All Outputs (112)

How can advance care planning support hope in patients with advanced cancer and their families: A qualitative study as part of the international ACTION trial (2022)
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Objective: Clinicians' fears of taking away patients' hope is one of the barriers to advance care planning (ACP). Research on how ACP supports hope is scarce. We have taken up the challenge to specify ways in which ACP conversations may potentially s... Read More about How can advance care planning support hope in patients with advanced cancer and their families: A qualitative study as part of the international ACTION trial.

Recovery Colleges Characterisation and Testing in England (RECOLLECT): rationale and protocol (2022)
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Background: Recovery Colleges are a relatively recent initiative within mental health services. The first opened in 2009 in London and since then numbers have grown. They are based on principles of personal recovery in mental health, co-production be... Read More about Recovery Colleges Characterisation and Testing in England (RECOLLECT): rationale and protocol.

Creative Long Covid: A qualitative exploration of the experience of Long Covid through the medium of creative narratives (2022)
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Background: Healthcare is witnessing a new disease with the emergence of Long Covid; a condition which can result in myriad symptoms, varying in frequency and severity. As new data are emerging to help inform treatment guidelines, the perspectives of... Read More about Creative Long Covid: A qualitative exploration of the experience of Long Covid through the medium of creative narratives.

Discourses of compassion from the margins of health care: the perspectives and experiences of people with a mental health condition (2022)
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Background: Evidence supports the positive influence of compassion on care experiences and health outcomes. However, there is limited understanding regarding how compassion is identified by people with lived experience of mental health care. Aim: To... Read More about Discourses of compassion from the margins of health care: the perspectives and experiences of people with a mental health condition.

Realist inquiry into Maternity care @ a Distance (ARM@DA): realist review protocol (2022)
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INTRODUCTION: One of the most commonly reported COVID-19-related changes to all maternity services has been an increase in the use of digital clinical consultations such as telephone or video calling; however, the ways in which they can be optimally... Read More about Realist inquiry into Maternity care @ a Distance (ARM@DA): realist review protocol.

Common Humanity as an Under-acknowledged Mechanism for Mental Health Peer Support (2022)
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Mental health peer support (PS) is a relational approach to recovery. Service users are helped through a relationship focused on connection with a PS worker who shares similar experiences. Despite the strong evidence base, the mechanisms of action fo... Read More about Common Humanity as an Under-acknowledged Mechanism for Mental Health Peer Support.

Pets’ impact on people`s well-being in COVID-19: A quantitative study (2022)
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Introduction: The global coronavirus pandemic and the governmental restrictions to prevent the virus from spreading have generated anxiety, impacting people’s well-being. Former research suggested a positive impact of pets on their owner’s well-being... Read More about Pets’ impact on people`s well-being in COVID-19: A quantitative study.

The poetic wavelength–a narrative interview study exploring the potential of poetry to support meaning making and recovery following psychosis (2022)
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Background: Despite growing evidence demonstrating the psychotherapeutic potential of reading and writing poetry for various mental health problems, there remains limited evidence in relation to psychosis. This paper explores the therapeutic potentia... Read More about The poetic wavelength–a narrative interview study exploring the potential of poetry to support meaning making and recovery following psychosis.

Recommendations for the extraction, analysis, and presentation of results in scoping reviews (2022)
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Scoping reviewers often face challenges in the extraction, analysis, and presentation of scoping review results. Using best-practice examples and drawing on the expertise of the JBI Scoping Review Methodology Group and an editor of a journal that pub... Read More about Recommendations for the extraction, analysis, and presentation of results in scoping reviews.

Efficacy of digital technologies aimed at enhancing emotion regulation skills: Literature review (2022)
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Background: The impact of emotion regulation (ER) interventions on mental health and wellbeing has been extensively documented in the literature, although only recently have digital technologies been incorporated in intervention design. The aim of th... Read More about Efficacy of digital technologies aimed at enhancing emotion regulation skills: Literature review.

