Nick Sevdalis
Biographic Data
| ID | 240373 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nick Sevdalis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nick |
| FAMILY NAME | Sevdalis |
| SIGNATURE | SEVDALIS N |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7560-8924 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Development of the Indigo partnership knowledge exchange strategy
Background: Knowledge exchange, a process of equitable learning, is an important aspect of research. However, there is limited published evidence about whether and how researchers plan for and document this process. This paper describes the collaborative development of the knowledge exchange strategy for a mental health research programme (the INDIGO Partnership), including monitoring and evaluation methods. Method: Knowledge gaps and needs were …
Implementing the Icope program amongst community-dwelling older adults in Singapore
Background: The global population of older adults has significantly increased in recent years, presenting substantial public health challenges. This demographic shift underscores the necessity for effective interventions such as the Integrated Care for Older People (ICOPE) framework, which aims to preserve functional ability and intrinsic capacity. While ICOPE has been implemented and evaluated primarily by clinical practitioners, demonstrating i…
Personalisation at the Core of Success
BACKGROUND: The development and evaluation of rehabilitation interventions designed to support people with Long Covid (LC) remains an important ongoing priority. Many people with LC experience episodic, debilitating symptoms that can reduce their ability to engage in all areas of activity. The Long CovId personalised Self-managemenT support co-design and EvaluatioN (LISTEN) trial co-designed and evaluated a personalised self-management support in…
Cross-cultural validation of ImpRes-Tool-BR
This study aims to present the results of the translation, cross-cultural validation and preliminary evaluation of a tool, originally developed in the United Kingdom, to guide Brazilian researchers in the elaboration of projects and rigorous and high-quality implementation research: ImpRes-BR. Following currently established good practices for cross-cultural validation of instruments and scales, the tool, together with its user guide, was transla…
Validação transcultural da ImpRes-Tool-BR
Este estudo tem como objetivo apresentar os resultados da tradução, validação transcultural e avaliação preliminar de uma ferramenta, originalmente desenvolvida no Reino Unido, para orientar pesquisadores brasileiros na elaboração de projetos e pesquisas de implementação rigorosos e de alta qualidade: ImpRes-BR. Seguindo boas práticas atualmente estabelecidas para validação transcultural de instrumentos e escalas, a ferramenta, juntamente com seu…
Evaluating quality improvement at scale
BACKGROUND: Quality improvement (QI) in healthcare is a cultural transformation process. We explored how routine reporting could be developed to aid visibility of the process for QI governance. METHOD: A retrospective evaluation of QI projects in a large healthcare organisation was conducted. We used an online survey so that the data accrual process resembled routine reporting to help identify implementation challenges. A purposive sample of QI p…
Validation of the Vaccination Trust Indicator (VTI) in a multi-country survey of adult vaccination attitudes
Improved uptake of adult vaccinations could substantially reduce the burden of infectious disease worldwide, however very few countries achieve high coverage of recommended adult vaccinations. Vaccine hesitancy is an important driver of low vaccine uptake among adults but no measure currently exists to capture general vaccination attitudes in this population accurately and efficiently. We utilize data from two surveys of adult vaccine attitudes a…
Conceptual and practical challenges associated with understanding patient safety within community‐based mental health services
Designing a leadership and management training curriculum for undergraduate health professions students
Leadership by health professionals is key in any health system, but health leadership training programmes are varied in their conceptualisation, learning objectives, and design. This paper describes an undergraduate leadership and management module for health students at the University of Sierra Leone and provides lessons from the design process. Our methods included an initial scoping review and qualitative study, followed by a co-design process…
Scaling up of safety and quality improvement interventions in perioperative care
BACKGROUND: Globally, 5 billion people lack access to safe surgical care with more deaths due to lack of quality care rather than lack of access. While many proven quality improvement (QI) interventions exist in high-income countries, implementing them in low/middle-income countries (LMICs) faces further challenges. Currently, theory-driven, systematically articulated knowledge of the factors that support successful scale-up of QI in perioperativ…
