Cette enquête repose sur l’idée selon laquelle il est possible de tirer des enseignements de l’observation d’un grand nombre de bibliothèques pour mesurer les conditions de l’élargissement des horaires d’ouverture et ses effets sur les publics et les usages. Elle se concentre sur les établissements des collectivités de moins de 12 000 habitants qui...
Published in Research Involvement and Engagement
Plain English summaryPatient and public involvement (PPI) improves the quality of health research and ensures that research is relevant to patients’ needs. Though PPI is increasingly evident in clinical and health services research, there are few examples in the research literature of effective PPI in translational and laboratory-based research. In...
Published in Sustainable Water Resources Management
The Quaternary deposits represent the main groundwater aquifer in the study area. During the last few years, the problem of groundwater contamination has been intensified mainly due to natural and human-related factors. The present work aims to study the hydrochemical characteristics and quality assessment of shallow groundwater of the Quaternary a...
Published in International Journal of Mental Health Systems
BackgroundMental health information systems are, in general, inadequate and unreliable in India. We have developed key mental health indicators for measuring mental health service coverage in primary care. This study aims to evaluate the use of these new indicators in seven health care facilities in Sehore District of Madhya Pradesh in India.Method...
Published in Health Research Policy and Systems
BackgroundKnowledge translation (KT) is a dynamic and iterative process that includes synthesis, dissemination, exchange and ethically sound application of knowledge to yield beneficial outcomes for society. Effective KT requires researchers to play an active role in promoting evidence uptake. This paper presents a systematised review of evidence o...
Published in BMC Health Services Research
BackgroundAuthors in previous studies demonstrated that centralising acute stroke care is associated with an increased chance of timely Intra-Venous Thrombolysis (IVT) and lower costs compared to care at community hospitals. In this study we estimated the lower bound of the causal impact of centralising IVT on health and cost outcomes within clinic...
Published in BMC Medical Education
BackgroundTo respond to the growing need to cultivate medical trainees with professional identity, it is necessary to evaluate professional identity formation (PIF) in medical trainees to understand their state of PIF and apply this to medical education. Previous qualitative studies indicated that Kegan’s human development model could explain medic...
Published in BMC Public Health
BackgroundThis study uses the RE-AIM framework to provide a process evaluation of a workplace-based cluster randomised trial comparing an ergonomic plus exercise intervention to an ergonomic plus health promotion intervention; and to highlight variations across organisations; and consider the implications of the findings for intervention translatio...
Published in BMC Health Services Research
BackgroundHigh fertility rates and low modern contraceptive use put African youth and adolescents at high risk for health complications, including maternal mortality. Mainstreaming youth-friendly health services (YFHS) into existing services is one approach to improve access to reproductive health services for youth and adolescents. The objective o...
Published in Heritage Science
Roy Lichtenstein’s Whaam! (1963) is an iconic artwork in Tate’s collection (T00897). Over the past 50 years, the painting has been on almost continuous display and had accrued a layer of deposited soiling, which resulted in the dampening of Lichtenstein’s vibrant colours and the masking of numerous subtleties across the painting surface. This paper...
