Category: Research

Current awareness updates

The problem with ‘My Five Moments for Hand Hygiene’.[Abstract]
Gould D. BMJ Quality & Safety 2022;31(4):322-326.
[“We propose four solutions to promote hand hygiene. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought rapid change to health services delivery, including all aspects of infection prevention, and could be the catalyst to update hand hygiene programmes incorporating these solutions.”]

‘My Five Moments’: understanding a user-centred approach to hand hygiene improvement within a broader implementation strategy. [Editorial][Abstract]
Allegranzi B. BMJ Quality & Safety 2022;31(4):259-262.
[Conclusions: The Five Moments approach is being constantly tailored to meet the challenges of care locations outside the traditional hospital setting, as well as across all countries and resource levels. The main thrust of the approach remains targeted at patient and health worker safety at the point of care where the risk of acquiring infection can be at its highest. Further work to help meet the Five Moments objectives through its adaptation and adoption worldwide is to be welcomed.]

Obesity statistics.
House of Commons Library; 2022.
[28% of adults in England are obese and a further 36% are overweight. This briefing provides statistics on the obesity among adults and children in the UK, along with data on bariatric surgery and international comparisons.]

Pressure redistributing static chairs for preventing pressure ulcers.[Abstract]
Stephens M. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2022;2:CD013644.[OBJECTIVES: To assess the effects of pressure redistributing static chairs on the prevention of pressure ulcers in health, rehabilitation and social care settings, and places of residence in which people may spend their day.]

Culturally adapting internet- and mobile-based health promotion interventions might not be worth the effort: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Balci S. npj Digital Medicine 2022;5:34.
[Adapting health promotion IMI to the cultural context of different cultural populations seems not yet to be recommendable given the substantial adaption efforts necessary and the mostly non-significant findings. However, these findings need to be seen as preliminary given the limited number of included trials with varying methodological rigor and the partly substantial between-trial heterogeneity pointing in the direction of potentially useful culturally adapted IMI.]

Association of Music Interventions With Health-Related Quality of Life: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
JAMA Network Open; 2022.
[This systematic review and meta-analysis of 26 studies comprising 779 individuals found that music interventions were associated with statistically and clinically significant changes in mental HRQOL, both preintervention to postintervention as well as when music interventions were added to treatment as usual vs treatment as usual control groups.]