ScHARR Mini Master Class in Health Research - Alcohol and pricing: Beyond modelling to evaluation and duty reform

 

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About this event

Alcohol and pricing: Beyond modelling to evaluation and duty reform

Tue, 7 December 2021

13:00 – 14:00 GMT

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Professor John Holmes

Director of the Sheffield Alcohol Research Group and Lead Director of the Wellcome Doctoral Training Centre in Public Health Economics and Decision Science

Abstract

Alcohol remains a major cause of ill health, and deaths due to alcohol during the COVID-19 pandemic heighten this concern. This presentation will explore the role of alcohol prices as a driver of alcohol-related health problems and a target for public health responses. After setting out the evidence on key pricing trends and concerns, the presentation will describe emerging evidence suggesting positive effects of minimum unit pricing in Scotland and the Australian Northern Territory. It will also explore the Government’s ongoing alcohol duty review and the potential for radical policy change if the Government follows through on its suggestions.

Bio

John is the Director of the Sheffield Alcohol Research Group and Lead Director of the Wellcome Doctoral Training Centre in Public Health Economics and Decision Science. He completed his training in the University of York’s Social Policy department with a thesis focused on inequalities, risks and opportunities associated with young people’s internet use. He then spent one-year researching child poverty and well-being. Since 2010, he has worked at the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR) at the University of Sheffield, where he has contributed key epidemiological evidence and policy analyses to national and international alcohol policy debates. In particular, he has worked on minimum unit pricing (MUP), other pricing policies and low risk drinking guidelines. He currently leads an evaluation of the impact of MUP on harmful drinkers in Scotland, research on drinking occasions, practices and culture, and a Wellcome Investigator Award examining the sharp decline in youth drinking.

https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/people/staff/john-holmes

https://twitter.com/jholmessheff

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ScHARR Mini Master Class in Health Research #13 - Supporting a mentally healthy NHS workforce - Dr Emily Wood - 14th July 1pm

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Supporting a mentally healthy NHS workforce - Dr Emily Wood

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Abstract:

There are over 100,000 vacancies in the NHS, meaning 1 in 12 jobs are unfilled. Half of staff report working unpaid overtime and 1 in 8 left the NHS in 2018. Chronic understaffing and long hours leads to significant stress with 40% of staff reporting suffering from work related stress in the NHS staff survey.

In 2015, NHS Professionals launched a large campaign to move NHS management thinking away from workforce wellbeing as a ‘nice to have’ and towards seeing it as a priority area. In 2020, NHS Employers launched ‘Get on-board with health and wellbeing priorities’, suggesting not much had changed in five years. Unfortunately this new initiative was launched in March and quickly got overshadowed by the COVID-19 crisis.

The pandemic shifted the focus of stress for the NHS workforce but it did not create it. Many were already struggling.

The majority of workforce wellbeing interventions focus on trying to help the staff member cope with stress. Many of these are short term interventions and do nothing to address the wider causes of stress in the first place. Some have even gone so far as to say these interventions are akin to victim blaming, as they suggest it is the worker’s fault they cannot cope with stress, when we should be looking at why they are under stress in the first place.

This webinar will look at some of the research we have done to model the complex relationships between staff retention, job satisfaction and wellbeing and organisational culture and place that in the wider context.

Bio:

Dr Wood is a mental health nurse researcher working in the School of Health and Related Research and the Health Sciences School at the University of Sheffield. Her research focuses on workforce issues, including staff experience, retention and wellbeing. She is currently working on two major projects, one on retention of mental health staff funded by the Health Foundation and one on workforce experience funded by the Royal College of Nursing.

https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/people/staff/emily-wood

https://twitter.com/emilyfwood

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ScHARR Mini Master Class in Health Research - Measuring and Valuing Health for Children and Adolescents - Dr Philip Powell & Dr Donna Rowen - 15th June 2021 13:00 - 14:00 BST

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ScHARR Mini Master Class in Health Research

About this Event

Measuring and Valuing Health for Children and Adolescents
Tue, 15 June 2021, 13:00 – 14:00 BST

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Healthcare treatments and vaccinations can be expensive, but healthcare systems have limited budgets. The allocation of these budgets requires us to measure health and put a value on how good or bad different states of health are. There are accepted methods for measuring and valuing adult health, but this is not the case for children and adolescents. Neither is it the case that methods used for adults can be uncritically applied to younger people. Instead, this talk will explore why it is necessary to think differently when measuring and valuing health for children; what conceptual, methodological, and normative issues the process raises; and what the potential solutions are. This is the subject of ongoing research being conducted in ScHARR and elsewhere globally. Questions for researchers include who should report how a child is feeling? What aspects of child health are important? Who should decide which aspects of child health are most important? What methods should be used to put a value on child and adolescent health? In this talk we will address these questions and more as we review the current state-of-the-art thinking into the measurement and valuation of child health.

