Research and publications
These are the key publications by members of the School for Social Care Research (SSCR) team based at the University of Sheffield.
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Ahmed N, Hughes P, Winslow M, Bath PA, Collins K & Noble B (2015) A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of a Holistic Needs Assessment Questionnaire in a Supportive and Palliative Care Service. J Pain Symptom Manage. 50(5):587-98. doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2015.05.010.
Baxter, S., Cullingworth, J., Whitworth, A., Runswick-Cole, K., & Clowes, M. (2024). Understanding interventions and outcomes in supported employment and individual placement support: A qualitative evidence synthesis. Disability and Health Journal, 101579.
Bottomley, M., Bradley, J., Clark, L., Collis, B., Daw Srdanovic, B., Farnsworth, V., Ferguson, A. V., Goodley, D., Fox, A., Hayden N. K., Lawthom, C., Lawthom, R., Magwood, C., McLean, R., Middleton, I., Owen, A., Prothero, M., Rice, S., Richards, S., Runswick-Cole, K., Scargill, K., Shankar, R., & Wood, T. A. (2024). Co-production with people with learning disabilities: Writing ethics guidelines together. British Journal of Learning Disabilities.
Burns, D.; Goodlad, C.; Hamblin, K. and Zimpel-Leal, K. (2022) Innovation in the UK Independent Homecare Sector: A thematic narrative review, Health and Social Care in the Community, 30 (6).
Burns, D., Hamblin, K., Fisher, D. U., & Goodlad, C. (2023). Is it time for job quality? Conceptualising temporal arrangements in new models of homecare. Sociology of Health & Illness, 45:1541–1559.
Collinge AN and Bath PA (2023) Socioeconomic Background and Self-Reported Sleep Quality in Older Adults during the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Analysis of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA). International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20, 4534. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20054534
Croot, E. J., Rimmer, M., Salway, S., Hatton, C., Dowse, E., Lavin, J., O'Cathain, A. (2018). Adjusting a mainstream weight management intervention for people with intellectual disabilities: a user centred approach. International Journal for Equity in Health, 17(1), 159-171. doi:10.1186/s12939-018-0871-4
Croot, L., O’Cathain, A., Sworn, K., Yardley, L., Turner, K., Duncan, E., & Hoddinott, P. (2019). Developing interventions to improve health : a systematic mapping review of international practice between 2015 and 2016. Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 5(1). doi:10.1186/s40814-019-0512-8
Da Moura Semedo C, Bath PA and Zhang Z (2023) Social Support in a Diabetes Online Community: Mixed Methods Content Analysis. JMIR Diabetes 8:e41320 doi: 10.2196/41320.
Douglas, P., Runswick-Cole, K., Ryan, S., & Fogg, P. (2021). Mad mothering: Learning from the intersections of madness, mothering, and disability. Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, 15(1), 39-56.
Grindell C, Coates E, Croot L, O’Cathain A. The use of co-production, co-design and co-creation to mobilise knowledge in the management of health conditions: a systematic review. BMC Health Services Research. 2022 Jul 7;22(1):877.
Hamblin, K., Burns, D., & Goodlad, C. (2023). Technology and homecare in the UK: Policy, storylines and practice. Journal of Social Policy, 1-17.
Hamblin, K. (2022). Sustainable Social Care: The Potential of Mainstream “Smart” Technologies. Sustainability, Special Issue: ‘Sustainability of Care for Older People in Ageing Societies’, 14 (5): 2754.
Hamblin, K. A. (2022). Technology in care systems: Displacing, reshaping, reinstating or degrading roles?. New Technology, Work and Employment, 37(1), 41-58.
Hamblin, K. (2020). Technology and Social Care in a Digital World: Challenges and Opportunities in the UK. Journal of Enabling Technologies, 14 (2), 115-125.
Hamblin, K., Yeandle, S., & Fry, G. (2017). Researching telecare: the importance of context. Journal of Enabling Technologies, 11(3), 75-84.
Hamblin, K. (2017) Telecare, obtrusiveness, acceptance and use: an empirical exploration, British Journal of Occupational Therapy, Vol. 80(2) 132–138.
