Publications by authors named "Joe Duffy"
Background: Parental mental illness is a major public health issue and there is growing evidence that family focused practice can improve outcomes for parents and their families. However, few reliable and valid instruments measure mental health and social care professionals' family focused practice.
Objectives: To explore the psychometric properties of the Family Focused Mental Health Practice Questionnaire in a population of health and social care professionals.
Article Synopsis
- 'Getting Involved in Research' is a program designed to educate individuals with lived experience in health and social care about research participation.
- The evaluation involved 35 participants, primarily female, with ages ranging from 19 to 73, using a mixed method design to analyze their experiences and perceptions of the program.
- The study identified six key themes reflecting participants’ positive feedback on the training's relevance, its interactive format, and the motivation it provided for future research involvement.
Effecting positive change with bereaved service users in a hospice setting.
Int J Palliat Nurs
March 2009
User involvement is now an internationally established feature of health and social care, service planning and delivery. This paper discusses the background context of user involvement as a prelude to describing the processes pursued in changing communication systems for bereaved service users. This qualitative study aimed to gain a deeper understanding of service user experiences of an adult bereavement group in a hospice setting in Northern Ireland.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGuiding principles are provided and discussed on how to inform the physician scientist and cancer researcher about quality control systems to enable a consistent assessment of the clinical value of tumor-associated biomarkers. Next to cancer research itself, the Receptor and Biomarker Group of the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (RBG-EORTC) advises on methodologies, test kits and test reagents utilized for tumor biomarker determination. Tumor-associated biomarkers are important and clinically useful tools which can aid the early diagnosis of cancer, determine prognosis, predict therapy response, and monitor disease.
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