The use of digital health technology and social media to support breast screening

Robinson, L; Griffiths, M; Wray, J; Ure, CM; Stein-Hodgins, J

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-04831-4_13

An ‘alcohol health champions’ intervention to reduce alcohol harm in local communities: a mixed-methods evaluation of a natural experiment (2024)
Journal Article

Background Globally alcohol consumption is a leading risk factor for premature death and disability and is associated with crime, social and economic consequences. Local communities may be able to play a role in addressing alcohol-related issues in t... Read More about An ‘alcohol health champions’ intervention to reduce alcohol harm in local communities: a mixed-methods evaluation of a natural experiment.

Does a local Alcohol Health Champion programme have a measurable impact on health and crime outcomes? A natural experiment evaluation of Communities in Charge of Alcohol (CICA) based on triangulation of methods (2023)
Journal Article

Background and Aim: Drinking alcohol may cause harm to an individual's health and social relationships, while a drinking culture may harm societies as it may increase crime rates and make an area feel less safe. Local councils in Greater Manchester,... Read More about Does a local Alcohol Health Champion programme have a measurable impact on health and crime outcomes? A natural experiment evaluation of Communities in Charge of Alcohol (CICA) based on triangulation of methods.

Exploring psychological distress and expressive writing in Chinese breast cancer patients (2023)
Thesis

Breast cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy experience intense psychological distress and emotional suppression, which lowers the survivors’ quality of life and impacts their adherence to treatment. Given the insufficient identification and interv... Read More about Exploring psychological distress and expressive writing in Chinese breast cancer patients.

Listening to voices from multiple sources: A qualitative text analysis of the emotional experiences of women living with breast cancer in China (2023)
Journal Article

Background: Receiving a breast cancer diagnosis and treatment is both a physical and emotional journey. Previous studies using single-source data have revealed common and culture-specific emotional experiences of patients living with breast cancer. H... Read More about Listening to voices from multiple sources: A qualitative text analysis of the emotional experiences of women living with breast cancer in China.

‘A priori’ external contextual factors and relationships with process indicators: a mixed methods study of the pre-implementation phase of ‘Communities in Charge of Alcohol’ (2022)
Journal Article

Background
It is widely recognised that complex public health interventions roll out in distinct phases, within which external contextual factors influence implementation. Less is known about relationships with external contextual factors identified... Read More about ‘A priori’ external contextual factors and relationships with process indicators: a mixed methods study of the pre-implementation phase of ‘Communities in Charge of Alcohol’.

A mixed methods analysis evaluating an alcohol health champion community intervention : how do newly trained champions perceive and understand their training and role? (2022)
Journal Article

Globally, alcohol harm is recognised as one of the greatest population risks and reducing alcohol harm is a key priority for the UK Government. The Communities in Charge of Alcohol (CICA) programme took an asset-based approach in training community m... Read More about A mixed methods analysis evaluating an alcohol health champion community intervention : how do newly trained champions perceive and understand their training and role?.

How can communities influence alcohol licensing at a local level? Licensing Officers’ perspectives of the barriers and facilitators to sustaining engagement in a volunteer-led alcohol harm reduction approach (2021)
Journal Article

Despite the World Health Organization’s assertion that communities need to become involved in
reducing alcohol harm, evidence of community engagement in alcohol licensing decision-making in
England remains limited. The evaluation of the Communities... Read More about How can communities influence alcohol licensing at a local level? Licensing Officers’ perspectives of the barriers and facilitators to sustaining engagement in a volunteer-led alcohol harm reduction approach.

An asset-based community development approach to reducing alcohol harm : exploring barriers and facilitators to community mobilisation at initial implementation stage (2021)
Journal Article

Globally there is a need to engage communities in actions to reduce alcohol harm. This paper reports on the initial implementation phase of an asset-based community development (ABCD) approach to reducing alcohol harm in ten pre-identified areas acro... Read More about An asset-based community development approach to reducing alcohol harm : exploring barriers and facilitators to community mobilisation at initial implementation stage.

The evolution of an asset-based community led alcohol harm intervention in the North West England (2020)
Journal Article
Cook, P., Ure, C., Hargreaves, S., Burns, E., Coffey, M., & Audrey, S. (2020). The evolution of an asset-based community led alcohol harm intervention in the North West England. European Journal of Public Health, 30(Sup. 5), v690. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckaa166.434

Background

Communities in Charge of Alcohol (CICA) is an Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) place-based approach to reducing alcohol harm. Local volunteers, from areas with multiple indicators of deprivation, train to become accredited 'Alc... Read More about The evolution of an asset-based community led alcohol harm intervention in the North West England.

Exploring strategies for using Social Media to self-manage health care when living with and beyond breast cancer : in-depth qualitative study (2020)
Journal Article

Background: As breast cancer survival rates improve and structural health resources are increasingly being stretched, health providers require people living with and beyond breast cancer (LwBBC) to self-manage aspects of their care.

Objective: Thi... Read More about Exploring strategies for using Social Media to self-manage health care when living with and beyond breast cancer : in-depth qualitative study.

