Universal Free School Breakfast: A Qualitative Process Evaluation According to the Perspectives of Senior Stakeholders.

In the last decade, the provision of school breakfast has increased significantly in the UK. However, there is an absence of knowledge regarding senior stakeholder views on the processes and potential outcomes on different groups, within the communities served by school breakfast programs. The purpose of this study was to examine the views and experiences of senior level stakeholders and thereby provide an original qualitative contribution to the research.

Universal Free School Breakfast: A Qualitative Model for Breakfast Behaviors.

In recent years, the provision of school breakfast has increased significantly in the UK. However, research examining the effectiveness of school breakfast is still within relative stages of infancy, and findings to date have been rather mixed. Moreover, previous evaluations of school breakfast schemes have been predominantly quantitative in their methodologies.

Factors influencing the length of hospital stay among patients resident in Blackpool admitted with COPD: a cross-sectional study.

Objectives: To identify the differential effects of patient, health service, temporal and geographic factors on length of stay (LOS) for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)-related admissions.

Design: We used stratified Cox proportional hazard model to evaluate the association between LOS and patient, health service, temporal and geographical factors.

Setting: Patients resident in Blackpool, North West England, admitted to the local hospital with COPD.