Stavros Petrou

Biographic Data

ID1265240
NAMEStavros Petrou
GIVEN NAMESStavros
FAMILY NAMEPetrou
SIGNATUREPETROU S
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Oxford
ORCID0000-0003-3121-6050
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS41
TOTAL CITATIONS50
AUTHOR COUNT41
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1996
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX4

  • Socioeconomic inequity in extreme outcomes within very pre-term and/or very low birthweight infants

    Open AccessHanifa Pilvar, Catia Nicodemo et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2026

    Background Pre-term birth (< 37 weeks' gestation) is a major cause of neonatal mortality, with very pre-term (< 32 weeks' gestation) and extremely pre-term (< 28 weeks' gestation) infants facing the highest risks. While socioeconomic disparities in pre-term birth are well-documented, relatively little is known about inequities among the highest risk subgroups. Methods Using data from the RECAP Pre-term Project across six high-income countries, we…

  • Mapping the benefits and harms of antenatal and newborn screening programmes

    Open AccessLisa Hinton, Abi Mcniven et al.ARTICLESSM - Qualitative Research in…2026

    Health screening is undergoing seismic change that includes the potential forpersonalized medicine, big data, whole genome sequencing, artificial intelligence and the development of novel and experimental therapies. Acceptability research typically gathers cross-sectional data that identifies and characterizes the harms and benefits of screening programmes, as well as the ways they are experienced, weighed and valued by different groups. Efforts …

  • Miscarriage, self-harm, and psychiatric disorders in first-time pregnant women

    Open AccessCorneliu Bolbocean, Arri Coomarasamy et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2026

    We leveraged the biological evidence that a first pregnancy ending in miscarriage is considered a quasi-exogenous shock to fertility and linked electronic health records to estimate adjusted associations between miscarriage and self-harm and psychiatric outcomes. In a random cohort of 1.2 million women aged 16 to 50, all first recorded pregnancies between 01/01/2004 and 31/12/2017 were identified using data linked from health registries in Englan…

  • Social value of a childhood Qaly - Revealed preferences from pharmaceutical funding decisions in Australia 2005–2023

    Open AccessJing Jing Li, D Mortimer et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2026

    Several countries now formally include at least one aspect of equity, alongside cost-effectiveness, in health technology assessment (HTA) decisions, often focusing on need. Recent literature suggests public support for prioritising health gains for children over adults. While some agencies may indirectly consider age, none explicitly apply different weights to health gains for children. This study analysed 19 years of data to quantify the additio…

  • Enhancing learning from evaluations in newborn and child health

    Open AccessC Blacklock, Andrew Clarke et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    BOX Operational learning from projects and programmes in newborn and child health in the international non-governmental organisations (INGOs) and the charity sector is vast

  • Family Voice

    Open AccessElizabeth-Ann Schroeder, Stavros Petrou et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2025

    Family group conferences (FGCs) in child welfare brings wider family members together to engage in the best way to meet a child’s needs. Shared decision-making is hypothesised to result in more even power-sharing between families and professionals, and greater trust. Previous research suggested FCGs may reduce more intrusive state intervention

  • Mapping and Evaluating Services for Children with Learning Disabilities and Behaviours that Challenge (Meld)

    Open AccessElizabeth-Ann Schroeder, Nicolas Manktelow et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2025

    Children with learning disabilities and behaviours that challenge are at risk of poor outcomes, their families are more likely to experience stress and their care is costly. A recent comprehensive review identified a paucity of evidence about how best to design, integrate and deliver their health and care services

  • A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial of Social Workers in Schools (SWIS) in England

    Open AccessDavid Westlake, Philip Pallmann et al.ARTICLEResearch on Social Work Practice2025References: 3

    Purpose: “Social Workers in Schools” (SWIS) is a school-based intervention aiming to reduce the need for children to receive child protection services in England. This article reports the findings of a randomized controlled trial (RCT) designed to evaluate SWIS. Method: The study was a two-arm pragmatic cluster RCT with an embedded process and economic evaluation. The intervention physically located social workers within schools. The primary outc…

  • Daily stress and worry are additional triggers of symptom fluctuations in individuals living with Long Covid

    Open AccessDaryl B O''Connor, D C Greenwood et al.ARTICLEAnnals of Behavioral Medicine2025References: 38

    BACKGROUND: Recent research has shown that exertion in physical, cognitive, social, and self-care activities triggers symptom severity in individuals with Long COVID. PURPOSE: The current study aimed to investigate whether daily emotional exertions (stress, worry, rumination) were associated with symptom exacerbation, over and above influences of effortful daily activities, in individuals with Long COVID. METHODS: In total, 376 participants were …

  • A heterogeneity analysis of health-related quality of life in early adults born very preterm or very low birthweight across the sociodemographic spectrum

    Open AccessCorneliu Bolbocean, Philip J Anderson et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2025References: 103

    Preterm birth and very low birthweight (VP/VLBW) are associated with poorer health-related quality of life (HRQoL) outcomes extending into adulthood, yet it remains unclear how these effects differ across sociodemographic subgroups. This study aimed to identify heterogeneity in the association of VP/VLBW on HRQoL in early adulthood, specifically examining maternal age, education, and ethnicity. Individual-level data from three longitudinal cohort…

  • Student perspectives on school-based social workers

    Open AccessVerity Bennett, Louisa Roberts et al.ARTICLEJournal of Children s Services2024References: 6

    Purpose School social work, in various forms, is well established internationally and has a growing evidence base. Yet existing research focuses on professional perspectives rather than those of students. This study aims to fill this gap by exploring secondary school student perspectives of having social workers in schools (SWIS). It was undertaken in England as part of the SWIS trial, which tested whether secondary school-based social workers co…

  • The cost-effectiveness and cost-consequences of a school-based social worker intervention

