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Physical activity preferences and type 2 diabetes: Exploring demographic, cognitive, and behavioral differences (2010)
Journal Article
Forbes, C. C., Plotnikoff, R. C., Courneya, K. S., & Boulé, N. G. (2010). Physical activity preferences and type 2 diabetes: Exploring demographic, cognitive, and behavioral differences. Diabetes Educator, 36(5), 801-815. https://doi.org/10.1177/0145721710378538

Purpose The purpose of this study was to examine physical activity counseling and program preferences in a sample of adults with type 2 diabetes. Specifically, the objectives were to determine physical activity preferences (objective 1), and whether... Read More about Physical activity preferences and type 2 diabetes: Exploring demographic, cognitive, and behavioral differences.

A randomised trial of high vs low intensity training in breathing techniques for breathless patients with malignant lung disease: A feasibility study (2010)
Journal Article
Barton, R., English, A., Nabb, S., Rigby, A. S., & Johnson, M. J. (2010). A randomised trial of high vs low intensity training in breathing techniques for breathless patients with malignant lung disease: A feasibility study. Lung Cancer, 70(3), 313-319. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lungcan.2010.03.007

Background: Breathlessness remains a refractory symptom in malignant lung disease. Breathing training is an effective, non-pharmacological intervention but it is unclear how this should be delivered. This feasibility study aimed to assess recruitment... Read More about A randomised trial of high vs low intensity training in breathing techniques for breathless patients with malignant lung disease: A feasibility study.

Measurement of breathlessness in clinical trials in patients with chronic heart failure: the need for a standardized approach: a systematic review (2010)
Journal Article
Johnson, M. J., Oxberry, S. G., Cleland, J. G., & Clark, A. L. (2010). Measurement of breathlessness in clinical trials in patients with chronic heart failure: the need for a standardized approach: a systematic review. European journal of heart failure, 12(2), 137-147. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurjhf/hfp194

AIMS: Chronic breathlessness is a major symptom for patients with compensated chronic heart failure (CHF) and its impact is different to the breathlessness resulting from pulmonary oedema. This systematic review aims to establish which tools have bee... Read More about Measurement of breathlessness in clinical trials in patients with chronic heart failure: the need for a standardized approach: a systematic review.

'What do we know? What should we do?' Melding research validity and rhetoric in the analysis of policy making (2010)
Journal Article
Pearson, M. (2010). 'What do we know? What should we do?' Melding research validity and rhetoric in the analysis of policy making. Evidence and Policy, 6(1), 77-90. https://doi.org/10.1332/174426410X483015

'Evidence-based policy and practice' was proposed to usher in an era where explicit use was made of evidence ('what we know') to inform decisions made about policy and practice ('what we should do'). Critics have focused on its allegedly technocratic... Read More about 'What do we know? What should we do?' Melding research validity and rhetoric in the analysis of policy making.

What influences the uptake of information to prevent skin cancer? A systematic review and synthesis of qualitative research (2009)
Journal Article
Garside, R., Pearson, M., & Moxham, T. (2010). What influences the uptake of information to prevent skin cancer? A systematic review and synthesis of qualitative research. Health education research, 25(1), 162-182. https://doi.org/10.1093/her/cyp060

Skin cancer is an increasing problem in Europe, America and Australasia, although largely preventable by avoiding excessive ultraviolet (UV) exposure. This paper presents the findings of a systematic review of qualitative research about the preventio... Read More about What influences the uptake of information to prevent skin cancer? A systematic review and synthesis of qualitative research.

The challenge of external validity in policy-relevant systematic reviews: A case study from the field of substance misuse (2009)
Journal Article
Pearson, M., & Coomber, R. (2010). The challenge of external validity in policy-relevant systematic reviews: A case study from the field of substance misuse. Addiction, 105(1), 136-145. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1360-0443.2009.02713.x

Aim  To critically evaluate the methods utilized in the conduct of a systematic review in the field of substance misuse Design  Participant‐observation in the review process, semi‐structured interviews with review team members and management and str... Read More about The challenge of external validity in policy-relevant systematic reviews: A case study from the field of substance misuse.

The feeling theory of emotion and the object-directed emotions (2009)
Journal Article
Whiting, D. (2011). The feeling theory of emotion and the object-directed emotions. European Journal of Philosophy, 19(2), 281-303. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0378.2009.00384.x

The 'feeling theory of emotion' holds that emotions are to be identified with feelings. An objection commonly made to that theory of emotion has it that emotions cannot be feelings only, as emotions have intentional objects. Jack does not just feel f... Read More about The feeling theory of emotion and the object-directed emotions.

