A5062814340- Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
- Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Sports injuries and prevention
- Physical Activity and Health
- COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
- Workplace Health and Well-being
- Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports
- SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Economic and Financial Impacts of Cancer
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue
- Healthcare cost, quality, practices
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
- Influenza Virus Research Studies
- Sleep and Wakefulness Research
St George's, University of London
2016-2024
Public Health Agency of Canada
2024
Vitenparken
2010
Objective The first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic had a major impact on healthcare utilisation. aim this retrospective review was to quantify how utilisation non-COVID care changed during time so as gain insight and inform planning future services potential second subsequent waves. Methods analysis A longitudinal design used analyse anonymous private UK health insurer datasets covering period January 2018 August 2020. Taken measure in UK, incidence rates claims broken down by service area...
Routine childhood vaccination is a crucial component of public health in Canada and worldwide. To facilitate catch-up from the global decline routine caused by COVID-19 pandemic, toward ongoing pursuit coverage goals, programs must understand barriers to vaccine access imposed or exacerbated pandemic. We conducted regionally representative online survey January 2023 including 2036 Canadian parents with children under age 18. used COM-B model behaviour examine factors influencing timeliness...
Chronic illness is the leading cause of death in UK and worldwide. Psychological therapies to support self-management have been shown play an important role helping those with chronic cope; more recently, therapeutic benefits mindfulness approaches become evident for managing depression other distressing emotions. Brief guided interventions, are convenient than intensive traditional programmes requiring regular attendance but less explored. This study assessed views on a brief (i.e., 10 min)...
Abstract A pilot-randomised controlled trial (RCT) examined the effects of a brief mindfulness-based intervention (MBI) on persistent pain patients and assessed feasibility conducting definitive RCT. (15 min) mindfulness body-scan audio was compared with an active control administered in clinic then used independently over 1 month. Immediate were measures severity, distraction distress. Assessments at baseline, week month included severity interference, mood, pain-catastrophizing,...
The burden of chronic pain is a major challenge, impacting the quality life patients. Intensive programmes mindfulness-based therapy can help patients to cope with but be time consuming and require trained specialist implement. self-management model care now integral pain; home-based interventions very acceptable, making compelling argument for investigating brief, interventions. aim this study two-fold: assess immediate effects brief self-help mindfulness intervention coping feasibility...
Health risk assessments (HRA) are used by many organisations as a basis for developing relevant and targeted employee health well-being interventions. However, HRA's have western-centric focus therefore it is unclear whether the results can be directly extrapolated to those from non-western countries. More information regarding differences in associations between country status risks needed along with more global perspective of factors overall. Therefore we aimed i) quantify compare number...
Background The application of digital health interventions is widespread and many employers are implementing employee e-health programs. Intended to enhance productivity by increasing wellbeing, workplace often lack evidence effectiveness have low rates retention. Use the person-based approach (PBA) one solution, which offers a systematic framework for developing effective interventions. This paper describes PBA development ‘Make small change’ (Cigna MSC™), an online behaviour change system...
Background Physical activity (PA) is recommended for people with persistent musculoskeletal pain due to its benefits on symptoms, function and general health. This systematic review aimed identify the barriers facilitators PA categorise these using Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF). It also prominence of each TDF domain similarities differences between included conditions types.