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Making Sense of Recovery After Traumatic Brain Injury Through a Peer Mentoring Intervention: A Qualitative Exploration
(BMJ Journals, 2018)Objective To explore the acceptability of peer mentoring for people with a traumatic brain injury (TBI) in New Zealand. Design This is a qualitative descriptive study exploring the experiences reported by mentees and mentors ... -
Manipulation of Dysfunctional Spinal Joints Affects Sensorimotor Integration in the Pre-fontal Cortex: A Brain Source Localization Study
(Hindawi, 2016)Objectives. Studies have shown decreases in N30 somatosensory evoked potential (SEP) peak amplitudes following spinal manipulation (SM) of dysfunctional segments in subclinical pain (SCP) populations. This study sought to ... -
Mapping the Rehabilitation Interventions of a Community Stroke Team to the Extended International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health Core Set for Stroke
(Taylor and Francis, 2016)Purpose: This study aim was to evaluate if the Extended International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health Core Set for Stroke captured the interventions of a community stroke rehabilitation team situated ... -
Māori Mental Health Consumers' Sensory Experience of Kapa Haka and Its Utility to Occupational Therapy Practice
(InfoRMIT, 2015)Sensory modulation is an emerging occupational therapy intervention within adult mental health services. However, cultural variations in the use of sensory modulation have not been directly explored. In New Zealand, the ... -
Measurement of Tibial Nerve Excursion During Ankle Joint Dorsiflexion in a Weight-bearing Position With Ultrasound Imaging
(BioMed Central Ltd., 2012)The ability of peripheral nerves to stretch and slide is thought to be of paramount importance to maintain ideal neural function. Excursion in peripheral nerves such as the tibial can be measured by analysis of ultrasound ... -
Measuring neurobehavioral functioning in people with traumatic brain injury: Rasch analysis of Neurobehavioral Functioning Inventory
(Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc., 2015)Objective: To examine internal construct validity of the Neurobehavioral Functioning Inventory (NFI) by applying Rasch analysis. Setting: An outpatient rehabilitation program trial in New Zealand employing a goal-settin ... -
Midwifing the notion of a 'good' birth: a philosophical analysis
(Elsevier, 2016)Objective: to ponder afresh what makes a good birth experience in a listening manner. Design: a hermeneutic approach that first explores the nature of how to listen to a story that is already familiar to us and then draws ... -
Mixed Methods Research for the Novice Researcher
(AUT University; eContent Management Pty Ltd, 2006)Mixed methods research is becoming increasingly popular in the health and social science disciplines. The aim of this article is to give an overview of the varieties of mixed methods designs. We begin by situating mixed ... -
Mixed Methods Research: Positivism Dressed in Drag?
(AUT University; SAGE, 2006)The claim that mixed methods is the third methodological movement of the twentieth century could have unexpected consequences for the future of research in the social sciences and health disciplines. Implied is a belief ... -
Moving Backwards, Moving Forward: The Experiences of Older Filipino Migrants Adjusting to Life in New Zealand
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)Purpose: To explore the experiences of older Filipino migrants adjusting to living permanently in New Zealand. Method: The qualitative descriptive approach taken in this study involved 17 individual face-to-face interviews ... -
Multi-centre parallel arm randomised controlled trial to assess the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a group-based cognitive behavioural approach to managing fatigue in people with multiple sclerosis
(BioMed Central Ltd, 2010)Background Fatigue is one of the most commonly reported and debilitating symptoms of multiple sclerosis (MS); approximately two-thirds of people with MS consider it to be one of their three most troubling symptoms. It may ... -
Music Therapy Assessment Tool for Awareness in Disorders of Consciousness (MATADOC): reliability and validity of a measure to assess awareness in patients with disorders of consciousness
(The American Music Therapy Association, 2015)Background: Prolonged Disorders of Consciousness (PDOC) describes a population where a consciousness disorder has persisted for at least four weeks post injury but is still under investigation. Complex motor, sensory, ... -
Natural History of Falls in an Incident Cohort of Parkinson’s Disease: Early Evolution, Risk and Protective Features
(Springer, 2017)The natural history of falls in early Parkinson’s disease (PD) is poorly understood despite the profound effect of falls on outcome. The primary aim of this study was to describe the natural history of falls, and characterise ... -
Navigating the Storm of Deteriorating Patients: Seven Scaffolds for Simulation Design
(Scientific Research Publishing Inc., 2017)Recent trends in simulation use have necessitated a more considered approach in the use of this teaching/learning tool. The aim of this research is to discover ways to improve simulation as a teaching/learning platform. ... -
Negotiating the Hairless Ideal in Āotearoa/New Zealand: Choice, Awareness, Complicity, and Resistance in Younger Women's Accounts of Body Hair Removal
(SAGE Publications, 2017)Hair removal amongst Western women is ubiquitous, and research continues to highlight the ongoing conformity of almost all women with hair removal practices. Often women are presented as either cultural dupes, following ... -
Net-Making: A Resource to Help Children Participate After Traumatic Brain Injury
(Auckland University of Technology, 2017)Background The resource has been developed from studies completed with children living in Aotearoa New Zealand who have had traumatic brain injuries, and their whanau/families, teachers, rehabilitation providers, and ... -
Non-surgical interventions for paediatric pes planu [Intervention Review]
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2010)BACKGROUND: Paediatric pes planus ('flat feet') is a common childhood condition with a reported prevalence of 14%. Flat feet can result in pain and altered gait. No optimal strategy for non-surgical management of paediatric ... -
Non-surgical interventions for paediatric pes planus [Protocol]
(The Cochrane Collaboration. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2007)This is the protocol for a review and there is no abstract. The objectives are as follows: The aim of this review is to evaluate the evidence from randomised controlled trials for the non-surgical intervention of paediatric ... -
The Northwick Park Therapy Dependency Assessment Scale: A Psychometric Analysis From a Large Multicentre Neurorehabilitation Dataset
(Informa, 2015)Purpose: To assess the internal reliability, construct and concurrent validity and responsiveness of the Northwick Park Therapy Dependency Assessment (NPTDA) scale. Method: A cohort of 2505 neurorehabilitation patients ... -
Nursing Students As Agents of Change: Empowering Patients Using Mobile Technology in Health Promotion
(Health Improvement and Innovation Resource Centre, 2014)Nursing students from AUT University perform health assessments in the workplace as a part of their clinical learning experience. In this study, the authors evaluated the use of iPad mini’s and a Vodafone Pocket Wi-Fi (3G ...