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S Docherty

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PubMed1999

Interviewing children.

The focus in health-related research on children has shifted from seeking information about children to seeking information directly from them. Children, even as young as three years old, can give graphic descriptions and have excellent recall of experiences related to adverse events, such as illness and hospitalization. Children use scripts as the primary means of anticipating, comprehending, and re-creating real-life experience. The content, timing, number, and structure of interviews will influence the completeness, accuracy, and consistency of children's recall of events. Although at times conflicting, the findings from recent scholarship on children's narrative competence will assist researchers to select the interviewing strategies most likely to yield faithful representations of experience.

Child, Hospitalized↗
PubMed1997

Focus on qualitative methods. Qualitative metasynthesis: issues and techniques.

There has been an accumulation of qualitative studies in recent years, but little cumulation of the understandings gained from them. Qualitative research appears endangered both by efforts to synthesize studies and by the failure to do so. Techniques used have included reciprocal translations of key metaphors and concepts and qualitative and quantitative comparative analyses to produce narrative and theoretical integrations. The major problem yet to be resolved is developing usable and communicable systematic approaches to conducting metasynthesis projects that maintain the integrity of individual studies.

Data Interpretation, Statistical↗
PubMed1997

Survey of the information given to patients about blood transfusion and the need for consent before transfusion.

There is no current requirement in the United Kingdom to provide patients with information about blood transfusion or to seek their written consent to transfusion. To study patients' attitudes to these questions, a questionnaire survey was carried out on 51 patients during an admission to hospital in which they received a blood transfusion. The patients in this survey, although mostly satisfied about the information they were given before they were transfused, would have welcomed more general information about transfusion, mainly because of concerns about the risk of viral infections. Nearly 40% of patients thought that written consent should be obtained before transfusion, but the ethical and practical aspects of this issue are complex. Further debate would be required before implementation of written consent to transfusion could be considered as a routine policy.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1994

Residence of incident cohort of psychotic patients after 13 years of follow up.

OBJECTIVE: To establish the residential history of an incident cohort of psychotic patients 13 years after their first contact with the psychiatric services. DESIGN: Tracing of all patients admitted to the WHO study on determinants of outcome of severe mental disorders in Nottingham between 1978 and 1980. Patients were assessed using standardised and comparable instruments, and extra information was obtained from key informants and medical records. SETTING: Catchment area of Nottingham psychiatric services. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Main place of residence over the previous two years and residential history over 13 years in terms of homelessness, imprisonment, and use of high dependency psychiatric facilities. RESULTS: 95 patients were traced. At the point of follow up no patients were in long stay psychiatric wards, two were in supervised residence, none was homeless, and none was in prison or a high security hospital. 85 patients were living either independently alone or with their family or friends in the community. Of these, 44 had had no contact with the psychiatric services at the point of follow up. CONCLUSIONS: Although many patients experienced a difficult early course of illness, the longer term outcome of the disorder was associated with remarkably low periods of homelessness and imprisonment and low use of intensive care facilities. These findings offer some reassurance, given the concerns about the effectiveness of community oriented care for this potentially most vulnerable group of psychiatric patients.

Adult↗
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Helping students use nursing models to guide research.

This article describes a teaching-learning strategy that was used to help third-year undergraduate BSN students understand the importance of situating nursing research questions within a nursing theoretical framework. Examples of student-generated research questions and their transformation into questions that reflect explicit nursing frameworks are provided. Common difficulties encountered by the students are also discussed.

Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate↗