Lancet
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Portion size guidance resources for parents feeding preschool children (aged 1-5 years) have been disseminated online in the UK to increase awareness of age-appropriate food consumption. However, little is known about the reach of these resources to parents. The aim of this study was to explore parental awareness of and opinions on portion size guidance resources and current parental portioning practices. ⋯ National Institute for Health Research School for Public Health Research (grant reference PD-SPH-2015).
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Gender-based violence is an important public health issue that has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Survivors often face barriers when seeking support for mental health and wellbeing and some find therapeutic value in creative arts. We aimed to explore how women with experiences of abuse used art during the pandemic to support mental health and wellbeing. ⋯ Wellcome Trust.
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The National Health Service (NHS) Long Term Plan is a national policy that offers a package of treatment and support, called the NHS-funded tobacco dependence service, to help people stop smoking. It will be offered to people who smoke and are admitted to hospital by 2023-24. We present preliminary findings from our study, aiming to describe the contexts that the NHS-funded tobacco dependence services is being implemented in, including current service provisions. ⋯ NIHR's National Priority Areas Research Programme 2020-23 via the Prevention Including Behavioural Risk Factors Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) Consortium.
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The combined incidence rate of all cancers is higher in deprived population groups than in least-deprived groups. Approximately 40% of cancers in the UK are attributable to lifestyle risk factors, such as smoking and obesity, which are also socioeconomically patterned, and which suggests that public health strategies for primary cancer prevention might need to be tailored according to socioeconomic status. The World Cancer Research Fund and American Institute for Cancer Research's Cancer Prevention Recommendations aim to reduce cancer risk. We investigated socioeconomic status differences in adherence to these recommendations within the cohort of the UK Biobank prospective study. ⋯ Wereld Kanker Onderzoek Fonds (grant number IIG_FULL_2020_032), as part of the World Cancer Research Fund International Grant Programme.
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A social prescribing link worker is responsible for enabling and supporting individuals, by assessing their needs and co-producing solutions to make use of appropriate, local, non-clinical resources or interventions. Because the role is new, link workers might not have professional backgrounds in dealing with individuals with complex needs, which can affect their decision making for the referral of individuals to appropriate community assets to support their needs. The aim of this work was to explore link workers' level of education, and past and current training needs, and to ascertain how much link workers were willing to pay to access and complete training to improve their skill set. ⋯ AM is supported by a KESS 2 studentship.