Bios

Philip Powell

Philip Powell is a Research Fellow in the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), University of Sheffield and part of the ScHARR Outcomes team (https://scharr.dept.shef.ac.uk/outcomes/). He has a research background in Psychology, but has worked in the field of economics (and health economics) for over 7 years, now specialising in outcomes research. Philip uses mixed methods in his research and has interest and expertise in the development of new measures for assessing quality of life in specific health conditions, including in children and rare diseases. He also conducts methodological research in the measurement and valuation of health and quality of life, with recent projects exploring the normative, methodological, and practical aspects of how health states are valued for children and adolescents.

https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/people/staff/philip-powell

https://twitter.com/philapowell

Donna Rowen

Donna Rowen is a Senior Research Fellow in ScHARR, University of Sheffield and part of the ScHARR Outcomes team (https://scharr.dept.shef.ac.uk/outcomes/). Donna is a member of the Department of Health and Social Care Policy Research Unit in the Economic Methods of Evaluation of Health and Care Interventions, and has been involved in methods research for the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Decision Support Unit. Donna’s main research interests lie in measuring and valuing health, in particular valuing health across different populations and conditions, using different modes of administration (for example online or face-to-face), elicitation techniques and analyses. Donna has led recent projects in valuing health for children in the Netherlands and examining the performance of different child and adolescent health instruments.

https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/people/staff/donna-rowen

ScHARR Mini Master Class in Health Research #11 - Promoting vegetable intake in preschool children: barriers and potential solutions - Dr Sam Caton - 12th May - 1-2pm UK time.

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About this Event

Promoting vegetable intake in preschool children: barriers and potential solutions

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Abstract:
Diets rich in plant-based foods confer benefits for planetary and human health. Despite this, adults and children do not consume the recommended daily amount of vegetables. This presentation will explore several key issues; why do some children dislike vegetables, do we learn to like? and how can we increase vegetable intake in preschool children?

Bio:
Sam graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Psychology at the University of Leeds before undertaking a M.Med.Sci in Human Nutrition at the University of Sheffield. She gained her PhD at the University of Liverpool which focused on the effects of alcohol on food intake. Sam held post-doctoral positions internationally and nationally; Germany (Ludwig Maximillians Universität, Munich, Department of Endocrinology), USA (Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, Department of Psychology) and in the UK (University of Leeds, Institute of Psychological Sciences), before joining the ScHARR Public Health in 2013. Sam is currently a senior lecturer in Public Health, and an associate director at the Institute for Sustainable Food at the University of Sheffield, Co-leading the “Food consumption, Health and Sustainability” research theme. Her work focuses broadly on the promotion of healthful and sustainable diets.

https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/people/staff/samantha-caton
https://twitter.com/samanthacaton

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ScHARR Mini Master Class in Health Research #10 - The Factors associated with Student Mental Health - Reviewing the Evidence - Fiona Campbell and Elena Sheldon - 22nd April - 1-2pm (UK Time)

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The Factors associated with Student Mental Health - Reviewing the Evidence

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Abstract

Poor mental health of further and higher education students is a growing public policy concern. A 2020 Insight Network survey of students from 10 universities suggests that “1 in 5 students have a current mental health diagnosis” and that “almost half have experienced a serious psychological issue for which they felt they needed professional help” - an increase from 1 in 3 in the same survey conducted in 2018. The global coronavirus pandemic and measures to contain it has led to a worsening of the levels of poor mental health among young people including students in higher education. In order to develop high quality interventions that seek to improve the mental health of young people in higher education it is necessary to have a good understanding of the factors that contribute to poor mental health and also those that strengthen mental wellbeing.

Elena and Fiona have both led reviews in the past year that have looked at these factors. In this session, they will describe the different approaches they used to look at this problem and some of the methodological challenges that arose as a result. These include the challenges of measuring mental health outcomes, and synthesising different study designs to identify causal factors.

