Mrs Anna Cooper-Ryan's Outputs (39)

The Relationship Between Usage of Personal Electronic Devices and Musculoskeletal Pain in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review (2024)
Journal Article

Background: Over the last decade, the use of personal electronic devices has increased rapidly in both children and adolescents. With this growth comes a need to understand the potential association between personal electronic device usage and muscul... Read More about The Relationship Between Usage of Personal Electronic Devices and Musculoskeletal Pain in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review.

Pathway to Postgraduate Success (2024)
Data

Postgraduate students often face significant challenges during their transition into higher education, including socio-cognitive stressors, cultural shock, and the balancing of academic and personal responsibilities. Further to this they are often ju... Read More about Pathway to Postgraduate Success.

The relationship between lifestyle habits and obesity among students in the Eastern province of Saudi Arabia: using the Arab Teens Lifestyle (ATLS) questionnaire (2024)
Journal Article
Woodman, A., Coffey, M., Cooper-Ryan, A.-M., & Jaoua, N. (in press). The relationship between lifestyle habits and obesity among students in the Eastern province of Saudi Arabia: using the Arab Teens Lifestyle (ATLS) questionnaire. BMC Public Health, 24(1), Article 2267. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-024-19353-5

Background: The Arab Teens Lifestyle (ATLS) questionnaire was an initiative to assess the lifestyle habits influencing obesity rates in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, including physical activity (PA) patterns, sedentary and eating be... Read More about The relationship between lifestyle habits and obesity among students in the Eastern province of Saudi Arabia: using the Arab Teens Lifestyle (ATLS) questionnaire.

Sex education against the algorithm: the algorithmically enforced deplatforming of YouTube sex edutainment (2024)
Journal Article
Garwood-Cross, L., Light, B., Cooper-Ryan, A., & Vasilica, C. (2024). Sex education against the algorithm: the algorithmically enforced deplatforming of YouTube sex edutainment. Journal of Gender Studies, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2024.2374752

Deplatforming of sexual content has increased across social media, usually operationalized by commercially charged, and algorithmically enforced, platform policies. This paper extends work on the algorithmic deplatforming of sex through the case stud... Read More about Sex education against the algorithm: the algorithmically enforced deplatforming of YouTube sex edutainment.

Modern Day Virtual Eyam Experience: an Interactive Learning Resource using ThingLink (2024)
Digital Artefact

This piece of work is an interactive learning resource using the ThingLink software. It is aimed at Public Health students and is a walkthrough of the village of Eyam in Derbyshire, which had an outbreak of the plague in 1665/1666. The village took t... Read More about Modern Day Virtual Eyam Experience: an Interactive Learning Resource using ThingLink.

Virtual Eyam Experience (2024)
Digital Artefact
Greene, L., Cooper-Ryan, A., & Chambers, D. (2024). Virtual Eyam Experience. [Website]

A virtual experience depicting the plague village, Eyam in Derbyshire. The experience is set in 1665 and it tells the story from the villager's perspective. It outlines their response to the plague outbreak and narrative from people who lived there a... Read More about Virtual Eyam Experience.

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.

Interrogating the possibilities and problems of YouTube sex edutainment content : an Actor-Network Theory approach (2022)
Thesis

British Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) has gained public attention in recent years due to several reports highlighting gaps in provision and a change of statutory guidance for RSE in 2019. Historically RSE has linked sex with risk and shame, s... Read More about Interrogating the possibilities and problems of YouTube sex edutainment content : an Actor-Network Theory approach.

Football Fandom as a Platform for Digital Health Promotion and Behaviour Change: A Mobile App Case Study (2022)
Journal Article

Background: The last decade has seen a dramatic shift toward the study of fitness surveillance, thanks in part to the emergence of mobile health (mHealth) apps that allow users to track their health through a variety of data-driven insights. This stu... Read More about Football Fandom as a Platform for Digital Health Promotion and Behaviour Change: A Mobile App Case Study.

Exploring strategies for using Social Media to self-manage health care when living with and beyond breast cancer : in-depth qualitative study (2020)
Journal Article

Background: As breast cancer survival rates improve and structural health resources are increasingly being stretched, health providers require people living with and beyond breast cancer (LwBBC) to self-manage aspects of their care.

