Julia Lawton
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 229241 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Julia Lawton |
| PRENOMES | Julia |
| SOBRENOME | Lawton |
| ASSINATURA | LAWTON J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8016-7374 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 388 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1998 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Experiences of living with, managing, and preventing reoccurrence of Diabetic Foot Ulcers
Diabetes is a major global health concern, with diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) presenting a common complication. Interest is growing in people’s lived experiences of DFUs, including their management and prevention. Typically, research has highlighted the disruptive and extended impact of DFUs, and has focused on the role of intrinsic, individual factors (e.g. knowledge, physical capabilities and personal choices) in their development and management.…
The Reduce Intervention
INTRODUCTION: Diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) affect approximately one-quarter of people living with diabetes. They are chronic, recur frequently and are associated with significant psychological distress and behavioural challenges. The REDUCE intervention is a person-centred, cognitive behavioural intervention designed to reduce the risk of DFU recurrence and support ulcer healing. Here, we describe the iterative development and optimisation of REDU…
Understanding the quality‐of‐life experiences of older or frail adults following a new dens fracture
INTRODUCTION: In the United Kingdom, fractures of the cervical dens process in older and/or frail patients are usually managed nonsurgically in a hard collar. However, hard collars can lead to complications and this management approach is now being questioned, with growing interest in maximising patients' short-term quality-of-life. It is vital that patients' perspectives are considered; yet, there is a dearth of literature examining the aspect. …
Eating to live or living to eat
This paper is based upon interviews with twenty-seven women and men who have an inherited risk of developing gastric cancer and have had their stomach removed as a preventative measure. We describe what happens when bodily processes – digestion - are disrupted by the removal of the stomach. Interviewees' who had undergone prophylactic total gastrectomy experienced changes to the lived experience of hunger and appetite. The interviewees' accounts …
Adolescents and young adults’ (AYA) views on their cancer knowledge prior to diagnosis
BACKGROUND: Cancer is rare amongst adolescents and young adults (AYA). Previous research has reported (healthy) AYA's knowledge of risk factors and symptoms as limited, with this potentially leading to delays in help-seeking and diagnosis. OBJECTIVES: We explored AYA's views on their cancer knowledge prior to diagnosis and if/how they perceived this as having affected their experiences of diagnosis and care. METHODS: We interviewed 18 AYA diagnos…
Pre‐adolescent children's experiences of receiving diabetes‐related support from friends and peers
BACKGROUND: While pre-adolescent children with type 1 diabetes receive most support from their parents/caregivers, others also contribute to their care. This study explored pre-adolescent children's experiences of receiving diabetes-related support from friends and peers. The objective was to identify how children could be better supported by their friends and peers to undertake diabetes self-management. METHODS: In-depth interviews with 24 child…
A qualitative analysis exploring preferred methods of peer support to encourage adherence to a Mediterranean diet in a Northern European population at high risk of cardiovascular disease
A group-based approach was the preferred method of peer support to encourage a population at high risk of CVD to adhere to a MD. This finding should be recognised in the development of interventions to encourage adoption of a MD in a Northern European population
The changing body work of abortion
Body work' has emerged at the nexus of sociologies of work and bodies as a means of conceptualising work focusing on the bodies of others. This article utilises this analytical tool in the context of contemporary abortion work. Abortion provision in Britain has seen significant change in the last 25 years, paralleling developments in medical methods, and the option for women under nine weeks' gestation to complete the abortion at home. These shif…
Parents' information and support needs when their child is diagnosed with type 1 diabetes
AIM AND OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to describe and explore parents' information and support needs when their child is diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, including their views about the timing and chronology of current support provision. Our objective was to identify ways in which parents could be better supported in the future. DESIGN AND PARTICIPANTS: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 54 parents of children with type 1 diabet…
A qualitative study of patients’ perceptions of the value of molecular diagnosis for familial hypercholesterolemia (FH)
Attitudes to weight and weight management in the early teenage years
