All Outputs (14)

Positive changes and appreciation of life among economic immigrants in Scotland. (2019)
Journal Article
Bak-Klimek, A., Karatzias, T., Elliott, L., Dickson, A., & MacLean, R. (2020). Positive changes and appreciation of life among economic immigrants in Scotland. Journal of International Migration and Integration, 21, Article 57-76. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-019-00669-w

Objectives: Existing qualitative studies focussed predominantly on exploring immigrants’ stress, distress and coping aimed at reducing stress. Little attention has been paid to immigrants’ psychological growth or positive life changes. In the presen... Read More about Positive changes and appreciation of life among economic immigrants in Scotland..

An application of Bandura's ‘Four Sources of Self-Efficacy’ to the self-management of type 2 diabetes in people with intellectual disability: An inductive and deductive thematic analysis (2017)
Journal Article
Maine, A., Dickson, A., Truesdale, M., & Brown, M. (2017). An application of Bandura's ‘Four Sources of Self-Efficacy’ to the self-management of type 2 diabetes in people with intellectual disability: An inductive and deductive thematic analysis. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 70, 75-84. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2017.09.004

Background: Little is known about the successful experiences and positive perceptions of people with intellectual disabilities (ID) self-managing Type 2 Diabetes (T2D). This study sought to address this gap using Bandura’s (1977) ‘Four Sources of Se... Read More about An application of Bandura's ‘Four Sources of Self-Efficacy’ to the self-management of type 2 diabetes in people with intellectual disability: An inductive and deductive thematic analysis.

Pain in people with chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis: The role of traumatic stress and coping strategies (2014)
Journal Article
Krzeczkowska, A., Karatzias, T., & Dickson, A. (2015). Pain in people with chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis: The role of traumatic stress and coping strategies. Psychology, Health and Medicine, 20(2), 210-216. https://doi.org/10.1080/13548506.2014.951370

Pain is a significant problem for many people with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS)/myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME). This exploratory study investigated the extent to which severity of pain was related to coping strategies and post-traumatic symptomatol... Read More about Pain in people with chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis: The role of traumatic stress and coping strategies.

Reclaiming their lives: The decision making process in living liver donation – An interpretative phenomenological case study analysis of one couple. (2014)
Journal Article
Mcgregor, L., Dickson, A., Flowers, P., Hayes, P. C., & O'Carroll, R. E. (2014). Reclaiming their lives: The decision making process in living liver donation – An interpretative phenomenological case study analysis of one couple. Psychology and Health, 29(12), 1373-1387. https://doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2014.940950

Objectives: Adult-to-adult living liver donation (LLD) is a controversial procedure due to the risk to the healthy donor. The decision to proceed with LLD is an important, yet under-researched area. This study aims to explore the decision-making proc... Read More about Reclaiming their lives: The decision making process in living liver donation – An interpretative phenomenological case study analysis of one couple..

Low-income mothers’ food practices with young children: A qualitative longitudinal study (2014)
Journal Article
Harden, J., & Dickson, A. (2015). Low-income mothers’ food practices with young children: A qualitative longitudinal study. Health Education Journal, 74(4), 381-391. https://doi.org/10.1177/0017896914535378

Objective: Young children living in socioeconomically deprived areas of Scotland have an increased risk of becoming overweight or obese. To enhance understanding of the wider contexts within which family food practices are developed, this study exami... Read More about Low-income mothers’ food practices with young children: A qualitative longitudinal study.

Adjustment and coping in spousal caregivers following a traumatic spinal cord injury: an interpretative phenomenological analysis (2011)
Journal Article
Dickson, A., O'Brien, G., Ward, R., Flowers, P., Allan, D., & O'Carroll, R. E. (2011). Adjustment and coping in spousal caregivers following a traumatic spinal cord injury: an interpretative phenomenological analysis. Journal of Health Psychology, 17, 247-257. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105311411115

Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 11 spousal caregivers to people with a traumatic spinal cord injury and were subjected to interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA). Here, we present two inter-related master themes: (1) coping with... Read More about Adjustment and coping in spousal caregivers following a traumatic spinal cord injury: an interpretative phenomenological analysis.

Difficulties adjusting to post-discharge life following a spinal cord injury: An interpretative phenomenological analysis. (2011)
Journal Article
Dickson, A., Ward, R., O'Brien, G., Allan, D., & O'Carroll, R. E. (2011). Difficulties adjusting to post-discharge life following a spinal cord injury: An interpretative phenomenological analysis. Psychology, Health and Medicine, 16, 463-474. https://doi.org/10.1080/13548506.2011.555769

Individual semi-structured interviews were conducted with 17 individuals who had experienced a traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI), focusing on the participants' lived experience of SCI. The interviews were transcribed verbatim and were analysed for r... Read More about Difficulties adjusting to post-discharge life following a spinal cord injury: An interpretative phenomenological analysis..

