School of Allied Health Sciences
Recent Submissions
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Policy Briefing: Implementing empirical ethics and rights - IDEAS for ensuring disability equity in research
(Other)In this policy briefing, we illustrate the development and potential of tools developed from commissioned public health research project where empirical ethics was combined with human rights to elucidate a critical framework ... -
Ethnicity, Disability and Chronic Illness
(Book chapter)This chapter aims to: • Understand how patterns of disablement and chronic illness may partly derive from levels of material deprivation. • Illustrate why it may be important to look at the interactions not only between ... -
Sickle Cell and the Social Sciences: Health, Racism and Disablement
(Book)Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a severe chronic illness and one of the world’s most common genetic conditions, with 400,000 children born annually with the disorder, mainly in Sub-Saharan Africa, India, Brazil, the Middle ... -
Biomimetic hydroxyapatite nanocrystals are an active carrier for Salmonella bacteriophages
(Article)Purpose: The use of bacteriophages represents a valid alternative to conventional antimicrobial treatments, overcoming the widespread bacterial antibiotic resistance phenomenon. In this work, we evaluated whether biomimetic ... -
Motion during Acquisition is Associated with fMRI Brain Entropy
(Article)Measures of fMRI brain entropy have been used to investigate age and disease related neural changes. However, it is unclear if movement in the scanner is associated with brain entropy after geometric correction for movement. ... -
In vitro detection of in vitro secondary mechanisms of genotoxicity induced by engineered nanomaterials
(Article)Abstract BACKGROUND: It is well established that toxicological evaluation of engineered nanomaterials (NMs) is vital to ensure the health and safety of those exposed to them. Further, there is a distinct need for the ... -
Adaptability to various growth conditions and Anti-Biofilm efficacy of Garlic and Manuka honey on Carbapenem resistant bacteria associated with Urinary Tract Infection
(Conference)Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are a common form of bacterial infections and can be caused by several types of Gram-negative bacteria including Klebsiella pneumonia and Escherichia coli. In recent years, the emergence of ... -
Constructing better health and wellbeing? Understanding structural constraints on promoting health and wellbeing in the UK Construction Industry
(Article)The construction industry has high rates of work related ill health and early retirement due to stress, injury and illness. Whilst there have been more recent calls for a ‘health like safety’ narrative within the industry, ... -
Toxicology training to decontaminate environments affected by chemicals.
(Conference)Health professionals will be required to have some foundation knowledge in environmental toxicology to combat increasing morbidity/mortality indices due to environmental contamination. However, very little training in these ... -
Addressing student retention and engagement using new technology.
(Conference)A range of strategies to improve retention and progression of Biomedical Science students at De Montfort University (DMU) implemented in 2016/17 included: an intensive induction week with social/networking events involving ... -
Web-based learning and teaching resources for microscopic detection of human parasites.
(Conference)DMU e-Parasitology (http://parasitology.dmu.ac.uk) presents novel web-based resources co-developed by EU academics at De Montfort University (DMU) for the teaching and learning of microscopic diagnoses of common and emerging ... -
Mental Health Disclosure in the Public Eye: Accounting for and Managing Absences From Professional Sporting Competition
(Article)The purpose of this paper is to consider how professional sports players and their sporting clubs and associations publicly manage the disclosure of mental health issues that result in a players enforced absence from ... -
Sequence-Specific Detection of Aristolochia DNA – A Simple Test for Contamination of Herbal Products
(Article)Herbal medicines are used globally for their health benefits as an alternative therapy method to modern medicines. The market for herbal products has increased rapidly over the last few decades, but this has in turn ... -
Product authenticity versus globalisation - The Tulsi case
(Article)Using the Indian medicinal plant Tulsi (Holy Basil) as a case study, we have tested to what extent the discrepancy between vernacular and scientific nomenclature can be resolved, whether the presumed chemical diversity ... -
The elicitation and management of multiple health concerns in GP consultations.
(Article)Objective: To describe the nature of patient concerns and to explore if, when and how they are addressed by GPs in the UK. Methods: Detailed coding and descriptive analysis of 185 video recordings from the EPaC ... -
Routines of resistance: an ethnography of the care of people living with dementia in acute hospital wards and its consequences
(Article)Background There is little research examining resistance, refusal or rejection of care by people living with dementia within acute hospital wards despite the prevalence of dementia in adult hospital populations. Objectives To ... -
Markers of oxidative stress, skeletal muscle mass and function, and their responses to resistance exercise training in older adults
(Article)BACKGROUND: Oxidative stress (OS) negatively affects skeletal muscle homeostasis in experimental models of ageing. However, little is known about the associations between circulating OS markers and parameters of muscle ... -
The mediating effect of self-disgust on emotion regulation and eating disorder symptoms: A longitudinal perspective.
(Conference)1) Background There is a substantial body of literature supporting the view that disordered eating behaviour is broadly characterized by emotion dysregulation but little attention has been paid to the possible mediators ... -
Associations with disgust sensitivity, anxiety and levels of sensory processing
(Conference)The factors that may contribute to the emergence of self-disgust have not yet been established (Power, Overton & Simpson, 2015) however there is an increasing interest into the physiological and inherent contributors to ... -
It’s like the onion skins are stripped away; Caregiver accounts of supporting a long-term partner through cancer
(Conference)Purpose: To explore the experiences of caring for a long-term partner or spouse through cancer diagnosis, treatment and aftercare. Background: Although research around caregiving is becoming more theoretically advanced ...
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