• Person-centered healthcare practice in a pandemic context: An exploration of people's experience of seeking healthcare support 

  Curnow, Eleanor; Tyagi, Vaibhav; Salisbury, Lisa; Stuart, Kim; Melville-Jóhannesson, Barbara; Nicol, Kath; McCormack, Brendan; Dewing, Jan; Magowan, Ruth; Sagan, Olivia; Bulley, Catherine (Frontiers, 2021-09-09)

  Background: The recent COVID-19 pandemic increased pressure upon healthcare resources resulting in compromised health services. Enforced national lockdown led to people being unable to access essential services in addition ...

• Randomized Trial—PrEscription of intraDialytic exercise to improve quAlity of Life in Patients Receiving Hemodialysis 

  Greenwood, Sharlene A.; Koufakia, Pelagia; Macdonald, Jamie; Bhandari, Sunil; Burton, James; Dasgupta, Indranil; Farrington, Kenneth; Ford, Ian; Kalra, Philip A.; Kean, Sharon; Kumwenda, Mick; Macdougall, Iain C.; Messow, Claudia-Martina; Mitra, Sandip; Reid, Chante; Smith, Alice C.; Taal, Maarten W.; Thomson, Peter C.; Wheeler, David C.; White, Claire; Yaqoob, Magdi; Mercer, Tom (International Society of NephrologyElsevier, 2021-05-30)

  Introduction: Whether clinically implementable exercise interventions in people receiving hemodialysis (HD) therapy improve health-related quality of life (HRQoL) remains unknown. The PrEscription of intraDialytic exercise ...

• Detecting mechanical breakpoints during treadmill-based graded exercise test: Relationships to ventilatory thresholds. 

  Li, Siu Nam; Peeling, Peter; Hansen, Clint; Van Alsenoy, Ken K.; Ryu, Joong Hyun; Girard, Olivier (Routledge, 2021-09-15)

  While changes in cardiorespiratory variables during graded exercise tests (GXTs) are well described, less is known about running mechanical alterations. We determined mechanical breakpoints during GXT and compared their ...

• Researcher as instrument: A critical reflection using nominal group technique for content development of a new patient-reported outcome measure 

  Soh, Shawn Leng-Hsien; Lane, Judith; Tan, Chee-Wee (Foundation of Nursing Studies, 2020-11-18)

  Background: This article presents a critical reflection on the application of the ‘researcher as instrument’ concept within a study employing the nominal group technique. Twelve community-dwelling older adults were recruited ...

• Falls efficacy: Extending the understanding of self-efficacy in older adults towards managing falls 

  Soh, Shawn Leng-Hsien; Tan, Chee-Wee; Thomas, Janet I.; Tan, Gideon; Xu, Tianma; Ng, Yoke Leng; Lane, Judith (Hylonome Publications, 2021-09)

  Falls efficacy is a widely studied construct. The understanding of falls efficacy has evolved over time. Falls efficacy was initially perceived to be suitably used as a measure of fear of falling. However, further research ...

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