Hargreaves S, Bath PA, Duffin S and Ellis J (2018) Sharing and Empathy in Digital Spaces: Qualitative Study of Online Health Forums for Breast Cancer and Motor Neuron Disease (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) Journal of Medical Internet Research; 20(6):e222 DOI: 10.2196/jmir.9709.
Hughes N, Ungar M, Fagan A, Murray J, Atilola O, Nichols K, Garcia J & Kinner S (2020) Health determinants of adolescent criminalisation. The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, 4(2), 151-162.
Linden MA, Leonard R, Forbes T, Brown M, Marsh L, Todd S, Hughes N & Truesdale M (2024) Randomised controlled feasibility study protocol of the Carers-ID online intervention to support the mental health of family carers of people with intellectual disabilities. Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 10(1), 25.
Linden M, Leonard R, Forbes T, Brown M, Marsh L, Todd S, Hughes N & Truesdale M (2023) Experiences of UK and Irish family carers of people with profound and multiple intellectual disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic. BMC Public Health, 23(1), 2475.
Linden MA, Forbes T, Brown M, Marsh L, Truesdale M, McCann E, Todd S & Hughes N (2022) Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on family carers of those with profound and multiple intellectual disabilities: perspectives from UK and Irish non-governmental organisations. BMC Public Health, 22(1).
Lovatt M, Bath PA and Ellis J (2017) Development of Trust in an Online Breast Cancer Forum: A Qualitative Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research 19(5) Article number e175.
O’Cathain, A., Croot, L., Sworn, K., Duncan, E., Rousseau, N., Turner, K., . . . Hoddinott, P. (2019). Taxonomy of approaches to developing interventions to improve health: a systematic methods overview. Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 5. doi:10.1186/s40814-019-0425-6
Rousseau, N., Turner, K. M., Duncan, E., O’Cathain, A., Croot, L., Yardley, L., & Hoddinott, P. (2019). Attending to design when developing complex health interventions : a qualitative interview study with intervention developers and associated stakeholders. PLOS ONE, 14(10). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0223615
Runswick-Cole, K., Smith, M., Ryan, S., & Douglas, P. (2024). Dis/Entangling Disability, Mental Health, and the Cultural Politics of Care. Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 26(1), 28-43.
Runswick-Cole, K., Smith, M., Ryan, S., and Hatton, C. (2024). ‘Should we even have questions?’ From survey to exhibition – co-producing research about ‘mental health’ with carers and adults with learning disabilities. International Journal of Care and Caring (published online ahead of print 2024), available from: <https://doi.org/10.1332/23978821Y2024D000000051>
Sanger S, Duffin S, Gough RE and Bath PA (2023) Use of online health forums by people living with breast cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative analysis. JMIR Cancer 9:e42783 doi: 10.2196/42783.
Sanger S, Bath PA and Bates J (2019) ‘Someone like me’: user experiences of the discussion forums of non-12-step alcohol online support groups. Addictive Behaviors. DOI: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2019.106028
Turner, K. M., Rousseau, N., Croot, L., Duncan, E., Yardley, L., O'Cathain, A., & Hoddinott, P. (2019). Understanding successful development of complex health and healthcare interventions and its drivers from the perspective of developers and wider stakeholders :an international qualitative interview study. BMJ Open, 9(5). doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2018-028756
Vidiasratri AR and Bath PA (2022) Association between Internet Usage and Quality of Life of Elderly People in England: Evidence from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA). International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19(23):15544.https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192315544
Williams WH, Fazel S, Chitsabesan P, McMillan T, Hughes N, Parsonage M & Tonks J (2018) Traumatic Brain Injury: A potential cause of violent crime?. Lancet Psychiatry, 5(10), 836-844.
Yang H and Bath PA (2020) Predicting loneliness in older age using two measures of loneliness. International Journal of Computers and Applications, 42:6, 602-615. Available online at: https://doi.org/10.1080/1206212X.2018.1562408.
Young JT & Hughes N (2019) Traumatic brain injury and homelessness. The Lancet Public Health.