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Profiles
Professor Janet Richardson
Emeritus Professor
School of Nursing and Midwifery (Faculty of Health)
Janet can be contacted through arrangement with our Press Office, to speak to the media on these areas of expertise.
- Sustainability
- Nursing
- Sustainability in health
Email publicrelations@plymouth.ac.uk to enquire.
Role
Professor of Health Service Research
Roles on external bodies
International: Member of the Global Consortium on Climate andHealth Education Co-ordinating Committee and Nursing Working Group, led byColumbia University, New York (from June 2018)
National: Member of the Sustainable HealthcareEducation Steering Committee, led by the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare(from June 2018)
Former member of the editorial boards for:
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine Research on Paradigm, Practice and Policy; Complementary Therapies in Medicine published in USA.
International Editorial Advisory Board - Evidence-Based Integrative Medicine published in New Zealand
National Library for Health Complementary and Alternative Medicine Specialist Library
Teaching interests
Healthcare and sustainability
Sustainable, healthy communities
Service development and evaluation
Supportive and complementary therapies in long-term conditions
Research interests
Sustainability Society and Health
Exploring aspects of healthcare waste and behaviour-change to reduce, re-use and recycle; involving communities in mitigating and adapting to the impacts of climate change and other environmental / community factors on health and well-being. see: www.plymouth.ac.uk/research/340
Evidence-Informed Decision-Making in Health Care
Finding, appraising and integrating evidence into decision-making and service development in health and supportive care.
Grants & contracts
RECENT EXTERNAL AWARDS
NurSusTOOLKIT: A Teaching and Learning Resource for Sustainability in Nursing. EU-Erasmus+ £359,039 (three year project awarded September 2014)
Winner: National Green Gown Award 2014 for Nursing Sustainability be Design Project
Raw Materials Risk in Healthcare Supply Chains (WRAP) 2012
Evaluation of Social Prescriptions for Health and Wellbeing (Wolseley Trust) 2012
Stepping Stones to Nature: Partnership evaluation of project to encourage access to greenspace. (Plymouth City Council) 2011 - 13
Knowledge Transfer Partnership with St Luke's Hospice (Plymouth) to develop evidence informed decision making in end of life care. 2011 - 13
PREVIOUS RESEARCH AWARDS (2001 - 2010)
Short Knowledge Transfer Partnership with the National Cancer Action Team (Feb - May 2010)
ANCHoR Study: Multi-centre randomised controlled clinical trial of acupressure in chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting with Universities of Manchester (Lead) and Liverpool. HTA funded 2008 - 2010.
DTI / ESRC Knowledge Transfer Partnership in association with Penny Brohn Cancer Care. (£148,000) To provide evidence-based information on cancer and complementary therapies to people affected by cancer. 2006 - 2009
Department of Health (£89,500) To update an information resource in complementary therapy for cancer, mental health, coronary heart disease and stroke, and chronic diseases. March 2006 - September 2007 (The CAMEOL database project). See www.rccm.org.uk/cameol
Rowcroft Hospice, Torbay (£13,000) to evaluate the impact of changes in Day Hospice services (January 2006 - January 2008).
Department of Health (£297,800) To develop an information resource in complementary therapy for cancer, mental health, coronary heart disease and stroke, and chronic diseases (March 2003 - March 2006).
Department of Health (£15,000) To develop a Complementary and Alternative Medicine Journals Database (February 2004 - September 2004).
Department of Health (£15,000) To develop a complementary and alternative medicine researcher network - a 'virtual faculty' of researchers and research-practitioners including a database of expertise (March 2003).
King's Fund (£150,000) to further develop a database of published and unpublished research in complementary therapies, on behalf of the Research Council for Complementary Medicine (July 2001 - September 2003).
Department of Health (£20,000) to support the development of the Research Council for Complementary Medicine CISCOM database (May 2002).
