Louise Wallace
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3583069 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Louise Wallace |
| NOMBRES | Louise |
| APELLIDO | Wallace |
| FIRMA | WALLACE L |
| AFILIACIONES | Coventry University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3770-0580 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1986 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Co‐Development of an Evidence‐Based Breastfeeding Support Intervention, Optimised for Delivery in Healthcare Settings, and Adaptations for Mothers With Long‐Term Conditions
This intervention development study aimed to work with a wide range of stakeholders across the UK to integrate existing global evidence on the effectiveness and implementation of breastfeeding support for mothers with/without long-term conditions and co-develop a complex intervention optimised for delivery in healthcare settings. The intervention development process was informed by four systematic reviews, conducted alongside an embedded programm…
Iatrogenic injustice
The public has an important role to play in the regulation of health and social care, including raising concerns about harms caused by health and social care professionals to improve the safety and quality of services. There is little evidence about the experiences of members of the public who engage in regulatory processes and raise concerns with regulators. We conducted an institutional ethnography of the experiences of public witnesses (patien…
A Novel Content and Usability Analysis of UK Professional Regulator Information About Raising a Concern by Members of the Public
BACKGROUND: Health and social care regulators ensure that professionals have the correct qualifications and experience to practice in their profession. Globally, there are over 130 regulators of nursing alone and 13 health and social care statutory regulators in the United Kingdom. The public are the largest source of concerns to regulators about the registrants' fitness to practise (FtP). AIM: This study aimed to examine the amount, type and con…
Witness to Harm; Holding to Account
BACKGROUND: Health and social care regulators are organisations that seek to maintain public trust in professionals and protect the public from harmful practitioners. For example, they ensure that practitioners have the correct qualifications to practice and investigate any concerns raised about them. Serious concerns can result in a fitness to practise (FtP) hearing where a member of the public may be required to give evidence as a witness. Bein…
How Readable Is the Information the United Kingdom's Statutory Health and Social Care Professional Regulators Provide for the Public to Engage With Fitness to Practise Processes
BACKGROUND: The public are an important source of notifications and evidence for the investigation of concerns by regulators of professionals. The website is an important source of information for the public, but the complexity of information presented to engage with the public is unknown. OBJECTIVES: This study explored the readability of information provided for the public to engage with fitness to practise processes by examining the websites o…
Which outcome expectancies are important in determining young adults’ intentions to use condoms with casual sexual partners
The findings point to ways in which the attitudes of those with less safe sex intentions could be altered in order to motivate positive behavioural change. They suggest that it would be advantageous to highlight the potential for condom use to demonstrate a caring attitude, to challenge the potential for protected sex to reduce sexual pleasure, and to target young adults' risk appraisals for pregnancy as a consequence of unprotected sex with casu…
Beliefs underlying chlamydia risk appraisals
Risk appraisals are identified by many theories of health behaviour as primary motivators of intention and action. However, limited evidence is available on the beliefs underlying risk appraisals. The nature of these beliefs must be understood in order to optimally modify risk appraisals in ways that motivate positive behaviour change. This study uses Cameron’s illness risk representations framework to examine the extent to which beliefs about ch…
A survey of English teenagers' sexual experience and preferences for school-based sex education
Rates of sexually transmitted infections and teenage pregnancy amongst the under-16s are causing increasing concern. There is limited evidence about the sexual behaviour and sex education preferences of this age group, especially of those from Black and minority ethnic groups. This study aimed to provide data on early heterosexual risk behaviour, and to examine preferences for the content and delivery of sex and relationships education (SRE), acr…
Painting, Gender, and space
Breast is not always best’
Acculturating to a host country has a negative impact on immigrant women's breastfeeding practices, particularly when coming from countries where breastfeeding rates are higher than Western countries. Whether this is true of those immigrating to the UK remains to be investigated. The study aimed to explore whether acculturating to the UK had detrimental effects on breastfeeding practices of South Asian women, and to provide explanations as to how…
"They Should Be Offering It"
