Frances Badger

..One large health region in England was experiencing difficulties in recruiting to clinical research posts which required registered nurse or allied health professional skills...

..This survey explored issues of ethnicity and culture in nursing homes in one English region...

..Consequently effective collaboration between care home and health service practitioners is vital to ensure high quality end-of-life care...

..This evaluation indicates that appropriately funded structured programmes have the potential to assist nursing homes improve the provision of end-of-life care to older adults, in line with government health policy...

..The voluntary sector was rated highly in caring for people with depression. Greater awareness among professionals of self-help organisations was seen as beneficial...

..This paper focuses on attitudes towards and use of self-chosen treatment among people prescribed antidepressants and discusses the implications for practitioners involved in medicines management...

..The focus was specifically on ascertaining their perceptions of what had helped during their treatment, their understanding of the factors to which they attributed their recovery, and their reflections on their experience of depression...

..This article specifically addresses patients' accounts of the influences on medication concordance...

..We wished to establish if the deficits in reporting nursing research identified a decade earlier had been addressed...

..The study of violence and aggression in other specialties has been neglected. This paper reports the findings from a survey of staff perceptions of training and support in an elderly care and head injury unit...

..To elicit pharmacists' perceptions of medication management for people who have been prescribed medication for depression...

..This paper reports findings from a study which investigated the introduction of the Gold Standards Framework for improving end-of-life care into care homes in England...

..To assess feasibility, acceptability and potential efficacy of group exercise and staff education intervention to promote continence in older people residing in care homes. To establish measures and information to inform a larger trial...

..A second aim was to examine the frequency of feedback about motor performance during treatment...

..The managers set specific individual objectives focused on improving end-of-life care and were supported in meeting them through their membership of the set...

..To investigate the incidence of violence and aggression towards staff working in elderly care wards and to consider the factors that influence the risk of experiencing such an incident...