Jennifer Baird

Biographic Data

ID210658
NAMEJennifer Baird
GIVEN NAMESJennifer
FAMILY NAMEBaird
SIGNATUREBAIRD J
AFFILIATIONSMRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit
ORCID0000-0002-4039-4361
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS36
TOTAL CITATIONS52
AUTHOR COUNT36
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2005
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX4

  • The Association Between Maternal Adiposity and Breastfeeding Initiation and Duration

    Open AccessAmelia Grace Bird, Hazel Inskip et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Health Journal2026

    In this study maternal adiposity had little impact on breastfeeding initiation but higher maternal adiposity was associated with shorter breastfeeding duration. This study suggests that more support should be given to mothers with overweight and obesity to promote longer duration of breastfeeding

  • Mapping how responsibility for poor diets is framed in the United Kingdom

    Open AccessNéstor Serrano Fuentes, Nestor Serrano-Fuentes et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2025

    Objective: To identify and present (i) how responsibility for poor diets in the UK is framed across the public, mass media and the government and (ii) how groups experiencing socio-economic disadvantage are presented within this framing. Design: A scoping review of peer-reviewed literature was conducted using six databases. A systematic narrative synthesis guided by qualitative content analysis was applied to summarise the findings. Results: Thir…

  • Inequalities in energy drink consumption among UK adolescents

    Open AccessChristina Vogel, Sarah Shaw et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2023

    Objective: To examine energy drink consumption among adolescents in the UK and associations with deprivation and dietary inequalities. Design: Quantitative dietary and demographic data from the National Diet and Nutrition Survey (NDNS) repeated cross-sectional survey were analysed using logistic regression models. Qualitative data from semi-structured interviews were analysed using inductive thematic analysis. Setting: UK. Participants: Quantitat…

  • A Social Work Model of Historical Trauma

    Open AccessMitchell Rosenwald, Jennifer Baird et al.ARTICLEThe British Journal of Social Work2023References: 15

    This article introduces a Social Work Model of Historical Trauma. The model draws from social work perspectives (ecosystems theory and the life model, human rights philosophy, race-based traumatic stress injury theory and attachment theory), disparities research, social work issues and policy statements, social work ethics and epigenetics. Assessment and intervention in micro, mezzo and macro domains are discussed. The article concludes with a ca…

  • Supporting and enabling health research in a local authority (Serla)

    Open AccessC McGee, Ciara E McGee et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    Creating strategic level roles within local government to work with the Director of Public Health to champion the research agenda and embedding researchers within and across teams would build capacity for local authorities to sustainably co-create, undertake, and use evidence to better inform future actions

  • How do we engage people in testing for Covid-19? A rapid qualitative evaluation of a testing programme in schools, GP surgeries and a university

    Open AccessDaniella Watson, Natalia Laverty Baralle et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    Participants' and stakeholders' motivations, challenges and concerns need to be understood and these insights used to modify the programme in a continuous, real-time process to ensure and sustain engagement with testing over the extended period necessary. Community leaders and stakeholder organisations should be involved throughout programme development and implementation to optimise engagement

  • A new framework for developing and evaluating complex interventions

    Open AccessKathryn Skivington, Lynsay Matthews et al.ARTICLEBMJ2021

    The UK Medical Research Council’s widely used guidance for developing and evaluating complex interventions has been replaced by a new framework, commissioned jointly by the Medical Research Council and the National Institute for Health Research, which takes account of recent developments in theory and methods and the need to maximise the efficiency, use, and impact of research.

  • Women’s perceptions of factors influencing their food shopping choices and how supermarkets can support them to make healthier choices

    Open AccessPreeti Dhuria, Wayne Lawrence et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    This study highlighted that in-store environments can undermine intentions to purchase and consume healthy foods. Creating healthier supermarket environments could reduce the burden of personal responsibility for healthy eating, by making healthier choices easier. Future research could explore the interplay of personal, societal and commercial responsibility for food choices and health status

  • Parental perspectives on negotiations over diet and physical activity

    Open AccessSarah Shaw, Sara Correia Simao et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2021

    Objective: To identify the ways in which parental involvement can be incorporated into interventions to support adolescent health behaviour change. Design: Data from semi-structured interviews were analysed using inductive thematic analysis. Setting: Southampton, Hampshire, UK. Participants: A convenience sample of twenty-four parents of adolescents. Results: Parents consider themselves to play an important role in supporting their adolescents to…

  • Resources in women's social networks for food shopping are more strongly associated with better dietary quality than people

    Open AccessCalum Shand, Sophie Crozier et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2021Cited by: 1References: 42

  • The Effects of Different Smoking Patterns in Pregnancy on Perinatal Outcomes in the Southampton Women’s Survey

    Open AccessM O’Donnell, Jennifer Baird et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2020

    Maternal smoking during pregnancy has established associations with poor perinatal outcomes. Among continuing pregnant smokers, harm-reduction strategies have been suggested, including temporary cessation of smoking during pregnancy, also known as partial quitting. Support for this strategy, however, remains limited. Six hundred and ninety-seven women in the Southampton Women's Survey who smoked at their last menstrual period were categorised int…

  • How can we best use opportunities provided by routine maternity care to engage women in improving their diets and health

