'Just because I have prostate cancer doesn't mean that I can't do things' - men's experiences of the acceptability of an exercise intervention for prostate cancer during treatment.

Background: Structured exercise has an important role in mitigating the extensive side effects caused by ongoing prostate cancer treatments, specifically androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) and radiation therapy (RT). Little is known about men's experiences of, and preferences for, structured exercise programmes during active cancer treatment. This study aimed to inform the acceptability of a 6-month supervised intervention that emphasised increasing and varied intensities of aerobic and resistance exercise, by exploring the experiences of men who participated.

'Werner Syndrome foot'-A case series of four Irish Traveller siblings with Werner Syndrome, diabetes mellitus and complex foot disease.

Unlabelled: AIMSWERNER SYNDROME IS A RARE PREMATURE AGEING AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER CAUSED BY PATHOGENIC VARIANTS IN THE WRN GENE. PEOPLE WITH WERNER SYNDROME MAY DEVELOP DIABETES MELLITUS. CHRONIC FOOT ULCERATION IS SEEN, WITH SOME CHARACTERISTICS OVERLAPPING WITH DIABETIC FOOT DISEASE.

Determinants of physical activity promotion in primary care from the patient perspective of people at risk of or living with chronic disease: a COM-B analysis.

Background: Chronic disease (CD) accounts for more than half of the overall global disease burden and physical activity (PA) is an established evidence-based strategy for the prevention and management of CD. Global policy emphasises the value of embedding PA into primary healthcare, highlighting the positive effects on PA behaviour. However, there is limited implementation of PA protocols in primary care, and research is needed to guide its integration into routine practice.

Strategies for effective implementation and scale-up of a multi-level co-designed men's health initiative "Sheds for Life" in Irish Men's Sheds.

Sheds for Life is a gender-specific tailored men's health initiative engaging "hard-to-reach" men in the Men's Shed setting in Ireland. It is implemented by multiple stakeholders at individual, provider, organization and systems level and thus multiple contextual factors influence its scalability. This research used established implementation science frameworks to guide participatory research approaches that captured the process and identified facilitators of and barriers to implementation and scale-up.

Understanding shedders: Which socio-demographic, health and wellbeing characteristics best inform appropriate health promotion action in men's sheds and a 'Shed for Life'?

Issue Addressed: Men's sheds ('Sheds') have been identified as inherently health promoting and as potential settings to engage 'hard-to-reach' men in more structured health promotion initiatives. However, little is known about the socio-demographic or health and wellbeing characteristics of Shed members ('Shedders') on which such initiatives might be based. This study captures a baseline cross-sectional analysis of Shedders (n = 384) who participated in 'Sheds for Life', a health promotion initiative tailored to Sheds.

'Sheds for Life': delivering a gender-transformative approach to health promotion in Men's Sheds.

Research has highlighted the importance of gendered approaches to engage men with health. Sheds for Life (SFL) is a health and wellbeing initiative that utilizes evidence-based and gender-specific approaches to engage hard to reach men with health promotion directly in the Men's Sheds (Sheds) setting. To understand the impact of SFL and how participants (Shedders) experienced SFL in practice, this qualitative study applied a framework of constructivism and aimed to explore how gendered approaches impacted engagement with SFL through Shedder's own accounts of their attitudes, opinions and experiences.

Sheds for life: health and wellbeing outcomes of a tailored community-based health promotion initiative for men's sheds in Ireland.

Background: Gender is increasingly recognised as a critical factor in designing community-based health promotion programmes. Men's Sheds ('Sheds') are community-based informal environments that represent a safe space in which to engage cohorts of hard-to-reach (HTR) men in health promotion. Sheds for Life (SFL), the first structured health promotion initiative evaluated globally in Sheds, is a 10-week initiative co-designed with Shed Members (Shedders) and delivered directly in the Shed setting in Ireland.

An Economic Evaluation of 'Sheds for Life': A Community-Based Men's Health Initiative for Men's Sheds in Ireland.

Men's Sheds ('Sheds') attract a diverse cohort of men and, as such, have been identified as spaces with the potential to engage marginalized subpopulations with more structured health promotion. 'Sheds for Life' is a 10-week men's health initiative for Sheds in Ireland and the first structured health promotion initiative formally evaluated in Sheds. Cost is an important implementation outcome in the evaluation of Sheds for Life when operating in an environment where budgets are limited.

Barriers and facilitators to implementing community-based physical activity interventions: a qualitative systematic review.

Background: Over the past decade several physical activity (PA) interventions have been shown to be efficacious in a controlled research setting, however there is a continued lack of evidence for how to successfully implement these PA interventions in real-world settings such as the community. This review aims to explore the barriers and facilitators that affect the implementation of community-based PA interventions and make recommendations to improve implementation from the included studies.

Methods: A systematic literature search of EBSCOhost, Scopus, PUBMED and Web of Science was conducted to identify articles that reported qualitative data on the implementation factors of community-based interventions where PA was a primary outcome.

Study protocol: evaluation of sheds for life (SFL): a community-based men's health initiative designed "for shedders by shedders" in Irish Men's sheds using a hybrid effectiveness-implementation design.

Background: Men's Sheds ("Sheds") offer a unique opportunity to reach a captive audience of "hard-to-reach" men. However, attempts to engage Sheds in structured health promotion programmes must respect the ethos of Sheds as highly variable, autonomous, non-structured spaces. This paper captures the key methodologies used in "Sheds for Life' (SFL), a men's health initiative tailored to the Shed setting.

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the wellbeing of Irish Men's Shed members.

COVID-19 disproportionately affects males especially those who are older and more socio-economically disadvantaged. This study assessed wellbeing outcomes among men's shed members (Shedders) in Ireland at baseline (T1), 3 (T2), 6 (T3) and 12 months (T4) in response to a 10-week health promotion program 'Sheds for Life' (SFL). Two cohorts participated in SFL commencing in March and September 2019.

Abnormal level of arousal as a predictor of delirium and inattention: an exploratory study.

Objective: Abnormal level of arousal (LoA) and inattention are key features of delirium. However, the extent to which abnormal LoA alone might predict delirium and inattention is unclear. Here we tested the hypotheses that (1) patients with abnormal LoA have delirium, and (2) abnormal LoA is associated with worse performance on tests of attention.

Hybridisation between two cyprinid fishes in a novel habitat: genetics, morphology and life-history traits.

Background: The potential role hybridisation in adaptive radiation and the evolution of new lineages has received much recent attention. Hybridisation between roach (Rutilus rutilus L.) and bream (Abramis brama L.