Propriety, process and purpose: Considerations of the use of the telephone interview method in an educational research study

Glogowska, Margaret; Young, Pat; Lockyer, Lesley

doi:10.1007/s10734-010-9362-2

Comparing thought suppression and mindfulness as coping techniques for spider fear (2011)
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The current study compared thought suppression, focused attention (mindfulness) and unfocused attention as strategies for managing spider fear. Spider fearful participants were exposed to a strategy induction before completing a Behavioural Approach... Read More about Comparing thought suppression and mindfulness as coping techniques for spider fear.

Professional responses to contemporary discourses and definitions of paedophilia (2011)
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This paper will discuss professionals' contemporary definitions and understandings of paedophilia, based upon empirical qualitative research with a range of professionals working within paedophilia, or in related fields (practitioners, academics and... Read More about Professional responses to contemporary discourses and definitions of paedophilia.

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A randomized controlled trial of cognitive-behavior therapy plus bright light therapy for adolescent delayed sleep phase disorder (2011)
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Virtuality and Ernst Bloch: Hope and subjectivity (2011)
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A turn to the rights: UK conservative Christian lobby groups and the 'gay debate' (2011)
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Money management and views of civil partnership in same-sex couples: results from a UK survey of non-heterosexuals (2011)
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Recent legislation in the UK has extended many of the legal and financial rights and responsibilities of heterosexual marriage to same-sex couples who register their partnerships. Prior to the Civil Partnership Act (2004) however, little was known ab... Read More about Money management and views of civil partnership in same-sex couples: results from a UK survey of non-heterosexuals.

An audit of rubella IgG antibody status in antenatal women in a NHS Trust over 5 years (2005 - 2009) (2011)
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While patient and public involvement (PPI) in health and social care research has progressed successfully in the last decade, a range of difficulties with the evidence base exist, including poor understanding of the concept of impact, limited theoriz... Read More about Developing the evidence base of patient and public involvement in health and social care research: The case for measuring impact.

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Termination of psychotherapy: The journey of 10 psychoanalytic and psychodynamic therapists (2011)
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Objectives. Literature on termination originates mainly from clinical and theoretical accounts as well as practitioners' autobiographical reports. There is, however, a paucity of psychological research on termination. The purpose of this study is to... Read More about Termination of psychotherapy: The journey of 10 psychoanalytic and psychodynamic therapists.

Prevalence of health anxiety problems in medical clinics (2011)
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New students' psychological well-being and its relation to first year academic performance in a UK university (2011)
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A longitudinal study of recipients' views and experiences of intra-family egg donation (2011)
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Beyond the chains that bind: The political crisis of unions in Western Europe (2011)
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Lysophosphatidic acid and calcitriol co-operate to promote human osteoblastogenesis: Requirement of albumin-bound LPA (2011)
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Lysophosphatidic acid (LPA), a pleiotropic signalling lipid is assuming growing significance in osteoblast biology. Although committed osteoblasts from several mammalian species are receptive to LPA far less is known about the potential for LPA to in... Read More about Lysophosphatidic acid and calcitriol co-operate to promote human osteoblastogenesis: Requirement of albumin-bound LPA.

Evaluating the potential of new technological tools for safety critical work (2011)
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Defining user requirements of complex human-system interaction technologies and testing the fulfilment of these requirements in the end-product are issues of design practice that are currently not solved in an optimal way. In the current paper severa... Read More about Evaluating the potential of new technological tools for safety critical work.

Propriety, process and purpose: Considerations of the use of the telephone interview method in an educational research study (2011)
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While the use of the telephone has increased as a means of collecting research data in a range of areas, there are few examples of studies where telephone interviews have been conducted to collect qualitative data. The field of educational research i... Read More about Propriety, process and purpose: Considerations of the use of the telephone interview method in an educational research study.

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