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A qualitative exploration of how midwives' and obstetricians' perception of risk affects care practices for low-risk women and normal birth. (2017)
Journal Article
HEALY, S., HUMPHREYS, E. and KENNEDY, C. 2017. A qualitative exploration of how midwives' and obstetricians' perception of risk affects care practices for low-risk women and normal birth. Women and birth [online], 30(5), pages 367-375. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wombi.2017.02.005

Background: Maternity care is facing increasing intervention and iatrogenic morbidity rates. This can be attributed, in part, to higher-risk maternity populations, but also to a risk culture in which birth is increasingly seen as abnormal. Technology... Read More about A qualitative exploration of how midwives' and obstetricians' perception of risk affects care practices for low-risk women and normal birth..

The views of non-medical prescribing students and medical mentors on interprofessional competency assessment: a qualitative exploration. (2017)
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AFSETH, J.D. and PATERSON, R.E. 2017. The views of non-medical prescribing students and medical mentors on interprofessional competency assessment: a qualitative exploration. Nurse education today [online], 52, pages 103-108. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2017.02.022

The United Kingdom (UK) is one of the least restrictive countries in terms of scope of prescribing practice for non-medical prescribers and is a rapidly expanding group of professionals. In the United Kingdom nurse prescribers are assessed in practic... Read More about The views of non-medical prescribing students and medical mentors on interprofessional competency assessment: a qualitative exploration..

Care homes: the developing ideology of a homelike place to live. (2017)
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FLEMING, A., KYDD, A. and STEWART, S. 2017. Care homes: the developing ideology of a homelike place to live. Maturitas [online], 99, pages 92-97. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.maturitas.2017.02.013

This paper reports on part of a doctoral study which explored stakeholder perceptions of the importance of a homelike environment in a care home and which factors contributed to this. The changes in institutional care for older people have evolved fr... Read More about Care homes: the developing ideology of a homelike place to live..

Chronic pain, depression and cardiovascular disease linked through a shared genetic predisposition: analysis of a family-based cohort and twin study. (2017)
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VAN HECKE, O., HOCKING, L.J., TORRANCE, N., CAMPBELL, A., PADMANABHAN, S., PORTEOUS, D.J., MCINTOSH, A.M., BURRI, A.V., TANAKA, H., WILLIAMS, F.M.K. and SMITH, B.H. 2017. Chronic pain, depression and cardiovascular disease linked through a shared genetic predisposition: analysis of a family-based cohort and twin study. PLoS ONE [online], 12(2), article ID e0170653. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0170653

Depression and chronic pain are the two most important causes of disability. They occur together more frequently than expected and both conditions have been shown to be co-morbid with cardiovascular disease. Although shared socio-demographic risk fac... Read More about Chronic pain, depression and cardiovascular disease linked through a shared genetic predisposition: analysis of a family-based cohort and twin study..

Offering relaxation techniques, promoting women's choices. (2017)
Journal Article
TABIB, M. 2017. Offering relaxation techniques, promoting women's choices. Practising midwife [online], 20(2), pages 1-4. Available from: https://www.all4maternity.com/next-time-series-reflections-offering-relaxation-techniques-promoting-womens-choices/

This article is part of the "What about next time? A series of reflections" occasional series of articles. In this article, Mo Tabib reflects on her experience as a midwife introducing relaxation techniques to a woman with a prolonged latent phase o... Read More about Offering relaxation techniques, promoting women's choices..

A thematic analysis of the experience of UK mental health nurses who have trained in Solution Focused Brief Therapy. (2017)
Journal Article
SMITH, S. and MACDUFF, C. 2017. A thematic analysis of the experience of UK mental health nurses who have trained in Solution Focused Brief Therapy. Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing [online], 24(2-3), pages 105-113. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/jpm.12365

Introduction - SFBT is a psychotherapeutic model that aims to 'build solutions' rather than 'solve problems'. It has evolved into a structured communication framework utilized across a range of disciplines, focusing on the future, as opposed to the p... Read More about A thematic analysis of the experience of UK mental health nurses who have trained in Solution Focused Brief Therapy..

Failure as learning: photovoice as methodology in research with marginalised young people. (2017)
Journal Article
GOMBERT, K., DOUGLAS, F., MCARDLE, K. and CARLISLE, S. 2017. Failure as learning: photovoice as methodology in research with marginalised young people. Excursions journal [online], 7(1): failure, pages 67-92. Available from: https://doi.org/10.20919/exs.7.2017.229

An unpublished pilot study at a charitable youth organisation in the North East of Scotland found that young people (aged 16 to 25) accommodated by the organisation consumed a diet high in sugar and low in levels of foods such as meat, fish, fruit, a... Read More about Failure as learning: photovoice as methodology in research with marginalised young people..

Development of a cross-cultural HPV community engagement model within Scotland. (2017)
Journal Article
CARNEGIE, E., WHITTAKER, A., BRUNTON, C.G., HOGG, R., KENNEDY, C., HILTON, S., HARDING, S., POLLOCK, K.G. and POW, J. 2017. Development of a cross-cultural HPV community engagement model within Scotland. Health education journal [online], 76(4), pages 398-410. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/0017896916685592

Objective: To examine cultural barriers and participant solutions regarding acceptance and uptake of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine from the perspective of Black African, White-Caribbean, Arab, Indian, Bangladeshi and Pakistani young people.... Read More about Development of a cross-cultural HPV community engagement model within Scotland..

Borderline personality disorder and the ethics of risk management: the action/consequences model. (2017)
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WARRENDER, D. 2018. Borderline personality disorder and the ethics of risk management: the action/consequences model. Nursing ethics [online], 25(7), pages 918-927. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/0969733016679467

Patients with borderline personality disorder are frequent users of inpatient mental health units, with inpatient crisis intervention often used based on the risk of suicide. However this can present an ethical dilemma for nursing and medical staff,... Read More about Borderline personality disorder and the ethics of risk management: the action/consequences model..

Process evaluation of the data-driven quality improvement in primary care (DQIP) trial: active and less active ingredients of a multi-component complex intervention to reduce high-risk primary care prescribing. (2017)
Journal Article
GRANT, A., DREISCHULTE, T. and GUTHRIE, B. 2017. Process evaluation of the data-driven quality improvement in primary care (DQIP) trial: active and less active ingredients of a multi-component complex intervention to reduce high-risk primary care prescribing. Implementation science [online], 12, article number 4. Available from https://doi.org/10.1186/s13012-016-0531-2

Background: - Two to 4% of emergency hospital admissions are caused by preventable adverse drug events. The estimated costs of such avoidable admissions in England were {pound}530 million in 2015. The data-driven quality improvement in primary care (... Read More about Process evaluation of the data-driven quality improvement in primary care (DQIP) trial: active and less active ingredients of a multi-component complex intervention to reduce high-risk primary care prescribing..