Mothers continuing bonds and ambivalence to personal mortality after the death of their child: an interpretative phenomenological analysis (2011)
Journal Article
Harper, M., O'Connor, R., Dickson, A., & O'Carroll, R. E. (2011). Mothers continuing bonds and ambivalence to personal mortality after the death of their child: an interpretative phenomenological analysis. Psychology, Health and Medicine, 16, 203-214. https://doi.org/10.1080/13548506.2010.532558

The main objective of this study was to identify how bereaved mothers describe their coping strategies in their own words. The literature on parental bereavement is sparse, and the present study aims to add to existing knowledge by eliciting the moth... Read More about Mothers continuing bonds and ambivalence to personal mortality after the death of their child: an interpretative phenomenological analysis.

The impact of assuming the primary caregiver role following traumatic spinal cord injury: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of the spouse's experience. (2010)
Journal Article
Dickson, A., O'Brien, G., Ward, R., Allan, D., & O'Carroll, R. E. (2010). The impact of assuming the primary caregiver role following traumatic spinal cord injury: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of the spouse's experience. Psychology and Health, 25(9), 1101-1120. https://doi.org/10.1080/08870440903038949

This study aimed to explore the lived experience of assuming the primary caregiver role in a group of spouses of individuals living with a traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) (injuries ranged from paraplegia to quadriplegia). Individual in-depth inter... Read More about The impact of assuming the primary caregiver role following traumatic spinal cord injury: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of the spouse's experience..

Neuropsychological functioning, illness perception, mood and quality of life in chronic fatigue syndrome, autoimmune thyroid disease and healthy participants (2009)
Journal Article
Dickson, A., Toft, A., & O'Carroll, R. E. (2009). Neuropsychological functioning, illness perception, mood and quality of life in chronic fatigue syndrome, autoimmune thyroid disease and healthy participants. Psychological Medicine, 39(09), 1567. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0033291708004960

BACKGROUND: This study attempted to longitudinally investigate neuropsychological function, illness representations, self-esteem, mood and quality of life (QoL) in individuals with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and compared them with both healthy pa... Read More about Neuropsychological functioning, illness perception, mood and quality of life in chronic fatigue syndrome, autoimmune thyroid disease and healthy participants.

Biographical disruption and the experience of loss following a spinal cord injury: An interpretative phenomenological analysis (2008)
Journal Article
Dickson, A., Allan, D., & O'Carroll, R. (2008). Biographical disruption and the experience of loss following a spinal cord injury: An interpretative phenomenological analysis. Psychology and Health, 23(4), 407-425. https://doi.org/10.1080/14768320701219136

Individual in-depth interviews with eight people who had experienced a total spinal cord injury were conducted, focussing on the experience of living with a spinal cord injury. The interviews were transcribed verbatim and were analysed for recurrent... Read More about Biographical disruption and the experience of loss following a spinal cord injury: An interpretative phenomenological analysis.

‘That was my old life; it's almost like a past-life now’: Identity crisis, loss and adjustment amongst people living with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (2008)
Journal Article
Dickson, A., Knussen, C., & Flowers, P. (2008). ‘That was my old life; it's almost like a past-life now’: Identity crisis, loss and adjustment amongst people living with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Psychology and Health, 23(4), 459-476. https://doi.org/10.1080/08870440701757393

Individual in-depth interviews were conducted with 14 people with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). The interviews centred on the experience of living with the condition from the participants’ own perspectives. All interviews were transcribed verbatim... Read More about ‘That was my old life; it's almost like a past-life now’: Identity crisis, loss and adjustment amongst people living with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

Stigma and the delegitimation experience: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of people living with chronic fatigue syndrome (2007)
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Dickson, A., Knussen, C., & Flowers, P. (2007). Stigma and the delegitimation experience: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of people living with chronic fatigue syndrome. Psychology and Health, 22(7), 851-867. https://doi.org/10.1080/14768320600976224

Individual in-depth interviews with 14 people with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) were conducted, focusing on the experience of living with CFS. The interviews were transcribed verbatim and were analysed for recurrent themes using interpretative phen... Read More about Stigma and the delegitimation experience: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of people living with chronic fatigue syndrome.

Think positive: a mental health promotion website for 12 to 18 year olds. (2002)
Journal Article
Murie, J., & Dickson, A. (2002). Think positive: a mental health promotion website for 12 to 18 year olds. The international journal of mental health promotion, 4(1), 26-33. https://doi.org/10.1080/14623730.2002.9721852

The Internet is a comprehensive but largely unevaluated archive of health information accessible to adolescents. The paper describes an initiative to establish a mental health promotion site acceptable to those between 12 and 18 and to evaluate its s... Read More about Think positive: a mental health promotion website for 12 to 18 year olds..