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Browsing 01 University of Plymouth Research Outputs by Subject "Young Adult"
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5th National Audit Project (NAP5) on accidental awareness during general anaesthesia: summary of main findings and risk factors.
(England, 2014-10)We present the main findings of the 5th National Audit Project (NAP5) on accidental awareness during general anaesthesia (AAGA). Incidences were estimated using reports of accidental awareness as the numerator, and a ... -
Achieving valid patient-reported outcomes measurement: a lesson from fatigue in multiple sclerosis.
(England, 2013-11)BACKGROUND: The increasing influence of patient-reported outcome (PRO) measurement instruments indicates their scrutiny has never been more crucial. Above all, PRO instruments should be valid: shown to assess what they ... -
Amygdala reactivity in ethnic minorities and its relationship to the social environment: an fMRI study.
(England, 2018-09)BACKGROUND: Ethnic minority individuals have an increased risk of developing a psychotic disorder, particularly if they live in areas of ethnic segregation, or low own group ethnic density. The neurobiological mechanisms ... -
Attention deployment during memorizing and executing complex instructions.
(Germany, 2011-10)We investigated the mental rehearsal of complex action instructions by recording spontaneous eye movements of healthy adults as they looked at objects on a monitor. Participants heard consecutive instructions, each of the ... -
Attention, predictive learning, and the inverse base-rate effect: evidence from event-related potentials.
(United States, 2014-02-15)We report the first electrophysiological investigation of the inverse base-rate effect (IBRE), a robust non-rational bias in predictive learning. In the IBRE, participants learn that one pair of symptoms (AB) predicts a ... -
An attentional control task reduces intrusive thoughts about smoking.
(England, 2012-04)INTRODUCTION: Attentional control tasks such as body scanning and following isometric exercise instructions have been shown to reduce smoking cravings, apparently by reducing stress (Ussher, M., Cropley, M., Playle, S., ... -
The burden of revision sinonasal surgery in the UK-data from the Chronic Rhinosinusitis Epidemiology Study (CRES): a cross-sectional study.
(England, 2015-04-29)OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to investigate the surgical revision rate in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) in the UK CRS Epidemiology Study (CRES). Previous evidence from National Sinonasal Audit showed ... -
The changing face of major trauma in the UK.
(England, 2015-12)AIM: Major trauma (MT) has traditionally been viewed as a disease of young men caused by high-energy transfer mechanisms of injury, which has been reflected in the configuration of MT services. With ageing populations in ... -
Classification of accelerometer wear and non-wear events in seconds for monitoring free-living physical activity.
(England, 2015-05-11)OBJECTIVE: To classify wear and non-wear time of accelerometer data for accurately quantifying physical activity in public health or population level research. DESIGN: A bi-moving-window-based approach was used to combine ... -
Collaborative learning about e-health for mental health professionals and service users in a structured anonymous online short course: pilot study.
(England, 2012-05-31)BACKGROUND: Professionals are interested in using e-health but implementation of new methods is slow. Barriers to implementation include the need for training and limited awareness or experience. Research may not always ... -
Collective cognition in humans: groups outperform their best members in a sentence reconstruction task.
(United States, 2013)Group-living is widespread among animals and one of the major advantages of group-living is the ability of groups to solve cognitive problems that exceed individual ability. Humans also make use of collective cognition ... -
Combining behavioural activation with physical activity promotion for adults with depression: findings of a parallel-group pilot randomised controlled trial (BAcPAc).
(England, 2015-08-20)BACKGROUND: Depression is associated with physical inactivity, which may mediate the relationship between depression and a range of chronic physical health conditions. However, few interventions have combined a psychological ... -
Cueing an unresolved personal goal causes persistent ruminative self-focus: an experimental evaluation of control theories of rumination.
(Netherlands, 2013-12)BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Control theory predicts that the detection of goal discrepancies initiates ruminative self-focus (Martin & Tesser, 1996). Despite the breadth of applications and interest in control theory, there ... -
Current epidemiology of cerebrospinal fluid shunt surgery in the UK and Ireland (2004-2013).
(England, 2019-07)OBJECTIVES: To determine current epidemiology and clinical characteristics of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) shunt surgery, including revisions. METHODS: A retrospective, multicentre, registry-based study was conducted based ... -
Debt Counselling for Depression in Primary Care: an adaptive randomised controlled pilot trial (DeCoDer study).
(England, 2017-06)BACKGROUND: Depression and debt are common in the UK. Debt Counselling for Depression in Primary Care: an adaptive randomised controlled pilot trial (DeCoDer) aimed to assess the clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness ... -
Description and experience: How experimental investors learn about booms and busts affects their financial risk taking.
(Netherlands, 2016-12)A few years ago, the world experienced the most severe economic crisis since the Great Depression. According to the depression baby hypothesis, people who live through such macroeconomic shocks take less financial risk ... -
Developing family interventions for adolescent HIV prevention in South Africa.
(England, 2016)Adolescents and young people account for 40% of all new HIV infections each year, with South Africa one of the hardest hit countries, and having the largest population of people living with HIV. Although adolescent HIV ... -
Development and evaluation of a hospital discharge information package to empower parents in caring for a child with a fever.
(England, 2018-08-30)OBJECTIVES: First, to explore parents' views on and experiences of managing their febrile child and to assess their behaviour and needs when in search of information about fever; second, to develop and evaluate a hospital ... -
Dynamic accommodation without feedback does not respond to isolated blur cues.
(England, 2017-07)The aim of this study was to determine whether dynamic accommodation responds to isolated blur cues without feedback, and without changes in the distance of the object. Nine healthy subjects aged 21-40years were recruited. ... -
The effect of aberrations on objectively assessed image quality and depth of focus.
(United States, 2017-02-01)The effects of aberrations on image quality and the objectively assessed depth of focus (DoF) were studied. Aberrometry data from 80 young subjects with a range of refractive errors was used for computing the visual Strehl ...
