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'It makes me feel that I'm still relevant': a qualitative study of the views of nursing home residents on dignity therapy and taking part in a phase II randomised controlled trial of a palliative care psychotherapySue Hall
King s College London, Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, Cicely Saunders Institute, Bessemer Road, London SE5 9PJ, UK
Palliat Med 27:358-66. 2013..Trials of dignity therapy (a palliative care psychotherapy) have shown self-reported benefits for participants from taking part, although more so in intervention than control groups. However, the sources of these benefits are unknown...- "It makes you feel that somebody is out there caring": a qualitative study of intervention and control participants' perceptions of the benefits of taking part in an evaluation of dignity therapy for people with advanced cancerSue Hall
Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, Cicely Saunders Institute, King s College London, London, United Kingdom Electronic address
J Pain Symptom Manage 45:712-25. 2013..Participants in a Phase II randomized controlled trial of Dignity Therapy felt that the intervention had helped them; however, the processes underlying this are not known... - Feasibility, acceptability and potential effectiveness of Dignity Therapy for older people in care homes: a phase II randomized controlled trial of a brief palliative care psychotherapySue Hall
King s College London, Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, Cicely Saunders Institute, London, UK
Palliat Med 26:703-12. 2012..A pilot study of Dignity Therapy conducted with hospice patients reported high levels of self-reported benefits of the psychotherapy... - Living and dying with dignity: a qualitative study of the views of older people in nursing homesSue Hall
King s College London, Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, London, UK
Age Ageing 38:411-6. 2009..most older people living in nursing homes die there. An empirically based model of dignity has been developed, which forms the basis of a brief psychotherapy to help promote dignity and reduce distress at the end of life... 
A Phase II randomised controlled trial assessing the feasibility, acceptability and potential effectiveness of dignity therapy for older people in care homes: study protocolSue Hall
Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, King s College London, Weston Education Centre, London, UK
BMC Geriatr 9:9. 2009....- Do perceptions of vulnerability and worry mediate the effects of a smoking cessation intervention for women attending for a routine cervical smear test? An experimental studySue Hall
Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, King s College London, London, UK
Health Psychol 28:258-63. 2009..causal relationships involved: Are the effects of a brief smoking cessation intervention (for women attending for cervical smear tests) on intention to stop smoking mediated by perceived vulnerability or worry about cervical cancer?.. - Assessing quality-of-life in older people in care homesSue Hall
King s College London, Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, London, UK
Age Ageing 40:507-12. 2011..many measures of quality-of-life (QoL) may not be suitable for older people in care homes, and do not cover the most relevant domains for individuals... - Implementing a quality improvement programme in palliative care in care homes: a qualitative studySue Hall
Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, Cicely Saunders Institute, King s College London, Bessemer Road, Denmark Hill, London, UK
BMC Geriatr 11:31. 2011..The aim of this study is to explore the perceived benefits of, and barriers to, implementation of the Gold Standards Framework for Care Homes (GSFCH), a quality improvement programme in palliative care... - Assessing the feasibility, acceptability and potential effectiveness of Dignity Therapy for people with advanced cancer referred to a hospital-based palliative care team: Study protocolSue Hall
Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, King s College London, Weston Education Centre, Cutcombe Road, London SE5 9RJ, UK
BMC Palliat Care 8:5. 2009..TRIAL REGISTRATION: Current Controlled Clinical Trials: ISRCTN29868352... 
