Christian Mallen
Biographic Data
| ID | 5686532 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christian Mallen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christian |
| FAMILY NAME | Mallen |
| SIGNATURE | MALLEN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Keele University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2677-1028 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Process and feasibility of implementing guideline recommendations for the care of osteoarthritis in West Africa
OBJECTIVES: To assess the feasibility of a guideline-informed model of care for osteoarthritis in primary healthcare and community pharmacy settings in the West African context. METHODS: Joint Implementation of Guidelines for OSteoArthritis in West-Africa (JIGSAW-A): (1) focus groups (n=4) with patients, community pharmacists and healthcare professionals (HCPs) to identify patient preferences and support needs of HCPs; (2) stakeholders resource c…
Stakeholder Involvement in the Development of a New Proactive Clinical Review of Patients Prescribed Opioid Medicines Long‐Term for Persistent Pain in Primary Care
BACKGROUND: Stakeholder involvement is a core element of the Medical Research Council (MRC) framework for developing and evaluating complex interventions, but approaches to involve stakeholders are not well-reported. We outline how stakeholders contributed to co-designing a Proactive clinical Review of patients taking Opioid Medicines long-term for persistent Pain led by Pharmacists working in primary care Teams (the PROMPPT intervention-a review…
Betwixt and between student and professional identities: UK medical students during Covid times
The COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in Spring 2020 brought about unprecedented disruption to medical education in the United Kingdom (UK). Medical students were encouraged to take up paid roles in the National Health Service to help with workforce shortages. This article explores medical students’ views and experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic vis-à-vis their professional identity formation. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 22 medical st…
The Organization of Outreach Work for Vulnerable Patients in General Practice during Covid-19: Results from the Cross-Sectional PRICOV-19 Study in 38 Countries
The COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately affected vulnerable populations' access to health care. By proactively reaching out to them, general practices attempted to prevent the underutilization of their services. This paper examined the association between practice and country characteristics and the organization of outreach work in general practices during COVID-19. Linear mixed model analyses with practices nested in countries were performed on…
Has the Covid-19 Pandemic Led to Changes in the Tasks of the Primary Care Workforce? An International Survey among General Practices in 38 Countries (PRICOV-19)
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a large and varying impact on primary care. This paper studies changes in the tasks of general practitioners (GPs) and associated staff during the COVID-19 pandemic. Data from the PRICOV-19 study of 5093 GPs in 38 countries were used. We constructed a scale for task changes and performed multilevel analyses. The scale was reliable at both GP and country level. Clustering of task changes at country level was considera…
Exploring the Impact of the First Wave of Covid-19 on Social Work Practice: A Qualitative Study in England, UK
The COVID-19 pandemic signalled a radical shift in health and social care services globally. In UK, many of the people with existing social care needs were identified as ‘clinically vulnerable’ to COVID-19. Those at greatest risk were encouraged to adhere to additional public health measures that inadvertently exacerbated social disadvantages. Social workers were challenged to ‘dig deep’ to continue to provide services as usual. However, problems…
Social Work and Social Care: Mapping Workforce Engagement, Relevance, Experience and Interest in Research
Evidence-based practice (EBP) has been promoted within social work/social care, with emerging evidence of benefit to practitioners and service users. Advocates argue that EBP enables practitioners to have the skills to interpret and evaluate evidence and be actively involved in research. This project aimed to evaluate awareness, experience/skills and value of research, and explore barriers to engagement with research. A cross-sectional survey was…
Comparing the use of direct observation, standardized patients and exit interviews in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review of methods of assessing quality of primary care
Clinical records in primary healthcare settings in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) are often lacking or of too poor quality to accurately assess what happens during the patient consultation. We examined the most common methods for assessing healthcare workers’ clinical behaviour: direct observation, standardized patients and patient/healthcare worker exit interview. The comparative feasibility, acceptability, reliability, validity and pra…
Using Google Trends to assess the impact of global public health days on online health information seeking behaviour in Central and South America
BACKGROUND: Public health awareness can help prevent illness and result in earlier intervention when it does occur. For this reason, health promotion and disease awareness campaigns have great potential to alleviate the global burden of disease. Global Public Health Days (GPHD) are frequently implemented with this intent, but research evaluating their effectiveness, especially in the developing world setting, is scant. OBJECTIVES: We aimed to eva…
The development and initial validation of a questionnaire to measure help‐seeking behaviour in patients with new onset rheumatoid arthritis
BACKGROUND: Early treatment for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is vital. However, people often delay in seeking help at symptom onset. An assessment of the reasons behind patient delay is necessary to develop interventions to promote rapid consultation. OBJECTIVE: Using a mixed methods design, we aimed to develop and test a questionnaire to assess the barriers to help seeking at RA onset. DESIGN: Questionnaire items were extracted from previous qualit…
Exploring the Impact of the First Wave of Covid-19 on Social Work Practice: A Qualitative Study in England, UK
The COVID-19 pandemic signalled a radical shift in health and social care services globally. In UK, many of the people with existing social care needs were identified as ‘clinically vulnerable’ to COVID-19. Those at greatest risk were encouraged to adhere to additional public health measures that inadvertently exacerbated social disadvantages. Social workers were challenged to ‘dig deep’ to continue to provide services as usual. However, problems…
