299 results match your criteria: "Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board[Affiliation]"
PLoS One
May 2020
SAIL Databank, Swansea University Medical School, Swansea, United Kingdom.
A key requirement for longitudinal studies using routinely-collected health data is to be able to measure what individuals are present in the datasets used, and over what time period. Individuals can enter and leave the covered population of administrative datasets for a variety of reasons, including both life events and characteristics of the datasets themselves. An automated, customizable method of determining individuals' presence was developed for the primary care dataset in Swansea University's SAIL Databank.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Aim: Reducing alcohol misuse by male prisoners is an important global issue. Control of drinking behaviour could be a useful target for intervention in this population, and locus of control could be a causal factor in this. We aimed to assess the effect of a clinical psychologist-facilitated group intervention on male prisoners' locus of control of drinking behaviour.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNurse Res
January 2020
University of South Wales, Pontypridd, Wales.
Background: Children whose assessed health needs cannot be met by statutory and universal services may require bespoke packages of continuing care. A project management group was set up to design a study that would explore the complexities for a children's community nurse (CCN) of managing such packages.
Methodology: Group concept mapping (GCM), a mixed quantitative/qualitative participant-centred methodology, was used to obtain consensus from 20 CCNs about the complexities inherent in managing such packages and to develop a concept map that illustrated the emerging conceptual framework.
BMJ Open Qual
July 2020
Department of General Surgery, Princess of Wales Hospital, Bridgend, UK.
BMJ Open
December 2019
Postgraduate Medical Institute (PGMI), Faculty of Health & Social Care, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, UK.
Objectives: Identifying the issues and concerns that matter most to burns survivors can be challenging. For a number of reasons, but mainly relating to patient empowerment, some of the most pressing concerns patients may have during a clinical encounter may not naturally be the focal point of that encounter. The Patient Concerns Inventory (PCI) is a tried and tested concept initially developed in the field of head and neck cancer that empowers patients during a clinical encounter through provision of a list of prompts that allows patients to self-report concerns prior to consultation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBone Joint J
January 2020
Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board, Morriston Hospital, Swansea, UK.
Aims: The aim of this study was to develop a psychometrically sound measure of recovery for use in patients who have suffered an open tibial fracture.
Methods: An initial pool of 109 items was generated from previous qualitative data relating to recovery following an open tibial fracture. These items were field tested in a cohort of patients recovering from an open tibial fracture.
BMJ Open
December 2019
Medical School, Swansea University, Swansea, UK.
Objective: To explore patients' experience of receiving pain relief injection for suspected hip fracture from paramedics at the location of the injury.
Design: Qualitative interviews within a feasibility trial about an alternative to routine prehospital pain management for patients with suspected hip fracture.
Setting: Patients treated by paramedics in the catchment area of one emergency department in South Wales.
Int J Surg Protoc
February 2019
Department of General Surgery, Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board, Swansea, UK.
Introduction: Closure of mesenteric defects during laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery (RYGB) has not been fully established as standard operative practice. However, in recent years a body of evidence has emerged suggesting that non-closure of defects leads to increased rates of internal herniation and its potential consequences, including the need for reoperation, along with an associated morbidity and mortality risk. Within the emerging literature there has also been some evidence of a greater risk of 30-day complications in closure groups.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBMJ Case Rep
November 2019
ENT, Morriston Hospital, Swansea, UK.
Nasal fracture accounts for over 50% of facial fractures and is a frequent presentation to ear, nose and throat emergency clinics. Optimal management of nasal injuries with deformity is by manipulation under anaesthetic and should be offered when appropriate. A healthy 27-year-old woman presented with a lateral nasal wall mass with purulent discharge 1 month following manipulation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFArch Sex Behav
February 2020
Department of Psychology, Swansea University, Swansea, UK.
Ambiphilic (or bisexual) men describe feelings of sexual attraction to both men and women. However, physiological measures of arousal have failed to show a consistent pattern of arousal to both genders. We measured men's automatic associations between the concept of sex (represented by words) and the concepts of men versus women (represented by images) via the Implicit Association Test (IAT) and a priming task.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAppetite
April 2020
Department of Psychology, Swansea University, UK. Electronic address:
Attachment orientation is a psychological factor concerning our expectations of ourselves and others in interpersonal relationships. An emerging literature has suggested that attachment orientation may influence a range of outcomes associated with bariatric surgery. The purpose of this scoping review was to map the literature and examine the role of attachment orientation in the context of bariatric surgery.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBMJ Open
October 2019
School of Health Sciences, Bangor University, Bangor, UK.
Introduction: Kidney disease is common, affecting up to 1 in 10 of the adult population, and the numbers are expected to rise over the next decade. There are three main treatments that are available to patients with kidney disease: transplantation, dialysis and supportive care without dialysis. Dialysis can occur in a dialysis unit or in a person's home, but unit-based dialysis remains the most common initial treatment for patients in Wales.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFuture Healthc J
June 2019
Swansea University Medical School, Institute of Life Science.
Stroke
November 2019
From the Department of Life Sciences, Research Centre for Musculoskeletal Science and Sports Medicine, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom (H.L.J., S.J.B., N.D.R.).