Research groups
- VOYAGE: Rural and urban ageing and health inequalities
Key publications are highlighted
Journals
Articles
2020
'Student nurses exposed to sustainability education can challenge practice: A cohort study'
Nursing & Health Sciences
, DOI
2019
'Competencies on environmental health and pedagogical approaches in the nursing curriculum: A systematic review of the literature'
Nurse Education in Practice
37,
1-8
, DOI
2019
'The Impact of Superfast Broadband, Tailored Booklets for Households, and Discussions With General Practitioners on Personal Electronic Health Readiness: Cluster Factorial Quasi-Randomized Control Trial'
Journal of Medical Internet Research
21,
(3)
e11386-e11386
, DOI
PEARL
2018
'Developing sustainability in a dental practice through an Action Research approach'
British Dental Journal
225,
409-413
, DOI
PEARL
2018
'The impact of hot food takeaways near schools in the UK on childhood obesity: A systematic review of the evidence'
Journal of Public Health
, DOI
PEARL
2017
'Developing Digital Educational Materials for Nursing and Sustainability: The results of an observational study'
Nurse Education Today
, DOI
PEARL
2017
'Developing awareness of sustainability in nursing and midwifery using a scenario-based approach: Evidence from a pre and post educational intervention study'
Nurse Education Today
54,
51-55
, DOI
PEARL
2016
'A comparison of waste compositions at health and social care facilities'
British Journal of Healthcare Management
22,
(9)
469-474
, DOI
2016
'A study of health and social care waste management behaviour'
British Journal of Healthcare Management
22,
(7)
360-366
, DOI
2016
'Changing undergraduate paramedic students' attitudes towards sustainability and climate change'
Journal of Paramedic Practice
8,
(3)
130-136
, DOI
2016
'Exploring attitudes and knowledge of climate change and sustainability in a dental practice: A feasibility study into resource management'
British Dental Journal
220,
(4)
187-191
, DOI
PEARL
2016
'Including sustainability issues in nurse education: A comparative study of first year student nurses' attitudes in four European countries'
Nurse Education Today
37,
15-20
, DOI
2016
'Tweet if you want to be sustainable: a thematic analysis of a Twitter chat to discuss sustainability in nurse education'
Journal of Advanced Nursing
72,
(5)
1086-1096
, DOI
2016
'What's in a bin: A case study of dental clinical waste composition and potential greenhouse gas emission savings'
BRITISH DENTAL JOURNAL
220,
(2)
61-66
, DOI
2016
'What's in a bin: A case study of dental clinical waste composition and potential greenhouse gas emission savings'
British Dental Journal
220,
(2)
61-66
, DOI
2015
'The contribution of allotment gardening to health and wellbeing: A systematic review of the literature'
British Journal of Occupational Therapy
78,
(10)
593-605
, DOI
2015
'Can a sustainability and health scenario provide a realistic challenge to student nurses and provoke changes in practice? An evaluation of a training intervention'
Nursing & Health Sciences
18,
(2)
256-261
, DOI
2015
'Nursing students’ attitudes towards sustainability and health care'
Nursing Standard
29,
(42)
36-41
, DOI
2015
'Integrating sustainability education into nursing using an interdisciplinary approach'
Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit
30,
(3)
342-351
, DOI
2014
'"I assumed that one was a placebo": exploring the consent process in a sham controlled acupressure trial'
Complement Ther Med
22,
(5)
903-908
, DOI
2014
'A non-participant observational study of health and social care waste disposal behaviour in the South West of England'
J Health Serv Res Policy
19,
(4)
231-235
, DOI
2014
'Effect of climate change and resource scarcity on health care'
Nurs Stand
28,
(45)
44-49
, DOI
2014
'The use of evidence-informed sustainability scenarios in the nursing curriculum: development and evaluation of teaching methods'
Nurse Educ Today
34,
(4)
490-493
, DOI
2014
'Partnership research in green space community development: a reflection on multi-professional working'
Reflective Practice
15,
(3)
304-316
, DOI
2014
'Strategies to identify future shortages due to interruptions in the health care procurement supply chain and their impact on health services: a method from the English National Health Service'
J Health Serv Res Policy
19,
(1)
19-26
, DOI
