Background: It is well known that general practitioners (GPs) often do not adhere to clinical guidelines, but reasons for this seem complex and difficult to understand. Limited research focuses on the total amount of clinical guidelines as they appear in general practice. The aim of this study was to get in-depth information by exploring Norwegian GPs’ experiences and reflections on the use of ...

This chapter examines interpreters' and health care providers' perception and management of communicative contexts and strategies in interpreter•mediated medical encounters. We recruited 26 professional medical interpreters from 17 languages and 32 health care providers from four specialties to participate in in-depth interviews and focus groups. Our findings suggest that no one has the sole au...

Resident involvement is a new trend in care homes. The PARTNER intervention aims to involve residents through collective action to improve their community life and wellbeing. The purpose of this article is to provide insights into the process of resident involvement via the PARTNER intervention, and into its perceived effects. A qualitative evaluation study was conducted, using participant obse...

In this paper, we report on a project conducted in a New Zealand primary school that aimed to enhance the writing achievement of primary school boys who were achieving just below the national standard for their age or level through the use of peer feedback and information and communication technologies (ICTs). The project involved a teacher collaborative inquiry approach where all seven teacher...

• The extent to which gender is integrated into social protection approaches has been uneven • Harnessing the potential of social protection to transform gender relations requires strategic linkages with complementary programmes and the inclusion of men and boys • Social protection interventions must invest in disaggregated data and analysis to make gender visible in programme design, implement...

This study examined the knowledge and opinions of the public concerning the relationship between climate change and poverty in the developing world and the potential role for climate change mitigation strategies. This was then compared to published literature and the opinions of experts in this field. The study was carried out during September-October 2010, Copenhagen, Denmark. The data were co...

Social scientists implicate high-status men as sexually objectifying women. Yet, few have investigated these men’s perceptions and accounts of their own experiences. Racial variation in gender relations in college has also received little scholarly attention. Analyzing 30 in-depth, individual interviews and surveys and two focus group interviews from Black and White men at a large university, w...

Aim: The purpose of this study was to explore clinician experiences of adopting quality improvement tools to standardise interprofessional (anaesthetist-to-nurse) handover communication when patients arrive in the post-anaesthetic care unit (PACU). Method: In this study, factors that impacted PACU nurses’ adoption of the quality improvement tools were explored using preand postimplementation, s...

Purpose – This paper aims to report findings from an evaluation of the Strengthening Families Programme 10-14 (UK) (SFP 10-14 UK), focusing on the strategies used to recruit families into a universal prevention intervention, the approach taken to group composition, and the experiences of participating families. Design/methodology/approach – Methods comprised interviews with programme coordinati...

This paper will present the experience of using iPads with a group of 21 students in a Saudi university over a period of one semester. The purpose of this ongoing study is to explore how students learn to collaborate and interact in English by participating in a teacher-designed English as a Foreign Language (EFL) course. The course aimed at teaching students to work together by using a wide ra...