Sophie Hill
Biographic Data
| ID | 3886508 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sophie Hill |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sophie |
| FAMILY NAME | Hill |
| SIGNATURE | HILL S |
| AFFILIATIONS | La Trobe University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2712-608X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
What Is Ideological Capture and How Do We Measure It? Using Antitrust Reform to Understand Expert–Public Cleavages
Scholarship on regulatory capture—when businesses lobby regulators to act contrary to the public interest—has thrived since the 1970s. Yet it ignores an important dimension of influence, what we call ideological capture. This occurs when experts design regulatory frameworks that marginalize important public values and produce favorable outcomes for special interests even in the absence of lobbying. We present a theoretical and empirical framework…
Priming Bias Versus Post-Treatment Bias in Experimental Designs
Conditioning on variables affected by treatment can induce post-treatment bias when estimating causal effects. Although this suggests that researchers should measure potential moderators before administering the treatment in an experiment, doing so may also bias causal effect estimation if the covariate measurement primes respondents to react differently to the treatment. This paper formally analyzes this trade-off between post-treatment and prim…
Food Security in the Time of Covid-19 for a Marshallese Community
Using an individual and family ecological systems model, we explored food security among a Marshallese cohort in Northwest Arkansas during the COVID-19 pandemic. We hypothesized that Marshallese households were experiencing high rates of food insecurity due to socioeconomic and systemic risk factors. Seventy-one Marshallese adults shared socioeconomic information about their household via an online survey. Descriptive results indicate that 91% of…
Social Media For Consumer Engagement: Co-Creating Guidance for Hospitals, Service Providers and Consumers
There has been interest in using social media for consumer engagement in hospitals, particularly for service design and quality improvement, but services have identified a need for guidance. This article outlines the methods used to involve stakeholders in the development of a guide for the use of social media as a consumer engagement tool for Australian public hospitals, and describes the changes to the guide and implementation findings that res…
Public perspectives on acquired brain injury rehabilitation and components of care: A Citizens’ Jury
BACKGROUND: Brain injury rehabilitation is an expensive and long-term endeavour. Very little published information or debate has underpinned policy for service delivery in Australia. Within the context of finite health budgets and the challenges associated with providing optimal care to persons with brain injuries, members of the public were asked 'What considerations are important to include in a model of care of brain injury rehabilitation?' ME…
Stakeholder Involvement in Systematic Reviews: Lessons From Cochrane’s Public Health and Health Systems Network
Case study 1 describes stakeholder involvement in setting systematic review priorities
The difference between troublesome knowledge and threshold concepts
It has been stated that a criterion of a threshold concept is that it is troublesome or difficult to understand. However, not all difficult concepts are also threshold concepts. This article explores this difference through the context of students’ difficulties in learning prosthetics and two models of describing threshold concepts. Students and staff at two UK universities teaching prosthetics and orthotics participated in interviews and questio…
I'm Trying to Stop Things Before They Happen: Carers' Contributions to Patient Safety in Hospitals
Patient safety policies increasingly encourage carer (i.e., family or friends) involvement in reducing health care-associated harm in hospital. Despite this, carer involvement in patient safety in practice is not well understood-especially from the carers' perspective. The purpose of this article is to understand how carers of adult patients perceived and experienced their patient safety contributions in hospital. Constructivist grounded theory i…
Using the COMMVAC taxonomy to map vaccination communication interventions in Mozambique
BACKGROUND: Improved communication about childhood vaccination is fundamental to increasing vaccine uptake in low-income countries. Mozambique, with 64% of children fully vaccinated, uses a range of communication interventions to promote uptake of childhood immunisation. OBJECTIVES: Using a taxonomy developed by the 'Communicate to Vaccinate' (COMMVAC) project, the study aims to identify and classify the existing communication interventions for v…
Factors affecting the implementation of childhood vaccination communication strategies in Nigeria: A qualitative study
Communication activities are a crucial element of immunization programmes. It is therefore important for policy makers and programme managers to understand the barriers and facilitators affecting the delivery of vaccination communication so as to be able to implement communication interventions more effectively
The comprehensive ‘Communicate to Vaccinate’ taxonomy of communication interventions for childhood vaccination in routine and campaign contexts
This taxonomy provides a standardised way to think and speak about vaccination communication. It is categorised by purpose to help conceptualise communication interventions as potential solutions to address needs or problems. It can be utilised by programme planners, implementers, researchers and funders to see the range of communication interventions used in practice, facilitate evidence synthesis and identify evidence gaps
