Sally Kendall
Biographic Data
| ID | 89528 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sally Kendall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sally |
| FAMILY NAME | Kendall |
| SIGNATURE | KENDALL S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kent |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3627-827X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Empowering Parent Carers of Children With Neurodisability in Healthcare Settings
Exploring Parent Carer Empowerment in Childhood Onset Disability
BACKGROUND: Supporting parent carers to have greater agency and control over the decisions and actions regarding the care of their child is a central tenet of contemporary health and social care policy. This study explored contextual factors influencing the empowerment of parent carers of disabled children from the perspective of a range of stakeholders. METHODS: We used focus groups and semi-structured interviews to collect data from 28 particip…
Replanting the Birthing Trees to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander parents and babies
Background: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people experience intergenerational trauma as a legacy of the impacts of colonisation. Replanting the Birthing Trees (RBT) aims to transform compounding cycles of intergenerational trauma and harm to positively reinforcing cycles of intergenerational nurturing and recovery for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander parents and babies. This paper describes the protocol for developmental evaluation o…
Mental health and biomedical neoliberalism
In this article, we introduce a creative assessment task developed for postgraduate social work students studying critical perspectives on mental health.We discuss how moving beyond the constraints of text-based assignments generates space for students to explore new ways of thinking about mental health, beyond the limitations of dominant illness-based understandings.Through creativity, the task enables an exploration of social justice in practic…
Elders’ perspectives and priorities for ageing well in a remote Aboriginal community
Aboriginal Elders in Australia are recognised as having an important role as community leaders and cultural knowledge holders. However, the effects of colonisation and institutional racism mean Elders also experience significant social and economic disadvantage and poor health outcomes. There has been a systemic lack of attention to the worldviews and priorities of Aboriginal people as they age. In this article, we detail the findings of a qualit…
Policy formulation and actor roles in the expanded Kenyan free maternity policy (Linda Mama)
In 2013, Kenya implemented free maternity services, later expanded in 2016 into the ‘Linda Mama’ policy to provide essential health services for pregnant women. This study explored the policy formulation background, processes, content, and actors’ roles in formulation and implementation. Using a convergent parallel mixed-methods case study design, we reviewed documents and conducted in-depth interviews with national stakeholders, county officials…
Impacts of exposure to suicide of a military colleague from the lived experience of veterans
Although exposure to the suicide death of a military colleague has been shown quantitatively to increase suicide risk factors among veterans, there are very few studies where veterans have been asked about this experience. This article presents a qualitative analysis of 38 interviews with U.S. veterans with exposure to the suicide death of a military colleague in past war operations. Participants described the impact of exposure in relation to th…
Social and cultural dimensions of loss of a military colleague by suicide or traumatic death
Veterans who have been exposed to suicide or traumatic death of a colleague experience heightened suicide risk, particularly where they report a close relationship to the deceased. There is a dearth of qualitative studies investigating the experience of loss of a military colleague to inform responses that veterans perceive as helpful. This study addresses this gap, thematically analysing fifty-one semi-structured interviews conducted in 2013–201…
Scaling up breastfeeding in England through the Becoming Breastfeeding Friendly initiative (BBF)
Breastfeeding is the most accessible and cost-effective activity available to public health and has been shown to be one of the most effective preventive measures mothers can take to protect their children's health. Despite the well-documented benefits, the UK has one of the lowest breastfeeding rates in the world. The Becoming Breastfeeding Friendly (BBF) toolkit was developed through highly structured technical and academic collaboration, led b…
Implementing the Becoming Breastfeeding Friendly initiative in Scotland
Despite strong policy support in Scotland, United Kingdom, key challenges to scaling up promotion, protection and support for breastfeeding remain. These include low breastfeeding rates and socioeconomic and regional inequalities. The Becoming Breastfeeding-Friendly (BBF) process was implemented to highlight actions that could address these challenges. The Scottish BBF committee employed an iterative process of documentary analysis and evidence r…
Becoming breastfeeding friendly in Great Britain—Does implementation science work
