Joanna Murray
Biographic Data
| ID | 3886498 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joanna Murray |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joanna |
| FAMILY NAME | Murray |
| SIGNATURE | MURRAY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7348-7505 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Age-related patterns of early childhood development practices amongst rural families in Burkina Faso
BACKGROUND: Around two thirds of children in Sub-Saharan Africa are at risk of not meeting their developmental potential. Scalable interventions, based on an understanding of local contexts, that promote nurturing care in children's early years are needed. OBJECTIVES: To investigate age-related patterns of Early Childhood Development (ECD) practices amongst caretakers of children aged 0-3 years in rural households in Burkina Faso, in order to inf…
Evaluation of a multimedia youth anti-smoking and girls’ empowerment campaign
The study demonstrates the effectiveness of a multimedia campaign to increase perceived support, empowerment and improve decision-making among adolescent girls in a developing country
Can health promotion videos ‘go viral’? A non-randomised, controlled, before-and-after pilot study to measure the spread and impact of local language mobile videos in Burkina Faso
BACKGROUND: Mobile phones present a new health communications opportunity but use of mobile videos warrants more exploration. Our study tested a new idea: to produce health promotion videos in languages for which films have never previously been produced to see if they were widely shared. OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether the novelty of films in local languages focusing on health messages would be shared 'virally' among the target population. MET…
Measuring the quality of life of family carers of people with dementia
The robust psychometric properties support the use of C-DEMQOL in evaluation of overall and domain-specific carer QOL; replications in independent samples and studies of responsiveness would be of value
Decision Making About Gastrostomy and Noninvasive Ventilation in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
We used thematic analysis to investigate factors affecting decision making about gastrostomy and noninvasive ventilation (NIV) by people with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) from the viewpoint of the health care professionals (HCPs) supporting them. We conducted 20 in-depth interviews with 19 HCPs nominated by people with ALS who had made a decision to accept or decline NIV or gastrostomy. We found the main themes influencing decision making …
Exploring Professional Help-Seeking for Mental Disorders
Only a third of people with mental disorders seek professional help. In this study, we aimed to investigate attitudes toward help-seeking among non-help-seekers drawn from a community survey in South London. We conducted qualitative interviews with 24 participants with symptoms of mental disorders. We analyzed data using thematic analysis. Participants' reasons for not seeking professional help included perceiving their problems as normal or unsu…
Primary care professionals' perceptions of depression in older people
Formal and informal care for people with dementia
The services used by people with dementia and their carers were measured at three time points over 17 months. This analysis is unusual in that both informal care and formal inputs were costed. The costs estimates for informal inputs developed here may be applied to other data sets. Two hypotheses to explain the inter-relationship between informal and formal care inputs, substitution and supplementation, were compared in analysing the data. This p…
A qualitative study of adjustment to caring for an older spouse with psychiatric illness
An understanding of ways in which older carers' perceptions of their marital relationship and duty to their spouse underlie adjustment to care-giving is required for the development of acceptable and efficacious services for spouse carers. With this aim we conducted qualitative interviews with 20 spouses of older people with a mental illness identified in a representative community study. While carers acknowledged distressing changes in their spo…
Alternative or additional medicine? An exploratory study in general practice
Locus of Control in Health
Previous studies have demonstrated an association between a high score on measures of "external" locus of control of health and high levels of psychosocial distress. In the present study, a measure of illness behaviour (visits to the doctor) has been added to elucidate the association between locus of control and self-reported psychological distress. In a sample of female high and low attenders at two general practices, neither physical health no…
Health and social characteristics of long-term psychotropic drug takers
Alternative or additional medicine? An exploratory study in general practice
Primary care professionals' perceptions of depression in older people
Exploring Professional Help-Seeking for Mental Disorders
Only a third of people with mental disorders seek professional help. In this study, we aimed to investigate attitudes toward help-seeking among non-help-seekers drawn from a community survey in South London. We conducted qualitative interviews with 24 participants with symptoms of mental disorders. We analyzed data using thematic analysis. Participants' reasons for not seeking professional help included perceiving their problems as normal or unsu…
Formal and informal care for people with dementia
The services used by people with dementia and their carers were measured at three time points over 17 months. This analysis is unusual in that both informal care and formal inputs were costed. The costs estimates for informal inputs developed here may be applied to other data sets. Two hypotheses to explain the inter-relationship between informal and formal care inputs, substitution and supplementation, were compared in analysing the data. This p…