Does clinical method mask significant VTE-related mortality and morbidity in malignant disease? Mini review. (2009)
Journal Article
Johnson, M., & Maraveyas, A. (2009). Does clinical method mask significant VTE-related mortality and morbidity in malignant disease? Mini review. The British Journal of Cancer, 100(12), 1837 - 1841. https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6605091

After more than 150 years of a recognised link between cancer and vascular thromboembolic events (VTE), and despite a greatly improved understanding of its pathophysiology, epidemiology and treatment, the management of patients with cancer and VTE is... Read More about Does clinical method mask significant VTE-related mortality and morbidity in malignant disease? Mini review..

Does clinical method mask significant VTE-related mortality and morbidity in malignant disease? (2009)
Journal Article
Johnson, M., & Maraveyas, A. (2009). Does clinical method mask significant VTE-related mortality and morbidity in malignant disease?. The British Journal of Cancer, 100(12), 1837-1841. https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6605091

After more than 150 years of a recognised link between cancer and vascular thromboembolic events (VTE), and despite a greatly improved understanding of its pathophysiology, epidemiology and treatment, the management of patients with cancer and VTE is... Read More about Does clinical method mask significant VTE-related mortality and morbidity in malignant disease?.

Venous Thromboembolism in Advanced Disease: A clinical guide (2008)
Book
Lee, A. Y. Y., Johnson, M. J., & Noble, S. I. R. (Eds.). (2008). Venous Thromboembolism in Advanced Disease: A clinical guide. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199232048.001.0001

© Oxford University Press 2009. All rights reserved. There is increasing recognition of the burden of venous thromboembolism (VTE) in patients with advanced incurable disease and the clinical, ethical, and philosophical challenges they may pose. With... Read More about Venous Thromboembolism in Advanced Disease: A clinical guide.

Management of venous thromboembolism in patients with advanced cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2008)
Journal Article
Noble, S. I., Shelley, M. D., Coles, B., Williams, S. M., Wilcock, A., Johnson, M. J., & on behalf of Association for Palliative Medicine for Great Britain and Ireland. (2008). Management of venous thromboembolism in patients with advanced cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis. The lancet oncology, 9(6), 577-584. https://doi.org/10.1016/s1470-2045%2808%2970149-9

Venous thromboembolism is common in patients with cancer. However, no management guidelines exist for venous thromboembolism specific to patients with advanced progressive cancer. To help develop recommendations for practice, we have done a comprehen... Read More about Management of venous thromboembolism in patients with advanced cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Systematic reviews in social policy: To go forward, do we first need to look back? (2007)
Journal Article
Pearson, M. (2007). Systematic reviews in social policy: To go forward, do we first need to look back?. Evidence and Policy, 3(4), 505-526. https://doi.org/10.1332/174426407782516448

This article argues that the development of systematic review methods for social policy and practice in the UK has been inhibited in two ways. First, there has been insufficient engagement with the breadth of Donald Campbell's thought on research met... Read More about Systematic reviews in social policy: To go forward, do we first need to look back?.

Captain Hon. William Leslie (1751-77): His Life, Letters and Commemoration (2005)
Book Chapter
Gilchrist, M. M. (2005). Captain Hon. William Leslie (1751-77): His Life, Letters and Commemoration. In Military Miscellany II: Manuscripts from Marlborough's Wars, the American War of Independence and the Boer War (133-196). Stroud, Gloucestershire: Army Records Society

An edition of Captain William Leslie's letters from the Leven & Melville Papers, with commentary, as part of a compendium volume published by the Army Records Society. Willie Leslie, a son of the Earl of Leven & Melville, was killed at the Battle of... Read More about Captain Hon. William Leslie (1751-77): His Life, Letters and Commemoration.

The inter-rate reliability of a generic measure of severity of illness (1997)
Journal Article
Shiels, C., Eccles, M., Hutchinson, A., Gardiner, E., & Smoljanovic, L. (1997). The inter-rate reliability of a generic measure of severity of illness. Family practice, 14(6), 466-471. https://doi.org/10.1093/fampra/14.6.466

Background. There has been increasing interest in the development of measures to quantify baseline severity of illness and thus provide a more meaningful interpretation of health outcomes. Objective. We aimed to assess the inter-rater reliability of... Read More about The inter-rate reliability of a generic measure of severity of illness.

Images of the Petrine Era in Russian History Painting (1994)
Thesis
Gilchrist, M. (1994). Images of the Petrine Era in Russian History Painting. (Thesis). University of St Andrews. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4082498

'Images of the Petrine Era in Russian History Painting' examines the changing iconography of Petr I (1672-1725) in nineteenth-century Russian painting, and its relationship with Petr's symbolic role in the cultural debate between the Westernisers and... Read More about Images of the Petrine Era in Russian History Painting.