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Considering skin-to-muscle depth for successful intramuscular injections in an increasingly obese population Open
Background: Intramuscular (IM) injection practice is an essential nursing skill. Current practice relies on clinical judgement to determine needle length (unless specified in the medicine's product licence). Obesity is increasing in the gl…
The Health Improvement Profile for people with severe mental illness: Feasibility of a secondary analysis to make international comparisons Open
Accessible Summary What is already known about this topic? Individuals with severe mental illness (SMI) have elevated risks for physical health problems and low screening rates. No previous studies have compared the physical health promoti…
Service user and community clinician design of a partially virtual diabetic service improves access to care and education and reduces amputation incidence Open
Introduction Design of an integrated diabetes service based on needs of service users (persons living with diabetes) and community clinicians in a semirural low-income health district of the UK. Research design and methods One hundred and …
Nurse-Facilitated Health Checks for Persons With Severe Mental Illness: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial Open
Nurses who had volunteered for a clinical trial administered health checks only to a minority of participating patients, suggesting that it may not be feasible to undertake such lengthy structured health checks in routine practice.
Chinese Health Improvement Profile for people with severe mental illness: A cluster‐randomized, controlled trial Open
The aim of the present study was to establish the feasibility of conducting a full‐scale trial and to estimate the preliminary effect of a Chinese Health Improvement Profile ( CHIP ) intervention on self‐reported physical well‐being of peo…
Effectiveness of health checks to improve the physical health of people with severe mental illness in secondary care: A single blind cluster randomised controlled trial Open
Introduction Annual monitoring of physical health of people with severe mental illness (SMI) in primary or secondary care is recommended in England. Objective The SMI Health Improvement Profile (HIP) was developed to target physical well-b…
Refocusing on physical health: Community psychiatric nurses’ perceptions of using enhanced health checks for people with severe mental illness Open
In the present qualitative, descriptive study, we explored Hong Kong community psychiatric nurses’ (CPN) perceptions of using comprehensive physical health checks for service users diagnosed with severe mental illness (SMI). Research inter…