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Risk Sensitivity Analysis Of Ais Cyber Security Through Maritime Cyber Regulatory Frameworks, Omer Soner, Gizem Kayisoglu, Pelin Bolat, Kimberly Tam
Risk Sensitivity Analysis Of Ais Cyber Security Through Maritime Cyber Regulatory Frameworks, Omer Soner, Gizem Kayisoglu, Pelin Bolat, Kimberly Tam
School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics
Given the increasing frequency and sophistication of methods and strategies employed in cyberattacks, cyber resilience has become a basic notion of cyber risk management. To be cyber-resilient against cyber risks, shipping companies must be proactive in establishing and implementing actions, constructing effective strategies, and adopting mitigation methods to strengthen their assets. However, shipping companies have only lately tended to fully recognize the necessity for a cybersecurity perspective to enable effective cyber risk management and mitigation of increasing cyberattacks. Aside from deficiencies in system design, integration, or maintenance, human factors are the prime weakness that potentially jeopardizes the ship's cybersecurity by …
Intergenerational Co-Production In Digital Design For Health, Well-Being, And Social Connection, Catherine Hennessy, Greg Mannion, Richard Haynes, Anna Whittaker, Hannah Bradwell, Simone Tomaz, John Ritchie, Leonie Cooper
Intergenerational Co-Production In Digital Design For Health, Well-Being, And Social Connection, Catherine Hennessy, Greg Mannion, Richard Haynes, Anna Whittaker, Hannah Bradwell, Simone Tomaz, John Ritchie, Leonie Cooper
School of Nursing and Midwifery
No abstract provided.
Crossing Riverborderscapes And A View From In-Between: Passenger Ferries In South West England, Eva Mcgrath, Richard Yarwood, Nichola Harmer
Crossing Riverborderscapes And A View From In-Between: Passenger Ferries In South West England, Eva Mcgrath, Richard Yarwood, Nichola Harmer
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
This paper explores the everyday experiences of crossing rivers that form local borders. It proposes and utilises the term ‘riverborderscape’ to bring together the particularities, complexities, and creativities associated with these border crossings. The term draws on three areas of scholarship. First, the riverborderscape draws on recent scholarly attention to the materiality, and effects on understanding space and place, of watery environments. Second, the term draws on scholarship from within border studies and cognate disciplines that highlights the border as a liminal space. Third, landscape geographies are used to examine the imagination and performance of crossing riverborderscapes. The paper reports …
Investigating Techniques To Optimise The Layout Of Turbines In A Windfarm Using A Quantum Computer, J Hancock, Mj Craven, C Mcneile, D Vadacchino
Investigating Techniques To Optimise The Layout Of Turbines In A Windfarm Using A Quantum Computer, J Hancock, Mj Craven, C Mcneile, D Vadacchino
School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics
No abstract provided.
Impacts Of Artificial Light At Night On The Early Life History Of Two Ecosystem Engineers, Svenja Tidau, Fraser T. Brough, Luis Gimenez, Stuart R. Jenkins, Thomas W. Davies
Impacts Of Artificial Light At Night On The Early Life History Of Two Ecosystem Engineers, Svenja Tidau, Fraser T. Brough, Luis Gimenez, Stuart R. Jenkins, Thomas W. Davies
School of Biological and Marine Sciences
Sessile marine invertebrates play a vital role as ecosystem engineers and in benthic-pelagic coupling. Most benthic fauna develop through larval stages and the importance of natural light cycles for larval biology and ecology is long-established. Natural light-dark cycles regulate two of the largest ocean-scale processes that are fundamental to larvae’s life cycle: the timing of broadcast spawning for successful fertilisation and diel vertical migration for foraging and predator avoidance. Given the reliance on light and the ecological role of larvae, surprisingly little is known about the impacts of artificial light at night (ALAN) on the early life history of habitat-forming …
Content Moderation Through Removal Of Service: Content Delivery Networks And Extremist Websites, Seán Looney
Content Moderation Through Removal Of Service: Content Delivery Networks And Extremist Websites, Seán Looney
School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences
Considerable attention has been paid by researchers to social media platforms, especially the ‘big companies’, and increasingly also messaging applications, and how effectively they moderate extremist and terrorist content on their services. Much less attention has yet been paid to if and how infrastructure and service providers, further down ‘the tech stack’, deal with extremism and terrorism. Content Delivery Networks (CDN) such as Cloudflare play an underestimated role in moderating the presence of extremist and terrorist content online as it is impossible for these websites to operate without DDoS protection. This is evidenced by the takedown of a wide range …
Experiences Of Caregivers Of People With Dementia In Indonesia: A Focus Group Study, Imelda Theresia, Tara P. Sani, S Evans‐Lacko, Nicolas Farina, Lydia Augustina, Yuda Turana
Experiences Of Caregivers Of People With Dementia In Indonesia: A Focus Group Study, Imelda Theresia, Tara P. Sani, S Evans‐Lacko, Nicolas Farina, Lydia Augustina, Yuda Turana
Peninsula Medical School
Abstract Background Many people with dementia are reliant on family caregivers to provide daily care to maintain quality of life and dignity. As a result, caregivers can experience increased burden, poorer health outcomes and increased stigma. To date, the experiences of caregivers of people with dementia has not been explored within an Indonesian context. Aims This study aims to understand the experience of caregivers of people with dementia in Indonesia and better understanding of the stigma associated with dementia. Materials and Methods This qualitative study is embedded within the Strengthening Responses to Dementia in Developing Countries project. Focus Group Discussions …
Organic Dining Behaviour In British Restaurants, Lokman Dinc, Rong Huang
Organic Dining Behaviour In British Restaurants, Lokman Dinc, Rong Huang
Plymouth Business School
The organic food market has experienced significant growth in recent decades all over the world. Within the context of the UK, a remarkable rise can be seen considering the recent popularisation of organic food products. With these trends in mind, the aim of this research is to develop better understanding of organic dining behaviour in British restaurants. To achieve this aim, this research used questionnaire technique and analyse the data using SEM.The key findings of the research confirmed that a range of factors, including advertisements through social media, knowledge, price, taste, quality, availability, and labelling, all significantly influence consumer intention …
A Novel Application Of The Coras Framework For Ensuring Cyber Hygiene On Shipboard Radar, Gizem Kayisoglu, Pelin Bolat, Kimberly Tam
A Novel Application Of The Coras Framework For Ensuring Cyber Hygiene On Shipboard Radar, Gizem Kayisoglu, Pelin Bolat, Kimberly Tam
School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics
No abstract provided.
Engaging With ‘Less Affluent’ Communities For Food System Transformation: A Community Food Researcher Model (Foodsequal Project), C. Pettinger, L. Hunt, H. Gardiner, P. Garg, L. Howard, C. Wagstaff
Engaging With ‘Less Affluent’ Communities For Food System Transformation: A Community Food Researcher Model (Foodsequal Project), C. Pettinger, L. Hunt, H. Gardiner, P. Garg, L. Howard, C. Wagstaff
School of Health Professions
The UK food system is distorted by inequalities in access, failing the people most in need, yet it should provide access to safe, nutritious affordable food for all citizens. Dietary patterns are associated with sociodemographic characteristics, with high levels of diet-related disease mortality attributed to poor dietary habits. Disadvantaged UK communities face urgent public health challenges, yet area often treated as powerless recipients of dietary and health initiatives. The need for food system transformation has been illustrated within recent UK government policy drivers and research funding. The Food Systems Equality project1 is a research consortium that aims to ‘co-produce healthy …
A Novel Patient-Derived Meningioma Spheroid Model As A Tool To Study And Treat Epithelial-To-Mesenchymal Transition (Emt) In Meningiomas, Laurien L Van De Weijer, Emanuela Ercolano, Ting Zhang, Maryam Shah, Matthew C Banton, Juri Na, Claire L Adams, David Hilton, Kathreena M Kurian, C Oliver Hanemann
A Novel Patient-Derived Meningioma Spheroid Model As A Tool To Study And Treat Epithelial-To-Mesenchymal Transition (Emt) In Meningiomas, Laurien L Van De Weijer, Emanuela Ercolano, Ting Zhang, Maryam Shah, Matthew C Banton, Juri Na, Claire L Adams, David Hilton, Kathreena M Kurian, C Oliver Hanemann
