Sarah Lewis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3594060 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Lewis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Lewis |
| SIGNATURE | LEWIS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5308-6619 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 67 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 462 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 66 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Probation, Technical Compliance and the ‘Drowning’ of Hope
Hope and optimism are central to processes of reform. However, in the context of the dramatic restructuring and reorganizations that the probation service in England and Wales has undergone in the past decade, there are questions over the extent to which such hopes are realizable. We seek to explore the concept of hope in transforming individual’s lives away from engagement in crime. Via an analysis of interviews that were co-produced with people…
The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America
Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America
Cardiovascular health and economic outcomes under improved air quality in China: A modelling study
INTRODUCTION: China faces the dual challenge of high air pollution and an increasing burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD). We aimed to estimate the healthcare costs associated with CVD and the quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) under scenarios of improved air quality in China. METHODS: A health prediction model was developed to estimate 10-year CVD-related costs and QALY associated with PM2.5 levels in 2015, as well as two hypothetical improve…
Content, Structure, and Delivery Characteristics of Yoga Interventions for Managing Hypertension: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials
A holistic approach to manta ray conservation in the Papuan Bird’s Head Seascape: Resounding success, ongoing challenges
Disbelief and counter-voices: A thematic analysis of online reader comments about sexual harassment and sexual violence against women
Research about online comment fields on news websites tends to foreground their potential for deliberative discussions whilst little attention is given to the ways these spaces reinforce existing gender inequalities. This study analyses online newspaper comments on articles about gender based violence to establish whether the historic marginalisation of women within public discussions is being reasserted online. Using thematic analysis, this stud…
Feasibility Trial of Yoga Programme for Type 2 Diabetes Prevention (Yoga-DP) among High-Risk People in India: A Qualitative Study to Explore Participants’ Trial- and Intervention-Related Barriers and …
Yoga-based interventions can be effective in preventing type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). We developed a Yoga programme for T2DM prevention (YOGA-DP) and conducted a feasibility randomised controlled trial (RCT) among high-risk people in India. This qualitative study's objective was to identify and explore participants' trial- and intervention-related barriers and facilitators. The feasibility trial was conducted at two Yoga centres in New Delhi a…
Characteristics of Yoga Providers and Their Sessions and Attendees in the UK: A Cross-Sectional Survey
Yoga is an ancient Indian philosophy and way of life that is being used as a method of improving health and wellbeing. Evidence shows that yoga has several health benefits, such as managing many noncommunicable diseases, such as hypertension, and improving mental health. The popularity of yoga is growing in the UK, but it is mostly unregulated with little information available about yoga providers and their sessions and attendees. This study aime…
Yoga Program for Type 2 Diabetes Prevention (Yoga-DP) Among High-Risk People: Qualitative Study to Explore Reasons for Non-participation in a Feasibility Randomized Controlled Trial in India
Background: Yoga-based interventions can be effective in preventing type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). We developed a Yoga program for T2DM prevention (YOGA-DP) among high-risk people and conducted a feasibility randomized controlled trial (RCT) in India. The objective of this study was to identify and explore why potential participants declined to participate in the feasibility RCT. Methods: An exploratory qualitative study, using semi-structured …
Barriers and Facilitators to Staying Smoke-Free after Having a Baby, a Qualitative Study: Women’s Views on Support Needed to Prevent Returning to Smoking Postpartum
Offers of support to stay smoke-free should continue throughout the postpartum and engage with partners or other household members who smoke. Reassuring women about the relative safety of nicotine replacement therapy and e-cigarettes by a health professional, particularly for those who are breastfeeding, could be beneficial
Development of a Yoga Program for Type-2 Diabetes Prevention (Yoga-DP) Among High-Risk People in India
Introduction Many Indians are at high-risk of type-2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Yoga is an ancient Indian mind-body discipline, that has been associated with improved glucose levels and can help to prevent T2DM. The study aimed to systematically develop a Yoga programme for T2DM prevention (YOGA-DP) among high-risk people in India using a complex intervention development approach. Materials and methods As part of the intervention, we developed a b…
Exposure to tobacco imagery in popular films and the risk of ever smoking among children in southern India
In this cross-sectional study, children in southern India who had seen films containing tobacco imagery are no more likely to smoke than those who had not, indicating that the tobacco control messaging mandated by Indian law may be attenuating the effect of tobacco imagery in films on smoking uptake