Health and social characteristics of long-term psychotropic drug takers
A qualitative study of adjustment to caring for an older spouse with psychiatric illness
An understanding of ways in which older carers' perceptions of their marital relationship and duty to their spouse underlie adjustment to care-giving is required for the development of acceptable and efficacious services for spouse carers. With this aim we conducted qualitative interviews with 20 spouses of older people with a mental illness identified in a representative community study. While carers acknowledged distressing changes in their spo…
Decision Making About Gastrostomy and Noninvasive Ventilation in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
We used thematic analysis to investigate factors affecting decision making about gastrostomy and noninvasive ventilation (NIV) by people with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) from the viewpoint of the health care professionals (HCPs) supporting them. We conducted 20 in-depth interviews with 19 HCPs nominated by people with ALS who had made a decision to accept or decline NIV or gastrostomy. We found the main themes influencing decision making …
Health and social characteristics of long-term psychotropic drug takers
Locus of Control in Health
Previous studies have demonstrated an association between a high score on measures of "external" locus of control of health and high levels of psychosocial distress. In the present study, a measure of illness behaviour (visits to the doctor) has been added to elucidate the association between locus of control and self-reported psychological distress. In a sample of female high and low attenders at two general practices, neither physical health no…
Alternative or additional medicine? An exploratory study in general practice
A qualitative study of adjustment to caring for an older spouse with psychiatric illness
An understanding of ways in which older carers' perceptions of their marital relationship and duty to their spouse underlie adjustment to care-giving is required for the development of acceptable and efficacious services for spouse carers. With this aim we conducted qualitative interviews with 20 spouses of older people with a mental illness identified in a representative community study. While carers acknowledged distressing changes in their spo…
Formal and informal care for people with dementia
The services used by people with dementia and their carers were measured at three time points over 17 months. This analysis is unusual in that both informal care and formal inputs were costed. The costs estimates for informal inputs developed here may be applied to other data sets. Two hypotheses to explain the inter-relationship between informal and formal care inputs, substitution and supplementation, were compared in analysing the data. This p…
Primary care professionals' perceptions of depression in older people
Decision Making About Gastrostomy and Noninvasive Ventilation in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
We used thematic analysis to investigate factors affecting decision making about gastrostomy and noninvasive ventilation (NIV) by people with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) from the viewpoint of the health care professionals (HCPs) supporting them. We conducted 20 in-depth interviews with 19 HCPs nominated by people with ALS who had made a decision to accept or decline NIV or gastrostomy. We found the main themes influencing decision making …
Exploring Professional Help-Seeking for Mental Disorders
Only a third of people with mental disorders seek professional help. In this study, we aimed to investigate attitudes toward help-seeking among non-help-seekers drawn from a community survey in South London. We conducted qualitative interviews with 24 participants with symptoms of mental disorders. We analyzed data using thematic analysis. Participants' reasons for not seeking professional help included perceiving their problems as normal or unsu…
Can health promotion videos ‘go viral’? A non-randomised, controlled, before-and-after pilot study to measure the spread and impact of local language mobile videos in Burkina Faso
BACKGROUND: Mobile phones present a new health communications opportunity but use of mobile videos warrants more exploration. Our study tested a new idea: to produce health promotion videos in languages for which films have never previously been produced to see if they were widely shared. OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether the novelty of films in local languages focusing on health messages would be shared 'virally' among the target population. MET…
Measuring the quality of life of family carers of people with dementia
The robust psychometric properties support the use of C-DEMQOL in evaluation of overall and domain-specific carer QOL; replications in independent samples and studies of responsiveness would be of value
Age-related patterns of early childhood development practices amongst rural families in Burkina Faso
BACKGROUND: Around two thirds of children in Sub-Saharan Africa are at risk of not meeting their developmental potential. Scalable interventions, based on an understanding of local contexts, that promote nurturing care in children's early years are needed. OBJECTIVES: To investigate age-related patterns of Early Childhood Development (ECD) practices amongst caretakers of children aged 0-3 years in rural households in Burkina Faso, in order to inf…
Evaluation of a multimedia youth anti-smoking and girls’ empowerment campaign
The study demonstrates the effectiveness of a multimedia campaign to increase perceived support, empowerment and improve decision-making among adolescent girls in a developing country
Medicine (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Nursing (6 works) · Psychiatry (6 works) · Gerontology (4 works) · Public health (4 works) · Clinical Psychology (3 works) · Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (3 works) · Demography (3 works) · Family medicine (3 works)