Peninsula Medical School
Meningiomas are the most common intracranial brain tumours. These tumours are heterogeneous and encompass a wide spectrum of clinical aggressivity. Treatment options are limited to surgery and radiotherapy and have a risk of post-operative morbidities and radiation neurotoxicity, reflecting the need for new therapies. Three-dimensional (3D) patient-derived cell culture models have been shown to closely recapitulate in vivo tumour biology, including microenvironmental interactions and have emerged as a robust tool for drug development. Here, we established a novel easy-to-use 3D patient-derived meningioma spheroid model using a scaffold-free approach. Patient-derived meningioma spheroids were characterised and compared to patient tissues and traditional …
Crank Shaft Road Electromagnetic Road Energy Harvester For Smart City Applications, Niloufar Zabihi, Zewen Gu, Mohamed Saafi
Crank Shaft Road Electromagnetic Road Energy Harvester For Smart City Applications, Niloufar Zabihi, Zewen Gu, Mohamed Saafi
School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics
This paper addresses the issue of providing cheap and on-demand electricity to low-power devices and sensors of smart cities and infrastructures. A new design for an electromagnetic road energy harvester is proposed, and its performance is evaluated through numerical simulations and experiments. The new method can generate sufficient electricity to run the low-power facilities of the smart cities in real-time and provide enough power for further applications using energy storage devices. Unlike the current road energy harvesters, the new harvester has a compact design, negligible mismatch risk between the components, and is more compatible with high-speed roadways. It can be …
The Dementia Severity Rating Scale: A Potential Community Screening Tool For Dementia In Low- And Middle-Income Countries, Yuda Turana, Nicolas Farina, Imelda Theresia, Fasihah Irfani Fitri, Ika Suswanti, Roxanne Jacobs, Marguerite Schneider, Tara Puspitarini Sani, Adelina Comas-Herrera, Emiliano Albanese, Ishtar Govia, Cleusa P. Ferri, Martin Knapp, Sube Banerjee
The Dementia Severity Rating Scale: A Potential Community Screening Tool For Dementia In Low- And Middle-Income Countries, Yuda Turana, Nicolas Farina, Imelda Theresia, Fasihah Irfani Fitri, Ika Suswanti, Roxanne Jacobs, Marguerite Schneider, Tara Puspitarini Sani, Adelina Comas-Herrera, Emiliano Albanese, Ishtar Govia, Cleusa P. Ferri, Martin Knapp, Sube Banerjee
Peninsula Medical School
Background The Dementia Severity Rating Scale (DSRS) is an informant report, dementia staging tool that is quick to administer and has previous been shown to differentiate between people with dementia and healthy controls. However, it is not clear how accurate the tool is screening against diagnostic criteria in middle-income settings. Methods Embedded within the STRiDE programme, older adults (aged ≥65 years) and their informants were randomly recruited from four sites across Indonesia and South Africa. All informants were asked to complete DSRS. We report the tool’s psychometric properties and accuracy against the 10/66 short diagnostic algorithm. Results Between September and …
A Pairing-Free Provable Secure And Efficient Identity-Based Identification Scheme With Anonymity, J. J. Chin, R. Kannan, V. T. Goh, S. C. Yip
A Pairing-Free Provable Secure And Efficient Identity-Based Identification Scheme With Anonymity, J. J. Chin, R. Kannan, V. T. Goh, S. C. Yip
School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics
In this paper, we propose a Blind Identity-Based Identification (Blind IBI) scheme based on the Guillou-Quisquater (GQ) scheme. Our proposed scheme combines the benefits of traditional Identity-Based Identification (IBI) schemes that can authenticate a user’s identity without rely ing on a trusted third party with the Blind Signature (BS) scheme that provides anonymity. As a result, the proposed scheme assures absolute user privacy during the authentication process. It does not rely on a third party, yet the verifier can still be assured of the user’s identity with out the user actually revealing it. In our work, we show that the …
Staying Home” And Domestic Student (Im)Mobilities: Thinking Through “Stuckness” Beyond Covid-19, M Holton, K Finn
Staying Home” And Domestic Student (Im)Mobilities: Thinking Through “Stuckness” Beyond Covid-19, M Holton, K Finn
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
No abstract provided.
