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The experience of mental distress and recovery among people involved with the service user/survivor movement [PDF]

, 2014
This article examines how the personal experiences of mental distress of people involved in the British service user/survivor movement were shaped or transformed by this involvement, and the impact of involvement on their recovery journeys.
Chassot, Carolina, Mendes, Felismina
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Parent‐to‐Child Information Disclosure in Pediatric Oncology

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Despite professional consensus regarding the importance of open communication with pediatric cancer patients about their disease, actual practice patterns of disclosure are understudied. Extant literature suggests a significant proportion of children are not told about their diagnosis/prognosis, which is purported to negatively ...
Rachel A. Kentor, Flora Hoodin, Michelle Byrd, Kristin A. Kullgren, Leah LaLonde, Lauren Benkoske, Patrick Smith, Dawn Carson, Karen MacDonald, Susumu Inoue, Brenda Kitchen, Kate Gowans, Gregory A. Yanik   +12 more
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Contextual Factors Affecting Patient Representatives in Primary Healthcare Service Development

Tidsskrift for Omsorgsforskning
Background: Patient participation can contribute to establishing high-quality, sustainable health services. This study explored patient representatives’ perceptions of developing primary healthcare services to identify contextual factors that matter to ...
Ann Britt Sandvin Olsson, Mette Haaland, Una Stenberg, Tor Slettebø, Anita Strøm   +4 more
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Four features of cooptation

Nordisk Välfärdsforskning, 2018
The article draws on a three-year ethnographical study investigating how “service user involvement” was constructed (i.e. understood, implemented, and performed) within two large Swedish welfare organizations – a county-based psychiatric organization and
Erik Eriksson
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Prolonged Corrected QT Interval as an Early Electrocardiographic Marker of Cyclophosphamide‐Induced Cardiotoxicity in Pediatric Hematology and Oncology Patients

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Cyclophosphamide (CY) is associated with potentially fatal cardiotoxicity, yet no electrocardiographic indices have been established for early detection of CY‐induced cardiomyopathy. This study aimed to determine whether corrected QT interval (QTc) prolongation can predict early onset of CY‐related cardiac dysfunction in pediatric ...
Junpei Kawamura, Kentaro Ueno, Takuro Nishikawa, Yoshihiro Takahashi, Koji Nakae, Yasuhiro Okamoto   +5 more
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The Influence of User-Adapted, Instructive Information on Participation in a Recycling Scheme: A Case Study in a Medium-Sized Swedish City

Recycling, 2020
Several theories and case studies have shown that information has little or no direct influence on waste sorting behavior. However, it is often suggested that information plays a vital role by indirectly influencing behavior.
Eric Mehner, Adeel Naidoo, Coralie Hellwig, Kim Bolton, Kamran Rousta   +4 more
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Young people's views on accelerometer use in physical activity research : findings from a user involvement investigation [PDF]

, 2012
The use of accelerometers to objectively measure physical activity is important in understanding young people's behaviours, as physical activity plays a key part in obesity prevention and treatment.
Callens, Claire, Kirby, J. (Joanna), Lang, Beckie, Robertson, Wendy, Thorogood, Margaret, Tibbins, Carly, Tigbe, William W.   +6 more
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Mend the gap – strategies for user involvement in social work education

Service User Involvement in Social Work Education, 2017
A major strand in social work’s history has been its paternalistic character, partly due to a philanthropic tradition, but also to the tendency to import an individualist expert model into social work practice.
O. Askheim, P. Beresford, Cecilia Heule
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Predicting Chronicity in Children and Adolescents With Newly Diagnosed Immune Thrombocytopenia at the Timepoint of Diagnosis Using Machine Learning‐Based Approaches

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives To identify predictors of chronic ITP (cITP) and to develop a model based on several machine learning (ML) methods to estimate the individual risk of chronicity at the timepoint of diagnosis. Methods We analyzed a longitudinal cohort of 944 children enrolled in the Intercontinental Cooperative immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) Study ...
Severin Kasser, Alice Bizeul, Meera Chitlur, Hugo Donato, Jelena Roganovic, Julia E. Vogt, Thomas Kühne   +6 more
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Assessment of the benefits of user involvement in health research from the Warwick Diabetes Care Research User Group : a qualitative case study [PDF]

, 2007
Objective  To assess the benefits of involving health-care users in diabetes research. Design and participants  For this qualitative case study, semi-structured interviews were conducted with researchers who had worked extensively with the group.
Department of Health, INVOLVE, Medical Research Council, Nilsen E, Saffin K, Genetic Interest Group, Caron-Flinterman JF, Yin RK, Rutter D, Scott D, Glaser B, Sturt J   +11 more
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