Mobilising communities to address alcohol harm : an Alcohol Health Champion approach (2020)
Journal Article

In this article, Cathy Ure et al. look at engaging communities in order to reduce alcohol harms. By training Alcohol Health Champions, individuals can support vulnerable friends and family, and work within their communities to influence policy and pr... Read More about Mobilising communities to address alcohol harm : an Alcohol Health Champion approach.

Exploring breast cancer bloggers’ lived experiences of ‘survivorship’ : the ethics of gaining access, analysing discourse and fulfilling academic requirements (2018)
Book Chapter
Ure, C. (2018). Exploring breast cancer bloggers’ lived experiences of ‘survivorship’ : the ethics of gaining access, analysing discourse and fulfilling academic requirements. In C. Costa, & J. Condie (Eds.), Doing Research In and On the Digital : research methods across fields of inquiry (66-82). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315561622-5

This chapter reflects on the ethical challenges arising from a study, carried out for an MSc-level dissertation, which used personal blogs written by women living with and beyond breast cancer. It explores how women blogged about their experiences of... Read More about Exploring breast cancer bloggers’ lived experiences of ‘survivorship’ : the ethics of gaining access, analysing discourse and fulfilling academic requirements.

Communities in charge of alcohol (CICA) : a protocol for a stepped-wedge randomised control trial of an alcohol health champions programme (2018)
Journal Article

Background

Communities In Charge of Alcohol (CICA) takes an Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) approach to reducing alcohol harm. Through a cascade training model, supported by a designated local co-ordinator, local volunteers are trained t... Read More about Communities in charge of alcohol (CICA) : a protocol for a stepped-wedge randomised control trial of an alcohol health champions programme.

Making Every Contact Count: Evaluation of the use of MECC within the outpatient MSK Physiotherapy service and Bury Integrated MSK Service at Fairfield General Hospital, part of the Bury and Rochdale Care Organisation which is part of the Northern Care Alliance Group (2018)
Report
Northern Care Alliance Group

This report presents the findings of a commissioned study to evaluate the use of Making Every Contact Count (MECC) within the outpatient MSK Physiotherapy service and Bury Integrated MSK Service at Fairfield General Hospital, part of the Bury and Roc... Read More about Making Every Contact Count: Evaluation of the use of MECC within the outpatient MSK Physiotherapy service and Bury Integrated MSK Service at Fairfield General Hospital, part of the Bury and Rochdale Care Organisation which is part of the Northern Care Alliance Group.

Charities’ use of Twitter : exploring social support for women living with and beyond breast cancer (2017)
Journal Article
Ure, C., Galpin, A., Cooper-Ryan, A., & Condie, J. (2019). Charities’ use of Twitter : exploring social support for women living with and beyond breast cancer. Information, Communication and Society, 22(8), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2017.1402943

Twitter is one social media platform that enables those experiencing breast cancer to access support from others. This study explores how cancer charities provide support to women living with and beyond breast cancer (LWBBC) through their Twitter fee... Read More about Charities’ use of Twitter : exploring social support for women living with and beyond breast cancer.

“Thanks for letting us all share your mammogram experience virtually” : developing an online hub for cancer screening (2017)
Journal Article

Background:
The decision around whether to attend breast screening can often involve making sense of confusing and contradictory information on risks and benefits. The Word of Mouth Mammogram e-Network (WoMMeN) project was established to create an... Read More about “Thanks for letting us all share your mammogram experience virtually” : developing an online hub for cancer screening.

Engaging "users" in service improvement using social media : an example from breast screening (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Robinson, L., Ure, C., Wray, J., & Griffiths, M. (2016, March). Engaging "users" in service improvement using social media : an example from breast screening. Presented at European Congress of Radiology, Vienna

Preparing women for breast screening mammography : a feasibility study to determine the potential value of an on-line social network and information hub (2015)
Journal Article

This feasibility study explored the attitudes of women towards social media for support about breast screening mammography. It sought their ideas about what a dedicated breast screening hub or Digital Support Network (DSN) might comprise; how they wo... Read More about Preparing women for breast screening mammography : a feasibility study to determine the potential value of an on-line social network and information hub.

Using Twitter and other SoMe platforms within research presentation (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Robinson, L., Hill, C., Ure, C., Griffiths, M., Wray, J., Taylor, J., & Stein Hodgins, J. (2015, June). Using Twitter and other SoMe platforms within research presentation. Poster presented at UKRC : Clinical Imaging, Liverpool, UK

The use of digital health technology and social media to support breast screening (2015)
Book Chapter
Robinson, L., Griffiths, M., Wray, J., Ure, C., & Stein-Hodgins, J. (2015). The use of digital health technology and social media to support breast screening. In P. Hogg, & J. Kelly (Eds.), Digital Mammography : A Holistic Approach (105-111). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04831-4_13

‘Digital health’ is an overarching concept that currently lacks theoretical definition and common terminology. For instance, this broad and emerging field includes all of the following terms within its lexicon: mHealth, Wireless Health, Health 2.0, e... Read More about The use of digital health technology and social media to support breast screening.

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