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Factors influencing implementation and sustainability of interventions to improve oral health and related health behaviours in adults experiencing severe and multiple disadvantage: a mixed-methods systematic review
(BMJEngland, 2024-01)<jats:sec><jats:title>Objectives</jats:title><jats:p>Among people experiencing severe and multiple disadvantage (SMD), poor oral health is common and linked to smoking, substance use and high sugar intake. Studies have ... -
Assessing the psychosocial factors associated with adherence to exercise referral schemes: A systematic review
(WileyDenmark, 2019-05)<jats:p>This paper aimed to systematically review the evidence base to uncover the key psychosocial factors that underpin adherence to an exercise referral scheme (<jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">ERS</jats:style ... -
Combining realist evaluation and transformative evaluation to advance research in palliative care: The case of end of life companionship
(SAGE PublicationsEngland, 2023-03)<jats:sec><jats:title>Background:</jats:title><jats:p> Palliative care requires innovative methods to understand what works, for whom, in what circumstances and why. Realist evaluation has become one prominent approach ... -
Where next for the design, delivery, and evaluation of community-based physical activity prescription? Emerging lessons from the United Kingdom
(Canadian Science PublishingCanada, 2021-11)<jats:p> Despite widespread use, community-based physical activity prescription is controversial. Data limitations have resulted in a lack of clarity about what works, under what circumstances, and for whom, reflected in ... -
A Dual-Based Pruning Method for the Least-Squares Support Vector Machine
(Elsevier BV, 2023)The least-squares support vector machine (LS-SVM) is generally parameterized by a large number of support vectors, which slows down the speed of classification. This paper proposes to search for and prune two types of ... -
Telephone-Based Training Intervention for Using Digital Communication Technologies for Social Housing Residents During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Mixed Methods Feasibility and Acceptability Evaluation
(JMIR Publications Inc.Canada, 2024)<jats:sec> <jats:title>Background</jats:title> <jats:p>In an era in which digital communication technologies play a pivotal role in everyday life, social housing residents remain highly susceptible ... -
The conceptualisation and measurement of engagement in digital health.
(ElsevierNetherlands, 2024-06)Digital tools are an increasingly important component of healthcare, but their potential impact is commonly limited by a lack of user engagement. Digital health evaluations of engagement are often restricted to system ... -
Behaviour change practices in exercise referral schemes: developing realist programme theory of implementation
(Springer Science and Business Media LLCEngland, 2021-12)<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:sec> <jats:title>Background</jats:title> <jats:p>Exercise Referral Schemes have been delivered worldwide in developed countries to augment physical ...