Objective: Thi... Read More about Exploring strategies for using Social Media to self-manage health care when living with and beyond breast cancer : in-depth qualitative study.

Using e-cigarettes for smoking cessation : evaluation of a pilot project in the North West of England (2020)
Journal Article

Aims:
E-cigarettes have been advocated as an effective smoking cessation intervention, with evidence indicating that they are substantially less harmful than conventional cigarettes. As a result, a pilot to encourage people to swap from conventional... Read More about Using e-cigarettes for smoking cessation : evaluation of a pilot project in the North West of England.

A novel mixed methods approach to assess children’s sedentary behaviours (2020)
Journal Article

Purpose: Accurately measuring sedentary behaviour (SB) in children is challenging by virtue of its complex nature. Whilst self-report questionnaires are susceptible to recall errors, accelerometer data lacks contextual information. This study aimed t... Read More about A novel mixed methods approach to assess children’s sedentary behaviours.

Smartphone fitness apps and football fans : a case study of Fan Fit (2019)
Book Chapter
Fenton, A., Cooper-Ryan, A., & Vasilica, C. (2019). Smartphone fitness apps and football fans : a case study of Fan Fit. In P. Krustrup, & D. Parnell (Eds.), Football as Medicine: Prescribing Football for Global Health Promotion. Routledge

The growth of smartphone ownership by fans around the world has continued to increase. Meanwhile, we are seeing a rise in dangerous levels of obesity, diabetes and heart disease. The most at-risk, hard-to-reach groups are often synonymous with footba... Read More about Smartphone fitness apps and football fans : a case study of Fan Fit.

Postural, physical and musculoskeletal impacts of children using personal electronic devices (2019)
Other

This white paper outlines:
- Why we are conducting research in this area, including key statistics.
- The current evidence surrounding the relationship between MSK pain and discomfort in children and the use of PEDs.
- What we are doing abo... Read More about Postural, physical and musculoskeletal impacts of children using personal electronic devices.

Collaborative work of early career researchers: does the impact agenda transcend continents? (2019)
Book Chapter

The impact of the public transport on the health of work commuters : a systematic review (2019)
Journal Article
Norgate, S., Cooper-Ryan, A., Lavin, S., Stonier, C., & Cooper, C. (2020). The impact of the public transport on the health of work commuters : a systematic review. Health Psychology Review, 14(2), 325-344. https://doi.org/10.1080/17437199.2019.1618723

Although the public transport (PT) commute can form a substantial part of the working day, there is a significant gap in our understanding of how it influences health of those who engage in it. The purpose of this systematic review was to therefore g... Read More about The impact of the public transport on the health of work commuters : a systematic review.

Validating the sedentary sphere method in children : does wrist or accelerometer brand matter? (2019)
Journal Article

This study aimed to validate the Sedentary Sphere posture classification method from wrist-worn accelerometers in children. Twenty-seven 9–10-year-old children wore ActiGraph GT9X (AG) and GENEActiv (GA) accelerometers on both wrists, and activPAL on... Read More about Validating the sedentary sphere method in children : does wrist or accelerometer brand matter?.

Biographic disruption in families of a child with short bowel syndrome : a sibling perspective (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Cooper-Ryan, A., Coffey, M., Whiteley, L., Brooke, J., Coletta, R., Morabito, A., & Khalil, B. (2019, April). Biographic disruption in families of a child with short bowel syndrome : a sibling perspective. Poster presented at IUHPE - 23rd World Conference on Health Promotion, Rotorua, New Zealand

Establishing raw acceleration thresholds to classify sedentary and stationary behaviour in children (2018)
Journal Article

This study aimed to: (1) compare acceleration output between ActiGraph (AG) hip and wrist monitors and GENEActiv (GA) wrist monitors; (2) identify raw acceleration sedentary and stationary thresholds for the two brands and placements; and (3) validat... Read More about Establishing raw acceleration thresholds to classify sedentary and stationary behaviour in children.

Evaluation of the Everybody Can Programme (Active Tameside) (2018)
Other
Cooper-Ryan, A., Coffey, M., & Lambert, S. (2018). Evaluation of the Everybody Can Programme (Active Tameside). Salford, UK