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Outcomes of participating in the Let’s Play programme on 0–5-year-old autistic children’s engagement and caregivers’ stress: study protocol for a parallel randomised controlled trial

BMJ Open
Introduction Vast empirical evidence highlights the importance of early identification, diagnosis and support for autistic children. Caregivers of autistic children often experience high levels of psychological distress; hence there is a need for ...
Philip J Schluter, Laurie McLay, Jenna van Deurs, Lauren van Noorden, Ashley E Hinten   +4 more
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Global health Initiatives as a ‘Drunken Boat’: The Meningitis Vaccines Project Case Study

Medicine Anthropology Theory, 2021
Based on an analysis of the Meningitis Vaccine Project (MVP), a public-private partnership (PPP) set up to introduce the MenAfriVac® vaccine in African countries, this article examines the failures of an accelerated disease control programme that ...
Oumy Baala Thiongane
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A programme to facilitate mentoring of community service nurses in rural province, South Africa

International Journal of Africa Nursing Sciences, 2022
Background: The gap exists regarding a structured formal programme to facilitate mentoring of newly qualified nurses performing community service. Despite the pronouncement of the need to mentor the Community Service nurses (CSNs), there is paucity ...
S.H. Khunou, M.A. Rakhudu
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Effect of a postoperative home-based exercise and self-management programme on physical function in people with lung cancer (CAPACITY): protocol for a randomised controlled trial

BMJ Open Respiratory Research, 2022
Introduction Exercise is important in the postoperative management of lung cancer, yet no strong evidence exists for delivery of home-based programmes. Our feasibility (phase I) study established feasibility of a home-based exercise and self-management ...
Linda Denehy, Selina M Parry, Lara Edbrooke, Catherine L Granger, Christine F McDonald, Louis Irving, Meinir Krishnasamy, Karen E Lamb, Gavin Wright, Phillip Antippa, Shaza Abo, Georgina A Whish-Wilson, Dominic Truong   +12 more
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Benefits of adding food education sessions to an exercise programme on cardiovascular risk factors in patients with type 2 diabetes

Journal of Nutritional Science, 2021
To evaluate the impact of adding food education sessions to an exercise programme on cardiovascular risk factors in middle-aged and older patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D), a randomised parallel-group study was performed.
Carlos Eduardo Gonçalves da Costa Vasconcelos, Maria Manuela Lobato Guimarães Ferreira Cabral, Elisabete Conceição Pereira Ramos, Romeu Duarte Carneiro Mendes   +3 more
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Identifying transboundary conservation priorities in a biodiversity hotspot of China and Myanmar: Implications for data poor mountainous regions

Global Ecology and Conservation, 2019
Difficult to study species that inhabit inaccessible terrain, present significant challenges in obtaining accurate ecological, distributional, and conservation information. To address these challenges, we used an effective set of time- and cost-efficient
Yin Yang, Guopeng Ren, Wenjuan Li, Zhipang Huang, Aung Ko Lin, Paul A. Garber, Chi Ma, Shaoliang Yi, Frank Momberg, Ying Gao, Xinwen Wang, Guangsong Li, Alison Behie, Wen Xiao   +13 more
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Effects of a Physical Literacy Breaks (PLBreaks) Program on Physical Literacy and Body Composition in Portuguese Schoolchildren: A Study Protocol

Biology, 2022
(1) Background: Several studies have shown that active breaks have led to different improvements in their participants. However, no studies have assessed how they affect physical literacy (PL).
Maria Mendoza-Muñoz, Jorge Carlos-Vivas, Santos Villafaina, Jose A. Parraca, Alejandro Vega-Muñoz, Nicolás Contreras-Barraza, Armando Raimundo   +6 more
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Effect of self‐administration of medication programme on cardiovascular inpatients' medication adherence and nurses' satisfaction: A randomized clinical trial

Nursing Open, 2021
Aim To investigate the effect of self‐administration of medication programme on medication adherence in cardiovascular inpatients and nurse's satisfaction.
Reza Hajialibeigloo, Seyed Reza Mazlum, Samira Mohajer, Donald E. Morisky   +3 more
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Support, networks, and relationships: Findings from a mixed-methods evaluation of a mentorship programme for early career women researchers in sexual and reproductive health and rights.

PLoS ONE, 2023
Low research output among women researchers in health research has been linked to inadequate mentorship opportunities for early career women researchers and particularly in sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) field.
Muhammad Asim, Peter Muriuki Gatheru, Joy J Chebet, Mehr G Shah, Anna Thorson, Vanessa Brizuela   +5 more
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The TESSA OER Experience: Building sustainable models of production and user implementation

Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2008
This paper offers a review of the origins, design strategy and implementation plans of the Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa (TESSA) research and development programme.
Freda J. Wolfenden
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