Increasing confidence and competence in supporting behaviour change in physiotherapy practice using Making Every Contact Count Healthy Conversation Skills: a before and after evaluation [PDF]
BMC Health Services ResearchAim To a) evaluate the impact of Making Every Contact Count Healthy Conversation Skills (MECC HCS) training on the confidence and competence of physiotherapists in supporting patient behaviour change, and b) evaluate perceived acceptability, barriers and
Amelia Parchment +5 more
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Quadruple parametric optical mapping to measure cardiac metabolism-excitation-contraction coupling [PDF]
Communications BiologyMetabolism-excitation-contraction coupling (MECC) refers to the interdependent facets of cardiac physiology working synchronously to generate each heartbeat.
Amber Mills, Sharon Ann George
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Molecular Respiratory Pathogen Panels in Lung Transplantation. [PDF]
Transpl Infect DisABSTRACT Molecular respiratory pathogen panels are an innovative tool for the rapid detection of respiratory pathogens and antimicrobial resistance genes, offering the potential to improve diagnostic accuracy and guide timely antimicrobial therapy.
Lombardi A.
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Assessing fidelity of design and training of Making Every Contact Count (MECC) in a mental health inpatient setting [PDF]
BMC Public HealthBackground Making Every Contact Count (MECC) is a public health strategy which strives to enable brief interventions to be implemented through opportunistic healthy lifestyle conversations.
Emma Kemp +10 more
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Mapping regional implementation of ‘Making Every Contact Count’: mixed-methods evaluation of implementation stage, strategies, barriers and facilitators of implementation [PDF]
BMJ OpenBackground The Making Every Contact Count (MECC) programme provides training and materials to support public-facing workers to encourage health-promoting behaviour change by using the day-to-day interactions between organisations and individuals.
Gregory Maniatopoulos +12 more
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The effectiveness of integrating making every contact count into an undergraduate medical curriculum [PDF]
PEC InnovationObjective: To evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of integrating Making Every Contact Count (MECC) using Healthy Conversation Skills (HCS) into an undergraduate medical curriculum and test the performance of an associated assessment.
Robyn Fletcher +6 more
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Methicillin-resistant and methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus in French hedgehogs admitted to a wildlife health center [PDF]
One HealthThe mecC gene conferring methicillin-resistance has always been found on a SCCmec type XI element and is largely restricted to the few clonal complexes CC130, CC1943, CC425, CC49 and CC599.
Marisa Haenni +9 more
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Parasitic nematodes in potatoes of different varieties and their interrelations with some arthropods
One Health & Risk Management, 2021 Introduction. Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is susceptible to infestation with an associated complex of different species of parasitic and saprophytic nematodes, bacteria, fungi, and arthropods, which diminish the quality of the product.
Maria MELNIC +4 more
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Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine, 2023 Background ‘Making Every Contact Count’ (MECC) is a public health strategy supporting public-facing workers to use opportunities during routine contacts to enable health behaviour change. A mental health hospital in the North East of England is currently
Angela M. Rodrigues +9 more
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Periodontitis and metabolic diseases (diabetes and obesity): Tackling multimorbidity
Periodontology 2000, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are multifactorial, long‐term, chronic conditions that represent a burden to health‐care systems worldwide as they can only be controlled rather than cured; hence, they require long‐term care. With the exponential increase in NCDs, the occurrence of individuals presenting with more than one chronic disease is ...
Crystal Marruganti +2 more
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