Study participants: My proposed study design will include directly gathering data from participants face-to-face. The proposed participants would all be adults. However, as full-time carers of people with varying conditions, then they could potentially be vulnerable, as a result of known associations between caring and having diminished mental and physical health. Anyone can be a […]

What difference to mental/physical health does respite care (defined as a short break of 7-10 days) make to adult unpaid/family carers looking after an adult full-time at home? A qualitative method will be adopted to explore this research question. I am planning on taking an interpretivist perspective to gather evidence of carers understanding, experience and […]

I have devised the following research question: What difference to mental/physical health does respite care (defined as a short break of 5-10 days) make to adult unpaid/family carers looking after an adult full-time at home?   Unpaid/family carers and how we support them is a significant public health issue. It is estimated that there are […]

I have been exploring my topic of interest, respite care for fulltime unpaid caregivers, as you can see from my mind-map below. I am particularly interested in looking at the effect of the respite care on the caregiver. At this point I am very interested in exploring how carers feel after they have had respite […]

I haven’t done a mind map or other approaches to identify my research topic. Knowing that I would be carrying out a research project for my dissertation meant that I have been thinking about a topic for some time, mostly while running, which is one of the few times I get to do my creative […]