Background and Purpose- A quarter of individuals who experience a stroke are under the age of 65 years (defined as young adults), and up to 44% will be unable to return to work poststroke, predominantly because of walking difficulties. No research study has comprehensively analyzed walking performance in young adult's poststroke. The primary aim of this study is to investigate how a stroke in young adults affects walking performance (eg, walking speed and metabolic cost) compared with healthy age-matched controls.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAge Ageing
July 2019
Institute of Life Sciences, School of Medicine, Swansea University, UK.
Introduction: frail, older patients are occasionally incapable of keeping their head out of the field of view of a chest radiograph (CXR) resulting in a 'slumpogram'. This study aims to explore a possible link between a slumped appearance on a CXR; mortality and length of hospital stay.
Methods: the CXRs of patients aged over 65 admitted to a Health Board with a catchment area of approximately 300,000 were investigated in a retrospective analysis of all CXRs taken during the first week of January 2015.
Eur Urol
January 2020
Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Background: BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations have been associated with prostate cancer (PCa) risk but a wide range of risk estimates have been reported that are based on retrospective studies.
Objective: To estimate relative and absolute PCa risks associated with BRCA1/2 mutations and to assess risk modification by age, family history, and mutation location.
Design, Setting, And Participants: This was a prospective cohort study of male BRCA1 (n = 376) and BRCA2 carriers (n = 447) identified in clinical genetics centres in the UK and Ireland (median follow-up 5.
PLoS One
March 2020
Institute of Life Science, Swansea University Medical School, Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom.
Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer diagnosed in men worldwide; however, few patients are affected by clinically significant disease within their lifetime. Unfortunately, the means to discriminate between patients with indolent disease and those who progress to aggressive prostate cancer is currently unavailable, resulting in over-treatment of patients. We therefore aimed to determine biomarkers of prostate cancer that can be used in the clinic to aid the diagnosis and prognosis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFClin Hemorheol Microcirc
July 2019
Welsh Centre for Emergency Medicine Research, Swansea University, Morriston Hospital, Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board, Swansea, UK.
Introduction: This aim of this study is to investigate the individual effects of varying concentrations of thrombin and fibrinogen on clot microstructure (characterised through the fractal dimension of the incipient clot network, df) and clot formation time (TGP) using a fibrin-thrombin clot model. df and TGP markers are measured using a haemorheological method that has already been investigated for whole blood.
Methods: This is an in vitro study using three thrombin concentrations (0.
Future Healthc J
March 2019
Neath Port Talbot Community Resource Team, Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board, Swansea, UK.
Ear Hear
July 2021
Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Objectives: Hearing loss (HL) affects a significant proportion of adults aged >50 years by impairing communication and social connectedness and, due to its high prevalence, is a growing global concern. Cochlear implants (CIs) are effective devices for many people with severe or greater sensorineural HL who experience limited benefits from hearing aids. Despite this, uptake rates globally are low among adults.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Child Health Care
June 2020
Associate Professor, School of Care Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences and Education, University of South Wales, UK.
UK public health nurse assessment of family resilience is a necessary component of monitoring family health and children's development and identifying areas for change. This research was part of an exploration of Welsh public health nurses' understanding of 'family resilience' as a concept underpinning their practice. From it, the Family Resilience Assessment Instrument Tool (FRAIT www.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Mol Med (Berl)
September 2019
Reproductive Biology and Gynaecological Oncology, Swansea University Medical School, Singleton Park, Swansea, SA2 8PP, UK.
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a common gynaecological disorder, with a prevalence of up to 12% of women of reproductive age, and is in part characterised by elevated circulating androgens and aberrant expression of androgen receptor (AR) in the endometrium. A high percentage of PCOS patients suffer from infertility, a condition that appears to be linked to mistimed and incomplete decidualisation critically affecting events surrounding embryo implantation. The aim of this study was to examine the involvement of MAGEA11, and the genome-wide role of AR in PCOS.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Clin Exp Hypn
January 2020
b Department of Psychology , Swansea University, Swansea , UK.
This review examines the effectiveness of hypnotherapy for the relief of overactive bladder (OAB) symptoms. Ten studies examining outcomes of hypnotherapy for OAB were located from searches of electronic databases. Most reports were case studies or observational, but there were two randomized, controlled trials.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe triarchic model posits that psychopathy is a combination of phenotypes related to boldness, meanness, and disinhibition. We examined how each of these phenotypes of psychopathy related to past violence and antisocial behavior and to behavior within the prison. The sample consisted of men ( = 108) with a history of serious offending and a diagnosis of personality disorder at the point of admission to a prison serving as a therapeutic community.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFExpert Opin Pharmacother
September 2019
Developmental Neuropsychiatry Department, Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust , Truro , UK.
: Epilepsy treatment in older people requires specific consideration owing to more physical co-morbidities, the risk of drug-to-drug interactions through polypharmacy, and differences in pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics. There are many 'newer' antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) widely used for various seizure types and seizure disorders. However, there is limited specific evidence for the efficacy, safety, and tolerability of these treatments in the elderly population.
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