Social Work and Social Care: Mapping Workforce Engagement, Relevance, Experience and Interest in Research
Evidence-based practice (EBP) has been promoted within social work/social care, with emerging evidence of benefit to practitioners and service users. Advocates argue that EBP enables practitioners to have the skills to interpret and evaluate evidence and be actively involved in research. This project aimed to evaluate awareness, experience/skills and value of research, and explore barriers to engagement with research. A cross-sectional survey was…
The development and initial validation of a questionnaire to measure help‐seeking behaviour in patients with new onset rheumatoid arthritis
BACKGROUND: Early treatment for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is vital. However, people often delay in seeking help at symptom onset. An assessment of the reasons behind patient delay is necessary to develop interventions to promote rapid consultation. OBJECTIVE: Using a mixed methods design, we aimed to develop and test a questionnaire to assess the barriers to help seeking at RA onset. DESIGN: Questionnaire items were extracted from previous qualit…
Using Google Trends to assess the impact of global public health days on online health information seeking behaviour in Central and South America
BACKGROUND: Public health awareness can help prevent illness and result in earlier intervention when it does occur. For this reason, health promotion and disease awareness campaigns have great potential to alleviate the global burden of disease. Global Public Health Days (GPHD) are frequently implemented with this intent, but research evaluating their effectiveness, especially in the developing world setting, is scant. OBJECTIVES: We aimed to eva…
Comparing the use of direct observation, standardized patients and exit interviews in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review of methods of assessing quality of primary care
Clinical records in primary healthcare settings in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) are often lacking or of too poor quality to accurately assess what happens during the patient consultation. We examined the most common methods for assessing healthcare workers’ clinical behaviour: direct observation, standardized patients and patient/healthcare worker exit interview. The comparative feasibility, acceptability, reliability, validity and pra…
Has the Covid-19 Pandemic Led to Changes in the Tasks of the Primary Care Workforce? An International Survey among General Practices in 38 Countries (PRICOV-19)
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a large and varying impact on primary care. This paper studies changes in the tasks of general practitioners (GPs) and associated staff during the COVID-19 pandemic. Data from the PRICOV-19 study of 5093 GPs in 38 countries were used. We constructed a scale for task changes and performed multilevel analyses. The scale was reliable at both GP and country level. Clustering of task changes at country level was considera…
Exploring the Impact of the First Wave of Covid-19 on Social Work Practice: A Qualitative Study in England, UK
The COVID-19 pandemic signalled a radical shift in health and social care services globally. In UK, many of the people with existing social care needs were identified as ‘clinically vulnerable’ to COVID-19. Those at greatest risk were encouraged to adhere to additional public health measures that inadvertently exacerbated social disadvantages. Social workers were challenged to ‘dig deep’ to continue to provide services as usual. However, problems…
Social Work and Social Care: Mapping Workforce Engagement, Relevance, Experience and Interest in Research
Evidence-based practice (EBP) has been promoted within social work/social care, with emerging evidence of benefit to practitioners and service users. Advocates argue that EBP enables practitioners to have the skills to interpret and evaluate evidence and be actively involved in research. This project aimed to evaluate awareness, experience/skills and value of research, and explore barriers to engagement with research. A cross-sectional survey was…
The Organization of Outreach Work for Vulnerable Patients in General Practice during Covid-19: Results from the Cross-Sectional PRICOV-19 Study in 38 Countries
The COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately affected vulnerable populations' access to health care. By proactively reaching out to them, general practices attempted to prevent the underutilization of their services. This paper examined the association between practice and country characteristics and the organization of outreach work in general practices during COVID-19. Linear mixed model analyses with practices nested in countries were performed on…
Betwixt and between student and professional identities: UK medical students during Covid times
The COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in Spring 2020 brought about unprecedented disruption to medical education in the United Kingdom (UK). Medical students were encouraged to take up paid roles in the National Health Service to help with workforce shortages. This article explores medical students’ views and experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic vis-à-vis their professional identity formation. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 22 medical st…
Process and feasibility of implementing guideline recommendations for the care of osteoarthritis in West Africa
OBJECTIVES: To assess the feasibility of a guideline-informed model of care for osteoarthritis in primary healthcare and community pharmacy settings in the West African context. METHODS: Joint Implementation of Guidelines for OSteoArthritis in West-Africa (JIGSAW-A): (1) focus groups (n=4) with patients, community pharmacists and healthcare professionals (HCPs) to identify patient preferences and support needs of HCPs; (2) stakeholders resource c…
Stakeholder Involvement in the Development of a New Proactive Clinical Review of Patients Prescribed Opioid Medicines Long‐Term for Persistent Pain in Primary Care
BACKGROUND: Stakeholder involvement is a core element of the Medical Research Council (MRC) framework for developing and evaluating complex interventions, but approaches to involve stakeholders are not well-reported. We outline how stakeholders contributed to co-designing a Proactive clinical Review of patients taking Opioid Medicines long-term for persistent Pain led by Pharmacists working in primary care Teams (the PROMPPT intervention-a review…
Medicine (9 works) · Nursing (7 works) · Medical education (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Health care (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Focus group (3 works) · Psychological intervention (3 works) · Public relations (3 works)