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Building Better Website Resources: What People Diagnosed with Sarcoma and Their Carers Want to Know [PDF]

Current Oncology
Sarcomas are a group of aggressive cancers, primarily affecting the soft tissue or bone [...]
Georgia K. B. Halkett, Jenny Davies, Chloe Maxwell-Smith, Connor Farnell, Mandy Basson, Tania Rice-Brading, Mariana S. Sousa, Janene Sproul, Helen M. De Jong, Haryana M. Dhillon, Joanna Elizabeth Fardell, Moira O’Connor   +11 more
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Experiencing Socioeconomic Deprivation as a Carer in the United Kingdom: A Qualitative Study [PDF]

Health Expectations
Background Informal carers compose approximately 7% of the UK population and, through their unpaid care, they make important contributions to society and the health care industry.
Megan Armstrong, Alma Jeri‐Wahrhaftig, Abi Woodward, Danielle Nimmons, Carolyn A. Chew‐Graham, Joanne Protheroe, Fiona Stevenson, Nathan Davies, Kate Walters   +8 more
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Young Carers [PDF]

British Journal of General Practice, 2014
Until the 1990s, the roles that children and young people undertake in providing informal family care received virtually no academic or policy recognition. If awareness of these children did exist, they were generally referred to as “young carers,” although different countries have different phrases (for example, “young caregivers” in the United States
Leu, Agnes, Becker, Saul
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Fatigue and Its Association With Quality of Life Among Carers of Patients Attending Psychiatric Emergency Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2021
Aims: Carers of psychiatric patients often suffered from mental and physical burden during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic due to the lack of mental health services. This study investigated the pattern of fatigue and its association with
Xiao Ji, Wen Li, Wen Li, Hui Zhu, Ling Zhang, Teris Cheung, Chee H. Ng, Yu-Tao Xiang, Yu-Tao Xiang   +8 more
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Screening Social Anxiety in Adolescents Through the Eyes of Their Carers

Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
Despite the availability of efficacious treatment and screening protocols, social anxiety disorder (SAD) in adolescents is considerably under-detected and undertreated.
Luis-Joaquin Garcia-Lopez, Lourdes Espinosa-Fernandez, Jose-Antonio Muela-Martinez, Jose Antonio Piqueras   +3 more
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Innovative methods for involving people with dementia and carers in the policymaking process

Health Expectations, 2021
Background There are few examples of public patient involvement in policymaking for groups whose ability to participate may be affected by a disability, particularly for people with dementia and their family carers. Principles of engagement and inclusion
Fiona Keogh, Patricia Carney, Eamon O’Shea   +2 more
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Applying Outcomes in Community-Based Social Care Practice in England

Journal of Long-Term Care, 2023
Context: Social care outcomes (the effect of services on the quality of life of people with support needs and unpaid carers) have been proposed as a way of improving the quality and effectiveness of care.
Stacey Rand, Grace Collins, Wenjing Zhang, Alisoun Milne, Barbora Silarova   +4 more
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Understanding what affects psychological morbidity in informal carers when providing care at home for patients at the end of life: a systematic qualitative evidence synthesis

Health and Social Care Delivery Research, 2023
Background Informal carers are central in supporting patients at the end of life, but this has substantial negative impacts on carers’ own mental health.
Kerin Bayliss, Tracey Shield, Alison Wearden, Jackie Flynn, Christine Rowland, Penny Bee, Morag Farquhar, Danielle Harris, Alexander Hodkinson, Maria Panagioti, Margaret Booth, David Cotterill, Lesley Goodburn, Cedric Knipe, Gunn Grande   +14 more
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Work-life imbalance: informal care and paid employment [PDF]

, 2008
In the United Kingdom informal carers are people who look after relatives or friends who need extra support because of age, physical or learning disability or illness. The majority of informal carers are women and female carers also care for longer hours
Arber Sara, Baldwin Sally, Carvel John, Claire Hulme, Fiona Carmichael, Folbre Nancy, Gemma Connell, Maher Joanne, Nolan Michael, Pavalko Eliza K., Sally Sheppard, Stalker Kirsten   +11 more
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The carer persona: Masking individual identities

Persona Studies, 2015
According to Jungian theory, ‘persona’ is a concept reflecting a compromise between the individual and society. In mediating between a person’s subjective inner world and the external social world, the persona represents a generalised idea of the self ...
Timothy R. Broady
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