Geoff Wong
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3886211 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Geoff Wong |
| NOMBRES | Geoff |
| APELLIDO | Wong |
| FIRMA | WONG G |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5384-4157 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 50 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2009 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Developing initial programme theory for realist economic evaluation
It is increasingly recognised that ‘big problems’ in health and social care require well-designed solutions and robust evaluation, including attention to costs as well as outcomes. This is especially important in the pervasive environment of resource scarcity. Decisions need to be made that consider not only whether and how an intervention works but also affordability and efficiency in different circumstances and populations. As researchers tackl…
Implementing recommendations to optimise professional support in the medical workplace
Cultural Competency in Research
BACKGROUND: As researchers strive to conduct culturally competent and equitable research, there remains a lack of actionable guidance across the research lifecycle. Increasingly, funding bodies require evidence of such approaches, yet a clear, practical direction for effective research practice is often lacking. AIM: To develop a practical framework, grounded in Meleis' cultural competence criteria, to guide all stages of the research lifecycle. …
Bringing together realist and economic approaches in the evaluation of health and social care interventions
BACKGROUND: In the evaluation of complex interventions, economic evaluations aim to determine the relative cost-effectiveness of interventions but generate little explanation of how or why contexts and underlying causal mechanisms impact this. Conversely, realist approaches aim to explain 'what works, for whom, in which circumstances and why' but rarely capture the economic costs and consequences of interventions. As a result, many evaluations re…
Integrating informal carers who support medication management into hospital to home transitions
Background: Integrating informal carers into patient care around the transition from hospital to home can be beneficial to patient and carer outcomes, avoiding adverse medication events and readmission, yet the practices of how this is achieved are unclear. Approach; Informal carers are defined as somebody who looks after a person who cannot cope without support, these people are often family and friends. Using a realist review approach, this wor…
There’s Never Just One Type’
Life story work is a way of supporting children who spend time in out-of-home care to make sense of their experiences. It is highly valued yet poorly evidenced and inconsistently implemented with adolescents aged 12–18 years old. We sought to improve our understandings of the ways in which carers are already supporting what we describe as adolescent-focused low-intensity life story work (AF-LI-LSW) to improve the quality, consistency and availabi…
A realist evaluation of how, why and when objective structured clinical exams (OSCEs) are experienced as an authentic assessment of clinical preparedness
INTRODUCTION: Whilst rarely researched, the authenticity with which Objective Structured Clinical Exams (OSCEs) simulate practice is arguably critical to making valid judgements about candidates' preparedness to progress in their training. We studied how and why an OSCE gave rise to different experiences of authenticity for different participants under different circumstances. METHODS: We used Realist evaluation, collecting data through interview…
Integrating palliative care and oncology – a realist synthesis to explain what works, for whom, and in what circumstances
Introduction: Palliative care aims to improve quality of life for people living with a life-limiting illness. There are approximately 2.5 million people with cancer in the UK, and this may reach 4 million by the year 2030. An integrated approach to palliative care and cancer care is recommended to achieve continuity of care and address unmet needs. However, this is not yet common practice - symptom burden, futile treatment, and fragmented care co…
A mixed methods realist evaluation of a Digital Life Story Work platform
Life Story Work is a fundamental in children’s state care. It is a process of helping children make sense of their experiences to promote their well-being. As society increasingly uses online repositories to store digital artefacts, interest in commissioning Digital Life Story Work (DLSW) platforms grows. However, why, how, when, for whom, and in what circumstances such platforms may help support children with experience of living in state care i…
Mechanism-Based Middle-Range Theories
Realist synthesis is a recognized methodological approach to evidence synthesis to inform evidence-based health policy and practice. The implicit assumption behind research synthesis is that the evidence it generates should be generalizable--drawing broad inferences from specific observations. While this understanding is generally shared among social scientists, tensions exist between having generalizable evidence and how this evidence can be use…
How Mobile Health Can Change the Contexts of Living With HIV and Engaging With Treatment and Care in Iran
Mobile health (mHealth) interventions are increasingly used to address the challenges of living with HIV and engaging with antiretroviral therapy. A wealth of evidence supports the efficacy of mHealth in supporting living with HIV. Yet, there is a dearth of evidence on how mHealth improves outcomes, which features are effective, and why these work in a particular setting. This study uses stakeholder views, including patients, providers, peer supp…
MHealth interventions for postpartum family planning in LMICs
The unmet need for family planning is a pervasive public health concern in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Mobile health (mHealth) interventions have been designed and implemented in LMIC settings to address this issue through health information dissemination via voice calls, apps, and short message services (SMS). Although the impact of mHealth programmes on postpartum family planning outcomes have been systematically reviewed, th…
