scholarly journals Anal heterosex among young people and implications for health promotion: a qualitative study in the UK

BMJ Open ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (8) ◽  
pp. e004996-e004996 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Marston ◽  
R. Lewis
2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzanne Parsons ◽  
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Wendy Thomson ◽  
Katharine Cresswell ◽  
Bella Starling ◽  
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Author(s):  
Charlotte McPherson

AbstractIn the UK and Scotland, considerable resources have been devoted to tackling the persistent issue of young people who are, or are at risk of becoming, not in education, employment or training (NEET), a pathologized status that incurs significant penalties for young people and the economy. Using critical discourse analysis, this paper analyses and evaluates policy rhetoric to explore how the NEET ‘problem’, agenda and population are constituted by the UK and Scottish governments. In doing so, numerous unifying and problematic NEET policy tropes are identified, challenging the popular notion of significant policy divergence between the punitive reputation of Westminster and the image of Scottish governance as more socially democratic. Moreover, this paper differs from traditional policy analysis by also evaluating policy from the perspective of young people, drawing on empirical data from a qualitative study of the school-to-work transitions of NEET and marginally employed young people in Scotland.


2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica Holm Larsen ◽  
Bjørg Christiansen ◽  
Lisbeth Gravdal Kvarme

Challenges school nurses have to promote students’ mental healthThe school is an important arena for promoting students' mental health. Prevalence of mental health problems among young people is of concern, and focusing on prevention efforts in schools has been considered to be important. The purpose of this qualitative study was to gain further insight into how collaboration between school nurses and teachers can promote students' mental health. This article is based on four interviews with school nurses from secondary and high school. The school nurses highlighted the importance of establishing themselves as visible partners for teachers, while at the same time providing low threshold for services to students. Factors like lack of time and the location of the school nurse’s office, created tension and influenced their work. Much of the work concerning students' mental health was experienced as "fire fighting", while they instead wanted to emphasize health promotion and primary prevention efforts on class and group levels.


BMJ Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. e038799
Author(s):  
Urska Kosir ◽  
Lucy Bowes ◽  
Rachel M Taylor ◽  
Craig Gerrand ◽  
Rachael Windsor ◽  
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ObjectivesThis study explored factors that play a role in psychological adaptation and recovery of young people with sarcoma.DesignQualitative study.SettingNational Health Service hospitals in the UK.MethodsUsing purposive sampling, participants were recruited for semistructured interviews over the telephone or face to face in order to answer questions about how cancer impacted various domains of their life. Data were analysed using a framework approach.ResultsThirty participants, aged 15–39 years with primary sarcoma diagnosis provided in-depth accounts of their experience. Emerging themes from the interviews were grouped into two overarching themes that relate to one’s adaptation to illness: individual level and environmental level. The qualitative nature of our study sheds light on meaningful connections between various factors and their role in one’s psychological adaptation to sarcoma. We devised a visual matrix to illustrate how risk and protective factors in adaptation vary between and within individuals.ConclusionsThis study demonstrates that young people with sarcoma report an array of both positive and negative factors related to their illness experience. The route to recovery is a multifactorial process and a one-size-fits-all approach to psychosocial care proves inadequate. We propose that moving beyond the latent constructs of resilience and psychopathology towards a dynamic model of psychological adaptation and recovery in this population can result in optimisation of care. We offer some recommendations for professionals working with young people with sarcoma in clinic and research.


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