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Tackling root causes upstream of unhealthy urban development (TRUUD): Protocol of a five-year prevention research consortium (2022)
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Black, D., Ayres, S., Bondy, K., Brierley, R., Campbell, R., Carhart, N., …Scally, G. (2022). Tackling root causes upstream of unhealthy urban development (TRUUD): Protocol of a five-year prevention research consortium. Wellcome Open Research, 6, 30. https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.16382.2

Poor quality urban environments substantially increase non-communicable disease. Responsibility for associated decision-making is dispersed across multiple agents and systems: fast growing urban authorities are the primary gatekeepers of new developm... Read More about Tackling root causes upstream of unhealthy urban development (TRUUD): Protocol of a five-year prevention research consortium.

Attitudes and approaches to patient and public involvement across Europe: A systematic review (2020)
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Biddle, M., Gibson, A., & Evans, D. (2021). Attitudes and approaches to patient and public involvement across Europe: A systematic review. Health and Social Care in the Community, 29(1), 18-27. https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.13111

The Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) is making great strides in promoting patient and public involvement (PPI) in health research across Europe, supporting patient organisations to be involved in the projects that it funds. Despite this, the lit... Read More about Attitudes and approaches to patient and public involvement across Europe: A systematic review.

Apart but not alone? A cross-sectional study of neighbour support in a major UK urban area during the COVID-19 lockdown (2020)
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Jones, M., Beardmore, A., Biddle, M., Gibson, A., Ismail, S. U., McClean, S., & White, J. (2020). Apart but not alone? A cross-sectional study of neighbour support in a major UK urban area during the COVID-19 lockdown. Emerald Open Research, 2, Article 37. https://doi.org/10.35241/emeraldopenres.13731.1

Background: Evidence from a range of major public health incidents shows that neighbour-based action can have a critical role in emergency response, assistance and recovery. However, there is little research to date on neighbour-based action during t... Read More about Apart but not alone? A cross-sectional study of neighbour support in a major UK urban area during the COVID-19 lockdown.

Receptionists' role in new approaches to consultations in primary care: A focused ethnographic study (2018)
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Brant, H. D., Atherton, H., Bikker, A., Porqueddu, T., Salisbury, C., McKinstry, B., …Ziebland, S. (2018). Receptionists' role in new approaches to consultations in primary care: A focused ethnographic study. British Journal of General Practice, 68(672), e478-e486. https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp18X697505

© British Journal of General Practice. Background The receptionist is pivotal to the smooth running of general practice in the UK, communicating with patients and booking appointments. Aim The authors aimed to explore the role of the receptionist in... Read More about Receptionists' role in new approaches to consultations in primary care: A focused ethnographic study.

Assessing the effectiveness of Enhanced Psychological Care for patients with depressive symptoms attending cardiac rehabilitation compared with treatment as usual (CADENCE): A pilot cluster randomised controlled trial (2018)
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Richards, S. H., Dickens, C., Anderson, R., Richards, D. A., Taylor, R. S., Ukoumunne, O. C., …Campbell, J. (2018). Assessing the effectiveness of Enhanced Psychological Care for patients with depressive symptoms attending cardiac rehabilitation compared with treatment as usual (CADENCE): A pilot cluster randomised controlled trial. Trials, 19(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-018-2576-9

© 2018 The Author(s). Background: Around 17% of people attending UK cardiac rehabilitation programmes have depression. Optimising psychological wellbeing is a rehabilitation goal, but provision of psychological care is limited. We developed and pilot... Read More about Assessing the effectiveness of Enhanced Psychological Care for patients with depressive symptoms attending cardiac rehabilitation compared with treatment as usual (CADENCE): A pilot cluster randomised controlled trial.

Finding and engaging patients and the public to work collaboratively on an acute infection microbiology research public panel (2018)
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Grier, S., Evans, D., Gibson, A., Chin, T. L., Stoddart, M., Kok, M., …Macgowan, A. (2018). Finding and engaging patients and the public to work collaboratively on an acute infection microbiology research public panel. Research Involvement and Engagement, 4(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s40900-018-0083-5

© The Author(s). Background In 2015 the microbiology research team became involved in a large European programme of research aiming to bring new antimicrobial drugs onto the market to combat the increasing problem of multi-drug resistant infection. W... Read More about Finding and engaging patients and the public to work collaboratively on an acute infection microbiology research public panel.

Does funded research reflect the priorities of people living with type 1 diabetes? A secondary analysis of research questions (2017)
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Boddy, K., Cowan, K., Gibson, A., & Britten, N. (2017). Does funded research reflect the priorities of people living with type 1 diabetes? A secondary analysis of research questions. BMJ Open, 7(9), Article e016540. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-016540

© Article author(s) (or their employer(s) unless otherwise stated in the text of the article) 2017. Objectives This study explored the divergence and convergence between funded research about type 1 diabetes and the research agenda of people living w... Read More about Does funded research reflect the priorities of people living with type 1 diabetes? A secondary analysis of research questions.

Conducting a team-based multi-sited focused ethnography in primary care (2017)
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Bikker, A. P., Atherton, H., Brant, H., Porqueddu, T., Campbell, J. L., Gibson, A., …Ziebland, S. (2017). Conducting a team-based multi-sited focused ethnography in primary care. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 17(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-017-0422-5

© 2017 The Author(s). Focused ethnography is an applied and pragmatic form of ethnography that explores a specific social phenomenon as it occurs in everyday life. Based on the literature a problem-focused research question is formulated before the d... Read More about Conducting a team-based multi-sited focused ethnography in primary care.

