Poster presentations 2017

Accessibility and uptake of health services

  1. Taylor: Education, Health Literacy and Inequity in Access to Transplantation: Results from the ATTOM cohort study
  2. Kerrison: Use of two annual self-referral reminders and a theory-based leaflet to increase the uptake of bowel scope screening among former non-participants: results from a randomised controlled trial in London
  3. Vrinten: Cancer worries and uptake of breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer screening: a population-based survey in England
  4. Chrysou: Co-creation of local smoking cessation services: an innovative public health intervention in times of austerity

Development and evaluations of interventions

  1. Alexander: An integrated learning scheme for community practitioners involved in the care of children and young people
  2. Smith: Participatory Budgeting and health and wellbeing: a systematic scoping review of evaluations and outcomes
  3. Fildes: Developing a communication toolbox for primary care practitioners to raise the issue of weight with parents of preschool children: A qualitative study
  4. Martin: Exploring previous adaptations to the women’s group Participatory Learning & Action Cycle in resource-limited settings: an observational study.
  5. Osborne: Evaluating the impact of cancer awareness training for community-based health workers: a cross-sectional repeated measures survey

Diet, diabetes and obesity

  1. Captieux: Supported self-management for people with type 2 diabetes: A meta-review of quantitative systematic reviews
  2. Jones: What are the views of overweight and obese adolescents (12-17yrs) attending lifestyle treatment interventions: a qualitative systematic review
  3. Sarkar: Residential density and adiposity: findings from the UK Biobank
  4. Alwan: Risk Factors for Type 2 Diabetes following Gestational Diabetes in a Population-based Cohort
  5. Little: An ecological cross-sectional study investigating if domains of deprivation from the Index of Multiple Deprivation predict overweight and obesity amongst primary school children in England

Health and education

  1. Busse: Developing a typology of mentoring programmes for young people in secondary schools in the United Kingdom: a qualitative study
  2. Long: Testing the ‘zero-sum game’ hypothesis: An examination of school health policy and practice and inequalities in educational outcomes
  3. Pandey: Systematic review of effectiveness of universal self-regulation based interventions to improve self-regulation, and effects on distal health and social outcomes in children and adolescents
  4. Phillips: Who’s got a defibrillator? A national survey of AED provision and training at secondary schools in Wales
  5. Pringle: The impact of early learning and childcare on the parents of pre-school children: results of a rapid systematic review
  6. Smith: How easy is it for a lay audience to read medical journals? A survey of the readability scores of a sample of diabetes research papers

Health equity

  1. Al Sallakh: Socioeconomic deprivation and inequalities in asthma care in Wales
  2. Parkinson: Investigating age-period-cohort effects using Lexis diagrams and intrinsic estimator regression modelling to understanding Scotland’s ‘excess mortality’
  3. Remes: Sense of coherence as a coping mechanism for women with anxiety living in deprivation: British population, cohort study
  4. Tseliou: Differential effect of caregiving across age-groups: a census-based record linkage study.
  5. Twaits: The association between area-based deprivation and change in body mass index over time in primary school children: a population-based cohort study.
  6. O’Donnell: A systematic review of qualitative research on the factors shaping amphetamine type stimulant use over the life course

Health of older people

  1. Beynon: Dementia Health Needs Assessment (HNA): A Review of Epidemiology, Services, Health Needs and Models of Good Practice
  2. Blodgett: Neurodevelopmental contributors to standing balance in mid to later life: findings from the MRC National Survey of Health and Development
  3. Harkness: Mastery and fear of falling in a UK sample of older people
  4. Herrod: Non-pharmacological strategies of reducing blood pressure in older adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis
  5. Koopmans: Risks of skin cancer in older adults: analysis of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing
  6. Oliver: Cohort study suggests a possible aetiological role of low oxygen tolerating bacteria in prostate cancer development and offers a potential new approach to prostate cancer prevention

Health services for marginalised populations

  1. Aisyah: Hepatitis C among Vulnerable Populations: A Seroprevalence Study of Homeless, PWID and Prisoners in London
  2. Collins: Distributive equity in the real world: would targeting NHS Healthchecks to deprived groups be more cost effective? A modelling study using real world data from a deprived northern city
  3. Dawes: ‘A Mile in Her Shoes’: The impact of volunteer-led running groups for women affected by homelessness, a qualitative study
  4. Kaddour: Initial phase exploring barriers to oral health among young carers in Surrey, England.
  5. Liljas: Engaging ‘hard to reach’ groups in health promotion: the views of older people and professionals from a qualitative study in England
  6. Jackson: Triangulation of two mixed methods studies to understand Gypsy, Traveller and Roma use of health services in the UK

