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Supporting children with burns: Developing a UK parent-focused peer-informed website to support families of burn-injured children (2019)
Journal Article
Heath, J., Williamson, H., Williams, L., & Harcourt, D. (2019). Supporting children with burns: Developing a UK parent-focused peer-informed website to support families of burn-injured children. Patient Education and Counseling, 102(9), 1730-1735. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2019.04.003

© 2019 Elsevier B.V. Background: Children's burn injuries can have a significant psychosocial impact on parents. However, the stress involved in caring for a child following a burn can often go unrecognized and does not necessarily prompt help seekin... Read More about Supporting children with burns: Developing a UK parent-focused peer-informed website to support families of burn-injured children.

A comparison of termination of pregnancy procedures: Patient choice, emotional impact and satisfaction with care (2018)
Journal Article
Heath, J., Mitchell, N., & Fletcher, J. (2019). A comparison of termination of pregnancy procedures: Patient choice, emotional impact and satisfaction with care. Sexual and Reproductive HealthCare, 19, 42-49. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.srhc.2018.12.002

Objectives To investigate: (1) whether women self-report an ability to choose their preferred termination of pregnancy (TOP) procedure, (2) what factors influence this choice, and (3) what effect this choice has on emotional responses and satisfac... Read More about A comparison of termination of pregnancy procedures: Patient choice, emotional impact and satisfaction with care.

Self-reported quality of life in children and young people with chronic kidney disease (2011)
Journal Article
Heath, J., MacKinlay, D., Watson, A. R., Hames, A., Wirz, L., Scott, S., …McHugh, K. (2011). Self-reported quality of life in children and young people with chronic kidney disease. Pediatric Nephrology, 26(5), 767-773. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00467-011-1784-2

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) would be expected to impact upon the quality of life (QoL) of children and young people; therefore, it is important that they are given the means to express their opinions about how they perceive their own QoL. We used th... Read More about Self-reported quality of life in children and young people with chronic kidney disease.