Trans/Feminist Collaborative Autoethnographic Storying Of Gender-Based Violence, During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Lesley Murray, Jessica Moriarty, Amanda Holt, Sian Lewis, Mel Parks
Trans/Feminist Collaborative Autoethnographic Storying Of Gender-Based Violence, During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Lesley Murray, Jessica Moriarty, Amanda Holt, Sian Lewis, Mel Parks
School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences
The COVID-19 crisis has spotlighted particular insidious social problems, including gender-based violence (GBV), and their relationship with movement and confinement. As well as changing configurations of GBV, the experience of the global pandemic and the immobilities of national lockdowns have created space to imagine GBV – to connect with past experiences in the context of our rethinking of current experiences across multiple spaces. In this article we explicate a transdisciplinary feminist collaborative autoethnographic storying of GBV during the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on the ‘trans/feminist methodology’ of Pryse (2000), we seek to contribute knowledge of GBV through the lens of COVID-19 …
The Representation Of Third-Party Helping Interactions In Infancy, Laura Schlingloff-Nemecz, Denis Tatone, Gergely Csibra
The Representation Of Third-Party Helping Interactions In Infancy, Laura Schlingloff-Nemecz, Denis Tatone, Gergely Csibra
School of Psychology
Despite numerous findings on the sophisticated inferences that human infants draw from observing third-party helping interactions, currently there is no theoretical account of how infants come to understand such events in the first place. After reviewing the available evidence in infants, we describe an account of how human adults understand helping actions. According to this mature concept, helping is a second-order, goal-directed action aiming to increase the utility of another agent (the Helpee) via reducing the cost, or increasing the reward, of the Helpee's own goal-directed action. We then identify the cognitive prerequisites for conceiving helping in this way and …
Interventions To Promote Cost-Effectiveness In Adult Intensive Care Units: Consensus Statement And Considerations For Best Practice From A Multidisciplinary And Multinational Edelphi Study, Amit Kansal, Jos M. Latour, Kay Choong See, Sumeet Rai, Maurizo Cecconi, Carl Britto, Morris A Conway, Rd Savio, Vinay M. Nadkarni, B. K. Rao, Rajesh Mishra
Interventions To Promote Cost-Effectiveness In Adult Intensive Care Units: Consensus Statement And Considerations For Best Practice From A Multidisciplinary And Multinational Edelphi Study, Amit Kansal, Jos M. Latour, Kay Choong See, Sumeet Rai, Maurizo Cecconi, Carl Britto, Morris A Conway, Rd Savio, Vinay M. Nadkarni, B. K. Rao, Rajesh Mishra
School of Nursing and Midwifery
Background There is limited evidence to guide interventions that promote cost-effectiveness in adult intensive care units (ICU). The aim of this consensus statement is to identify globally applicable interventions for best ICU practice and provide guidance for judicious use of resources. Methods A three-round modified online Delphi process, using a web-based platform, sought consensus from 61 multidisciplinary ICU experts (physicians, nurses, allied health, administrators) from 21 countries. Round 1 was qualitative to ascertain opinions on cost-effectiveness criteria based on four key domains of high-value healthcare (foundational elements; infrastructure fundamentals; care delivery priorities; reliability and feedback). Round 2 was qualitative and …
Employment Leave For Early Pregnancy Endings: A Biopolitical Reproductive Governance Analysis In England And Wales, Al Middlemiss, I Boncori, J Brewis, J Davies, Vl Newton
Employment Leave For Early Pregnancy Endings: A Biopolitical Reproductive Governance Analysis In England And Wales, Al Middlemiss, I Boncori, J Brewis, J Davies, Vl Newton
School of Nursing and Midwifery
When a pregnancy ends in England and Wales, statutory time away from paid employment is limited to circumstances where there is a live birth or stillbirth. Forms of leave, such as Maternity Leave or Paternity Leave, depend on parental status derived from the civil registration of a new person or a post-viability stillbirth. Other early pregnancy endings, such as miscarriage or abortion, do not provide specific time off work after pregnancy. This paper uses the concept of reproductive governance to analyze current and shifting biopolitical truth discourses, strategies of intervention, and modes of subjectification around post-pregnancy leaves. It shows how …
A Comparison Of A Novel Optimized Gsdmm Model With K-Means Clustering For Topic Modelling Of Free Text, H Abdelmotaleb, M Wojtys, C Mcneile
A Comparison Of A Novel Optimized Gsdmm Model With K-Means Clustering For Topic Modelling Of Free Text, H Abdelmotaleb, M Wojtys, C Mcneile
School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics
