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Patient satisfaction with prescribed medicines in community health services in China: A cross ‐sectional survey 6 years after the implementation of the national essential medicines policy
This study aimed to assess patient satisfaction with prescribed medicines in community health services under the NEMP context in China. A stratified random sampling strategy was adopted to select 1,037 participants in 40 community health centres from four provinces in China. Patient satisfaction was rated on a five‐point Likert scale (from 1 = “very dissatisfied” to 5 = “very satisfied”) covering four domains: availability, affordability, effectiveness and safety. The results showed that the participants expressed a moderate degree of satisfaction, with a rating in the range of 66–82 out of a total of 100. ...
Source: Health and Social Care in the Community - February 26, 2018 Category: Health Management Authors: Jianping Ren, Xianhong Huang, Tao Zhang, Xueyang Zhou, Chaojie Liu, Xiaodi Wang Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research

Mutual support groups for family caregivers of people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in Italy: A pilot study
Abstract Family caregivers of people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) live stressful lives in which they spend most of their time caring for their loved ones and managing difficult situations, thereby reducing the time spent in taking care of themselves. This situation may last several years. Previous literature has widely highlighted that this situation reduces caregivers’ quality of life and increases their psychological distress and risk of health problems, but there is a lack of studies that focus on psychological interventions for these situations. This qualitative study examined a pilot experience of two mu...
Source: Health and Social Care in the Community - February 26, 2018 Category: Health Management Authors: Sabrina Cipolletta, Giorgia Rosamaria Gammino, Patrizia Francescon, Arianna Palmieri Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research

Australian general practitioner attitudes to residential aged care facility visiting
Abstract Demographic trends suggest that the sustainability of the general practitioner (GP) Residential Aged Care Facility (RACF) workforce, worldwide and in Australia, is under threat, compromising the ongoing care of chronically ill RACF residents. It is therefore important to ascertain current GP attitudes towards this work, to better understand and hypothesise means of reversing this trend. To this end, during 2014 the views of 26 GPs and GP Registrars working in rural and regional New South Wales, Australia, were captured during focus group discussions and one‐on‐one interviews. Analysis of the qualitative date r...
Source: Health and Social Care in the Community - February 26, 2018 Category: Health Management Authors: Russell Pearson, Judy Mullan, Eniko Ujvary, Andrew Bonney, Bridget Dijkmans ‐Hadley Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research

The personal and community impact of a Scottish Men's Shed
This study, therefore, aimed to assess the characteristics of attendees, self‐reported motivations for and the values and benefits of attending the Shed from the views of the attendees themselves. The participants of the study were the members of a Men's Shed in the North of Scotland, which was initially set‐up by a small number of core Shedders. A convenience sample was recruited by opportunistic interviewing of participants when they attended the Shed using a mixed methods approach from 1 to 15 November 2016. In the absence of a validated questionnaire, a bespoke questionnaire was developed in several iterative stage...
Source: Health and Social Care in the Community - February 22, 2018 Category: Health Management Authors: Emma J. Foster, Sarah ‐Anne Munoz, Stephen J. Leslie Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research

Caring about dying persons and their families: Interpretation, practice and emotional labour
Abstract The importance of emotional support for dying persons and their families has been well established, yet we know less about how care workers understand emotional processes related to death and dying, or how these understandings are connected to care practices and emotional labour at the end of life. The aim of this study was to explore how healthcare workers interpret and respond to emotional needs of dying persons and their families. Qualitative data were collected between 2013 and 2014 through in‐depth, in‐person interviews with 14 nurses and 12 healthcare aides in one Western Canadian city. Transcripts were ...
Source: Health and Social Care in the Community - February 21, 2018 Category: Health Management Authors: Laura M. Funk, Sheryl Peters, Kerstin Stieber Roger Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research

The personal and community impact of a Scottish Men's Shed
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Source: Health and Social Care in the Community - February 21, 2018 Category: Health Management Source Type: research

Perceptions towards disability among social work students in Israel: Development and validation of a new scale
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Source: Health and Social Care in the Community - February 21, 2018 Category: Health Management Source Type: research

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Source: Health and Social Care in the Community - February 21, 2018 Category: Health Management Source Type: research

Perceptions towards disability among social work students in Israel: Development and validation of a new scale
Abstract Over the last decades, the disability movement has been advocating for a paradigmatic shift in how disability is perceived and managed: from a medical or individual perspective focusing on the person's body and mind to a social perspective emphasizing the context and barriers of disability. However, we still know little about the perceptions of helping professionals, particularly social workers who work closely with disabled people. Thus, the aim of the current study is to develop and validate a scale—Perceptions Toward Disability Scale (PTDS)—to measure how social workers view disability: as an individual or ...
Source: Health and Social Care in the Community - February 21, 2018 Category: Health Management Authors: Roni Holler, Shirli Werner Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research

Caring about dying persons and their families: Interpretation, practice and emotional labour
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Source: Health and Social Care in the Community - February 20, 2018 Category: Health Management Source Type: research

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Source: Health and Social Care in the Community - February 20, 2018 Category: Health Management Source Type: research

‘Everyone has an agenda’: Professionals’ understanding and negotiation of risk within the Guardianship system of Victoria, Australia
This article draws on semi‐structured interviews conducted with 10 professionals involved in the Victorian Guardianship system, which explored how issues of risk are perceived and negotiated in everyday practice. Risk was found to be a complex and subjective construct which can present both dangers and opportunities for Guardianship practitioners and their clients. While a number of participants reported that Guardianship might sometimes operate as an avenue for mitigating the fear and uncertainty of risk, most participants also valued positive risk‐taking and were willing, in their clients’ interests, to challenge c...
Source: Health and Social Care in the Community - February 19, 2018 Category: Health Management Authors: Aaron Wyllie, Bernadette J. Saunders Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research

‘Everyone has an agenda’: Professionals’ understanding and negotiation of risk within the Guardianship system of Victoria, Australia
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Source: Health and Social Care in the Community - February 19, 2018 Category: Health Management Source Type: research