights concerns for management and... Read More about Outcomes and care priorities for older people living with frailty and advanced chronic kidney disease: a multi-professional scoping review.

Barriers to implementing evidence-based nursing practice from the hospitals' point of view in China: a regional cross-sectional study. (2022)
Journal Article
Lai, J., Brettle, A., Zhang, Y., Zhou, C., Li, C., Fu, J., & Wu, Y. (2022). Barriers to implementing evidence-based nursing practice from the hospitals' point of view in China: a regional cross-sectional study. Nurse Education Today, 116, 105436. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2022.105436

There is a widespread international agreement that healthcare should be based on high-quality evidence; however, bridging the gap from evidence to practice is still problematic. Although barriers to the implementation of evidence-based nursing practi... Read More about Barriers to implementing evidence-based nursing practice from the hospitals' point of view in China: a regional cross-sectional study..

Validation of a generic impact survey for use by health library services indicates the reliability of the questionnaire (2022)
Journal Article

Background. A validated generic impact questionnaire can demonstrate how individual, and groups of health libraries contribute to continuing education and patient care outcomes.
Objectives. To validate an existing generic questionnaire for Knowledg... Read More about Validation of a generic impact survey for use by health library services indicates the reliability of the questionnaire.

UK survey demonstrates a wide range of impacts attributable to clinical librarian services (2021)
Journal Article
Divall, P., James, C., Heaton, M., & Brettle, A. (2021). UK survey demonstrates a wide range of impacts attributable to clinical librarian services. Health Information and Libraries Journal, 39(2), 116-131. https://doi.org/10.1111/hir.12389

Objective:
To understand the impact of the UK Clinical Librarian (CL) workforce and benchmark the results against a study undertaken in the North West region of the English National Health Service (NHS).

Methods:
An online survey was distribute... Read More about UK survey demonstrates a wide range of impacts attributable to clinical librarian services.

Helping people to help themselves : the development and evaluation of a non-clinical, peer-supported eTherapy model in the management of anxiety and depression in adults (2021)
Thesis

eTherapy interventions have widened access to evidence-based psychological therapies, particularly Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) since their introduction to primary care mental health services over a decade ago. Whilst the effectiveness of eT... Read More about Helping people to help themselves : the development and evaluation of a non-clinical, peer-supported eTherapy model in the management of anxiety and depression in adults.

Outcomes and care priorities for older people living with frailty and advanced chronic kidney disease : a multiprofessional scoping review protocol (2021)
Journal Article

Reported outcomes for older people with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD) often focus on survival and mortality and little attention is paid to symptom burden and health-related quality of life. Recognising frailty and providing interventions tha... Read More about Outcomes and care priorities for older people living with frailty and advanced chronic kidney disease : a multiprofessional scoping review protocol.

Caring for adolescents with acute and complex mental health needs in hospital settings : conceptualising and enabling nursing identity, task and intervention (2020)
Thesis
identity, task and intervention. (Thesis). University of Salford

Background: Adolescent psychiatric intensive care units (PICU) play a significant role in child and adolescent mental health care pathways, not just in the UK but across Europe. Prior to the papers included in this thesis, there was no primary resear... Read More about Caring for adolescents with acute and complex mental health needs in hospital settings : conceptualising and enabling nursing identity, task and intervention.

What is the evidence for the impact of gardens and gardening on health and well-being : a scoping review and evidence-based logic model to guide healthcare strategy decision making on the use of gardening approaches as a social prescription (2020)
Journal Article

Objective:
To systematically identify and describe studies that have evaluated the impact of gardens
and gardening on health and wellbeing. A secondary objective was to use this evidence to build
evidence-based logic models to guide health stra... Read More about What is the evidence for the impact of gardens and gardening on health and well-being : a scoping review and evidence-based logic model to guide healthcare strategy decision making on the use of gardening approaches as a social prescription.

Implementing evidence-based practice : a guide for radiographers (2020)
Journal Article
Brettle, A. (2020). Implementing evidence-based practice : a guide for radiographers. Radiography, 26(Sup. 2), S37-S41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radi.2020.05.013

Evidence-based practice is a concept that has grown across health disciplines over the last 25 years as a way of providing high quality health care. Radiographers are keen to implement evidence-based approaches but barriers remain in practice. This a... Read More about Implementing evidence-based practice : a guide for radiographers.

Facemums 2018: final report (2020)
Report
McCarthy, R., Choucri, L., Jones, J., Butler, D., Chatwin, J., Brettle, A., & Light, B. (2020). Facemums 2018: final report

Continuity of care and easy access to reliable information during pregnancy is essential to the health and wellbeing of pregnant women. In recent years widespread use of the internet has fundamentally changed the way people obtain health informatio... Read More about Facemums 2018: final report.

Ethnic minority disparities in progression and mortality of pre-dialysis chronic kidney disease : a systematic scoping review (2020)
Journal Article
Hounkpatin, H., Fraser, S., Honney, R., Dreyer, G., Brettle, A., & Roderick, P. (2020). Ethnic minority disparities in progression and mortality of pre-dialysis chronic kidney disease : a systematic scoping review. BMC Nephrology, 21(1), 217. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12882-020-01852-3

Background: There are a growing number of studies on ethnic differences in progression and mortality for pre-dialysis chronic kidney disease (CKD), but this literature has yet to be synthesised, particularly for studies on mortality. Methods: This sc... Read More about Ethnic minority disparities in progression and mortality of pre-dialysis chronic kidney disease : a systematic scoping review.