Browse research from the School of Nursing and Midwifery.
Submissions from 2013
"Until the trial is complete you can't really say whether it helped you or not, can you?": exploring cancer patients' perceptions of taking part in a trial of acupressure wristbands, John G. Hughes, Wanda Russell, Matthew Breckons, Janet Richardson, Mari Lloyd-Williams, and Alex Molassiotis
Vocation, friendship and resilience: a study exploring nursing student and staff views on retention and attrition., Graham R. Williamson, Val Health, and Tracey Proctor-Childs
Submissions from 2012
Constructing Compact Takagi-Sugeno Rule Systems: Identification of Complex Interactions in Epidemiological Data, Shang Ming Zhou, Ronan A. Lyons, Sinead Brophy, and Mike B. Gravenor
The feasibility of collecting information from people with Multiple Sclerosis for the UK MS Register via a web portal: characterising a cohort of people with MS, David V. Ford, Kerina H. Jones, Rod M. Middleton, Hazel Lockhart-Jones, Inocencio D.C. Maramba, Gareth J. Noble, Lisa A. Osborne, and Ronan A. Lyons
Collaborative learning about e-health for mental health professionals and service users in a structured anonymous online short course: pilot study., Emily J. Ashurst, Ray B. Jones, Graham R. Williamson, Tobit Emmens, and Jon Perry
Realist synthesis: illustrating the method for implementation research., Jo Rycroft-Malone, Brendan McCormack, Alison M. Hutchinson, Kara DeCorby, Tracey K. Bucknall, Bridie Kent, Alyce Schultz, Erna Snelgrove-Clarke, Cheryl B. Stetler, Marita Titler, Lars Wallin, and Val Wilson
Costs and difficulties of recruiting patients to provide e-health support: pilot study in one primary care trust., Ray B. Jones, Anita O'Connor, Jade Brelsford, Neil Parsons, and Heather Skirton
Developing an online learning community for mental health professionals and service users: a discursive analysis., Janet Smithson, Ray B. Jones, and Emily Ashurst
Complexity of case mix in a regional allergy service., Edward R. Kaminski, Claire A. Bethune, and Ray B. Jones
Protocol for a randomized controlled trial of a specialized health coaching intervention to prevent excessive gestational weight gain and postpartum weight retention in women: the HIPP study., Helen Skouteris, Marita McCabe, Jeannette Milgrom, Bridie Kent, Lauren J. Bruce, Cathrine Mihalopoulos, Sharon J. Herring, Malcolm Barnett, Denise Patterson, Glyn Teale, and Janette Gale
Do adverts increase the probability of finding online cognitive behavioural therapy for depression? Cross-sectional study., Ray B. Jones, Lesley Goldsmith, Paul Hewson, Boulos MN Kamel, and Christopher J. Williams
Incorporation of expert variability into breast cancer treatment recommendation in designing clinical protocol guided fuzzy rule system models, Shang Ming Zhou, Jonathan M. Garibaldi, Xiao Ying Wang, Robert I. John, and Ian O. Ellis
Submissions from 2011
Alpha-Level Aggregation: A Practical Approach to Type-1 OWA Operation for Aggregating Uncertain Information with Applications to Breast Cancer Treatments, Shang Ming Zhou, Francisco Chiclana, Robert I. John, and Jonathan M. Garibaldi
Efficacy of a referral and physical activity program for survivors of prostate cancer [ENGAGE]: rationale and design for a cluster randomised controlled trial., Patricia M. Livingston, Jo Salmon, Kerry S. Courneya, Cadeyrn J. Gaskin, Melinda Craike, Mari Botti, Suzanne Broadbent, and Bridie Kent
Phase 1 pilot study of e-mail support for people with long term conditions using the Internet., Bryony Sheaves, Ray B. Jones, Graham R. Williamson, and Rohan Chauhan
A qualitative study exploring the experiences of parents of children admitted to seven Dutch pediatric intensive care units, Jos M. Latour, Goudoever JB van, Beatrix Elink Schuurman, Marcel J.I.J. Albers, Dam NAM van, Eugenie Dullaart, Heerde M van, Carin W.M. Verlaat, Vught EM van, and Jan A. Hazelzet
Construction and psychometric testing of the EMPATHIC questionnaire measuring parent satisfaction in the pediatric intensive care unit, Jos M. Latour, Goudoever JB van, Hugo J. Duivenvoorden, Marcel J.I.J. Albers, Dam NAM van, Eugenie Dullaart, Heerde M van, Neef M de, Carin W.M. Verlaat, Vught EM van, and Jan A. Hazelzet
How smartphones are changing the face of mobile and participatory healthcare: an overview, with example from eCAALYX, M Boulos, S Wheeler, C Tavares, and R Jones
Longitudinal evaluation of the impact of placement development teams on student support in clinical practice., Graham R. Williamson, Lynne Callaghan, Emma Whittlesea, Lauren Mutton, and Val Heath
