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Feasibility of the Go2Play Active Play intervention for increasing physical and social development in children with intellectual disabilities

Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 2021
Introduction An active play is designed to increase children’s physical activity levels and fundamental movement skills through outdoor play and is well-suited to the needs of children with intellectual disabilities. However, no active play interventions
Arlene McGarty, Nathalie Jones, Katie Rutherford, Sophie Westrop, Lara Sutherland, Andrew Jahoda, Craig Melville   +6 more
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Consistent effects of the genetics of happiness across the lifespan and ancestries in multiple cohorts

Scientific Reports, 2023
Happiness is a fundamental human affective trait, but its biological basis is not well understood. Using a novel approach, we construct LDpred-inf polygenic scores of a general happiness measure in 2 cohorts: the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development ...
Joey Ward, Laura M. Lyall, Breda Cullen, Rona J. Strawbridge, Xingxing Zhu, Ioana Stanciu, Alisha Aman, Claire L. Niedzwiedz, Jana Anderson, Mark E. S. Bailey, Donald M. Lyall, Jill P. Pell   +11 more
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Rates, causes and predictors of all-cause and avoidable mortality in 163 686 children and young people with and without intellectual disabilities: a record linkage national cohort study

BMJ Open, 2022
Objectives To investigate mortality rates and associated factors, and avoidable mortality in children/young people with intellectual disabilities.Design Retrospective cohort; individual record-linked data between Scotland’s 2011 Census and 9.5 years of ...
Daniel Mackay, Ewelina Rydzewska, Laura Anne Hughes-McCormack, Angela Henderson, Sally-Ann Cooper, Kirsty Dunn, Craig Melville, Michael Fleming, Bhautesh D Jani, Joseph D Symonds, Jill Pell, Maria Truesdale, Fiona Barlow, Laura Ward, Filip Sosenko, Jenny Miller, Deborah Cairns   +16 more
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Cohort profile: Scotland’s record-linkage e-cohorts of people with intellectual disabilities, and autistic people (SCIDA)

BMJ Open, 2022
Purpose To investigate health, mortality and healthcare inequalities experienced by people with intellectual disabilities, and autistic people, and their determinants; an important step towards identifying and implementing solutions to reduce ...
Daniel Mackay, Ewelina Rydzewska, Laura Anne Hughes-McCormack, Angela Henderson, Sally-Ann Cooper, Deborah Kinnear, Kirsty Dunn, Craig Melville, J P Pell, Michael Fleming, Gillian S Smith   +10 more
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Changes over 15 years in the contribution of adiposity and smoking to deaths in England and Scotland

BMC Public Health, 2021
Background For many years smoking has been the major threat to public health in developed countries. However, smoking prevalence has declined over a period when adiposity has increased.
Frederick K. Ho, Carlos Celis-Morales, Fanny Petermann-Rocha, Solange Liliana Parra-Soto, James Lewsey, Daniel Mackay, Jill P. Pell   +6 more
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Transitions for older people with learning disabilities and behaviours that challenge others, and their family carers: a merged protocol for two rapid scoping reviews of evidence

Systematic Reviews, 2022
Background There are over 1 million adults with a learning disability in the UK, of whom approximately 20% displaying behaviours that challenge others. Two thirds of people with learning disabilities live in the family home.
J. Vseteckova, J. Jordan, E. Tilley, M. Larkin, S. Ryan, L. M. Wallace   +5 more
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Phenotypic and genetic associations between anhedonia and brain structure in UK Biobank

Translational Psychiatry, 2021
Anhedonia is a core symptom of multiple psychiatric disorders and has been associated with alterations in brain structure. Genome-wide association studies suggest that anhedonia is heritable, with a polygenic architecture, but few studies have explored ...
Xingxing Zhu, Joey Ward, Breda Cullen, Donald M. Lyall, Rona J. Strawbridge, Laura M. Lyall, Daniel J. Smith   +6 more
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Respiratory-associated deaths in people with intellectual disabilities: a systematic review and meta-analysis

BMJ Open, 2021
Objective To review and synthesise evidence on rates of respiratory-associated deaths and associated risk factors in the intellectual disability population.Design Systematic review and meta-analysis.Data sources Embase, CINAHL, ISI Web of Science (all ...
Joseph Symonds, Ewelina Rydzewska, Laura Anne Hughes-McCormack, Angela Henderson, Deborah Kinnear, Kirsty Dunn, Craig Melville, Bhautesh Jani, Gillian S Smith, Maria Truesdale, Fiona Barlow, Arlene McGarty   +11 more
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Improving screening and management of latent tuberculosis infection: development and evaluation of latent tuberculosis infection primary care model

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2022
Background In Australia, demand for specialist infectious diseases services exceeds capacity to provide timely management of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) in areas of high refugee and asylum seeker settlement. A model for treating LTBI patients in
Marina Kunin, Mark Timlin, Chris Lemoh, David A. Sheffield, Alana Russo, Shegofa Hazara, Jacqueline McBride   +6 more
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Evaluation of a policy intervention to promote the health and wellbeing of workers in small and medium sized enterprises – a cluster randomised controlled trial

BMC Public Health, 2019
Background Good employee health and wellbeing is of key importance to employers and the economy. The workplace can serve as a setting for health and wellbeing promotion.
Thrive at Work Wellbeing Programme Collaboration
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