Young people attending GP surgeries have a positive attitude towards chlamydia screening and given the right environment are likely to take up the offer in this setting. The right environment involves normalising screening by offering a chlamydia screen to all 15-24 year olds at every interaction with staff, offering screening with a non-judgmental attitude and minimising barriers to screening such as embarrassment. The GP surgery is the ideal pl…
Training needs survey of midwives, health visitors and voluntary‐sector breastfeeding support staff in England
This study, which was part of a learning needs assessment of health professionals in England, reports a survey of the training needs of healthcare practitioners in breastfeeding support skills. Respondents rated their competence on 26 breastfeeding support skills, importance of update, actual and potential helpfulness of training, and accessibility in the next 2 years. Perception of organizational barriers to breastfeeding support and practitione…
Breastfeeding Best Start study
The most common reasons cited by women for giving up breastfeeding early can be attributed to ineffective positioning and attachment and are therefore preventable. This study aimed to determine whether a 4-h training programme in 'hands off' positioning and attachment support increases midwives' knowledge and problem-solving skills. Using an unrelated comparison group and a pre- and post-intervention design, 108 midwives (experimental group) comp…
Informing School Sex Education Using the Stages of Change Construct
A survey of 3820 school children in England aged 13-16 years examined sexual activity using the Transtheoretical Model (TTM) Stages of Change. A quarter (26%) of teens were sexually experienced, 44.8 per cent did not use contraception and 48.9 per cent did not use condoms, every time. Past history of condom and contraceptive use, and partner willingness to use condoms were the best predictors of being in Action or Maintenance stage for condom use…
Developing practice in breastfeeding
This paper reports on an approach to practice development in breastfeeding as part of a national programme of work to address inequalities in maternal and child nutrition. The production and dissemination of evidence and guidelines is necessary but not sufficient on its own to effect change in practice, particularly when dealing with complex public health issues. In the case of breastfeeding, review evidence and national guidance have shown that …
Addressing the learning deficit in breastfeeding
This paper summarizes the findings of the learning needs assessment described in this issue. Limitations and strengths are discussed. The paper describes a national, multi-sectoral, multidisciplinary picture. Our respondents may over-represent those with an interest in breastfeeding; if so, the true picture may be even more problematic than described here. Major deficits were identified in the knowledge and skills of practitioners from all backgr…
A training needs survey of doctors’ breastfeeding support skills in England
The study examined the training needs of paediatricians and general practitioners (GPs). Respondents rated their competence on 23 breastfeeding support skills, importance of update in the next 2 years, actual and potential helpfulness of different forms of professional updates, and accessibility in the next 2 years. The perception of organizational barriers to breastfeeding support and practitioners' knowledge of policies and guidance on breastfe…
Changes in Self-Efficacy and Decisional Balance Following an Intervention to Increase Consumption of Calcium-Rich Foods
In this randomized control study the changes in Transtheoretical Model (TTM; Prochaska & DiClemente, 1983) constructs (Self-Efficacy, Decisional Balance) after a tailored stage-based education program to increase calcium consumption in 40–65-year-old women were investigated. Postintervention, significantly more of the experimental group in comparison to the control group improved their calcium consumption stage of change. In the experimental grou…
Empowerment and advocacy
The concepts of empowerment and advocacy, and how they impinge on power relationships for service providers working with black and Asian communities, are explored through the findings of a 20-month project carried out between 2000 and 2001 with 19 Pakistani and Bangladeshi families who have children with severe disabilities in Birmingham. This action research project evaluated an advocacy project designed to improve the quality of life for Pakist…
Attitudes towards disability amongst Pakistani and Bangladeshi parents of disabled children in the UK
It has sometimes been assumed that religiously based explanations for and attitudes to having a disabled child have led to the low uptake of health and social services by ethnic minority families in the UK. A series of semi-structured interviews were held between 1999 and 2001 with 19 Pakistani and Bangladeshi families with a disabled child as part of an evaluation of an advocacy service. The families' understandings of the causes of their child'…
Disadvantage and Discrimination Compounded
This paper discusses a qualitative and quantitative study of the circumstances of 20 Pakistani and Bangladeshi families with one or more severely disabled children living in Birmingham, England. Parents and other adult carers were interviewed using a combination of structured questionnaires and a semi-structured interview schedule focusing on the families' material circumstances, their use of formal services, informal care arrangements, and aspec…
