Nursing research snapshot
Dr Allison Williams - Nursing - The University of Melbourne
afw@unimelb.edu.au
My areas of research expertise
- Chronic illness self-management
- Quality of care in the context of co morbidities
- Medicine adherence in long-term illness
- Pain management in kidney disease
My favoured methodology / methodologies
- Prospective observational studies
- Atheoretical qualitative analysis
- Descriptive analysis
Areas that I am currently researching
- Medicine adherence in diabetic kidney disease
- Open disclosure evaluation
- Pain management in kidney disease
Areas of research that are of emerging interest to me
- Adherence to prescribed treatment regimes by people with multiple chronic illnesses
- Continuity of care in chronic illness
I am interested in collaborating with U21 colleagues in the following areas of research
- Pain management in complex medical conditions
- Medicine adherence
- Self-efficacy
- Continuity of care in long term illness
The area in which I wish to undertake a visiting scholarship
- Management of long term illness
Resources/facilities currently available to me that I would like to highlight
- ARC funding to support research into medicine adherence in diabetic kidney disease 2007-2008
Additional comment
- I am interested in providing the nursing perspective to multidisciplinary research into long-term disease management.
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