Do People Have Insight Into Their Abilities? A Metasynthesis.

A metasynthesis of risk perception in women with high risk pregnancies.

INTRODUCTION risk perception in women with high risk pregnancies affects their decisions about perinatal care and is of interest to anyone involved in the care of pregnant women. This paper provides a metasynthesis of qualitative studies of risk perception in women with high risk pregnancies. METHODS a systematic search of eight electronic databases was conducted. Additional papers were obtai...

Peer Support Workers in Health: A Qualitative Metasynthesis of Their Experiences

OBJECTIVE Peer support models, where an individual has a specific illness or lifestyle experience and supports others experiencing similar challenges, have frequently been used in different fields of healthcare to successfully engage hard-to-reach groups. Despite recognition of their value, the impact of these roles on the peer has not been systematically assessed. By synthesising the qualitati...

Engagement in activities and occupations by people who have experienced psychosis: a metasynthesis of lived experience

Using Ineffective Coping Strategies for Facing With COVID-19

   Dear Editor, Methods that people use to overcome problems are called coping strategies. The concept of coping was first introduced by Lazarus in 1966. He believed that stress involves three stages. First, there is the initial assessment, which is to observe a risk. The second stage involves the evaluation, which is the search for an answer in the mind, and the third stage is to f...

Robust associations between the 20-item prosopagnosia index and the Cambridge Face Memory Test in the general population

Developmental prosopagnosia (DP) is a neurodevelopmental condition, characterized by lifelong face recognition deficits. Leading research groups diagnose the condition using complementary computer-based tasks and self-report measures. In an attempt to standardize the reporting of self-report evidence, we recently developed the 20-item prosopagnosia index (PI20), a short questionnaire measure of...