2014
'The effectiveness of acupressure for the control and management of chemotherapy-related acute and delayed nausea: a randomized controlled trial'
J Pain Symptom Manage
47,
(1)
12-25
, DOI
2014
'To explore and understand the leadership experiences of modern matrons, within an acute NHS Trust'
J Nurs Manag
22,
(1)
70-79
, DOI
2013
'An action learning approach to partnership in community development: a reflection on the research process'
Action Learning: Research and Practice
10,
(3)
254-263
, DOI
2013
'"Until the trial is complete you can't really say whether it helped you or not, can you?": exploring cancer patients' perceptions of taking part in a trial of acupressure wristbands'
BMC COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE
13,
, DOI
PEARL
2013
'An investigation of a symptom cluster in Chinese patients with lung cancer receiving radiotherapy'
CONTEMPORARY NURSE
45,
(2)
164-173
, DOI
2013
'How do they manage it? An observational study of health and social care waste management'
PSYCHOLOGY & HEALTH
28,
262-262
2013
'Developing evidence-informed decision making in a hospice: and evaluation of organisational readiness'
International Journal of Palliative Nursing
19(6),
296-300
2013
'Managing a sustainable, low carbon supply chain in the English National Health Service: The views of senior managers'
J Health Serv Res Policy
, DOI
PEARL
2013
'Using meta-ethnography to understand the emotional impact of caring for people with increasing cognitive impairment'
Nurs Health Sci
15,
(1)
113-123
, DOI
PEARL
2012
'Sustainable healthcare waste management: a qualitative investigation of its feasibility within a county in the south west of England'
Journal of Infection Prevention
14,
(2)
60-64
, DOI
2012
'Do transition towns have the potential to promote health and well-being? A health impact assessment of a transition town initiative'
Public Health
126,
(11)
982-989
, DOI
2012
'Correlation between Perceived Asthma Control and Thoraco-Abdominal Asynchrony in Primary Care Patients Diagnosed with Asthma'
JOURNAL OF ASTHMA
49,
(8)
822-829
, DOI
2012
'Building HIA approaches into strategies for green space use: an example from Plymouth's (UK) Stepping Stones to Nature project'
Health Promot Int
2012,
, DOI
2012
'Facilitating Sustainable Waste Management Behaviors Within the Health Sector: A Case Study of the National Health Service (NHS) in Southwest England, UK'
SUSTAINABILITY
4,
(4)
630-642
, DOI
2012
'Facilitating Sustainable Waste Management Behaviors Within the Health Sector: A Case Study of the National Health Service (NHS) in Southwest England, UK'
Sustainability
4,
(4)
630-630
2012
'Evaluating a complex intervention: A process evaluation of a psycho-education program for lung cancer patients receiving palliative radiotherapy'
CONTEMPORARY NURSE
40,
(2)
234-244
, DOI
2011
'Coping, meaning and symptom experience: a narrative approach to the overwhelming impacts of breast cancer in the first year following diagnosis'
Eur J Oncol Nurs
15,
(3)
226-232
, DOI
2011
'Palliative day care: a qualitative study of service users' experiences in the United Kingdom'
Nurs Health Sci
13,
(2)
178-183
, DOI
2011
'Managing symptoms in patients with advanced lung cancer during radiotherapy: results of a psychoeducational randomized controlled trial'
J Pain Symptom Manage
41,
(2)
347-357
, DOI
2010
'Assessing the impact of nurse and allied health professional consultants: developing an activity diary'
J Clin Nurs
19,
(17-18)
2565-2573
, DOI
2010
'Climate change and communicable disease : what are the risks?'
Journal of Infection Prevention
11,
(5)
146-148
2010
'Climate change and communicable disease: What are the risks?'
Journal of Infection Prevention
11,
(5)
146-148
2009
'Health, energy vulnerability and climate change: a retrospective thematic analysis of primary care trust policies and practices'
Public Health
123,
(12)
765-770
, DOI
2009
'The use of descriptive words and metaphor in patient and carer experience of palliative day care: secondary analysis of a qualitative study'
Open Nurs J
3,
18-24
, DOI
PEARL
2009
'Health, Climate Change and Sustainability: A systematic Review and Thematic Analysis of the Literature'
Environ Health Insights
3,
63-88
, DOI
PEARL
2008
'What do evaluation instruments tell us about the quality of complementary medicine information on the internet?'
