Palliative care: from oncology to all nursing arenas - good practice or scaring the patients?
Journal Article
Kydd, A. (2015)
Palliative care: from oncology to all nursing arenas - good practice or scaring the patients?. Maturitas, 81(4), 446-448. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.maturitas.2015.06.003
The aim of this paper is to encourage critical discussion of an individual's understanding of palliative care and compare this with a health care professional's understanding ...
Working with fathers of at-risk children: Insights from a qualitative process evaluation of an intensive group-based intervention
Journal Article
Scourfield, J., Allely, C., Coffey, A., & Yates, P. (2016)
Working with fathers of at-risk children: Insights from a qualitative process evaluation of an intensive group-based intervention. Children and Youth Services Review, 69, 259-267. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2016.08.021
This article is based on qualitative research with fathers who attended Mellow Dads, an intensive ‘dads only’ group-based intervention underpinned by attachment theory for fat...
An exploration of addictive behaviours from an occupational perspective.
Journal Article
Helbig, K., & McKay, E. (2003)
An exploration of addictive behaviours from an occupational perspective. Journal of Occupational Science, 10(3), 140-145. https://doi.org/10.1080/14427591.2003.9686521
Addictive behaviours are known to negatively influence the health and well‐being of both individuals and society, but addiction has seldom been viewed from an occupational per...
Social support mechanisms of the elderly: insights from the British Household panel survey
Journal Article
Raeside, R., Gayen, K., & Canduela, J. (2010)
Social support mechanisms of the elderly: insights from the British Household panel survey. International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences: Annual Review, 5, 163-178
Many European countries are facing a future of an ageing society. This has arisen from a prolonged period of low fertility. To provide support for the elderly reliance is ofte...
Young People's Homeless and Housing Pathways: key findings from a six-year qualitative longitudinal study.
Report
Mayock, P., & Corr, M. (2013)
Young People's Homeless and Housing Pathways: key findings from a six-year qualitative longitudinal study. Dublin, Ireland: Department of Children and Youth Affairs, Dublin
This report documents key findings from a qualitative longitudinal study of homeless young people in Dublin city. The study was initiated in 2004 and has involved three waves ...
Long-term recovery from addiction: criminal justice involvement and positive criminology?
Book
Best, D., & Aston, E. V. (2014)
Long-term recovery from addiction: criminal justice involvement and positive criminology?. In N. Ronel, & D. Segev (Eds.), Positive Criminology: the good can overcome the bad, 177-193. Routledge
The positive criminology perspective looks at positive life influences that distance individuals from offending, and enable the growth of personal and social strengths. Within...
How can parents escape from recurrent poverty?
Report
McQuaid, R. W., Fuertes, V., & Richard, A. (2010)
How can parents escape from recurrent poverty?. Edinburgh: Joseph Rowntree Foundation
This study explores why disadvantaged parents move into poverty and identifies the specific barriers to them escaping the cycle of low pay/no pay or recurrent poverty. It draw...
Texting to Reduce Alcohol Misuse (TRAM): main findings from a randomized controlled trial of a text message intervention to reduce binge drinking among disadvantaged men.
Journal Article
Crombie, I. K., Irvine, L., Williams, B., Sniehotta, F. F., Petrie, D., Jones, C., …Achison, M. (2018)
Texting to Reduce Alcohol Misuse (TRAM): main findings from a randomized controlled trial of a text message intervention to reduce binge drinking among disadvantaged men. Addiction, https://doi.org/10.1111/add.14229
Aims
To test the effectiveness of a theoretically-based text message intervention to reduce binge drinking among socially disadvantaged men.
Design
A multi-centre parallel gro...
Beyond ‘the paradox of our own complicity’: the place of activism and identity in ‘voluntary sector’ stories from Manchester and Auckland
Journal Article
Kyle, R. G., Kearns, R., & Milligan, C. (2014)
Beyond ‘the paradox of our own complicity’: the place of activism and identity in ‘voluntary sector’ stories from Manchester and Auckland. Social and Cultural Geography, 16(3), 315-331. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2014.983148
This paper problematises ‘sectors’ as the core organising concept for spaces within social policy and ‘third sector’ theory and practice. It does so by drawing on (auto) biogr...
Developing novel evidence-based interventions to promote asthma action plan use: a cross-study synthesis of evidence from randomised controlled trials and qualitative studies
Journal Article
Ring, N., Jepson, R., Pinnock, H., Wilson, C., Hoskins, G., Wyke, S., & Sheikh, A. (2012)
Developing novel evidence-based interventions to promote asthma action plan use: a cross-study synthesis of evidence from randomised controlled trials and qualitative studies. Trials, 13(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-13-216
Background: Long-standing randomised controlled trial (RCT) evidence indicates that asthma action plans can improve patient outcomes. Internationally, however, these plans are...