Statistical topic modelling has become an important tool in the text processing field, because more applications are using it to handle the increasing amount of available text data, e.g. from social media platforms. The aim of topic modelling is to discover the main themes or topics from a collection of text documents. While several models have been developed, there is no consensus on evaluating the models, and how to determine the best hyper-parameters of the model. In this research, we develop a method for evaluating topic models for short text that employs word embedding and measuring within-topic variability and separation …
Dementia-Personalised Care Team (D-Pact) Intervention, Crispin Musicha, Tomasina Oh, Obi Ukoumunne, Kimberley Goldsmith, Richard Byng, Steve Iliffe, Victoria Allgar
Dementia-Personalised Care Team (D-Pact) Intervention, Crispin Musicha, Tomasina Oh, Obi Ukoumunne, Kimberley Goldsmith, Richard Byng, Steve Iliffe, Victoria Allgar
Faculty of Health Datasets
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The Role Of Shared Leadership In Realizing Sdgs: An Exploration Of Intra-Country Collaborative Work Between Heis And Public Policy Groups In Zambia, Chitalu Kabwe, Christine Phiri-Mushibwe, Smita Tripathi
The Role Of Shared Leadership In Realizing Sdgs: An Exploration Of Intra-Country Collaborative Work Between Heis And Public Policy Groups In Zambia, Chitalu Kabwe, Christine Phiri-Mushibwe, Smita Tripathi
Plymouth Business School
This chapter employs the shared leadership model in exploring how leaders of higher education institutions (HEIs) can partner with Public Policy Groups (PPGs) within the Global South, a region characterized by complex challenges such as underdeveloped economies, corrupt leadership, limited financial and human resources, and political instability in some cases. The driving forces for collaboration include interconnected national policies, shared goals, responsibility, and accountability for resources. The Zambian Higher Education Policy (HE policy) draws on national, regional, and global aspirations for education and skills development, making it a suitable tool for advancing a common agenda for social, economic, and environmental …
University Business Students As Charity Trustees: A Win-Win For All?, Carl Evans, Nigel Jackson
University Business Students As Charity Trustees: A Win-Win For All?, Carl Evans, Nigel Jackson
Plymouth Business School
Charities are facing a crisis in recruiting board trustees. Additionally, boards have been criticised for lacking diversity and being unrepresentative of society. The purpose of this paper is to propose a solution to the problem of trustee recruitment, by considering university business students as trustees. Through an analysis of advertised trustee jobs, the proposal is evaluated against degree subject benchmark statements. The findings identify some key person characteristics specified by charities when recruiting trustees. The generic criteria could be met by most students and many of the personal skills are developed by students while at university. However, to address some …
Suction Circuit Flushing With Chlorhexidine Decreases Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia: A Quasi-Experimental Study, Mohamed H. Eid, Monica –.Marilena Ţânţu, Jos M. Latour, Mohammed Ahmed Sultan, Nahed Attia Kandeel
Suction Circuit Flushing With Chlorhexidine Decreases Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia: A Quasi-Experimental Study, Mohamed H. Eid, Monica –.Marilena Ţânţu, Jos M. Latour, Mohammed Ahmed Sultan, Nahed Attia Kandeel
School of Nursing and Midwifery
Background: Endotracheal suctioning of mechanically ventilated patients differs across the world. In many low and middle-income countries, endotracheal suctioning is often performed with a sterile suctioning catheter that is used for 12 h or during the length of one nursing shift. The effect of flushing multiple used endotracheal suction system with chlorhexidine after suctioning to reduce ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP) remains unclear. Aim: The aim of the study is to assess the effectiveness of flushing multiple-used open endotracheal suction catheters and suctioning system with chlorhexidine gluconate 0.2% to reduce VAP in mechanically ventilated patients in a resource-limited Intensive Care Unit …
Weapon Of Choice: A Neoliberal Institutional Perspective On Italy’S Decision To Procure A Sixth Generation Fighter Aircraft, Lorenzo Cladi
Weapon Of Choice: A Neoliberal Institutional Perspective On Italy’S Decision To Procure A Sixth Generation Fighter Aircraft, Lorenzo Cladi
School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences
In 2018, Italy decided to join the British-led Team Tempest to develop a sixth generation fighter aircraft. This decision came at the expense of a rival project, the Future Combat Air System (FCAS), led by France and Germany. The Italian decision to join Tempest raises a theoretical question overlooked by the existing literature: when states have different cooperative procurement options, what makes them choose one rather than another? The aim of the article is to provide an analytically informed account of the process that led Italy to join Tempest. In doing so, we adopt a neo-institutionalist perspective, as it allows …
Artificial Light At Night Alters Predation On Colour-Polymorphic Camouflaged Prey, Emma Moyse, Louise Firth, Tim Smyth, Thomas Davies, Svenja Tidau
Artificial Light At Night Alters Predation On Colour-Polymorphic Camouflaged Prey, Emma Moyse, Louise Firth, Tim Smyth, Thomas Davies, Svenja Tidau
