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The Point-of-Care Peritoneal Dialysis System Early Evaluation Study (POC-PDEE): A pilot proof-of-principal study of the Ellen Medical Devices Point-of-Care affordable peritoneal dialysis system. (2024)
Journal Article
Talbot, B., Davies, S., Burman, J., Ritchie, A., Snelling, P., Lynch, S., …Knight, J. (in press). The Point-of-Care Peritoneal Dialysis System Early Evaluation Study (POC-PDEE): A pilot proof-of-principal study of the Ellen Medical Devices Point-of-Care affordable peritoneal dialysis system. Peritoneal Dialysis International: Journal of the International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis, https://doi.org/10.1177/08968608231209850

The global unmet need for kidney replacement therapy means that millions of people die every year as they cannot afford treatment. Peritoneal dialysis (PD) offers comparable survival to haemodialysis and is often more affordable, but one barrier to i... Read More about The Point-of-Care Peritoneal Dialysis System Early Evaluation Study (POC-PDEE): A pilot proof-of-principal study of the Ellen Medical Devices Point-of-Care affordable peritoneal dialysis system..

The effectiveness of rural community health workers in improving health outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review. (2024)
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Kaseje, N., Ranganathan, M., Magadi, M., Oria, K., & Haines, A. (2024). The effectiveness of rural community health workers in improving health outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review. Global Health Action, 17(1), 2292385. https://doi.org/10.1080/16549716.2023.2292385

Rural community health workers [CHWs] play a critical role in improving health outcomes during non-pandemic times, but evidence on their effectiveness during the COVID-19 pandemic is limited. There is a need to focus on rural CHWs and rural health sy... Read More about The effectiveness of rural community health workers in improving health outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review..

Empowering women agriculture entrepreneurs: banks' role in achieving sustainable development goals (2024)
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Adefare, T., Adeola, O., Mogaji, E., Phong Nguyen, N., & Alaba Mogaji, S. (2024). Empowering women agriculture entrepreneurs: banks' role in achieving sustainable development goals. International Journal of Bank Marketing, https://doi.org/10.1108/IJBM-03-2023-0128

Purpose This research aims to explore the role of banks in supporting women agriculture entrepreneurs (WAEs) to contribute towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It focusses on the experiences of women entrepreneurs in the agric... Read More about Empowering women agriculture entrepreneurs: banks' role in achieving sustainable development goals.

The effectiveness of rural community health workers in improving health outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review (2024)
Journal Article
Kaseje, N., Ranganathan, M., Magadi, M., Oria, K., & Haines, A. (2024). The effectiveness of rural community health workers in improving health outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review. Global Health Action, 17(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/16549716.2023.2292385

Background: Rural community health workers (CHWs) play a critical role in improving health outcomes during non-pandemic times, but evidence on their effectiveness during the COVID-19 pandemic is limited. There is a need to focus on rural CHWs and rur... Read More about The effectiveness of rural community health workers in improving health outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review.

Humor Styles in the Classroom: Students’ Perceptions of Lecturer Humor (2024)
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James, L., & Fox, C. (2024). Humor Styles in the Classroom: Students’ Perceptions of Lecturer Humor. HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research, 37(1), 109-123. https://doi.org/10.1515/humor-2023-0061

Previous research has shown that humor can have an impact on people’s interpersonal relationships and the way they are perceived by others. In addition, it has been suggested that use of humor by teachers can be positive, but also negative. The aim o... Read More about Humor Styles in the Classroom: Students’ Perceptions of Lecturer Humor.

“With the Pandemic Everything Changes!”: Examining Welfare Reform and Conditionality Prior to and During the COVID-19 Pandemic Amongst NEET Experienced Young People (2024)
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Wrigley, L. (2024). “With the Pandemic Everything Changes!”: Examining Welfare Reform and Conditionality Prior to and During the COVID-19 Pandemic Amongst NEET Experienced Young People. Journal of Applied Youth Studies, 7(1), 9-25. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43151-023-00110-1

The purpose of this article is to critically explore pre-existing and continuing welfare conditionality of NEET (not in education, employment, or training) experienced young people in the UK. The article traces the policy history of NEET over the las... Read More about “With the Pandemic Everything Changes!”: Examining Welfare Reform and Conditionality Prior to and During the COVID-19 Pandemic Amongst NEET Experienced Young People.

