http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/13040 2026-06-23T09:31:38Z http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/33482 Title: Action Simulation as an Intervention to Improve Balance, Mobility and Gait in Healthy Older Adults: A Scoping Review Authors: Grilc, N; Cocks, A; Kal, E; Ellmers, TJ; Chembila Valappil, A; Bruton, AM Abstract: Falls in older adults are a significant public health concern. Action simulation interventions involving action observation and/or motor imagery have been proposed as alternative or adjunct strategies to physical exercise for reducing fall risk. These approaches may minimize barriers to physical practice and may specifically target deficits in motor planning that are linked to falls. The purpose of this scoping review is to examine how action simulation interventions have been applied and evaluated in healthy older adults, and assess their effectiveness in improving balance, mobility, and gait. A systematic search of six databases and repositories was conducted. Studies were included if they used action simulation interventions in healthy, community-dwelling adults aged 60+ years and examined movement outcomes related to balance, gait or functional mobility. Nineteen studies with 587 older adults were included. Motor imagery was the most common action simulation intervention (n = 11 [58%]), and most studies were randomized controlled trials (n = 14 [74%]). Only one study examined long-term effects on balance and gait performance (i.e., 1-month post-intervention). The examined outcomes varied widely, including static and dynamic balance, gait, and mobility. Most interventions (n = 17 [71%]) reported significant improvement in at least one domain, but findings were inconsistent across studies, and none assessed intervention implementability. Overall, this review highlights some promising effects of action simulation on balance, mobility and gait in older adults. However, if action simulation techniques are to be adopted as a fall prevention strategy, more studies examining acceptability are needed. Description: A preprint version of the article is available at PsyArxiv (https://osf.io/rt4jw_v2). It has not been certified by peer review. 2026-06-02T00:00:00Z http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/33480 Title: Awareness and Use of Open Research Practices: An International Survey of Researchers Across Disciplines Authors: Pennington, C; Norris, E; Skubera, M; Ba, Y; Moffat, R; Amaral, OB; Adamkovič, M; Adıgüzel, A; Almeida, RA; Baldwin, J; Ballou, N; Behrens, LMP; Bertram, MG; Bjerke, IE; Blackwell, SE; Bochynska, A; de Boer, MR; Buljan, I; Canales-Aguirre, CB; Carey, H; Čavojová, V; Cawthorn, WP; Christ, S; Cipora, K; Conner, A; Conte, FP; Crepaldi, D; Ellis, DA; Errington, TM; Farran, EK; Feld, GB; Freitag, R; Gebauer, P; Gunn, S; Hartmann, H; Hellon, VC; Hofer, G; Ihle, M; Ikeda, A; Jones, A; Jorge, VA; Kafula, YA; Kalandadze, T; Karhulahti, V-M; Kocalar, HE; Lagisz, M; Lanz, M; Leiva, FP; Liuzza, MT; Martončik, M; Matsui, H; Montefinese, M; Moreau, D; Morgan, DP; Nakagawa, S; Niemeyer, H; Nilsonne, G; Penido, C; Persson, S; Piccardi, ES; Rahal, R-M; Rajčáni, J; Ridley, B; Scandola6, M; Schönbrodt, FD; Schumann, S; Soltanlou, M; Steele, J; Stewart, SLK; Thoré, ESJ; Ursić, L; Vianello, M; Voikar, V; Wu, NC; Yamada, Y; Yilmaz, C; Yoshimura, N; Zloteanu, M; Zloteanu, MF; Munafò, MR; Clark, K Abstract: Background: Growing concerns about replicability, reproducibility, and transparency have led to the adoption of several open research practices aimed at reforming the academic ecosystem. The current study explores international researcher’s awareness and use of open research practice and variations across regions, disciplines, methodologies, and career level. Methods: A total of 3,017 researchers (45 countries; 24 disciplines) completed the Brief Open Research Survey, reporting their awareness and use of eleven common open research practices and factors that would support their adoption. Results: Respondents reported high awareness of Open Access Publishing, Preprints, and Open Data and awareness only fell below 50% for Research Co-production and Registered Reports. Use was high for Open Access Publishing, but fell below 50% for Preprints, Open Data, Open Research [term], Open Materials, Open Peer Review, Open Code, Preregistration, Research Co-production, Replication, and Registered Reports. Awareness and use varied across the sampled regions (e.g., Europe vs. Asia), disciplines (e.g., Psychology vs. General & Others in Sciences), methodologies (e.g., quantitative vs. qualitative), and career stages (e.g., PhD students vs. Professors). Respondents reported that the top five supportive strategies of open research were incentives from funders, institutions and regulators; dedicated funding; recognition in promotion and recruitment criteria; more training; and more information. Conclusions: Awareness is uniformly higher than use across open research practices and there are important variations between regions, methodologies, and career stages, as well as discipline-specific practices. [source: preprint version at OSF: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/edzxf_v1]. Description: Rights Retention: For the purposes of open access, the authors have applied a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) version arising from this submission. 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