Kath Maguire

ORCID: 0000-0003-2311-6332
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Research Areas
  • Mental Health and Patient Involvement
  • Health Policy Implementation Science
  • Healthcare innovation and challenges
  • Community Health and Development
  • Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
  • Persona Design and Applications
  • Family Support in Illness
  • Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
  • Family and Disability Support Research
  • Technology Use by Older Adults
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Empathy and Medical Education
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Urban Green Space and Health
  • Online Learning and Analytics
  • Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics
  • Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
  • Participatory Visual Research Methods
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • Clinical practice guidelines implementation
  • Mental Health and Psychiatry

University of Exeter
2015-2025

Royal Cornwall Hospital
2020

Abstract Background Research and policy have identified social cohesion as a potentially modifiable determinant of health wellbeing that could contribute to more sustainable development. However, the function appears vary between communities. The aim this study was analyse levels of, associations, cohesion, mental wellbeing, physical health-related quality life among cohort housing residents from low socioeconomic status communities in Cornwall, UK. Social is below market-rate rental...

10.1186/s12889-020-09078-6 article EN cc-by BMC Public Health 2020-06-22

Abstract Patient and public involvement in health research care has been repeatedly theorised using the metaphor of spaces, knowledge spaces participatory citizenship spaces. Drawing on data from a three year qualitative study people involved with organisations across England, this article explores where these fit wider social, political historical landscape. It outlines theme recurring frequently data: unified public/patient/service‐user perspective opposition to...

10.1111/1467-9566.12655 article EN Sociology of Health & Illness 2017-12-27

This article consists of two personal reflections about the changing status lay knowledge over last 20 years. The first reflection is by Nicky Britten from perspective a sociologist working in medical schools whose interest this topic was motivated my own experience health care and teaching general practitioners. Starting with problematic deficit model ‘ignorant patients’, I trace literature on patient-centredness, shared decision-making, knowledge, public involvement research social...

10.1177/1363459315619021 article EN Health An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health Illness and Medicine 2015-11-30

Increasingly, the potential short and long-term impacts of climate change on human health wellbeing are being demonstrated. However, other environmental factors, particularly relating to natural environment, need be taken into account understand totality these interactions impacts. This paper provides an overview ongoing research in Health Protection Research Unit (HPRU) Environmental Change Health, around positive negative effects environment well-being primarily within a UK context. In...

10.3390/atmos9070245 article EN cc-by Atmosphere 2018-06-27

Within health services research in the UK, there has been growing interest evidence-based medicine (EBM) and patient public involvement (PPI) research. These two movements have a common goal of improving quality transparency clinical decision making. So far, relatively little discussion about how these might relate to each other, despite their concern. Indeed, some PPI movement expressed doubts implications EBM for because they worry that its emphasis on evidence from trials marginalises...

10.1186/s40900-015-0010-y article EN cc-by Research Involvement and Engagement 2015-08-19

Background Personas, based on customer or population data, are widely used to inform design decisions in the commercial sector. The variety of methods available means that personas can be produced from projects different types and scale. Objective This study aims experiment with use bring together data a survey, household air measurements electricity usage sensors, an interview within research innovation project, aim supporting eHealth eWell-being product, process, service development...

10.2196/25037 article EN cc-by JMIR Public Health and Surveillance 2021-02-16

Involving and engaging the public are crucial for effective prioritisation, dissemination implementation of research about complex interactions between environments health. Involvement is also important to funders policy makers who often see it as vital building trust justifying investment money. In health research, ‘the public’ can seem an amorphous target researchers engage with, short-term nature projects be a challenge. Technocratic pedagogical approaches have frequently met with...

10.1177/1363459318809405 article EN cc-by Health An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health Illness and Medicine 2019-02-20

<sec> <title>BACKGROUND</title> Personas, based on customer or population data, are widely used to inform design decisions in the commercial sector. The variety of methods available means that personas can be produced from projects different types and scale. </sec> <title>OBJECTIVE</title> This study aims experiment with use bring together data a survey, household air measurements electricity usage sensors, an interview within research innovation project, aim supporting eHealth eWell-being...

10.2196/preprints.25037 preprint EN 2020-10-20
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