- Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Patient Dignity and Privacy
- Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation
- Empathy and Medical Education
- Long-Term Effects of COVID-19
- Global Health Care Issues
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
- Humor Studies and Applications
- COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
- Ethics in medical practice
- Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies
University of Hertfordshire
2021-2024
The associations between compassion, self-compassion, and body image are well established. However, there is not yet a compassion-informed measure of compassion that can be applied to any aspect one's body.Items for Body Compassion Questionnaire (BCQ) were derived from an earlier expressive writing study on self-compassion in image. In 1, the BCQ was completed by 728 men women; with factor analysis, Rasch content concurrent validation reliability assessed. Study 2 compared scores...
ABSTRACT Introduction The rapidly increasing prevalence of long-COVID (LC), the multisystem complexity condition and high patient symptom burden, necessitated an immediate need to develop new clinics for assessment management. This article reports on rapid implementation a reactive responsive LC care pathway. We mapped patients’ journey through this pathway, identifying services that were activated according prevalent symptoms, assessed barriers facilitators its delivery, from perspective...