Dialogue-awareness-*tolerance (DA*T): A multi-layered dialogue expanding tolerance for ambiguity and discomfort in working toward conflict resolution
The Dialogue-Awareness-*Tolerance (DA*T) Model stresses dialogue, intrapersonal and interpersonal, to (a) raise personal and community awareness, (b) reengage positive moral self-sanctioning mechanisms, (c) support those who are targets of intolerance, violence or harassment or have witnessed it, (d) stabilize and deescalate crisis and conflict situations, (e) acknowledge one’s vulnerability/discomfort/ambiguity in such dialogs, (f) increase tole…
The impact of parental and individual factors on school refusal: A multiple-mediation model
School refusal in adolescents is a growing issue and has been studied from several angles. Parental psychological control is a known risk factor for school refusal. Several individual factors have been linked to school refusal, including children’s emotion regulation, externalizing, and internalizing behaviours. The current study hypothesized that a child’s emotion regulation, internalizing problems, and externalizing problems mediate the relatio…
Physical Activity during the School Holidays: Parent Perceptions and Practical Considerations
Children's physical activity decreases during school holidays. Less structured days and reduced participation in organised activities may account for some of the decrease. Little is known about the factors that influence parents' decision to enrol their child in organised activity such as holiday clubs. This paper sought to explore parents' perceptions of their child's physical activity during school holidays and the factors that influence holida…
Striking a Balance: Physical Activity, Screen-Viewing and Homework during the Transition to Secondary School
Physical activity levels decline, and screen-viewing behaviours increase during childhood and adolescence. The transition to secondary school appears to coincide with a sharp decline in physical activity. Parents have the potential to influence their child's behaviours, yet little is known about their expectations for their child's physical activity and screen-viewing during this transition. This paper explores parents' expectations for their chi…
Attitudes to E-Cigarettes and Cessation Support for Pregnant Women from English Stop Smoking Services: A Mixed Methods Study
Smoking in pregnancy remains a public health problem. In the UK e-cigarettes are the most popular aid to quitting smoking outside of pregnancy, but we don't know the extent of e-cigarette use in pregnancy or how English Stop Smoking Services (SSS) respond to pregnant women who vape. In 2015 we surveyed SSS managers about cessation support for pregnant women and responses to clients who vaped. Subsequently we interviewed a sub-sample of managers t…
The importance of the cultural dimension of food in understanding the lack of adherence to diet regimens among Mayan people with diabetes
Objective: To understand non-adherence to medically recommended diets among Mayans with diabetes. Design: Using partially sequential mixed methods, questionnaires, semi-structured brief and in-depth interviews were applied. Questionnaire data were analysed with Pearson’s χ 2 and Student’s t tests and qualitative interviews with grounded theory microanalysis. Setting: Rural, predominantly Mayan communities in Chiapas, Quintana Roo and Yucatan, Mex…
Is digital health care more equitable? The framing of health inequalities within England's digital health policy 2010-2017
Informed by a discourse analysis, this article examines the framing of equity within the UK's digital health policies between 2010 and 2017, focusing on England's development of NHS Digital and its situation within the UK Government's wider digital strategy. Analysis of significant policy documents reveals three interrelated discourses that are engaged within England's digital health policies: equity as a neoliberal imaginary of digital efficienc…
Cost-effectiveness of a complex intervention to reduce children’s exposure to second-hand smoke in the home
The Smoke Free Homes trial was registered with isrctn.com on 29 January 2013 with the identifier ISRCTN81701383
Vape shops: Who uses them and what do they do
The majority of vape shop customers are vapers who have quit smoking. Shop staff play a central role in providing customers with product information, and many provide smoking cessation advice. Further research is needed to investigate the potential for smoking cessation interventions in vape shops, including the extent to which these would appeal to non-vapers
A Questionnaire on Monuments
A Questionnaire on Monuments" features 49 responses to questions formulated by Leah Dickerman, Hal Foster, David Joselit, and Carrie Lambert-Beatty: "From Charlottesville to Cape Town, there have been struggles over monuments and other markers involving histories of racial conflict. How do these charged situations shed light on the ethics of images in civil society today? Speaking generally or with specific examples in mind, please consider any o…
Family Politics in Early Modern Literature
This book considers the ways that family relationships (parental, marital, sibling or other) mimic, and stand in for, political ones in the Early Modern period, and vice versa. Bringing together leadi
A randomised controlled trial of a complex intervention to reduce children’s exposure to secondhand smoke in the home
ISRCTN81701383.This trial was funded by the UK National Institute for Health Research (NIHR): RP-PG-0608-10020
Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing Among Five Approaches
Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design provides an overview of the five main traditions of qualitative research. The author explains the uniqueness of each approach and its applicability to different types of inquiry. Illustrative examples from public health and social science fields are provided. The book details study design, question development, data collection and analysis, and summarizing and interpreting results, and how the research proc…
Is digital health care more equitable? The framing of health inequalities within England's digital health policy 2010-2017
Informed by a discourse analysis, this article examines the framing of equity within the UK's digital health policies between 2010 and 2017, focusing on England's development of NHS Digital and its situation within the UK Government's wider digital strategy. Analysis of significant policy documents reveals three interrelated discourses that are engaged within England's digital health policies: equity as a neoliberal imaginary of digital efficienc…
Beyond participation to co-creation of meaning: Mobile Social Media in Generative Learning Communities
Digital social media is dramatically changing the social landscape and the ways in which we understand 'participation'. As youth embrace these dynamic yet highly scripted forms of mediated social interaction, educators have struggled to find ways to harness these new participatory forms to support learning. This article considers the interactive structures and frameworks that underlie much of 'Web 2.0' participatory media, and proposes that theor…
A Questionnaire on Monuments
A Questionnaire on Monuments" features 49 responses to questions formulated by Leah Dickerman, Hal Foster, David Joselit, and Carrie Lambert-Beatty: "From Charlottesville to Cape Town, there have been struggles over monuments and other markers involving histories of racial conflict. How do these charged situations shed light on the ethics of images in civil society today? Speaking generally or with specific examples in mind, please consider any o…
Asthma prevalence and deprivation: A small area analysis
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To investigate the relation between the prevalence of asthma symptoms in adults and deprivation in the area of residence. DESIGN: Two complementary surveys carried out between 1991-1993 yielding adult asthma symptom prevalence throughout New Zealand. Deprivation is measured by the NZDep91 index of deprivation for small areas. SETTING: New Zealand. PARTICIPANTS: A random sample of 25,042 adults aged 20-50 years. MAIN RESULTS: Afte…
Alcohol Exposure In Utero and Child Academic Achievement
We examine the effect of alcohol exposure in utero on child academic achievement. As well as studying the effect of any alcohol exposure, we investigate the effect of the dose, pattern , and duration of exposure. We use a genetic variant in the maternal alcohol-metabolism gene ADH1B as an instrument for alcohol exposure, whilst controlling for the child's genotype on the same variant. We show that the instrument is unrelated to an extensive range…
INTRAC’s Experience of Working with International NGOs on Aid Withdrawal and Exit Strategies from 2011 to 2016
In recent years, the international development sector has been affected by major new dynamics in the global political economy, with significant shifts in the aid policies of many donor agencies and changes in funding patterns for recipient countries. This article offers insights into what researchers at INTRAC—a not-for-profit organisation which provides capacity building support to different types of civil society organisation around the world—h…
Online Drug Scenes and Harm Reduction From Below as Phronesis
This article presents a theoretical critique of the notion of harm reduction on the basis of an empirical investigation of a variety of online manifestations of drug culture. Taking a multicase study approach to drug use–related forums, blogs, and “story sites” focused on novel psychoactive substances/“legal high” use and nonmedicinal prescription drug use, our analysis leads us to describe the culture of “harm reduction from below” in terms of t…
Student Perspectives on the Impact of the World Trade Center Disaster: A Longitudinal Qualitative Study
Journal Article Student Perspectives on the Impact of the World Trade Center Disaster: A Longitudinal Qualitative Study Get access Monica M. Matthieu, PhD, LCSW, Monica M. Matthieu, PhD, LCSW senior instructor and National Research Service Award Fellow Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide, Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center, 300 Crittenden Boulevard, BOX PSYCH 4-9200, Rochester, NY 14642-8409; e-mail: monic…
Like mother, like daughter? An examination of the emotive responses to food
The modelling of sub-clinical eating disorders and emotive responses to food between mothers and their early adolescent daughters was investigated. Twenty dyads viewed images of food and rated their levels of happiness, fear and disgust. Results suggest similarities between mothers’ and daughters’ emotive responses, but the exact nature of this relationship differed across food type and response type. Disordered eating was only related to respons…
Can data from primary care medical records be used to monitor national smoking prevalence
BACKGROUND: Data from primary care records could potentially provide more comprehensive population-level information on smoking prevalence at lower cost and in a more timely fashion than commissioned national surveys. Therefore, we compared smoking prevalence calculated from a database of primary care electronic medical records with that from a 'gold standard' national survey to determine whether or not medical records can provide accurate popula…
Trends in the uptake and delivery of smoking cessation services to smokers in Great Britain: Figure 1
