Kathryn Mccann
Biographic Data
| ID | 315283 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathryn Mccann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathryn |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccann |
| SIGNATURE | MCCANN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Social Care Institute for Excellence |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The role of informal carers in supporting gay men who have HIV related illness: What do they do and what are their needs
Despite calls for a shift from hospital to community based care for people with HIV infection there has been some speculation about whether the facilities will actually be available. One central element of community care is informal care. Structured interviews with 125 people who were supporting gay men with HIV related illness including AIDS (hereafter PWA) provide information about the characteristics of people who were helping on an informal b…
The experience of having a positive HIV antibody test
Little is known about the logistics of taking an HIV antibody test and yet knowledge of people's experiences of having a test result is helpful to evolving a sensitive and client oriented service and can provide some guidelines for organisation issues around testing. This paper reports the experiences of 252 gay men who had an HIV test which proved to be positive. The most frequent reasons for people to take a test were perception of personal ris…
Care in the community and by the community
As the numbers of people with HIV infection increase the favoured option for care in the future is to increase community and home care. Without doubt also the statutory services have recognized the need to make prevention, educational and care services sensitive and appropriate to the client group they aim to serve and many unconventional systems are being put into place in order to do this. The reality of community care is so often care by the f…
The psycho-social consequences of intermittent husband absence: An epidemiological study
Telephone Screening as a Research Technique
This paper reports on a successful experiment in the use of the telephone to screen a large urban population in order to identify a relatively small sub-sample. The problem at hand was the identification of a sample of wives of men working in the offshore oil industry. Alternative ways of identifying such a sample are discussed and reasons are given for the decision to use the telephone. The form of random digit dialling used in the study is desc…
The psycho-social consequences of intermittent husband absence: An epidemiological study
Telephone Screening as a Research Technique
This paper reports on a successful experiment in the use of the telephone to screen a large urban population in order to identify a relatively small sub-sample. The problem at hand was the identification of a sample of wives of men working in the offshore oil industry. Alternative ways of identifying such a sample are discussed and reasons are given for the decision to use the telephone. The form of random digit dialling used in the study is desc…
Telephone Screening as a Research Technique
This paper reports on a successful experiment in the use of the telephone to screen a large urban population in order to identify a relatively small sub-sample. The problem at hand was the identification of a sample of wives of men working in the offshore oil industry. Alternative ways of identifying such a sample are discussed and reasons are given for the decision to use the telephone. The form of random digit dialling used in the study is desc…
The psycho-social consequences of intermittent husband absence: An epidemiological study
Care in the community and by the community
As the numbers of people with HIV infection increase the favoured option for care in the future is to increase community and home care. Without doubt also the statutory services have recognized the need to make prevention, educational and care services sensitive and appropriate to the client group they aim to serve and many unconventional systems are being put into place in order to do this. The reality of community care is so often care by the f…
The experience of having a positive HIV antibody test
Little is known about the logistics of taking an HIV antibody test and yet knowledge of people's experiences of having a test result is helpful to evolving a sensitive and client oriented service and can provide some guidelines for organisation issues around testing. This paper reports the experiences of 252 gay men who had an HIV test which proved to be positive. The most frequent reasons for people to take a test were perception of personal ris…
The role of informal carers in supporting gay men who have HIV related illness: What do they do and what are their needs
Despite calls for a shift from hospital to community based care for people with HIV infection there has been some speculation about whether the facilities will actually be available. One central element of community care is informal care. Structured interviews with 125 people who were supporting gay men with HIV related illness including AIDS (hereafter PWA) provide information about the characteristics of people who were helping on an informal b…
Medicine (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Family medicine (3 works) · Demography (2 works) · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (2 works) · Marketing (2 works) · Nursing (2 works) · Population (2 works)