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Roger Watson

Roger Watson

Professor of Nursing
School of Health Sciences, Saint Francis University
LiveDNA ID: 44.47128
62 Publications
1 Editorial Roles
0 Projects

Employment

Professional Appointments
Professor of Nursing
School of Health Sciences, Saint Francis University
Jan 2023 — Present | Hong Kong, China

Education

Academic Background
  • Ph.D. The University of Sheffield, England, UK Biochemistry | Completed: 1982

Editorial Services

Editorial & Publishing Roles
Nurse Education in Practice
Editor-in-Chief
Jan 2021 — Present

Serving as Editor-in-Chief for Nurse Education in Practice.

Publications (62)

Selected Scholarly Contributions
How should editors use the EQUATOR network when evaluating manuscripts?
Roger Watson
The Working Guide to Editorial Systems | Journal Article
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2026
Why do editors reject manuscripts without peer review?
Roger Watson
The Working Guide to Editorial Systems | Journal Article
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2026
Effective Educational Programs for Disaster Preparedness and Management: A Rapid Evidence Assessment
Lara Delbene, Sara Mezini, Camilla Cacciabue, Roger Watson, Giuseppe Aleo, Marco Di Nitto, Milko Zanini, Gianluca Catania, Loredana Sasso, Annamaria Bagnasco
International Nursing Review | Journal Article
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2026
Is your editorial board working?
Roger Watson
The Working Guide to Editorial Systems | Journal Article
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2026
How detailed should submission requirements be?
Roger Watson
The Working Guide to Editorial Systems | Journal Article
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2026
Ethical sensitivity and compassion competence in nursing students: Two-center study/comparison of two different cultures
Mağfiret Kaşıkçı, Zeynep Yıldırım, Roger Watson
Nurse Education Today | Journal Article
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2025
Napredne kvantitativne raziskovalne metode v zdravstveni negi
Lucija Gosak, Leona Cilar Budler, Roger Watson, Gregor Štiglic
Monograph
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2025
A study of academic resilience, psychological resilience and psychological distress in undergraduate nursing students in Hong Kong and Australia during COVID-19 restrictions
Graeme D. Smith, Roger Watson, Sara Poon, Wendy M. Cross, Ms. Larissa Hutchison, Elisabeth Jacob, Ms. Alycia Jacob, Muhammad Aziz Rahman, Kay Penny, Louisa Lam
Nurse Education in Practice | Journal Article
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2025
Editorial
Roger Watson, Hugh McKenna, David R Thompon
International Nursing Review | Journal Article
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2025
The potential and pitfalls of artificial intelligence in nursing
Roger Watson
Obzornik zdravstvene nege | Journal Article
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2024
Protective and risk factors of workplace violence against nurses: A cross‐sectional study
Annamaria Bagnasco, Gianluca Catania, Nicola Pagnucci, Rosaria Alvaro, Giancarlo Cicolini, Alberto Dal Molin, Loreto Lancia, Maura Lusignani, Daniela Mecugni, Paolo Carlo Motta, Roger Watson, Mark Hayter, Fiona Timmins, Giuseppe Aleo, Francesca Napolitano, Alessio Signori, Milko Zanini, Loredana Sasso, Beatrice Mazzoleni
Journal of Clinical Nursing | Journal Article
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2024
Nurses’ intention to leave, nurse workload and in-hospital patient mortality in Italy: A descriptive and regression study.
Gianluca Catania, Milko Zanini, Marzia A. Cremona, Paolo Landa, Maria Emma Musio, Roger Watson, Giuseppe Aleo, Linda H. Aiken, Loredana Sasso, Annamaria Bagnasco
Health Policy | Journal Article
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2024
The effectiveness of continuing professional development for the residential long-term care workforce: A systematic review
Giuseppe Aleo, Nicola Pagnucci, Niamh Walsh, Roger Watson, Deirdre Lang, Thomas Kearns, Mark White, Catherine Fitzgerald
Nurse Education Today | Journal Article
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2024
Development and Validation of an Evidence‐Based Home Pursed Lip Breathing Protocol for Improving Health Outcomes in Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Houqiang Huang, Jun Da, Roger Watson, Mark Hayter, Min Huang
International Journal of Older People Nursing | Journal Article
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2024
Advanced Quantitative Research Methods in Nursing
Lucija Gosak, Leona Cilar Budler, Roger Watson, Gregor Štiglic
Monograph
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2024
Does nursing have a contribution to make to the silver economy?
Roger Watson, Mark Hayter, Milko Zanini, Giuseppe Aleo, Gianluca Catania, Loredana Sasso, Annamaria Bagnasco
International Nursing Review | Journal Article
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2023
Evaluating a brief intervention for mealtime difficulty on older adults with dementia
Salma Rehman, Gloria Likupe, Agi McFarland, Roger Watson
Nursing Open | Journal Article
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2023
If an artificial intelligence chatbot wrote a scientific article, how would we know?
Roger Watson, Siobhan O’Connor
Nurse Author & Editor | Journal Article
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2023
Effects of Serious Games for Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Systematic Literature Review
Houqiang Huang, Min Huang, Qi Chen, Mark Hayter, Roger Watson