Attitudes towards sex selection for non-medical reasons: a reviewSue Hall
King s College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Department of Psychology at Guy s, Health Psychology Section, UK
Prenat Diagn 26:619-26. 2006....- Challenges to conducting research with older people living in nursing homesSue Hall
King s College London, Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, Weston Education Centre, Cutcombe Road, London SE5 9RJ, UK
BMC Geriatr 9:38. 2009..The aim of this paper is to discuss some of these, along with residents' views on taking part in a study of the perceptions of dignity of older people in care homes and make recommendations for future research in these settings... - Does changing the order of threat and efficacy information influence the persuasiveness of threat messages?Sue Hall
Health Psychology Section, Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, UK
Br J Health Psychol 11:333-43. 2006..The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of changing the conventional threat-before-efficacy order of threat messages on the persuasiveness of a leaflet informing women smokers of the link between smoking and cervical cancer... - Health professionals' reports of information given to parents following the prenatal diagnosis of sex chromosome anomalies and outcomes of pregnancies: a pilot studySue Hall
Psychology and Genetics Research Group, Guy s, King s College and St Thomas Hospitals Medical and Dental School, 5th Floor, Thomas Guy House, Guy s Campus, London SE1 9RT, UK
Prenat Diagn 23:535-8. 2003..To examine the association between the information health professionals report providing parents about sex chromosome anomalies (SCAs) and the outcomes of affected pregnancies... - Increasing readiness to stop smoking in women undergoing cervical screening: evaluation of two leafletsSue Hall
Psychology and Genetics Research Group, Guy s, King s and St Thomas School of Medicine, London, UK
Nicotine Tob Res 5:821-6. 2003..The impact on smoking cessation of combining such information with advice from health professionals conducting cervical screening needs to be evaluated... - General practitioners' beliefs about effectiveness and intentions to recommend smoking cessation services: qualitative and quantitative studiesFlorian Vogt
Health Psychology Section, Department of Psychology at Guy s, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, London, UK
BMC Fam Pract 8:39. 2007..General practitioners' (GPs) negative beliefs about smoking cessation services may act as barriers to them recommending such services to smokers motivated to stop smoking... - Understanding why smokers do not want to use nicotine dependence medications to stop smoking: qualitative and quantitative studiesFlorian Vogt
Health Psychology Section, Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, London, UK
Nicotine Tob Res 10:1405-13. 2008..Interventions aimed at increasing the likelihood with which smokers use nicotine dependence medications may be more successful if they address these expectations... - The PRISMA Symposium 1: outcome tool use. Disharmony in European outcomes research for palliative and advanced disease care: too many tools in practiceRichard Harding
Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation and The Cicely Saunders Institute of Palliative Care, King s College London, London, UK
J Pain Symptom Manage 42:493-500. 2011..The measurement of outcomes in advanced disease is complex, and to conduct comparative research and meta-analyses, appropriate tool selection is essential... - Increasing women's intentions to stop smoking following an abnormal cervical smear test resultAmanda J Bishop
Health Psychology Section (at Guy's, Psychology Department, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London, 5th Floor, Thomas Guy House, Guy's Campus, London, SE1 9RT, UK
Prev Med 41:179-85. 2005..Further studies are needed to determine how self-efficacy can be increased and whether, in addition to the detailed leaflet, this increases rates of smoking cessation... - The PRISMA Symposium 4: how should Europe progress end-of-life and palliative clinical care research? Recommendations from the proceedingsBarbara A Daveson
King s College London, London, UK
J Pain Symptom Manage 42:511-6. 2011..An agreed set of outcome measures for end-of-life and palliative care that builds on previous pan-European projects is fundamental to a cross-national program of development in order to advance research and innovation within Europe... - General practitioners' beliefs about effectiveness and intentions to prescribe smoking cessation medications: qualitative and quantitative studiesFlorian Vogt
Health Psychology Section, Department of Psychology at Guy s, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, London, UK
BMC Public Health 6:277. 2006..General practitioners' (GPs) negative beliefs about nicotine dependence medications may act as barriers to prescribing them... - Examining why smokers do not want behavioral support with stopping smokingFlorian Vogt
Department of Psychology, Health Psychology Section, King s College London, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
Patient Educ Couns 79:160-6. 2010..This article delineates theory-based determinants of the low use of behavioral stop-smoking support with a view to inform interventions to address the low use... - Bereaved relatives' views about participating in cancer researchJonathan Koffman
King s College London, Cicely Saunders Institute, Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, London, UK
Palliat Med 26:379-83. 2012..Bereaved relatives are considered to be a vulnerable group and there is debate as to whether it is ethical to engage them in research at a time that can be difficult for them... - To be involved or not to be involved: A survey of public preferences for self-involvement in decision-making involving mental capacity (competency) within EuropeBarbara A Daveson
King s College London Cicely Saunders Institute Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, London, UK
Palliat Med 27:418-27. 2013..Financial hardship, educational attainment, age, and preferences regarding quality and quantity of life require further examination; these factors should be considered in relation to policy... - Showing smokers with vascular disease images of their arteries to motivate cessation: a pilot studyLion Shahab
Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, UK
