Kerrie Noonan
Biographic Data
| ID | 1248071 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kerrie Noonan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kerrie |
| FAMILY NAME | Noonan |
| SIGNATURE | NOONAN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western Sydney University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6441-2624 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 86 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Death Literacy Index: Testing the Death System Literacy of Unpaid Carers of Palliative Patients
Unpaid carers of palliative patients make a significant contribution to the health economy but are particularly vulnerable to burdens due to facing the prospect of death. Caring for a loved one at the end-of-life requires knowledge of the death system in which they operate to access both practical support networks and services and emotional support for themselves. We combined qualitative data from interviews and focus groups with survey data desi…
More support, less distress? ”: Examining the role of social norms in alleviating practitioners’ psychological distress in the context of assisted dying services
This study explores how providing assisted dying services affects the psychological distress of practitioners. It investigates the influence of professional norms that endorse such services within their field. Study 1 included veterinarians ( N = 137, 75.2% female, M age = 43.1 years, SD age = 12.7 years), and Study 2 health practitioner students ( N = 386, 71.0% female, M age = 21.0 years, SD age = 14.4 years). In both studies, participants indi…
Using Latent Profile Analysis to Understand Health Practitioners’ Attitudes Toward Voluntary Assisted Dying
Prior work has documented considerable diversity among health practitioners regarding their support for voluntary assisted dying (VAD). We examined whether their attitudes are characterised by different combinations of personal support, normative support by other health practitioners, and whether they are predisposed to vicariously experience others' emotions (i.e., empathy). We also examined whether these profiles experienced different mental he…
Developing a death literacy index
Performing end-of-life care can be a catalyst for developing a capacity called death literacy. This study aimed to develop a comprehensive and useable measure of death literacy that has the potential to assess interventions with individuals, communities, and societies. Using a mixed methods approach, a Death Literacy Index was developed from personal narratives and input from practitioners and experts. Refined on a sample of 1330 Australians usin…
Infant Health and Future Childhood Adversity
Home as a place of caring and wellbeing? A qualitative study of informal carers and caring networks lived experiences of providing in-home end-of-life care
Informal care networks’ views of palliative care services: Help or hindrance
Most people indicate their preference to die at home; however, in the developed world, most die in hospital. Dying at home requires complex factors to be in place in health services and informal networks of care to successfully provide support. This study examines the ways health systems, services, and individual health care professionals influence care at home at the end of life. Three principles guide the reorientation of health services and en…
Identity and the End‐of‐Life Story: A Role for Psychologists
ObjectiveNarrative approaches to identity, which conceptualise a person's identity as their life story, present a useful way for approaching support at end‐of‐life because they do not pathologise dying but rather recognise it is the final chapter of a life story. The construction of life stories is always a social process and could be supported by psychologists. Attention to issues of identity and relationships is beneficial for dying people and …
Maternal depression as a risk factor for children's inadequate housing conditions
Effects of infant health on family food insecurity: Evidence from two U.S. birth cohort studies
Informal caring networks for people at end of life: Building social capital in Australian communities
The care of a person living at home near the end of their life is predominantly provided by family carers with the support of health services such as palliative care. In addition, informal caring networks also contribute at times to the support provided to the dying person and their carer. In this way, these networks can promote social capital in the communities from which they are drawn. This social approach to end of life care enhances communit…
Effects of Prenatal Care on Child Health at Age 5
Bringing our dying home: How caring for someone at end of life builds social capital and develops compassionate communities
In this article we discuss the 'bringing our dying home' research project which contributes to an understanding of caring at end of life (EOL) as potentially increasing social networks and community capacity. The main aims of the research were to illuminate the quality and effect of informal caring networks that are established, or strengthened, as a result of caring for a person dying at home and to understand how being involved in such a caring…
Caring and the generation of social capital: Two models for a positive relationship
Johansson S, Leonard R, Noonan K. Caring and the generation of social capital: two models for a positive relationship When caring is linked to social capital, it is generally assumed that the nature of the relationship is that social capital is a resource that can be used for care work. When there is inadequate funding of aged care services by the state, then social capital may be seen as a substitute for economic and human capital. Caring, there…
Effects of child health on housing in the urban U.S
