Nyantara Wickramasekera
Population Health, School of Medicine and Population Health
Research Fellow
n.wickramasekera@sheffield.ac.uk
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Nyantara Wickramasekera
Population Health, School of Medicine and Population Health
Regent Court (ScHARR)
30 Regent Street
Sheffield
S1 4DA
Population Health, School of Medicine and Population Health
Regent Court (ScHARR)
30 Regent Street
Sheffield
S1 4DA
- Profile
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My research focuses on supporting patients to help make informed treatment decisions, and valuation of health and wellbeing outcomes to inform public policy for the allocation of healthcare resources. Within this field of health economics outcomes research, my interests fall into three key areas:
- Estimating preferences using Discrete Choice Experiments (DCE) to support patient decision-making and inform policymaking.
- Measuring and valuing health outcomes.
- Conducting economic evaluations alongside trials.
- Qualifications
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- Master of Science in Evidence-Based Social Intervention, University of Oxford, 2013
- Bachelor of Arts in Economics and International Studies, Earlham College, United States of America, 2011
- Research interests
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Current projects:
- NIHR Doctoral Fellow: Development and evaluation of a patient decision tool to promote informed decision-making for patients who are considering medical or surgical treatments for UC.
Past projects:
- DCE study: Patient preferences for treatment options for PIlonidal sinus Treatment: STudying the OPtions (PITSTOP); NIHR HTA (17/17/02); £754,129.60
- DCE/mapping study: SIPHER (System-science Informed Public Health and Economic Research for Non-communicable Disease prevention); UK Prevention Research Partnership (MR/S037578/1) £4,980,461.00
- DCE study: Estimating the relative importance of factors in the choice to make a clinical negligence claim; EEPRU £87,299
- DCE study: PoPSTER: Patient preferences and current Practice for adults with STERoid resistant ulcerative colitis; NIHR HTA (17/72/02); £187,103.20
- Trad-off/WTP study: The Design, Development, Commissioning and Evaluation of Patient-Focused Vascular Services; NIHR HTA (RP-PG-1210-12009); £1,884,127.00
- Economic evaluation: PRaCTICED- Pragmatic, Randomised Controlled Trial assessing the non-Inferiority of Counselling and its Effectiveness for Depression; British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy; £449,832.00
- Economic evaluation: Understanding the impacts of care farms on health and well-being: A Pilot study to assess the cost-effectiveness of care farms; NIHR PHR (11/3050/08); £ 468,153.76
- Qualitative study: Information systems: monitoring and managing from ward to board; NIHR HS&DR - 13/07/68; £ 382,441.00
- Publications
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Featured publications
Journal articles
- Patient preferences for the diagnosis of coeliac disease: a discrete choice experiment. United European Gastroenterology Journal. View this article in WRRO
- Development and valuation of a preference-weighted measure in Age-Related Macular Degeneration from the Vision Impairment in Low Luminance (VILL) questionnaire – A MACUSTAR report. Value in Health. View this article in WRRO
- Exploring the factors that drive clinical negligence claims: stated preferences of those who have experienced unintended harm. Patient: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research. View this article in WRRO
- Patient preferences for pilonidal sinus treatments: a discrete choice experiment survey. Colorectal Disease.
- Surgeon preference for treatment allocation in older people facing major gastrointestinal surgery : an application of the discrete choice experiment methodology. Colorectal Disease, 25(1), 102-110. View this article in WRRO
- Managing the delivery of venous leg ulcer services : a willingness to pay study. Health Science Reports, 5(4). View this article in WRRO
- A Discrete Choice Experiment to Elicit General Population Preferences Around the Factors Influencing the Choice to Make Clinical Negligence Claims. Value in Health. View this article in WRRO
- Patient preferences for treatment in steroid resistant ulcerative colitis - a discrete-choice experiment.. Scand J Gastroenterol, 1-10.
- Clinical and cost-effectiveness of person-centred experiential therapy vs. cognitive behavioural therapy for moderate and severe depression delivered in the English Improving Access to Psychological Therapies national programme: A pragmatic randomised non- inferiority trial [PRaCTICED]. The Lancet Psychiatry, 8(6), 487-499. View this article in WRRO
- Patient decision‐making and regret in pilonidal sinus surgery: a mixed‐methods study. Colorectal Disease. View this article in WRRO
- Can electronic assessment tools improve the process of shared decision-making? A systematic review. Health Information Management Journal. View this article in WRRO
- Measuring quality of life for people with common mental health problems. Journal of Mental Health.
- Strength of public preferences for endovascular or open aortic aneurysm repair. British Journal of Surgery, 106(13), 1775-1783. View this article in WRRO
- View this article in WRRO Exploring social preferences for health and wellbeing across the digital divide. A qualitative investigation based on tasks taken from an online discrete choice experiment. Value in Health.
- View this article in WRRO A large scale population survey of health and wellbeing to allow comparisons between outcome measures: the SIPHER-HWMIC dataset. Social Indicators Research.
All publications
Journal articles
- Patient preferences for the diagnosis of coeliac disease: a discrete choice experiment. United European Gastroenterology Journal. View this article in WRRO
- Development and valuation of a preference-weighted measure in Age-Related Macular Degeneration from the Vision Impairment in Low Luminance (VILL) questionnaire – A MACUSTAR report. Value in Health. View this article in WRRO
- Exploring the factors that drive clinical negligence claims: stated preferences of those who have experienced unintended harm. Patient: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research. View this article in WRRO
- Patient preferences for pilonidal sinus treatments: a discrete choice experiment survey. Colorectal Disease.
