Category: Health and wellbeing

Children born preterm or smaller at birth are at greater risk of multiple health conditions in adulthood. Most studies have only explored these outcomes in singleton pregnancies despite low birthweight being more common in multiple births.

Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a talking therapy used to effect behaviour change. Therapists get little feedback, but software is being developed to automatically assess MI.

COVID-19 caused a rapid change in the working environment, resulting many workplaces having to close and vast numbers of workers now working from home. Initial evidence suggests that levels of physical activity in the population have fallen over the course of the pandemic.

Social prescribing aims to empower the public to self-manage their health and wellbeing. Social prescribing is a policy where healthcare professionals refer the public to local community services, to meet their wellbeing needs.