Barriers and facilitators of midwives' physical activity behaviour in hospital and community contexts in Scotland.

Aims: To investigate barriers and facilitators of physical activity in midwives in hospital and community environments.

Design: A sequential mixed-methods approach.

Data Sources: Focus groups and subsequent questionnaire survey.

Development of a behaviour rating system for rural/remote pre-hospital settings.

Background: Remote and Rural pre-hospital care practitioners manage serious illness and injury on an unplanned basis, necessitating technical and non-technical skills (NTS). However, no behaviour rating systems currently address NTS within these settings. Informed by health psychology theory, a NTS-specific behaviour rating system was developed for use within pre-hospital care training for remote and rural practitioners.

Enhancing the Effectiveness of Significant Event Analysis: Exploring Personal Impact and Applying Systems Thinking in Primary Care.

Introduction: Significant event analysis (SEA) is well established in many primary care settings but can be poorly implemented. Reasons include the emotional impact on clinicians and limited knowledge of systems thinking in establishing why events happen and formulating improvements. To enhance SEA effectiveness, we developed and tested "guiding tools" based on human factors principles.

Computerized cognitive behaviour therapy for depression in people with a chronic physical illness.

Purpose: Computerized cognitive behaviour therapy (cCBT) is becoming an increasingly well-recognized therapeutic option for the treatment of depression. With acknowledged high prevalence of depression within chronic physical ill-health populations and a need to increase access to psychological therapies, cCBT represents a low-intensity intervention with the potential to have great utility within health care settings.

Methods: This article systematically reviews the evidence for the effectiveness of cCBT for the treatment of depression with people who have a chronic physical health problem.

Knowledge of stroke risk factors and warning signs in Ireland: development and application of the Stroke Awareness Questionnaire (SAQ).

Background: Inability to recognize stroke warning signs and delay in seeking medical attention for recognized symptoms contribute to treatment delay, thus limiting the potential for intervention and impacting negatively on potential stroke outcome.

Aim: To examine knowledge of stroke risk factors and warning signs in the adult population in Ireland.

Methods: In 2009, 1000 members of the general public were interviewed by telephone using quota-based population sampling of adults (≥18 years).