High street banking on the app: branding strategies of traditionally-driven neobanks (2024)
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Mogaji, E., & Phong Nguyen, N. (2024). High street banking on the app: branding strategies of traditionally-driven neobanks. International Journal of Bank Marketing, https://doi.org/10.1108/IJBM-12-2022-0529

Purpose Several high street retail banks are extending their brands into digital banking through fully digital, app-only neobanks, which have been described as traditionally-driven neobanks (TDNBs). These TDNBs are considered a form of brand extensi... Read More about High street banking on the app: branding strategies of traditionally-driven neobanks.

Sodium bicarbonate and beta-alanine supplementation:Is combining both better than either alone? A systematic reviewand meta-analysis (2024)
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Curran-Bowen, T., Guedes da Silva, A., Barreto, G., Buckley, J., & Saunders, B. (2024). Sodium bicarbonate and beta-alanine supplementation:Is combining both better than either alone? A systematic reviewand meta-analysis. Biology of Sport, 41(3), 79-87. https://doi.org/10.5114/biolsport.2024.132997

This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to determine the effect of combined beta-alanine (BA) and sodium bicarbonate (SB) supplementation on exercise capacity and performance. Four databases (PubMed, SPORTDiscus, Web Of Science and MEDLINE) we... Read More about Sodium bicarbonate and beta-alanine supplementation:Is combining both better than either alone? A systematic reviewand meta-analysis.

Entrepreneurship in the Favela: Negotiating Precarity and Mental Health During Covid-19 (2024)
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Garcia, M. L. T., Spolander, G., Tomlins, R., Xavier Leal, F., Santana Borges, R. E., & Sukumar, A. (2024). Entrepreneurship in the Favela: Negotiating Precarity and Mental Health During Covid-19. Social Work in Public Health, 39(1), 48-61. https://doi.org/10.1080/19371918.2024.2316874

This paper aims to explore the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the health and mental health of necessary entrepreneurs in Brasilian favelas, the social problems they experienced and implications for public health social work. The study used struct... Read More about Entrepreneurship in the Favela: Negotiating Precarity and Mental Health During Covid-19.

Let Slip the Dogs of Commerce: The Ethics of Voluntary Corporate Withdrawal in Response to War (2024)
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Ó Laoghaire, T. (2024). Let Slip the Dogs of Commerce: The Ethics of Voluntary Corporate Withdrawal in Response to War. Journal of Ethics, 28(1), 27–52. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10892-023-09467-0

Over 1000 companies have either curtailed or else completely ceased operations in Russia as a response to its invasion of Ukraine, a mass corporate exodus of a speed and scale which we’ve never seen. While corporate withdrawal appears to have conside... Read More about Let Slip the Dogs of Commerce: The Ethics of Voluntary Corporate Withdrawal in Response to War.

Undertaking multi-centre randomised controlled trials in primary care: learnings and recommendations from the PULsE-AI trial researchers (2024)
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Pollock, K. G., Dickerson, C., Kainth, M., Lawton, S., Hurst, M., Sugrue, D. M., …Cohen, A. T. (in press). Undertaking multi-centre randomised controlled trials in primary care: learnings and recommendations from the PULsE-AI trial researchers. BMC Primary Care, 25(1), Article 7. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12875-023-02246-8

Background Conducting effective and translational research can be challenging and few trials undertake formal reflection exercises and disseminate learnings from them. Following completion of our multicentre randomised controlled trial, which was im... Read More about Undertaking multi-centre randomised controlled trials in primary care: learnings and recommendations from the PULsE-AI trial researchers.

Establishment of clinical exercise physiology as a regulated healthcare profession in the UK: a progress report. (2024)
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Jones, H., Crozier, A., George, K., Miller, G., Whyte, G. P., Rycroft, J., …Green, D. J. (2024). Establishment of clinical exercise physiology as a regulated healthcare profession in the UK: a progress report. BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine, 10(2), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjsem-2024-002033

In 2021, a 'call to action' was published to highlight the need for professional regulation of clinical exercise physiologists to be established within UK healthcare systems to ensure patient safety and align training and regulation with other health... Read More about Establishment of clinical exercise physiology as a regulated healthcare profession in the UK: a progress report..