This study exploits an exogenous health shock-the birth of a child with a severe health condition that is considered by the medical community to be random-to investigate the effect of that shock on the family's housing situation. We use population-based data from an urban birth cohort study in the U.S. that oversampled non-marital births, resulting in a relatively disadvantaged sample that may be particularly susceptible to the effects of adverse…
Effects of child health on parents' social capital
Mental Illness as a Risk Factor for Uninsurance Among Mothers of Infants
Termination of parental rights: Which foster care children are affected
In 1997, the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) was passed with a primary goal of expediting the process of placing foster children with permanent or adoptive families. In order to meet this goal, ASFA requires states to terminate parental rights if a child has been in foster care for 15 of the most recent 22 months. Prior empirical research on foster care dependence supports the provision in ASFA to expedite the discharge process because over…
Effects of child health on housing in the urban U.S
This study exploits an exogenous health shock-the birth of a child with a severe health condition that is considered by the medical community to be random-to investigate the effect of that shock on the family's housing situation. We use population-based data from an urban birth cohort study in the U.S. that oversampled non-marital births, resulting in a relatively disadvantaged sample that may be particularly susceptible to the effects of adverse…
Termination of parental rights: Which foster care children are affected
In 1997, the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) was passed with a primary goal of expediting the process of placing foster children with permanent or adoptive families. In order to meet this goal, ASFA requires states to terminate parental rights if a child has been in foster care for 15 of the most recent 22 months. Prior empirical research on foster care dependence supports the provision in ASFA to expedite the discharge process because over…
Maternal depression as a risk factor for children's inadequate housing conditions
Bringing our dying home: How caring for someone at end of life builds social capital and develops compassionate communities
In this article we discuss the 'bringing our dying home' research project which contributes to an understanding of caring at end of life (EOL) as potentially increasing social networks and community capacity. The main aims of the research were to illuminate the quality and effect of informal caring networks that are established, or strengthened, as a result of caring for a person dying at home and to understand how being involved in such a caring…
Developing a death literacy index
Performing end-of-life care can be a catalyst for developing a capacity called death literacy. This study aimed to develop a comprehensive and useable measure of death literacy that has the potential to assess interventions with individuals, communities, and societies. Using a mixed methods approach, a Death Literacy Index was developed from personal narratives and input from practitioners and experts. Refined on a sample of 1330 Australians usin…
Identity and the End‐of‐Life Story: A Role for Psychologists
ObjectiveNarrative approaches to identity, which conceptualise a person's identity as their life story, present a useful way for approaching support at end‐of‐life because they do not pathologise dying but rather recognise it is the final chapter of a life story. The construction of life stories is always a social process and could be supported by psychologists. Attention to issues of identity and relationships is beneficial for dying people and …
Home as a place of caring and wellbeing? A qualitative study of informal carers and caring networks lived experiences of providing in-home end-of-life care
Caring and the generation of social capital: Two models for a positive relationship
Johansson S, Leonard R, Noonan K. Caring and the generation of social capital: two models for a positive relationship When caring is linked to social capital, it is generally assumed that the nature of the relationship is that social capital is a resource that can be used for care work. When there is inadequate funding of aged care services by the state, then social capital may be seen as a substitute for economic and human capital. Caring, there…
Effects of child health on parents' social capital
Informal caring networks for people at end of life: Building social capital in Australian communities
The care of a person living at home near the end of their life is predominantly provided by family carers with the support of health services such as palliative care. In addition, informal caring networks also contribute at times to the support provided to the dying person and their carer. In this way, these networks can promote social capital in the communities from which they are drawn. This social approach to end of life care enhances communit…
Effects of infant health on family food insecurity: Evidence from two U.S. birth cohort studies
Termination of parental rights: Which foster care children are affected
In 1997, the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) was passed with a primary goal of expediting the process of placing foster children with permanent or adoptive families. In order to meet this goal, ASFA requires states to terminate parental rights if a child has been in foster care for 15 of the most recent 22 months. Prior empirical research on foster care dependence supports the provision in ASFA to expedite the discharge process because over…
Mental Illness as a Risk Factor for Uninsurance Among Mothers of Infants
Effects of child health on parents' social capital
Caring and the generation of social capital: Two models for a positive relationship
