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Pandora's Box (2019)
No full textPublishing information and table of contents for issue 17 (2019)Founded 2003, Pandora’s Box is an annual literary periodical publishing a selection of the year’s best creative writing by students and staff at the University of Chester.N/
Pandora's Box (2024)
No full textPublishing information and table of contents for issue 22 (2024)Founded 2003, Pandora’s Box is an annual literary periodical publishing a selection of the year’s best creative writing by students and staff at the University of Chester.N/
Novel Psychoactive Substance Use and Psychological Trauma: A Multimethodological Analysis
Get PDF© 2024 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLCBackground: Authors discuss the connections between novel psychoactive substance (NPS) use and psychological trauma. The transition from classical substances to NPS, a paradigm change, poses a challenge for the treatment systems. Objective: Research evidence suggests difficulties in emotion regulation and trauma-related NPS-use. Authors explore some demographic and psychopathological characteristics related to such findings and examine the connections between emotion regulation deficiency and the choice of substance.
Method: This study uses a methodological triangulation of a biologically identified sample to confirm NPS use, a survey method to describe users’ socioeconomic characteristics, and Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI-2) subscales to study dysfunctions in emotion regulation.
Results: Participants (77 patients) were mainly polydrug users. The transgenerational transfer of substance use was a salient feature, but material deprivation was not characteristic of the entire sample. NPS use was not connected to certain psychopathological characteristics the way classical substance use was. More than half of the respondents had elevated scores on MMPI-2 Demoralization (RCd) and Dysfunctional Negative Emotions (RC7) scales. Nearly half of them also scored high on Neuroticism/Negative Emotionality (NEGE).
Conclusions: Results suggest that NPS use in the context of polydrug use is connected to psychological trauma and emotion regulation deficiency, but the MMPI-2 scales to assess emotional dysfunctions are not connected to a particular type of NPS.Unfunde
Exploring the lived experiences and care challenges of formal paid caregivers for people with intellectual disability and dementia
Get PDFThis document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a published work that appeared in final form in [Journal of Intellectual Disabilities]. To access the final edited and published work see https://doi.org/10.1177/17446295241259076A greater number of people with intellectual disability are living into older age and are at increased risk of developing conditions such as dementia. Caring for a person with dementia presents several challenges for formal caregivers due to the progressive nature of the disease. An interpretive phenomenological analysis was used to understand the lived experiences of a purposive sample of formal caregivers in caring for people with intellectual disability and dementia. Discussions from 14 individual interviews generated data were analysed. Four key super-ordinate themes emerged which were: (1) recognising early indicators and diagnosis, (2) post diagnostic support, (3) coping with change and (4) need for future development. Themes reflected the experiences, barriers to dementia diagnosis and provide a valuable insight into the challenges faced by formal caregivers in providing aged care services.Unfunde
The Meeting Place Project: Learning and Guidance for Community Groups
Get PDFThis report has been developed with, and for, staff playing a role in the Feeding Britain West Cheshire Meeting Places pilot, and people with lived experience of attending traditional foodbank distribution sessions and Meeting Places in West Cheshire. It also captures learning to be shared with others seeking to develop community food provision.N/
Lifelong protein restriction induces denervation and increases proteasomal activity in skeletal muscle
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To what extent do principals of further education colleges display similar leadership traits?
No full textPrincipals of further education colleges continue to operate in a policy context driven by reductions in funding, increasing diversity among the student population and escalating centralised control. This has meant that principals are required to rely more on their skills as decision makers and problem solvers than they have every needed in the past. At the same time, external inspection has continued to highlight the importance of leadership in enabling students to achieve the best possible outcomes, yet as Fink (2010) argues the role of the principal is becoming increasingly unattractive. In order to combat a shortage of individuals pursuing principalship positions, organisations are developing their own leadership development programmes; however, little is known about the behaviours that these programmes should be developing. This paper reports the findings of a series of leadership and psychological assessments conducted with principals within the UK. It suggests that despite the organisational and political challenges facing institutions principals demonstrate a largely homogenous set of behaviours which could be used to frame future leadership development programmes.N/
The Silent Observer
No full textThis document is a pdf of the finalised, published version of the article 'The Silent Observer'. It first appeared in the July 2024 issue of the journal Thresholds, which is published by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy©. This pdf may not be adapted and is supplied for non-commercial use only.Cemil Egeli explores ideas around evil eye phenomena and their potential meanings in therapy.N/
Exploring the relationship between condition severity and health-related quality of life in people with haemophilia A across Europe: a multivariable analysis of data from the CHESS II study
Get PDFBackground: Haemophilia A (HA; Factor VIII deficiency) is a congenital X-linked bleeding disorder characterized by trauma-related or spontaneous bleeding events, most notably arising within the intraarticular space and resulting in chronic inflammation and degeneration of affected joints. Endogenous clotting factor activity relative to normal levels determines the severity of HA symptoms, as mild (> 5–40%), moderate (1–5%), or severe (< 1%). Within the current environment of rapid evolution in HA management, we seek to understand the interplay of condition severity and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) to characterise and differentiate unmet needs among people with HA (PwHA). Methods: A generalised linear regression model (GLM) was developed to explore the relationship between HA severity and EQ-5D-5 L index score from adult HA patients sampled in the “Cost of Haemophilia across Europe – a Socioeconomic Survey II” (CHESS II) cross-sectional, retrospective burden of illness study among adults with hereditary haemophilia A or B from eight European countries. HA patients of any severity with no active inhibitors during the 12 months prior to data capture and a completeEQ-5D-5 L response were included. A base GLM model was specified with covariates for demographic and clinical characteristics (age, body mass index, country, employment, HA severity, annual bleeding rate, problem joints, and chronic pain). Results: Of 381 evaluable patients, 221 (58.0%) had severe HA, 96 (25.2%) had moderate HA, and 64 (16.8%) had mild HA. Among the covariates included in the GLM model and after controlling for haemophilia-related outcomes, a significant association was observed between mild HA and higher EQ-5D-5 L index score (average marginal effects, 0.084; p = 0.016) relative to severe HA. Patient country of residence and magnitude of HA-related chronic pain were also associated with significant differences in index scores, with the latter showing a negative relationship with HRQoL outcomes. Conclusions: Condition severity and chronic pain are significant predictors of HRQoL in PwHA. Durable bleeding protection and effective management of chronic pain have the potential to address unmet treatment needs in this population.Unfunde
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