Managing deteriorating patients: registered nurses' performance in a simulated setting., S Cooper, T McConnell-Henry, R Cant, J Porter, K Missen, L Kinsman, R Endacott, and J Scholes
Submissions from 2010
Referrals to a regional allergy clinic - an eleven year audit., Ray B. Jones, Paul Hewson, and Edward R. Kaminski
Using a community of practice to develop standards of practice and education for genetic counsellors in Europe, H Skirton, C Patch, and M-A Voelckel
On aggregating uncertain information by type-2 OWA operators for soft decision making, S-M Zhou, RI John, F Chiclana, and JM Garibaldi
Submissions from 2009
Health, Climate Change and Sustainability: A systematic Review and Thematic Analysis of the Literature., A. Nichols, V. Maynard, B. Goodman, and J. Richardson
The Use of Descriptive Words and Metaphor in Patient and Carer Experience of Palliative Day Care: Secondary Analysis of a Qualitative Study, J Richardson and J Grose
The use of descriptive words and metaphor in patient and carer experience of palliative day care: secondary analysis of a qualitative study., J Richardson and J Grose
A Blended Approach to Evidence Learning in Professional Practice, ML Fisher, A Thoburn, T Arkinstall, and T Proctor-Childs
Undergraduate nurses’ and midwives’ participation and satisfaction with live interactive webcasts., G Williamson, I Maramba, R Jones, and JM Morris
Undergraduate Nurses’ and Midwives’ Participation and Satisfaction with Live Interactive Webcasts., GR Williamson, I Maramba, RB Jones, and J Morris
Extracting Takagi-Sugeno Fuzzy Rules with Interpretable Submodels via Regularization of Linguistic Modifiers, Shang-Ming Zhou and John Q. Gan
Fuzziness index driven fuzzy relaxation algorithm and applications to image processing, Shang Ming Zhou, John Q. Gan, Lida Xu, and Robert I. John
On Constructing Parsimonious Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Systems via Influential Rule Selection, Shang-Ming Zhou, Jonathan M. Garibaldi, Robert I. John, and Francisco Chiclana
The role of health kiosks in 2009: literature and informant review., R Jones
Submissions from 2008
Web 3D for Public, Environmental and Occupational Health: Early Examples from Second Life®., Boulos MN Kamel, Rameshsharma Ramloll, Ray Jones, and Susan Toth-Cohen
Low-level interpretability and high-level interpretability: a unified view of data-driven interpretable fuzzy system modelling, Shang Ming Zhou and John Q. Gan
Type-1 OWA operators for aggregating uncertain information with uncertain weights induced by type-2 linguistic quantifiers, Shang Ming Zhou, Francisco Chiclana, Robert I. John, and Jonathan M. Garibaldi
The perceived impact of location privacy: a web-based survey of public health perspectives and requirements in the UK and Canada., Philip AbdelMalik, Maged N.Kamel Boulos, and Ray Jones
Classifying mental tasks based on features of higher-order statistics from EEG signals in brain–computer interface, Shang Ming Zhou, John Q. Gan, and Francisco Sepulveda
Health, Climate Change and Energy Vulnerability: A Retrospective Assessment of Strategic Health Authority Policy and Practice in England., J Richardson, F Kagawa, and A Nichols
Improving student support in professional placement learning: findings from the South west peninsula pilot of a new english national placement quality assurance and enhancement process., GR Williamson, V Heath, L Ballantyne, L Callaghan, D Webster, and C Hunter
Measuring the contribution and complexity of Nurse and Physiotherapy Consultants: A Feasibility Study, J Richardson, R Ainsworth, AJ Humphreys, E Stenhouse, and M Watkins
Measuring the contribution and complexity of nurse and physiotherapy consultants: a feasibility study., J Richardson, R Ainsworth, A Humphreys, E Stenhouse, and M Watkins
Submissions from 2007
Constructing L2-SVM-Based Fuzzy Classifiers in High-Dimensional Space With Automatic Model Selection and Fuzzy Rule Ranking, Shang Ming Zhou and John Q. Gan
Submissions from 2006
Constructing accurate and parsimonious fuzzy models with distinguishable fuzzy sets based on an entropy measure, Shang Ming Zhou and John Q. Gan
Wikis, blogs and podcasts: a new generation of Web-based tools for virtual collaborative clinical practice and education, Boulos MN Kamel, Inocencio Maramba, and Steve Wheeler
Submissions from 2004
AN UNSUPERVISED KERNEL BASED FUZZY C-MEANS CLUSTERING ALGORITHM WITH KERNEL NORMALISATION, S-M ZHOU and JQ GAN
