Michael Robling
Biographic Data
| ID | 3573855 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Robling |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Robling |
| SIGNATURE | ROBLING M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1004-036X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
What Mental Health and Wellbeing Interventions Work for Which Children and Young People in Care? Systematic Review of Potential Outcome Inequities
Children and young people with care-experience (e.g. foster, kinship and residential care) report poorer mental health and wellbeing than the general population. Despite an emerging evidence-base for intervention, it is not clear if current approaches create, exacerbate or mitigate outcome inequities between different types of participants. We conducted a systematic review of international interventions targeting mental health, subjective wellbei…
Family Voice
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
Interventions Targeting the Mental Health and Well-being of Care-Experienced Children and Young People
Care-experienced children and young people are at increased risk of poor mental health and well-being, and suicide-related outcomes. There is an evidence-base for intervention effectiveness, but this is primarily from the USA. The present systematic review synthesised evidence for international interventions, exploring potential transportability and adaptability to the UK. We constructed an evidence map, and syntheses of intervention effectivenes…
Family Group Conference Provision in UK Local Authorities and Associations with Children Looked after Rates
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.…
Mental health and wellbeing interventions for care-experienced children and young people
The mental health and well-being of care-experienced children and young people remains a concern. Despite a range of interventions, the existing evidence base is limited in scope, with a reliance on standalone outcome evaluations which limits understanding of how contextual factors influence implementation and acceptability. The Care-experienced cHildren and young people’s Interventions to improve Mental health and wEll-being outcomes Systematic …
“I don't mean to be rude, but could you put a mask on while I'm here?” A qualitative study of risks experienced by domiciliary care workers in Wales during the Covid‐19 pandemic
Domiciliary care workers (DCWs) continued to provide care to adults in their own homes throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. The evidence of the impact of COVID-19 on health outcomes of DCWs is currently mixed. The OSCAR study will quantify the impact of COVID-19 upon health outcomes of DCWs in Wales, explore causes of variation and extrapolate to the rest of the UK DCW population. An embedded qualitative study aimed to explore DCW experiences during…
The impact of a specialist home-visiting intervention on the language outcomes of young mothers and their children
This observational study conducted within the context of a randomised-controlled trial suggests that the FNP home-visiting programme may have a small, but potentially important impact on young mothers' speech to their toddlers. Exploratory analyses identified family environment, maternal, and child related predictors of the language outcomes of young mothers and their offspring. Trial registration This trial is registered with ISRCTN, number ISRC…
Health behaviour change among UK adults during the pandemic
A substantial proportion of participants reported attempts to change health behaviours in the initial survey phase. However, the lack of change observed over time indicated that overall motivation to engage in healthy behaviours was sustained among the UK adult population, from a period shortly after the first lockdown toward the end of the second prolonged lockdown
Developing a whole-school mental health and wellbeing intervention through pragmatic formative process evaluation
Formative, pragmatic process evaluations can support researchers, policy-makers and practitioners in developing robust scientific evidence-bases for acceptable and feasible local innovations that do not already have a clear evidence base. The case of a whole-school restorative approach provides a case example of how such an evaluation may be undertaken
Assessing the impact of a family nurse‐led intervention on young mothers’ references to internal states
A mother's propensity to refer to internal states during mother–child interactions is important for her child's developing social understanding. However, adolescent mothers are less likely to reference internal states when interacting with their children. We investigated whether young mothers’ references to internal states are promoted by the Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) intervention, an intensive home‐visiting programme designed to support ado…
Improving cancer symptom awareness and help-seeking among adults living in socioeconomically deprived communities in the UK using a facilitated health check
Retrospectively registered with ISRCTN (Ref: ISRCTN16872545 ) on 12.01.2018
Establishing the international prevalence of self-reported child maltreatment
Feasibility and acceptability of a motivational interviewing breastfeeding peer support intervention
An uncontrolled study with process evaluation was conducted in three U.K. community maternity sites to establish the feasibility and acceptability of delivering a novel breastfeeding peer-support intervention informed by motivational interviewing (MI; Mam-Kind). Peer-supporters were trained to deliver the Mam-Kind intervention that provided intensive one-to-one peer-support, including (a) antenatal contact, (b) face-to-face contact within 48 hr o…
Feasibility and acceptability of a cancer symptom awareness intervention for adults living in socioeconomically deprived communities
Recruitment was feasible in community and healthcare settings, with good reach to adults from low socioeconomic groups. The health check intervention was acceptable and demonstrated potential for improved cancer awareness and symptom presentation, especially for non-specific symptoms, in communities most affected by cancer
Exploratory studies to inform full-scale evaluations of complex public health interventions
