461 research outputs found
A daily dose of creativity
No full textExercise, diet… and art? Epidemiologist Daisy Fancourt reveals the powerful but overlooked health benefits of creative expression
How does the process of group singing impact on people affected by cancer?: A grounded theory study
No full textObjective: this study aimed to build an understanding of how the process of singing impacts upon those who are affected by cancer, including patients, staff, carers and those who have been bereaved. Design: aqualitative study, informed by a Grounded Theory approach.Setting and participants: Cancer patients, staff, carers and bereaved who had participated for a minimum of 6 weeks in one of two choirs for people affected by cancer.Methods: 31 participants took part in Focus Group Interviews lasting between 45 minutes and an hour, and 1 participant had a face to face interview. Findings: Four overarching themes emerged from the iterative analysis procedure. The overarching themes were: building resilience, social support, psychological dimensions, and process issues. Following further analyses, a theoretical model was created to depict how building resilience underpins the findings. Conclusion: group singing may be a suitable intervention for building resilience in those affected by cancer via an interaction between the experience and impact of the choir.Strengths and limitations of this study• This is the first grounded theory study to have been conducted to explore the impact of group singing for those affected by with cancer.• 32 participants took part spanning patients, staff, carers and bereaved, and saturation was reached.• This study was concerned with people affected by any type of cancer, but it remains for future studies to establish whether singing had a specific bespoke impact for people with different types of cancer.• This study used focus group and one-to-one interviews to provide in-depth data to understand shared perspectives and individual experiences, but as no participant observations were undertaken, the behaviours of participants during the singing sessions themselves remain unstudied.<br/
Reimagining the journey to recovery: The COVID-19 pandemic and global mental health.
No full textIn this editorial, guest editors Vikram Patel, Daisy Fancourt, Lola Kola, and Toshi Furukawa discuss the contents of the special issue on the pandemic and global mental health, highlighting key themes and providing important context
sj-docx-1-rsh-10.1177_17579139221104973 – Supplemental material for Mental health and wellbeing among people with informal caring responsibilities across different time points during the COVID-19 pandemic: a population-based propensity score matching analysis
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-rsh-10.1177_17579139221104973 for Mental health and wellbeing among people with informal caring responsibilities across different time points during the COVID-19 pandemic: a population-based propensity score matching analysis by Hei Wan Mak, Feifei Bu and Daisy Fancourt in Perspectives in Public Health</p
sj-pdf-1-jrs-10.1177_01410768221095241 - Supplemental material for Racial discrimination, low trust in the health system and COVID-19 vaccine uptake: a longitudinal observational study of 633 UK adults from ethnic minority groups
No full textSupplemental material, sj-pdf-1-jrs-10.1177_01410768221095241 for Racial discrimination, low trust in the health system and COVID-19 vaccine uptake: a longitudinal observational study of 633 UK adults from ethnic minority groups by Elise Paul, Daisy Fancourt and Mohammad Razai in Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine</p
Are happier people more compliant? Evidence from lockdowns
No full textWhat makes people more likely to comply with a lockdown? Christian Krekel (LSE), Sarah Swanke (LSE), Jan-Emmanual De Neve (Oxford University) and Daisy Fancourt (UCL) drew on large-scale surveys and found that happiness predicts compliance, over and beyond a wide range of people’s other observable characteristics. Older and less healthy people seem to be predominantly motivated by risk-avoidance, whereas the motivations of younger ones seem more mixed. People are less likely to follow the rules if they were unhappy
Supplemental Material - Personality traits and loneliness among older people in the United Kingdom: Cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis from English Longitudinal Study of Ageing cohort
No full textSupplemental Material for Personality traits and loneliness among older people in the United Kingdom: Cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis from English Longitudinal Study of Ageing cohort by Thamara Tapia-Munoz, Olesya Ajnakina, Daisy Fancourt, and Andrew Steptoe in European Journal of Personality.</p
Reimagining the journey to recovery: The COVID-19 pandemic and global mental health
No full textIn this editorial, guest editors Vikram Patel, Daisy Fancourt, Lola Kola, and Toshi Furukawa discuss the contents of the special issue on the pandemic and global mental health, highlighting key themes and providing important context
A randomized controlled trial of listening to recorded music for heart failure patients. Study protocol
No full textAims. To describe a conceptual framework and to test the effectiveness of a recorded music-listening protocol on symptom burden and quality of life in heart failure (HF) patients. Background. Heart failure is an important public health problem. Many HF patients experience symptoms burden and poor quality of life, even with current improvements in pharmacological treatments. Recorded music listening has been shown to improve outcomes in cardiovascular patients, but it has never been tested on HF patients and with a specific music protocol and a randomized controlled trial methodology. Methods. This study is a multicenter blinded randomized controlled trial that will involve 150 patients. Eligible patients will have a diagnosis of HF, in New York Heart Association functional classification of I to III, and will be recruited from 3 large hospitals in Northern Italy. Patients will be randomly allocated in a 1:1 ratio to receive recorded music-listening intervention with or without standard care for 3 months. Data will be collected at baseline and at the end of the first, second, and third month during the intervention, and at 6 months for follow-up. The following variables will be collected from HF patients with validated protocols: quality of life (primary endpoint), use of emergency services, rehospitalization rates, all cause mortality, self-care, somatic symptoms, quality of sleep, anxiety and depression symptoms, and cognitive function. Discussion. This study will examine the effect of recorded music listening on HF patients and will inform clinical practice. If the findings are found to be positive, the protocol could be used as a tool for evidence-based applications of recorded music in HF patients. The framework developed in this study may be helpful for future research focused on the effects of music in HF patients
Choral Singing in Australian Indigenous Christian Contexts and its Implications for Intergenerational Wellbeing
No full textThis chapter explores the relationship between Christian choral singing, Australian Aboriginal identities, age and wellbeing, drawing on an ethnomusicological applied, practice research project undertaken in collaboration with the Lutheran Australian Aboriginal community of Hopevale, Northern Queensland in 2004-2005. The ethnomusicological field data are complemented by theory and research published in different disciplines showing how singing can positively influence wellbeing cross-culturally. It will also show how age, as a variable, impacts the efficacy of choral singing in promoting wellbeing in an Australian Indigenous Christian context
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