Publications by authors named "Rebecca Livingston"
Aims/background: Social factors are increasingly recognised as influential on antenatal physical activity. While pregnant women describe the people and support they require to remain physically active, little is known about how pregnant women select and make sense of their social experiences throughout pregnancy. This study followed pregnant women's sense-making of their physical activity-related social experiences as pregnancy progressed, and physical activity declined.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) with severe asthma are associated with breathing pattern disorder (BPD). Mouth breathing is a sign of breathing pattern disorder, and nose breathing a fundamental part of breathing pattern retraining for BPD. The prevalence of BPD in relation to CRS subtypes and the relationship of nasal obstruction to BPD in CRS and associated severe asthma is unknown.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Post-COVID-19 complications require simultaneous characterisation and management to plan policy and health system responses. We describe the 12-month experience of the first UK dedicated post-COVID-19 clinical service to include hospitalised and non-hospitalised patients.
Methods: In a single-centre, observational analysis, we report the demographics, symptoms, comorbidities, investigations, treatments, functional recovery, specialist referral and rehabilitation of 1325 individuals assessed at the University College London Hospitals post-COVID-19 service between April 2020 and April 2021, comparing by referral route: posthospitalised (PH), non-hospitalised (NH) and post emergency department (PED).
Article Synopsis
- - Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) is linked to high rates of anxiety and depression, but the effects of treatments, like omalizumab, on mental health are unclear.
- - A study of 95 patients with severe CRS and asthma measured anxiety and depression levels and found significant rates of anxiety (49.47%) and depression (38.95%) among participants, particularly in those with nasal polyps.
- - Treatment with omalizumab significantly reduced anxiety levels but did not affect depression scores; overall, symptoms related to CRS and asthma improved post-treatment, highlighting a connection between airway disease and anxiety.
Background And Objective: Breathing pattern disorder (BPD) can co-exist with and mimic asthma, acting to amplify symptoms and confound assessment of disease control, resulting in inappropriate treatment escalation. The aim of this research was to report the utility of a novel breathing pattern assessment tool (BPAT) to detect BPD in treatment-refractory asthma.
Methods: As a component of a multidisciplinary assessment, adult patients referred with treatment-refractory asthma underwent respiratory physiotherapy assessment to diagnose BPD.