Browsing AECC University College Research Collection by Title
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Human rights in end-of-life-care: Implementation and early evaluation of a Sue Ryder training programme
(European Journal of Palliative Care, 2018)A human rights approach to end-of-life care supports health and social care practitioners in making balanced, and often difficult, decisions with people at the end of life, in order to make personalised care a reality. The ... -
“I just googled and read everything”: Exploring breast cancer survivors’ use of the internet to find information on complementary medicine
(Complementary Therapies in Medicine, 2017)Objective: Breast cancer survivors often turn to the internet as an information resource when deciding whether to use complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) but their use of online CAM-related resources is poorly ... -
Impact of contextual factors on patient outcomes following conservative low back pain treatment: systematic review
(Chiropractic & Manual Therapies, 2022)Background and objective Chronic low back pain is pervasive, societally impactful, and current treatments only provide moderate relief. Exploring whether therapeutic elements, either unrecognised or perceived as implicit ... -
The impact of patient-reported outcome measures in clinical practice for pain: a systematic review
(Quality of Life Research, 2017)Purpose: Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) have increasingly been incorporated into clinical practice. Research suggests that PROMs could be viewed as active components of complex interventions and may affect ... -
Improvement of oxygen-uptake kinetics and cycling performance with combined prior exercise and fast start
(International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance, 2018)Purpose: To investigate whether oxygen-uptake (V˙ O2) kinetics and simulated 4-km cycling performance are synergistically improved by prior “priming” exercise and an all-out starting strategy. Methods: Nine men completed ... -
An in-vivo study exploring correlations between early-to-moderate disc degeneration and flexion mobility in the lumbar spine
(European Spine Journal, 2020)Purpose: Early disc degeneration (DD) has been thought to be associated with loss of spine stability. However, before this can be understood in relation to back pain, it is necessary to know the relationship between DD and ... -
Individualised placement support as an employment intervention for individuals with chronic pain: a qualitative exploration of stakeholder views
(British Journal of General Practice Open (BJGP Open), 2020)Background: Individualised Placement and Support (IPS) is a tailored, client-centred employment intervention for people with chronic health conditions. It involves the integration of vocational advisers within health teams ... -
Influence of year-on-year performance on final degree classification in a chiropractic master's degree program
(The Journal of Chiropractic Education, 2016)Objective: We explored if any predictors of success could be identified from end-of-year grades in a chiropractic master's program and whether these grades could predict final-year grade performance and year-on-year ... -
Inspiring and motivating learners in Higher Education: The staff perspective
(Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Education, 2015)There is currently a lack of research exploring strategies to inspire and motivate students. As a result, the current study explored the perceptions of academic staff regarding what being inspirational meant, its sources, ... -
International consensus statement on the psychosocial and policy-related approaches to mental health awareness programmes in sport
(BMJ Open Sport and Exercise Medicine, 2019)Background: Research focused on mental health in sport has revealed a need to develop evidence-supported mental health practices that are sensitive to sport culture, particularly for non-elite athletes. A consensus statement ... -
Intrasubject repeatability of in vivo intervertebral motion parameters using quantitative fluoroscopy
(European Spine Journal, 2019)Purpose: In vivo quantification of intervertebral motion through imaging has progressed to a point where biomarkers for low back pain are emerging. This makes possible deeper study of the condition’s biometrics. However, ... -
Investigator analytic repeatability of two new intervertebral motion biomarkers for chronic, nonspecific low back pain in a cohort of healthy controls
(Chiropractic and Manual Therapies, 2020)Background: Understanding the mechanisms underlying chronic, nonspecific low back pain (CNSLBP) is essential to advance personalized care and identify the most appropriate intervention. Recently, two intervertebral motion ... -
Isolated lumbar extension resistance training improves strength, pain, and disability, but not spinal height or shrinkage ("creep") in participants with chronic low back pain
(Cartilage, 2020)Objective. Loss of disc height is commonly associated with chronic low back pain (CLBP). Isolated lumbar extension (ILEX) exercise for the lumbar extensors is recommended to treat CLBP and is suggested such exercise might ... -
Leadership and capacity building in chiropractic research: Report from the first CARL cohort
(Chiropractic Manual Therapies, 2021)The Chiropractic Academy for Research Leadership (CARL) was formed in 2016 in response to a need for a global network of early career researchers and leaders in the chiropractic profession. Thirteen fellows were accepted ... -
Leadership and capacity building in international chiropractic research: introducing the chiropractic academy for research leadership (CARL)
(Chiropractic and Manual Therapies, 2018)In an evidence-based health care environment, healthcare professions require a sustainable research culture to remain relevant. At present however, there is not a mature research culture across the chiropractic profession ... -
Leading together towards a stronger ‘us’: An experimental test of the effectiveness of the 5R Shared Leadership Program (5RS) in basketball teams
(Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, 2020)Objectives Leadership has been suggested to be a key factor in gaining a competitive advantage as a team, with shared leadership being a better predictor of team functioning than vertical leadership. Although the benefits ... -
Lifestyle and health behaviour change in traditional acupuncture practice: A systematic critical interpretive synthesis
(The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 2021)Introduction: Behavioral factors are the leading cause of ill-health worldwide. Diet, physical activity, smoking, and alcohol consumption are the focus of public health targets on promotion of healthy behavior. The science ... -
Lifestyle behaviors and suicide-related behaviors in adolescents: Cross-sectional study using the 2019 YRBS data
(Frontiers in Public Health, 2021)Objective: The purpose of this research was to investigate the prevalence of lifestyle behaviors and suicide-related behaviors and the association between them using a nationally representative sample of adolescents from ... -
Linking the Bournemouth Questionnaire for low back pain to the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health
(Disability and Rehabilitation, 2016)Purpose: Understanding the content of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) questionnaires can facilitate comparison and selection of the most appropriate tool in the assessment of patients with low back pain. The ... -
Low back pain: Identifying sub-groups, clinical prediction rules and measuring results
(Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice, 2018)Low back pain is a complex, multifactorial health problem with huge socioeconomic impact. The purpose of this brief review was to reconsider the use of the biopsychosocial model as a basis for subgrouping cases to support ...