The Becoming Breastfeeding Friendly (BBF) in Great Britain study was conducted during 2017-2019 comprising three country studies: BBF England, Wales and Scotland. It was part of an international project being coordinated during the same period by the Yale School of Public Health across five world regions to inform countries and guide policies to improve the environment for the promotion, protection and support of breastfeeding. This paper reports…
Print media coverage of breastfeeding in Great Britain
Media can be a powerful communication tool to promote breastfeeding, influence mothers' breastfeeding behaviour, create positive social norms and generate support among stakeholders and policymakers for breastfeeding. However, negative stories could deter women from starting or continuing to breastfeed. This study aimed to describe the breadth and focus of the media coverage of breastfeeding and the message frames that are found in three of the m…
Understanding health and social service accessibility for young people with problematic substance use exiting prison in Australia
Incarcerated young people (aged 18-24) with a history of problematic substance use are a particularly vulnerable group, with a higher risk of mortality and return to custody compared to their older counterparts. Yet, there is limited research investigating service accessibility for this population. This study aimed to address this gap by investigating the characteristics of young people exiting prison on the 'Connections Program' (Connections) an…
Characteristics of enrolment in an intensive home-visiting programme among eligible first-time adolescent mothers in England
BACKGROUND: Intensive home visiting for adolescent mothers may help reduce health disparities. Given limited resources, such interventions need to be effectively targeted. We evaluated which mothers were enrolled in the Family Nurse Partnership (FNP), an intensive home-visiting service for first-time young mothers commissioned in >130 local authorities in England since 2007. METHODS: We created a population-based cohort of first-time mothers aged…
Incarcerated Aboriginal women’s experiences of accessing healthcare and the limitations of the ‘equal treatment’ principle
Equal treatment' is an inappropriate strategy for providing equitable healthcare, which is required because incarcerated Aboriginal women experience significantly poorer health. Taking a decolonizing approach, we unpack and demonstrate the systems level changes needed to make health and justice agencies culturally relevant and safe.
Holistic Conceptualizations of Health by Incarcerated Aboriginal Women in New South Wales, Australia
While there has been extensive research on the health and social and emotional well-being (SEWB) of Aboriginal women in prison, there are few qualitative studies where incarcerated Aboriginal women have been directly asked about their health, SEWB, and health care experiences. Using an Indigenous research methodology and SEWB framework, this article presents the findings of 43 interviews with incarcerated Aboriginal women in New South Wales, Aust…
Rethinking children’s public health
It has been suggested that asset-based strategies could provide an opportunity to rethink the approach to public health; however, this may not be a viable option unless there is clear recognition of specific individual assets. Although there has been some consideration of assets within a child health context, this is limited and previous studies have not sought to identify assets from the perspective of the child. This paper reports on a study th…
Making sense of assets
Editorial. \nThe concept for this special section of the journal arose from the Second International \nSymposium on Health Assets in a Global Context: Theory Methods Action, London \n(2011), a two day event designed to consider the translation of the asset model into policy, \nresearch and practise. The purpose of this special section is to further explore what \nwe know and what needs to be done to develop an assets evidence base for public \nhe…
Breastfeeding support – the importance of self‐efficacy for low‐income women
Breastfeeding is a key determinant in promoting public health and reducing health inequality. Low-income women have a significantly lower level of breastfeeding. Midwives in the UK have been encouraged to implement the World Health Organization/United Nations Children's Fund's Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding, but to date, there has been no evaluation of the impact of the training initiative on the breastfeeding behaviours of low-income wome…
Challenges and Barriers to Secondary Education
An education system that is based on the needs of a sedentary community is inherently exclusionary for mobile young people. However, it is increasingly acknowledged that even Gypsy Traveller pupils who have been ‘settled’ for a number of years have limited engagement with the secondary phase of schooling. This paper provides an overview of developments in educational policy that have impacted on educational access for Travellers and draws upon re…
Making a dirrence
The Expert Patients Programme
Self-care is seen as a key element in managing resource demand in chronic disease and is also perceived as an empowering right for patients. The Chronic Disease Self-Management Programme developed in the USA has been adopted in a number of countries and in the UK has been as adapted as the Expert Patients Programme. However, despite its potential as a lay-led empowering initiative, the Expert Patients Programme has been criticised as perpetuating…