How does online postal self-sampling (OPSS) shape access to testing for sexually transmitted infections (STIs)? A qualitative study of service users
Our findings constitute one of the largest qualitative studies to have explored OPSS and offer valuable insights to providers. OPSS shapes access to STI testing in a number of ways, including facilitating access in many circumstances, but users also want to retain access to clinic-based services, particularly for when they believe they need support beyond STI testing
She’s Been a Rock”
Social prescribing link workers are recently introduced roles in English primary care. One of their intended functions is to support patients with conditions influenced by the wider, social determinants of health. Their main purpose is to connect people to community resources to meet their nonmedical needs. However, our research reveals that link workers provide not only connections but also what we have described as “holding” for individuals wit…
Understanding networks in low-and middle-income countries’ health systems
Networks are an often-employed approach to improve problems of poor service delivery and quality of care in sub-optimally functioning health systems. There are many types of health system networks reported in the literature and despite differences, there are identifiable common characteristics, uses, purposes, and stakeholders. This scoping review systematically searched the literature on networks in health systems to map the different types of n…
Self-growth, wellbeing and volunteering - Implications for social prescribing
Volunteering - the giving of time and support, without expectation of payment, for the good of others, a community or organization – may bring about benefits to health and wellbeing. Formal volunteering may be considered as part of a social prescription to which link workers may refer patients. This paper explores the role that volunteering may play as part of social prescribing by considering the impact it can have on health and wellbeing and hi…
Social prescribing for older people and the role of the cultural sector during the Covid ‐19 pandemic
Older people's well-being can be bolstered by engaging with cultural activities and venues. They may be encouraged to try cultural offers by a link worker as part of social prescribing. However, the cultural sector, like all parts of life, was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic; this has had implications for cultural offers available to link workers. A study was conducted to explore the views and experiences of link workers in using the cultural s…
Optimising the delivery of remediation programmes for doctors
What's in a Realist Configuration? Deciding Which Causal Configurations to Use, How, and Why
Background: Realist studies represent an increasingly popular approach for exploring complex interventions' successes and failures. The theory-driven approach seeks to explain 'what works, how, why, in which contexts, for whom, and to what extent' using context-mechanism-outcome (CMO) configurations. When the approach was first developed, CMO configurations were the method for expressing causal explanations. Increasingly, realist studies have bee…
Rameses II reporting standards for realist evaluations
BACKGROUND: Realist evaluation is increasingly used in health services and other fields of research and evaluation. No previous standards exist for reporting realist evaluations. This standard was developed as part of the RAMESES II project. The project's aim is to produce initial reporting standards for realist evaluations. METHODS: We purposively recruited a maximum variety sample of an international group of experts in realist evaluation to ou…
A realist evaluation of community-based participatory research
These results add to other studies on improving the science of CBPR in partnerships with a high level of power-sharing and co-governance. Our results suggest sustaining CBPR and achieving unanticipated benefits likely depend on trust-related mechanisms and a continuing commitment to power-sharing. These findings have implications for building successful CBPR partnerships to address challenging public health problems and the complex assessment of …
Special Invited Editorial
How Design of Places Promotes or Inhibits Mobility of Older Adults
Objective: The objective of this study was to determine the environmental features that best support aging in place. Method: We conducted a realist synthesis, a theory-driven interpretive method of evidence synthesis, of 120+ articles (published 1991-2011) that attempts to explain how place may influence older adults’ decisions about mobility (e.g., physical activity). We developed an initial program theory, reviewed the literature, identified ou…
Rameses publication standards
BACKGROUND: There is growing interest in realist synthesis as an alternative systematic review method. This approach offers the potential to expand the knowledge base in policy-relevant areas - for example, by explaining the success, failure or mixed fortunes of complex interventions. No previous publication standards exist for reporting realist syntheses. This standard was developed as part of the RAMESES (Realist And MEta-narrative Evidence Syn…
Rameses publication standards
Known Knowns, Known Unknowns, Unknown Unknowns
The authors present a case study examining the potential for policies to be “evidence-based.” To what extent is it possible to say that a decision to implement a complex social intervention is warranted on the basis of available empirical data? The case chosen is whether there is sufficient evidence to justify banning smoking in cars carrying children. The numerous assumptions underpinning such legislation are elicited, the weight and validity of…
What's in a Realist Configuration? Deciding Which Causal Configurations to Use, How, and Why
Background: Realist studies represent an increasingly popular approach for exploring complex interventions' successes and failures. The theory-driven approach seeks to explain 'what works, how, why, in which contexts, for whom, and to what extent' using context-mechanism-outcome (CMO) configurations. When the approach was first developed, CMO configurations were the method for expressing causal explanations. Increasingly, realist studies have bee…
Realist RCTs of complex interventions - An oxymoron
She’s Been a Rock”