The evolution of Cochrane evidence summaries in health communication and participation: Seeking and responding to stakeholder feedback
Knowledge translation resources that summarise and disseminate systematic review findings can support evidence into policy and practice. Since 2007, we have produced Evidence Bulletins; brief, web-based summaries of Cochrane Reviews published by Cochrane Consumers and Communication. Evidence Bulletins are designed for health decision makers employed by or in representational roles within policy and practice settings, that is, policy makers, healt…
Communication strategies to promote the uptake of childhood vaccination in Nigeria: A systematic map
BACKGROUND: Effective communication is a critical component in ensuring that children are fully vaccinated. Although numerous communication interventions have been proposed and implemented in various parts of Nigeria, the range of communication strategies used has not yet been mapped systematically. This study forms part of the 'Communicate to vaccinate' (COMMVAC) project, an initiative aimed at building research evidence for improving communicat…
Online health information seeking: How people with multiple sclerosis find, assess and integrate treatment information to manage their health
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: The Internet is increasingly prominent as a source of health information for people with multiple sclerosis (MS). But there has been little exploration of the needs, experiences and preferences of people with MS for integrating treatment information into decision making, in the context of searching on the Internet. This was the aim of our study. DESIGN: Sixty participants (51 people with MS; nine family members) took par…
Mapping how information about childhood vaccination is communicated in two regions of Cameroon: What is done and where are the gaps
By identifying the interventions used in Cameroon and developing an intervention map, we allowed stakeholders to see where they were concentrating their communication efforts and where gaps exist, allowing them to reflect on whether changes are needed to the communication strategies they are using
Comparing Face-to-Face and Online Qualitative Research With People With Multiple Sclerosis
We compared face-to-face focus groups and an online forum in qualitative research with people with multiple sclerosis (MS) and family members. Although the merits and challenges of online qualitative research have been considered by others, there is limited literature directly comparing these two data collection methods for people with disability or chronic illness. Twenty-seven people participated in one of four focus groups and 33 people took p…
“Communicate to vaccinate”: The development of a taxonomy of communication interventions to improve routine childhood vaccination
BACKGROUND: Vaccination is a cost-effective public health measure and is central to the Millennium Development Goal of reducing child mortality. However, childhood vaccination coverage remains sub-optimal in many settings. While communication is a key feature of vaccination programmes, we are not aware of any comprehensive approach to organising the broad range of communication interventions that can be delivered to parents and communities to imp…
A Systematic Review of Consumer-Providers’ Effects on Client Outcomes in Statutory Mental Health Services: The Evidence and the Path Beyond
Knowledge translation of research findings
BACKGROUND: One of the most consistent findings from clinical and health services research is the failure to translate research into practice and policy. As a result of these evidence-practice and policy gaps, patients fail to benefit optimally from advances in healthcare and are exposed to unnecessary risks of iatrogenic harms, and healthcare systems are exposed to unnecessary expenditure resulting in significant opportunity costs. Over the last…
Absolute risk representation in cardiovascular disease prevention: Comprehension and preferences of health care consumers and general practitioners involved in a focus group study
Consumers and GPs shared preferences for risk representation formats. Both groups liked the option to combine formats and tailor the risk information to reflect a specific individual's risk, to maximise understanding and provide a good basis for discussion
Health care ethics: Lessons from intensive care
By Kath Melia , Sage Publications , 2004 , Cloth £60.00 , 160 pp, ISBN 0-7619-7144-0, PB £17.99 , 160 pp. ISBN 0-7619-7145-9 . This book, written by an expert in nursing, is about ethical issues in intensive care. Melia argues that the ethical issues daily grappled with by intensive care staff are not just the province of these units but relevant to all other areas of health care: she describes them as ‘respect for persons and the balance between…
Comparing Face-to-Face and Online Qualitative Research With People With Multiple Sclerosis
We compared face-to-face focus groups and an online forum in qualitative research with people with multiple sclerosis (MS) and family members. Although the merits and challenges of online qualitative research have been considered by others, there is limited literature directly comparing these two data collection methods for people with disability or chronic illness. Twenty-seven people participated in one of four focus groups and 33 people took p…
Priming Bias Versus Post-Treatment Bias in Experimental Designs
Conditioning on variables affected by treatment can induce post-treatment bias when estimating causal effects. Although this suggests that researchers should measure potential moderators before administering the treatment in an experiment, doing so may also bias causal effect estimation if the covariate measurement primes respondents to react differently to the treatment. This paper formally analyzes this trade-off between post-treatment and prim…