Maternal and child health

  1. Ahrendt Bjerregaard: Association between maternal diet quality and offspring diet quality assessed at age 14 years – longitudinal study in a large contemporary cohort
  2. Lakshman: A theory-based behavioural intervention to reduce formula-milk intake and prevent excessive weight gain during infancy (The Baby Milk Trial): an explanatory randomised controlled trial
  3. Umney: Societal behavioural norms and the media: discourse analysis of a research project aiming to change breastfeeding behaviours using financial incentives
  4. Straatmann: How well can poor child health and development be predicted using data collected in early childhood in the UK? Findings from the Millennium Cohort Study
  5. Wood: Trends in surgery for developmental dysplasia of the hip before and after introduction of improved DDH detection pathways: a population based cohort study, Scotland 1997-2014
  6. Ziauddeen: Predicting childhood overweight and obesity using maternal and early life risk factors: a systematic review

mHealth and eHealth

  1. Judah: Behavioural text message reminders to improve participation in breast screening: A randomised controlled trial
  2. Judah: Behavioural text message reminders to improve participation in cervical screening: A randomised controlled trial
  3. Johns: A systematic review of the use of social media for the delivery of health promotion on smoking, nutrition and physical activity
  4. Alwan: Development of an interactive dietary assessment tools website (Nutritools) for use in health research
  5. Wu: SemEHR: Surfacing Semantic Data from Clinical Notes in Electronic Health Records for Tailored Care, Trial Recruitment and Clinical Research

Modelling and simulation

  1. De Poli: The impact of interventions to prevent diabetes in England – a simulation model
  2. Ahmadi-Abhari: Impact of tobacco smoking prevalence on cardiovascular and non-cardiovascular deaths in England and Wales 2017-2040: a modelling study
  3. Gray: Cardiorespiratory fitness; a missing component in UK lifetime cardiovascular risk prediction models? A cross-sectional analysis.
  4. Savona: Proportional responsibility vs individual responsibility for healthy eating: a complex systems analysis
  5. Owen: Modelling the cost effectiveness of environmental interventions to encourage and support physical activity

Physical activity

  1. Collins: Engaging with the science of physical activity: the experience of female international students at a London University.
  2. Pereira: Stability and change in leisure time physical inactivity and its predictors in mid-adulthood: findings from a prospective British birth cohort study
  3. Raza: Identification of Predictors of Objectively Measured Physical Activity in 12-Month-Old British Infants: A Machine Learning Driven Study
  4. Smith: Prevalence of travel and dietary behaviours with health and environmental co-benefits: A cross-sectional analysis of UK Biobank
  5. Warr: Discovery of 7 novel policy-modifiable characteristics associated with future objectively measured physical activity status (PA) in using the UK Biobank data.
  6. Cadar: Physical activity as a distinctive feature of lifestyle behaviour clustering: Associations with dementia risk in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

Primary care

  1. Beynon: Screening for Undiagnosed Diabetes in the First Trimester of Pregnancy: A Summary of the Evidence.
  2. Blomquist: Improving public health intelligence to inform sexual health policy and practice: The acceptability and feasibility of implementing an enhanced bio-behavioural surveillance tool in sexual health clinics
  3. Dezateux: General practice consultations with obese children – a missed opportunity? Cross-sectional study using linked national child measurement and primary care data
  4. Lovell: A realist review and collaborative development of ‘what works’ in the social prescribing process
  5. Palladino: Evaluating the impact of a national diabetes risk assessment and screening programme in England: a quasi-experimental study
  6. Kim: Patterns in chlamydia detection rate in young adults, 15-24 years in England, 2012-2015: longitudinal analysis of routine data

Public health and the policy process

  1. Buckton: Opening the policy window for “sugar tax”? Media representations of sugar and sugar-sweetened beverage consumption in UK newspapers: implications for public health policy
  2. Gentry: How can researchers generate meaningful public health policy impact? A meta-ethnography of case studies
  3. Hilton: Who says what about sugar-sweetened beverage tax? Stakeholders’ framing of evidence: a newspaper analysis.
  4. McGrath: Exploring influences on public health contributions to alcohol licensing processes in local government in England: a mixed methods study
  5. Pineo: Census, characteristics and taxonomy of urban health indicator tools: a systematic review
  6. Spence: Local resident’s opposition to a multinational fast food company in England: a qualitative analysis

Communicable disease

  1. Zhou: Mining Electronic Health Records for Identification of Predictive Factors Associated with Hospitalisation of Campylobacter Infections
  2. Smith: Development of a novel application for visualising infectious disease data in hospital settings
  3. Trayner: Meningococcal ACWY (MenACWY) vaccine uptake, and barriers and motivations towards vaccination in undergraduate students: a mixed-methods study.
  4. Wilson: Effect of an e-STI testing and results service on STI diagnoses and STI testing uptake: a single-blind randomised controlled trial

Secondary and tertiary care

  1. Haroon: Information standards for recording alcohol use in electronic health records: Findings from a national consultation
  2. Kwong: Can Patient Reported Outcomes Measures (PROMs) be used in emergency admissions? A cohort study exploring agreement of retrospective and contemporaneous PROMs with from hip and knee replacement patients in NHS hospitals
  3. Walsh: Approaches to alcohol screening in secondary care: a review and meta-analysis
  4. Song: A systematic root cause analysis into the increase in Escherichia coli bacteraemia in Wales over the last 10 years

Structural and population interventions

  1. Bouttell: Synthetic Control Methodology as a tool for evaluating public health interventions – a guide to the method and case study
  2. Hunter: Social network interventions for health behaviour change: A systematic review
  3. Levin: Cost-benefit analysis of a Power of Attorney media campaign in Scotland
  4. Ireland: Exploring the relationship between Big Food corporations and professional sports clubs: a scoping review
  5. Young: Effectiveness of mass media campaigns to reduce alcohol consumption and harm: A systematic review