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Alison While
Researcher at King's College London
Publications - 464
Citations - 13039
Alison While is an academic researcher from King's College London. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health care & Nurse education. The author has an hindex of 53, co-authored 445 publications receiving 11578 citations. Previous affiliations of Alison While include Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery & University of Cambridge.
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Collecting data using a semi-structured interview: a discussion paper.
K L Barriball,Alison While +1 more
TL;DR: Some of the measures used by a research team to overcome threats to validity and reliability of a semi-stmctured interview exploring the perceptions and needs of continuing professional education among nurses in practice in two district health authorities are discussed.
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Job satisfaction among nurses: a literature review
TL;DR: It is argued that the absence of a robust causal model incorporating organizational, professional and personal variables is undermining the development of interventions to improve nurse retention.
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Physical activity in older people: a systematic review
Fei Sun,Ian Norman,Alison While +2 more
TL;DR: The review highlights the need for studies which recruit representative random samples of community based older people and employ validated measurement methods consistently to enable comparison of PA levels over time and between countries.
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Job satisfaction among hospital nurses revisited: A systematic review
TL;DR: It is argued that the absence of a robust causal model reflecting moderators or moderator is undermining the development of interventions to improve nurse retention.
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Transition of care for adolescents from paediatric services to adult health services
Fiona Campbell,Katie Biggs,Susie Aldiss,Philip M O'Neill,Mark Clowes,Janet E. McDonagh,Alison While,Faith Gibson +7 more
TL;DR: One study evaluating a one-on-one nurse-led intervention, and one evaluating a technology-based intervention suggested that these interventions may lead to slight improvements in transitional readiness and chronic disease self-management measured at six- to eight-month follow-ups (low certainty evidence).