Tuesday 24 March 2009
Concurrent session presentations (where agreed to publish)
1.1 Mental Health (Chair: Marjorie Lloyd)
1.1.1 Delivering a smoking cessation intervention for patients within a high security psychiatric setting: a focus study group
Edward Duncan, Nursing Midwifery and Allied Health Professions Research Unit, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK. Co-authors: Catherine Best, Carol-Ann Topping
1.1.2 Self-acupuncture as an alternative to deliberate self harm: A pilot study
Susan Davies, Department Of Psychological Medicine, North West Wales NHS Trust, Bangor, UK. Co authors: Diana Bell; Fiona Irvine; Richard Tranter
1.1.3 Physical health care in mental health practice: A literature review
Annette Jinks, Evidence-based Practice Research Centre, Faculty of Health, Edge Hill University, Liverpool, UK. Co authors: Candi Kitt; Judith Ball
1.2 Medication adherence (Chair: Leslie Gelling)
1.2.1 Factors infleuncing patients’ adherence to antiretroviral therapy in Botswana
Valerie Ehlers, Department of Health Studies, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa. Co authors: Esther Kip; Dirk van der Wal
1.2.2 Content validation of a medication adherence instrument –process and outcomes
Elaine Lehane, School of Nursing and Midwifery, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland. Co authors: Geraldine McCarthy
1.2.3 Health visitors’ communications with parents about childhood immunisation
Sarah Redsell, School of Nursing, Nottingham University, Nottingham, UK. Co-authors: Helen Bedford; A Niroshan Siriwardena; Jacqueline Collier; Pippa Atkinson
1.3 Research methods (Chair: Julie Taylor)
1.3.1 The policy Delphi technique in nursing education research: Personal insights into the complexities and use of the
technique
Pauline Meskell, School of Nursing and Midwifery, National University of Ireland, Galway, Galway, Ireland
1.3.2 Developing workable methods: Aligning a research priority, patient involvement and complex assessments
Susan Jones, School of Health and Social Care, University of Teesside, Middlesborough, UK. Co authors: Susan Jones; Sharon Hamilton; Lin Perry; Claire O’Malley
1.3.3 Keeping concept analysis in context – a confirmatory and validatory process
Patricia Gillen, School of Nursing, Faculty of Life and Health Science, University of Ulster, Jordanstown, UK. Co authors: Marlene Sinclair; George Kernohan
1.4 Parenting (Chair: Susan Philpin)
1.4.1 Emotional wellbeing of parents of adolescents who deliberately self harm
Kenneth Sellick, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Monash University, Churchill, Australia. Co author: Jacqui Ward
1.4.2 Why do parents attend emergency departments with children presenting with minor illnesses? A survey
Pippa Hemingway, ScHARR, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK. Co authors: Ursula Werneke; Roderick MacFaul; Kate Armon; Monica Lakhanpaul; Terence Stephenson
1.4.3 Experience of parents diagnosed with head and neck cancer who are caring for young children
Cherith Semple, Cancer Services, South Eastern Trust NI, Belfast, UK. Co author: Tanya McCance
1.5 Nurse prescribing (Chair: Annie Topping)
1.5.1 Negotiating the prescribing role: District nurses reveal strategies for managing conflict
Richard Fisher, Faculty of Sports Science and Social Studies, University of Chichester, Chichester, UK
1.5.2 The impact of mental health nurse prescribing in UK
Austyn Snowden, School of Health Nursing and Midwifery, University of West of Scotland, Paisley, UK
1.5.3 Nurse prescribing for patients with diabetes: Stakeholder views
Karen Stenner, School of Health and Social Care, University of Reading, Reading, UK. Co authors: Nicola Carey; Molly
Courtenay
1.6 Midwifery (Chair: Debbie Carrick-Sen)
1.6.1 The perspective of midwives offering down’s syndrome serum screening
Jenny McNeill, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Queen’s University, Belfast, Belfast, UK. Co authors: Fiona Alderdice
1.6.2 An ethnography of pregnant women’s decision-making processes with regard to antenatal screening for Down
Syndrome in Northern Ireland
Bernie Reid, Institute of Nursing Research, University of Ulster, Derry, UK. Co authors: Marlene Sinclair; Owen Barr; Frank Dobbs; Grainne Crealey
1.7 Research policy and practice (Chair: Nikki Lloyd-Jones)
1.7.1 UK Department of Health research strategy and funding: A historical perspective and future opportunities for nursing research
Daniel Wolstenholme, Research Department, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Sheffield, UK
1.7.2 Research capacity building in nursing, midwifery and the allied health professions: A seven year review of the
Consortium for Healthcare Research
Bob Heyman, School of Human and Health Sciences, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK. Co authors: Kathryn Davis; Jacqueline Fitzgerald; Dinah Gould; Jill Maben