Despite using different approaches both reviews found consistent messages about the factors that increase the risk of poor mental health occurring in student populations, the factors that are protective of mental wellbeing and interventions that merit further development and evaluation. They look forward to describing their results in more depth, and highlighting areas where further research is needed.

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Fiona Campbell

Fiona Campbell is a Research Fellow in Health Economics and Decision Science within the School for Health and Related Research (ScHARR) at the University of Sheffield. She has a clinical nursing background in oncology nursing, district nursing and health visiting and has worked in this capacity both in the UK and developing country settings. These experiences led to a keen interest in the use of research to inform and improve health care and public health. She trained in systematic review methodology and has conducted and published reviews for NICE, HTA and the Cochrane Collaboration. Her work has been used to inform NICE guidance for treatments for hypertension, obesity, excessive alcohol use, hospital errors and approaches to increasing levels of physical activity. She has designed, led and published work on methodological aspects of systematic reviewing and teaches systematic review methodology to postgraduate students.

https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/people/staff/fiona-campbell

https://twitter.com/fionabell19

Elena Sheldon

Elena joined the ScHARR Clinical Trials Research Unit in 2019 as a Research Assistant, having previously completed a BSc degree in Psychology at the University of Durham.

Elena is currently working on the MAGIC and ASTIClite studies. Prior to this, she worked as a Paediatric Research Assistant in the Clinical Research Facility at Sheffield Children’s Hospital and has worked as a Research Assistant in the Psychology Department at the University of Durham. In this role Elena examined 4D ultrasound scans of foetuses at various gestation, focusing on self-touch and facial expressions in relation to prenatal depression, stress and anxiety.

https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/people/staff/elena-m-sheldon

https://www.linkedin.com/in/elena-sheldon-9450a1126/?originalSubdomain=uk

ScHARR Mini Master Class in Health Research #9 - Case Studies and Exemplars of Efficient Study Designs in Clinical Trials - Professor Steven Julious

Join us online for a monthly online masterclass by one of our health research experts based in The School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR) at The University of Sheffield as we explore topics in the changing world of public health research. In the coming months we plan to cover topics on health inequalities, global health, health decision and policy making, health technologies among other similar themes.

Case Studies and Exemplars of Efficient Study Designs in Clinical Trials - Professor Steven Julious 

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Abstract

Clinical research is expensive. For this reason there is a design to undertake studies as efficiently as possible whilst maintaining scientific standards. This presentation will first define what efficient study designs are. They are in fact a broad range of trial enhancements and include methods of data collection through to novel study design called adaptive designs.

The talk has a practical focus. It will explain how efficient designs can be utilised in clinical research through a series of real world examples which will highlight both their advantages and challenges

Bio

Steven graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Mathematics, Statistics and Operational Research (MSOR) from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) and an MSc in Biometry from the University of Reading. He gained his PhD from University College London, which Steven did part-time while working in the industry, and investigated the issue of designing clinical trials when you have imprecise estimates to base calculations on. Statistically, Steven has an interest in all aspects of clinical trials from molecule through to the marketplace. His main research focus is clinical trial design and the development of applied methods related to clinical trials. Steven has a particular interest around adaptive designs and the implementation of adaptive designs into practice.

The methodologies around sample size estimation are a particular interest and as well as a book he has developed a mobile app for the calculations called SampSize.

Steven has also an interest in asthma epidemiology and is the Chief Investigator of the PLEASANT trial: Preventing and Lessening Exacerbations of Asthma in School-age children Associated with a New Term.

Links

https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/people/staff/steven-julious

https://twitter.com/stevenjulious

ScHARR Mini Master Class in Health Research #8 - Doing Research with People with Learning Disabilities - Dr Liz Croot

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People with learning disabilities have poorer health and shorter life expectancy, differences that are, to some degree, avoidable.

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People with learning disabilities have poorer health and shorter life expectancy than the general population, differences that are, to some degree, avoidable. They face inequalities in access to and use of health services and are often excluded from research, which limits the extent to which the findings are relevant and applicable to them. In this webinar Liz will talk about adapting the Slimming World intervention with and for people with learning disabilities.

For more information, please visit the website below and we suggest that attendees watch the video on the home page https://beingwarmbeinghappy.org/

Dr Croot will be joined by Jodie Bradley and Vicky Farnsworth will talk about some of the work they have been involved in with University research teams, NHS clinical commissioning groups, local authorities and government departments, to make sure people with learning disabilities are valued and included in society.