Exit, voice or neglect
This paper presents a study from Sierra Leone that explored the experiences of doctors as they endeavored to improve the health care systems in which they worked. Twenty-eight interviews were conducted with doctors in Sierra Leone, complemented by long-standing experience of national health provision and research by the authors. Drawing on Hirschman's theory of ‘exit, voice and loyalty’, the paper's framework analysis elaborates the doctor's care…
HeAlth System StrEngThening in four sub-Saharan African countries (Asset) to achieve high-quality, evidence-informed surgical, maternal and newborn, and primary care
To achieve universal health coverage, health system strengthening (HSS) is required to support the of delivery of high-quality care. The aim of the National Institute for Health Research Global Research Unit on HeAlth System StrEngThening in Sub-Saharan Africa (ASSET) is to address this need in a four-year programme, with three healthcare platforms involving eight work-packages. Key to effective health system strengthening (HSS) is the pre-implem…
Covid-19 vaccination intention in the UK
To investigate factors associated with intention to be vaccinated against COVID-19 we conducted a cross-sectional survey of 1,500 UK adults, recruited from an existing online research panel. Data were collected between 14th and 17th July 2020. We used linear regression analyses to investigate associations between intention to be vaccinated for COVID-19 "when a vaccine becomes available to you" and sociodemographic factors, previous influenza vacc…
A guide to systems-level, participatory, theory-informed implementation research in global health
Implementation research is a multidisciplinary field that addresses the complex phenomenon of how context influences our ability to deliver evidence-informed healthcare. There is increasing realisation of the importance of applying robust implementation research to scale-up life-saving interventions that meet health-related sustainable development goals. However, the lack of high-quality implementation research is impeding our ability to meet the…
To bend without breaking
Strong leadership capabilities are essential for effective health services, yet definitions of leadership remain contested. Despite the acknowledged contextual specificity of leadership styles, most leadership theories draw heavily from Western conceptualizations. This cultural bias may attenuate the effectiveness of programmes intended to transform healthcare practice in Sub-Saharan Africa, where few empirical studies on health leadership have b…
Interventions to strengthen the leadership capabilities of health professionals in Sub-Saharan Africa
Leadership is a critical component of a health system and may be particularly important in Sub-Saharan Africa, where clinicians take on significant management responsibilities. However, there has been little investment in strengthening leadership in this context, and evidence is limited on what leadership capabilities are most important or how effective different leadership development models are. This scoping review design used Arksey and O’Mall…
Relationships Between Communication, Time Pressure, Workload, Task Complexity, Logistical Issues and Group Composition in Transdisciplinary Teams
Introduction. Functional perspective of team decision-making highlights the importance of understanding the relationship between team interaction/communication during a given task, the internal factors that emanate from within a group (e.g. team composition), and the external circumstances (e.g. workload and time pressures). As an underexplored area, we explored these relationships in the context of multidisciplinary team (MDT) meetings (aka tumo…
Contextual equipoise
The call for universal health coverage requires the urgent implementation and scale-up of interventions that are known to be effective, in resource-poor settings. Achieving this objective requires high-quality implementation research (IR) that evaluates the complex phenomenon of the influence of context on the ability to effectively deliver evidence-based practice. Nevertheless, IR for global health is failing to apply a robust, theoretically dri…
The Cultural Politics of ‘Implementation Science’
Despite the growing profile of ‘implementation science’, its status as a field of study remains ambiguous. Implementation science originates in the evidence-based movement and attempts to broaden the scope of evidence-based medicine to improve ‘clinical effectiveness’ and close the ‘implementation gap’. To achieve this agenda, implementation science draws on methodologies from the social sciences to emphasise coherence between qualitative and qua…
Patient Perspectives on Transitions of Surgical Care