Editorial published in Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health available open access at http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech-2017-210414
Availability of breastfeeding peer support in the United Kingdom
Peer support is recommended by the World Health Organization for the initiation and continuation of breastfeeding, and this recommendation is included in United Kingdom (U.K.) guidance. There is a lack of information about how, when, and where breastfeeding peer support was provided in the U.K. We aimed to generate an overview of how peer support is delivered in the U.K. and to gain an understanding of challenges for implementation. We surveyed a…
Involving lay and professional stakeholders in the development of a research intervention for the Depicted Study
AIM This paper focuses on stakeholders' active involvement at key stages of the research as members of a Stakeholder Action Group (SAG), particularly in the context of lay stakeholder involvement. Some challenges that can arise and wider issues (e.g. empowerment, the impact of user involvement) are identified and explored within the literature on service user involvement in health care research, reflecting on the implications for researchers. BAC…
A literature and medicine special study module run by academics in general practice
This paper describes the design, delivery and evaluation of a nine week special study module on literature and medicine for third year undergraduate medical students, by tutors from an academic department of general practice. Three weeks of taught seminars are followed by three weeks of one on one meetings between individual students and tutors, leading to a seminar led by, and based on, materials prepared by the student. The final three weeks of…
The development of a new site-specific measure of quality of life for breast problems
Social class and preventive health behaviour
STUDY OBJECTIVE--To test the relationship between social class and preventive health behaviour in a British national sample and identify which set of more specific socioeconomic factors best "explained" any observed relationship(s). DESIGN--Secondary analysis from a national cross sectional survey of the health attitudes and health behaviour of men and women aged 18 years and over living in private households in England, Scotland, and Wales. A se…
Factors associated with health behaviour among mothers of lower socio-economic status
Social class and preventive health behaviour
STUDY OBJECTIVE--To test the relationship between social class and preventive health behaviour in a British national sample and identify which set of more specific socioeconomic factors best "explained" any observed relationship(s). DESIGN--Secondary analysis from a national cross sectional survey of the health attitudes and health behaviour of men and women aged 18 years and over living in private households in England, Scotland, and Wales. A se…
Mental health and wellbeing interventions for care-experienced children and young people
The mental health and well-being of care-experienced children and young people remains a concern. Despite a range of interventions, the existing evidence base is limited in scope, with a reliance on standalone outcome evaluations which limits understanding of how contextual factors influence implementation and acceptability. The Care-experienced cHildren and young people’s Interventions to improve Mental health and wEll-being outcomes Systematic …
Exploratory studies to inform full-scale evaluations of complex public health interventions
Editorial published in Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health available open access at http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech-2017-210414
Factors associated with health behaviour among mothers of lower socio-economic status
Family Group Conference Provision in UK Local Authorities and Associations with Children Looked after Rates
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.…
Factors associated with health behaviour among mothers of lower socio-economic status
Social class and preventive health behaviour
STUDY OBJECTIVE--To test the relationship between social class and preventive health behaviour in a British national sample and identify which set of more specific socioeconomic factors best "explained" any observed relationship(s). DESIGN--Secondary analysis from a national cross sectional survey of the health attitudes and health behaviour of men and women aged 18 years and over living in private households in England, Scotland, and Wales. A se…
The development of a new site-specific measure of quality of life for breast problems
A literature and medicine special study module run by academics in general practice
This paper describes the design, delivery and evaluation of a nine week special study module on literature and medicine for third year undergraduate medical students, by tutors from an academic department of general practice. Three weeks of taught seminars are followed by three weeks of one on one meetings between individual students and tutors, leading to a seminar led by, and based on, materials prepared by the student. The final three weeks of…
Involving lay and professional stakeholders in the development of a research intervention for the Depicted Study
AIM This paper focuses on stakeholders' active involvement at key stages of the research as members of a Stakeholder Action Group (SAG), particularly in the context of lay stakeholder involvement. Some challenges that can arise and wider issues (e.g. empowerment, the impact of user involvement) are identified and explored within the literature on service user involvement in health care research, reflecting on the implications for researchers. BAC…
Availability of breastfeeding peer support in the United Kingdom
Peer support is recommended by the World Health Organization for the initiation and continuation of breastfeeding, and this recommendation is included in United Kingdom (U.K.) guidance. There is a lack of information about how, when, and where breastfeeding peer support was provided in the U.K. We aimed to generate an overview of how peer support is delivered in the U.K. and to gain an understanding of challenges for implementation. We surveyed a…
Establishing the international prevalence of self-reported child maltreatment