    Open AccessWayne Lawrence, Christina Vogel et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2019

    Pregnancy provides motivation for women to improve their diets and increase their physical activity. Opportunistic brief interventions delivered as part of routine primary care have produced improvements in patients' health behaviour. Consequently, there have been calls for midwives to use contacts during pregnancy in this way. This study explored the experiences of pregnant women and research midwives/nurses of a brief intervention called Health…

  • Before the beginning

    Open AccessJudith Stephenson, Nicola Heslehurst et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2018

  • Improving recruitment to clinical trials during pregnancy

    Open AccessSofia Strömmer, Wayne Lawrence et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2018Cited by: 1References: 51

  • What influences diet quality in older people? A qualitative study among community-dwelling older adults from the Hertfordshire Cohort Study, UK

    Open AccessIlse Bloom, Wayne Lawrence et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2017

    Objective To explore influences on diet in a group of community-dwelling older adults in the UK. Design Data were collected through focus group discussions with older people; discussions were audio-recorded, transcribed verbatim and transcripts analysed thematically. Setting Hertfordshire, UK. Subjects Participants were sampled purposively from the Hertfordshire Cohort Study, focusing on those whose diets had been assessed at two time points: 199…

  • Greater access to healthy food outlets in the home and school environment is associated with better dietary quality in young children

    Open AccessMillie Barrett, Sophie Crozier et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2017

    Objective To explore associations between dietary quality and access to different types of food outlets around both home and school in primary school-aged children. Design Cross-sectional observational study. Setting Hampshire, UK. Subjects Children ( n 1173) in the Southampton Women’s Survey underwent dietary assessment at age 6 years by FFQ and a standardised diet quality score was calculated. An activity space around each child’s home and scho…

  • Best Practice in Provider/Parent Interaction

    Open AccessBetty Davies, Rose Steele et al.ARTICLEQualitative Health Research2017Cited by: 8References: 30

    In this 3-year prospective grounded theory study in three pediatric settings, we aimed to develop a conceptualization of best practice health care providers (BPHCPs) in interaction with parents of children with complex, chronic, life-threatening conditions. Analysis of semistructured interviews with 34 parents and 80 health care professionals (HCPs) and 88 observation periods of HCP/parent interactions indicated that BPHCPs shared a broad worldvi…

  • Making every contact count

    Open AccessWayne Lawrence, Wendy Lawrence et al.ARTICLEJournal of Health Psychology2016Cited by: 10References: 26

    A total of 148 health and social care practitioners were trained in skills to support behaviour change: creating opportunities to discuss health behaviours, using open discovery questions, listening, reflecting and goal-setting. At three time points post-training, use of the skills was evaluated and compared with use of skills by untrained practitioners. Trained practitioners demonstrated significantly greater use of these client-centred skills t…

  • Process evaluation of complex interventions

    Open AccessGary F Moore, Suzanne Audrey et al.ARTICLEBMJ2015

    Process evaluation is an essential part of designing and testing complex interventions. New MRC guidance provides a framework for conducting and reporting process evaluation studies

  • Influences on the diet quality of pre-school children

    Open AccessMegan Jarman, Hazel Inskip et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2015

    Objective To test the hypothesis that maternal psychological profiles relate to children’s quality of diet. Design Cross-sectional study. Mothers provided information on their health-related psychological factors and aspects of their child’s mealtime environment. Children’s diet quality was assessed using an FFQ from which weekly intakes of foods and a diet Z -score were calculated. A high score described children with a better quality diet. Clus…

  • How do mothers manage their preschool children's eating habits and does this change as children grow older? A longitudinal analysis

    Open AccessMegan Jarman, Jane Ogden et al.ARTICLEAppetite2015Cited by: 9References: 32

  • Healthy conversation skills

    Open AccessChristina Black, Wayne Lawrence et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2014

    Objective (i) To assess change in confidence in having conversations that support parents with healthy eating and physical activity post-training. (ii) To assess change in staff competence in using ‘open discovery’ questions (those generally beginning with ‘how’ and ‘what’ that help individuals reflect and identify barriers and solutions) post-training. (iii) To examine the relationship between confidence and competence post-training. Design A pr…

  • Dietary inequalities

    Open AccessChristina Black, Graham Moon et al.ARTICLEHealth & Place2014

  • Process evaluation in complex public health intervention studies

    Open AccessGraham Moore, Suzanne Audrey et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2014Cited by: 4References: 9

    Objective Infections with multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) such as Gram-negative bacteria have high morbidity and mortality with limited treatment options. Colistin, an antibiotic active against MDRO, was rarely used due to frequent adverse effects, but its use has now been recommended among adults. In this study, we determined the efficacy of colistin for the treatment of sepsis in neonates. Design/setting/patients/outcomes We conducted a r…

  • PP68 Prevalence and Risk Factors of Poor Sleep in a Community-Dwelling Older Population

    H J Denison, Hayley Denison et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2013

    Background Poor sleep is associated with morbidity and mortality, and research indicates that poor sleep quality is common in older people. The aim of this investigation was to determine the prevalence and risk factors of poor sleep in a community-dwelling older population. Methods The target population was 591 men and women aged 71-80 years from the Hertfordshire Cohort Study. 443 (75.0%) agreed to participate. Sleep was assessed using the valid…