Publications by authors named "Anurajee Rasalingam"
Article Synopsis
- The study explores how social inequalities in health, health literacy, and quality of life are researched together, as their joint impact on public health indicators is still unclear.
- A scoping review was conducted across ten databases, resulting in 73 eligible studies from an initial pool of 4,111 citations, primarily quantitative in nature and focused on community patient populations.
- The findings revealed a lack of clear definitions and assessments for the intersection of these three factors in the literature, highlighting that research on this topic varies widely in design, population, context, and geographical focus.
Aim: To gain a deeper understanding of the experiences of participation in the everyday life of emerging adults living with long-term health challenges and how this influences their own quality of life.
Methods: Using an explorative study design, data were collected through in-depth interviews with a sample of 12 young people aged 18-29 years living with long-term health challenges in Norway.
Findings: The analysis identified one overarching theme of struggling to participate in everyday life, and four subthemes: the notion of being independent but also dependent, experiencing mismatch between needs and support, experiencing deprivation of spontaneity and feeling uncertain about the future.
Background: Young adulthood is an important transitional life phase that can determine a person's educational and employment trajectories. The aim of this study was to examine the impact of somatic long-term health challenges in adolescence on upper secondary school completion, not in education, employment or training (NEET status) and receiving disability pension in early adulthood. Additional disparities in educational and employment achievements were also investigated in relation to socioeconomic background.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Inspired by the James Lind Alliance (JLA) user involvement approach, the aim of the present study was to identify the top 10 uncertainties for sleep research raised by students in higher education, and to discuss our experiences with adapting the JLA method to a student population.
Design: The study design is a pragmatic JLA approach, including a priority setting partnership within the field of sleep, collection of sleep-related research uncertainties as reported by students in higher education, sorting of the uncertainties and a final identification of the top 10 uncertainties through collaborative work between researchers, students, stakeholders and experts in the field. Uncertainties were collected using a one-question online survey: 'as a student, which question(s) do you consider to be important with regards to sleep?'.
Aims: The aim of this study was to describe the experiences of the transition to adulthood for young people with long-term health challenges.
Design: The metasynthesis approach was based on the guidelines by Sandelowski and Barroso for synthesizing qualitative research.
Data Sources: Seven electronic databases: CINAHL, Medline, Embase, PsycINFO, Web of Science, Scopus, and SocIndex were searched on 6-10 February 2020.