BACKGROUND: As most young teenagers grow up in families, parents might be well situated to facilitate and support their weight management and thereby prevent or manage obesity prior to adulthood. AIM: This paper explores parents' perceptions of, and views about, their teenage children's weight and the factors that influence parents' weight management strategies. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: We conducted two qualitative studies in Scotland, U…
Culturally adapting the prevention of diabetes and obesity in South Asians (Podosa) trial
Type 2 diabetes is extremely common in South Asians, e.g. in men from Pakistani and Indian populations it is about three times as likely as in the general population in England, despite similarities in body mass index. Lifestyle interventions reduce the incidence of diabetes. Trials in Europe and North America have not, however, reported on the impact on South Asian populations separately or provided the details of their cross-cultural adaptation…
The practice of hope
ObjectivesWe explored the role of faith and religious identities in shaping end of life experiences in South Asian Muslims and Sikhs with life-limiting illnesses.DesignSecondary analysis of data from a longitudinal, multi-perspective qualitative study of the experience of life-limiting illness and access to palliative care services among South Asian Sikhs and Muslims in Scotland. Up to three semi-structured interviews were conducted with 25 parti…
Is Consulting Patients About Their Health Service Preferences a Useful Exercise
As part of the shift toward patient-centered care, patients are increasingly being consulted about their preferences for health services and interventions, including those explored during randomized controlled trials (RCTs), to ensure that service recommendations are aligned to their own circumstances and needs. Hence, we interviewed patients ( N = 40) who participated in a randomized control trial comparing diabetes education courses delivered u…
Inter-embodiment and the experience of genetic testing for familial hypercholesterolaemia
In this article we explore the concept of inter-embodiment and its potential for advancing sociological research into illness biography and genetic identity. Inter-embodiment theory views embodied knowledge as produced through relations between bodies, as opposed to originating from within the body or as the product of relations between disembodied selves. Drawing on a qualitative study in which we interviewed 38 individuals about their experienc…
Supporting self-management after attending a structured education programme
Our findings highlight potential limitations to group-based forms of follow-up support for sustaining diabetes self-management. To maintain the clinical benefits of structured education for patients with type 1 diabetes over time, course graduates may benefit from and prefer ongoing, one-to-one support from health care professionals trained in the programme's practices and principles. This support should be tailored and personalised to reflect pa…
Understanding the outcomes of multi-centre clinical trials
Patients' experiences and views of cascade screening for familial hypercholesterolemia (FH)
A longitudinal qualitative study examining the factors impacting on the ability of persons with T1DM to assimilate the Dose Adjustment for Normal Eating (Dafne) principles into daily living and how th…
ISRCTN79759174
The Framing of Social Class Distinctions through Family Food and Eating Practices
Drawing on two qualitative studies which looked at diet, weight and health from a social class perspective, we use Bourdieu's theory of habitus to help explain the different food and eating practices undertaken by families with young teenagers. Whilst the families displayed considerable reflexivity when making decisions about what to eat on a daily basis, the analysis highlighted that everyday behaviours are still bounded by distinctions of taste…
Food and family practices
This paper draws on accounts from young teenagers and their parents in two linked qualitative studies of families living in Scotland in differing socio-economic circumstances. We compare and contrast teenager experiences of eating practices and food choice in these families. We show the range of meanings attached to how, where and what these teenagers and their parents described as everyday eating behaviours at home and locate these in the wider …
How do structured education programmes work? An ethnographic investigation of the dose adjustment for normal eating (Dafne) programme for type 1 diabetes patients in the UK
Food, eating and taste
Patients’ perceptions and experiences of transitions in diabetes care
Objective To examine patients’ perceptions and experiences over time of the devolvement of diabetes care/reviews from secondary to primary health‐care settings. Design Repeat in‐depth interviews with 20 patients over 4 years. Participants and setting Twenty type 2 diabetes patients recruited from primary‐ and secondary‐care settings across Lothian, Scotland. Results Patients’ views about their current diabetes care were informed by their previous…
We should change ourselves, but we can't’
Perceptions that South Asian foodstuffs necessarily comprise 'risky' options need to be tackled amongst patients and possibly their healthcare providers. To enable Indians and Pakistanis to manage their diabetes and identity simultaneously, guidelines should promote changes which work with their current food practices and preferences; specifically through lower fat recipes for commonly consumed dishes. Information and advice should be targeted at…