    Open AccessElizabeth-Ann Schroeder, David Westlake et al.ARTICLEChildren and Youth Services Review2024References: 7

    The SWIS trial compared a social worker assigned to schools (intervention) versus usual practice. • The mean total cost of the SWIS intervention per school was £106,771.30. • Variations in staff recruitment to SWIS teams led to differences in costs for local authorities. • Costs were re-estimated to account for staff time and quality of implementation. • The probability of SWIS being cost-effective for averting a section 47 enquiry at cost-effect…

  • Family Group Conference Provision in UK Local Authorities and Associations with Children Looked after Rates

    Open AccessSophie Wood, Jonathan Scourfield et al.ARTICLEThe British Journal of Social Work2024Cited by: 1References: 25

    Family group conferences (FGCs) in child welfare share decision-making with family members by bringing the immediate and wider family together to make a plan to meet a child’s needs. This paper reports survey findings on FGC provision in the UK in 2022 and explores whether in England the presence of an FGC service and the rate of FGC provision is associated with the rate of children in care, entering care, in kinship foster care and leaving care.…

  • Maternal Wellbeing Five Years after a Very Preterm Delivery

    Open AccessLena Wohlers, Rolf F Maier et al.ARTICLEChildren2023

    (1) Background: Mothers of very preterm (VPT) infants may experience psychological symptoms compromising long-term emotional wellbeing. This study describes the emotional wellbeing of mothers of five-year-old children born VPT. We assess the association between sociodemographic, perinatal and neonatal characteristics, and the child's health and development at five years old and maternal emotional wellbeing. (2) Methods: Data are from the prospect…

  • Views, obstacles, and uncertainties around the inclusion of children and young people's time in economic evaluations

    Open AccessLazaros Andronis, Cameron Morgan et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2023References: 23

    People's time is a limited resource and, in economic evaluations that adopt a societal perspective, it is important that it is valued and accounted for. Yet, in economic evaluations of interventions for children and young people (CYP), attempts to take into account the opportunity cost of their time are rare. To understand why this is the case, we need to first understand what views health economists hold in relation to CYP time, and what challen…

  • Derivation of a UK preference-based value set for the Short Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (SWEMWBS) to allow estimation of Mental Well-being Adjusted Life Years (MWALYs)

    Open AccessHei Hang Edmund Yiu, John Buckell et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2023Cited by: 1References: 27

  • Consolidated Health Economic Evaluation Reporting Standards 2022 (CHEERS 2022) statement

    Open AccessDon Husereau, Michael Drummond et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    Health economic evaluations are comparative analyses of alternative courses of action in terms of their costs and consequences. The Consolidated Health Economic Evaluation Reporting Standards (CHEERS) statement, published in 2013, was created to ensure health economic evaluations are identifiable, interpretable, and useful for decision making. It was intended as guidance to help authors report accurately which health interventions were being comp…

  • Health-related quality of life of children born very preterm

    Open AccessSungwook Kim, Lazaros Andronis et al.ARTICLEQuality of Life Research2022

    The findings suggest that HRQoL is particularly impaired by extremely preterm birth and the concomitant complications of preterm birth such as BPD and severe non-respiratory morbidity

  • The use of composite time trade-off and discrete choice experiment methods for the valuation of the Short Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (SWEMWBS)

    Open AccessHei Hang Edmund Yiu, Hareth Al-Janabi et al.ARTICLEQuality of Life Research2022

    The interviews contributed insights regarding the robustness of the proposed methods. The application of C-TTO and DCE valuation techniques was practical and suitable for capturing individual attitudes towards different mental well-being scenarios. A modified protocol informed by the results is being tested in a larger sample across the UK

  • Benefits and harms adopted by health economic assessments evaluating antenatal and newborn screening programmes in OECD countries

    Open AccessMay Ee Png, Miaoqing Yang et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2022

  • Miscarriage matters

    Open AccessSiobhan Quenby, Ioannis D Gallos et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2021

  • Bilateral Permanent Childhood Hearing Loss and Health-Related Quality of Life in Adolescence

    Open AccessStavros Petrou, Kamran Khan et al.ARTICLEChildren2021

    Little is known about the impact of bilateral permanent childhood hearing loss (PCHL) on health-related quality of life (HRQoL). The objective of this study was to describe preference-based and non-preference based HRQoL outcomes in adolescence, from both self and proxy perspectives, amongst participants of the Hearing Outcomes Project. The Health Utilities Index Marks II (HUI2) and III (HUI3) and the PedsQL TM Version 4.0 Generic Core Scales wer…

  • Early Positive Approaches to Support (E-PAtS) for Families of Young Children With Intellectual Disability

    Open AccessElinor Coulman, Nick Gore et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2021

    Background: Parents of children with intellectual disabilities are likely to experience poorer mental well-being and face challenges accessing support. Early Positive Approaches to Support (E-PAtS) is a group-based programme, co-produced with parents and professionals, based on existing research evidence and a developmental systems approach to support parental mental well-being. The aim of this study was to assess the feasibility of community ser…

  • A method for measuring spatial effects on socioeconomic inequalities using the concentration index

    Open AccessSungwook Kim, Hassan Haghparast-Bidgoli et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2020

    Our findings suggest that men from lower socioeconomic groups are more likely to receive an HIV test after adjustment for spatial effects. This study develops a novel methodological approach that incorporates estimation of spatial effects into a common approach to equity analysis. We find that a significant component of inequalities in HIV uptake in Malawi driven by non-need factors can be explained by spatial effects. When the spatial model was …

  • Systematic review of economic evaluations of children’s social care interventions

    Open AccessAsmaa El-Banna, Stavros Petrou et al.ARTICLEChildren and Youth Services Review2020Cited by: 1