Purpose – Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) is thought to be an important model for working with people with intellectual disabilities who display behaviours challenging to service. The purpose of this paper is to explore clinical and service user outcomes associated with the delivery of PBS by a ...
Purpose – Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) is thought to be an important model for working with people with intellectual disabilities who display behaviours challenging to service. The purpose of this paper is to explore clinical and service user outcomes associated with the delivery of PBS by a ...
Purpose – Positive behaviour support has been positioned by current government policy as an important intervention for people with intellectual disabilities who display behaviours that challenge services. However, little is known about service user or carer opinions towards the use of this kind of model...
Quality care providers supporting people with dementia, mental health issues and complex and physical needs in care homes across Yorkshire and Staffordshire.
Keywords: Fidelity of delivery, Engagement, Behaviour change, Dementia, Qualitative, Observation, Mixed methods, Implementation, Complex health intervention Contributions to the literature These findings highlight the complexity of fidelity of delivery and engagement behaviours in complex health interventi...
If effective interventions to change behaviours are to be delivered to influence outcomes at population, community, organisational or individual levels [3], the field must produce greater clarity about the functional components of those interventions. These should then be matched to population, setting,...
1. Jessica is in a relationship with Paul who is an alcoholic. Her friends have constantly advised her to leave the relationship for her health, but Jessica keeps insisting that she will “change” Paul and help him to be a better person – despite his reluctance to improve himself. ...
Substance use behaviours (SUB) including smoking, alcohol consumption, and coffee intake are associated with many health outcomes. However, whether the health effects of SUB are causal remains controversial, especially for alcohol consumption and coffee
There is consensus that services supporting people with complex emotional needs are part of a mental health care system in which change is needed. To date, service users’ views and co-production initiatives have had little impact on the development of i
5. While this may in part derive from differences in sun exposure behaviours and reduced healthcare engagement amongst men, these are insufficient to fully explain the difference2. Differences between men and women in immune responses and hormone levels may also influence the risk of melanoma2and ...