Contemporary Hospice Care
This paper is based on a 10-month participant observation study within an inpatient hospice in Southern England. I highlight the difficulties of using homogenous categories such as 'the dying patient' and 'the dying process' in exploring the marginalisation of patients within the physical space of contemporary hospices and similar institutions. In opposition to such categories, my findings indicate the importance of focusing upon the body of the …
The Framing of Social Class Distinctions through Family Food and Eating Practices
Drawing on two qualitative studies which looked at diet, weight and health from a social class perspective, we use Bourdieu's theory of habitus to help explain the different food and eating practices undertaken by families with young teenagers. Whilst the families displayed considerable reflexivity when making decisions about what to eat on a daily basis, the analysis highlighted that everyday behaviours are still bounded by distinctions of taste…
Making sense of eating, weight and risk in the early teenage years
Food, eating and taste
Contextualising accounts of illness
We undertook a secondary analysis of in-depth interviews with white (n = 32) and Pakistani and Indian (n = 32) respondents who had type 2 diabetes, which explored their perceptions and understandings of disease causation. We observed subtle, but important, differences in the ways in which these respondent groups attributed responsibility and blame for developing the disease. Whereas Pakistani and Indian respondents tended to externalise responsib…
Taking the Biscuit? A Discursive Approach to Managing Diet in Type 2 Diabetes
Adopting and maintaining a healthy diet is pivotal to diabetic regimens. Behavioural research has focused on strategies to modify/maintain healthy behaviours; thus 'compliance' and ' noncompliance' are operationalized by researchers. In contrast, discursive psychology focuses on the actions different accounts accomplish-in this case regarding diets. Using thematic discourse analysis, we examine dietary management talk in repeat-interviews with 40…
Food and family practices
This paper draws on accounts from young teenagers and their parents in two linked qualitative studies of families living in Scotland in differing socio-economic circumstances. We compare and contrast teenager experiences of eating practices and food choice in these families. We show the range of meanings attached to how, where and what these teenagers and their parents described as everyday eating behaviours at home and locate these in the wider …
Young teenagers' perceptions of their own and others' bodies
Colonising the future
Health promotion is premised upon a proactive approach to health and its management, one that requires a future-orientated outlook, in which the threats of (future) ill-health can be anticipated and thereby mitigated. Despite this, little is known about the extent to which concerns about morbidity and mortality actually feature in people's present and future perceptions of self, and whether such perceptions have any influence upon their present h…
Lay perceptions of type 2 diabetes in Scotland
We should change ourselves, but we can't’
Perceptions that South Asian foodstuffs necessarily comprise 'risky' options need to be tackled amongst patients and possibly their healthcare providers. To enable Indians and Pakistanis to manage their diabetes and identity simultaneously, guidelines should promote changes which work with their current food practices and preferences; specifically through lower fat recipes for commonly consumed dishes. Information and advice should be targeted at…
If the Food Looks Dodgy I Dinnae Eat It
This paper examines how young teenagers living in socio-economically disadvantaged families perceive everyday food and eating practices within the home. From in-depth interviews with 36 Scottish teenagers aged 13-14 years, we analysed teenagers' accounts of contemporary 'family meals'. We found that food and eating practices were negotiated amidst complex family arrangements with extended, resident and non-resident kin. Parents were often reporte…
Gaining and Maintaining Consent
This article provides a frank discussion of the practical and ethical issues that emerged during the process of setting up and conducting a participant observation study within an inpatient hospice. A general overview of the participant observation approach is used to prefigure a discussion of its strengths and weaknesses when employed as a research and evaluation tool among palliative care populations. Although participant observation provided a…
Shifting accountability
The changing body work of abortion
Body work' has emerged at the nexus of sociologies of work and bodies as a means of conceptualising work focusing on the bodies of others. This article utilises this analytical tool in the context of contemporary abortion work. Abortion provision in Britain has seen significant change in the last 25 years, paralleling developments in medical methods, and the option for women under nine weeks' gestation to complete the abortion at home. These shif…
Inter-embodiment and the experience of genetic testing for familial hypercholesterolaemia