The evolution of Cochrane evidence summaries in health communication and participation: Seeking and responding to stakeholder feedback
Knowledge translation resources that summarise and disseminate systematic review findings can support evidence into policy and practice. Since 2007, we have produced Evidence Bulletins; brief, web-based summaries of Cochrane Reviews published by Cochrane Consumers and Communication. Evidence Bulletins are designed for health decision makers employed by or in representational roles within policy and practice settings, that is, policy makers, healt…
The difference between troublesome knowledge and threshold concepts
It has been stated that a criterion of a threshold concept is that it is troublesome or difficult to understand. However, not all difficult concepts are also threshold concepts. This article explores this difference through the context of students’ difficulties in learning prosthetics and two models of describing threshold concepts. Students and staff at two UK universities teaching prosthetics and orthotics participated in interviews and questio…
Health care ethics: Lessons from intensive care
By Kath Melia , Sage Publications , 2004 , Cloth £60.00 , 160 pp, ISBN 0-7619-7144-0, PB £17.99 , 160 pp. ISBN 0-7619-7145-9 . This book, written by an expert in nursing, is about ethical issues in intensive care. Melia argues that the ethical issues daily grappled with by intensive care staff are not just the province of these units but relevant to all other areas of health care: she describes them as ‘respect for persons and the balance between…
Absolute risk representation in cardiovascular disease prevention: Comprehension and preferences of health care consumers and general practitioners involved in a focus group study
Consumers and GPs shared preferences for risk representation formats. Both groups liked the option to combine formats and tailor the risk information to reflect a specific individual's risk, to maximise understanding and provide a good basis for discussion
Knowledge translation of research findings
BACKGROUND: One of the most consistent findings from clinical and health services research is the failure to translate research into practice and policy. As a result of these evidence-practice and policy gaps, patients fail to benefit optimally from advances in healthcare and are exposed to unnecessary risks of iatrogenic harms, and healthcare systems are exposed to unnecessary expenditure resulting in significant opportunity costs. Over the last…
“Communicate to vaccinate”: The development of a taxonomy of communication interventions to improve routine childhood vaccination
BACKGROUND: Vaccination is a cost-effective public health measure and is central to the Millennium Development Goal of reducing child mortality. However, childhood vaccination coverage remains sub-optimal in many settings. While communication is a key feature of vaccination programmes, we are not aware of any comprehensive approach to organising the broad range of communication interventions that can be delivered to parents and communities to imp…
A Systematic Review of Consumer-Providers’ Effects on Client Outcomes in Statutory Mental Health Services: The Evidence and the Path Beyond
Comparing Face-to-Face and Online Qualitative Research With People With Multiple Sclerosis
We compared face-to-face focus groups and an online forum in qualitative research with people with multiple sclerosis (MS) and family members. Although the merits and challenges of online qualitative research have been considered by others, there is limited literature directly comparing these two data collection methods for people with disability or chronic illness. Twenty-seven people participated in one of four focus groups and 33 people took p…
Mapping how information about childhood vaccination is communicated in two regions of Cameroon: What is done and where are the gaps
By identifying the interventions used in Cameroon and developing an intervention map, we allowed stakeholders to see where they were concentrating their communication efforts and where gaps exist, allowing them to reflect on whether changes are needed to the communication strategies they are using
Communication strategies to promote the uptake of childhood vaccination in Nigeria: A systematic map
BACKGROUND: Effective communication is a critical component in ensuring that children are fully vaccinated. Although numerous communication interventions have been proposed and implemented in various parts of Nigeria, the range of communication strategies used has not yet been mapped systematically. This study forms part of the 'Communicate to vaccinate' (COMMVAC) project, an initiative aimed at building research evidence for improving communicat…
Online health information seeking: How people with multiple sclerosis find, assess and integrate treatment information to manage their health
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: The Internet is increasingly prominent as a source of health information for people with multiple sclerosis (MS). But there has been little exploration of the needs, experiences and preferences of people with MS for integrating treatment information into decision making, in the context of searching on the Internet. This was the aim of our study. DESIGN: Sixty participants (51 people with MS; nine family members) took par…
Using the COMMVAC taxonomy to map vaccination communication interventions in Mozambique
BACKGROUND: Improved communication about childhood vaccination is fundamental to increasing vaccine uptake in low-income countries. Mozambique, with 64% of children fully vaccinated, uses a range of communication interventions to promote uptake of childhood immunisation. OBJECTIVES: Using a taxonomy developed by the 'Communicate to Vaccinate' (COMMVAC) project, the study aims to identify and classify the existing communication interventions for v…
