Translating research to practice, one blog post at a time
By Amanda Daley, Loughborough University, UK In the United Kingdom and Ireland, the Making Every Contact Count initiative aims to use the thousands of consultations that take place every day between health professionals and patients, to promote healthy behavioural changes. […]
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By Dr Lee Shepherd, Northumbria University, UK and Professor Ronan E. O’Carroll, University of Stirling, UK and Professor Eamonn Ferguson, University of Nottingham, UK There are numerous stories of how deceased organ transplantation has offered a lifeline for people. Indeed, […]
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By Victoria Woof and David French, Manchester Centre for Health Psychology, University of Manchester, UK Traditionally in medicine and health psychology, healthcare professionals have provided patients with their personalised disease risks with the aim of preventing disease. Where risk communication […]
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By Zuzana Dankulincova, Pavol Jozef Safarik University, Slovakia While most researchers are aware that disseminating study results is part of their ethical responsibility to research participants (and wish for their research findings to have clear, practical implications), the transition from […]
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By Yael Benyamini, Tel Aviv University, Israel and Evangelos C. Karademas, University of Crete, Greece Anna and Mary are both healthy 45-year-old women, living in a large European city. Each of them knows several people who have contracted COVID-19 and […]
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By Leah Avery, Teesside University, UK. Type 2 diabetes was previously considered a progressive condition, with an inevitable need for insulin therapy, however lifestyle behavioural change research challenges this pessimistic prognosis. As prevalence of type 2 diabetes continues to increase, […]
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By Wendy Lawrence, University of Southampton The main causes of death and disease in society today are influenced by our lifestyle choices, and there is a growing focus on ways to improve health behaviours. Front-line practitioners, particularly those working in […]
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Av Shane Timmons, Economic and Social Research Institute, Irland Regeringar över hela världen har mobiliserat för att försöka kontrollera spridningen av det nya coronaviruset. Om insatserna ska lyckas är dock individuella beteenden avgörande. Vi – beteendeforskningsenheten vid Ekonomiska och sociala forskningsinstitutet i Dublin – samarbetar med Irlands […]
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Av: Peter Harris och Ian Hadden, The Self-Affirmation Research Group, School of Psychology, University of Sussex, UK Har du någonsin känt dig motvillig till att diskutera något du hellre vill ignorera? Kanske din förkärlek till något ohälsosamt som du äter […]
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Av Jane Ogden, University of Surrey, Storbritannien Det är knepigt att prata om vikt i patientmötet. Många patienter är trötta på att höra att ”det skulle vara bra om du kunde gå ner i vikt” varje gång de är i […]
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