- Surgeon preference for treatment allocation in older people facing major gastrointestinal surgery : an application of the discrete choice experiment methodology. Colorectal Disease, 25(1), 102-110. View this article in WRRO
- Patient preferences and current practice for adults with steroid-resistant ulcerative colitis: POPSTER mixed-methods study. Health technology assessment (Winchester, England), 26(41), 1-118.
- Managing the delivery of venous leg ulcer services : a willingness to pay study. Health Science Reports, 5(4). View this article in WRRO
- A Discrete Choice Experiment to Elicit General Population Preferences Around the Factors Influencing the Choice to Make Clinical Negligence Claims. Value in Health. View this article in WRRO
- Patient preferences for treatment in steroid resistant ulcerative colitis - a discrete-choice experiment.. Scand J Gastroenterol, 1-10.
- Clinical and cost-effectiveness of person-centred experiential therapy vs. cognitive behavioural therapy for moderate and severe depression delivered in the English Improving Access to Psychological Therapies national programme: A pragmatic randomised non- inferiority trial [PRaCTICED]. The Lancet Psychiatry, 8(6), 487-499. View this article in WRRO
- Configuration of vascular services : a multiple methods research programme. Programme Grants for Applied Research, 9(5), 1-150. View this article in WRRO
- Patient decision‐making and regret in pilonidal sinus surgery: a mixed‐methods study. Colorectal Disease. View this article in WRRO
- Can electronic assessment tools improve the process of shared decision-making? A systematic review. Health Information Management Journal. View this article in WRRO
- Measuring quality of life for people with common mental health problems. Journal of Mental Health.
- Author response to: Comment on: Strength of public preferences for endovascular or open aortic aneurysm repair. British Journal of Surgery, 107(5), 613-614.
- Strength of public preferences for endovascular or open aortic aneurysm repair. British Journal of Surgery, 106(13), 1775-1783. View this article in WRRO
- The impact of care farms on quality of life, depression and anxiety among different population groups : a systematic review. Campbell Systematic Reviews, 15(4). View this article in WRRO
- From embracing to managing risks. BMJ Open, 8(11). View this article in WRRO
- Quality and safety between ward and board: a biography of artefacts study. Health Services and Delivery Research, 6(22), 1-142. View this article in WRRO
- Assessing the impact of care farms on quality of life and offending: a pilot study among probation service users in England. BMJ Open, 8(3), e019296-e019296. View this article in WRRO
- Impact and cost-effectiveness of care farms on health and well-being of offenders on probation: a pilot study. Public Health Research, 6(3). View this article in WRRO
- Cost of crime: A systematic review. Journal of Criminal Justice, 43(3), 218-228.
- PROTOCOL: The impact of care farms on quality of life among different population groups: protocol for a systematic review. Campbell Systematic Reviews, 10(1), 1-61.
- View this article in WRRO Exploring social preferences for health and wellbeing across the digital divide. A qualitative investigation based on tasks taken from an online discrete choice experiment. Value in Health.
- View this article in WRRO A large scale population survey of health and wellbeing to allow comparisons between outcome measures: the SIPHER-HWMIC dataset. Social Indicators Research.
- Treatment options for patients with pilonidal sinus disease: PITSTOP, a mixed-methods evaluation. Health Technology Assessment, 1-113.
Conference proceedings papers
- Deriving a preference based measure for age-related macular degeneration from the VILL-33: A MACUSTAR Study Report. QUALITY OF LIFE RESEARCH, Vol. 31 (pp S76-S76)
- P244 Clinician preferences in treating steroid resistant ulcerative colitis: a discrete-choice experiment (DCE) survey. Journal of Crohn's and Colitis, Vol. 15(Supplement_1) (pp S287-S287)
- P176 Patient preferences in steroid resistant ulcerative colitis – a discrete choice experiment survey. Journal of Crohn's and Colitis, Vol. 15(Supplement_1) (pp S249-S249)
- P96 Factors influencing treatment preferences in steroid resistant ulcerative colitis – a qualitative interview study. Posters
- PCV153 - ELICITING PUBLIC PREFERENCES FOR REORGANIZATION OF VASCULAR SERVICES IN THE UK. Value in Health, Vol. 21 (pp S117-S117)
- Using public preferences to quantify the burden of travel to specialist vascular centres for abdominal aortic aneurysm treatment in the UK. RCN International Research Conference
- Erratum to: Methods for evaluating medical tests and biomarkers. Diagnostic and Prognostic Research, Vol. 1(1) View this article in WRRO
- Methods for Evaluating Medical Tests and Biomarkers. Diagnostic and Prognostic Research, Vol. 1(Suppl 1), 19 July 2016 - 20 July 2016. View this article in WRRO
Preprints
- How to embed a choice experiment in an online decision aid or tool: a scoping review (Preprint), JMIR Publications Inc..
- Teaching interests
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I teach on a number of modules (Key Issues in Public Health, Economic Evaluation and Healthcare Financing, Research Methods) on the Master of Public Health course and I supervise MPH dissertation students.
- Professional activities and memberships
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- NIHR Doctoral Fellow 2023-2026
- NIHR Pre-Doctoral Fellow 2021-2022
- Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA)
- Member of the ScHARR Outcomes Group
- Member of ScHARR Ethics Committee
- Member of the UK Health Economists' Study Group
- Member of International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR)