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Anne Townsend
Researcher at University of Exeter
Publications - 43
Citations - 1645
Anne Townsend is an academic researcher from University of Exeter. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health care & Qualitative research. The author has an hindex of 23, co-authored 42 publications receiving 1422 citations. Previous affiliations of Anne Townsend include University of British Columbia & University of Glasgow.
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Self-managing and managing self: practical and moral dilemmas in accounts of living with chronic illness:
TL;DR: Self-management policies, programmes and healthcare practitioners need to recognize the tensions that people experience as they negotiate symptoms, valued social roles, positive identities, and daily life, to improve opportunities to support patients in particular contexts, and enhance self-management.
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Managing multiple morbidity in mid-life: a qualitative study of attitudes to drug use
TL;DR: Insight into the considerable tension experienced by people managing complex drug regimens to manage multiple chronic illness may help medical carers to support self care practices among patients and to optimise concordance in their use of prescribed drugs.
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“I want to know what's in Pandora's box”: Comparing stakeholder perspectives on incidental findings in clinical whole genomic sequencing†‡
TL;DR: Attitudes about the disclosure of IF in clinical settings from three perspectives are explored: Genetics health‐care professionals, the general public, and parents whose children have experienced genetic testing.
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eHealth, Participatory Medicine, and Ethical Care: A Focus Group Study of Patients’ and Health Care Providers’ Use of Health-Related Internet Information
Anne Townsend,Jenny Leese,Paul M. Adam,Michael McDonald,Linda C. Li,Sheila Kerr,Catherine L. Backman +6 more
TL;DR: This paper examines the challenges emerging in medical encounters as roles and relationships shift and applies a conceptual framework of relational ethics to examine explicit and nuanced ethical dimensions emerging in patient-HCP interactions as both parties make increased use of health-related Internet information.
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Genetics professionals' perspectives on reporting incidental findings from clinical genome-wide sequencing.
TL;DR: This is the first study to document the views of geneticists and genetic counselors in Canada towards the disclosure of IF, and represents a step towards evidence‐based guidelines for clinical genome‐wide sequencing investigations.