Psychosocial Aspects of Healthcare Delivery

This area involves research that is concerned with patients' experiences of healthcare delivery and treatment, with a particular focus on psychological and emotional well-being.

Core themes within this area are:

• Doctor-patient communication
• The psychological needs of adults and children with chronic illness (e.g. diabetes)
• The effects of diagnostic testing and informational intervention (e.g. in women undergoing colposcopy, women using anabolic steroids, gay men's sexual health)
• Treatment satisfaction (e.g. GP services, treatment for gynaecological cancer, attractiveness and accessability of drug treatment services)
• Factors influencing attendance at clinics (e.g. genito-urinary clinics)
• Risk Perception and communication
• The effects of caregiving factors (respite, child behaviours) on the health and well-being (e.g. marital distress, infection, and sleep quality) of parents caring for children with developmental disabilities.
• Evaluation of health service delivery (e.g. the role of independent nurse prescribing in practice, drug treamtent services).
• The impact of perceptions of treatment services on experiences of treatment. 
• Communication between clinicians and patients during consultations about behaviour change and other challenges faced by people adjusting to illness
• Designing, delivering and evaluating  complex health behaviour change interventions
• Exploring service delivery and treatment  interventions for postnatal depression
  

Researchers working in this area are:

• Dr Liz Boath
• Professor Eleanor Bradley
• Dr. Emily Buckley
• Dr Mark Forshaw
• Professor. Sarah Grogan
• Dr. Rachel Povey
• Dr Clio Spanou