Bio

Dr Liz Croot is a Senior Research Fellow and Director of Learning and Teaching in ScHARR. Her research is predominantly participatory qualitative work which aims to improve the health and wellbeing of people with learning disabilities.

Liz is joined in this webinar by Jodie Bradley, a self advocate with learning disabilities and autism and Vicky Farnsworth, a self advocate with learning disabilities. Jodie

and Vicky both work for SpeakUp self-advocacy and have spent many years co-producing research and service improvements for people with learning disabilities.

Links

https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/people/staff/elizabeth-croot

https://twitter.com/lizcroot

https://beingwarmbeinghappy.org/

Join us for our next webinar - Question of WHO, not IF?: Achieving Real Impact through Qualitative Systematic Reviews - Dr Andrew Booth - 3rd November - 1pm

Join us online for a monthly online masterclass by one of our health research experts based in The School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR) at The University of Sheffield as we explore topics in the changing world of public health research. In the coming months we plan to cover topics on health inequalities, global health, health decision and policy making, health technologies among other similar themes.

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Abstract:

Achieving impact is a core tenet of health services research and health technology assessment, extending far beyond the narrow definitions of impact promoted by journal impact factors (IFs) or by research assessment frameworks. One way of demonstrating real world impact is through publication of evidence syntheses that inform guidelines, such as those produced by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence(NICE). Recently guidelines organisations and health technology assessment agencies have started to fully recognise the important contribution that qualitative research can make in understanding the values and preferences of patients, carers, providers, managers and health planners. When these types of qualitative studies are harnessed by current real world crises such as Covid19, Severe Acute Malnutrition and Zika Virus they start to realise their considerable potential.

This presentation will briefly rehearse some of the key qualitative systematic review (also known as qualitative evidence synthesis) projects in which Dr Andrew Booth has collaborated before drawing out some lessons on key messages and impact. The presentation will offer an intriguing glimpse of how qualitative research feeds into national and international guidelines as well as taking a forward glance to the future role of qualitative evidence synthesis.

Bio

Dr Andrew Booth is Reader at ScHARR at the University of Sheffield and has been involved in health services research for over 25 years having previously pursued a career in health information management. A co-convenor of the Cochrane Qualitative and Implementation Methods Group he has established himself as one of the most prolific contributors to the methodology of qualitative evidence synthesis. He delivers the international ScHARR short course on Evidence Synthesis of QUalItative Research in Europe (ESQUIRE), co-facilitates courses on rapid reviews, mixed methods and systematic reviews and teaches two Masters module for the online and face-to-face versions of the University of Sheffield's Masters in Public Health (MPH). The author, with ScHARR colleagues, of the popular text Systematic Approaches to a Successful Literature Review (soon to be in its 3rd edition), Andrew holds honorary contracts with the World Health Organisation and Public Health England. Andrew's academic interests extend through research metrics, research assessment and, most recently, real world impact!

Links

https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/people/staff/andrew-booth

https://twitter.com/AndrewB007h

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Join us for our webinar - The everyday things that shape our actions: The influence of the environment on health behaviour - Dr Emma Hock - 8th October, 1pm

The everyday things that shape our actions: The influence of the environment on health behaviour

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Presenter Dr Emma Hock

Abstract
The environments in which we live have changed to make our lives easier. An increase in labour-saving devices and easy access to high energy-dense food has negatively impacted on population health, however, and individual behaviours cannot fully address this. There has been recent interest in ‘nudging’ (changes in the immediate environment that relate to health-related behaviour). In this webinar, we will examine how such changes to the environment in which we live and work can impact on people’s health-related behaviours. We will explore lab-based research research on nudges and examine how these techniques can be applied in the real world.

Bio
Dr Emma Hock is a Senior Research Fellow in ScHARR. She has a background in health behaviour change and teaches on health psychology and health behaviour change approaches and techniques on two Masters courses run by ScHARR. Emma has a track record of research in preventative health behaviour, with a specific research interest in smoking cessation and physical activity, multiple health behaviour change and physical activity and mental health. Emma completed a PhD in physical activity and smoking abstinence in young smokers in 2007, and also worked on a two-year MRC-funded research project that investigated walking as an aid to cessation: a feasibility study within the NHS stop smoking service (Walk-2-Quit).
https://twitter.com/EmmaEversonHock
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/people/staff/emma-hock

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