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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"narrative literature review"”.
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Indications and limitations of vNOTES for the surgical staging of early-stage ovarian cancer: a narrative literature review
Εισαγωγή/Σκοπός: Η Φυσικής οδού Ενδοσκοπική Χειρουργική (Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery – NOTES) μέσω του κόλπου έχει εμφανιστεί πρόσφατα στον χώρο της γυναικολογίας ως μια νέα ελάχιστα επεμβατική προσέγγιση. Παρότι η εφαρμογή της vNOTES σε καλοήθεις παθήσεις των εξαρτημάτων …
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The relationships between mental health experiences, trauma and posttraumatic growth
… to posttraumatic growth (PTG). It includes a narrative literature review, a research paper, a critical appraisal, and an ethics section. The narrative literature review aimed to explore what elements of mental health inpatient support could be considered to be traumatic. A framework was …
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AI, Ethics and Women in Employment: The Impact upon Existing Biases
… can perpetuate discrimination against women. A narrative literature review was conducted using secondary sources as a critical reflection of the current state of AI and its impact on women in employment. The findings revealed AI’s ability to present both challenges and opportunities. While …
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An exploration of women’s lived experiences of event centrality resulting from childhood trauma – an existential perspective
… experienced trauma in childhood. A systematic review of literature demonstrates a lack of qualitative research in the field. The study aimed to provide qualitative insight into the lived experience of Event Centrality. Following a narrative literature review of existential literature on trauma, …
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Violence within the lives of homeless people
Narrative Literature Review<br/><br/>Experience of victimisation and violence is prevalent within homeless people’s lives, and frequently begins in childhood through the experience of childhood abuse and trauma. The impact of childhood abuse and trauma has been associated directly and indirectly as …
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Medicines Reconciliation: Roles and Process. An examination of the medicines reconciliation process and the involvement of patients and healthcare professionals across a regional healthcare economy, within the United Kingdom.
… using evidence-informed framework, based on a narrative literature review. The overall processes used to reconcile medicines were similar; however, there was considerable inter and intra-organisational variation within primary and secondary care practice. Patients were not routinely involved in …
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A Framework for Digital Twins as Decision-Support Tools in South African Toll Road Operations
… problem-oriented methodology, combining a narrative literature review, qualitative analysis of over 900 interview-derived data points from industry stakeholders, and a structured framework validation process. The proposed model is structured around eight functional themes, namely Design, …
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Lived long-term experience of eating disorders : a narrative exploration
This thesis explores the narratives of people with long-term experience of eating disorders and the wider socio-political, psycho-medical discourses that surround these presentations. It comprises a narrative literature review, a research article and a critical appraisal. The literature review …
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Hospital electronic prescribing and medicines administration system implementation into a district general hospital: a mixed method evaluation of discharge communication.
… in the communication process. Following a narrative literature review, a convergent parallel mixed methods approach was selected, consisting of interpretative phenomenology, and experimental before-and-after study design. Face-to-face semi-structured interviews were undertaken with a …
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“The Best or the Rest”: An exploration of UK Rugby Union coaches’ team selection decisions
… this thesis. Chapter 2 comprises a systematic review which reveals the only study that has investigated coaches’ team selection decisions directly (by asking coaches), and the 15 studies that examined the differences between selected and non-selected players after selection had occurred. Given …
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Clarifying the role of the strength and conditioning coach in athlete rehabilitation
… coaches in athlete rehabilitation using current literature and the perspectives of physiotherapists and S&C coaches. Firstly, a narrative literature review on the roles involved in athlete rehabilitation helped to theorise a role for S&C coaches. Current literature highlights a gap in performance …
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Perspectives of Young Sexual Abuse Survivors, Whose Abuse is Unknown to Child Protection Services, about Confidentiality: A Participatory Study Involving Young Abuse Survivors as Co-researchers
A systematic narrative literature review explored views of young child sexual abuse (CSA) survivors whose abuse was unknown to authorities, about confidentiality. Due to paucity of research, the review included literature about sexual health service users. Seventeen databases and eleven journals …
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Periodontal disease and oral health-related quality of life : smoking cessation adventures in primary dental care
… in a primary care dental setting and employed a narrative literature review to explore periodontal disease, smoking and smoking cessation interventions. This literature review informed the design of a randomised controlled trial which failed due to lack of recruitment.<br/><br/>The Medical …
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Enhancing the conceptualisation, design, and development of evidence-based physical activity interventions for older adults: A mixed methods investigation.
… the above research needs, published in five peer-reviewed articles. The five pieces of research encompassed a descriptive study (study 1), two qualitative studies (study 2 and study 4), a narrative literature review (study 3), and an experiential reflection (reflective paper). The findings of …
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A reassessment of the epidemiology, pathogenesis and prevention strategies of bovine keratoconjunctivitis in Western Cape dairy cattle
… framework was employed, integrating a narrative literature review with causal mapping via directed acyclic graphs, analytical validations, and observational studies conducted on commercial dairy herds. Both cross-sectional and prospective cohort designs were used, supported by …
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Developing an integrated appraisal and revalidation process for Sri Lankan doctors : an expedited, low-cost process using a prototype
… approach. At the first stage, an extensive narrative literature review was conducted, and understanding from the literature review and personal experience of the researcher was used to develop a porotype of revalidation for Sri Lanka. At the second and third stage, the porotype was tested …
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Food system resilience contributions by urban agriculture
… categories of UA sites. This thesis provides literature and research-based accounts of how urban agriculture can contribute to resilience. Chapter one provides a review of food system assessment instruments that are used in research. A PRISMA review was used to collect academic and nonacademic …
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The association between running kinematics and common overuse injuries in runners : implications for injury and rehabilitation
… a clinically effective intervention. Methods: A narrative literature review was conducted to identify gaps within the literature and formulate specific research questions. An initial study was performed to investigate the between day repeatability and quantify the standard error of measurement …
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E-cigarette use in Kuwait: prevalence, knowledge, attitudes and beliefs
… in Kuwait.<br/><br/>Initially, a systematic literature review and meta-analysis were conducted to evaluate the global prevalence of e-cigarette use in university-level students. Additionally, an online survey was carried out to evaluate the use of e-cigarettes and the knowledge, beliefs and …
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The use of m-Health active participant centred (MAPC) systems to improve surveillance of adverse events following Immunization (AEFIs) in Zimbabwe
… I used mixed methods comprising a scoping and narrative literature review, a descriptive evaluation of Zimbabwe's AEFI system, a randomised control trial (RCT) to assess the impact of the Zimbabwe stimulated telephone assisted rapid safety surveillance (Zm-STARSS) approach, and a consumer and …
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