IntEgrating Smoking Cessation treAtment into usual online Psychological care for people with common mEntal illness: Protocol for an online randomised feasibility and pilot study (ESCAPE digital).

Background: In the UK, smoking prevalence in people with depression (34%) and anxiety (29%) is more than double that of the general population (13%). People who stop smoking improve their mental health with comparable effect sizes found for antidepressants. In England, online psychological therapy is a standard treatment for depression and anxiety.

Determining the relative salience of recognised push variables on health professional decisions to leave the UK National Health Service (NHS) using the method of paired comparisons.

Objective: The primary and secondary impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic are claimed to have had a detrimental impact on health professional retention within the UK National Health Service (NHS). This study set out to identify priorities for intervention by scaling the relative importance of widely cited push (leave) influences.

Design: During Summer/Autumn 2021, a UK-wide opportunity sample (n=1958) of NHS health professionals completed an online paired-comparisons exercise to determine the relative salience of work-related stress, workload intensity, time pressure, staffing levels, working hours, work-homelife balance, recognition of effort and pay as reasons why health professionals leave NHS employment.

Using self-affirmation to increase intellectual humility in debate.

Intellectual humility, which entails openness to other views and a willingness to listen and engage with them, is crucial for facilitating civil dialogue and progress in debate between opposing sides. In the present research, we tested whether intellectual humility can be reliably detected in discourse and experimentally increased by a prior self-affirmation task. Three hundred and three participants took part in 116 audio- and video-recorded group discussions.

"If it is not made easy for me, I will just not bother". A qualitative exploration of the barriers and facilitators to recycling plastics.

Despite significant investment to increase recycling facilities and kerbside collection of waste materials, plastic packaging is frequently discarded as litter, resulting in significant environmental harm. This research uses qualitative methods to explore the contextual and psychological factors that influence plastic waste disposal behaviour from the perspectives of consumers. This research also reports key results from a brief online survey exploring consumer perspectives toward plastics and plastic recycling.

Making the transition: How finding a good job is a risky business for military Veterans in Northern Ireland.

Veterans transitioning from the military to civilian life may encounter difficulties in different domains of functioning. Most research in this area comes from the US and Israel, with Veterans in Northern Ireland (NI) in the United Kingdom, remaining an understudied population. This qualitative study aimed to examine the nature of transition experiences of NI Veterans by analyzing responses (N = 252) to an open-ended question related to the transition process, in a self-report survey.

Institutional commitment and aging among allied health care professionals in the British National Health Service.

Because of a perceived decline in staff morale, the UK National Health Service has begun to routinely assess the extent to which commitment to the National Health Service may aid staff retention. While a number of studies have investigated the role of employee commitment in relation to staff turnover, no research to date has empirically tested if staff commitment to the NHS could protect job satisfaction from the effects of high job demands, and if this varies according to age. Using latent variable path analysis, this novel study examined this question among a national sample of Healthcare Professionals Allied to Medicine in the National Health Service.

Self-preservation comes at a cost: Why British National Health Service paramedics might be choosing a healthier, but poorer, retirement.

Objectives: To explore and portray the perspectives of National Health Service Ambulance personnel related to the latest rise in the National Health Service occupational pension age.

Methods: Data gathering took the form of 35 in-depth interviews. A thematic analysis was used to characterise and articulate key concepts and meanings.

Preventing Diabetes in the Workplace: Effects of Coaching and Monetary Incentives.

Objective: Prevention of diabetes demonstrated in the diabetes prevention program has not been thoroughly evaluated in workplace settings.

Methods: Glycemic control was assessed by glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) and its impact on 5-year incidence of diabetes and prediabetes prevalence, in wellness program participants (WPP) of (Group A, with) or (Group B, without) health coaching and monetary incentives.

Results: HbA1c fell in Group A WPP (5.

"My worries are rational, climate change is not": habitual ecological worrying is an adaptive response.

Qualifications such as "global warming hysteria" and "energy policy schizophrenia" put forward by some climate change skeptics, usually outside the academic arena, may suggest that people who seriously worry about the environment suffer from psychological imbalance. The present study aimed to refute this thesis. While habitual worrying in general is strongly associated with psychopathological symptoms, in a survey a near-zero correlation was found between habitual ecological worrying and pathological worry.

Consulting in occupational health nursing: an overview.

Occupational health nurses work in a variety of settings and some have chosen to practice the profession as consultants. The process of consulting is similar to that of other disciplines but only two small descriptive studies offer functions and roles specific to occupational health nurse consultants. This article provides an overview of consulting practice, the process, the functions, and the roles of occupational health nurse consultants, and presents some common characteristics of successful consultants.

You're a published author!

Once a nurse author writes a quality manuscript, the article is submitted to an appropriate journal, reviewed by the editor, and sent to review panel members with expertise consistent with the topic of the article or the methodology of research articles. After review, panel members recommend the article be published, accepted for publication after revision, revised without promise of publication, or rejected. Nurse authors have options as to how they handle the recommendation.

It starts with an idea!

Writing for publication is a responsibility of all a profession's members; however, nurses may not have had the opportunity to learn the process of writing and publishing manuscripts in professional journals. The process of writing for publication begins with an idea that is focused on and slanted toward a particular audience. Nurse authors must then create space in their fast-paced day for writing in an environment that supports their concentration and creativity.

Equivalence class formation: a method for teaching statistical interactions.

Many students struggle with statistical concepts such as interaction. In an experimental group, participants took a paper-and-pencil test and then were given training to establish equivalent classes containing four different statistical interactions. All participants formed the equivalence classes and showed maintenance when probes contained novel negative exemplars.