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Author: <span>Stewart Cromar</span>

Meta-synthesis of findings from evaluations and qualitative interviews of work involving community food and its impact on mental health and wellbeing

Background Improving mental health and diet are important components of the public health agenda in the UK. Community organisations have an important role to play in promoting mental health and wellbeing, and a number of community-based food projects are specifically designed to address this issue. However, impact assessment for such …

Using psychological theory to understand the challenges facing staff delivering a ward-led intervention to increase hand hygiene behavior: A qualitative study

Background The Feedback Intervention Trial was a national trial of an intervention to increase hand hygiene behavior in English and Welsh hospitals. It significantly improved behavior, the effect increasing with fidelity to intervention, but the intervention proved more difficult to implement than anticipated. This study aimed to identify the barriers …

Characteristics of Effective & Ineffective Adolescent Health Interventions with a Parental Component

This report aims to identify the characteristics of effective and ineffective interventions involving parents to influence adolescent alcohol, tobacco and substance use.               Report Characteristics of Effective & Ineffective Adolescent Health Interventions with a Parental Component May 30, 2014

Commentary: Public Health May Not Be Ready for Health System Change ’€“ But Neither Is the System Ready to Integrate Public Health

In response to the lead paper, the authors of this commentary propose that there are three fundamental sorts of reform for which Canada’s healthcare system would need to provide evidence of progress before public health professionals should get fired up about lumping everything together inside the care system, to help …

Socioeconomic position across the lifecourse & allostatic load: data from the West of Scotland Twenty-07 cohort study.

BACKGROUND: We examined how socioeconomic position (SEP) across the lifecourse (three critical periods, social mobility and accumulated over time) is associated with allostatic load (a measure of cumulative physiological burden). METHODS: Data are from the West of Scotland Twenty-07 Study, with respondents aged 35 (n’€‰=’€‰740), 55 (n’€‰=’€‰817) and 75 (n’€‰=’€‰483). …

Gender and telomere length: Systematic review and meta-analysis

Background It is widely believed that females have longer telomeres than males, although results from studies have been contradictory. Methods We carried out a systematic review and meta-analyses to test the hypothesis that in humans, females have longer telomeres than males and that this association becomes stronger with increasing age. …

Do Mismatches between Pre- and Post-Natal Environments Influence Adult Physiological Functioning?

Purpose Mismatches between pre- and post-natal environments have implications for disease in adulthood. However, less is known about how this mismatch can affect physiological systems more generally, especially at younger ages. We hypothesised that mismatches between pre- and post-natal environments, as measured by the measures of birthweight and adult leg …

Outcomes Framework for Scotland’€™s National Parenting Strategy

This outcomes framework has been developed for Scotland’€™s National Parenting Strategy. NHS Health Scotland has developed this framework in collaboration with a wide range of partners to set out key outcomes required to support parents and families to give children and young people the best start in life. It also …

Adaptation and Piloting of the Early Development Instrument (EDI) in Scottish School Enterers

In collaboration with East Lothian Local Authority and McMaster University, Canada, SCPHRP and the Head of the School of Psychological Sciences and Health at Strathclyde University, Professor Lisa Woolfson, piloted a project to test the feasibility in Scotland of using a teacher-completed child-development questionnaire (the EDI). This would be completed …

Secondary Analyses of Health Behaviours of School Children (HBSC) Data

In addition to its programme of competitively awarded seed grants, SCPHRP commissioned seven needs-based projects during 2008 ’€“ 2012, with a focus on  the development of improved data-systems for sensitive population-level monitoring of overall changes in Scottish health status, and trends and patterns in health inequalities, particularly by socio-economic status …

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