• The use of technology in supporting goal setting in rehabilitation in adults: Protocol for a scoping review 

  Strubbia, Carla; Levack, William M.M; Grainger, Rebecca; Takahashi, Kayoko; Tomori, Kounosuku

  Background: Goal setting is considered an essential component of any rehabilitation programme. However, health professionals can struggle to involve patients in the goal selection process to the extent that they think is ...

• Impact of sugar-sweetened beverage tariffs and excise on taxed and untaxed beverage trade volumes to the Cook Islands and Tonga: Pre-analysis study protocol 

  Teng, Andrea; Wilson, Nick; Signal, Louise; Genç, Murat; Puloka, Viliami; Tairea, Karen

  This study will contribute to the international literature of policy evaluation studies that examine the impact of sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) taxes on sales, purchasing and dietary consumption (summarised in Chapter 4 ...

• Citizens' Jury on Euthanasia and Assisted Dying 

  Walker, Simon; Young, Jessica; Egan, Richard

  Euthanasia or assisted dying (EAD) remains a highly contentious issue internationally. Though polls report that a majority of New Zealanders support EAD, there are concerns about the framing of the polling questions, and ...

• Traumatic brain injury rehabilitation: an overview of systematic reviews of intervention effectiveness. A pre-published protocol 

  Englas, Kadri; Hay-Smith, E. Jean C.; Pollock, Alex; Levack, William M. M.

  INTRODUCTION. Many authors are in favour of using systematic reviews as a method for evidence synthesis in rehabilitation and the last decade has introduced several guidelines to help with their implementation in rehabilitation ...

• The NZ Vietnam veteran family study: a multi-generational perspective on health and wellbeing. 

  McBride, David; Cox, Brian; Richardson, Amy

• The psychological and physical health and wellbeing of New Zealand contemporary veterans 

  McBride, David

  We aim to describe risk and protective factors for health and wellbeing in veterans who have served during and since the Persian Gulf War. Some have experienced combat, but all have experienced the ‘deployment stress’ of ...

• Research Protocol: Comparing gastrointestinal motility in clozapine-treated patients before and after laxative treatment 

  Every-Palmer, Susanna

  This is the research protocol for a study considering the effectiveness of commonly used laxatives in clozapine-treated patients. We will compare gastrointestinal motility times (as measured by radiopaque marker transit ...

• Colonic transit studies to measure gastrointestinal motility in antipsychotic treated patients 

  Every-Palmer, Susanna; Ellis, Pete M; Stanley, James; Nowitz, Mark; Dunn, Helen; Huthwaite, Mark; Grant, Eve

  This is the research protocol for an observational (cross-sectional) study investigating gastrointestinal motility in antipsychotic treated patients. Recruitment for this study will begin in 2014.

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