A qualitative study exploring the experiences and views of mothers, health visitors and family support centre workers on the challenges and difficulties of parenting
Successive policy documents have referred to the need to support parents as an approach to reducing social exclusion, behaviour problems among young people and crime rates. Much of the rhetoric focuses on professional intervention, and there is less attention paid to the views and experiences of parents themselves. The present study explores the experiences and views of mothers, health visitors and family support centre workers who work with pare…
Significantly different or successfully unique? An asthmatic child's construction of social identity
The Expert Patients Programme
Self-care is seen as a key element in managing resource demand in chronic disease and is also perceived as an empowering right for patients. The Chronic Disease Self-Management Programme developed in the USA has been adopted in a number of countries and in the UK has been as adapted as the Expert Patients Programme. However, despite its potential as a lay-led empowering initiative, the Expert Patients Programme has been criticised as perpetuating…
A qualitative study exploring the experiences and views of mothers, health visitors and family support centre workers on the challenges and difficulties of parenting
Successive policy documents have referred to the need to support parents as an approach to reducing social exclusion, behaviour problems among young people and crime rates. Much of the rhetoric focuses on professional intervention, and there is less attention paid to the views and experiences of parents themselves. The present study explores the experiences and views of mothers, health visitors and family support centre workers who work with pare…
Holistic Conceptualizations of Health by Incarcerated Aboriginal Women in New South Wales, Australia
While there has been extensive research on the health and social and emotional well-being (SEWB) of Aboriginal women in prison, there are few qualitative studies where incarcerated Aboriginal women have been directly asked about their health, SEWB, and health care experiences. Using an Indigenous research methodology and SEWB framework, this article presents the findings of 43 interviews with incarcerated Aboriginal women in New South Wales, Aust…
Elders’ perspectives and priorities for ageing well in a remote Aboriginal community
Aboriginal Elders in Australia are recognised as having an important role as community leaders and cultural knowledge holders. However, the effects of colonisation and institutional racism mean Elders also experience significant social and economic disadvantage and poor health outcomes. There has been a systemic lack of attention to the worldviews and priorities of Aboriginal people as they age. In this article, we detail the findings of a qualit…
Challenges and Barriers to Secondary Education
An education system that is based on the needs of a sedentary community is inherently exclusionary for mobile young people. However, it is increasingly acknowledged that even Gypsy Traveller pupils who have been ‘settled’ for a number of years have limited engagement with the secondary phase of schooling. This paper provides an overview of developments in educational policy that have impacted on educational access for Travellers and draws upon re…
Impacts of exposure to suicide of a military colleague from the lived experience of veterans
Although exposure to the suicide death of a military colleague has been shown quantitatively to increase suicide risk factors among veterans, there are very few studies where veterans have been asked about this experience. This article presents a qualitative analysis of 38 interviews with U.S. veterans with exposure to the suicide death of a military colleague in past war operations. Participants described the impact of exposure in relation to th…
Understanding health and social service accessibility for young people with problematic substance use exiting prison in Australia
Incarcerated young people (aged 18-24) with a history of problematic substance use are a particularly vulnerable group, with a higher risk of mortality and return to custody compared to their older counterparts. Yet, there is limited research investigating service accessibility for this population. This study aimed to address this gap by investigating the characteristics of young people exiting prison on the 'Connections Program' (Connections) an…
Significantly different or successfully unique? An asthmatic child's construction of social identity
Significantly different or successfully unique? An asthmatic child's construction of social identity
A qualitative study exploring the experiences and views of mothers, health visitors and family support centre workers on the challenges and difficulties of parenting
Successive policy documents have referred to the need to support parents as an approach to reducing social exclusion, behaviour problems among young people and crime rates. Much of the rhetoric focuses on professional intervention, and there is less attention paid to the views and experiences of parents themselves. The present study explores the experiences and views of mothers, health visitors and family support centre workers who work with pare…
