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Open AccessHealthcare Students’ and Educators’ Views on the Integration of Gender-Based Violence Education into the Curriculum: a Qualitative Inquiry in Three Countries
Health and social care professionals are ideally placed to identify and address gender-based violence (GBV), yet research continues to demonstrate that the subject is being poorly covered at undergraduate leve...
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Open AccessHow do nurses and midwives perceive their role in sexual healthcare?
Nurses and midwives role in sexual healthcare is essential to help patients, particularly women, ensure a satisfactory sexual wellbeing. Yet, these professionals often overlook this aspect of patients’ health....
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Open AccessThe risk of COVID-19 in survivors of domestic violence and abuse
A ‘shadow pandemic’ of domestic violence and abuse (DVA) has emerged secondary to strict public health measures containing the spread of SARS-CoV-2. Many countries have implemented policies to allow the free m...
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Open AccessMiddle-aged Lebanese women’s interpretation of sexual difficulties: a qualitative inquiry
The study explores women’s perception and experience of sexual difficulties. The need to address the subject was triggered by the scarcity of research that reflects on women’s subjective views on sexual diffic...
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Open AccessPost-rape medicolegal service provision and policy in East Africa: a sco** review protocol
Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) is an epidemic that continues to affect both men and women in East Africa. Despite the high prevalence of SGBV in this region, sexual offense policies are often unclear,...
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Reflections and Future Directions
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Image-Based Sexual Abuse: An LGBTQ+ Perspective
Image-Based Sexual Abuse (IBSA), sometimes referred to as revenge pornography or technology-facilitated violence is associated with an array of behaviours where perpetrators utilise digital technologies to inf...
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Open AccessWhat feedback do reviewers give when reviewing qualitative manuscripts? A focused map** review and synthesis
Peer review is at the heart of the scientific process. With the advent of digitisation, journals started to offer electronic articles or publishing online only. A new philosophy regarding the peer review proce...
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Domestic Violence and Abuse and Children: Principles of Practitioner Responses
In the domestic violence and abuse (DVA) literature, it is only relatively recently that the impacts on children have been fully recognised, documented and researched. In this chapter, we explore the key issue...
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Domestic Violence and Abuse: Theoretical Explanation and Perspectives
Domestic violence and abuse (DVA) is a complex issue and it is important to understand how and why this happens. Such understanding can help find strategies to minimise DVA. Over past decades, many explanation...
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Moral Distress in End-of-Life Care
Whilst debate continues regarding how to define moral distress (MD), one constant has been the belief that healthcare professionals often experience MD during end-of-life (EoL) care. In this chapter, we will d...
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Open AccessMoral Distress and Austerity: An Avoidable Ethical Challenge in Healthcare
Austerity, by its very nature, imposes constraints by limiting the options for action available to us because certain courses of action are too costly or insufficiently cost effective. In the context of health...
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Open AccessA qualitative exploration of ‘thrivership’ among women who have experienced domestic violence and abuse: Development of a new model
Domestic violence and abuse (DVA) is a serious public health issue, threatening the health of individuals the world over. Whilst DVA can be experienced by both men and women, the majority is still experienced ...
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Open AccessAn analysis of current practices in undertaking literature reviews in nursing: findings from a focused map** review and synthesis
In this paper we discuss the emergence of many different methods for doing a literature review. Referring back to the early days, when there were essentially two types of review; a Cochrane systematic review a...
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Open AccessHow public health nurses’ deal with sexting among young people: a qualitative inquiry using the critical incident technique
Globally, the potentially harmful effects of using cell phone technology for ‘sexting’ among young people, is a public health concern. The background literature indicates that sexting might have adverse psycho...
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Open AccessEffectiveness of health education as an intervention designed to prevent female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C): a systematic review
Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) is a harmful practice that violates the human rights of women and girls. Despite global efforts to restrict the practice, there have been few reports on major positive...
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Open AccessChildren with albinism in African regions: their rights to ‘being’ and ‘doing’
Albinism is an inherited condition with a relatively high prevalence in populations throughout sub-Saharan Africa. People with oculocutaneous albinism have little or no pigment in their hair, skin and eyes; th...
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Letter: Suggestions regarding adaptation of the STRICTA guidelines for reporting acupuncture practice and research
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Open AccessPriorities and strategies for improving disabled women’s access to maternity services when they are affected by domestic abuse: a multi-method study using concept maps
Domestic abuse is a significant public health issue. It occurs more frequently among disabled women than those without a disability and evidence suggests that a great deal of domestic abuse begins or worsens d...
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Open AccessDisabled women’s experiences of accessing and utilising maternity services when they are affected by domestic abuse: a critical incident technique study
Women and their babies are entitled to equal access to high quality maternity care. However, when women fit into two or more categories of vulnerability they can face multiple, compound barriers to accessing a...