Mental Health of Japanese Workers: Amotivation Mediates Self-Compassion on Mental Health Problems (2022)
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Workplace mental health is a cause for concern in many countries. Globally, 78% of the workforce experienced impairment of their mental health in 2020. In Japan, more than half of employees are mentally distressed. Previously, research has identified... Read More about Mental Health of Japanese Workers: Amotivation Mediates Self-Compassion on Mental Health Problems.

Embedding lived experience into mental health academic research organizations: Critical reflections (2022)
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Background: As part of a growing emphasis on engaging people with lived experience of mental health conditions in mental health research, there are increasing calls to consider and embed lived experience throughout academic research institutes. This... Read More about Embedding lived experience into mental health academic research organizations: Critical reflections.

Patient and family caregiver perspectives of Advance Care Planning: qualitative findings from the ACTION cluster randomised controlled trial of an adapted respecting choices intervention (2022)
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Advance Care Planning (ACP) is widely regarded as a component of good end-of-life care. However, findings from a qualitative international study of patient and family caregiver attitudes and preferences regarding ACP highlight participants’ ambivalen... Read More about Patient and family caregiver perspectives of Advance Care Planning: qualitative findings from the ACTION cluster randomised controlled trial of an adapted respecting choices intervention.

Protocol for a feasibility randomised controlled study of a multicomponent intervention to promote a sustainable return to work of workers on long-term sick leave — PROWORK: PROmoting a Sustainable and Healthy Return to WORK (2022)
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Background: The cost of sickness absence has major social, psychological and financial implications for individuals and organisations. Return-to-work (RTW) interventions that support good quality communication and contact with the workplace can reduc... Read More about Protocol for a feasibility randomised controlled study of a multicomponent intervention to promote a sustainable return to work of workers on long-term sick leave — PROWORK: PROmoting a Sustainable and Healthy Return to WORK.

Comparison of Academic Motivation between Business and Healthcare Students in Online Learning: A Concurrent Nested Mixed-Method Study (2022)
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While the demand for online education and the diversity of online students have been increasing worldwide, how online students motivate themselves to continuously engage in learning remains to be appraised. Research in the face-to-face contexts repor... Read More about Comparison of Academic Motivation between Business and Healthcare Students in Online Learning: A Concurrent Nested Mixed-Method Study.

‘Maybe I Shouldn’t Talk’: The Role of Power in the Telling of Mental Health Recovery Stories (2022)
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Mental health ‘recovery narratives’ are increasingly used within teaching, learning and practice environments. The mainstreaming of their use has been critiqued by scholars and activists as a co-option of lived experience for organisational purposes.... Read More about ‘Maybe I Shouldn’t Talk’: The Role of Power in the Telling of Mental Health Recovery Stories.

Experiences of peer support workers supporting individuals with substance use disorders in Egypt: phenomenological analysis (2022)
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Background: Peer support work for substance use disorders is widely implemented in high-income countries. More research is still needed to understand its applicability in settings which have proportionately low budgets allocated to mental health. Pee... Read More about Experiences of peer support workers supporting individuals with substance use disorders in Egypt: phenomenological analysis.

Mixed-methods process evaluation of a residence-based SARS-CoV-2 testing participation pilot on a UK university campus during the COVID-19 pandemic (2022)
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Background: Regular testing for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is an important strategy for controlling virus outbreaks on university campuses during the COVID-19 pandemic but testing participation rates can be low. The... Read More about Mixed-methods process evaluation of a residence-based SARS-CoV-2 testing participation pilot on a UK university campus during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Measuring quality of dying, death and end-of-life care for children and young people: A scoping review of available tools (2022)
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Health Expectations Front Cover: Volume 25 Issue 4 (2022)
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The cover image is based on the Research Article What's Up With Everyone?: A qualitative study on young people's perceptions of co-created online animations to promote mental health literacy by Sachiyo Ito-Jaeger et al.,