All Outputs (7)

Managing medicines at the end of life: a position paper for health policy and practice (2021)
Journal Article
Latif, A., Faull, C., Waring, J., Wilson, E., Anderson, C., Avery, A., & Pollock, K. (2021). Managing medicines at the end of life: a position paper for health policy and practice. Journal of Health Organization and Management, 35(9), 368-377. https://doi.org/10.1108/JHOM-11-2020-0440

Purpose The impact of population aging is significant, multifaceted and characterised by frailty and multi-morbidity. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated care pathways and policies promoting self-management and home-based care. One under-researched... Read More about Managing medicines at the end of life: a position paper for health policy and practice.

Managing medicines at the end of life: a position paper for health policy and practice (2021)
Journal Article
Latif, A., Faull, C., Waring, J., Wilson, E., Anderson, C., Avery, A., & Pollock, K. (2021). Managing medicines at the end of life: a position paper for health policy and practice. Journal of Health Organization and Management, 35(9), 368-377. https://doi.org/10.1108/JHOM-11-2020-0440

Purpose: The impact of population ageing is significant, multifaceted and characterised by frailty and multi-morbidity. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated care pathways and policies promoting self-management and home-based care. One under-research... Read More about Managing medicines at the end of life: a position paper for health policy and practice.

Family and health-care professionals managing medicines for patients with serious and terminal illness at home: a qualitative study (2021)
Journal Article
Pollock, K., Wilson, E., Caswell, G., Latif, A., Caswell, A., Avery, A., …Faul, C. (2021). Family and health-care professionals managing medicines for patients with serious and terminal illness at home: a qualitative study. Health Services and Delivery Research, 9(14), 1-162. https://doi.org/10.3310/hsdr09140

Background More effective ways of managing symptoms of chronic and terminal illness enable patients to be cared for, and to die, at home. This requires patients and family caregivers to manage complex medicines regimens, including powerful painkille... Read More about Family and health-care professionals managing medicines for patients with serious and terminal illness at home: a qualitative study.

An exploration of the experiences of professionals supporting patients approaching the end of life in medicines management at home. A qualitative study (2020)
Journal Article
Wilson, E., Caswell, G., Latif, A., Anderson, C., Faull, C., & Pollock, K. (2020). An exploration of the experiences of professionals supporting patients approaching the end of life in medicines management at home. A qualitative study. BMC Palliative Care, 19, Article 66. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12904-020-0537-z

BACKGROUND: The management of medicines towards the end of life can place increasing burdens and responsibilities on patients and families. This has received little attention yet it can be a source of great difficulty and distress patients and famili... Read More about An exploration of the experiences of professionals supporting patients approaching the end of life in medicines management at home. A qualitative study.

Towards equity: a qualitative exploration of the implementation and impact of a digital educational intervention for pharmacy professionals in England (2019)
Journal Article
Latif, A., Waring, J., Pollock, K., Solomon, J., Gulzar, N., Choudhary, S., & Anderson, C. (2019). Towards equity: a qualitative exploration of the implementation and impact of a digital educational intervention for pharmacy professionals in England. International Journal for Equity in Health, 18, Article 151. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-019-1069-0

Background Patients belonging to marginalised (medically under-served) groups experience problems with medicines (i.e. non-adherence, side effects) and poorer health outcomes largely due to inequitable access to healthcare (arising from poor governa... Read More about Towards equity: a qualitative exploration of the implementation and impact of a digital educational intervention for pharmacy professionals in England.

Supporting the provision of pharmacy medication reviews to marginalised (medically underserved) groups: a before/after questionnaire study investigating the impact of a patient–professional co-produced digital educational intervention (2019)
Journal Article
Latif, A., Waring, J., Chen, L., Pollock, K., Solomon, J., Gulzar, N., …Anderson, C. (2019). Supporting the provision of pharmacy medication reviews to marginalised (medically underserved) groups: a before/after questionnaire study investigating the impact of a patient–professional co-produced digital educational intervention. BMJ Open, 9(9), Article e031548. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-031548

Objectives People who are marginalised (medically underserved) experience significant health disparities and their voices are often ‘seldom heard’. Interventions to improve professional awareness and engagement with these groups are urgently needed.... Read More about Supporting the provision of pharmacy medication reviews to marginalised (medically underserved) groups: a before/after questionnaire study investigating the impact of a patient–professional co-produced digital educational intervention.

Cross-cultural adaptation of the short-form condom attitude scale: Validity assessment in a sub-sample of rural-to-urban migrant workers in Bangladesh (2013)
Journal Article
Roy, T., Anderson, C., Evans, C., Rahman, M. S., & Rahman, M. (2013). Cross-cultural adaptation of the short-form condom attitude scale: Validity assessment in a sub-sample of rural-to-urban migrant workers in Bangladesh. BMC Public Health, 13(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-13-240

Background: The reliable and valid measurement of attitudes towards condom use are essential to assist efforts to design population specific interventions aimed at promoting positive attitude towards, and increased use of condoms. Although several st... Read More about Cross-cultural adaptation of the short-form condom attitude scale: Validity assessment in a sub-sample of rural-to-urban migrant workers in Bangladesh.