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Homelessness prevention policy in an international context : The Housing Act (Wales) 2014 (2019)
Journal Article
Ahmed, A., & Madoc-Jones, I. (2020). Homelessness prevention policy in an international context : The Housing Act (Wales) 2014. Social Policy and Society, 19(1), 95-108. https://doi.org/10.1017/S147474641900037X

A review article preceding a series of articles in this special issue considering specific aspects of the impacts and implementation processes of the Welsh legislation – we contextualise the introduction of the prevention agenda in Wales by defining... Read More about Homelessness prevention policy in an international context : The Housing Act (Wales) 2014.

Fine balance between pragmatism and rigidness in system approaches to acute care (2019)
Journal Article
Roland, D., Rowland, A., Cotterill, S., Heal, C., Woby, S., Garratt, N., …Long, A. (2019). Fine balance between pragmatism and rigidness in system approaches to acute care. BMJ, 367, https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.l6226

Reluctance of the Royal College of General Practitioners to endorse NEWS2 (the second iteration of the national early warning score) has surprised some and been supported by others.1 This dichotomy over what seems to be a proved safety measure shows... Read More about Fine balance between pragmatism and rigidness in system approaches to acute care.

Promoting the consumer voice : the role of Healthwatch Salford's Enter and View programme (2019)
Journal Article
Leigh, J., Lawson, D., Griffin, S., & Yates Bolton, N. (2019). Promoting the consumer voice : the role of Healthwatch Salford's Enter and View programme. Nursing and Residential Care, 21(11), 621-624. https://doi.org/10.12968/nrec.2019.21.11.621

The daily business of running a care home means that, outside of regulatory inspections, assessing and improving the user experience can often be forgotten. Healthwatch Salford discuss their process of gaining constructive feedback using their innova... Read More about Promoting the consumer voice : the role of Healthwatch Salford's Enter and View programme.

Interrogating the prevention approach of the Housing (Wales) Act 2014 for people with mental health needs who are homeless (2019)
Journal Article
Ahmed, A., Rogers, M., Wilding, M., Gibbons, A., Jones, K., & Madoc Jones, I. (2020). Interrogating the prevention approach of the Housing (Wales) Act 2014 for people with mental health needs who are homeless. Social Policy and Society, 19(1), 109-120. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474746419000319

Rates of homelessness and poor mental health present significant challenges across the globe. In this article, we explore how these intersecting issues have been addressed in Wales through Part 2 of the Housing (Wales) Act 2014 through a paradigm shi... Read More about Interrogating the prevention approach of the Housing (Wales) Act 2014 for people with mental health needs who are homeless.

Communities as ‘renewable energy’ for health care services? A multi-methods study into the form, scale, and role of voluntary support for community hospitals in England (2019)
Journal Article
Paine, A., Kamerade-Hanta, D., Mohan, J., & Davidson, D. (2019). Communities as ‘renewable energy’ for health care services? A multi-methods study into the form, scale, and role of voluntary support for community hospitals in England. BMJ Open, 9(10), https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-030243

Objective
To examine the forms, scale and role of community and voluntary support for community hospitals in England.
Design
A multi-methods study. Quantitative analysis of Charity Commission data on levels of volunteering and voluntary income fo... Read More about Communities as ‘renewable energy’ for health care services? A multi-methods study into the form, scale, and role of voluntary support for community hospitals in England.

Mental health, big data and research ethics : parity of esteem in mental health research from a UK perspective (2019)
Journal Article
Morton, J., & O'Reilly, M. (2019). Mental health, big data and research ethics : parity of esteem in mental health research from a UK perspective. Clinical Ethics, 14(4), 165-172. https://doi.org/10.1177/1477750919876243

Central to ethical debates in contemporary mental health research are the rhetoric of parity of esteem, challenges underpinned by the social construct of vulnerability, and the tendency to homogenise the population diagnosed with mental health condit... Read More about Mental health, big data and research ethics : parity of esteem in mental health research from a UK perspective.

‘It's our pleasure, we count cars here’ : an exploration of the ‘neighbourhood-based connections’ for people living alone with dementia (2019)
Journal Article
Odzakovic, E., Kullberg, A., Hellström, I., Clark, A., Campbell, S., Manji, K., …Ward, R. (2021). ‘It's our pleasure, we count cars here’ : an exploration of the ‘neighbourhood-based connections’ for people living alone with dementia. Ageing and society, 41(3), 645-670. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X19001259

The extent of social isolation experienced by people living with dementia who reside in the community has been well acknowledged, yet little is known about how people living alone with dementia maintain neighbourhood-based connections. The purpose of... Read More about ‘It's our pleasure, we count cars here’ : an exploration of the ‘neighbourhood-based connections’ for people living alone with dementia.