Disability, Ethnicity and Childhood
Whilst there is an increasing body of literature on the perspectives of carers of disabled children, there is little research giving the disabled child's perspective from either majority or minority populations. Indeed, the voices of black and Asian children in disability research have been almost silent. This literature review collates and analyses existing knowledge about the perceptions held by disabled and non-disabled children, and young peo…
Pre‐operative state anxiety as a mediator of psychological adjustment to and recovery from surgery
Psychological theories of stress suggest competing hypotheses for the predictive relationship between pre‐operative anxiety and post‐operative adjustment and recovery. Evidence is presented to assess whether linear or curvilinear (quadratic) relationships account for the associations between pre‐operative anxiety and post‐operative variables. These two hypotheses are tested on two samples of patients undergoing elective minor gynaecological surge…
Informed consent to elective surgery
Disadvantage and Discrimination Compounded
This paper discusses a qualitative and quantitative study of the circumstances of 20 Pakistani and Bangladeshi families with one or more severely disabled children living in Birmingham, England. Parents and other adult carers were interviewed using a combination of structured questionnaires and a semi-structured interview schedule focusing on the families' material circumstances, their use of formal services, informal care arrangements, and aspec…
Attitudes towards disability amongst Pakistani and Bangladeshi parents of disabled children in the UK
It has sometimes been assumed that religiously based explanations for and attitudes to having a disabled child have led to the low uptake of health and social services by ethnic minority families in the UK. A series of semi-structured interviews were held between 1999 and 2001 with 19 Pakistani and Bangladeshi families with a disabled child as part of an evaluation of an advocacy service. The families' understandings of the causes of their child'…
Empowerment and advocacy
The concepts of empowerment and advocacy, and how they impinge on power relationships for service providers working with black and Asian communities, are explored through the findings of a 20-month project carried out between 2000 and 2001 with 19 Pakistani and Bangladeshi families who have children with severe disabilities in Birmingham. This action research project evaluated an advocacy project designed to improve the quality of life for Pakist…
Informing School Sex Education Using the Stages of Change Construct
A survey of 3820 school children in England aged 13-16 years examined sexual activity using the Transtheoretical Model (TTM) Stages of Change. A quarter (26%) of teens were sexually experienced, 44.8 per cent did not use contraception and 48.9 per cent did not use condoms, every time. Past history of condom and contraceptive use, and partner willingness to use condoms were the best predictors of being in Action or Maintenance stage for condom use…
Pre‐operative state anxiety as a mediator of psychological adjustment to and recovery from surgery
Psychological theories of stress suggest competing hypotheses for the predictive relationship between pre‐operative anxiety and post‐operative adjustment and recovery. Evidence is presented to assess whether linear or curvilinear (quadratic) relationships account for the associations between pre‐operative anxiety and post‐operative variables. These two hypotheses are tested on two samples of patients undergoing elective minor gynaecological surge…
Beliefs underlying chlamydia risk appraisals
Risk appraisals are identified by many theories of health behaviour as primary motivators of intention and action. However, limited evidence is available on the beliefs underlying risk appraisals. The nature of these beliefs must be understood in order to optimally modify risk appraisals in ways that motivate positive behaviour change. This study uses Cameron’s illness risk representations framework to examine the extent to which beliefs about ch…
Informed consent to elective surgery
Pre‐operative state anxiety as a mediator of psychological adjustment to and recovery from surgery
Psychological theories of stress suggest competing hypotheses for the predictive relationship between pre‐operative anxiety and post‐operative adjustment and recovery. Evidence is presented to assess whether linear or curvilinear (quadratic) relationships account for the associations between pre‐operative anxiety and post‐operative variables. These two hypotheses are tested on two samples of patients undergoing elective minor gynaecological surge…
Informed consent to elective surgery
Disability, Ethnicity and Childhood
Whilst there is an increasing body of literature on the perspectives of carers of disabled children, there is little research giving the disabled child's perspective from either majority or minority populations. Indeed, the voices of black and Asian children in disability research have been almost silent. This literature review collates and analyses existing knowledge about the perceptions held by disabled and non-disabled children, and young peo…
