Fractured Identity in the Context of Intimate Partner Violence: Barriers to and Opportunities for Seeking Help in Health Settings.

Intimate partner violence has profound effects on women's identities. However, detailed examination of how abuse affects identity is lacking. We interviewed 14 diverse women (Australia), applying social identity theory to analyze their experiences of identity and help-seeking in health settings.

SEQUenCE: a service user-centred quality of care instrument for mental health services.

Objective: To develop a quality of care instrument that is grounded in the service user perspective and validate it in a mental health service.

Design: The instrument (SEQUenCE (SErvice user QUality of CarE)) was developed through analysis of focus group data and clinical practice guidelines, and refined through field-testing and psychometric analyses.

Setting: All participants were attending an independent mental health service in Ireland.

Measuring life quality, physical function and psychological well-being in neurological illness.

There is little in the literature comparing experiences of patients with disabling and uniformly terminal illness (e.g. amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) and illness characterized by episodic disability and prognostic uncertainty (e.