A family-care rubric : developing family care and communication skills using simulation (2019)
Journal Article
Van Gelderen, S., Engebretson, A., Miller, A., Hancock, A., Ehmke, S., Swan, M., & Garrow, A. (2019). A family-care rubric : developing family care and communication skills using simulation. Clinical Simulation in Nursing, 36, 47-58. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecns.2019.07.006

Background:
A gap in the literature identified a lack of evidence-based tools that frame feedback and
evaluate nursing actions. The Van Gelderen Family Care Rubric (VGFCR) was developed to enhance
learning experiences and skill development of fam... Read More about A family-care rubric : developing family care and communication skills using simulation.

‘Bring yourself to work’ : rewriting the feeling rules in ‘personalised’ social work (2019)
Journal Article
Whitaker, E. (2019). ‘Bring yourself to work’ : rewriting the feeling rules in ‘personalised’ social work. Journal of Organizational Ethnography, 8(3), 325-338. https://doi.org/10.1108/JOE-06-2018-0030

Purpose: This paper explores how feeling rules are constructed, experienced and contested within personalised social work practice. It considers how organisations seek to shape practitioners towards certain forms of emotional display in increasingly... Read More about ‘Bring yourself to work’ : rewriting the feeling rules in ‘personalised’ social work.

Moving towards self-actualization : a trauma-informed and needs-focused approach to the mental health needs of survivors of commercial child sexual exploitation (2019)
Journal Article
Laser-Maira, J., Peach, D., & Hounmenou, C. (2019). Moving towards self-actualization : a trauma-informed and needs-focused approach to the mental health needs of survivors of commercial child sexual exploitation. International Journal of Social Work, 6(2), 27. https://doi.org/10.5296/ijsw.v6i2.15198

There is increasing evidence that children who are subject to commercial child sexual exploitation (CCSE) are likely to experience complex mental health needs. Failure to address the trauma experienced by victims of CCSE can lead to suicide attempts,... Read More about Moving towards self-actualization : a trauma-informed and needs-focused approach to the mental health needs of survivors of commercial child sexual exploitation.

A survey examining the use of mechanical insufflation-exsufflation on adult intensive care units across the UK (2019)
Journal Article
adult intensive care units across the UK. Journal of the Intensive Care Society, 21(4), 283-289. https://doi.org/10.1177/1751143719870121

Introduction: Despite potential benefits, it is not known how widely physiotherapists use mechanical insufflation exsufflation devices on UK adult intensive care units. This survey aimed to describe mechanical insufflation-exsufflation
use in UK adu... Read More about A survey examining the use of mechanical insufflation-exsufflation on adult intensive care units across the UK.

Understanding the nature of mental health nursing within CAMHS PICU: 1. Identifying nursing interventions that contribute to the recovery journey of young people (2019)
Journal Article
Foster, C., & Smedley, K. (2019). Understanding the nature of mental health nursing within CAMHS PICU: 1. Identifying nursing interventions that contribute to the recovery journey of young people. Journal of Psychiatric Intensive Care, 15(2), 87-102. https://doi.org/10.20299/jpi.2019.012

Child and adolescent mental health services psychiatric intensive care units(CAMHS PICU) are a small, specialised, but important component of the portfolio of child and adolescent mental health service delivery in the UK. There has been no published... Read More about Understanding the nature of mental health nursing within CAMHS PICU: 1. Identifying nursing interventions that contribute to the recovery journey of young people.

Understanding the nature of mental health nursing within CAMHS PICU: 2. Staff experience and support needs (2019)
Journal Article
Foster, C., & Smedley, K. (2019). Understanding the nature of mental health nursing within CAMHS PICU: 2. Staff experience and support needs. Journal of Psychiatric Intensive Care, 15(2), 103-115. https://doi.org/10.20299/jpi.2019.013

In the UK and other western countries, child and adolescent care is increasingly understood as a distinct speciality. Internationally, inpatient units are the most widely used element of acute adolescent mental health services. Child and adolescent m... Read More about Understanding the nature of mental health nursing within CAMHS PICU: 2. Staff experience and support needs.