JMIR Serious Games | Journal Article
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2023
Fidelity challenges while implementing an intervention aimed at increasing eating performance among nursing home residents with cognitive decline: A multicentre, qualitative descriptive study design
Alvisa Palese, Btissam Achbani, Mark Hayter, Roger Watson
Journal of Clinical Nursing | Journal Article
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2022
Validity and reliability of the Turkish version of Stressors in Nursing Students Scale
Neriman Akansel, Roger Watson, Aylin Palloş
Perspectives in Psychiatric Care | Journal Article
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2022
Nurses', midwives' and students' knowledge, attitudes and practices related to domestic violence: A cross‐sectional survey
Parveen Ali, Julie McGarry, Ahtisham Younas, Shahzad Inayat, Roger Watson
Journal of Nursing Management | Journal Article
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2022
Early career researchers: Will they perish before they publish?
Samantha Fien, Ashlyn Sahay, Roger Watson, Michelle Cleary
Nurse Author & Editor | Journal Article
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2022
Instrument development and psychometric testing in nursing education research
Kristina Mikkonen, Marco Tomietto, Roger Watson
Nurse Education Today | Journal Article
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2022
Health-related Serious Games on the Rehabilitation for Patients with COPD: Systematic Review Protocol
Houqiang Huang, Min Huang, Qi Chen, Mark Hayter, Roger Hayter
Report
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2022
Nurses’ perceptions of caring activities in nursing
Neriman Akansel, Roger Watson, Nursel Vatansever, Aysel Özdemir
Nursing Open | Journal Article
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2021
Advancing the science and practice of nursing
Roger Watson
Journal of Advanced Nursing | Journal Article
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2021
Seeing the forest for the trees: How to interpret a meta‐analysis forest plot
Mousa Alavi, Glenn E. Hunt, Denis C. Visentin, Roger Watson, Deependra K. Thapa, Michelle Cleary
Journal of Advanced Nursing | Journal Article
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2021
A change of Editor in Chief: Reflections and looking ahead
Roger Watson, Debra Jackson
Journal of Advanced Nursing | Journal Article
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2021
An international e-Delphi study to identify core competencies for Italian cardiac nurses
Annamaria Bagnasco, Michela Barisone, Giuseppe Aleo, Roger Watson, Gianluca Catania, Milko Zanini, David R Thompson, Loredana Sasso
European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing | Journal Article
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2021
The WeanCare nutritional intervention in institutionalized dysphagic older people and its impact on nursing workload and costs: A quasi‐experimental study
Milko Zanini, Gianluca Catania, Stefania Ripamonti, Roger Watson, Antonio Romano, Giuseppe Aleo, Fiona Timmins, Loredana Sasso, Annamaria Bagnasco
Journal of Nursing Management | Journal Article
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2021
Is the PhD well for nursing faculty running dry?
Roger Watson, Mark Hayter, Debra Jackson
Journal of Nursing Management | Journal Article
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2021
Being honest with causal language in writing for publication
Deependra K. Thapa, Denis C. Visentin, Glenn E. Hunt, Roger Watson, Michelle Cleary
Journal of Advanced Nursing | Journal Article
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2020
Exploratory factor analysis and principal component analysis in clinical studies: Which one should you use?
Mousa Alavi, Denis C. Visentin, Deependra K. Thapa, Glenn E. Hunt, Roger Watson, Michelle Cleary
Journal of Advanced Nursing | Journal Article
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2020
Chi‐square for model fit in confirmatory factor analysis
Mousa Alavi, Denis C. Visentin, Deependra K. Thapa, Glenn E. Hunt, Roger Watson, Michelle Cleary
Journal of Advanced Nursing | Journal Article
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2020
A cross‐sectional multisite exploration of Italian paediatric nurses’ reported burnout and its relationship to perceptions of clinical safety and adverse events using the RN4CAST@IT‐Ped
Annamaria Bagnasco, Nicoletta Dasso, Silvia Rossi, Fiona Timmins, Roger Watson, Giuseppe Aleo, Gianluca Catania, Milko Zanini, Loredana Sasso
Journal of Advanced Nursing | Journal Article
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2020
The COVID‐19 epidemic of manuscripts
Roger Watson, Mark Hayter
Journal of Advanced Nursing | Journal Article
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2020
Predicting needlestick and sharps injuries in nursing students: Development of the SNNIP scale
Annamaria Bagnasco, Milko Zanini, Gianluca Catania, Roger Watson, Mark Hayter, Nicoletta Dasso, Guglielmo Dini, Antonella Agodi, Cesira Pasquarella, Carla Maria Zotti, Paolo Durando, Loredana Sasso
Nursing Open | Journal Article
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2020
Writing for Wikipedia
Roger Watson
Nurse Author & Editor | Journal Article
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2020
Risk Communication is Important for Environmental Engineering during COVID-19
Daniel B. Oerther, Roger Watson
Journal of Environmental Engineering | Journal Article
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2020
Spousal Violence: A Mokken Scaling Analysis of Attitudes of South Asian Men and Women
