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View article: The Impact of Patient-Generated Health Data From Mobile Health Technologies on Health Care Management and Clinical Decision-Making: Narrative Scoping Review
The Impact of Patient-Generated Health Data From Mobile Health Technologies on Health Care Management and Clinical Decision-Making: Narrative Scoping Review Open
Background Long-term health conditions and multimorbidity are increasing globally, placing an unsustainable pressure on health care systems. Mobile health (mHealth) technologies enable the collection of patient-generated health data outsid…
View article: Extended reality and healthcare practitioner well-being: scoping review
Extended reality and healthcare practitioner well-being: scoping review Open
Background Extended reality may offer a convenient and effective method of increasing well-being within the wider healthcare workforce and particularly for those working in the mental health sector who are subject to high levels of stress …
View article: Collecting and Sharing Person-Centered AI Clinical Summaries Across Frailty Services Provided by the National Health Service and Voluntary, Community, and Social Enterprise: Protocol for a Co-Design and Feasibility Study
Collecting and Sharing Person-Centered AI Clinical Summaries Across Frailty Services Provided by the National Health Service and Voluntary, Community, and Social Enterprise: Protocol for a Co-Design and Feasibility Study Open
Background Due to its association with multimorbidity, frailty gives rise to multidimensional needs for different services. Too often, patient preferences and service encounter information are not adequately shared. Objective This developm…
View article: Implementing "What Matters to You" in a Geriatric Care Pathway – a Researcher-In-Residence study:
Implementing "What Matters to You" in a Geriatric Care Pathway – a Researcher-In-Residence study: Open
Background To help people with frailty develop adaptive strategies to maintain their sense of identity, integrity, and wellbeing, health and care services must respect what is important to them. Training healthcare practitioners to ask fra…
View article: Understanding how volunteer companionship impacts those during the end of life: A realist evaluation
Understanding how volunteer companionship impacts those during the end of life: A realist evaluation Open
Volunteers are a popular unpaid support role in end of life care yet how accompaniment influences the dying is underdeveloped. This study examined how companionship works, for whom, in what circumstances and why. Initial realist ideas were…
View article: Breaking boundaries: a model of student-led knowledge exchange for higher education
Breaking boundaries: a model of student-led knowledge exchange for higher education Open
Knowledge exchange (KE) is increasingly important in higher education internationally, yet relatively little attention has been paid to it as a pedagogic opportunity for students. This paper draws on 26 interviews with stakeholders within …
View article: Reflecting on Reflexivity in Realist Evaluation: A Call to Action
Reflecting on Reflexivity in Realist Evaluation: A Call to Action Open
Realist evaluation is increasingly utilised across disciplines due to the value of identifying which mechanisms may explain how, and why, particular outcomes are generated in specific contexts. In theory, realist evaluation provides a tang…
View article: The implementation of behaviour change practices in Physical Activity Referral Schemes: a narrative review
The implementation of behaviour change practices in Physical Activity Referral Schemes: a narrative review Open
Background: Physical activity referral schemes have been used extensively as one pathway to support behaviour change in people with long term conditions. Best practice guidance, across countries, recommend that schemes use behaviour change…
View article: O.2.1-3 Exercise Referral Schemes in the UK: mapping provision and aims
O.2.1-3 Exercise Referral Schemes in the UK: mapping provision and aims Open
Purpose A common physical activity intervention in the UK is that of an Exercise Referral Scheme (ERS) where a health professional is able to signpost a service user towards local physical activity opportunities, often in a local sports ce…
View article: Breaking Down Hierarchies in Higher Education: Towards a Pedagogy of Knowledge Exchange
Breaking Down Hierarchies in Higher Education: Towards a Pedagogy of Knowledge Exchange Open
Knowledge exchange (KE) is increasingly important in higher education internationally, yet relatively little attention has been paid to it as a pedagogic opportunity for students. This paper draws on 26 interviews with stakeholders within …
View article: Inventing the dark Web
Inventing the dark Web Open
This paper examines how the deep Web, i.e., Web sites that are not indexed and thus are not accessible through Web search engines, was described and represented in British newspapers. Through an extensive content analysis conducted on 833 …
View article: P-18 End of life companionship: equipping volunteers with basic skills to offer support in the community
P-18 End of life companionship: equipping volunteers with basic skills to offer support in the community Open
Background: The value of volunteer end-of-life companions has been recognised in hospitals and compassionate neighbourhood schemes (Hall & Meiton, 2019. BMJ Support Palliat Care. 9:229; Wilson, Justice, Thomas, et al., 2005. Health Serv Ma…
View article: Where next for the design, delivery, and evaluation of community-based physical activity prescription? Emerging lessons from the United Kingdom
Where next for the design, delivery, and evaluation of community-based physical activity prescription? Emerging lessons from the United Kingdom Open
Despite widespread use, community-based physical activity prescription is controversial. Data limitations have resulted in a lack of clarity about what works, under what circumstances, and for whom, reflected in conservative policy recomme…
View article: Person-Centered Health Promotion: Learning from 10 Years of Practice within Long Term Conditions
Person-Centered Health Promotion: Learning from 10 Years of Practice within Long Term Conditions Open
The utilization of person-centered care is highlighted as essential for health promotion, yet implementation has been inconsistent and multiple issues remain. There is a dearth of applied research exploring the facets of successful impleme…
View article: Behaviour Change Practices in Exercise Referral Schemes: Developing Realist Programme Theory of Implementation.
Behaviour Change Practices in Exercise Referral Schemes: Developing Realist Programme Theory of Implementation. Open
Background: Exercise Referral Schemes have been delivered worldwide to augment physical activity levels in sedentary patients with a range of health issues, despite their utility being questioned. Understanding the implementation mechanism…
View article: Person Centered Health Promotion: Learning from 10 Years of Practice Within Long Term Conditions
Person Centered Health Promotion: Learning from 10 Years of Practice Within Long Term Conditions Open
The utilization of person centered care is highlighted as essential for health promotion, yet implementation has been inconsistent and multiple issues remain. There is a dearth of applied re-search exploring the facets of successful implem…
View article: Ten questions concerning the implications of carpet on indoor chemistry and microbiology
Ten questions concerning the implications of carpet on indoor chemistry and microbiology Open
Carpet and rugs currently represent about half of the United States flooring market and offer many benefits as a flooring type. How carpets influence our exposure to both microorganisms and chemicals in indoor environments has important he…