Christine Godfrey
Biographic Data
| ID | 4239032 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christine Godfrey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christine |
| FAMILY NAME | Godfrey |
| SIGNATURE | GODFREY C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of York |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6290-5532 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Negotiating the ‘grey area between normal social drinking and being a smelly tramp’
INTRODUCTION AND AIMS: Delivering brief interventions for hazardous and harmful drinking on the Internet may broaden the availability of services and overcome some barriers to accessing help in person. The Down Your Drink (DYD) website, an extended brief intervention, attracted a large number of people looking to reduce their drinking. The aim was to explore the experiences of this e-help seeking population. METHOD: Semi-structured interviews wer…
Effect of reclassification of cannabis on hospital admissions for cannabis psychosis
Perceptions on the role of evidence
This paper explores the competing influences which inform public health policy and describes the role that research evidence plays within the policy-making process. In particular it draws on a recent English alcohol policy case study to assess the role of evidence in informing policy and practice. Semi-structured interviews with key national, regional and local policy informants were transcribed and analysed thematically. A strong theme identifie…
Perceptions on the role of evidence
This paper explores the competing influences which inform public health policy and describes the role that research evidence plays within the policy-making process. In particular it draws on a recent English alcohol policy case study to assess the role of evidence in informing policy and practice. Semi-structured interviews with key national, regional and local policy informants were transcribed and analysed thematically. A strong theme identifie…
Quality of life among hazardous and harmful drinkers
Month follow-up after brief interventions in primary care for family members affected by the substance misuse problem of a close relative
Following the publication of initial and 3-month data from a prospective cluster randomised comparative trial [Copello, A., Templeton, L., Orford, J., Velleman, R., Patel, A., Moore, L., ... , Godfrey, C. (2009). The relative efficacy of two levels of a primary care intervention for family members affected by the addiction problem of a close relative: A randomised trial. Addiction, 104, 49–58.], an opportunistic 12-month follow-up was undertaken.…
Screening and brief interventions for hazardous and harmful alcohol use in primary care
Current Controlled Trials ISRCTN06145674
Screening and brief interventions for hazardous and harmful alcohol use in probation services
ISRCTN 19160244
Randomised controlled trial of two brief interventions against long-term benzodiazepine use
Previous findings have indicated that a letter from a patient's General Practitioner (GP) and a short GP consultation leads to reduced intake among long-term benzodiazepine (BZD) users. To compare the cost-effectiveness and potential cost savings of these two brief interventions. Economic evaluation conducted alongside a prospective randomised controlled trial from the perspective of the NHS. A total of 273 long-term BZD users (=>6 mos) at seven …
Using Economic Evaluation Techniques to Inform Policy
Economic evaluation techniques are designed to provide some clear guidance to decision makers on the choice, in value for money terms, between specific interventions. However, such evaluations require a range of assumptions to be taken and these choices may impact on the ranking of interventions. This article explores these issues that arise in providing such policy relevant estimates using data from a number of recently completed United Kingdom …
The DYD-RCT protocol
International Standard Randomised Controlled Trial Number Register ISRCTN31070347
Resource use and service costs for ventilator-dependent children and young people in the UK
This paper describes the resource use and costs involved in supporting ventilator-dependent children and young people at home compared with those in hospital. Accommodation arrangements, patterns of service and resource use in the year prior to interview were recorded for 35 index cases aged 1-18 years using a piloted variant of the Client Services Receipt Inventory. Costs to the National Health Service (NHS), social services (excluding local aut…
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
Leeds Dependence Questionnaire
The main aim of this study was to examine psychometric properties of the Leeds Dependence Questionnaire (LDQ) in a different and larger sample from that on which the instrument was developed. Data were taken from routine intake assessments (n=1681) of referrals to two UK addiction treatment services during an 18 month period. Principal components analyses for the total sample and for three substance category subsamples (alcohol, opioids, “other d…
Development of the health and economic consequences of smoking interactive model
The model successfully captures the complexity required to model smoking behaviour and associated mortality, morbidity, and health care costs. Furthermore, the interface provides the results in a simple and flexible way so as to be useful to a variety of audiences and to simulate a variety of smoking cessation methods
Costs and Benefits in Health Care and Prevention
variation in the percentage of procedures performed on a day case basis; for example, in some DHAs more than 90% of carpal tunnel decompressions were day cases, whereas in some others the position was reversed, with more than 900, done on an inpatient basis.Britain lags behind many other countries in the use of day case surgery.The Audit Commission's report outlines a number of practical steps to be taken if we are to catch up.These include the p…
Childhood disablement and family incomes
Data on the incomes of families with a severely disabled child were obtained by replicating the Family Expenditure Survey. These data were compared with income data from a control group of families with children, drawn from the FES for the same period. The participation rates, hours, and earnings of the women with a disabled child were all found to be substantially lower than those of women in the control group, differences between the samples in…
The Impact of Unemployment on the Living Standards of Families
Social security for the unemployed was not designed to cope either with large-scale or long-term unemployment and recent developments in the structure of unemployment and in social security policy give rise to concern for the living standards of the unemployed, especially the long-term unemployed. This article draws on data from the Family Finances Survey to assess the living standards of the unemployed after various durations of unemployment and…
The Impact of Unemployment on the Living Standards of Families
Social security for the unemployed was not designed to cope either with large-scale or long-term unemployment and recent developments in the structure of unemployment and in social security policy give rise to concern for the living standards of the unemployed, especially the long-term unemployed. This article draws on data from the Family Finances Survey to assess the living standards of the unemployed after various durations of unemployment and…
Perceptions on the role of evidence
