Thomas Ricketts
Biographic Data
| ID | 3926693 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Ricketts |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Ricketts |
| SIGNATURE | RICKETTS T |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The importance of content and face validity in instrument development
This research has underlined the importance of service users' views on the acceptability and validity of items for use in developing a new measure. Whether or not service users favoured an item was associated with their ability or intention to respond accurately and honestly to the item which will impact on the validity and sensitivity of the measure
Aids and "shared sovereignty" in Tanzania from 1987 to 2000
Differentiating normal and problem gambling
A previous study (Ricketts, T. and Macaskill, A. Gambling as emotion management: developing a grounded theory of problem gambling. Addiction Research and Theory 11(6).) delineated a theory of problem gambling based on the experiences of treatment seeking male gamblers and allowed predictions to be made regarding the processes that differentiate between normal and problem gamblers. These predictions are the focus of the present study, which also u…
Small Town Health Care Safety Nets
Context: Very little is known about the health care safety net in small towns, especially in towns where there is no publicly subsidized safety‐net health care. Purpose: This pilot study of the primary care safety net in 7 such communities was conducted to start building knowledge about the rural safety net. Methods: Interviews were conducted and secondary data collected to assess the community need for safety‐net care, the health care safety‐net…
Gambling as emotion management
The numbers of individuals developing problems with gambling is on the increase. This study explored the nature of problem gambling through an analysis of the reported experiences of problem gamblers. A grounded theory approach involving the analysis of material from 14 male treatment seeking gamblers resulted in the identification of three main categories. These were emotion, control and costs of gambling. Central to the experience of all partic…
Cancer prevention in the workplace
The implementation of cancer prevention programmes in the workplace presents a significant opportunity to reduce occupational cancers. Unfortunately, implementation is not only hampered by problems of conceptualization, measurement and approach, but also by the organizational context within which the programme is implemented. To overcome these barriers, cancer prevention may be defined as an organizational innovation and in so doing attention giv…
Frege's Theory of Judgement
Rationality, Translation, and Epistemology Naturalized
Rationality, Translation, and Epistemology Naturalized
Frege's Theory of Judgement
Cancer prevention in the workplace
The implementation of cancer prevention programmes in the workplace presents a significant opportunity to reduce occupational cancers. Unfortunately, implementation is not only hampered by problems of conceptualization, measurement and approach, but also by the organizational context within which the programme is implemented. To overcome these barriers, cancer prevention may be defined as an organizational innovation and in so doing attention giv…
Small Town Health Care Safety Nets
Context: Very little is known about the health care safety net in small towns, especially in towns where there is no publicly subsidized safety‐net health care. Purpose: This pilot study of the primary care safety net in 7 such communities was conducted to start building knowledge about the rural safety net. Methods: Interviews were conducted and secondary data collected to assess the community need for safety‐net care, the health care safety‐net…
Gambling as emotion management
The numbers of individuals developing problems with gambling is on the increase. This study explored the nature of problem gambling through an analysis of the reported experiences of problem gamblers. A grounded theory approach involving the analysis of material from 14 male treatment seeking gamblers resulted in the identification of three main categories. These were emotion, control and costs of gambling. Central to the experience of all partic…
Differentiating normal and problem gambling
A previous study (Ricketts, T. and Macaskill, A. Gambling as emotion management: developing a grounded theory of problem gambling. Addiction Research and Theory 11(6).) delineated a theory of problem gambling based on the experiences of treatment seeking male gamblers and allowed predictions to be made regarding the processes that differentiate between normal and problem gamblers. These predictions are the focus of the present study, which also u…
Aids and "shared sovereignty" in Tanzania from 1987 to 2000
The importance of content and face validity in instrument development
This research has underlined the importance of service users' views on the acceptability and validity of items for use in developing a new measure. Whether or not service users favoured an item was associated with their ability or intention to respond accurately and honestly to the item which will impact on the validity and sensitivity of the measure
Medicine (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Qualitative research (3 works) · Addiction (2 works) · Clinical Psychology (2 works) · Clinical Psychology (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Gambling Behavior and Treatments (2 works)