Feasibility and acceptability of a motivational interviewing breastfeeding peer support intervention
An uncontrolled study with process evaluation was conducted in three U.K. community maternity sites to establish the feasibility and acceptability of delivering a novel breastfeeding peer-support intervention informed by motivational interviewing (MI; Mam-Kind). Peer-supporters were trained to deliver the Mam-Kind intervention that provided intensive one-to-one peer-support, including (a) antenatal contact, (b) face-to-face contact within 48 hr o…
Feasibility and acceptability of a cancer symptom awareness intervention for adults living in socioeconomically deprived communities
Recruitment was feasible in community and healthcare settings, with good reach to adults from low socioeconomic groups. The health check intervention was acceptable and demonstrated potential for improved cancer awareness and symptom presentation, especially for non-specific symptoms, in communities most affected by cancer
Exploratory studies to inform full-scale evaluations of complex public health interventions
Editorial published in Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health available open access at http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech-2017-210414
Improving cancer symptom awareness and help-seeking among adults living in socioeconomically deprived communities in the UK using a facilitated health check
Retrospectively registered with ISRCTN (Ref: ISRCTN16872545 ) on 12.01.2018
Assessing the impact of a family nurse‐led intervention on young mothers’ references to internal states
A mother's propensity to refer to internal states during mother–child interactions is important for her child's developing social understanding. However, adolescent mothers are less likely to reference internal states when interacting with their children. We investigated whether young mothers’ references to internal states are promoted by the Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) intervention, an intensive home‐visiting programme designed to support ado…
Developing a whole-school mental health and wellbeing intervention through pragmatic formative process evaluation
Formative, pragmatic process evaluations can support researchers, policy-makers and practitioners in developing robust scientific evidence-bases for acceptable and feasible local innovations that do not already have a clear evidence base. The case of a whole-school restorative approach provides a case example of how such an evaluation may be undertaken
“I don't mean to be rude, but could you put a mask on while I'm here?” A qualitative study of risks experienced by domiciliary care workers in Wales during the Covid‐19 pandemic
Domiciliary care workers (DCWs) continued to provide care to adults in their own homes throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. The evidence of the impact of COVID-19 on health outcomes of DCWs is currently mixed. The OSCAR study will quantify the impact of COVID-19 upon health outcomes of DCWs in Wales, explore causes of variation and extrapolate to the rest of the UK DCW population. An embedded qualitative study aimed to explore DCW experiences during…
The impact of a specialist home-visiting intervention on the language outcomes of young mothers and their children
This observational study conducted within the context of a randomised-controlled trial suggests that the FNP home-visiting programme may have a small, but potentially important impact on young mothers' speech to their toddlers. Exploratory analyses identified family environment, maternal, and child related predictors of the language outcomes of young mothers and their offspring. Trial registration This trial is registered with ISRCTN, number ISRC…
Health behaviour change among UK adults during the pandemic
A substantial proportion of participants reported attempts to change health behaviours in the initial survey phase. However, the lack of change observed over time indicated that overall motivation to engage in healthy behaviours was sustained among the UK adult population, from a period shortly after the first lockdown toward the end of the second prolonged lockdown
Mental health and wellbeing interventions for care-experienced children and young people
The mental health and well-being of care-experienced children and young people remains a concern. Despite a range of interventions, the existing evidence base is limited in scope, with a reliance on standalone outcome evaluations which limits understanding of how contextual factors influence implementation and acceptability. The Care-experienced cHildren and young people’s Interventions to improve Mental health and wEll-being outcomes Systematic …
Interventions Targeting the Mental Health and Well-being of Care-Experienced Children and Young People
Care-experienced children and young people are at increased risk of poor mental health and well-being, and suicide-related outcomes. There is an evidence-base for intervention effectiveness, but this is primarily from the USA. The present systematic review synthesised evidence for international interventions, exploring potential transportability and adaptability to the UK. We constructed an evidence map, and syntheses of intervention effectivenes…
Family Group Conference Provision in UK Local Authorities and Associations with Children Looked after Rates
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.…
What Mental Health and Wellbeing Interventions Work for Which Children and Young People in Care? Systematic Review of Potential Outcome Inequities
Children and young people with care-experience (e.g. foster, kinship and residential care) report poorer mental health and wellbeing than the general population. Despite an emerging evidence-base for intervention, it is not clear if current approaches create, exacerbate or mitigate outcome inequities between different types of participants. We conducted a systematic review of international interventions targeting mental health, subjective wellbei…
Family Voice
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
Medicine (19 works) · Nursing (13 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Psychological intervention (9 works) · Family medicine (7 works) · Public health (7 works) · Gerontology (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Psychiatry (6 works) · Environmental health (5 works)