Angela Harden
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 98763 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Angela Harden |
| PRENOMES | Angela |
| SOBRENOME | Harden |
| ASSINATURA | HARDEN A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8621-5066 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 72 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1995 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Feasibility of an Adapted Participatory Group Programme for Caregivers of Children With Complex Neurodisability in the United Kingdom
Co-designed and co-delivered place-based community interventions to reduce inequity in early initiation of antenatal care
BACKGROUND: Early initiation of antenatal care provides timely screening, advice and support. Inequities in early care initiation exist in high-income countries, but there is scant evidence on effective interventions. The community REACH (Research for Equitable Antenatal Care and Health) trial aimed to assess the effectiveness of co-produced place-based interventions to strengthen community support for early care initiation. METHODS: Matched-pair…
Improving Diversity in Recruitment
INTRODUCTION: Our ability to address inequities in health outcomes is hampered by the under-representation of underserved groups in research. Research exploring this topic has focused on observational studies in the American context. This is a pivotal concern for maternity research in the UK as perinatal outcome variables vary by ethnicity, socioeconomic and linguistic background. This paper reports the findings of an analysis of the diversity ac…
Adapting a Participatory Group Programme for Caregivers of Children with Complex Neurodisability from Low-, Middle-Income Countries to a High-Income Setting
The "Baby Ubuntu" programme is a well-established, low-cost, community-based intervention to support caregivers of children with complex neurodisability, like cerebral palsy, in low- and middle-income country (LMIC) contexts. This process-focused paper describes our utilisation of the ADAPT guidance to adapt "Baby Ubuntu" for use in ethnically and linguistically diverse, and economically deprived urban boroughs in the United Kingdom (UK). The pro…
Community engagement approaches to improve health
This qualitative case study research found that in successful community engagement projects, community expertise is respected and valued, allowing community members to be fully involved and take ownership of the projects. Sufficient time should be allowed for this process. Flexibility and adaptation of project materials, protocols and role descriptions is important in overcoming barriers to community engagement
Opportunities and Barriers to Embedding Community Development Approaches in Local Systems
Background: Community development is a multi-faceted process which generates individual and community empowerment and can contribute towards reducing health inequalities, particularly in marginalised communities. Community development approaches refer to interventions, frameworks and programmes which work with communities to help them to identify their collective needs and challenges, and mobilises them to utilise available assets to generate lon…
Blunt Force Skeletal Trauma Research Methods
A key component of the forensic anthropological examination is skeletal trauma analysis, which accounts for the majority of forensic anthropologists' expert testimonies. However, a major gap in the current knowledge surrounding skeletal trauma has been identified, specifically the data necessary to conduct comprehensive bone trauma analysis with established error rates are lacking. Current methods and standards of skeletal blunt force trauma anal…
Project20
The findings of this study contribute to concerns highlighted in previous literature around interpreter services in the wider healthcare arena, particularly around the lack of regulation and access to high-quality interpretation. This is thought to have a significant effect on pregnant women who are living socially complex lives as they are not able to communicate their concerns and access support. This not only impacts on their safety and pregna…
Rib Fractures
Thoracic injuries, specifically rib fractures, are of significant clinical and forensic interest and occur in high frequencies in homicides, accidents, and motor vehicle crashes. However, current analysis of rib fractures lacks a systematic method for characterizing and interpreting these injuries. The goal of the present research is to provide a standardized classification system dedicated to describing and quantifying fractures for utilization …
Cochrane Qualitative and Implementation Methods Group guidance series—paper 3
In memoriam
Dr Farah Jamal's death at the age of 30 is a tragic loss for public health research. Despite her youth, she made significant scientific contributions in understanding how to improve young people's health and well-being, and through developing new methods that will help other researchers in the future. All her research was united by a concern for using sociological ideas to inform public health research, as well as a commitment to involving young …
Consulting with young people to inform systematic reviews
The social ecology of girls' bullying practices
This exploratory study adopts a socio-ecological approach to examine the context of school bullying. It asks: (1) what are students' accounts of bullying practices?; (2) how are these enabled and constrained by the school-environment?; (3) how is gender implicated? Qualitative data were collected from girls in two schools in London via focus groups (one in each school; students aged 12-15) and seven semi-structured interviews (in one school; stud…
Coreq (Consolidated Criteria for Reporting Qualitative Studies)
The Consolidated Criteria for Reporting Qualitative Studies (COREQ) covers the reporting of studies using interviews and focus groups. It is the only reporting guidance for qualitative research to have received other than isolated endorsement although it applies to only a few of the many qualitative methods in use. The COREQ checklist was developed to promote explicit and comprehensive reporting of interviews and focus groups. The COREQ checklist…
