Biomedical subjects

R Anson

Publications and source records attributed to R Anson.

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PubMed2001

Health gain and outcome predictors during inpatient and related day treatment in child and adolescent psychiatry.

OBJECTIVE: To investigate health gain and its predictors during inpatient and associated day patient treatment. METHOD: Consecutive admissions to two inpatient units for children and young adolescents in northwest England were studied (N = 55). Ascertainments were made from multiple perspectives, including family, teacher, clinician, and an independent researcher. Measures were taken at referral, admission, discharge, and 6-month follow-up; health gain was inferred from change scores on measures. Recruitment lasted from late 1995 to 1997; follow-up was completed during 1998. Independent variables tested as predictors included assessments of presenting symptoms, therapeutic alliance, and family functioning. RESULTS: Significant health gain during hospitalization was found on most measures and sustained to follow-up. There was no symptom change during the waiting-list control condition. Health gain was predicted independently by child and parental therapeutic alliance with the unit early in hospitalization and by preadmission family functioning. Externalizing problems did well if accompanied by good alliance. CONCLUSIONS: Assessment of health gain from multiple perspectives is possible and valuable. Inpatient treatment has significant therapeutic effect. Predictors for health gain lie in process variables of therapeutic alliance and family functioning rather than presenting symptoms. The results are discussed in relation to clinical practice and future research.

Adolescent↗

PubMed1996

A new lease of life: caring for people with renal impairment.

There are currently 5,000 people in the UK receiving dialysis treatment while they are waiting for a kidney transplant. It is conceivable, therefore, that nurses working in general practice, the community and on general wards will meet such patients. This Unit aims to enable those nurses to gain the skills required to be able to participate in the care of patients with renal impairment. This Unit is relevant to the UKCC professional development categories of Practice Development and Educational Development.

Humans↗

PubMed1983

Illusory contour lightness: a neglected possibility.

When the area occupied by a typical sharp-edged illusory figure is outlined physically, some illusory lightness survives within the contours as an example of figure-ground contrast. This general phenomenon may therefore account for the direction of the apparent alteration in lightness found within many illusory figures, but it cannot account for the magnitude of that alteration.

Form Perception↗

PubMed1979

Illusory contours as the solution to a problem.

The perception of certain figures with illusory contours entails a reversal of figure and ground. It is hypothesized that this process occurs in two stages. First, some factor must suggest or cue the reversal. Experiments are described that isolate three such factors, namely, alignment of physically present contours, recognized incompletion of parts of the stimulus array, and set. Once cued, however, other experiments indicate that in a further stage of processing the solution is examined with respect to its compatibility with the stimulus display or with other preceptual properties to which the display gives rise. Only if such compatibility is present will the perception of a figure with illusory contours be maintained.

Cues↗