Parveen Ali, Roger Watson
Violence and Victims | Journal Article
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2020
Getting more men into nursing: An urgent priority (too little, too late)
David R. Thompson, Barry Quinn, Roger Watson
Journal of Nursing Management | Journal Article
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2020
Using risk and odds ratios to assess effect size for meta‐analysis outcome measures
Mousa Alavi, Glenn E. Hunt, Denis C. Visentin, Roger Watson, Deependra K. Thapa, Michelle Cleary
Journal of Advanced Nursing | Journal Article
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2020
Will evidence‐based medicine be another casualty of COVID‐19?
Roger Watson, Niall McCrae
Journal of Advanced Nursing | Journal Article
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2020
Factor analysis and Mokken scaling of the Organizational Commitment Questionnaire in nurses
M. Al‐Yami, P. Galdas, R. Watson
International Nursing Review | Journal Article
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2019
Mealtime difficulty in older people with dementia
Salma Rehman, Gloria Likupe, Roger Watson
WikiJournal of Medicine | Journal Article
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2019
Nursing schools: Dumbing down or reaching up?
Philip Darbyshire, David R. Thompson, Roger Watson
Journal of Nursing Management | Journal Article
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2019
Self‐feeding dependence incidence and predictors among nursing home residents: Findings from a 5 year retrospective regional study
Alvisa Palese, Luca Grassetti, Ranieri Zuttion, Barbara Ferrario, Sandra Ponta, Illarj Achil, Mark Hayter, Roger Watson
Nursing & Health Sciences | Journal Article
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2019
Predatory journals and the pollution of academic publishing
Roger Watson
Journal of Nursing Management | Journal Article
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2019
The contribution of nursing doctoral schools to the development of evidence 10 years after their establishment in Italy: An exploratory descriptive survey of former and current doctoral students’ publications
Loredana Sasso, Roger Watson, Michela Barisone, Ramona Pellegrini, Fiona Timmins, Giuseppe Aleo, Valentina Bressan, Monica Bianchi, Lucia Cadorin, Nicoletta Dasso, Dario Valcarenghi, Gianluca Catania, Milko Zanini, Annamaria Bagnasco
Nursing Open | Journal Article
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2019
So, what's in a title? The paradox of nursing professors!
David R. Thompson, Brendan McCormack, Roger Watson
Journal of Nursing Management | Journal Article
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2019
Push and pull factors of nurses' intention to leave
Loredana Sasso, Annamaria Bagnasco, Gianluca Catania, Milko Zanini, Giuseppe Aleo, Roger Watson
Journal of Nursing Management | Journal Article
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2019
Nursing’s future? Eat young. Spit out. Repeat. Endlessly
Philip Darbyshire, David R. Thompson, Roger Watson
Journal of Nursing Management | Journal Article
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2019
Comparing questionnaires across cultures: Using Mokken scaling to compare the Italian and English versions of the MOLES index
Giuseppe Aleo, Annamaria Bagnasco, Roger Watson, Judith Dyson, Fiona Cowdell, Gianluca Catania, Milko Patrick Zanini, Emanuele Cozzani, Aurora Parodi, Loredana Sasso
Nursing Open | Journal Article
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2019
Emerging nursing scholars guide to peer reviewing an academic manuscript
Sarah Oerther, Roger Watson
Nursing Open | Journal Article
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2019
R you ready? Using the R programme for statistical analysis and graphics
Gregor Stiglic, Roger Watson, Leona Cilar
Research in Nursing & Health | Journal Article
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2019
Doctoral snobbery: Justified, or just elitism?
Melanie Birks, Roger Watson
Journal of Advanced Nursing | Journal Article
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2018
RN4CAST@IT‐Ped: Nurse staffing and children's safety
Loredana Sasso, Annamaria Bagnasco, Paolo Petralia, Silvia Scelsi, Milko Zanini, Gianluca Catania, Giuseppe Aleo, Nicoletta Dasso, Silvia Rossi, Roger Watson, Walter Sermeus, Giancarlo Icardi, Linda H. Aiken
Journal of Advanced Nursing | Journal Article
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2018
What are the minimal sample size requirements for Mokken scaling? An empirical example with the Warwick- Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale
Roger Watson, Iris J. L. Egberink, Lisa Kirke, Jorge N. Tendeiro, Frank Doyle
Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine | Journal Article
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2018
Facilitating a dedicated focus on the human dimensions of care in practice settings: Development of a new humanised care assessment tool ( HCAT ) to sensitise care
Kathleen T. Galvin, Claire Sloan, Fiona Cowdell, Caroline Ellis‐Hill, Carole Pound, Roger Watson, Steven Ersser, Sheila Brooks
Nursing Inquiry | Journal Article
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2018
Time for a discussion about discussion articles
Roger Watson
Journal of Advanced Nursing | Journal Article
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2018
Investigating the structure of the autism-spectrum quotient using Mokken scaling.
Mary E. Stewart, Carrie Allison, Simon Baron-Cohen, Roger Watson
Psychological Assessment | Journal Article
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2015