Brooks, Charlotte - University of Southampton

个人简介

Charlotte (Lotty) Brooks is a Senior Research Assistant for the Macmillan Survivorship Research Group (MSRG) and clinical academic PhD student within the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Southampton. Charlotte manages the day-to-day running of the YoDA BRCA qualitative research project, which is aiming to develop an online decision aid about genetic testing for young women with breast cancer. Charlotte is also currently finalising the write-up of her clinical academic doctoral research, which involved using qualitative methodology to identify the facilitators and barriers to the development of health literacy in older adults. Health literacy is about patients’ ability to access, understand and use information for health. Charlotte is an occupational therapist and obtained a BSc degree in Occupational Therapy from the University of Southampton in 2011. Charlotte believes in the importance of developing clinically relevant research, with a focus on enhancing the quality and effectiveness of healthcare provision.

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Health literacy, cancer survivorship, breast cancer, decision aids, falls prevention for older adults.