The effects of the school environment on student health
School-based cognitive-behavioural interventions
Methods for the thematic synthesis of qualitative research in systematic reviews
There is a growing recognition of the value of synthesising qualitative research in the evidence base in order to facilitate effective and appropriate health care. In response to this, methods for undertaking these syntheses are currently being developed. Thematic analysis is a method that is often used to analyse data in primary qualitative research. This paper reports on the use of this type of analysis in systematic reviews to bring together a…
A multitude of syntheses
English This article addresses the synthesis and use of research evidence to inform policy and practice. Reviews of the evidence base in many fields have formed a crucial bridge between research, policy making and practice. Systematic review, in conjunction with meta-analysis, has become an established methodology for locating, selecting, appraising and quantitatively synthesising research evidence according to an explicit and reproducible method…
Painting pictures of embodied experience
This paper is based upon the work of an ongoing, collective research project that is concerned with embodiment. The co-researchers have used a variety of methods, including memory work and the analysis of discourse, in order to trace the ways in which meanings are constructed and lived, with and through the body. These methods have relied solely on transcripts of text as data. Growing awareness of the limitations this imposed on the research, par…
Methodological Issues in Combining Diverse Study Types in Systematic Reviews
In this paper we discuss mixing methods at the level of reviews of research, combining the findings of multiple, already existing, studies that are labelled broadly as using either ‘qualitative’ or ‘quantitative’ methods. We define systematic reviews and outline the ‘mixed methods’ we have developed for combining diverse study types within them. Traditional systematic reviews usually answer a single question, use one type of study and, hence, onl…
An Emerging Framework for Including Different Types of Evidence in Systematic Reviews for Public Policy
Evidence-informed policy and practice call on research addressing a broad range of research questions: evaluating the need for, and development, implementation, acceptability and effectiveness of interventions. Synthesizing this evidence requires methods that integrate the findings from diverse study designs. This article reports the development of a new model of research synthesis for this purpose. On completion of a series of substantive review…
Applying systematic review methods to studies of people’s views
Methods for systematic reviews are well developed for trials, but not for non-experimental or qualitative research. This paper describes the methods developed for reviewing research on people’s perspectives and experiences (“views” studies) alongside trials within a series of reviews on young people’s mental health, physical activity, and healthy eating. Reports of views studies were difficult to locate; could not easily be classified as “qualita…
Young women's experiences of arranging and having abortions
Women (n = 54) aged between 16 and 24 were interviewed between one and three hours after their abortion about their experiences. Overall, having an unwanted pregnancy was experienced as a rare event which was accompanied by feelings of lack of control and loss of status. Further, the process of arranging and having an abortion led to a reinstatement of status, control and normality. However, this process was sometimes hindered by inaccessible inf…
An Exploration of the Discursive Constructions used in Young Adults' Memories and Accounts of Contraception
The study reported in this article uses discourse analysis to examine the meaning and significance of contraception for young adults and emphasizes the social construction of meaning to better explain what can limit and what can facilitate use of contraception. The study used memory work (Crawford et al., Emotion and Gender: Constructing Meaning from Memories. Sage, 1992) and group discussions to collect accounts of contraception. Analysis of the…
Beliefs about condoms in 12/13 and 16/17 year olds
The present study examined the beliefs and attitudes which surround condoms and their use. Qualitative data in the form of short essays were collected from 12/13 (n = 148) and 16/17 (n = 63) year olds. The results suggest that condoms are conceptualized in terms of a complex set of factual and evaluative factors such as feelings, responsibility and risk and that younger subjects hold more positive beliefs than the older subjects. The results are …
Painting pictures of embodied experience
This paper is based upon the work of an ongoing, collective research project that is concerned with embodiment. The co-researchers have used a variety of methods, including memory work and the analysis of discourse, in order to trace the ways in which meanings are constructed and lived, with and through the body. These methods have relied solely on transcripts of text as data. Growing awareness of the limitations this imposed on the research, par…
Methodological Issues in Combining Diverse Study Types in Systematic Reviews
In this paper we discuss mixing methods at the level of reviews of research, combining the findings of multiple, already existing, studies that are labelled broadly as using either ‘qualitative’ or ‘quantitative’ methods. We define systematic reviews and outline the ‘mixed methods’ we have developed for combining diverse study types within them. Traditional systematic reviews usually answer a single question, use one type of study and, hence, onl…
An Emerging Framework for Including Different Types of Evidence in Systematic Reviews for Public Policy
Evidence-informed policy and practice call on research addressing a broad range of research questions: evaluating the need for, and development, implementation, acceptability and effectiveness of interventions. Synthesizing this evidence requires methods that integrate the findings from diverse study designs. This article reports the development of a new model of research synthesis for this purpose. On completion of a series of substantive review…