In this article we explore the concept of inter-embodiment and its potential for advancing sociological research into illness biography and genetic identity. Inter-embodiment theory views embodied knowledge as produced through relations between bodies, as opposed to originating from within the body or as the product of relations between disembodied selves. Drawing on a qualitative study in which we interviewed 38 individuals about their experienc…
Negotiating Present and Future Selves
Women who are at increased risk of developing ovarian cancer because of their family history are encouraged to make decisions about the medical management of their cancer risk. Using data collected during interviews with 49 high-risk premenopausal women, this article looks at some of the influences on women’s risk-management choices. When describing their attitudes about preventative ovarian surgery, high-risk women draw upon discourses of contro…
How do structured education programmes work? An ethnographic investigation of the dose adjustment for normal eating (Dafne) programme for type 1 diabetes patients in the UK
The practice of hope
ObjectivesWe explored the role of faith and religious identities in shaping end of life experiences in South Asian Muslims and Sikhs with life-limiting illnesses.DesignSecondary analysis of data from a longitudinal, multi-perspective qualitative study of the experience of life-limiting illness and access to palliative care services among South Asian Sikhs and Muslims in Scotland. Up to three semi-structured interviews were conducted with 25 parti…
Is Consulting Patients About Their Health Service Preferences a Useful Exercise
As part of the shift toward patient-centered care, patients are increasingly being consulted about their preferences for health services and interventions, including those explored during randomized controlled trials (RCTs), to ensure that service recommendations are aligned to their own circumstances and needs. Hence, we interviewed patients ( N = 40) who participated in a randomized control trial comparing diabetes education courses delivered u…
Understanding the outcomes of multi-centre clinical trials
Contemporary Hospice Care
This paper is based on a 10-month participant observation study within an inpatient hospice in Southern England. I highlight the difficulties of using homogenous categories such as 'the dying patient' and 'the dying process' in exploring the marginalisation of patients within the physical space of contemporary hospices and similar institutions. In opposition to such categories, my findings indicate the importance of focusing upon the body of the …
Gaining and Maintaining Consent
This article provides a frank discussion of the practical and ethical issues that emerged during the process of setting up and conducting a participant observation study within an inpatient hospice. A general overview of the participant observation approach is used to prefigure a discussion of its strengths and weaknesses when employed as a research and evaluation tool among palliative care populations. Although participant observation provided a…
Negotiating Present and Future Selves
Women who are at increased risk of developing ovarian cancer because of their family history are encouraged to make decisions about the medical management of their cancer risk. Using data collected during interviews with 49 high-risk premenopausal women, this article looks at some of the influences on women’s risk-management choices. When describing their attitudes about preventative ovarian surgery, high-risk women draw upon discourses of contro…
Colonising the future
Health promotion is premised upon a proactive approach to health and its management, one that requires a future-orientated outlook, in which the threats of (future) ill-health can be anticipated and thereby mitigated. Despite this, little is known about the extent to which concerns about morbidity and mortality actually feature in people's present and future perceptions of self, and whether such perceptions have any influence upon their present h…
Lay perceptions of type 2 diabetes in Scotland
Taking the Biscuit? A Discursive Approach to Managing Diet in Type 2 Diabetes
Adopting and maintaining a healthy diet is pivotal to diabetic regimens. Behavioural research has focused on strategies to modify/maintain healthy behaviours; thus 'compliance' and ' noncompliance' are operationalized by researchers. In contrast, discursive psychology focuses on the actions different accounts accomplish-in this case regarding diets. Using thematic discourse analysis, we examine dietary management talk in repeat-interviews with 40…
‘I can't do any serious exercise’
Type 2 diabetes is at least 4 times more common among British South Asians than in the general population. South Asians also have a higher risk of diabetic complications, a situation which has been linked to low levels of physical activity observed amongst this group. Little is known about the factors and considerations which prohibit and/or facilitate physical activity amongst South Asians. This qualitative study explored Pakistani (n = 23) and …
“It’s No Skin off My Nose”
In this article, the authors analyze participants’ accounts of why they took part in a repeat-interview study exploring newly diagnosed patients’ perceptions of diabetes service provision in Lothian, Scotland. The study involved three semistructured in-depth interviews with each patient (N = 40) , which spanned a year. The authors provide a thematic discursive analysis of responses to the question, Can I ask you what made you decide to part in th…
Young teenagers' perceptions of their own and others' bodies
