Loneliness in online students with disabilities: qualitative investigation for experience, understanding and solutions.

Unlabelled: Online learning has given access to education for diverse populations including students with disabilities. In our university, the ratio of students with disabilities is substantially higher in the online programmes than face-to-face. Online learning provides high accessibility though it can result in a lonely experience.

Commentary: Suggesting Shinrin-yoku (forest bathing) for treating addiction.

Shinrin-yoku ('') (i.e., forest bathing), a Japanese wellbeing practice, aims to harmonise a person with a forest by bathing in the forest mindfully using our five senses (Miyazaki, 2018).

Effective involvement: a report on the evaluation of a research awareness training package for public involvement in health research.

Background: As the role of Patient and Public Involvement contributors expands to all stages of the research cycle, there is increasing demand for training that meets the needs of this diverse population. To help meet this demand the National Institute for Health Research Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care, Yorkshire and Humber, worked with members of the public to develop a bespoke training package. The University of Huddersfield's Public Partnership Group were invited to host the training and undertake an independent evaluation.

Identifying strengths in youths at substance use treatment admission.

: Clinicians have been required to assess client strengths at substance use treatment admission for two decades. Yet little is known about identified strengths in this population that could make it easier for clients to accept having this illness. : This study explored the profile of clients' strengths and whether strengths varied by background characteristics and constructive use of time.

A qualitative investigation of hospital visitors' experiences using the analytic lens of liminality: Informing nursing practice and policy.

This research aimed to inform nursing practice and policy by identifying satisfying and problematic experiences of hospital visitors during the hospitalisation episode of a significant other. An extensive contextual review revealed that healthcare systems in advanced economies face multiple pressures and that in England, the government leaves the determination of hospital visiting rules to individual trusts. The analytic lens of liminality provides rich interpretations of visitors' accounts and demonstrates the importance to visitors of structure (hospital rules and systems) and communitas (social bonding among liminal personae).

Team based learning in nursing and midwifery higher education; a systematic review of the evidence for change.

Review Aim: The aim of this study is to review the evidence in relation to the experiences and outcomes of students on nursing and/or midwifery higher education programmes, who experience team based learning.

Review Objectives: To examine the relationship between team based learning and attainment for nursing and midwifery students in professional higher education. To examine the relationship between team based learning and student satisfaction for nurses and midwifery students in higher education.

Do Social Stories help to decrease disruptive behaviour in children with autistic spectrum disorders? A review of the published literature.

A structured search and identification of themes within the literature regarding the use of Social Stories to decrease disruptive behaviour in children with autistic spectrum disorders is presented. The examination of seven studies showed that the Social Story intervention was successful for the majority of the participants, although the level of success was variable. Overall, Social Stories appear to be an acceptable intervention for use in the classroom, however unplanned verbal prompting by teachers, in some studies, reduced confidence in the effectiveness of Social Stories when used in isolation.

Patient perspectives on the impact of acromegaly: results from individual and group interviews.

Purpose: Acromegaly is a chronic condition resulting from a growth hormone-secreting pituitary tumor that can substantially impact patients' physical and emotional well-being. We sought to understand the impact of acromegaly on disease-related concerns and treatment choices from the patient perspective. The path to diagnosis, current disease management, interactions with the treating health care providers (HCPs), and support networks were also assessed.

Service user involvement in pre-registration children's nursing education: the impact and influence on practice: a case study on the student perspective.

This article reports on a study that aimed to conduct an in-depth investigation into the impact of user involvement on student learning and subsequent influence on practice as a qualified nurse. This was undertaken through a single case study that followed a narrative inquiry approach. UK policy has recommended user involvement in healthcare education for a number of years; this has in turn increased requirements for involvement from Professional, Statutory and Regulatory Bodies.

What matters to users of services? An explorative study to promote shared decision making in health care.

Background: Involving service users and carers in decisions about their health care is a key feature of health-care practice. Professional health and social care students need to develop skills and attributes to best enable this to happen.

Aims: The aims were to explore service user and carer perceptions of behaviours, attributes and context required to enable shared decision making; to compare these perceptions to those of students and academic staff with a view to utilizing the findings to inform the development of student assessment tools.

User involvement in health and social care education: a concept analysis.

This paper presents an evaluative discussion of the literature, and findings from a concept analysis which explores user involvement in the context of health and social care higher education in the United Kingdom. User involvement is increasingly a requirement in higher education and the purpose of the concept analysis was to clarify and elucidate the meaning and nature of the concept. Walker and Avant's (2005) eight step framework for concept analysis was used to provide understanding of the underlying attributes and a model for critique and meaningful evaluation and research.

Service user and carer involvement in student nurse selection: key stakeholder perspectives.

The aim of this study was to evaluate an innovation where service users and carers were involved in the recruitment of child and adult nursing students. Seventy candidates, four service users and carers and six academics who had been involved in the selection process took part in the study. A short questionnaire was administered to the nursing candidates.

A feasibility study of an educational intervention for children with daytime wetting.

Unlabelled: Daytime wetting in children is a common problem and though behavioural and educational interventions have been recommended, they have not been extensively evaluated.

Aim: To evaluate the feasibility and usefulness of an educational intervention (home workbook) for daytime wetting in children aged six to ten years.

Methods: The workbook was piloted with two groups of children with daytime wetting.

Post-natal hearing loss in universal neonatal hearing screening communities: current limitations and future directions.

Universal hearing screening has dramatically improved outcomes for babies born with detectable hearing abnormalities; yet there are some infants who develop significant hearing problems after passing a neonatal screen. There is much conjecture as to the number and the characteristics of infants with post-natal hearing losses; yet evidence suggests that many children may be affected, and that a large proportion have no discoverable cause. Currently, screening programmes use lists of risk factors to enroll babies into surveillance programmes.