Outputs (42)

“People play it down and tell me it can’t kill people, but I know people are dying each day”. Children’s health literacy relating to a global pandemic (COVID-19); an international cross sectional study (2021)
Journal Article

The aim of this study was to examine aspects of children's health literacy; the information sources they were accessing, their information preferences, their perceived understanding of and their reported information needs in relation to COVID-19. An... Read More about “People play it down and tell me it can’t kill people, but I know people are dying each day”. Children’s health literacy relating to a global pandemic (COVID-19); an international cross sectional study.

Depression, anxiety, and loneliness among adolescents and young adults with IBD in the UK: The role of disease severity, age of onset, and embarrassment of the condition (2020)
Journal Article

Purpose: Adolescents and young adults (AYA) with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) report higher depressive symptoms and anxiety compared to healthy controls, with disease severity and abdominal pain being important factors. In the current study, buil... Read More about Depression, anxiety, and loneliness among adolescents and young adults with IBD in the UK: The role of disease severity, age of onset, and embarrassment of the condition.

Sustaining, forming, and letting go of friendships for young people with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD): A qualitative interview-based study (2020)
Journal Article

The acceptability and impact of the Xploro digital therapeutic platform to inform and prepare children for planned procedures in a hospital: Before and after evaluation study (2020)
Journal Article

Background: There is increasing interest in finding novel approaches to improve the preparation of children for hospital procedures such as surgery, X-rays, and blood tests. Well-prepared and informed children have better outcomes (less procedural an... Read More about The acceptability and impact of the Xploro digital therapeutic platform to inform and prepare children for planned procedures in a hospital: Before and after evaluation study.

“I don’t like to make a big thing out of It”: A qualitative interview-based study exploring factors affecting whether young people tell or do not tell their friends about their IBD (2020)
Journal Article

Leveraging implementation science to reduce inequities in children’s mental health care: Highlights from a multidisciplinary international colloquium (2020)
Journal Article

Background and purpose
Access to evidence-based mental health care for children is an international priority. However, there are significant challenges to advancing this public health priority in an efficient and equitable manner. The purpose of thi... Read More about Leveraging implementation science to reduce inequities in children’s mental health care: Highlights from a multidisciplinary international colloquium.

The difficulty in evidencing family estrangement to attain statutory finance in UK Higher Education (2019)
Journal Article

Acquiring statutory funding to study in Higher Education brings complex difficulties for UK students under the age of 25 who are estranged from their family, but have not been part of the care system. This paper explores the experiences of 564 estran... Read More about The difficulty in evidencing family estrangement to attain statutory finance in UK Higher Education.

The counseling experiences of individuals who are estranged from a family member (2019)
Journal Article

Objective: For the first time, this study explored the counseling experiences of individuals estranged from a family member and the ways in which therapy was helpful, unhelpful, or both. Background: Family relationships are often assumed to be perman... Read More about The counseling experiences of individuals who are estranged from a family member.

“It’s a lifeline”: Generating a sense of social connectedness through befriending parents of disabled children or children with additional need (2019)
Journal Article

Objectives
This study explored the influence of a parent-to-parent peer support scheme on the wellbeing of parents of disabled children or children with additional need who joined a befriending scheme.

Methods
A longitudinal concurrent mixed met... Read More about “It’s a lifeline”: Generating a sense of social connectedness through befriending parents of disabled children or children with additional need.

Mental health service access and delivery: A focus on family estrangement (2019)
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