J Med Internet Res
10,
(1)
, DOI
2008
'Complementary and alternative medicine used in pregnancies complicated by diabetes'
Journal of Diabetes Nursing
12,
(2)
70-73
2008
'Measuring the contribution and complexity of nurse and physiotherapy consultants: a feasibility study'
Open Nurs J
2,
8-14
, DOI
PEARL
2008
'Using an action learning set to support the nurse and allied health professional consultant role'
Action Learning: Research and Practice
5,
(1)
65-77
2007
'A systematic review and meta-synthesis: evaluating the effectiveness of nurse, midwife/allied health professional consultants'
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NURSING
16,
(10)
1792-1808
, DOI
2007
'Hypnosis for nausea and vomiting in cancer chemotherapy: a systematic review of the research evidence'
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CANCER CARE
16,
(5)
402-412
, DOI
2007
'Acupuncture for anxiety and anxiety disorders--a systematic literature review'
Acupunct Med
25,
(1-2)
1-10
, DOI
2007
'The use of complementary and alternative medicines in pregnancies complicated by diabetes'
DIABETIC MED
24,
88-88
2007
'Call on South African doctors to return home'
Irish Medical Journal
100,
(2)
2007
'Complementary therapies in life-limiting conditions. :'
Nursing Times
(32),
(N 103)
32-33
2007
'Diabetes and complementary therapies: mapping the evidence'
Practical Diabetes International
24,
(7)
371-376
, DOI
2006
'St John's wort for depression: time for a different perspective?'
Complement Ther Med
14,
(4)
268-281
, DOI
2006
'Homeopathy for anxiety and anxiety disorders: a systematic review of the research'
Homeopathy
95,
(3)
151-162
, DOI
2006
'Hypnosis for procedure-related pain and distress in pediatric cancer patients: a systematic review of effectiveness and methodology related to hypnosis interventions'
J Pain Symptom Manage
31,
(1)
70-84
, DOI
2005
'A study to assess the existence of the symptom cluster of breathlessness, fatigue and anxiety in patients with advanced lung cancer'
European Journal of Oncology Nursing
9,
(4)
325-333
, DOI
2005
'Yoga for anxiety: a systematic review of the research evidence'
Br J Sports Med
39,
(12)
884-891
, DOI
2005
'Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction as supportive therapy in cancer care: systematic review'
J Adv Nurs
52,
(3)
315-327
, DOI
2005
'Aloe vera for preventing radiation-induced skin reactions: a systematic literature review'
Clin Oncol (R Coll Radiol)
17,
(6)
478-484
, DOI
2005
'Homeopathy for depression: a systematic review of the research evidence'
Homeopathy
94,
(3)
153-163
, DOI
2005
'"No language restrictions" in database searches: what does this really mean?'
J Altern Complement Med
11,
(1)
205-207
, DOI
2005
'A study to establish the existence of the symptom cluster of breathlessness, fatigue and anxiety in patients with advanced cancer'
European Journal of Oncology Nursing
9,
(4)
325-333
2004
'Exploring the evidence: the challenges of searching for research on acupuncture'
J Altern Complement Med
10,
(3)
587-590
, DOI
2004
'What patients expect from complementary therapy: a qualitative study'
Am J Public Health
94,
(6)
1049-1053
, DOI
2003
'Developing clinical supervision for complementary therapy educators'
J Altern Complement Med
9,
(5)
783-787
, DOI
2003
'Developing the reflective practitioner in complementary therapy'
J Altern Complement Med
9,
(5)
771-772
, DOI
2003
'Outcome assessment and moving goal posts: commentary on evaluation of the Tzu Chi Institute for Complementary and Alternative Medicine's Integrative Care Program'
J Altern Complement Med
9,
(4)
593-595
, DOI
2003
'Complementary and alternative medicine: socially constructed or evidence-based?'
