Objectives While there is strong evidence that regular participation in physical activity (PA)
brings numerous health benefits to older adults, and interventions to effectively promote PA …

Background Recognising the influence of context and the context-sensitive nature of quality
improvement (QI) interventions is crucial to implementing effective improvements and …

Background Context shapes the effectiveness of knowledge implementation and influences
health improvement. Successful healthcare quality improvement (QI) initiatives frequently fail …

Objective: To identify the effect of patients9 suicide on consultant psychiatrists in Scotland.
Design: Confidential coded postal questionnaire survey. Participants: Of 315 eligible …

Background People living with colorectal cancer are at risk of anxiety and depression. We
investigated what factors were most highly associated with these. Methods Four hundred …

Background There is a paucity of methodologically robust vocational rehabilitation (VR)
intervention trials. This study assessed the feasibility and acceptability of a VR trial of women …

Background As quality improvement (QI) programmes have become progressively larger
scale, the risks of implementation having unintended consequences are increasingly …

Cervical screening reduces the risk of cervical cancer by detecting and treating cervical
intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN). The management of women with low-grade cervical …

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: It is important to maximize response rates to postal
questionnaires. We compared the impact of three low-cost interventions on response rates …

This paper describes the process of developing and testing a new questionnaire, Process
Outcome Specific Measure (POSM), including an assessment of its content validity and …