1.7.3 Graduate nurses and midwives perceptions of conducting and implementing research in one health trust.
Sherrill Snelgrove, University of Wales Swansea, School of Health Science, Swansea, UK. Co-authors: Ingaret Eden; Mandy James
1.8 New Education and workforce (Chair: Tony Long)
1.8.1 Training for CRC Cymru – the new research infrastructure in Wales
Joyce Kenkre, School of Care Sciences, University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd, UK. Co author: Susan Figueirido
1.8.2 The first national census of Australian nurse practitioners
Anne Gardner, School of Nursing, Midwifery and Nutrition, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia. Co authors: Glenn Gardner; Sandy Middleton; Phillip Della
1.8.3 Nurse and health care professional education: How are we using e-learning?
Pam Moule, Faculty of Health and Social Care, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. Co-authors: Rod Ward;
Lesley Lockyer
2.2 Narrative investigation (Chair: Christine Smith)
2.2.1 The use of narrative inquiry in clinical practice based research
Caroline Sanders, Royal Liverpool Children’s Hospital, Liverpool, UK. Co-authors: Bernie Carter; Lynne Goodacre; Alan Armstrong
2.2.2 Can unsolicited illness narratives be used as research data?
Mary O’Brien, Evidence-based Practice Research Centre, Faculty of Health, Edge Hill University, Liverpool, UK
2.2.3 Narrative as a research method in understanding experiences of nurse academics
Maria Joyce, School of Health and Social Care, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK
2.3 Illness and experiences (Chair: Barbara Jack)
2.3.1 The lived experiences of women with disabilities facing the challenges of pregnancy, childbirth and motherhood: An interpretative phenomenological study
Dympna Walsh Gallagher, St Angela’s College, National University of Galway, Sligo, Ireland. Co-authors: Marlene Sinclair; Roy McConkey
2.3.2 The illness experiences of people with idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus: A grounded theory study
Leslie Gelling, Faculty of Health and Social Care, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK
2.3.3 Hepatitis C: Experiences of stigma when accessing services
Kate Frazer, HRB Clinical Research Fellow, School of Public Health and Population Science, University College Dublin, Ireland. Co author: Michelle Glacken
2.4 Nurse educators (Chair: Carol Haigh)
2.4.1 Gender, gender roles and completion of nursing education: A longitudinal study
Katrina Mclaughlin, School of Nursing and Midwifery Research Unit, Queen’s University, Belfast, UK. Co-authors: Marianne Moutray; Orla Muldoon
2.4.2 An evaluation study of lecturer practitioners in Ireland
Ann Cummins, Catherine McAuley School of Nursing and Midwifery, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland. Co-authors: Irene Hartigan; Liz O’Connell; Brendan Noonan; Mary Hughes; Claire Hayes; Patricia Fehin
2.4.3 The current and future clinical role of lecturers in nursing: Results from a policy Delphi study
Pauline Meskell, School of Nursing and Midwifery, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland. Co-authors: Kathy Murphy; David Shaw
2.5 Long term conditions (Chair: Val Woodward)
2.5.1 A national survey to examine the provision and the nature of psychosocial assessment and support for individuals with skin disorders
Terry Adams, Faculty of Health and Applied Social Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK
2.5.2 Comparison of patient-centered variables between patients with heart failure and preserved versus non-preserved