This study examined a thematic network aimed at identifying experiences that influence patients' outcomes (e.g., patients' satisfaction, anxiety, and discharge readiness) in an effort to improve care transitions and reduce patient burden. We drew upon the Sociology and Complexity Science Toolkit to analyze themes derived from 61 semistructured, longitudinal interviews with 20 patients undergoing either a benign or malignant colorectal resection (…
Attitudes to vaccination
This paper provides a consolidated overview of public and healthcare professionals' attitudes towards vaccination in Europe by bringing together for the first time evidence across various vaccines, countries and populations. The paper relies on an extensive review of empirical literature published in English after 2009, as well as an analysis of unpublished market research data from member companies of Vaccines Europe. Our synthesis suggests that…
Patients’ attitudes towards patient involvement in safety interventions
Background In recent years, patient‐focused interventions have been introduced aimed at increasing patient involvement in safety‐related behaviours. However, patients’ attitudes towards these interventions and comfort in participating in the recommended behaviours remain largely unexplored. Objective To evaluate patients’ attitudes towards a video and leaflet aimed at encouraging patient involvement in safety‐related behaviours. Design Two explor…
Patient involvement in patient safety
Background Patients can play an important role in improving patient safety by becoming actively involved in their health care. However, there is a paucity of empirical data on the extent to which patients take on such a role. In order to encourage patient participation in patient safety we first need to assess the full range of factors that may be implicated in such involvement. Objective To delineate factors that could affect the participation o…
Predicting preferences
In recent years, shared decision‐making between patients and doctors regarding choice of treatment has become an issue of priority. Although patients’ preferences lie at the core of the literature on shared decision‐making, there has not been any attempt so far to link the concept of shared decision‐making with the extensive behavioural literature on people's self‐predictions of their future preferences. The aim of the present review is to provid…
Determinants of willingness to pay in separate and joint evaluations of options
Patient Perspectives on Transitions of Surgical Care
This study examined a thematic network aimed at identifying experiences that influence patients' outcomes (e.g., patients' satisfaction, anxiety, and discharge readiness) in an effort to improve care transitions and reduce patient burden. We drew upon the Sociology and Complexity Science Toolkit to analyze themes derived from 61 semistructured, longitudinal interviews with 20 patients undergoing either a benign or malignant colorectal resection (…
Determinants of willingness to pay in separate and joint evaluations of options
Predicting preferences
In recent years, shared decision‐making between patients and doctors regarding choice of treatment has become an issue of priority. Although patients’ preferences lie at the core of the literature on shared decision‐making, there has not been any attempt so far to link the concept of shared decision‐making with the extensive behavioural literature on people's self‐predictions of their future preferences. The aim of the present review is to provid…
Determinants of willingness to pay in separate and joint evaluations of options
Patient involvement in patient safety
Background Patients can play an important role in improving patient safety by becoming actively involved in their health care. However, there is a paucity of empirical data on the extent to which patients take on such a role. In order to encourage patient participation in patient safety we first need to assess the full range of factors that may be implicated in such involvement. Objective To delineate factors that could affect the participation o…
Patients’ attitudes towards patient involvement in safety interventions
Background In recent years, patient‐focused interventions have been introduced aimed at increasing patient involvement in safety‐related behaviours. However, patients’ attitudes towards these interventions and comfort in participating in the recommended behaviours remain largely unexplored. Objective To evaluate patients’ attitudes towards a video and leaflet aimed at encouraging patient involvement in safety‐related behaviours. Design Two explor…
Attitudes to vaccination
This paper provides a consolidated overview of public and healthcare professionals' attitudes towards vaccination in Europe by bringing together for the first time evidence across various vaccines, countries and populations. The paper relies on an extensive review of empirical literature published in English after 2009, as well as an analysis of unpublished market research data from member companies of Vaccines Europe. Our synthesis suggests that…
Patient Perspectives on Transitions of Surgical Care
