Design considerations for a multiple sclerosis fatigue mobile app MS Energize: A pragmatic iterative approach using usability testing and resonance checks.

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic neurological condition affecting around 2.2 million people worldwide. The illness includes a range of symptoms, with fatigue considered to be one of the most disabling.

Pilot trial of The Living Well Toolkit: qualitative analysis and implications for refinement and future implementation.

Background: Following a neurological event, people's long-term health and well-being is hampered by a system that struggles to deliver person-centred communication and coordinated care and fails to harness individual and family capability to live well with the condition. We aimed to implement and evaluate a toolkit package to support these processes for people with long-term neurological conditions.

Methods: This is a multi-phased study drawing on the principles of participatory research.

MS Energize: Field trial of an app for self-management of fatigue for people with multiple sclerosis.

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a lifelong neurological condition affecting around 2.2 million people worldwide. There are a wide range of symptoms, with fatigue reported as one of the most troublesome.

Constructing Normalcy in Dementia Care: Carers' Perceptions of Their Roles and the Supports They Need.

Background And Objectives: People with dementia are critically dependent on their carers when accessing and utilizing health care. To inform health care development and delivery, we aimed to explore carers' perceptions of their role in caring for a family member with dementia and to identify carers' skills and attributes and factors impacting on care.

Research Design And Methods: We used semistructured interviews to collect data from 25 carers supporting older adults with dementia.

Working-age adults' perspectives on living with persistent postural-perceptual dizziness: a qualitative exploratory study.

Objectives: To (a) explore the experiences of persistent postural-perceptual dizziness (PPPD), formerly chronic subjective dizziness on the personal, work and social lives of working-age adults; (b) enhance current understandings of the condition and its impact on the lives of working-age adults and (c) highlight points for consideration and importance to clinical practice.

Methods: This qualitative exploratory study drew on interpretive descriptive methodology. Working-age adults (n=8) diagnosed with PPPD were recruited from a single New Zealand community-based specialist clinic.

Development of a toolkit to enhance care processes for people with a long-term neurological condition: a qualitative descriptive study.

Objective: To (A) explore perspectives of people with a long-term neurological condition, and of their family, clinicians and other stakeholders on three key processes: two-way communication, self-management and coordination of long-term care; and (B) use these data to develop a 'Living Well Toolkit', a structural support aiming to enhance the quality of these care processes.

Design: This qualitative descriptive study drew on the principles of participatory research. Data from interviews and focus groups with participants (n=25) recruited from five hospital, rehabilitation and community settings in New Zealand were analysed using conventional content analysis.