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Working with refugees and asylum seekers: The role of the health visitor (2014)
Journal Article

Health visitors have reported feeling ill-prepared for the complexities of working with refugees and asylum seekers (Drennan and Joseph, 2005). This paper highlights some of the main physical and mental health issues that health visiting teams are li... Read More about Working with refugees and asylum seekers: The role of the health visitor.

Meta-analysis of predictors of favorable employment outcomes among individuals with bipolar disorder (2013)
Journal Article

Objectives: Although several studies have reported on predictors of employment in individuals with bipolar disorder (BD), the magnitude of the impact of these variables is unclear as no previous studies have estimated the collective effect sizes (ESs... Read More about Meta-analysis of predictors of favorable employment outcomes among individuals with bipolar disorder.

Opioid prescribing in palliative care (2012)
Journal Article

Hundreds of thousands of people in the UK live with long-term or incurable illnesses for which strong opioids may be the only effective method of pain relief yet these drugs remain underused.

Setting up a triage telephone line for women in early labour (2012)
Journal Article

This article aims to provide an overview of a collaborative service improvement project that was undertaken by midwives at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust to improve services for women in early labour. The labour triage line was set up to in... Read More about Setting up a triage telephone line for women in early labour.

Body perception disturbance: A contribution to pain in complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) (2007)
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In spite of pain in the CRPS limb, clinical observations show patients pay little attention to, and fail to care for, their affected limb as if it were not part of their body. Literature describes this phenomenon in terms of neurological neglect-like... Read More about Body perception disturbance: A contribution to pain in complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS).

Path models of quality of life among people with schizophrenia living in the community in Hong Kong (2007)
Journal Article

The utilization of quality of life (QOL) in psychiatric community rehabilitation could be enhanced by developing an appropriate conceptual model of QOL. The focus of this study was to construct and test, using path analytic techniques, a pertinent co... Read More about Path models of quality of life among people with schizophrenia living in the community in Hong Kong.

Malignant fungating wounds: An analysis of the lived experience (2007)
Journal Article

AIM: This paper reports upon a study that aimed to illuminate the meaning and experience of living with a malignant fungating wound. BACKGROUND: The current understanding of living with a malignant fungating wound is derived from professionals' rathe... Read More about Malignant fungating wounds: An analysis of the lived experience.

TRIP: A psycho-educational programme in Hong Kong for people with schizophrenia (2007)
Journal Article

TRIP' (Transforming Relapse and Instilling Prosperity) is a ward-based illness management programme that aims to decrease treatment non-compliance and relapse rate by improving the insight and health of acute psychiatric patients with schizophrenia.... Read More about TRIP: A psycho-educational programme in Hong Kong for people with schizophrenia.

Clinical characteristics and objective living conditions in relation to quality of life among community-based individuals of schizophrenia in Hong Kong (2006)
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Quality of life (QOL) has gained importance as an outcome measure for people with schizophrenia living in the community following deinstitutionalization. This study aims at exploring the effects of clinical characteristics and objective living condit... Read More about Clinical characteristics and objective living conditions in relation to quality of life among community-based individuals of schizophrenia in Hong Kong.

Guideline for anti-TNF-α therapy in psoriatic arthritis (2005)
Journal Article

Malodorous fungating wounds: Uncertain concepts underlying the management of social isolation (2003)
Journal Article

Malodorous fungating wounds can exacerbate the social isolation of patients with palliative care needs through changes in patients' body image. There is a lack of consensus regarding the most effective management approaches for patients with malodoro... Read More about Malodorous fungating wounds: Uncertain concepts underlying the management of social isolation.