The social ecology of girls' bullying practices
This exploratory study adopts a socio-ecological approach to examine the context of school bullying. It asks: (1) what are students' accounts of bullying practices?; (2) how are these enabled and constrained by the school-environment?; (3) how is gender implicated? Qualitative data were collected from girls in two schools in London via focus groups (one in each school; students aged 12-15) and seven semi-structured interviews (in one school; stud…
Young women's experiences of arranging and having abortions
Women (n = 54) aged between 16 and 24 were interviewed between one and three hours after their abortion about their experiences. Overall, having an unwanted pregnancy was experienced as a rare event which was accompanied by feelings of lack of control and loss of status. Further, the process of arranging and having an abortion led to a reinstatement of status, control and normality. However, this process was sometimes hindered by inaccessible inf…
An Exploration of the Discursive Constructions used in Young Adults' Memories and Accounts of Contraception
The study reported in this article uses discourse analysis to examine the meaning and significance of contraception for young adults and emphasizes the social construction of meaning to better explain what can limit and what can facilitate use of contraception. The study used memory work (Crawford et al., Emotion and Gender: Constructing Meaning from Memories. Sage, 1992) and group discussions to collect accounts of contraception. Analysis of the…
Co-designed and co-delivered place-based community interventions to reduce inequity in early initiation of antenatal care
BACKGROUND: Early initiation of antenatal care provides timely screening, advice and support. Inequities in early care initiation exist in high-income countries, but there is scant evidence on effective interventions. The community REACH (Research for Equitable Antenatal Care and Health) trial aimed to assess the effectiveness of co-produced place-based interventions to strengthen community support for early care initiation. METHODS: Matched-pair…
Beliefs about condoms in 12/13 and 16/17 year olds
The present study examined the beliefs and attitudes which surround condoms and their use. Qualitative data in the form of short essays were collected from 12/13 (n = 148) and 16/17 (n = 63) year olds. The results suggest that condoms are conceptualized in terms of a complex set of factual and evaluative factors such as feelings, responsibility and risk and that younger subjects hold more positive beliefs than the older subjects. The results are …
An Exploration of the Discursive Constructions used in Young Adults' Memories and Accounts of Contraception
The study reported in this article uses discourse analysis to examine the meaning and significance of contraception for young adults and emphasizes the social construction of meaning to better explain what can limit and what can facilitate use of contraception. The study used memory work (Crawford et al., Emotion and Gender: Constructing Meaning from Memories. Sage, 1992) and group discussions to collect accounts of contraception. Analysis of the…
Young women's experiences of arranging and having abortions
Women (n = 54) aged between 16 and 24 were interviewed between one and three hours after their abortion about their experiences. Overall, having an unwanted pregnancy was experienced as a rare event which was accompanied by feelings of lack of control and loss of status. Further, the process of arranging and having an abortion led to a reinstatement of status, control and normality. However, this process was sometimes hindered by inaccessible inf…
Applying systematic review methods to studies of people’s views
Methods for systematic reviews are well developed for trials, but not for non-experimental or qualitative research. This paper describes the methods developed for reviewing research on people’s perspectives and experiences (“views” studies) alongside trials within a series of reviews on young people’s mental health, physical activity, and healthy eating. Reports of views studies were difficult to locate; could not easily be classified as “qualita…
Painting pictures of embodied experience
This paper is based upon the work of an ongoing, collective research project that is concerned with embodiment. The co-researchers have used a variety of methods, including memory work and the analysis of discourse, in order to trace the ways in which meanings are constructed and lived, with and through the body. These methods have relied solely on transcripts of text as data. Growing awareness of the limitations this imposed on the research, par…
Methodological Issues in Combining Diverse Study Types in Systematic Reviews
In this paper we discuss mixing methods at the level of reviews of research, combining the findings of multiple, already existing, studies that are labelled broadly as using either ‘qualitative’ or ‘quantitative’ methods. We define systematic reviews and outline the ‘mixed methods’ we have developed for combining diverse study types within them. Traditional systematic reviews usually answer a single question, use one type of study and, hence, onl…
An Emerging Framework for Including Different Types of Evidence in Systematic Reviews for Public Policy
Evidence-informed policy and practice call on research addressing a broad range of research questions: evaluating the need for, and development, implementation, acceptability and effectiveness of interventions. Synthesizing this evidence requires methods that integrate the findings from diverse study designs. This article reports the development of a new model of research synthesis for this purpose. On completion of a series of substantive review…
A multitude of syntheses