Healthc Pap
3,
(5)
30-36
, DOI
2003
'Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine on the Internet'
He@lth Information on the Internet: Royal Society of Medicine Press
34,
7-9
2002
'The importance of information resources in complementary therapies'
Complementary Therapies in Nursing and Midwifery
8,
(3)
125-129
, DOI
2002
'Researching complementary medicine'
PSYCHOLOGIST
15,
(7)
336-336
2002
'Evidence-based complementary medicine: rigor, relevance, and the swampy lowlands'
J Altern Complement Med
8,
(3)
221-223
, DOI
2001
'Integrating complementary therapies into health care education: a cautious approach'
Journal of Clinical Nursing
10,
(6)
793-798
, DOI
2001
'Developing and evaluating complementary therapy services: part 2. Examining the effects of treatment on health status'
J Altern Complement Med
7,
(4)
315-328
, DOI
2001
'Developing and Evaluating Complementary Therapy Services: Part 1. Establishing Service Provision Through the Use of Evidence and Consensus Development'
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine
7,
(3)
253-260
, DOI
2001
'Physicians, heal thyselves!'
JOURNAL OF ALTERNATIVE AND COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE
7,
(3)
220-220
2001
'Post-operative epidural analgesia: introducing evidence-based guidelines through an education and assessment process'
Journal of Clinical Nursing
10,
(2)
238-245
, DOI
2001
'Complementary therapies: what is the evidence for their use?'
Professional Nurse
17(2),
96-99
2001
'Integrating complementary therapies into health care education: A cautious approach'
Journal of Clinical Nursing
10,
793-798
2001
'Post-operative epidural analgesia: Introducing evidence-based guidelines through an education and assessment process. :'
Journal of Clinical Nursing
10,
238-245
2000
'The use of randomized control trials in complementary therapies: exploring the issues'
Journal of Advanced Nursing
32,
(2)
398-406
, DOI
1996
'Domestic violence: A hidden problem for general practice'
BRITISH JOURNAL OF GENERAL PRACTICE
46,
(405)
239-242
1995
'DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN - NEEDS ACTION FROM DOCTORS AND THE HEALTH-SERVICE'
BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL
311,
(7011)
964-965
1995
'Complementary therapies on the NHS: The experience of a new service'
Complementary Therapies in Medicine
3,
(3)
153-157
, DOI
1995
'Complementary therapy in the NHS: service development in a local district general hospital'
Complementary Therapies in Nursing and Midwifery
1,
(3)
89-92
, DOI
0
'Climate change, Health and Sustainability: A brief survey of Primary Care Trusts in the South West of England'
Perspectives in Public Health
, DOI
0
'Complementary and Alternative Medicine Evidence On-Line (CAMEOL) for cancer'
British Journal of Cancer Management
2(2),
9-11
0
'The Impact of Superfast Broadband, Tailored Booklets for Households, and Discussions With General Practitioners on Personal Electronic Health Readiness: Cluster Factorial Quasi-Randomized Control Trial (Preprint)'
, DOI
Letters
Books
2008
ABC of Complementary Medicine.
Blackwell
Chapters
2010
'Climate Change, Sustainability and Health in UK Higher Education: The Challenges for Nursing'
in Jones P; Selby D; Sterling S
Sustainability Education: Perspectives and Practice Across Higher Education
London
Earthscan
2010
'Public Health Threats in a Changing Climate'
in Kagawa F; Selby D
Education and Climate Change: Living and Learning in Interesting Times
Oxford
Routledge
2007
'Evaluating complementary therapies'
in Barraclough
Enhancing Cancer Care: a practical guide to complementary support
Oxford University Press
2007
'Researching Orthodox and Complementary and Alternative Medicine'
in Saks M; Allsop J
Researching Health: Qualitative, Quantitative and Mixed Methods
Sage
319-335
2001
'Intersubjectivity and the therapeutic relationship'
Understanding the Placebo Effect in Complementary Medicine
Elsevier
131-146
, DOI
2000
'8: Clinical implications of an intersubjective science'
Investigating Phenomenal Consciousness
John Benjamins Publishing Company
167-192
, DOI
Reports
2013
The effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of acupressure for the control and management of chemotherapy-related acute and delayed nausea: Assessment of Nausea in Chemotherapy Research (ANCHoR), a randomised controlled trial.
The effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of acupressure for the control and management of chemotherapy-related acute and delayed nausea: Assessment of Nausea in Chemotherapy Research (ANCHoR), a randomised controlled trial.
Health Tecnology Assessment
, DOI
Links
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