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Gender Politics and Secure Services For Women: Reflections on a study of staff understandings of challenging behaviour. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
This paper discusses the findings of a Q methodological study that investigated the complexity of professional understandings of (attitudes towards) residents in a secure unit for women with learning disabilities and challenging behaviours.
Anderson, J   +3 more
core   +1 more source

A safe future? Finding a way forward for the secure care sector in Scotland

open access: yesScottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2016
Secure care restricts the liberty of children and young people under the age of 18. As such, secure care is a form of residential care intended to meet the needs of the very small number of children and young people whose safety and wellbeing (or that of
Alison Gough
doaj   +1 more source

Using provocative design to foster electronic informed consent innovation

open access: yesBMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2022
Background The development of technological applications in clinical research, such as electronic informed consent (eIC), is on the rise. The involvement of end users throughout the design process of eIC is of utmost importance to improve the current ...
Evelien De Sutter   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Book review: Fulcher, L, and Moran, A. (2003). Sisters of pain: An ethnography of young women living in secure care. Cape Town: CYC-Net Press, 262 pp., ISBN 978-1- 928212-01-0

open access: yesScottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2015
The title, Sisters of Pain, invites the reader from the onset to be aware that the content of this book will not be a good choice for bedtime or holiday reading.
Carole Dearie
doaj   +1 more source

"This isn't the road I want to go down" Young people's perceptions and experiences of secure care [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The consultation sought to map young people's secure journey ie. their experiences and views of secure care from admission through to final discharge, including the transition from secure care and the services they received to assist them in that ...
Barry, Monica   +3 more
core  

Dexamethasone for Chemotherapy‐Induced Nausea and Vomiting Prevention in Pediatric Patients: International Consensus

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background An international Delphi panel of experts developed consensus statements to delineate the circumstances where the risks of dexamethasone as an antiemetic do and do not outweigh its benefits. Procedure Experts in supportive care of pediatric patients were invited to participate.
Negar Shavandi   +20 more
wiley   +1 more source

A literature review on the Central Chronic Medicine Dispensing and Distribution Programme in South Africa

open access: yesOrapuh Journal
The increasing burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in South Africa has placed significant pressure on the healthcare system. As part of the National Health Insurance (NHI) initiative, the need to improve healthcare delivery and medication access ...
Phillip de Beer   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Preferences of Pediatric Patients and Their Caregivers for Chemotherapy‐Induced Nausea and Vomiting Control Endpoints: A Mixed Methods Study

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose Although not always achieved, complete chemotherapy‐induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) control is the conventional goal of CINV prophylaxis. In this two‐center, mixed‐methods study, we sought to understand the preferences of adolescent patients and family caregivers for CINV control endpoints.
Haley Newman   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Supporting transitions and throughcare : some lessons from secure care [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This paper is based on 7 evaluation reports that were submitted to the Scottish Executive on the use of the secure transitions fund, a pilot project. The aim of the fund was to reduce readmissions into secure care.
Vrouwenfelder, Evelyn
core  

Prevalence and Trajectory of Household Material Hardship Among Children With Advanced Cancer

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background/Objectives Families of children with advanced cancer living in poverty experience inferior outcomes including poor parent mental health and worse child quality of life. Household material hardship (HMH: food, housing, transportation, and/or utility insecurity) is a modifiable poverty exposure—and potential intervention target—that ...
Sarah Wright   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

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