Br J Health Psychol 12:275-83. 2007..To examine the potential impact of visual personalized biomarker feedback on intention to stop smoking and to evaluate possible underlying causal pathways... - The motivating impact of informing women smokers of a link between smoking and cervical cancer: the role of coherenceSue Hall
Department of Psychology, Health Psychology Section, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
Health Psychol 23:419-24. 2004..Leventhal et al.'s (1997) self-regulatory model, which suggests that motivation to change behavior depends not only on perceiving a threat but also on having a coherent model linking the behavior with the threat... - Evaluating three theory-based interventions to increase physicians' recommendations of smoking cessation servicesFlorian Vogt
Health Psychology Section, Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, London, UK
Health Psychol 28:174-82. 2009..To evaluate three theory-based interventions aimed at increasing the rate at which primary care physicians recommend smoking cessation services to smokers... - General practitioners' and family physicians' negative beliefs and attitudes towards discussing smoking cessation with patients: a systematic reviewFlorian Vogt
Institute of Psychiatry, Department of Psychology at Guy's, Health Psychology Section, King's College London, London, UK
Addiction 100:1423-31. 2005..These include beliefs and values that influence primary care physicians' judgements about whether discussing smoking is an effective use of their time... - Variations in the quality and costs of end-of-life care, preferences and palliative outcomes for cancer patients by place of death: the QUALYCARE studyBarbara Gomes
Department of Palliative Care, King s College London, Cicely Saunders Institute, Bessemer Road, London SE5 9PJ, UK
BMC Cancer 10:400. 2010..The QUALYCARE study aims to examine variations in the quality and costs of end-of-life care, preferences and palliative outcomes associated with dying at home or in an institution for cancer patients... - Psychological impact of the detection of soft markers on routine ultrasound scanning: a pilot study investigating the modifying role of informationMelanie S Watson
Psychology and Genetics Research Group, Kings College London, 5th Floor, Thomas Guy House, Guy's Campus, London, SE1 9RT, UK
Prenat Diagn 22:569-75. 2002.... - A short report: survey of practice nurses' attitudes towards giving smoking cessation adviceSue Hall
King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Department of Psychology, Health Psychology Section
Fam Pract 22:614-6. 2005..CONCLUSION: Training all practice nurses in smoking cessation, and offering nurses who smoke effective smoking cessation services, is likely to help achieve Government targets for smoking cessation... - Practice nurses' self-reported opportunistic smoking cessation advice in three contextsSue Hall
Health Psychology Section, Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, UK
Nicotine Tob Res 9:941-5. 2007..This study provides guidance on the potential barriers that need to be overcome to increase the frequency with which nurses give smoking cessation advice in the context of cervical screening... - Outcomes of pregnancies diagnosed with Klinefelter syndrome: the possible influence of health professionalsTheresa M Marteau
Psychology and Genetics Research Group, Guy s, King s and St Thomas Schools of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, 5th Floor, Thomas Guy House, Guy s Campus, London, SE1 9RT, UK
Prenat Diagn 22:562-6. 2002..To describe the association between the outcomes of pregnancies diagnosed with Klinefelter syndrome (KS) and the specialty of the health professional providing pre- and post-diagnostic counselling... - What underlies the perception that a medical intervention is effective? An exploratory study among smokersFlorian Vogt
Department of Psychology, King s College London, London, UK
Nicotine Tob Res 12:508-15. 2010..The perceived ineffectiveness of medical interventions is a key predictor of their underuse. This study explores the nature of this perception with regards to a range of medical interventions... - Dignity therapy for older people in care homes: a qualitative study of the views of residents and recipients of 'generativity' documentsCassie Goddard
Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, Cicely Saunders Institute, King s College London, UK
J Adv Nurs 69:122-32. 2013..To report the findings of a study exploring the views and experiences of care home resident's family on Dignity Therapy... - Undergoing prenatal screening for Down's syndrome: presentation of choice and information in Europe and AsiaSue Hall
King s College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Department of Psychology at Guy s, Health Psychology Section, London, UK
Eur J Hum Genet 15:563-9. 2007..This variation may reflect cultural differences in attitudes to informed choice or a failure to facilitate informed choice in practice. More detailed studies are needed to explore this further... - Heterogeneity and changes in preferences for dying at home: a systematic reviewBarbara Gomes
King s College London, Cicely Saunders Institute, Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, Bessemer Road, London, SE5 9PJ, UK
BMC Palliat Care 12:7. 2013..We examined the heterogeneity in preferences for home death and explored, for the first time, changes of preference with illness progression... - The use of two common palliative outcome measures in clinical care and research: a systematic review of POS and STASC Bausewein
King s College London, Cicely Saunders Institute, Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, London, UK
Palliat Med 25:304-13. 2011..Overall, they seem to be well accepted tools for outcome measurement in palliative care, both in clinical care and research... - Interventions for improving palliative care for older people living in nursing care homesSue Hall
Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, Cicely Saunders Institute, King s College London, Bessemer Road, Denmark Hill, London, UK, SE5 9PJ
Cochrane Database Syst Rev 3:CD007132. 2011..Residents of nursing care homes for older people are highly likely to die there, making these places where palliative care is needed... - Decreased TNF-alpha synthesis by macrophages restricts cutaneous immunosurveillance by memory CD4+ T cells during agingElaine Agius
Department of Immunology, Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London, London, W1T 4JF, England, UK
J Exp Med 206:1929-40. 2009..This may be a predisposing factor for the development of malignancy and infection in the skin during aging...