School of Biological and Marine Sciences
Artificial light at night (ALAN) disrupts biological processes across taxa and at all levels of organisation. Despite growing interest in this globally pervasive sensory pollutant, its impact on colour-guided processes remains largely unexplored. This is especially concerning given the rapid transition in recent years away from narrow-spectrum lighting and towards broad-spectrum options such as white LEDs, which are rich in the short wavelengths of light to which many taxa are particularly sensitive. Camouflage is particularly likely to be disrupted by broader spectra of ALAN due to changes in conspicuousness in background matching prey, which may alter prey recognition in visually …
Constraints And Affordances For Uk Doctors‐In‐Training To Exercise Agency: A Dialogical Analysis, Karen Mattick, Anna Goulding, Daniele Carrieri, Nicola Brennan, Bryan Burford, Gillian Vance, Tim Dornan
Constraints And Affordances For Uk Doctors‐In‐Training To Exercise Agency: A Dialogical Analysis, Karen Mattick, Anna Goulding, Daniele Carrieri, Nicola Brennan, Bryan Burford, Gillian Vance, Tim Dornan
Peninsula Medical School
Introduction The goal of medical education is to develop clinicians who have sufficient agency (capacity to act) to practise effectively in clinical workplaces and to learn from work throughout their careers. Little research has focused on experiences of organisational structures and the role of these in constraining or affording agency. The aim of this study was to identify priorities for organisational change, by identifying and analysing key moments of agency described by doctors-in-training. Methods This was a secondary qualitative analysis of data from a large national mixed methods research programme, which examined the work and wellbeing of UK doctors-in-training. Using …
Penicillin Allergy De-Labelling By Non-Allergists: A Comparison Of Testing Protocols, Neil Powell, Shuayb Elkhalifa, Jonathan Sandoe
Penicillin Allergy De-Labelling By Non-Allergists: A Comparison Of Testing Protocols, Neil Powell, Shuayb Elkhalifa, Jonathan Sandoe
School of Nursing and Midwifery
Optimizing penicillin allergy de-labelling (PADL) to ensure patients with an incorrect penicillin allergy record are de-labelled with minimal patient harm is important for antibiotic stewardship. The heterogeneity of inclusion and exclusion criteria in the published penicillin allergy testing protocols risks suboptimal delivery of PADL. We compared the similarities and the differences between non-Allergist-delivered PADL testing protocols and make suggestions for harmonization. The observed variation in testing practice has two broad elements: (i) definitions and terminology; and (ii) differences in the acceptability of perceived risk. All direct drug provocation testing (DDPT) protocols included patients with benign delayed rash as eligible for …
Neurotechnological Solutions For Post‐Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Perspective Review And Concept Proposal, R Laugharne, M Farid, C James, A Dutta, Et Al
Neurotechnological Solutions For Post‐Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Perspective Review And Concept Proposal, R Laugharne, M Farid, C James, A Dutta, Et Al
Peninsula Medical School
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety condition caused by exposure to severe trauma. It is characterised by nightmares, flashbacks, hyper-vigilance and avoidance behaviour. These all lead to impaired functioning reducing quality of life. PTSD affects 2–5% of the population globally. Most sufferers cannot access effective treatment, leading to impaired psychological functioning reducing quality of life. Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR) is a non-invasive brain stimulation treatment that has shown significant clinical effectiveness in PTSD. Another treatment modality, that is, trauma-focused cognitive behavioural therapy is also an effective intervention. However, both evidence-based treatments are significantly resource intensive as they …
Community-Wide Versus School-Based Targeted Deworming For Soil-Transmitted Helminth Control In School-Aged Children In Vietnam: The Code-Sth Cluster-Randomised Controlled Trial, Cef Dyer, D Ng-Nguyen, Ne Clarke, Sf Hii, Et Al
Community-Wide Versus School-Based Targeted Deworming For Soil-Transmitted Helminth Control In School-Aged Children In Vietnam: The Code-Sth Cluster-Randomised Controlled Trial, Cef Dyer, D Ng-Nguyen, Ne Clarke, Sf Hii, Et Al
Peninsula Medical School
Summary Background Soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infection control programs typically consist of school-based preventive chemotherapy (PC) targeted to school-aged children. STH reservoirs in untreated community members contribute to ongoing transmission in children. The CoDe-STH (Community Deworming against STH) trial, conducted in Dak Lak province, Vietnam, between October 2019 and November 2020, aimed to determine whether community-wide mass drug administration (MDA) is more effective than school-based targeted PC in reducing STH prevalence and intensity in children. Methods In this two-arm cluster randomised controlled trial, 64 primary schools were randomly assigned 1:1 to receive either school-based targeted PC (“school arm”) or community-wide MDA …