Johansson S, Leonard R, Noonan K. Caring and the generation of social capital: two models for a positive relationship When caring is linked to social capital, it is generally assumed that the nature of the relationship is that social capital is a resource that can be used for care work. When there is inadequate funding of aged care services by the state, then social capital may be seen as a substitute for economic and human capital. Caring, there…
Effects of child health on housing in the urban U.S
This study exploits an exogenous health shock-the birth of a child with a severe health condition that is considered by the medical community to be random-to investigate the effect of that shock on the family's housing situation. We use population-based data from an urban birth cohort study in the U.S. that oversampled non-marital births, resulting in a relatively disadvantaged sample that may be particularly susceptible to the effects of adverse…
Effects of Prenatal Care on Child Health at Age 5
Bringing our dying home: How caring for someone at end of life builds social capital and develops compassionate communities
In this article we discuss the 'bringing our dying home' research project which contributes to an understanding of caring at end of life (EOL) as potentially increasing social networks and community capacity. The main aims of the research were to illuminate the quality and effect of informal caring networks that are established, or strengthened, as a result of caring for a person dying at home and to understand how being involved in such a caring…
Effects of infant health on family food insecurity: Evidence from two U.S. birth cohort studies
Informal caring networks for people at end of life: Building social capital in Australian communities
The care of a person living at home near the end of their life is predominantly provided by family carers with the support of health services such as palliative care. In addition, informal caring networks also contribute at times to the support provided to the dying person and their carer. In this way, these networks can promote social capital in the communities from which they are drawn. This social approach to end of life care enhances communit…
Maternal depression as a risk factor for children's inadequate housing conditions
Infant Health and Future Childhood Adversity
Home as a place of caring and wellbeing? A qualitative study of informal carers and caring networks lived experiences of providing in-home end-of-life care
Informal care networks’ views of palliative care services: Help or hindrance
Most people indicate their preference to die at home; however, in the developed world, most die in hospital. Dying at home requires complex factors to be in place in health services and informal networks of care to successfully provide support. This study examines the ways health systems, services, and individual health care professionals influence care at home at the end of life. Three principles guide the reorientation of health services and en…
Identity and the End‐of‐Life Story: A Role for Psychologists
ObjectiveNarrative approaches to identity, which conceptualise a person's identity as their life story, present a useful way for approaching support at end‐of‐life because they do not pathologise dying but rather recognise it is the final chapter of a life story. The construction of life stories is always a social process and could be supported by psychologists. Attention to issues of identity and relationships is beneficial for dying people and …
Developing a death literacy index
Performing end-of-life care can be a catalyst for developing a capacity called death literacy. This study aimed to develop a comprehensive and useable measure of death literacy that has the potential to assess interventions with individuals, communities, and societies. Using a mixed methods approach, a Death Literacy Index was developed from personal narratives and input from practitioners and experts. Refined on a sample of 1330 Australians usin…
Using Latent Profile Analysis to Understand Health Practitioners’ Attitudes Toward Voluntary Assisted Dying
Prior work has documented considerable diversity among health practitioners regarding their support for voluntary assisted dying (VAD). We examined whether their attitudes are characterised by different combinations of personal support, normative support by other health practitioners, and whether they are predisposed to vicariously experience others' emotions (i.e., empathy). We also examined whether these profiles experienced different mental he…
More support, less distress? ”: Examining the role of social norms in alleviating practitioners’ psychological distress in the context of assisted dying services
This study explores how providing assisted dying services affects the psychological distress of practitioners. It investigates the influence of professional norms that endorse such services within their field. Study 1 included veterinarians ( N = 137, 75.2% female, M age = 43.1 years, SD age = 12.7 years), and Study 2 health practitioner students ( N = 386, 71.0% female, M age = 21.0 years, SD age = 14.4 years). In both studies, participants indi…
The Death Literacy Index: Testing the Death System Literacy of Unpaid Carers of Palliative Patients
Unpaid carers of palliative patients make a significant contribution to the health economy but are particularly vulnerable to burdens due to facing the prospect of death. Caring for a loved one at the end-of-life requires knowledge of the death system in which they operate to access both practical support networks and services and emotional support for themselves. We combined qualitative data from interviews and focus groups with survey data desi…
Medicine (14 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (7 works) · Psychiatry (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Environmental health (6 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (6 works) · Nursing (6 works)