Social prescribing link workers are recently introduced roles in English primary care. One of their intended functions is to support patients with conditions influenced by the wider, social determinants of health. Their main purpose is to connect people to community resources to meet their nonmedical needs. However, our research reveals that link workers provide not only connections but also what we have described as “holding” for individuals wit…
Special Invited Editorial
A mixed methods realist evaluation of a Digital Life Story Work platform
Life Story Work is a fundamental in children’s state care. It is a process of helping children make sense of their experiences to promote their well-being. As society increasingly uses online repositories to store digital artefacts, interest in commissioning Digital Life Story Work (DLSW) platforms grows. However, why, how, when, for whom, and in what circumstances such platforms may help support children with experience of living in state care i…
Mechanism-Based Middle-Range Theories
Realist synthesis is a recognized methodological approach to evidence synthesis to inform evidence-based health policy and practice. The implicit assumption behind research synthesis is that the evidence it generates should be generalizable--drawing broad inferences from specific observations. While this understanding is generally shared among social scientists, tensions exist between having generalizable evidence and how this evidence can be use…
Social prescribing for older people and the role of the cultural sector during the Covid ‐19 pandemic
Older people's well-being can be bolstered by engaging with cultural activities and venues. They may be encouraged to try cultural offers by a link worker as part of social prescribing. However, the cultural sector, like all parts of life, was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic; this has had implications for cultural offers available to link workers. A study was conducted to explore the views and experiences of link workers in using the cultural s…
Tensions and Paradoxes in Electronic Patient Record Research
Context: The extensive research literature on electronic patient records (EPRs) presents challenges to systematic reviewers because it covers multiple research traditions with different underlying philosophical assumptions and methodological approaches. Methods: Using the meta‐narrative method and searching beyond the Medline‐indexed literature, this review used “conflicting” findings to address higher‐order questions about how researchers had di…
The Today Programme’s Contribution to Evidence-based Policy
Known Knowns, Known Unknowns, Unknown Unknowns
The authors present a case study examining the potential for policies to be “evidence-based.” To what extent is it possible to say that a decision to implement a complex social intervention is warranted on the basis of available empirical data? The case chosen is whether there is sufficient evidence to justify banning smoking in cars carrying children. The numerous assumptions underpinning such legislation are elicited, the weight and validity of…
Uncovering the Benefits of Participatory Research
Context: Participatory research (PR) is the co‐construction of research through partnerships between researchers and people affected by and/or responsible for action on the issues under study. Evaluating the benefits of PR is challenging for a number of reasons: the research topics, methods, and study designs are heterogeneous; the extent of collaborative involvement may vary over the duration of a project and from one project to the next; and pa…
Rameses publication standards
BACKGROUND: There is growing interest in realist synthesis as an alternative systematic review method. This approach offers the potential to expand the knowledge base in policy-relevant areas - for example, by explaining the success, failure or mixed fortunes of complex interventions. No previous publication standards exist for reporting realist syntheses. This standard was developed as part of the RAMESES (Realist And MEta-narrative Evidence Syn…
Rameses publication standards
Public Opinion and Policy‐making
‘Evidence‐based policy’ often uses systematic reviews of existing research on the effectiveness of interventions to provide guidance for policymakers. When applied to gauging public support for interventions, there are two stumbling blocks – opinion data on contentious issues are volatile and prone to measurement error, and the barometer of public opinion should be set for the present rather than reflecting sentiments of other times. Despite thes…
Realist RCTs of complex interventions - An oxymoron
How Design of Places Promotes or Inhibits Mobility of Older Adults
Objective: The objective of this study was to determine the environmental features that best support aging in place. Method: We conducted a realist synthesis, a theory-driven interpretive method of evidence synthesis, of 120+ articles (published 1991-2011) that attempts to explain how place may influence older adults’ decisions about mobility (e.g., physical activity). We developed an initial program theory, reviewed the literature, identified ou…
A realist evaluation of community-based participatory research
These results add to other studies on improving the science of CBPR in partnerships with a high level of power-sharing and co-governance. Our results suggest sustaining CBPR and achieving unanticipated benefits likely depend on trust-related mechanisms and a continuing commitment to power-sharing. These findings have implications for building successful CBPR partnerships to address challenging public health problems and the complex assessment of …
Special Invited Editorial
Rameses II reporting standards for realist evaluations
BACKGROUND: Realist evaluation is increasingly used in health services and other fields of research and evaluation. No previous standards exist for reporting realist evaluations. This standard was developed as part of the RAMESES II project. The project's aim is to produce initial reporting standards for realist evaluations. METHODS: We purposively recruited a maximum variety sample of an international group of experts in realist evaluation to ou…
What's in a Realist Configuration? Deciding Which Causal Configurations to Use, How, and Why
