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Promoting physical activity with a school-based dance mat exergaming intervention: qualitative findings from a natural experiment (2016)
Journal Article
Burges Watson, D., Adams, J., Azevedo, L., & Haighton, C. (2016). Promoting physical activity with a school-based dance mat exergaming intervention: qualitative findings from a natural experiment. BMC Public Health, 16(1), Article 609. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-3308-2

Background Physical activity is critical to improving health and well-being in children. Quantitative studies have found a decline in activity in the transition from primary to secondary education. Exergames (active video games) might increase physic... Read More about Promoting physical activity with a school-based dance mat exergaming intervention: qualitative findings from a natural experiment.

The effect of dance mat exergaming systems on physical activity and health – related outcomes in secondary schools: results from a natural experiment (2014)
Journal Article
Azevedo, L., Burges Watson, D., Haighton, C., & Adams, J. (2014). The effect of dance mat exergaming systems on physical activity and health – related outcomes in secondary schools: results from a natural experiment. BMC Public Health, 14, Article 951. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-14-951

Background: Exergaming has been proposed as an innovative method for physical activity promotion. However, large effectiveness studies are rare. In January 2011, dance mat systems were introduced in secondary schools in two districts in England with... Read More about The effect of dance mat exergaming systems on physical activity and health – related outcomes in secondary schools: results from a natural experiment.

Chewing on choice (2013)
Book Chapter
Brooks, S., Burges Watson, D. L., Draper, A., Goodman, M., Kvalvaag, H., & Wills, W. (2013). Chewing on choice. In E. Abbots, & A. Lavis (Eds.), Why we eat, how we eat : contemporary encounters between foods and bodies (149-168). Ashgate Publishing

The concept of ‘individual choice’ has become central to contemporary understandings of the relationship between food, health and well-being. Drawing on four research projects in which the authors have recently been engaged (Brooks 2010, Burges Watso... Read More about Chewing on choice.

Evidence From the Scene: Paramedic Perspectives on Involvement in Out-of-Hospital Research (2012)
Journal Article
Burges Watson, D., Sanoff, R., Mackintosh, J., Saver, J., Ford, G., Price, C., …Murtagh, M. (2012). Evidence From the Scene: Paramedic Perspectives on Involvement in Out-of-Hospital Research. Annals of Emergency Medicine, 60(5), 641-650. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annemergmed.2011.12.002

Study objective: In the context of calls to develop better systems for out-of-hospital clinical research, we seek to understand paramedics' perceptions of involvement in research and the barriers and facilitators to that involvement. Methods: This wa... Read More about Evidence From the Scene: Paramedic Perspectives on Involvement in Out-of-Hospital Research.

Situationally-sensitive knowledge translation and relational decision making in hyperacute stroke: a qualitive study (2012)
Journal Article
Murtagh, M., Burges Watson, D., Jenkings, N., Lie, M., Mackintosh, J., Ford, G., & Thomson, R. (2012). Situationally-sensitive knowledge translation and relational decision making in hyperacute stroke: a qualitive study. PLoS ONE, 7(4), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0037066

Stroke is a leading cause of disability. Early treatment of acute ischaemic stroke with rtPA reduces the risk of longer term dependency but carries an increased risk of causing immediate bleeding complications. To understand the challenges of knowled... Read More about Situationally-sensitive knowledge translation and relational decision making in hyperacute stroke: a qualitive study.

The Change4life convenience store programme to increase retail access to fresh fruit and vegetables : a mixed methods process evaluation (2012)
Journal Article
Adams, J., Halligan, J., Burges Watson, D. L., Ryan, V., Penn, L., Adamson, A. J., & White, M. (2012). The Change4life convenience store programme to increase retail access to fresh fruit and vegetables : a mixed methods process evaluation. PLoS ONE, 7(6), Article e39431. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0039431

Background: Consumption of fruit and vegetables is important for health, but is often lower than recommended and tends to be socio-economically patterned with lower consumption in more deprived groups. In 2008, the English Department of Health introd... Read More about The Change4life convenience store programme to increase retail access to fresh fruit and vegetables : a mixed methods process evaluation.

Little bottles and the promise of probiotics (2009)
Journal Article
Burges Watson, D., Moreira, T., & Murtagh, M. (2009). Little bottles and the promise of probiotics. Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, 13(2), 219-234. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363459308099685

In this article we explore `regimes of hope' in contemporary bioscience as articulated in spaces of health consumption. We use the case study of probiotic little bottles, highlighting their promissory branding as consumer products, to consider how ho... Read More about Little bottles and the promise of probiotics.

Public health and carrageenan regulation: a review and analysis (2008)
Journal Article
Burges Watson, D. (2008). Public health and carrageenan regulation: a review and analysis. Journal of Applied Phycology, 20(5), 505-513. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10811-007-9252-x

The status of carrageenan in the regulatory sphere influences how and where it may be used, with implications for seaweed farmers, carrageenan manufacturers and consumers. Over the period 1935 to the present the status of carrageenan has been effecte... Read More about Public health and carrageenan regulation: a review and analysis.

Decision support for women choosing mode of delivery after a previous caesarean section: a developmental study (2008)
Journal Article
Farnworth, A., Robson, S., Thomson, R., Burges Watson, D., & Murtagh, M. (2008). Decision support for women choosing mode of delivery after a previous caesarean section: a developmental study. Patient Education and Counseling, 71(1), 116-124. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2007.11.020

Objective: To examine the impact of a decision support intervention designed for women choosing mode of delivery after one previous caesarean section.

Professional centred shared decision making: patient decision aids in practice in primary care (2008)
Journal Article
Burges Watson, D., Thomson, R., & Murtagh, M. (2008). Professional centred shared decision making: patient decision aids in practice in primary care. BMC Health Services Research, 8(5), https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-8-5

Patient decision aids are increasingly regarded as important components of clinical practice that enable shared decision making (SDM) and evidence based patient choice. Despite broad acceptance of their value, there remains little evidence of their s... Read More about Professional centred shared decision making: patient decision aids in practice in primary care.

Flexible therapeutic landscapes of labour and the place of pain relief (2007)
Journal Article
Burges Watson, D., Murtagh, M., Lally, J., Thomson, R., & McPhail, S. (2007). Flexible therapeutic landscapes of labour and the place of pain relief. Health & Place, 13(4), 865-876. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2007.02.003

Flexibility in the design and enactment of spaces of healthcare is important in how providers respond to variations in patient expectations and experience. Health geographers have contributed to a wide body of literature concerning the therapeutic qu... Read More about Flexible therapeutic landscapes of labour and the place of pain relief.