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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 ... -
Management of Patients With Early Stage Lung Cancer - Why Do Some Patients Not Receive Treatment With Curative Intent?
(BioMed Central, 2020)BACKGROUNDS: This study aims to understand the factors that influence whether patients receive potentially curative treatment for early stage lung cancer. A key question was whether indigenous Māori patients were less ... -
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 ... -
Measuring Neurobehavioral Functioning in People With Traumatic Brain Injury: Rasch Analysis of Neurobehavioral Functioning Inventory
(Wolters Kluwer, 2016)Objective: To examine internal construct validity of the Neurobehavioral Functioning Inventory (NFI) by apply- ing Rasch analysis. Setting: An outpatient rehabilitation program trial in New Zealand employing a goal-setting ... -
Mental Health of African Asylum-seekers and Refugees in Hong Kong: Using the Social Determinants of Health Framework
(BioMed Central Ltd, 2017)Background: Hong Kong is non-signatory to the 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol, and has no systematic domestic policies committed to the rights of asylum-seekers and refugees (ASRs). This creates a tenuous ... -
Microbial Contamination and Efficacy of Disinfection Procedures of Companion Robots in Care Homes
(Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020)BACKGROUND: Paro and other robot animals can improve wellbeing for older adults and people with dementia, through reducing depression, agitation and medication use. However, nursing and care staff we contacted expressed ... -
Midwifery Job Autonomy in New Zealand: I do it all the time
(Elsevier, 2020)Introduction This research aimed to identify what supports and what hinders job autonomy for midwives in New Zealand. Methods Registered midwives participated in an open-ended, online survey in 2019. Anonymised participants ... -
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 ... -
Modelling the Effects of Booster Dose Vaccination Schedules and Recommendations for Public Health Immunization Programs: The Case of Haemophilus Influenzae Serotype B
(BioMed Central, 2017)Background Haemophilus influenzae serotype b (Hib) has yet to be eliminated despite the implementation of routine infant immunization programs. There is no consensus regarding the number of primary vaccine doses and an ... -
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 ... -
A Multiday Evaluation of Real-time Intramuscular EMG Usability With ANN
(MDPI AG, 2020)Recent developments in implantable technology, such as high-density recordings, wireless transmission of signals to a prosthetic hand, may pave the way for intramuscular electromyography (iEMG)-based myoelectric control ... -
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 ...