Challenges and opportunities in perinatal public health: the utility of perinatal health inequality dashboards in addressing disparities in maternal and neonatal outcomes.

Introduction: In clinical settings, digital dashboards display medical data, with the aim of identifying trends and signals. In so doing these contribute towards improving service delivery and care within hospitals. It is not clear whether the utility of perinatal health equity dashboards could be used to identify health inequality trends that could potentially impact on health service delivery, care and public health interventions.

This is Me: Evaluation of a boardgame to promote social engagement, wellbeing and agency in people with dementia through mindful life-storytelling.

Receiving a dementia diagnosis is a difficult experience for most people and often affects their wellbeing negatively. To support people's wellbeing, in a therapeutic context, life-storytelling, reminiscence and mindfulness are used with people with dementia. In an everyday context, traditional games are used as a resource for stimulating memory, cognition and social activity.

Assessing the generalisability of a multicentre qualitative dementia research: the experience and challenges faced by the MinD project in Europe.

: Generalisation of findings is an important aspect of research and essential for evidence-based practice. While generalisation is common in quantitative research, there is a lack of generalisability in qualitative research. This paper presents the experience and challenges faced by the Designing for People with Dementia (MinD) project in meeting the requirements to strengthen the generalisation of findings on the lived experience of people living with dementia and their engagement to co-create designs to empower their everyday living.

Presentation of breast cancer, help seeking behaviour and experience of patients in their cancer journey in Singapore: a qualitative study.

Background: Little is known about the presentation, help seeking behaviour for breast cancer in Singapore. Nor was there a study exploring the experience of patients in their breast cancer journey.

Methods: A qualitative interview study with thematic analysis, conducted with 36 patients.

Awareness, Facilitators, and Barriers to Policy Implementation Related to Obesity Prevention for Primary School Children in Malaysia.

Purpose: To assess the awareness, facilitators, and barriers to policy implementation related to obesity prevention for primary school children.

Design: A cross-sectional study administered using an online questionnaire.

Setting: Conducted in 447 primary schools in a state in Malaysia.

Breast cancer presentation delays among Arab and national women in the UAE: a qualitative study.

Breast cancer (BC) is a disease that has improved prospects for survival if detected and treated early. Delayed help-seeking behavior, with poor survival as a consequence, is an important public health issue in the Middle East. More than 75% of breast cancer patients in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) seek medical advice after experiencing a sign or symptom of the disease and many seek such advice late.

Barriers to early presentation of self-discovered breast cancer in Singapore and Malaysia: a qualitative multicentre study.

Objective: To explore and compare barriers to early presentation of self-discovered breast cancer in Singapore and Malaysia.

Design: A qualitative interview study with thematic analysis of transcripts.

Participants: 67 patients with self-discovered breast symptoms were included in the analysis.

Breast screening and health issues among rural females in Malaysia: how much do they know and practice?

Objective: This study investigated rural women's knowledge of breast cancer and screening methods by ethnicity and examined the predictors of breast screening methods.

Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted in 2011 in five rural districts of Perak; 959 women were interviewed using a semi-structured questionnaire. ANOVA and regression analysis were used in data analysis.

Breast cancer in South East Asia: comparison of presentation and outcome between a middle income and a high income country.

Background: There are large differences in socio-economic growth within the region of South East Asia, leading to sharp contrasts in health-systems development between countries. This study compares breast cancer presentation and outcome between patients from a high income country (Singapore) and a middle income country (Malaysia) in South East Asia.

Methods: Within the Singapore Malaysia Breast Cancer Registry we identified all consecutive patients diagnosed with breast cancer between 1993 and 2007 at the National University Hospital in Singapore (high income country, n=2,141) and the University of Malaya Medical Center in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (middle income country, n=3,320).

Do people really know what makes a family history of cancer?

Background: Family history is often referred to as a family tree in casual everyday conservations, but it carries a different connotation in medicine. This study is the first to investigate people's understanding of 'family medical history' and the concept of 'family' in the context of inherited cancer.

Methods: Three hundred and nine staff at the Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Leeds completed an online web survey.

The UK-SEA-ME Psychosocial-Cultural Cancer Research Network: setting the stage for applied qualitative research on cancer health behaviour in southeast Asia and the Middle East.

Psychosocial and cultural factors influencing cancer health behaviour have not been systematically investigated outside the western culture, and qualitative research is the best approach for this type of social research. The research methods employed to study health problems in Asia predominantly are quantitative techniques. The set up of the first psychosocial cancer research network in Asia marks the beginning of a collaboration to promote and spearhead applied qualitative healthcare research in cancer in the UK, Southeast Asia and the Middle East.

Culture, attitude and knowledge about breast cancer and preventive measures: a qualitative study of South Asian breast cancer patients in the UK.

Background: Little is known about the influence of culture and beliefs about breast cancer, and its implications on preventive health behaviour among South Asian people in the UK.

Methods: Using a qualitative approach, 24 South Asian breast cancer patients and their significant others were interviewed.

Results: Most patients were unfamiliar with the subject of cancer; they expressed lack of knowledge of cancer as a disease and its symptoms.

Late presentation and management of South Asian breast cancer patients in West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

Background: The objective of this study was to bridge the knowledge gap and improve our understanding of the late presentation and management of breast cancer among South Asian women of non-oriental origin (SA) living in the United Kingdom.

Methods: Retrospective review of the breast cancer waiting list data-base held at Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS trust was undertaken to identify SA women diagnosed with breast cancer from January 2000 to August 2007.

Results: We identified 41 (2.

Factors influencing late presentation for breast cancer in the middle East: a systematic review.

Background: Breast cancer is the most common female type of cancer in the Middle East. A review of the evidence about the reasons people did not seek medical care has not been conducted for this region.

Methods: A systematic review was undertaken to identify the explanatory factors and assess the strength of the evidence leading to late or delayed presentation for breast cancer in the Middle East.

Empirical comparisons of patient delay and help seeking models for breast cancer: fitness of models for use and generalisation.

Background: Health behaviour models are continuously being developed to investigate patient delay and help seeking behaviour for breast cancer. Their fitness for generalisation to another setting has not been examined and little is known of their appropriateness for use.

Methods: The models' building blocks (theories, concepts, constructs and variables) and settings were systematically examined and compared.

Factors influencing consultation to discuss family history of cancer by asymptomatic patients in primary care.

Patient self-initiated consultations to discuss family history of cancer in primary care and the factors leading to these consultations have not been investigated. Seventy-one out of 150 asymptomatic patients with a family history of cancer at the Yorkshire Cancer Genetics Service participated in this study. A semi-structured questionnaire was administered.

Preferences of older patients and choice of treatment location in the UK: a binary choice experiment.

Current National Health Service (NHS) policy places importance on allowing patients to choose the time and location of their treatment. However, existing evidence suggests that older people have distinct needs and preferences from those of the general population. This study aimed to elicit preferences over cataract surgery from older people using a stated preference experiment.

Factors influencing the referrals in primary care of asymptomatic patients with a family history of cancer.

Purpose: To describe the events and the reasoning that led UK general practitioners to make a direct referral to a genetics clinic for a family history of cancer.

Methods: Asymptomatic patients with a family history of cancer and general practitioners who had referred them to a genetics clinic were eligible to participate. Semi-structured interviews incorporating a self-completed questionnaire were conducted with the general practitioners.