This paper explores the competing influences which inform public health policy and describes the role that research evidence plays within the policy-making process. In particular it draws on a recent English alcohol policy case study to assess the role of evidence in informing policy and practice. Semi-structured interviews with key national, regional and local policy informants were transcribed and analysed thematically. A strong theme identifie…
Resource use and service costs for ventilator-dependent children and young people in the UK
This paper describes the resource use and costs involved in supporting ventilator-dependent children and young people at home compared with those in hospital. Accommodation arrangements, patterns of service and resource use in the year prior to interview were recorded for 35 index cases aged 1-18 years using a piloted variant of the Client Services Receipt Inventory. Costs to the National Health Service (NHS), social services (excluding local aut…
Childhood disablement and family incomes
Data on the incomes of families with a severely disabled child were obtained by replicating the Family Expenditure Survey. These data were compared with income data from a control group of families with children, drawn from the FES for the same period. The participation rates, hours, and earnings of the women with a disabled child were all found to be substantially lower than those of women in the control group, differences between the samples in…
The Impact of Unemployment on the Living Standards of Families
Social security for the unemployed was not designed to cope either with large-scale or long-term unemployment and recent developments in the structure of unemployment and in social security policy give rise to concern for the living standards of the unemployed, especially the long-term unemployed. This article draws on data from the Family Finances Survey to assess the living standards of the unemployed after various durations of unemployment and…
Costs and Benefits in Health Care and Prevention
variation in the percentage of procedures performed on a day case basis; for example, in some DHAs more than 90% of carpal tunnel decompressions were day cases, whereas in some others the position was reversed, with more than 900, done on an inpatient basis.Britain lags behind many other countries in the use of day case surgery.The Audit Commission's report outlines a number of practical steps to be taken if we are to catch up.These include the p…
Leeds Dependence Questionnaire
The main aim of this study was to examine psychometric properties of the Leeds Dependence Questionnaire (LDQ) in a different and larger sample from that on which the instrument was developed. Data were taken from routine intake assessments (n=1681) of referrals to two UK addiction treatment services during an 18 month period. Principal components analyses for the total sample and for three substance category subsamples (alcohol, opioids, “other d…
Development of the health and economic consequences of smoking interactive model
The model successfully captures the complexity required to model smoking behaviour and associated mortality, morbidity, and health care costs. Furthermore, the interface provides the results in a simple and flexible way so as to be useful to a variety of audiences and to simulate a variety of smoking cessation methods
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
Resource use and service costs for ventilator-dependent children and young people in the UK
This paper describes the resource use and costs involved in supporting ventilator-dependent children and young people at home compared with those in hospital. Accommodation arrangements, patterns of service and resource use in the year prior to interview were recorded for 35 index cases aged 1-18 years using a piloted variant of the Client Services Receipt Inventory. Costs to the National Health Service (NHS), social services (excluding local aut…
The DYD-RCT protocol
International Standard Randomised Controlled Trial Number Register ISRCTN31070347
Randomised controlled trial of two brief interventions against long-term benzodiazepine use
Previous findings have indicated that a letter from a patient's General Practitioner (GP) and a short GP consultation leads to reduced intake among long-term benzodiazepine (BZD) users. To compare the cost-effectiveness and potential cost savings of these two brief interventions. Economic evaluation conducted alongside a prospective randomised controlled trial from the perspective of the NHS. A total of 273 long-term BZD users (=>6 mos) at seven …
Using Economic Evaluation Techniques to Inform Policy
Economic evaluation techniques are designed to provide some clear guidance to decision makers on the choice, in value for money terms, between specific interventions. However, such evaluations require a range of assumptions to be taken and these choices may impact on the ranking of interventions. This article explores these issues that arise in providing such policy relevant estimates using data from a number of recently completed United Kingdom …
Screening and brief interventions for hazardous and harmful alcohol use in primary care
Current Controlled Trials ISRCTN06145674
Screening and brief interventions for hazardous and harmful alcohol use in probation services
ISRCTN 19160244
Month follow-up after brief interventions in primary care for family members affected by the substance misuse problem of a close relative
Following the publication of initial and 3-month data from a prospective cluster randomised comparative trial [Copello, A., Templeton, L., Orford, J., Velleman, R., Patel, A., Moore, L., ... , Godfrey, C. (2009). The relative efficacy of two levels of a primary care intervention for family members affected by the addiction problem of a close relative: A randomised trial. Addiction, 104, 49–58.], an opportunistic 12-month follow-up was undertaken.…
Quality of life among hazardous and harmful drinkers
Effect of reclassification of cannabis on hospital admissions for cannabis psychosis
Perceptions on the role of evidence
This paper explores the competing influences which inform public health policy and describes the role that research evidence plays within the policy-making process. In particular it draws on a recent English alcohol policy case study to assess the role of evidence in informing policy and practice. Semi-structured interviews with key national, regional and local policy informants were transcribed and analysed thematically. A strong theme identifie…
Perceptions on the role of evidence
This paper explores the competing influences which inform public health policy and describes the role that research evidence plays within the policy-making process. In particular it draws on a recent English alcohol policy case study to assess the role of evidence in informing policy and practice. Semi-structured interviews with key national, regional and local policy informants were transcribed and analysed thematically. A strong theme identifie…
Negotiating the ‘grey area between normal social drinking and being a smelly tramp’
INTRODUCTION AND AIMS: Delivering brief interventions for hazardous and harmful drinking on the Internet may broaden the availability of services and overcome some barriers to accessing help in person. The Down Your Drink (DYD) website, an extended brief intervention, attracted a large number of people looking to reduce their drinking. The aim was to explore the experiences of this e-help seeking population. METHOD: Semi-structured interviews wer…
Medicine (16 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Psychological intervention (7 works) · Environmental health (6 works) · Nursing (6 works) · Psychiatry (6 works) · Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Family medicine (5 works) · Intervention (counseling (5 works)