Health and Risk Management

Lights4Violence: a quasi-experimental educational intervention in six European countries to promote positive relationships among adolescents.

Vives-Cases, C.; Davó-Blanes, M.C.; Ferrer-Cascales, R.; Sanz-Barbero, B.; Albaladejo-Blázquez, N.; Sánchez-San Segundo, M.; Lillo-Crespo, M.; Bowes, Nicola; Neves, S.; Mocanu, V.; Carausu, E.M. (Springer Nature, 2019-04-08)

Background Preventing intimate partner violence or dating violence (DV) among adolescents is a public health priority due to its magnitude and damaging short and long-term consequences for adolescent and adult health. In ...

Negative schizotypy is associated with impaired episodic but not semantic coding in a conditional learning task

Watt, Andrew; Skillicorn, Deiniol (Taylor and Francis, 2019-06-11)

Context processing deficits associated with negative schizotypy may reflect variation in semantic or episodic declarative coding. Healthy volunteers (n = 166) were grouped on the basis of their introvertive anhedonia and ...

May Measurement Month 2018: a pragmatic global screening campaign to raise awareness of blood pressure by the International Society of Hypertension

Beaney, T.; Burrell, L.M.; Castillo, R.R.; Charchar, F.J.; Cro, S.; Damasceno, A.; Kruger, R.; Nilsson, P.M.; Prabhakaran, D.; Ramirez, A.J.; Schlaich, M.P.; Schutte, A.; Tomaszewski, M.; Touyz, R.; Wang, J.-G.; Weber, M.; Poulter, N.; the MMM Investigators; McDonnell, Barry (Oxford University Press, 2019-05-01)

Aims Raised blood pressure (BP) is the biggest contributor to mortality and disease burden worldwide and fewer than half of those with hypertension are aware of it. May Measurement Month (MMM) is a global campaign set up ...

Investigating the effectiveness of theory-based interventions for improving treatment adherence of patients with type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A systematic review of Randomised Controlled Clinical Trials

Menti, Despoina; Limbert, Caroline; Lyrakos, Georgios (Edizioni FS, 2019-05-30)

Introduction: Theory can enhance the effectiveness of interventions designed to change health-related behaviours, however, there is a significant lack of such interventions to improve treatment adherence of Type 2 Diabetes ...

Comparison of gait between healthy participants and persons with spinal cord injury when using the advanced reciprocating gait orthosis

Arazpour, Mokhtar; Joghtaei, Mahmoud; Bahramizadeh, Mahmood; Ahmadi Bani, Monireh; Hutchins, Stephen W.; Curran, Sarah; Mousavi, Mohammad; Sahrifi, Guive; Mardani, Mohammad (SAGE, 2015-07-20)

Background: The advanced reciprocating gait orthosis (ARGO) has a rigid structure which provides restricted movement at the hip, knee, and ankle joints and incorporates a pelvic section with an extended section in the ...

A systematic review of the effect of foot orthoses and shoe characteristics on balance in healthy older subjects

Aboutorabi, Atefeh; Bahramizadeh, Mahmood; Fadayevatan, Reza; Farahmand, Farzam; Curran, Sarah; Hutchins, Stephen W. (SAGE, 2015-06-25)

Background: Foot orthoses are used to optimize lower extremity function and can improve postural stability by enhancing the afferent somatosensory feedback available to the central nervous system. Objective: The aim ...

Daily music exposure dose and hearing problems using personal listening devices in adolescents and young adults: A systematic review

Jiang, Wen; Zhao, Fei; Guderley, Nicola; Manchaiah, Vinaya (Taylor and Francis, 2016-01-15)

Objective: This systematic review aimed to explore the evidence on whether the preferred listening levels (PLLs) and durations of music listening through personal listening devices (PLDs) in adolescents and young adults ...

Aortic Pulse Wave Velocity as a Measure of Cardiovascular Risk in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Two-Year Follow-Up Data from the ARCADE Study

Gale, Nichola; Albarrati, Ali; Munnery, Margaret; McDonnell, Barry; Benson, Victoria; Tal-Singer, Ruth; Cockcroft, John; Shale, Dennis (MDPI, 2019-04-02)

Background and objectives: Cardiovascular (CV) disease is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Patients with COPD have increased arterial stiffness, which may predict ...

May Measurement Month 2017: an analysis of blood pressure screening results from the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland—Europe

McDonnell, Barry; Keitley, James; Beaney, Thomas; Tay, Tricia; Brady, Adrian J.B.; Padmanabhan, Sandosh; Cockcroft, John; Dolan, Eamon; Heagerty, Anthony; Greenstein, Adam; Tomaszewski, Maciej; Schtte, Alta E.; Poulter, Neil R.; Cappuccio, Francesco P. (Oxford University Press, 2019-04-24)

Elevated blood pressure (BP), or hypertension, is a growing burden worldwide, leading to over 10 million deaths each year. May Measurement Month (MMM) is a global initiative aimed at raising awareness of high BP and acting ...

Young Adults’ Knowledge and Attitudes Regarding “Music” and “Loud Music” Across Countries: Applications of Social Representations Theory

Manchaiah, Vinaya; Zhao, Fei; Ratinaud, Pierre (Frontiers Media, 2019-06-25)

Exposure to loud music, especially by young people, has significantly increased in recent years as a result of (a) advancements in technology in terms of personal music players and smart mobile phones, and (b) streaming ...

Comparison of the efficacy of a neutral wrist splint and a wrist splint incorporating a lumbrical unit for the treatment of patients with carpal tunnel syndrome

Golriz, Batol; Ahmadi Bani, Monireh; Arazpour, Mokhtar; Bahramizadeh, Mahmood; Curran, Sarah; Pezhman Madani, Seyed; Hutchins, Stephen W. (SAGE, 2015-07-20)

Background: Different types of splints have been used as a conservative intervention to improve symptoms in patients with Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). Although a number of studies have been undertaken to compare different ...

Influence of heel design in an orthopedic shoe on ground reaction forces during walking

Daryabor, Aliyeh; Saeedi, Hassan; Ghasemi, Mohammad Sadegh; Yazdani, Meria; Kamali, Mohammad; Nabavi, Hoda; Curran, Sarah; Amini, Naser (SAGE, 2015-08-13)

BACKGROUND: One of the treatments prescribed for musculoskeletal patients is orthopedic shoe. The use of an orthopedic shoe is thought to produce a more typical ground reactive force pattern. OBJECTIVES: This study ...

Increased levels of soluble Receptor for Advanced Glycation End-Products (RAGE) are associated with a higher risk of mortality in frail older adults

Butcher, Lee; Carnicero, Jose; Gomez-Cabrero, David; Dartigues, Jean-Francois; Peres, Karine; Garcia-Garcia, Francisco Jose; Rodriguez-Mañas, Leocadio; Erusalimsky, Jorge (Oxford University Press, 2019-06-18)

Objective: To evaluate the relationship between serum levels of the soluble Receptor for Advanced Glycation End-products (sRAGE) and mortality in frail and non-frail older adults. Methods: We studied 691 subjects (141 ...