Case studies
INTRODUCTION
We deliver high quality humanitarian healthcare to detainees, ex-detainees and their dependents. This is known as offender healthcare.
Whether it is being charged for or provided on a humanitarian basis, healthcare should be evidence based - that is, informed by high quality research. Compared to patients who are not detainees, there is relatively little clinical research into the health needs of detainees.
By writing up and sharing case studies about the health needs of detainees, ex-detainees and their dependents around the world, we hope to improve international offender healthcare.
Details
WHY MIGHT WE WANT TO INTERVIEW YOU?
You may have a medical condition, injury, bodily feature or story that is relevant to our work with detainees, ex-detainees and their dependents. For example, you might have:-
permanently injuries inflicted during a fight in prison;
mental and/or physical scars from being tortured in a police station;
cancer that was diagnosed late after being denied adequate healthcare in prison;
children or elderly parents who weren’t properly cared for whilst you were detained.
If so, we may be interested in creating a case study from your story.
WOULD I HAVE TO TAKE PART?
No, you do not have to take part. Your decision will not affect how we care for you and your dependents.
WHAT WOULD TAKING PART INVOLVE?
If you are already one of our patients, we may well have enough information about you. We might need to do an online or in-person interview with you. We might need to take photographs of parts of your body.
WHAT WOULD YOU DO NEXT?
After looking at your medical records, listening to your recorded interview and/or looking at the photographs we took of you, we would write up your story into what is known as a case study.
We would then anonymise your case study and publish it on our website.
Then we might edit your case study further before asking a medical journal to consider publishing it.
HOW MIGHT I BENEFIT FROM TAKING PART?
Taking part would give you the satisfaction of knowing that you were helping to improve the healthcare of people who have been through similar experiences to you.
We would not be able to pay you for taking part.
HOW MIGHT TAKING PART PUT ME AT RISK?
You might find it upsetting whilst talking about your experiences. If this happens, we will try to support you during and immediately after your interview. And if necessary, we will refer you on to people who can support you in the longer-term.
We will take every care to protect your privacy. Your case study will be published without your name. Other features of your story that could identify you - for example, the name of the prison you were detained in - will be withheld. And any published photographs will have your eyes blanked out. However, complete anonymity cannot be guaranteed. It is possible that someone somewhere may recognise you.
HOW WOULD MY INFORMATION BE STORED?
All the information we collect is handled and stored according to the General Data Protection Regulation and the Data Protection Act 1998.
HOW COULD I FIND OUT MORE?
If you have any more questions, please feel free to get in touch with us.
HOW WOULD I SIGN UP?
If you decide to take part, you need to sign the below consent form.