Challenges and Barriers to Secondary Education
An education system that is based on the needs of a sedentary community is inherently exclusionary for mobile young people. However, it is increasingly acknowledged that even Gypsy Traveller pupils who have been ‘settled’ for a number of years have limited engagement with the secondary phase of schooling. This paper provides an overview of developments in educational policy that have impacted on educational access for Travellers and draws upon re…
Making a dirrence
The Expert Patients Programme
Self-care is seen as a key element in managing resource demand in chronic disease and is also perceived as an empowering right for patients. The Chronic Disease Self-Management Programme developed in the USA has been adopted in a number of countries and in the UK has been as adapted as the Expert Patients Programme. However, despite its potential as a lay-led empowering initiative, the Expert Patients Programme has been criticised as perpetuating…
Breastfeeding support – the importance of self‐efficacy for low‐income women
Breastfeeding is a key determinant in promoting public health and reducing health inequality. Low-income women have a significantly lower level of breastfeeding. Midwives in the UK have been encouraged to implement the World Health Organization/United Nations Children's Fund's Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding, but to date, there has been no evaluation of the impact of the training initiative on the breastfeeding behaviours of low-income wome…
Rethinking children’s public health
It has been suggested that asset-based strategies could provide an opportunity to rethink the approach to public health; however, this may not be a viable option unless there is clear recognition of specific individual assets. Although there has been some consideration of assets within a child health context, this is limited and previous studies have not sought to identify assets from the perspective of the child. This paper reports on a study th…
Making sense of assets
Editorial. \nThe concept for this special section of the journal arose from the Second International \nSymposium on Health Assets in a Global Context: Theory Methods Action, London \n(2011), a two day event designed to consider the translation of the asset model into policy, \nresearch and practise. The purpose of this special section is to further explore what \nwe know and what needs to be done to develop an assets evidence base for public \nhe…
Holistic Conceptualizations of Health by Incarcerated Aboriginal Women in New South Wales, Australia
While there has been extensive research on the health and social and emotional well-being (SEWB) of Aboriginal women in prison, there are few qualitative studies where incarcerated Aboriginal women have been directly asked about their health, SEWB, and health care experiences. Using an Indigenous research methodology and SEWB framework, this article presents the findings of 43 interviews with incarcerated Aboriginal women in New South Wales, Aust…
Incarcerated Aboriginal women’s experiences of accessing healthcare and the limitations of the ‘equal treatment’ principle
Equal treatment' is an inappropriate strategy for providing equitable healthcare, which is required because incarcerated Aboriginal women experience significantly poorer health. Taking a decolonizing approach, we unpack and demonstrate the systems level changes needed to make health and justice agencies culturally relevant and safe.
Social and cultural dimensions of loss of a military colleague by suicide or traumatic death
Veterans who have been exposed to suicide or traumatic death of a colleague experience heightened suicide risk, particularly where they report a close relationship to the deceased. There is a dearth of qualitative studies investigating the experience of loss of a military colleague to inform responses that veterans perceive as helpful. This study addresses this gap, thematically analysing fifty-one semi-structured interviews conducted in 2013–201…
Scaling up breastfeeding in England through the Becoming Breastfeeding Friendly initiative (BBF)
Breastfeeding is the most accessible and cost-effective activity available to public health and has been shown to be one of the most effective preventive measures mothers can take to protect their children's health. Despite the well-documented benefits, the UK has one of the lowest breastfeeding rates in the world. The Becoming Breastfeeding Friendly (BBF) toolkit was developed through highly structured technical and academic collaboration, led b…
Implementing the Becoming Breastfeeding Friendly initiative in Scotland
Despite strong policy support in Scotland, United Kingdom, key challenges to scaling up promotion, protection and support for breastfeeding remain. These include low breastfeeding rates and socioeconomic and regional inequalities. The Becoming Breastfeeding-Friendly (BBF) process was implemented to highlight actions that could address these challenges. The Scottish BBF committee employed an iterative process of documentary analysis and evidence r…
Becoming breastfeeding friendly in Great Britain—Does implementation science work
The Becoming Breastfeeding Friendly (BBF) in Great Britain study was conducted during 2017-2019 comprising three country studies: BBF England, Wales and Scotland. It was part of an international project being coordinated during the same period by the Yale School of Public Health across five world regions to inform countries and guide policies to improve the environment for the promotion, protection and support of breastfeeding. This paper reports…
