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Extending the assessment of patient-centredness in health care: Development of the updated Valuing Patients as Individuals Scale using exploratory factor analysis
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2017-07-03)Aims and objectives To update and re-validate the Valuing Patients as Individuals Scale for use as a patient appraisal of received healthcare. Background Healthcare in the United Kingdom and beyond is required ... -
External evaluation of the Dumfries and Galloway Better Neighbourhood Services Fund (BNSF) Vulnerable Older People's Pathfinder.
(Queen Margaret University CollegeThe Royal Bank of Scotland Centre for the Older Person's Agenda, 2005)In January 2001, the Better Neighbourhood Services Fund (BNSF) was set up by the Scottish Executive to enable local authorities and their community planning partners to improve services in Scotland in accordance with the ... -
External sandhi as gestural overlap? Counter-evidence from Sardinian.
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F1/F2 targets for Finnish single vs. double vowels
(University of Glasgow: Glasgow, 2015-08-10)This paper explores the reason why Finnish single (short) vowels tend to occupy less peripheral positions in the F1/F2 vowel space compared to their double (long) counterparts. The results of two production studies suggest ... -
Face Recognition in Eyewitness Memory
(Oxford University Press, 2011-07)Two types of variables impact face recognition: estimator variables that cannot be controlled and system variables that are under direct control by the criminal justice system. This article addresses some of the reasons ... -
Facebook and Political Information in Italy and the UK: An Antidote against Political Fragmentation and Polarisation?
(2014-01-25)Due to the rise of digital technologies citizens can today counton innumerable and diverse sources of political information. Arguably such a proliferation of media choices in conjunction with a structural aspect of the ... -
Facebook and political participation: Going beyond over-optimistic predictions
(2017-06-01)In the last decade there has been a proliferation of academic studies examining the links between social networking websites (SNSs) and citizens' political participation. Focusing on Facebook and on the specific contexts ... -
Facebook and political participation: Virtuous circle and participation intermediaries
(Intellect, 2016-09-01)Drawing from the results of a mixed-methods cross-national study focusing on Italy and the United Kingdom, this article explores how the contribution of Facebook to citizens' political participation varies in relation to ... -
Facilitating Implementation of Research Evidence (FIRE): An international cluster randomised controlled trial to evaluate two models of facilitation informed by the Promoting Action on Research Implementation in Health Services (PARIHS) framework
(BioMed Central, 2018-11-16)Background - Health care practice needs to be underpinned by high quality research evidence, so that the best possible care can be delivered. However, evidence from research is not always utilised in practice. This study ... -
Facilitation of a workplace learning intervention in a fluctuating context: An ethnographic, participatory research project in a nursing home in Norway
(Foundation of Nursing Studies (FoNS), 2018-10-14)Background: This single-site nursing home study is part of a larger cluster-randomised controlled trial that aimed to reduce staff use of restraint. The cluster-RCT study involved 24 nursing homes, and investigated the ... -
Facing the perfect contingency: Interactions with the self at 2 and 3 months.
(Elsevier Inc, 2007)We used a double video Live-Replay-Live procedure to explore self-self interactions in fourteen 9-week-old infants, repeated at 13-weeks with 10 of these infants. Using multiple measures of behavioural response we found ... -
Factors affecting exercise participation in adolescents with cerebral palsy: a quantitative secondary data analysis
(Queen Margaret University, 2016)Questions: What types of structured exercise activities do adolescents with cerebral palsy (CP) take part in? What levels of impairment do individuals who take part in these activities have? How is the level of exercise ... -
Factors affecting the availability of HIV medical supplies and health workers’ strategies used to address shortages in two Rwandan public hospitals
(2017)Background Availability, accessibility and rapid scale up of antiretroviral therapy (ART) has changed what was a fatal disease to a manageable condition resulting in remarkable reduction in the worldwide rates of AIDS ... -
Factors affecting work performance of health practitioners in Jazan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
(Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, 2016)Aim. This study aimed to explore factors influencing health practitioners’ work performance. This knowledge will facilitate development of appropriate support and education for health practitioners in delivering quality ... -
Factors associated with common mental health problems of humanitarian workers in South Sudan
(PLoS, 2018-10-31)Background - The latest data on major attacks against civilian aid operations have identified South Sudan as the most dangerous country for aid workers globally. Exposure to other traumatic events and chronic stress is ... -
Factors associated with teenage pregnancy in the European Union countries: a systematic review
(OUP, 2007)Background: As part of the REPROSTAT2 project, this systematic review aimed to identify factors associated with teenage pregnancy in 25 European Union countries. Methods: The search strategy included electronic bibliographic ... -
Factors contributing to familiarity degree in family firms
(Inderscience, 2019-03-26)This research proposes a measuring instrument to determine the intensity of family engagement in meeting the defining and distinguishing criteria of family businesses. This proposed method enables the assessment of the ... -
Factors Contributing to Health Workforce Resilience During the 2014-2015 Ebola Outbreak in Sierra Leone
(Queen Margaret University, 2016)Resilience is an essential characteristic in overcoming adversity (Dyer and McGuinness 1996). An abstract term prevalent in academic literature, the concept of resilience has become more prominent within development ... -
FACTORS DETERMINING THE UTILIZATION OF MATERNAL HEALTH CARE SERVICES IN NEPAL
(2018)Nepal has made an enormous progress in declining maternal mortality and increment in utilization of various maternal health related services. However, there is still a large group of women left behind without access towards ...