“It’s sink or swim for us”: The lived experiences of Filipino nurses in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic
March 2025
The United Kingdom has recruited Filipino nurses since the late 1990s to meet the country’s healthcare needs. Currently, over 40,000 Filipinos are working in the National Health Service, and it is suggested...
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Using observation to better understand the healthcare context
31 December 2021
Despite potential to capture rich contextual information, observation remains an underutilized data collection method. This paper provides a practical guide for using observation to understand complex...
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“It’s a mixture of emotions”: Nail technicians’ visual storytelling of work and health
March 2025
Nail technicians are artists and storytellers. Adapting the arts-based health research (ABHR) methodology of body-map storytelling (Gastaldo et al., 2018) and in partnership with the Parkdale Queen...
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An examination of veterinarians’ negotiation of emotional labor
March 2025
Veterinarians are expected to care for animals while managing clients' emotions and dealing with stress, depression, burnout, anxiety, suicidal ideation, and other mental health struggles that accompany...
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Understanding the phenomenological experiences of schema therapy for those with an eating disorder
4 July 2024
Schema therapy expands traditional cognitive-behavioral models, weakening early maladaptive schemas and schema modes while strengthening adaptive modes. This study investigated participant experiences...
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It is harder for me: A thematic analysis of lived experience of self-care, and its relationship with self-injurious behaviors in psychiatric patients
9 September 2024
Self-injury is associated with significant psychological distress and functional impairments, including difficulties with self-care. However, little is known about how individuals engaging in self-injury...
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“The message is the manner”: Patterns of influence in communicating pap screening in North-Central Nigeria
March 2025
Effective strategies to closing the knowledge gap on cervical cancer and pap screening are needed to increase screening rates and create a greater demand for services in Nigeria. Using the PEN-3 Cultural...
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“Suicide’s very abstract”: A qualitative analysis of risk assessment training recommendations from family physicians
2 January 2025
Suicide risk has consistently increased over the past 2.5 decades, despite growing awareness and tailored programs aimed at combating this epidemic. Suicide prevention initiatives include ensuring 24/7...
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“Constantly justifying my existence”: Lower-income, higher-weight Canadian adults’ stigma coping mechanisms
2 January 2025
Individuals who are higher-weight and low-income may disproportionately experience weight and income stigmas in healthcare experiences compared to lower-weight, higher-income individuals. The ways that...
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Psychogeriatric experts’ experiences with risk factors of non-suicidal and suicidal self-injury in older adults: A qualitative study
9 September 2024
While research has highlighted potential age-related differences in risk factors for non-suicidal and suicidal self-injury ((N)SSI), studies on such distinct risk factors among older adults are scarce....
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The potential impact of nonsuicidal self-injury disorder: Insights from individuals with lived experience
9 September 2024
Nonsuicidal self-injury disorder (NSSI-D) is presently a condition for further study in the Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5-TR) (American Psychiatric Association, 2022). While...
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What is veteran suicide prevention really about? Questions from the community to researchers
2 January 2025
Military veterans are one of the most researched groups in healthcare in the United States. This population has extremely high rates of suicide attempts and completions. Despite increasing research...
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The four Cs of physician leadership: A key to academic physician success
4 July 2024
Leadership is increasingly recognized as important in medicine. Physician leadership impacts healthcare delivery and quality. Little work has been done to determine how physician leadership in practice...
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“I felt like a freak when I would go to the doctor”: Investigating healthcare experiences across the lifespan among older LGBT and transgender/gender diverse adults
13 March 2024
In the past several decades, the United States has enacted civil rights legislation protecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) populations from discrimination, including enacting...
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Qualitative research is about listening and growing
2 January 2025
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Near-death experiences and the change of worldview in survivors of sudden cardiac arrest: A phenomenological and hermeneutical study
31 December 2022
Near-death experiences (NDEs) can occur during episodes of unconsciousness from life-threatening conditions, such as sudden cardiac arrests (SCAs). This study is based on interviews with patients who...
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“That bastard chose me”: the use of metaphor in women’s cancer blogs
4 July 2024
Metaphors play a significant role in how cancer is experienced and discussed. This study delves into the utilization of metaphors by women bloggers grappling with colorectal and gynecological cancers....
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“But when I come home…”: How patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain account for their absent pain during naturally occurring clinical consultations
2 January 2025
When patients’ embodied experiences cannot be conveyed to clinicians in real-time, the challenges of reaching a shared understanding between patient and clinician are enhanced. In this study, we explore...
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A qualitative analysis and evaluation of social support received after experiencing a broken marriage engagement and impacts on holistic health
13 March 2024
This study provides new insights into the role of social support in the largely unexplored field of broken marriage engagements and an individual’s wellbeing. The study extends the optimal matching...
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Obstetric care under the military health system: An analysis of active-duty women’s and female spouses’ online discussions
2 January 2025
This research undertakes a thematic analysis of discussion threads on social media forums to determine women’s perceptions of quality of obstetric care under TRICARE Prime and TRICARE Select. Following...
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Lessons learned from qualitative fieldwork in a multilingual setting
13 March 2024
Qualitative research conducted in a multilingual setting is an arduous, yet essential, endeavour. As part of my PhD research program, I set out to conduct qualitative process evaluation of a stroke...
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The use of metaphors by service users with diverse long-term conditions: a secondary qualitative data analysis
4 December 2023
Long-term conditions and accompanied co-morbidities now affect about a quarter of the UK population. Enabling patients and caregivers to communicate their experience of illness in their own words is...
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Screen time, mute, mixed messages, and panic: An international auto-ethnographic study of knowledge workers during a pandemic
13 March 2024
The coronavirus pandemic provoked worldwide changes to the workplace, leading to rapid changes in lifestyles and working conditions. While organizations and governments struggled to develop regulations...
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Breaking the cycle: Memorable messages of “grin n’ bear it” and silence in menarche narrative recall
4 July 2024
To better understand adolescent experiences of menstruation, the CODE Red project was initiated to examine period poverty and menstruation stigma. As part of the project, a survey was posted online...
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