Smoking kills more people than any other avoidable factor in the UK, and smoking cessation interventions are among the most cost effective treatments in medicine.1 Guidelines recommending routine implementation of smoking ascertainment and cessation in clinical practice were first published in the UK in 1998,2 and in the same year the UK government allocated funding to establish specialist smoking cessation services throughout the National Health…
Vaccination and Allergic Disease: A Birth Cohort Study
Objectives. We examined the effect of vaccination for diphtheria; polio; pertussis and tetanus; or measles, mumps, and rubella on the incidence of physician-diagnosed asthma and eczema. Methods. We used a previously established birth cohort in the West Midlands General Practice research database. Results. We found an association between vaccination and the development of allergic disease; however, this association was present only among children …
Asthma prevalence and deprivation: A small area analysis
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To investigate the relation between the prevalence of asthma symptoms in adults and deprivation in the area of residence. DESIGN: Two complementary surveys carried out between 1991-1993 yielding adult asthma symptom prevalence throughout New Zealand. Deprivation is measured by the NZDep91 index of deprivation for small areas. SETTING: New Zealand. PARTICIPANTS: A random sample of 25,042 adults aged 20-50 years. MAIN RESULTS: Afte…
Is smoking a communicable disease? Effect of exposure to ever smokers in school tutor groups on the risk of incident smoking in the first year of secondary school
The risk of incident smoking in children entering secondary education is independently increased by exposure to other ever smokers in school tutor groups. Incident smoking in adolescents is thus to some extent a communicable disorder, and may be partly preventable by policies that reduce exposure to smoking at school
Trends in the uptake and delivery of smoking cessation services to smokers in Great Britain: Figure 1
Smoking kills more people than any other avoidable factor in the UK, and smoking cessation interventions are among the most cost effective treatments in medicine.1 Guidelines recommending routine implementation of smoking ascertainment and cessation in clinical practice were first published in the UK in 1998,2 and in the same year the UK government allocated funding to establish specialist smoking cessation services throughout the National Health…
Vaccination and Allergic Disease: A Birth Cohort Study
Objectives. We examined the effect of vaccination for diphtheria; polio; pertussis and tetanus; or measles, mumps, and rubella on the incidence of physician-diagnosed asthma and eczema. Methods. We used a previously established birth cohort in the West Midlands General Practice research database. Results. We found an association between vaccination and the development of allergic disease; however, this association was present only among children …
Business Psychology in Practice
Public health measures to reduce smoking prevalence in the UK: How many lives could be saved
Full implementation of simple population measures to encourage smoking cessation could prevent substantial numbers of deaths in the UK
Use of nicotine replacement therapy and the risk of acute myocardial infarction, stroke, and death
The use of NRT is not associated with any increase in the risk of myocardial infarction, stroke, or death
McKeever Et Al. Respond
We thank Hurwitz and Morgenstern for their interest in our recent work in what has become a controversial area of research with a number of interesting methodological problems. The authors’ first point is that misclassification of both asthma and eczema status would have to be severely differential by vaccination status to produce the results we reported. In fact, our data demonstrate that this is likely to be the case, since the incidence of ast…
Prevalence of maternal smoking and environmental tobacco smoke exposure during pregnancy and impact on birth weight: Retrospective study using Millennium Cohort
UK prevalences of domestic ETS exposure and maternal smoking in pregnancy remain high and ETS exposure lowers infants' birth weights
Student Perspectives on the Impact of the World Trade Center Disaster: A Longitudinal Qualitative Study
Journal Article Student Perspectives on the Impact of the World Trade Center Disaster: A Longitudinal Qualitative Study Get access Monica M. Matthieu, PhD, LCSW, Monica M. Matthieu, PhD, LCSW senior instructor and National Research Service Award Fellow Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide, Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center, 300 Crittenden Boulevard, BOX PSYCH 4-9200, Rochester, NY 14642-8409; e-mail: monic…
Make me normal': The views and experiences of pupils on the autistic spectrum in mainstream secondary schools
Facilitating the learning and participation of pupils with Asperger syndrome and high-functioning autism (herein referred to as AS) in mainstream schools is complex and poorly understood. We report on a small-scale qualitative study of the views and experiences of 20 such pupils drawn from four secondary schools in north-west England. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews and pupil diaries. Interpretive phenomenological analysis …
Smoking uptake and prevalence in Ghana
Despite rapid economic growth and a sustained tobacco industry presence, smoking prevalence in Ghana is low, particularly among younger people. This suggests that progression of an epidemic increase in smoking has to date been avoided
Promoting Children's Wellbeing: Policy and Practice
