Derek Johnston
Biographic Data
| ID | 3581947 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Derek Johnston |
| GIVEN NAMES | Derek |
| FAMILY NAME | Johnston |
| SIGNATURE | JOHNSTON D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Aberdeen |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3357-4011 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sadists and Readers of Horror Comics’
The responses in audience letters and in the press to the BBC’s 1954 television adaptation of Nineteen Eighty-Four relate it to horror comics and ideas of sadism. This thread can be followed to connect this response to wider concerns with horror comics not just in the United Kingdom but across Europe in the post-World War II period. These concerns related to the fears of American soft power in the post-war world, and the potential effects that so…
Changing healthcare professionals' non-reflective processes to improve the quality of care
Combining theories of habit and routines has the potential to advance implementation science by providing a fuller understanding of the range of factors, operating at multiple levels of analysis, which can impact on the behaviours of healthcare professionals, and so quality of care provision
How can we better prepare new doctors for the tasks and challenges of ward rounds
PURPOSE: Ward rounds play a crucial role in the delivery of patient care in inpatient settings, but involve a complex mix of tasks, skills and challenges for junior doctors to negotiate. This study informs the development of high-quality training by identifying the activities that junior doctors perform, and those associated with stress during real-life ward rounds. MATERIALS AND METHODS: = 60) over 2 ward rounds were coded in real-time by a trai…
Breaking the Intimate Screen
In his seminal study of early British television drama Jason Jacobs emphasises the importance of the concept of ‘intimacy’, during the period from the beginning of regular BBC television broadcasts in 1936 to the arrival of competition in 1955. This article focuses upon the role of special effects in breaking free from the restrictions of the studio, showing that effects were not only of use in expanding the temporal and spatial scope of televisi…
Stress in telephone helpline nurses is associated with failures of concentration, attention and memory, and with more conservative referral decisions
Nurses working for telephone‐based medical helplines must maintain attentional focus while quickly and accurately processing information given by callers to make safe and appropriate treatment decisions. In this study, both higher levels of general occupational stress and elevated stress levels on particular shifts were associated with more frequent failures of attention, memory, and concentration in telephone nurses. Exposure to a stressful shif…
A Taxometric Analysis of Type-D Personality
OBJECTIVE: To test the dimensionality of Type-D personality, using taxometric procedures, to assess if Type-D personality is taxonic or dimensional. Type-D personality is treated as a categorical variable and caseness has been shown to be a risk factor for poor prognosis in coronary heart disease. However, at present, there is no direct evidence to support the assumption that Type D is categorical and able to differentiate true cases from noncase…
The Value Relevance of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Allowances
This paper examines the valuation implications of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions allowances. We posit that the value of a firm's bank of emission allowances has two components that are likely to be positively valued by the capital market: (1) an asset value component; and (2) a real option value component. Since the necessary data to examine this research hypothesis in the setting of GHG emission allowances is not yet available, we test our conje…
Does Depression Influence Symptom Severity in Irritable Bowel Syndrome? Case Study of a Patient With Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Bipolar Disorder
OBJECTIVE: Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is frequently associated with mood disorder. However, it is typically difficult to distinguish between disturbed mood as a causal agent and disturbed mood as a consequence of the experience of IBS. This report considers the association between mood and symptom severity in a patient with diarrhea-predominant IBS and stable, rapid cycling bipolar disorder with a predominantly depressive course. Such a case …
Application of the Theory of Planned Behaviour in Behaviour Change Interventions
Cardiovascular reactions to psychological stress
Chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan (CS-PG) expression is increased in response to CNS injury and limits the capacity for axonal regeneration. Previously we have shown that neurocan is one of the CS-PGs that is upregulated (Asher et al., 2000). Here we show that another member of the aggrecan family, versican, is also upregulated in response to CNS injury. Labeling of frozen sections 7 d after a unilateral knife lesion to the cerebral cortex reveale…
Impact on Patients and Partners of Inpatient and Extended Cardiac Counseling and Rehabilitation
OBJECTIVES: This study evaluated the effectiveness of cardiac counseling and rehabilitation programs led by a nurse counselor, compared with normal care on outcomes for myocardial infarction (MI) patients and their partners. METHODS: A randomized controlled trial with follow-up to 1 year was conducted with 100 patients recruited within 72 hours of a first MI and their partners: a Control group received normal care; an Inpatient group received car…
The relationship between cardiovascular reactivity in the laboratory and heart rate response in real life
Earlier studies suggest that cardiovascular responses in the laboratory and in the field are likely to be related when the laboratory tasks involve active coping, when the field measure is taken continuously, and when there is allowance for the effects of autocorrelation and physical activity on the ambulant cardiovascular measure. These studies lead to the hypothesis that the hyperreactivity common to the laboratory and to the field has a beta-a…
The Self-Control of the Cardiovascular Response to Exercise Using Feedback of the Product of Interbeat Interval and Pulse Transit Time
Feedback of the product of interbeat interval and pulse transit time (this product being a close correlate of the product of heart rate and systolic blood pressure) was compared with relaxation training and simple habituation to the experimental task. The subjects were 36 healthy volunteers tested both when inactive and when cycling on a bicycle ergometer. Subjects receiving product feedback were markedly more successful in minimizing the decreas…
Changing healthcare professionals' non-reflective processes to improve the quality of care
Combining theories of habit and routines has the potential to advance implementation science by providing a fuller understanding of the range of factors, operating at multiple levels of analysis, which can impact on the behaviours of healthcare professionals, and so quality of care provision
Cardiovascular reactions to psychological stress
Chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan (CS-PG) expression is increased in response to CNS injury and limits the capacity for axonal regeneration. Previously we have shown that neurocan is one of the CS-PGs that is upregulated (Asher et al., 2000). Here we show that another member of the aggrecan family, versican, is also upregulated in response to CNS injury. Labeling of frozen sections 7 d after a unilateral knife lesion to the cerebral cortex reveale…
The Self-Control of the Cardiovascular Response to Exercise Using Feedback of the Product of Interbeat Interval and Pulse Transit Time
Feedback of the product of interbeat interval and pulse transit time (this product being a close correlate of the product of heart rate and systolic blood pressure) was compared with relaxation training and simple habituation to the experimental task. The subjects were 36 healthy volunteers tested both when inactive and when cycling on a bicycle ergometer. Subjects receiving product feedback were markedly more successful in minimizing the decreas…
The relationship between cardiovascular reactivity in the laboratory and heart rate response in real life
Earlier studies suggest that cardiovascular responses in the laboratory and in the field are likely to be related when the laboratory tasks involve active coping, when the field measure is taken continuously, and when there is allowance for the effects of autocorrelation and physical activity on the ambulant cardiovascular measure. These studies lead to the hypothesis that the hyperreactivity common to the laboratory and to the field has a beta-a…
Impact on Patients and Partners of Inpatient and Extended Cardiac Counseling and Rehabilitation
OBJECTIVES: This study evaluated the effectiveness of cardiac counseling and rehabilitation programs led by a nurse counselor, compared with normal care on outcomes for myocardial infarction (MI) patients and their partners. METHODS: A randomized controlled trial with follow-up to 1 year was conducted with 100 patients recruited within 72 hours of a first MI and their partners: a Control group received normal care; an Inpatient group received car…
Cardiovascular reactions to psychological stress
Chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan (CS-PG) expression is increased in response to CNS injury and limits the capacity for axonal regeneration. Previously we have shown that neurocan is one of the CS-PGs that is upregulated (Asher et al., 2000). Here we show that another member of the aggrecan family, versican, is also upregulated in response to CNS injury. Labeling of frozen sections 7 d after a unilateral knife lesion to the cerebral cortex reveale…
Application of the Theory of Planned Behaviour in Behaviour Change Interventions
Does Depression Influence Symptom Severity in Irritable Bowel Syndrome? Case Study of a Patient With Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Bipolar Disorder
OBJECTIVE: Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is frequently associated with mood disorder. However, it is typically difficult to distinguish between disturbed mood as a causal agent and disturbed mood as a consequence of the experience of IBS. This report considers the association between mood and symptom severity in a patient with diarrhea-predominant IBS and stable, rapid cycling bipolar disorder with a predominantly depressive course. Such a case …
The Value Relevance of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Allowances
This paper examines the valuation implications of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions allowances. We posit that the value of a firm's bank of emission allowances has two components that are likely to be positively valued by the capital market: (1) an asset value component; and (2) a real option value component. Since the necessary data to examine this research hypothesis in the setting of GHG emission allowances is not yet available, we test our conje…
A Taxometric Analysis of Type-D Personality
OBJECTIVE: To test the dimensionality of Type-D personality, using taxometric procedures, to assess if Type-D personality is taxonic or dimensional. Type-D personality is treated as a categorical variable and caseness has been shown to be a risk factor for poor prognosis in coronary heart disease. However, at present, there is no direct evidence to support the assumption that Type D is categorical and able to differentiate true cases from noncase…
Stress in telephone helpline nurses is associated with failures of concentration, attention and memory, and with more conservative referral decisions
Nurses working for telephone‐based medical helplines must maintain attentional focus while quickly and accurately processing information given by callers to make safe and appropriate treatment decisions. In this study, both higher levels of general occupational stress and elevated stress levels on particular shifts were associated with more frequent failures of attention, memory, and concentration in telephone nurses. Exposure to a stressful shif…
Breaking the Intimate Screen
In his seminal study of early British television drama Jason Jacobs emphasises the importance of the concept of ‘intimacy’, during the period from the beginning of regular BBC television broadcasts in 1936 to the arrival of competition in 1955. This article focuses upon the role of special effects in breaking free from the restrictions of the studio, showing that effects were not only of use in expanding the temporal and spatial scope of televisi…
How can we better prepare new doctors for the tasks and challenges of ward rounds
PURPOSE: Ward rounds play a crucial role in the delivery of patient care in inpatient settings, but involve a complex mix of tasks, skills and challenges for junior doctors to negotiate. This study informs the development of high-quality training by identifying the activities that junior doctors perform, and those associated with stress during real-life ward rounds. MATERIALS AND METHODS: = 60) over 2 ward rounds were coded in real-time by a trai…
Changing healthcare professionals' non-reflective processes to improve the quality of care
Combining theories of habit and routines has the potential to advance implementation science by providing a fuller understanding of the range of factors, operating at multiple levels of analysis, which can impact on the behaviours of healthcare professionals, and so quality of care provision
Sadists and Readers of Horror Comics’
The responses in audience letters and in the press to the BBC’s 1954 television adaptation of Nineteen Eighty-Four relate it to horror comics and ideas of sadism. This thread can be followed to connect this response to wider concerns with horror comics not just in the United Kingdom but across Europe in the post-World War II period. These concerns related to the fears of American soft power in the post-war world, and the potential effects that so…
Medicine (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Internal Medicine (4 works) · Internal Medicine (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Nursing (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Blood pressure (2 works) · Cardiac Health and Mental Health (2 works)