In 2010 Largent, Wendler, and Emanuel proposed the “consent substitute model” for emergency research with incapacitated participants. The model provides a means to enroll participants in emergency research without consent, if five conditions are met: 1) the research addresses the patients’ urgent medical needs, 2) the risk–benefit ratio is favorable, 3) there are no known…Continue Reading Do National and International Ethics Documents Accord With the Consent Substitute Model for Emergency Research?
Year: 2021
Sensoriality, Social Interaction, and “Doing sensing” in Physical–Cultural Ethnographies
As recently highlighted, despite a burgeoning field of sensory ethnography, the practices, production, and accountability of the senses in specific social interactional contexts remain sociologically under-explored. To contribute original insights to a literature on the sensuous body in physical–cultural contexts, here we adopt an ethnomethodologically sensitive perspective to focus on the accomplishment, social organization, and…Continue Reading Sensoriality, Social Interaction, and “Doing sensing” in Physical–Cultural Ethnographies
Inter-Disciplinary Student Work Placements within a Care Home Setting: Improving Student Employability and Developing Social Connections – A Qualitative Evaluation
This article reports on the development, implementation and evaluation of a project to develop students’ employability skills by involving them in work experience within a care home. The aims of this project were (1) to describe how employability skills developed during the work experience (including knowledge and values relevant to the health and social care…Continue Reading Inter-Disciplinary Student Work Placements within a Care Home Setting: Improving Student Employability and Developing Social Connections – A Qualitative Evaluation
Evaluating trauma informed care training for services supporting individuals experiencing homelessness and multiple disadvantage
Purpose Implementing trauma informed care (TIC) for individuals facing homelessness and multiple disadvantage is proposed to help both service users and staff work effectively and therapeutically together. However, the effectiveness of implementing TIC via training is debatable. This study aims to explore the effects of a four-day TIC and psychologically informed environments training package in…Continue Reading Evaluating trauma informed care training for services supporting individuals experiencing homelessness and multiple disadvantage
Relationship between psychological flexibility and work-related quality of life for healthcare professionals: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Healthcare practitioners’ work-related quality of life can be considered within the framework of compassion fatigue and compassion satisfaction. Compassion fatigue can have detrimental impacts for healthcare professionals, whereas compassion satisfaction relates to positive outcomes in ‘helping’ professions. Psychological flexibility has been identified as a resource that may buffer against compassion fatigue and promote compassion satisfaction. This systematic review aimed…Continue Reading Relationship between psychological flexibility and work-related quality of life for healthcare professionals: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Help Researchers Better Understand Depression and Anxiety
Depression and anxiety are incredibly common, affecting about 30% of the worldwide population over the lifespan. Past research has indicated that genetic influences affect psychological treatment in response to anxiety and depression, so it’s important that we know more about these genetic influences. Heritability of anxiety is estimated at approximately 30% and depression approximately 35%,…Continue Reading Help Researchers Better Understand Depression and Anxiety
Call for chapters – “F**k Ups in Social Research: What to do when Research Goes Wrong”
Dr Kahryn Hughes, Associate Professor in the School of Sociology and Social Policy, has recently confirmed a new publication called “F**k Ups in Social Research: What to do when Research Goes Wrong.” The book, a SAGE publication, will be edited by Dr Kahryn Hughes, Dr Grace Sykes, Dr Anna Tarrant and Prof. Jason Hughes. The proposed…Continue Reading Call for chapters – “F**k Ups in Social Research: What to do when Research Goes Wrong”
Has a child you care for been in an ambulance with a painful condition? – Call for Participants
Has a child you care for been in an ambulance with a painful condition? If so we would really like to hear from you. We are designing a research project that aims to improve pain management in children and young people treated by the ambulance service. We are looking for parents/carers of children, or children…Continue Reading Has a child you care for been in an ambulance with a painful condition? – Call for Participants
Exerted running results in altered impact mechanics and footstrike patterns following
Exertion may alter running mechanics and increase injury risk. Effects of exertion following gait-retraining are unknown. Objectives: To determine how exertion effects load rates, footstrike, and cadence in runners following a transition to forefoot strike (FFS) or increased cadence (CAD) gait-retraining. Methods: 33 (9 M, 24 F) healthy rearfoot strike runners were randomized into CAD or FFS…Continue Reading Exerted running results in altered impact mechanics and footstrike patterns following