This study examined a thematic network aimed at identifying experiences that influence patients' outcomes (e.g., patients' satisfaction, anxiety, and discharge readiness) in an effort to improve care transitions and reduce patient burden. We drew upon the Sociology and Complexity Science Toolkit to analyze themes derived from 61 semistructured, longitudinal interviews with 20 patients undergoing either a benign or malignant colorectal resection (…
Relationships Between Communication, Time Pressure, Workload, Task Complexity, Logistical Issues and Group Composition in Transdisciplinary Teams
Introduction. Functional perspective of team decision-making highlights the importance of understanding the relationship between team interaction/communication during a given task, the internal factors that emanate from within a group (e.g. team composition), and the external circumstances (e.g. workload and time pressures). As an underexplored area, we explored these relationships in the context of multidisciplinary team (MDT) meetings (aka tumo…
Contextual equipoise
The call for universal health coverage requires the urgent implementation and scale-up of interventions that are known to be effective, in resource-poor settings. Achieving this objective requires high-quality implementation research (IR) that evaluates the complex phenomenon of the influence of context on the ability to effectively deliver evidence-based practice. Nevertheless, IR for global health is failing to apply a robust, theoretically dri…
The Cultural Politics of ‘Implementation Science’
Despite the growing profile of ‘implementation science’, its status as a field of study remains ambiguous. Implementation science originates in the evidence-based movement and attempts to broaden the scope of evidence-based medicine to improve ‘clinical effectiveness’ and close the ‘implementation gap’. To achieve this agenda, implementation science draws on methodologies from the social sciences to emphasise coherence between qualitative and qua…
Covid-19 vaccination intention in the UK
To investigate factors associated with intention to be vaccinated against COVID-19 we conducted a cross-sectional survey of 1,500 UK adults, recruited from an existing online research panel. Data were collected between 14th and 17th July 2020. We used linear regression analyses to investigate associations between intention to be vaccinated for COVID-19 "when a vaccine becomes available to you" and sociodemographic factors, previous influenza vacc…
A guide to systems-level, participatory, theory-informed implementation research in global health
Implementation research is a multidisciplinary field that addresses the complex phenomenon of how context influences our ability to deliver evidence-informed healthcare. There is increasing realisation of the importance of applying robust implementation research to scale-up life-saving interventions that meet health-related sustainable development goals. However, the lack of high-quality implementation research is impeding our ability to meet the…
To bend without breaking
Strong leadership capabilities are essential for effective health services, yet definitions of leadership remain contested. Despite the acknowledged contextual specificity of leadership styles, most leadership theories draw heavily from Western conceptualizations. This cultural bias may attenuate the effectiveness of programmes intended to transform healthcare practice in Sub-Saharan Africa, where few empirical studies on health leadership have b…
Interventions to strengthen the leadership capabilities of health professionals in Sub-Saharan Africa
Leadership is a critical component of a health system and may be particularly important in Sub-Saharan Africa, where clinicians take on significant management responsibilities. However, there has been little investment in strengthening leadership in this context, and evidence is limited on what leadership capabilities are most important or how effective different leadership development models are. This scoping review design used Arksey and O’Mall…
Scaling up of safety and quality improvement interventions in perioperative care
BACKGROUND: Globally, 5 billion people lack access to safe surgical care with more deaths due to lack of quality care rather than lack of access. While many proven quality improvement (QI) interventions exist in high-income countries, implementing them in low/middle-income countries (LMICs) faces further challenges. Currently, theory-driven, systematically articulated knowledge of the factors that support successful scale-up of QI in perioperativ…
Exit, voice or neglect
This paper presents a study from Sierra Leone that explored the experiences of doctors as they endeavored to improve the health care systems in which they worked. Twenty-eight interviews were conducted with doctors in Sierra Leone, complemented by long-standing experience of national health provision and research by the authors. Drawing on Hirschman's theory of ‘exit, voice and loyalty’, the paper's framework analysis elaborates the doctor's care…