Factors affecting the implementation of childhood vaccination communication strategies in Nigeria: A qualitative study
Communication activities are a crucial element of immunization programmes. It is therefore important for policy makers and programme managers to understand the barriers and facilitators affecting the delivery of vaccination communication so as to be able to implement communication interventions more effectively
The comprehensive ‘Communicate to Vaccinate’ taxonomy of communication interventions for childhood vaccination in routine and campaign contexts
This taxonomy provides a standardised way to think and speak about vaccination communication. It is categorised by purpose to help conceptualise communication interventions as potential solutions to address needs or problems. It can be utilised by programme planners, implementers, researchers and funders to see the range of communication interventions used in practice, facilitate evidence synthesis and identify evidence gaps
The evolution of Cochrane evidence summaries in health communication and participation: Seeking and responding to stakeholder feedback
Knowledge translation resources that summarise and disseminate systematic review findings can support evidence into policy and practice. Since 2007, we have produced Evidence Bulletins; brief, web-based summaries of Cochrane Reviews published by Cochrane Consumers and Communication. Evidence Bulletins are designed for health decision makers employed by or in representational roles within policy and practice settings, that is, policy makers, healt…
I'm Trying to Stop Things Before They Happen: Carers' Contributions to Patient Safety in Hospitals
Patient safety policies increasingly encourage carer (i.e., family or friends) involvement in reducing health care-associated harm in hospital. Despite this, carer involvement in patient safety in practice is not well understood-especially from the carers' perspective. The purpose of this article is to understand how carers of adult patients perceived and experienced their patient safety contributions in hospital. Constructivist grounded theory i…
The difference between troublesome knowledge and threshold concepts
It has been stated that a criterion of a threshold concept is that it is troublesome or difficult to understand. However, not all difficult concepts are also threshold concepts. This article explores this difference through the context of students’ difficulties in learning prosthetics and two models of describing threshold concepts. Students and staff at two UK universities teaching prosthetics and orthotics participated in interviews and questio…
Public perspectives on acquired brain injury rehabilitation and components of care: A Citizens’ Jury
BACKGROUND: Brain injury rehabilitation is an expensive and long-term endeavour. Very little published information or debate has underpinned policy for service delivery in Australia. Within the context of finite health budgets and the challenges associated with providing optimal care to persons with brain injuries, members of the public were asked 'What considerations are important to include in a model of care of brain injury rehabilitation?' ME…
Stakeholder Involvement in Systematic Reviews: Lessons From Cochrane’s Public Health and Health Systems Network
Case study 1 describes stakeholder involvement in setting systematic review priorities
Social Media For Consumer Engagement: Co-Creating Guidance for Hospitals, Service Providers and Consumers
There has been interest in using social media for consumer engagement in hospitals, particularly for service design and quality improvement, but services have identified a need for guidance. This article outlines the methods used to involve stakeholders in the development of a guide for the use of social media as a consumer engagement tool for Australian public hospitals, and describes the changes to the guide and implementation findings that res…
Food Security in the Time of Covid-19 for a Marshallese Community
Using an individual and family ecological systems model, we explored food security among a Marshallese cohort in Northwest Arkansas during the COVID-19 pandemic. We hypothesized that Marshallese households were experiencing high rates of food insecurity due to socioeconomic and systemic risk factors. Seventy-one Marshallese adults shared socioeconomic information about their household via an online survey. Descriptive results indicate that 91% of…
What Is Ideological Capture and How Do We Measure It? Using Antitrust Reform to Understand Expert–Public Cleavages
Scholarship on regulatory capture—when businesses lobby regulators to act contrary to the public interest—has thrived since the 1970s. Yet it ignores an important dimension of influence, what we call ideological capture. This occurs when experts design regulatory frameworks that marginalize important public values and produce favorable outcomes for special interests even in the absence of lobbying. We present a theoretical and empirical framework…
Priming Bias Versus Post-Treatment Bias in Experimental Designs
Conditioning on variables affected by treatment can induce post-treatment bias when estimating causal effects. Although this suggests that researchers should measure potential moderators before administering the treatment in an experiment, doing so may also bias causal effect estimation if the covariate measurement primes respondents to react differently to the treatment. This paper formally analyzes this trade-off between post-treatment and prim…
Medicine (15 works) · Nursing (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Public relations (8 works) · Public health (7 works) · Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Focus group (5 works)