Nigel Smeeton
Biographic Data
| ID | 4271700 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nigel Smeeton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nigel |
| FAMILY NAME | Smeeton |
| SIGNATURE | SMEETON N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hertfordshire |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9460-5411 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Workplace Health and Wellbeing in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs)
Today's challenging times highlight the need for workplaces to support employee wellbeing. Workplaces can offer a means to improve employee wellbeing and promote health initiatives. However, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are less likely than larger organizations to engage with workplace wellbeing initiatives or offer wellbeing provision. This study, conducted in an urban area in central England, explores SME engagement with local gove…
Coping during the Covid-19 pandemic
Introduction : The COVID-19 pandemic posed unprecedented challenges to health and care services, including substance use support, necessitating adaptations to maintain operational continuity. A lack of research exists into the factors that helped substance use services cope and maintain provision. This study aimed to elucidate the organizational resilience factors that assisted a substance use support service in sustaining operations and adapting…
Digital and traditional arts for inpatients with dementia
We found that group arts engagement was a feasible and promising intervention. We raise further questions for expanded uses of digital tablets in activities for hospital inpatients with dementia
Moving an exercise referral scheme to remote delivery during the Covid-19 pandemic
This study contributes new evidence concerning the effect of programme of delivery on ERS uptake and adherence and strengthens existing evidence concerning the effect of socio-economic factors. The findings direct the attention of ERS providers towards specific patient sub-groups who, if inequalities are to be addressed, require additional intervention to support uptake and adherence. At a time when providers may be considering alternative progra…
Exploring the Promise and Limitations of Autonomous Online Timelines to Understand Experiences of the Covid-19 Pandemic
This article discusses the use of autonomous, asynchronous, timelines to analyse personal and organizational experiences of COVID-19 using an online platform, LucidSpark. We evaluate the benefits and limitations of this approach and highlight findings in three areas: aesthetics, the balance of personal and organizational information, and the identification of key events. We argue that timelines generate fascinating data about participants' person…
Understanding the financial impact of a diagnosis of young onset dementia on individuals and families in the United Kingdom
Although literature on postdiagnostic support for people affected by young onset dementia acknowledges financial concerns, this topic has remained underresearched. The aim of this study was to explore the financial impact of a diagnosis of young onset dementia on individuals and families. An online survey, comprising binary yes/no, multiple-response and open-ended questions, was codesigned with people living with young onset dementia. The survey …
Reciprocal relationships and the importance of feedback in patient and public involvement
BACKGROUND: Reciprocal relationships between researchers and patient and public involvement (PPI) contributors can enable successful PPI in research. However, research and anecdotal evidence suggest that researchers do not commonly provide feedback to PPI contributors thus preventing them from knowing whether, how or where their contributions were useful to researchers and research overall. AIMS: The aim of this study was to explore the variation…
Video gaming in adolescence
© 2015 Taylor & Francis. The geographies of the current generation of young people are markedly distinct from previous generations by virtue of their access to a virtual playground. The vast majority of young people now engage in video gaming as a leisure activity. Drawing on findings from the 2009/2010 WHO Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study this paper set out to investigate the factors that might be associated with higher levels of v…
Conducting and Presenting Social Work Research
Journal Article Conducting and Presenting Social Work Research: Some Basic Statistical Considerations Get access Nigel Smeeton, Nigel Smeeton Nigel Smeeton is lecturer in Medical Statistics, Department of Public Health Sciences, King's College London. David Goda is senior lecturer in Statistics, University of Wolverhampton. Correspondence to David Goda, SCIT, 35/49 Lichfield Street, Wolverhampton WV1 1EL, UK. Search for other works by this author…
Distribution of episodes of mental illness in general practice
The Second National Morbidity Survey, conducted in England and Wales between 1970 and 1976, contains a unique body of information on episodes of mental illness experienced by individuals registered in a representative sample of general practices around the country. This information is used to construct the episode distribution among the individuals surveyed. The Poisson and negative binomial distributions are then used to model the episodes. The …
Video gaming in adolescence
© 2015 Taylor & Francis. The geographies of the current generation of young people are markedly distinct from previous generations by virtue of their access to a virtual playground. The vast majority of young people now engage in video gaming as a leisure activity. Drawing on findings from the 2009/2010 WHO Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study this paper set out to investigate the factors that might be associated with higher levels of v…
Understanding the financial impact of a diagnosis of young onset dementia on individuals and families in the United Kingdom