Victimization, crime propensity and deviance: a multinational test of general strain theory (2019)
Journal Article
Teijon Alcala, M., & Birkbeck, C. (2019). Victimization, crime propensity and deviance: a multinational test of general strain theory. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 35(4), 410-430. https://doi.org/10.1177/1043986219870941

General Strain Theory (GST) identifies victimization as one of the strains most strongly related to crime which, like other sources of strain, is moderated by individual and social factors. Recently, Agnew (2013) extended the theorization of coping s... Read More about Victimization, crime propensity and deviance: a multinational test of general strain theory.

Social prescribing in cardiology : rediscovering the nature of and within us (2019)
Journal Article
Howarth, M., & Lister, C. (2019). Social prescribing in cardiology : rediscovering the nature of and within us. British Journal of Cardiac Nursing, 14(8), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjca.2019.0036

Personalised care is integral to the delivery of the NHSE Long Term Plan. Enabling choice and supporting patients to make decisions predicated on what matters to them, rather than what is the matter with them, is a fundamental part of the NHS vision.... Read More about Social prescribing in cardiology : rediscovering the nature of and within us.

Nutritional status deterioration occurs frequently during children's ICU stay (2019)
Journal Article
Valla, F., Baudin, F., Gaillard Le Roux, B., Ford-Chessel, C., Gervet, E., Giraud, C., …Tume, L. (2019). Nutritional status deterioration occurs frequently during children's ICU stay. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, 20(8), 714-721. https://doi.org/10.1097/PCC.0000000000001979

OBJECTIVES:
Malnutrition and faltering growth at PICU admission have been related to suboptimal outcomes. However, little is known about nutritional status deterioration during PICU stay, as critical illness is characterized by a profound and comple... Read More about Nutritional status deterioration occurs frequently during children's ICU stay.

Gastric residual volume measurement in U.K. PICUs: a survey of practice* (2019)
Journal Article
U.K. PICUs: a survey of practice*. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, 20(8), 707-713. https://doi.org/10.1097/PCC.0000000000001944

Objectives: Despite little evidence, the practice of routine measurement
of gastric residual volume to guide both the initiation and
delivery of enteral feeding in PICUs is widespread internationally.
In light of increased scrutiny of the evidence... Read More about Gastric residual volume measurement in U.K. PICUs: a survey of practice*.

Promoting transition resilience through personal development planning : an evaluation of the perspectives of preparation for transition of final year undergraduate nursing students (2019)
Journal Article
Darvill, A., & Leigh, J. (2019). Promoting transition resilience through personal development planning : an evaluation of the perspectives of preparation for transition of final year undergraduate nursing students. International journal of practice-based learning in health and social care, 7(1), 47-63. https://doi.org/10.18552/ijpblhsc.v7i1.513

The experience of transition is of concern to newly registered nurses entering the world of work, and to those seeking to prepare, recruit and retain such nurses. This paper evaluates a final year preparation for role transition module from the persp... Read More about Promoting transition resilience through personal development planning : an evaluation of the perspectives of preparation for transition of final year undergraduate nursing students.

Clients' perceptions of unhelpful factors in CBT in IAPT serving a deprived area of the UK (2019)
Journal Article
Omylinska‐Thurston, J., McMeekin, A., Walton, P., & Proctor, G. (2019). Clients' perceptions of unhelpful factors in CBT in IAPT serving a deprived area of the UK. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 19(4), 455-464. https://doi.org/10.1002/capr.12249

Aim/Purpose: Improving access to psychological therapies (IAPT) is a main provider of psychological therapy for adults within the NHS. NHS Digital (2016) reported the dropout rate in IAPT to be as high as 43%. Proctor (2014) found that unhelpful fact... Read More about Clients' perceptions of unhelpful factors in CBT in IAPT serving a deprived area of the UK.

Attitudes and beliefs regarding organ donation among South Asian people in the UK (2019)
Journal Article
Pradeep, A., Ormandy, P., Augustine, T., Randhawa, G., & Whitling, M. (2019). Attitudes and beliefs regarding organ donation among South Asian people in the UK. Journal of Kidney Care, 4(4), 184-198. https://doi.org/10.12968/jokc.2019.4.4.184

There is an acute shortage of organ donors in the UK, specifically among South Asian communities. This article reports the findings from the largest ever study undertaken among South Asian people in the UK that seeks to explore attitudes and beliefs... Read More about Attitudes and beliefs regarding organ donation among South Asian people in the UK.