I’ve written this post in preparation for next Wednesday’s IPS Journal Club in partnership with the Infection Prevention Society (register here). (Please note, it will be a little earlier in the day than most previous Journal Clubs, so don’t miss it!) The paper that I have chosen for the Journal Club is this one in the Journal of Infection Prevention, exploring infection prevention behaviour in hospital nursing staff.
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Jingle all the weigh: a behavioural intervention to prevent weight gain over Christmas
It’s becoming a bit of a tradition for me to post about an article from the fabulous Christmas BMJ with a spurious link to infection (see 2016 [depressing] and 2017’s [uplifting] version here). This year, it’s a short-term behavioural intervention to prevent weight gain over Christmas. And the links to infection: obesity is a big (!) risk factor for all-things-infection, and we’re all about achieving meaningful and sustained behaviour change.
Reflections on Infection Prevention and Control 