Print media coverage of breastfeeding in Great Britain
Media can be a powerful communication tool to promote breastfeeding, influence mothers' breastfeeding behaviour, create positive social norms and generate support among stakeholders and policymakers for breastfeeding. However, negative stories could deter women from starting or continuing to breastfeed. This study aimed to describe the breadth and focus of the media coverage of breastfeeding and the message frames that are found in three of the m…
Understanding health and social service accessibility for young people with problematic substance use exiting prison in Australia
Incarcerated young people (aged 18-24) with a history of problematic substance use are a particularly vulnerable group, with a higher risk of mortality and return to custody compared to their older counterparts. Yet, there is limited research investigating service accessibility for this population. This study aimed to address this gap by investigating the characteristics of young people exiting prison on the 'Connections Program' (Connections) an…
Characteristics of enrolment in an intensive home-visiting programme among eligible first-time adolescent mothers in England
BACKGROUND: Intensive home visiting for adolescent mothers may help reduce health disparities. Given limited resources, such interventions need to be effectively targeted. We evaluated which mothers were enrolled in the Family Nurse Partnership (FNP), an intensive home-visiting service for first-time young mothers commissioned in >130 local authorities in England since 2007. METHODS: We created a population-based cohort of first-time mothers aged…
Policy formulation and actor roles in the expanded Kenyan free maternity policy (Linda Mama)
In 2013, Kenya implemented free maternity services, later expanded in 2016 into the ‘Linda Mama’ policy to provide essential health services for pregnant women. This study explored the policy formulation background, processes, content, and actors’ roles in formulation and implementation. Using a convergent parallel mixed-methods case study design, we reviewed documents and conducted in-depth interviews with national stakeholders, county officials…
Impacts of exposure to suicide of a military colleague from the lived experience of veterans
Although exposure to the suicide death of a military colleague has been shown quantitatively to increase suicide risk factors among veterans, there are very few studies where veterans have been asked about this experience. This article presents a qualitative analysis of 38 interviews with U.S. veterans with exposure to the suicide death of a military colleague in past war operations. Participants described the impact of exposure in relation to th…
Elders’ perspectives and priorities for ageing well in a remote Aboriginal community
Aboriginal Elders in Australia are recognised as having an important role as community leaders and cultural knowledge holders. However, the effects of colonisation and institutional racism mean Elders also experience significant social and economic disadvantage and poor health outcomes. There has been a systemic lack of attention to the worldviews and priorities of Aboriginal people as they age. In this article, we detail the findings of a qualit…
Empowering Parent Carers of Children With Neurodisability in Healthcare Settings
Exploring Parent Carer Empowerment in Childhood Onset Disability
BACKGROUND: Supporting parent carers to have greater agency and control over the decisions and actions regarding the care of their child is a central tenet of contemporary health and social care policy. This study explored contextual factors influencing the empowerment of parent carers of disabled children from the perspective of a range of stakeholders. METHODS: We used focus groups and semi-structured interviews to collect data from 28 particip…
Replanting the Birthing Trees to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander parents and babies
Background: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people experience intergenerational trauma as a legacy of the impacts of colonisation. Replanting the Birthing Trees (RBT) aims to transform compounding cycles of intergenerational trauma and harm to positively reinforcing cycles of intergenerational nurturing and recovery for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander parents and babies. This paper describes the protocol for developmental evaluation o…
Mental health and biomedical neoliberalism
In this article, we introduce a creative assessment task developed for postgraduate social work students studying critical perspectives on mental health.We discuss how moving beyond the constraints of text-based assignments generates space for students to explore new ways of thinking about mental health, beyond the limitations of dominant illness-based understandings.Through creativity, the task enables an exploration of social justice in practic…
Medicine (17 works) · Political science (15 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Nursing (10 works) · Qualitative research (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Public health (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Focus group (6 works)