Disadvantage and Discrimination Compounded
This paper discusses a qualitative and quantitative study of the circumstances of 20 Pakistani and Bangladeshi families with one or more severely disabled children living in Birmingham, England. Parents and other adult carers were interviewed using a combination of structured questionnaires and a semi-structured interview schedule focusing on the families' material circumstances, their use of formal services, informal care arrangements, and aspec…
Attitudes towards disability amongst Pakistani and Bangladeshi parents of disabled children in the UK
It has sometimes been assumed that religiously based explanations for and attitudes to having a disabled child have led to the low uptake of health and social services by ethnic minority families in the UK. A series of semi-structured interviews were held between 1999 and 2001 with 19 Pakistani and Bangladeshi families with a disabled child as part of an evaluation of an advocacy service. The families' understandings of the causes of their child'…
Empowerment and advocacy
The concepts of empowerment and advocacy, and how they impinge on power relationships for service providers working with black and Asian communities, are explored through the findings of a 20-month project carried out between 2000 and 2001 with 19 Pakistani and Bangladeshi families who have children with severe disabilities in Birmingham. This action research project evaluated an advocacy project designed to improve the quality of life for Pakist…
Developing practice in breastfeeding
This paper reports on an approach to practice development in breastfeeding as part of a national programme of work to address inequalities in maternal and child nutrition. The production and dissemination of evidence and guidelines is necessary but not sufficient on its own to effect change in practice, particularly when dealing with complex public health issues. In the case of breastfeeding, review evidence and national guidance have shown that …
Addressing the learning deficit in breastfeeding
This paper summarizes the findings of the learning needs assessment described in this issue. Limitations and strengths are discussed. The paper describes a national, multi-sectoral, multidisciplinary picture. Our respondents may over-represent those with an interest in breastfeeding; if so, the true picture may be even more problematic than described here. Major deficits were identified in the knowledge and skills of practitioners from all backgr…
A training needs survey of doctors’ breastfeeding support skills in England
The study examined the training needs of paediatricians and general practitioners (GPs). Respondents rated their competence on 23 breastfeeding support skills, importance of update in the next 2 years, actual and potential helpfulness of different forms of professional updates, and accessibility in the next 2 years. The perception of organizational barriers to breastfeeding support and practitioners' knowledge of policies and guidance on breastfe…
Changes in Self-Efficacy and Decisional Balance Following an Intervention to Increase Consumption of Calcium-Rich Foods
In this randomized control study the changes in Transtheoretical Model (TTM; Prochaska & DiClemente, 1983) constructs (Self-Efficacy, Decisional Balance) after a tailored stage-based education program to increase calcium consumption in 40–65-year-old women were investigated. Postintervention, significantly more of the experimental group in comparison to the control group improved their calcium consumption stage of change. In the experimental grou…
Training needs survey of midwives, health visitors and voluntary‐sector breastfeeding support staff in England
This study, which was part of a learning needs assessment of health professionals in England, reports a survey of the training needs of healthcare practitioners in breastfeeding support skills. Respondents rated their competence on 26 breastfeeding support skills, importance of update, actual and potential helpfulness of training, and accessibility in the next 2 years. Perception of organizational barriers to breastfeeding support and practitione…
Breastfeeding Best Start study
The most common reasons cited by women for giving up breastfeeding early can be attributed to ineffective positioning and attachment and are therefore preventable. This study aimed to determine whether a 4-h training programme in 'hands off' positioning and attachment support increases midwives' knowledge and problem-solving skills. Using an unrelated comparison group and a pre- and post-intervention design, 108 midwives (experimental group) comp…
Informing School Sex Education Using the Stages of Change Construct
A survey of 3820 school children in England aged 13-16 years examined sexual activity using the Transtheoretical Model (TTM) Stages of Change. A quarter (26%) of teens were sexually experienced, 44.8 per cent did not use contraception and 48.9 per cent did not use condoms, every time. Past history of condom and contraceptive use, and partner willingness to use condoms were the best predictors of being in Action or Maintenance stage for condom use…
Breast is not always best’
Acculturating to a host country has a negative impact on immigrant women's breastfeeding practices, particularly when coming from countries where breastfeeding rates are higher than Western countries. Whether this is true of those immigrating to the UK remains to be investigated. The study aimed to explore whether acculturating to the UK had detrimental effects on breastfeeding practices of South Asian women, and to provide explanations as to how…