Putting the Spotlight Back Onto the Flanker Task in Autism: Autistic Adults Show Increased Interference from Foils Compared with Non-autistic Adults. (2024)
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Poole, D., Grange, J. A., & Milne, E. (2024). Putting the Spotlight Back Onto the Flanker Task in Autism: Autistic Adults Show Increased Interference from Foils Compared with Non-autistic Adults. Journal of Cognition, 7(1), 46. https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.369

Autistic people may have a less focused spotlight of spatial selective attention than non-autistic people, meaning that distracting stimuli are less effectively suppressed. Previous studies using the flanker task have supported this suggestion with o... Read More about Putting the Spotlight Back Onto the Flanker Task in Autism: Autistic Adults Show Increased Interference from Foils Compared with Non-autistic Adults..

Investigating the findings of a Police workshop on the identification of skeletal material (2024)
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Goodison, G. A., & Aris, C. (2024). Investigating the findings of a Police workshop on the identification of skeletal material. Policing, 18, https://doi.org/10.1093/police/paae055

Emergency services professionals can encounter human remains on a frequent basis, therefore an ability to locate and recognize skeletal elements would be highly beneficial. While recognizing human bone has a clear utility to those involved in searchi... Read More about Investigating the findings of a Police workshop on the identification of skeletal material.

The impact of mental health and psychosocial support programmes on children and young people's mental health in the context of humanitarian emergencies in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis. (2024)
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Bangpan, M., Felix, L., Soliman, F., D'Souza, P., Jieman, A., & Dickson, K. (2024). The impact of mental health and psychosocial support programmes on children and young people's mental health in the context of humanitarian emergencies in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Global Mental Health, 11, Article e21. https://doi.org/10.1017/gmh.2024.17

Humanitarian emergencies pose a significant global health challenge for children and young people's mental and psychological health. This systematic review investigates the effectiveness of mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) programmes de... Read More about The impact of mental health and psychosocial support programmes on children and young people's mental health in the context of humanitarian emergencies in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis..

The symptom to assessment pathway for suspected chronic limb-threatening ischaemia (CLTI) affects quality of care: a process mapping exercise (2024)
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Atkins, E., Kellar, I., Birmpili, P., Waton, S., Li, Q., Johal, A. S., …Cromwell, D. A. (2024). The symptom to assessment pathway for suspected chronic limb-threatening ischaemia (CLTI) affects quality of care: a process mapping exercise. BMJ Open Quality, 13(1), e002605. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjoq-2023-002605

Background: Delays in the pathway from first symptom to treatment of chronic limb-threatening ischaemia (CLTI) are associated with worse mortality and limb loss outcomes. This study examined the processes used by vascular services to provide urgent c... Read More about The symptom to assessment pathway for suspected chronic limb-threatening ischaemia (CLTI) affects quality of care: a process mapping exercise.

Multiprofessional heart failure self-development framework. (2024)
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Forsyth, P., Young, S., Hughes, K., James, R., Oxley, C., Kelly, R., …Duckett, S. (2024). Multiprofessional heart failure self-development framework. Open Heart, 11(1), Article e002554. https://doi.org/10.1136/openhrt-2023-002554

Heart failure remains a key public health priority across the globe. The median age of people with heart failure admitted to hospital in the UK is 81 years old. Many such patients transcend the standard interventions that are well characterised and e... Read More about Multiprofessional heart failure self-development framework..

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on young people living with HIV in Lesotho: a qualitative study (2024)
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Shepherd, T., Robinson, M. E., Ramaema, M., Rakuoane, M., Moletsane, N., Mpholo, R., …Leigh, G. (2024). Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on young people living with HIV in Lesotho: a qualitative study. BMJ Public Health, 2(1), Article e000414. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjph-2023-000414

Introduction: There is a growing body of research evidencing the detrimental impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health and well-being of young people. This impact may be worse in low-resource settings, especially those in sub-Saharan Afric... Read More about Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on young people living with HIV in Lesotho: a qualitative study.