Although literature on postdiagnostic support for people affected by young onset dementia acknowledges financial concerns, this topic has remained underresearched. The aim of this study was to explore the financial impact of a diagnosis of young onset dementia on individuals and families. An online survey, comprising binary yes/no, multiple-response and open-ended questions, was codesigned with people living with young onset dementia. The survey …
Conducting and Presenting Social Work Research
Journal Article Conducting and Presenting Social Work Research: Some Basic Statistical Considerations Get access Nigel Smeeton, Nigel Smeeton Nigel Smeeton is lecturer in Medical Statistics, Department of Public Health Sciences, King's College London. David Goda is senior lecturer in Statistics, University of Wolverhampton. Correspondence to David Goda, SCIT, 35/49 Lichfield Street, Wolverhampton WV1 1EL, UK. Search for other works by this author…
Distribution of episodes of mental illness in general practice
The Second National Morbidity Survey, conducted in England and Wales between 1970 and 1976, contains a unique body of information on episodes of mental illness experienced by individuals registered in a representative sample of general practices around the country. This information is used to construct the episode distribution among the individuals surveyed. The Poisson and negative binomial distributions are then used to model the episodes. The …
Conducting and Presenting Social Work Research
Journal Article Conducting and Presenting Social Work Research: Some Basic Statistical Considerations Get access Nigel Smeeton, Nigel Smeeton Nigel Smeeton is lecturer in Medical Statistics, Department of Public Health Sciences, King's College London. David Goda is senior lecturer in Statistics, University of Wolverhampton. Correspondence to David Goda, SCIT, 35/49 Lichfield Street, Wolverhampton WV1 1EL, UK. Search for other works by this author…
Video gaming in adolescence
© 2015 Taylor & Francis. The geographies of the current generation of young people are markedly distinct from previous generations by virtue of their access to a virtual playground. The vast majority of young people now engage in video gaming as a leisure activity. Drawing on findings from the 2009/2010 WHO Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study this paper set out to investigate the factors that might be associated with higher levels of v…
Reciprocal relationships and the importance of feedback in patient and public involvement
BACKGROUND: Reciprocal relationships between researchers and patient and public involvement (PPI) contributors can enable successful PPI in research. However, research and anecdotal evidence suggest that researchers do not commonly provide feedback to PPI contributors thus preventing them from knowing whether, how or where their contributions were useful to researchers and research overall. AIMS: The aim of this study was to explore the variation…
Understanding the financial impact of a diagnosis of young onset dementia on individuals and families in the United Kingdom
Although literature on postdiagnostic support for people affected by young onset dementia acknowledges financial concerns, this topic has remained underresearched. The aim of this study was to explore the financial impact of a diagnosis of young onset dementia on individuals and families. An online survey, comprising binary yes/no, multiple-response and open-ended questions, was codesigned with people living with young onset dementia. The survey …
Exploring the Promise and Limitations of Autonomous Online Timelines to Understand Experiences of the Covid-19 Pandemic
This article discusses the use of autonomous, asynchronous, timelines to analyse personal and organizational experiences of COVID-19 using an online platform, LucidSpark. We evaluate the benefits and limitations of this approach and highlight findings in three areas: aesthetics, the balance of personal and organizational information, and the identification of key events. We argue that timelines generate fascinating data about participants' person…
Moving an exercise referral scheme to remote delivery during the Covid-19 pandemic
This study contributes new evidence concerning the effect of programme of delivery on ERS uptake and adherence and strengthens existing evidence concerning the effect of socio-economic factors. The findings direct the attention of ERS providers towards specific patient sub-groups who, if inequalities are to be addressed, require additional intervention to support uptake and adherence. At a time when providers may be considering alternative progra…
Workplace Health and Wellbeing in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs)
Today's challenging times highlight the need for workplaces to support employee wellbeing. Workplaces can offer a means to improve employee wellbeing and promote health initiatives. However, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are less likely than larger organizations to engage with workplace wellbeing initiatives or offer wellbeing provision. This study, conducted in an urban area in central England, explores SME engagement with local gove…
Coping during the Covid-19 pandemic
Introduction : The COVID-19 pandemic posed unprecedented challenges to health and care services, including substance use support, necessitating adaptations to maintain operational continuity. A lack of research exists into the factors that helped substance use services cope and maintain provision. This study aimed to elucidate the organizational resilience factors that assisted a substance use support service in sustaining operations and adapting…
Digital and traditional arts for inpatients with dementia
We found that group arts engagement was a feasible and promising intervention. We raise further questions for expanded uses of digital tablets in activities for hospital inpatients with dementia
Medicine (6 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Family medicine (3 works) · Disease (2 works) · Focus group (2 works) · Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes (2 works) · Health Policy Implementation Science (2 works) · Pandemic (2 works)