Publications by authors named "S Worrall"
Introduction: Women identified at risk for preterm may be vulnerable to developing mental health difficulties due to the increased likelihood of poor pregnancy outcome and uncertainty surrounding their delivery. Formal assessment of mental wellbeing in specialist preterm birth clinics is not routinely offered, but may offer the opportunity for early intervention.
Methods: We aimed to investigate if demographic characteristics and obstetric risk factors were associated with psychological wellbeing in women at risk of preterm birth.
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- Researchers have an ethical duty to share their findings, particularly with study participants and those in decision-making roles, and storytelling is a creative method for doing so in nursing research.
- The aim of the study is to provide a guide for collaboratively creating digital stories that communicate research findings to minority ethnic and socioeconomically disadvantaged communities.
- The authors emphasize the importance of a structured approach to produce engaging and authentic digital stories that effectively convey research results and are easily accessible to the intended audiences.
Background: Postpartum Anxiety [PPA] is a prevalent problem in society, posing a significant burden to women, infant health, and the National Health Service [NHS]. Despite this, it is poorly detected by current maternal mental health practices. Due to the current lack of appropriate psychometric measures, insufficiency in training of healthcare professionals, fragmentation of maternal mental healthcare policy and practice, and the magnitude of the effects of PPA on women and their infants, PPA is a critical research priority.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe report for the first time a reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer polymerisation-induced self-assembly (RAFT-PISA) formulation in ionic liquid (IL) that yields worm gels. A series of poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate)--poly(benzyl methacrylate) (PHEMA--PBzMA) block copolymer nanoparticles were synthesised RAFT dispersion polymerisation of benzyl methacrylate in the hydrophilic IL 1-ethyl-3-methyl imidazolium dicyanamide, [EMIM][DCA]. This RAFT-PISA formulation can be controlled to afford spherical, worm-like and vesicular nano-objects, with free-standing gels being obtained over a broad range of PBzMA core-forming degrees of polymerisation (DPs).
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