Background: Realist studies represent an increasingly popular approach for exploring complex interventions' successes and failures. The theory-driven approach seeks to explain 'what works, how, why, in which contexts, for whom, and to what extent' using context-mechanism-outcome (CMO) configurations. When the approach was first developed, CMO configurations were the method for expressing causal explanations. Increasingly, realist studies have bee…
Optimising the delivery of remediation programmes for doctors
Self-growth, wellbeing and volunteering - Implications for social prescribing
Volunteering - the giving of time and support, without expectation of payment, for the good of others, a community or organization – may bring about benefits to health and wellbeing. Formal volunteering may be considered as part of a social prescription to which link workers may refer patients. This paper explores the role that volunteering may play as part of social prescribing by considering the impact it can have on health and wellbeing and hi…
Social prescribing for older people and the role of the cultural sector during the Covid ‐19 pandemic
Older people's well-being can be bolstered by engaging with cultural activities and venues. They may be encouraged to try cultural offers by a link worker as part of social prescribing. However, the cultural sector, like all parts of life, was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic; this has had implications for cultural offers available to link workers. A study was conducted to explore the views and experiences of link workers in using the cultural s…
Understanding networks in low-and middle-income countries’ health systems
Networks are an often-employed approach to improve problems of poor service delivery and quality of care in sub-optimally functioning health systems. There are many types of health system networks reported in the literature and despite differences, there are identifiable common characteristics, uses, purposes, and stakeholders. This scoping review systematically searched the literature on networks in health systems to map the different types of n…
MHealth interventions for postpartum family planning in LMICs
The unmet need for family planning is a pervasive public health concern in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Mobile health (mHealth) interventions have been designed and implemented in LMIC settings to address this issue through health information dissemination via voice calls, apps, and short message services (SMS). Although the impact of mHealth programmes on postpartum family planning outcomes have been systematically reviewed, th…
How does online postal self-sampling (OPSS) shape access to testing for sexually transmitted infections (STIs)? A qualitative study of service users
Our findings constitute one of the largest qualitative studies to have explored OPSS and offer valuable insights to providers. OPSS shapes access to STI testing in a number of ways, including facilitating access in many circumstances, but users also want to retain access to clinic-based services, particularly for when they believe they need support beyond STI testing
She’s Been a Rock”
Social prescribing link workers are recently introduced roles in English primary care. One of their intended functions is to support patients with conditions influenced by the wider, social determinants of health. Their main purpose is to connect people to community resources to meet their nonmedical needs. However, our research reveals that link workers provide not only connections but also what we have described as “holding” for individuals wit…
A realist evaluation of how, why and when objective structured clinical exams (OSCEs) are experienced as an authentic assessment of clinical preparedness
INTRODUCTION: Whilst rarely researched, the authenticity with which Objective Structured Clinical Exams (OSCEs) simulate practice is arguably critical to making valid judgements about candidates' preparedness to progress in their training. We studied how and why an OSCE gave rise to different experiences of authenticity for different participants under different circumstances. METHODS: We used Realist evaluation, collecting data through interview…
Integrating palliative care and oncology – a realist synthesis to explain what works, for whom, and in what circumstances
Introduction: Palliative care aims to improve quality of life for people living with a life-limiting illness. There are approximately 2.5 million people with cancer in the UK, and this may reach 4 million by the year 2030. An integrated approach to palliative care and cancer care is recommended to achieve continuity of care and address unmet needs. However, this is not yet common practice - symptom burden, futile treatment, and fragmented care co…
A mixed methods realist evaluation of a Digital Life Story Work platform
Life Story Work is a fundamental in children’s state care. It is a process of helping children make sense of their experiences to promote their well-being. As society increasingly uses online repositories to store digital artefacts, interest in commissioning Digital Life Story Work (DLSW) platforms grows. However, why, how, when, for whom, and in what circumstances such platforms may help support children with experience of living in state care i…
Mechanism-Based Middle-Range Theories
Realist synthesis is a recognized methodological approach to evidence synthesis to inform evidence-based health policy and practice. The implicit assumption behind research synthesis is that the evidence it generates should be generalizable--drawing broad inferences from specific observations. While this understanding is generally shared among social scientists, tensions exist between having generalizable evidence and how this evidence can be use…
How Mobile Health Can Change the Contexts of Living With HIV and Engaging With Treatment and Care in Iran
Mobile health (mHealth) interventions are increasingly used to address the challenges of living with HIV and engaging with antiretroviral therapy. A wealth of evidence supports the efficacy of mHealth in supporting living with HIV. Yet, there is a dearth of evidence on how mHealth improves outcomes, which features are effective, and why these work in a particular setting. This study uses stakeholder views, including patients, providers, peer supp…
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