"They Should Be Offering It"
Young people attending GP surgeries have a positive attitude towards chlamydia screening and given the right environment are likely to take up the offer in this setting. The right environment involves normalising screening by offering a chlamydia screen to all 15-24 year olds at every interaction with staff, offering screening with a non-judgmental attitude and minimising barriers to screening such as embarrassment. The GP surgery is the ideal pl…
A survey of English teenagers' sexual experience and preferences for school-based sex education
Rates of sexually transmitted infections and teenage pregnancy amongst the under-16s are causing increasing concern. There is limited evidence about the sexual behaviour and sex education preferences of this age group, especially of those from Black and minority ethnic groups. This study aimed to provide data on early heterosexual risk behaviour, and to examine preferences for the content and delivery of sex and relationships education (SRE), acr…
Painting, Gender, and space
Which outcome expectancies are important in determining young adults’ intentions to use condoms with casual sexual partners
The findings point to ways in which the attitudes of those with less safe sex intentions could be altered in order to motivate positive behavioural change. They suggest that it would be advantageous to highlight the potential for condom use to demonstrate a caring attitude, to challenge the potential for protected sex to reduce sexual pleasure, and to target young adults' risk appraisals for pregnancy as a consequence of unprotected sex with casu…
Beliefs underlying chlamydia risk appraisals
Risk appraisals are identified by many theories of health behaviour as primary motivators of intention and action. However, limited evidence is available on the beliefs underlying risk appraisals. The nature of these beliefs must be understood in order to optimally modify risk appraisals in ways that motivate positive behaviour change. This study uses Cameron’s illness risk representations framework to examine the extent to which beliefs about ch…
A Novel Content and Usability Analysis of UK Professional Regulator Information About Raising a Concern by Members of the Public
BACKGROUND: Health and social care regulators ensure that professionals have the correct qualifications and experience to practice in their profession. Globally, there are over 130 regulators of nursing alone and 13 health and social care statutory regulators in the United Kingdom. The public are the largest source of concerns to regulators about the registrants' fitness to practise (FtP). AIM: This study aimed to examine the amount, type and con…
Witness to Harm; Holding to Account
BACKGROUND: Health and social care regulators are organisations that seek to maintain public trust in professionals and protect the public from harmful practitioners. For example, they ensure that practitioners have the correct qualifications to practice and investigate any concerns raised about them. Serious concerns can result in a fitness to practise (FtP) hearing where a member of the public may be required to give evidence as a witness. Bein…
How Readable Is the Information the United Kingdom's Statutory Health and Social Care Professional Regulators Provide for the Public to Engage With Fitness to Practise Processes
BACKGROUND: The public are an important source of notifications and evidence for the investigation of concerns by regulators of professionals. The website is an important source of information for the public, but the complexity of information presented to engage with the public is unknown. OBJECTIVES: This study explored the readability of information provided for the public to engage with fitness to practise processes by examining the websites o…
Iatrogenic injustice
The public has an important role to play in the regulation of health and social care, including raising concerns about harms caused by health and social care professionals to improve the safety and quality of services. There is little evidence about the experiences of members of the public who engage in regulatory processes and raise concerns with regulators. We conducted an institutional ethnography of the experiences of public witnesses (patien…
Co‐Development of an Evidence‐Based Breastfeeding Support Intervention, Optimised for Delivery in Healthcare Settings, and Adaptations for Mothers With Long‐Term Conditions
This intervention development study aimed to work with a wide range of stakeholders across the UK to integrate existing global evidence on the effectiveness and implementation of breastfeeding support for mothers with/without long-term conditions and co-develop a complex intervention optimised for delivery in healthcare settings. The intervention development process was informed by four systematic reviews, conducted alongside an embedded programm…
Medicine (20 obras) · Psychology (17 obras) · Nursing (14 obras) · Sociology (11 obras) · Political science (10 obras) · Social Psychology (9 obras) · Social Psychology (8 obras) · Breastfeeding (7 obras) · Breastfeeding Practices and Influences (7 obras) · Public health (7 obras)