Objective: To design an internationally valid and practical instrument on which data can be recorded for small areas that describes the sociodemographic characteristics known to be associated with psychiatric morbidity and service use. Method: (1) Identification of a set of sociodemographic...

Question: Consumers are thought to use CAM because they are attracted to attributes of specific CAM therapies and discouraged by negative experiences of conventional medicine. Research evidence supports this hypothesis, but there remains a need to distinguish between factors and processes...

Background Sexually transmitted infection (STI) risk is determined both by partner numbers and partnership characteristics. Studies describing only recent partnership(s) overestimate long-term partnerships and underestimate the contribution of casual partnerships to STI transmission in...

This study extended client-focused research by using the nearest neighbor (NN) approach, a client-specific sampling and prediction strategy derived from research on alpine avalanches. Psychotherapy clients (N = 203) seen in routine practice settings in the United Kingdom completed a battery of...

This work seeks to develop a high quality prognostic model for the CARE-HF data; see (Richardson et al. 2007). The CARE-HF trial was a major study into the effects of cardiac resynchronization. Cardiac resynchronization has been shown to reduce mortality in patients suffering heart failure due to...

Background: Additional insights into patient preferences can be gained by supplementing discrete choice experiments with best-worst choice tasks. However, there are no empirical studies illustrating the relative advantages of the various methods of analysis within a random utility...

Organizational culture has been shown by organizational psychology to influence important aspects of staff behaviour. In particular, mismatches between staff perceptions of real and ideal organizational cultures have been shown to be associated with a range of negative outcomes for staff, such...

Stone's method for assessing disease risk around a point source through isotonic regression is routinely used in spatial epidemiology. It is useful in situations where the relationship of risk with exposure (distance being commonly used as a surrogate variable) is assumed monotonic but otherwise...

This paper outlines the broad key findings from a research project on UK childhood bereavement service provision, using eight organizational case studies. Despite a shared objective of 'helping bereaved children' services were very diverse. Three organizational types were identified with...

Previous research has revealed the existence of a mismatch between the skills in demand in the urban labor market and the skill levels of large numbers of the urban poor. Numerous public job training efforts have been initiated to ameliorate this problem. Missing from the extensive evaluations...