Making sense of eating, weight and risk in the early teenage years
Contextualising accounts of illness
We undertook a secondary analysis of in-depth interviews with white (n = 32) and Pakistani and Indian (n = 32) respondents who had type 2 diabetes, which explored their perceptions and understandings of disease causation. We observed subtle, but important, differences in the ways in which these respondent groups attributed responsibility and blame for developing the disease. Whereas Pakistani and Indian respondents tended to externalise responsib…
We should change ourselves, but we can't’
Perceptions that South Asian foodstuffs necessarily comprise 'risky' options need to be tackled amongst patients and possibly their healthcare providers. To enable Indians and Pakistanis to manage their diabetes and identity simultaneously, guidelines should promote changes which work with their current food practices and preferences; specifically through lower fat recipes for commonly consumed dishes. Information and advice should be targeted at…
Shifting accountability
If the Food Looks Dodgy I Dinnae Eat It
This paper examines how young teenagers living in socio-economically disadvantaged families perceive everyday food and eating practices within the home. From in-depth interviews with 36 Scottish teenagers aged 13-14 years, we analysed teenagers' accounts of contemporary 'family meals'. We found that food and eating practices were negotiated amidst complex family arrangements with extended, resident and non-resident kin. Parents were often reporte…
Patients’ perceptions and experiences of transitions in diabetes care
Objective To examine patients’ perceptions and experiences over time of the devolvement of diabetes care/reviews from secondary to primary health‐care settings. Design Repeat in‐depth interviews with 20 patients over 4 years. Participants and setting Twenty type 2 diabetes patients recruited from primary‐ and secondary‐care settings across Lothian, Scotland. Results Patients’ views about their current diabetes care were informed by their previous…
Food and family practices
This paper draws on accounts from young teenagers and their parents in two linked qualitative studies of families living in Scotland in differing socio-economic circumstances. We compare and contrast teenager experiences of eating practices and food choice in these families. We show the range of meanings attached to how, where and what these teenagers and their parents described as everyday eating behaviours at home and locate these in the wider …
How do structured education programmes work? An ethnographic investigation of the dose adjustment for normal eating (Dafne) programme for type 1 diabetes patients in the UK
Food, eating and taste
Patients' experiences and views of cascade screening for familial hypercholesterolemia (FH)
A longitudinal qualitative study examining the factors impacting on the ability of persons with T1DM to assimilate the Dose Adjustment for Normal Eating (Dafne) principles into daily living and how th…
ISRCTN79759174
The Framing of Social Class Distinctions through Family Food and Eating Practices
Drawing on two qualitative studies which looked at diet, weight and health from a social class perspective, we use Bourdieu's theory of habitus to help explain the different food and eating practices undertaken by families with young teenagers. Whilst the families displayed considerable reflexivity when making decisions about what to eat on a daily basis, the analysis highlighted that everyday behaviours are still bounded by distinctions of taste…
Supporting self-management after attending a structured education programme
Our findings highlight potential limitations to group-based forms of follow-up support for sustaining diabetes self-management. To maintain the clinical benefits of structured education for patients with type 1 diabetes over time, course graduates may benefit from and prefer ongoing, one-to-one support from health care professionals trained in the programme's practices and principles. This support should be tailored and personalised to reflect pa…
Understanding the outcomes of multi-centre clinical trials
The practice of hope
ObjectivesWe explored the role of faith and religious identities in shaping end of life experiences in South Asian Muslims and Sikhs with life-limiting illnesses.DesignSecondary analysis of data from a longitudinal, multi-perspective qualitative study of the experience of life-limiting illness and access to palliative care services among South Asian Sikhs and Muslims in Scotland. Up to three semi-structured interviews were conducted with 25 parti…
Is Consulting Patients About Their Health Service Preferences a Useful Exercise
As part of the shift toward patient-centered care, patients are increasingly being consulted about their preferences for health services and interventions, including those explored during randomized controlled trials (RCTs), to ensure that service recommendations are aligned to their own circumstances and needs. Hence, we interviewed patients ( N = 40) who participated in a randomized control trial comparing diabetes education courses delivered u…
Medicine (33 obras) · Psychology (25 obras) · Qualitative research (23 obras) · Sociology (21 obras) · Nursing (17 obras) · Social Psychology (16 obras) · Diabetes Management and Education (13 obras) · Political science (13 obras) · Obesity and Health Practices (12 obras) · Social science (12 obras)