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Overview
How are health and illness experienced within families and relationships? How do families and relationships influence health? These questions reflect research interests of CRFR researchers working in this area.
Our research spans the life-course, from conception to old age, and uses qualitative and quantitative research methods to explore social dimensions of health and illness within families.
Specific areas of interest and expertise include: mental health and wellbeing; parenting, childhood and health; reproductive health, older people’s health and wellbeing.
Publications in this theme
CRFR Briefing 77: Addressing contraception at the time of abortion: experiences of women and health professionals
CRFR Briefing 86: Face to Face: Relating to people with dementia until the end of life in care homes
CRFR Briefing 76: Young people's views and knowledge about abortion
CRFR Briefing 75: Parenting support for mothers and fathers with a drug problem: issues and challenges for parents and healthcare professionals
CRFR Briefing 74: A sign that something is wrong?: Young people talking about self-harm
Young people's briefing: Addicted to hurting yourself? Self-harm, alcohol and drug-use
CRFR Briefing 71: Changes in Scottish infant feeding policy and breastfeeding habits between 2004 and 2011
CRFR Briefing 63: Secretly connected? Perceptions about anonymous semen donation and genetic fatherhood
CRFR Briefing 62: Is there something special about family meals? Exploring how family meal habits relate to young children's diets
Projects in this theme
Biographical disruption and construction: exploring the effects of living with HIV and parental substance use- Article, Journal article
Care and support needs of men who survived childhood sexual abuse
Children's concerns about the health and wellbeing of their parents and significant others - CRFR Briefing, Report
Children's concerns about their sexual health and wellbeing - CRFR Briefing, Report
Connect in Care
Digital outreach/reaching out digitally: Online sharing in the face of emotional distress
Experiences of older children of drug and alcohol using parents
General Practitioner understanding and management of patients who self-harm
Integrating Abortion within a Specialist contraceptive service (IASC)
Managing the risks and realities of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome
Neuroscience and Family Life: The Brain in Policy and Everyday Practice
Parenting support and drug use
Participation for change: carers influencing policy
PROP: Improving evidence sharing in health and social care for older people
Supporting care home residents with dementia at night - Summary and full report, Four posters
Wellcome Strategic Programme in the human body: it's scope, limits and future
Women's views and experiences of post placental Intrauterine contraception (PPIUC)
Working across qualitative longitudinal studies: A feasibility study looking at care and intimacy
Young people's views on abortion