By Janet Collins and Pam Foley ( eds ) Bristol : Policy Press in association with The Open University , 2008 ISBN 9781847420596 , 267 pp, £19.99 (pb) This new book summarises the evidence, debate and key issues around children’s well-being in the 21st century. Compiling work from a range of authors who are experts in their fields, it is a highly accessible, comprehensive and up-to-date examination of issues around well-being and will be of intere…
Can national smoking prevalence be monitored using primary care medical records data
infectious and parasitic (1.57, 1.07 to 2.29), genitourinary (1.46, 1.04 to 2.04), circulatory (1.07, 1.01 to 1.12), and external (non-medical) (1.17, 1.00 to 1.37) causes and decreased for deaths attributed to in situ, benign and unspecified neoplasms (0.60, 0.37 to 0.99).There was no clear relation between chemical exposure group and causespecific mortality.The mortality of each group was lower than that of the general population (SMR 0.88, 0.8…
Status of implementation of Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) in Ghana: A qualitative study
Whilst Ghana has ratified the FCTC, there is an urgent need for action to pass a national tobacco control bill into law to enable it to implement the treaty, sustain tobacco control efforts and prevent Ghana's further involvement in the global tobacco epidemic
Insights into social disparities in smoking prevalence using Mosaic, a novel measure of socioeconomic status: An analysis using a large primary care dataset
Conventional socio-economic measures may underplay social disparities in smoking prevalence. Newer classification systems, such as Mosaic, encompass a wider range of demographic, lifestyle and behaviour data, and are valuable in identifying characteristics of groups of heavy smokers which might be used to tailor cessation interventions
Evaluation of the removal of point-of-sale tobacco displays in Ireland
Compliance was very high and the law was well supported. Recall of displays dropped significantly among adults and teenagers post-legislation and there were encouraging signs that the law helped de-normalise smoking
Food insufficiency among HIV-infected crack-cocaine users in Atlanta and Miami
Objective To measure the occurrence and correlates of food insufficiency among HIV-infected crack-cocaine users in Atlanta and Miami, USA. Design Non-probability cross-sectional sample. Setting Inner-city hospitals in Atlanta and Miami. Subjects Two hundred and eighty-seven HIV-infected crack users. Results One-third (34 %) of respondents experienced food insufficiency within 30 d of interview. Increased odds of food insufficiency was associated …
Beyond participation to co-creation of meaning: Mobile Social Media in Generative Learning Communities
Digital social media is dramatically changing the social landscape and the ways in which we understand 'participation'. As youth embrace these dynamic yet highly scripted forms of mediated social interaction, educators have struggled to find ways to harness these new participatory forms to support learning. This article considers the interactive structures and frameworks that underlie much of 'Web 2.0' participatory media, and proposes that theor…
Support for smoke-free policy, and awareness of tobacco health effects and use of smoking cessation therapy in a developing country
Awareness of health risks and support for smoke-free policy are high in Ghana. Exposure to tobacco advertising or promotion is limited and most smokers have tried to quit. Whether these findings are cause or effect of current low smoking prevalence is uncertain
Can primary care data be used to monitor regional smoking prevalence? An analysis of The Health Improvement Network primary care data
THIN primary care data could be used to monitor regional smoking prevalence and highlight regional differences in smoking in the UK
A comparison of patient recall of smoking cessation advice with advice recorded in electronic medical records
Since the introduction of the QOF, the rate of recording of cessation advice in primary care medical records has exceeded that of patient recall. Whilst both data sources have limitations, our study suggests that, in recent years, the proportion of smokers being advised to quit by primary care health professionals may not have improved as much as the improved recording rates imply
Validation of food store environment secondary data source and the role of neighborhood deprivation in Appalachia, Kentucky
The secondary commercial database used in this study was insufficient to characterize the rural retail food environment. Our findings suggest that neighborhoods with high neighborhood deprivation are associated with having certain store types that may promote less healthy food options
The impact of the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) on the recording of smoking targets in primary care medical records: Cross-sectional analyses from The Health Improvement Network (THIN) database
Rates of recording smoking status and cessation advice plateaued after large increases during the QOF's introduction; however, recording remains most strongly associated with the presence of chronic disease as specified by the QOF, and suggests that incentivised targets have a direct effect on clinical behaviour
Who receives prescriptions for smoking cessation medications? An association rule mining analysis using a large primary care database
This novel approach identified sizeable and easily definable groups of patients who are systematically failing to receive support for smoking cessation in primary care. Association rule mining can be used to identify key numerically important groups at high or low risk of receiving treatment and hence potentially to improve healthcare delivery
Medicine (47 works) · Environmental health (33 works) · Psychology (26 works) · Smoking Behavior and Cessation (25 works) · Sociology (20 works) · Public health (18 works) · Nursing (17 works) · Population (16 works) · Internal Medicine (14 works) · Biostatistics (13 works)