ejection fraction
Debra Moser, College of Nursing, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA. Co-authors: Terry Lennie; Jia-Rong
Wu; Seongkum Heo; Martha Biddle; Donna Corley; Betty Kuiper; Lynn Roser; EunKyeung Song
2.5.3 Evaluation of the Blackpool budget holding lead practitioner initiative
Joan Livesley, Salford Centre for Nursing, Midwifery and Collaborative Research, University of Salford, Salford, UK. Co-author: Janet Berry
2.6 Service user’s views (Chair: Tracey Williamson)
2.6.1 Centre stage storylines: Giving vulnerable people a voice in researching their experiences and coconstructing grounded theory
Sion Williams, School of Healthcare Sciences, Bangor University, Bangor, UK. Co-author: John Keady
2.6.2 Using stated preference discrete choice modelling to elicit women’s preferences for maternity care.
Bernie Reid, Institute of Nursing Research, University of Ulster, Derry, UK. Co-authors: Marlene Sinclair; Owen Barr; Frank Dobbs; Grainne Crealey
2.6.3 Flexible and responsive services in cancer care: Service users’ experiences and views
Kate Wilson, Macmillan Research Unit, School of Nursing Midwifery and Social Work, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK. Co-authors: Anne Lydon; Ziv Amir
2.7 Academic workforce/work based learning (Chair: Julie Taylor)
2.7.1 Recruitment and retention of midwifery academic staff across south west England
Elizabeth Rosser, School of Health and Social Care, Bournemouth University, Bournemouth, UK. Co-author: John Albarran
2.7.2 A realistic evaluation of work-based learning for qualified nurses
Lesley Moore, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
2.7.3 Recruiting nurses as research participants – what are the issues?
Philippa Atkinson, School of Nursing, Midwifery and Physiotherapy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK. Co-authors: Sarah Redsell; Cris Glazebrook; Judy Swift; Niro Siriwardena; Dililp Nathan
2.8 Evaluation and care (Chair: Andrea Nelson)
2.8.1 Patients perceptions of the multi-professional team in chronic back pain management services
Michelle Howarth, School of Nursing, University of Salford, Salford, UK
2.8.2 Pain evaluation in positioning procedures for patients with invasive mechanical ventilation
Maria Angeles Margall, Intensive Care Unit, Clínica Universitaria de Navarra, Pamplona Navarra, Spain. Co-authors: I Pardavila; MC Asiain; M Vázquez; M Lucia; Y Aguado
2.8.3 Evaluation of the Blackpool Springboard Project: Outcomes of intensive interagency support for chaotic,
dependent families
Tony Long, Salford Centre for Nursing, Midwifery and Collaborative Research, University of Salford, Salford, UK. Co-authors: Mike Ravey; Michael Murphy; Debbie Fallon; Merle Davies; Moya Foster
2.9 Theme: Patient experience (Chair: Loretta Bellman)
2.9.1 The experiences of patients with chronic low back pain (CLBP) after treatment at a chronic pain clinic: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA)
Sherrill Snelgrove, University of Wales Swansea, School of Health Science, Swansea, UK
2.9.2 Patients’ self-reported experiences of dietary and other lifestyle influences on gastrooesophageal reflux disease.
Lesley Dibley, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, King’s College London, London, UK. Co-authors: Christine Norton; Roger Jones
2.9.3 Improving the patient experience through user involvement: Action research in elective orthopaedic care
Brian Lucas, Orthopaedic Department, Whipps Cross University Hospital NHS Trust, London, UK. Co-author: Pat Howie