HeAlth System StrEngThening in four sub-Saharan African countries (Asset) to achieve high-quality, evidence-informed surgical, maternal and newborn, and primary care
To achieve universal health coverage, health system strengthening (HSS) is required to support the of delivery of high-quality care. The aim of the National Institute for Health Research Global Research Unit on HeAlth System StrEngThening in Sub-Saharan Africa (ASSET) is to address this need in a four-year programme, with three healthcare platforms involving eight work-packages. Key to effective health system strengthening (HSS) is the pre-implem…
Evaluating quality improvement at scale
BACKGROUND: Quality improvement (QI) in healthcare is a cultural transformation process. We explored how routine reporting could be developed to aid visibility of the process for QI governance. METHOD: A retrospective evaluation of QI projects in a large healthcare organisation was conducted. We used an online survey so that the data accrual process resembled routine reporting to help identify implementation challenges. A purposive sample of QI p…
Validation of the Vaccination Trust Indicator (VTI) in a multi-country survey of adult vaccination attitudes
Improved uptake of adult vaccinations could substantially reduce the burden of infectious disease worldwide, however very few countries achieve high coverage of recommended adult vaccinations. Vaccine hesitancy is an important driver of low vaccine uptake among adults but no measure currently exists to capture general vaccination attitudes in this population accurately and efficiently. We utilize data from two surveys of adult vaccine attitudes a…
Conceptual and practical challenges associated with understanding patient safety within community‐based mental health services
Designing a leadership and management training curriculum for undergraduate health professions students
Leadership by health professionals is key in any health system, but health leadership training programmes are varied in their conceptualisation, learning objectives, and design. This paper describes an undergraduate leadership and management module for health students at the University of Sierra Leone and provides lessons from the design process. Our methods included an initial scoping review and qualitative study, followed by a co-design process…
Cross-cultural validation of ImpRes-Tool-BR
This study aims to present the results of the translation, cross-cultural validation and preliminary evaluation of a tool, originally developed in the United Kingdom, to guide Brazilian researchers in the elaboration of projects and rigorous and high-quality implementation research: ImpRes-BR. Following currently established good practices for cross-cultural validation of instruments and scales, the tool, together with its user guide, was transla…
Validação transcultural da ImpRes-Tool-BR
Este estudo tem como objetivo apresentar os resultados da tradução, validação transcultural e avaliação preliminar de uma ferramenta, originalmente desenvolvida no Reino Unido, para orientar pesquisadores brasileiros na elaboração de projetos e pesquisas de implementação rigorosos e de alta qualidade: ImpRes-BR. Seguindo boas práticas atualmente estabelecidas para validação transcultural de instrumentos e escalas, a ferramenta, juntamente com seu…
Implementing the Icope program amongst community-dwelling older adults in Singapore
Background: The global population of older adults has significantly increased in recent years, presenting substantial public health challenges. This demographic shift underscores the necessity for effective interventions such as the Integrated Care for Older People (ICOPE) framework, which aims to preserve functional ability and intrinsic capacity. While ICOPE has been implemented and evaluated primarily by clinical practitioners, demonstrating i…
Personalisation at the Core of Success
BACKGROUND: The development and evaluation of rehabilitation interventions designed to support people with Long Covid (LC) remains an important ongoing priority. Many people with LC experience episodic, debilitating symptoms that can reduce their ability to engage in all areas of activity. The Long CovId personalised Self-managemenT support co-design and EvaluatioN (LISTEN) trial co-designed and evaluated a personalised self-management support in…
Development of the Indigo partnership knowledge exchange strategy
Background: Knowledge exchange, a process of equitable learning, is an important aspect of research. However, there is limited published evidence about whether and how researchers plan for and document this process. This paper describes the collaborative development of the knowledge exchange strategy for a mental health research programme (the INDIGO Partnership), including monitoring and evaluation methods. Method: Knowledge gaps and needs were …
Medicine (15 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Health care (11 works) · Nursing (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Health Policy Implementation Science (7 works) · Public relations (7 works) · Business (6 works)