“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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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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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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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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Debating claims of fact in public health: A pedagogical activity
13 March 2024
This pedagogical activity asks instructors or workshop administrators to guide students through the process of evaluating evidence used to support health misinformation. In learning principles from...
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Examination of provider knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors associated with lung cancer screening among Black men receiving care at a federally qualified health center
4 December 2023
The study's goal was to look at providers’ knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors regarding lung cancer screening among Black male smokers served by a federally qualified healthcare center. Participants...
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Seeking gender-affirming medical care: A phenomenological inquiry on skillful coping with transgender and non-binary adults in the United States Midwest
4 December 2023
This study sought to understand how transgender and gender non-binary (TGNB) individuals skillfully cope with healthcare services and to explore how childhood experiences impact expectations, habits,...
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A narrative journey into the borderland of patient safety: Toward an expanded, relational concept of safety
4 December 2023
“Patient safety” is routinely defined in health services globally as “safety for patients against harm and risk of injury in health care.” (Danish Board of Quality in Health Care, 2022, p. 28; translated...
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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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An evaluation of staff experiences of the Royal Literary Fund writer-in-residence service to support improvements in written communication in healthcare
4 December 2023
Written communication is essential to staff and patient experience in healthcare. The Royal Literary Fund has hosted a writing fellow in an NHS Trust since 2018 providing professional writing training....
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“It can save your life, that's all I know,” barriers and facilitators for engagement in take-home naloxone for people receiving opioid substitution treatment in regional Australia: An explorative study
19 July 2023
Engagement in take-home naloxone (THN) programs by people receiving opioid substitution treatment (OST) in Australia is low despite methadone being a significant contributor to opioid overdose deaths....
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“It's real. It's a thing:” Mental health counselors’ listening exhaustion during COVID-19
19 July 2023
Mental health counselors regularly use active listening skills to be present with each client; however, active listening may cause burnout due to high emotional labor, inadequate staffing, excessive...
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Young Latina college students’ perspectives on mask-wearing post lifting of mask mandates
27 April 2023
Confusion, miscommunication, and debate regarding the benefits of wearing masks, social distancing, and stay-at-home orders ensued for much of the COVID-19 pandemic. Without a consistent message from...
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Politics, policies, and patient care: Rehabilitation therapists’ experiences during the COVID-19 Pandemic
27 April 2023
The year 2020 represents a historically turbulent period for the United States marked by the COVID-19 pandemic, a contentious political season, and heightened awareness of racism among citizens. This...
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Operating in the margins: Women's lived experience of training and working in orthopaedic surgery in South Africa
27 April 2023
Medicine in South Africa (SA), as in other parts of the world, is becoming an increasingly gender diverse profession, yet orthopaedic surgery continues to be dominated by men, with women constituting...
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Using qualitative data to inform the adaptation of a stroke preparedness health intervention
31 December 2022
Qualitative research methods are often used to develop health interventions, but few researchers report how their qualitative data informed intervention development. Improved completeness of reporting...
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Review of Jan Doolittle Wilson's Becoming Disabled: Forging a Disability View of the World (Lexington Books, 2021)
31 December 2022
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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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