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Jane Sixsmith

Researcher at National University of Ireland, Galway

Publications -  61
Citations -  1513

Jane Sixsmith is an academic researcher from National University of Ireland, Galway. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health promotion & Health literacy. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 57 publications receiving 1332 citations. Previous affiliations of Jane Sixsmith include National University of Ireland.

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An overview of interpretive phenomenology as a research methodology.

TL;DR: The aim, origins and philosophical basis of interpretive phenomenology, including the core concepts of dasein, fore-structure/pre-understanding, world view existential themes and the hermeneutic circle are described and the influence of these concepts in phenomenological nursing research is illustrated.

A literature review on health information-seeking behaviour on the web: a health consumer and health

TL;DR: The internet would appear to provide the ideal medium for the provision of information targeted at the prevention and control of communicable disease for both health consumers and health professionals in Europe.
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Children Photographing Well‐being: Facilitating Participation in Research

TL;DR: In this paper, a group of children aged 8-12 years took 723 photographs representing wellbeing and identified what was missing and discussed their inter-relationships, the largest categories were people I love the most (friends) (23.2%), activities, food and drink, and animals/pets (12.8%).
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Childrens', parents', and teachers' perceptions of child wellbeing

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an exploration of parents', teachers' and childrens' perspectives on children's understanding of wellbeing with the aim of illuminating and comparing the conceptualisation of wellbeing from these three perspectives.