School of Paramedical, Perioperative and Advanced Practice

Our research in the field of pre-hospital care includes exploring ways to improve training for student paramedics.

Student paramedic perceptions of a non-ambulance practice learning experience

University of Hull pharmacology research includes:

Exploring interactions between healthcare workers and elderly patients and their effect on patient wellbeing.

Dignity, well-being and identity: a qualitative study of older people’s interpretations of how healthcare workers speak to them

Exploring the feasibility of responding to ‘behaviour that challenges’ through different methods. People living with dementia in care homes frequently exhibit ‘behaviour that challenges’ – anti-psychotics are used to treat such behaviour, but are associated with significant morbidity.

MEDREV (pharmacy-health psychology intervention in people living with dementia with behaviour that challenges): The feasibility of measuring clinical outcomes and costs of the intervention

Medication review plus person-centred care: a feasibility study of a pharmacy-health psychology dual intervention to improve care for people living with dementia

Understanding how people with dementia and their informal carers manage their medication in the community.

Exploring the evidence base for how people with dementia and their informal carers manage their medication in the community: a mixed studies review

Our research into critical care includes:

Exploring Early Warning Track and Trigger Tools on patient outcomes.

Do early warning track and trigger tools improve patient outcomes? A systematic synthesis without meta-analysis

What are the patterns of compliance with Early Warning Track and Trigger Tools: A narrative review

Advancing procedural knowledge around endotracheal tubes.

How to remove an endotracheal tube

How to perform open tracheal suction via an endotracheal tube

University of Hull research in the field of advanced practice includes a range of key topics such as:

Addressing gender-based discrimination and violence against women and girls in India.

aDolescents gEnder surVey, rEsponsible coupLes evaluatiOn, and capacity building Project in India (DEVELOP): a study protocol

Investigating the feasibility of screening women for alcohol use in antenatal clinics.

The feasibility of screening women for alcohol use in antenatal clinics: An overview of the issues 

Reviewing guidance relating to professional healthcare behaviour.

Defining professional behaviour: a review of the UK guidance 

Exploring the experiences of people who care from a distance.

‘A fifty mile round trip to change a lightbulb’: An exploratory study of carers’ experiences of providing help, care and support to families and friends from a distance

Physiotherapy research at the University of Hull includes: 

Understanding the views of practitioners in the falls service.

Transitions from healthcare to self-care: a qualitative study of falls service practitioners' views on self-management

 Investigating the relationship between soft tissue manual therapy and clinical outcomes in fibromyalgia.

Is there a dose response relationship between soft tissue manual therapy and clinical outcomes in fibromyalgia?

 Exploring the factors that influence physical activity participation in people with rheumatoid arthritis.

What factors influence physical activity participation in people with rheumatoid arthritis?

Reviewing the postoperative experiences of patients who have undergone hip and knee joint replacements.

What are the postoperative experiences of patients who have undergone hip and knee joint replacement? A literature review

Investigating older people’s adherence to community-based group exercise.

 Older people’s adherence to community-based group exercise programmes: a multiple-case study

 Adherence to community based group exercise interventions for older people: A mixed-methods systematic review