Extent, quality and impact of patient and public involvement in antimicrobial drug development research: A systematic review (2017)
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Smedley, R., Misselbrook, E., Micciche, A., Marshall, R., Kane, N., Campbell, R., …MacGowan, A. (2018). Extent, quality and impact of patient and public involvement in antimicrobial drug development research: A systematic review. Health Expectations, 21(1), 75-81. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.12587

© 2017 The Authors Health Expectations Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd Background: Patient and public involvement (PPI) is increasingly recognized as bringing a range of benefits to clinical and health services research. Recent systematic review... Read More about Extent, quality and impact of patient and public involvement in antimicrobial drug development research: A systematic review.

Evaluating patient and public involvement in health research: from theoretical model to practical workshop (2017)
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Gibson, A., Welsman, J., & Britten, N. (2017). Evaluating patient and public involvement in health research: from theoretical model to practical workshop. Health Expectations, 20(5), 826-835. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.12486

© 2017 The Authors Health Expectations published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd Background: There is a growing literature on evaluating aspects of patient and public involvement (PPI). We have suggested that at the core of successful PPI is the dynamic i... Read More about Evaluating patient and public involvement in health research: from theoretical model to practical workshop.

A preconsultation web-based tool to generate an agenda for discussion in diabetes outpatient clinics to improve patient outcomes (DIAT): A feasibility study (2017)
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Ukoumunne, O. C., Ukoumunne, O. C., Vaidya, B., Frost, J., Anderson, R., Argyle, C., …Britten, N. (2017). A preconsultation web-based tool to generate an agenda for discussion in diabetes outpatient clinics to improve patient outcomes (DIAT): A feasibility study. BMJ Open, 7(3), e013519. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-013519

© 2016 Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. Objective To test the feasibility of running a randomised controlled trial of a preconsultation web-based intervention (Presenting Asking Checking Expressing (PACE-D)) to improve the quality of ca... Read More about A preconsultation web-based tool to generate an agenda for discussion in diabetes outpatient clinics to improve patient outcomes (DIAT): A feasibility study.

Exploring the impact of providing evidence-based medicine training to service users (2015)
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Gibson, A., Boddy, K., Maguire, K., & Britten, N. (2015). Exploring the impact of providing evidence-based medicine training to service users. Research Involvement and Engagement, 1(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s40900-015-0010-y

© 2015 Gibson et al. Background Within the UK, health services research in the 1990s was marked by growing interest in evidence-based medicine (EBM) and in the potential of patient and public involvement (PPI) in research. However, there has been rel... Read More about Exploring the impact of providing evidence-based medicine training to service users.

Accessibility and implementation in UK services of an effective depression relapse prevention programme - mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT): ASPIRE study protocol (2014)
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Crane, R. S., Rycroft-Malone, J., Anderson, R., Gibson, A., Gradinger, F., Owen Griffiths, H., …Kuyken, W. (2014). Accessibility and implementation in UK services of an effective depression relapse prevention programme - mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT): ASPIRE study protocol. Implementation Science, 9(1), 62. https://doi.org/10.1186/1748-5908-9-62

Background: Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) is a cost-effective psychosocial prevention programme that helps people with recurrent depression stay well in the long term. It was singled out in the 2009 National Institute for Health and Clin... Read More about Accessibility and implementation in UK services of an effective depression relapse prevention programme - mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT): ASPIRE study protocol.

Exploring areas of consensus and conflict around values underpinning public involvement in health and social care research: A modified Delphi study (2014)
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Snape, D., Kirkham, J., Preston, J., Popay, J., Britten, N., Collins, M., …Jacoby, A. (2014). Exploring areas of consensus and conflict around values underpinning public involvement in health and social care research: A modified Delphi study. BMJ Open, 4(1), e004217. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2013-004217

Objective: There is growing interest in the potential benefits of public involvement (PI) in health and social care research. However, there has been little examination of values underpinning PI or how these values might differ for different groups w... Read More about Exploring areas of consensus and conflict around values underpinning public involvement in health and social care research: A modified Delphi study.

A pilot randomised controlled trial of a preconsultation web-based intervention to improve the care quality and clinical outcomes of diabetes outpatients (DIAT) (2013)
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Ukoumunne, O. C., Frost, J., Anderson, R., Argyle, C., Daly, M., Harris-Golesworthy, F., …Britten, N. (2013). A pilot randomised controlled trial of a preconsultation web-based intervention to improve the care quality and clinical outcomes of diabetes outpatients (DIAT). BMJ Open, 3(7), e003396. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2013-003396

Introduction: Diabetes is a chronic condition associated with many long-term complications. People with diabetes need to actively manage their condition, which can be complex. In consultations with healthcare professionals, patients receive advice ab... Read More about A pilot randomised controlled trial of a preconsultation web-based intervention to improve the care quality and clinical outcomes of diabetes outpatients (DIAT).

Theoretical directions for an emancipatory concept of patient and public involvement (2012)
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Gibson, A., Britten, N., & Lynch, J. (2012). Theoretical directions for an emancipatory concept of patient and public involvement. Health, 16(5), 531-547. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363459312438563

Patient and public involvement (PPI) is now firmly embedded in the policies of the Department of Health in England. This article commences with a review of the changing structures of PPI in English health and social care, largely in terms of their ow... Read More about Theoretical directions for an emancipatory concept of patient and public involvement.

Sure start: Voices of the 'hard-to-reach' (2008)
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Coe, C., Gibson, A., Spencer, N., & Stuttaford, M. (2008). Sure start: Voices of the 'hard-to-reach'. Child: Care, Health and Development, 34(4), 447-453. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2214.2008.00816.x

Objectives: This research aimed to look in depth at the factors affecting the ability of four Sure Start local programmes, based in a multicultural Midlands city, to engage with 'hard-to-reach'populations. Methods: A variety of research strategies an... Read More about Sure start: Voices of the 'hard-to-reach'.