BACKGROUND Childhood neglect and abuse, as measured by retrospective interview, is highly predictive of psychiatric disorder in adult life and has an important role in aetiological models. However, such measures are labour-intensive, costly, and thus restricted to relatively modest sample sizes. A compact self-report assessment of childhood experience is invaluable for research screening purpos...

PURPOSE AND DESIGN Most of the 5.4 million Americans with dementia are cared for by family members who experience care needs and time constraints. This quasi-experimental study examined the experience of using a psychosocial assessment instrument to understand caregiver needs delivered in an interview versus a self-administered web-based format. METHODS Ten family caregivers were randomized t...

Methods Five pharmacies providing alcohol SBI services in three areas were purposively selected and data collected on service delivery and quality, via three methods: 1) Trained market researchers (MRs) covertly completed a structured checklist for each pharmacy on environment and service promotion, and requested a hangover treatment, recording experiences and outcomes of services offered. 2) M...

Objective: Digital mental wellbeing interventions are increasingly being used by the general public as well as within clinical treatment. Among these, mindfulness and meditation programs delivered through mobile device applications are gaining popularity. However, little is known about how people use and experience such applications and what are the enabling factors and barriers to effective us...

AIMS This article reflects the author's experience of qualitative interviews during his research project. It attempts to highlight how recording interviews can affect data collection and data quality. BACKGROUND While recording helps researchers keep accurate records of interviews, which in turn assists them during their data analysis, its effect on data quality has not been clarified in nurs...

BACKGROUND Sleep disturbances are commonly reported in the psychosis prodrome, but rarely explored in relation to psychotic experiences. AIMS To investigate the relationship between specific parasomnias (nightmares, night terrors and sleepwalking) in childhood and later adolescent psychotic experiences. METHOD The sample comprised 4720 individuals from a UK birth cohort. Mothers reported on...

OBJECTIVES Previous research exploring the patient experience of awake craniotomy (AC) has yielded contrasting accounts. The current study aimed to explore the lived experience of having undergone an AC in the United Kingdom. DESIGN This was a qualitative, semi-structured interview study. Interviews were audio-recorded and transcribed verbatim. Data were analysed using interpretative phenomen...

In complex conversation tasks, people react to their interlocutor’s state, such as uncertainty and engagement to improve conversation effectiveness [2]. If a conversational system reacts to a user’s state, would that lead to a better conversation experience? To test this hypothesis, we designed and implemented a dialog system that tracks and reacts to a user’s state, such as engagement, in real...

The dentist who treats children needs to be proficient at observing and analyzing child behavior. Skill in observation and analysis of child behavior is enhanced by experience, the ability to assess the nonverbal aspects of communication, a knowledge of children's fears and anxieties toward the dental situation, and by the social-cultural and personal aspects of child behavior. The dentist who ...