English This article addresses the synthesis and use of research evidence to inform policy and practice. Reviews of the evidence base in many fields have formed a crucial bridge between research, policy making and practice. Systematic review, in conjunction with meta-analysis, has become an established methodology for locating, selecting, appraising and quantitatively synthesising research evidence according to an explicit and reproducible method…
Methods for the thematic synthesis of qualitative research in systematic reviews
There is a growing recognition of the value of synthesising qualitative research in the evidence base in order to facilitate effective and appropriate health care. In response to this, methods for undertaking these syntheses are currently being developed. Thematic analysis is a method that is often used to analyse data in primary qualitative research. This paper reports on the use of this type of analysis in systematic reviews to bring together a…
School-based cognitive-behavioural interventions
The effects of the school environment on student health
Coreq (Consolidated Criteria for Reporting Qualitative Studies)
The Consolidated Criteria for Reporting Qualitative Studies (COREQ) covers the reporting of studies using interviews and focus groups. It is the only reporting guidance for qualitative research to have received other than isolated endorsement although it applies to only a few of the many qualitative methods in use. The COREQ checklist was developed to promote explicit and comprehensive reporting of interviews and focus groups. The COREQ checklist…
Consulting with young people to inform systematic reviews
The social ecology of girls' bullying practices
This exploratory study adopts a socio-ecological approach to examine the context of school bullying. It asks: (1) what are students' accounts of bullying practices?; (2) how are these enabled and constrained by the school-environment?; (3) how is gender implicated? Qualitative data were collected from girls in two schools in London via focus groups (one in each school; students aged 12-15) and seven semi-structured interviews (in one school; stud…
In memoriam
Dr Farah Jamal's death at the age of 30 is a tragic loss for public health research. Despite her youth, she made significant scientific contributions in understanding how to improve young people's health and well-being, and through developing new methods that will help other researchers in the future. All her research was united by a concern for using sociological ideas to inform public health research, as well as a commitment to involving young …
Cochrane Qualitative and Implementation Methods Group guidance series—paper 3
Rib Fractures
Thoracic injuries, specifically rib fractures, are of significant clinical and forensic interest and occur in high frequencies in homicides, accidents, and motor vehicle crashes. However, current analysis of rib fractures lacks a systematic method for characterizing and interpreting these injuries. The goal of the present research is to provide a standardized classification system dedicated to describing and quantifying fractures for utilization …
Project20
The findings of this study contribute to concerns highlighted in previous literature around interpreter services in the wider healthcare arena, particularly around the lack of regulation and access to high-quality interpretation. This is thought to have a significant effect on pregnant women who are living socially complex lives as they are not able to communicate their concerns and access support. This not only impacts on their safety and pregna…
Opportunities and Barriers to Embedding Community Development Approaches in Local Systems
Background: Community development is a multi-faceted process which generates individual and community empowerment and can contribute towards reducing health inequalities, particularly in marginalised communities. Community development approaches refer to interventions, frameworks and programmes which work with communities to help them to identify their collective needs and challenges, and mobilises them to utilise available assets to generate lon…
Blunt Force Skeletal Trauma Research Methods
A key component of the forensic anthropological examination is skeletal trauma analysis, which accounts for the majority of forensic anthropologists' expert testimonies. However, a major gap in the current knowledge surrounding skeletal trauma has been identified, specifically the data necessary to conduct comprehensive bone trauma analysis with established error rates are lacking. Current methods and standards of skeletal blunt force trauma anal…
Improving Diversity in Recruitment
INTRODUCTION: Our ability to address inequities in health outcomes is hampered by the under-representation of underserved groups in research. Research exploring this topic has focused on observational studies in the American context. This is a pivotal concern for maternity research in the UK as perinatal outcome variables vary by ethnicity, socioeconomic and linguistic background. This paper reports the findings of an analysis of the diversity ac…
Adapting a Participatory Group Programme for Caregivers of Children with Complex Neurodisability from Low-, Middle-Income Countries to a High-Income Setting
The "Baby Ubuntu" programme is a well-established, low-cost, community-based intervention to support caregivers of children with complex neurodisability, like cerebral palsy, in low- and middle-income country (LMIC) contexts. This process-focused paper describes our utilisation of the ADAPT guidance to adapt "Baby Ubuntu" for use in ethnically and linguistically diverse, and economically deprived urban boroughs in the United Kingdom (UK). The pro…
Community engagement approaches to improve health
This qualitative case study research found that in successful community engagement projects, community expertise is respected and valued, allowing community members to be fully involved and take ownership of the projects. Sufficient time should be allowed for this process. Flexibility and adaptation of project materials, protocols and role descriptions is important in overcoming barriers to community engagement
Feasibility of an Adapted Participatory Group Programme for Caregivers of Children With Complex Neurodisability in the United Kingdom
Co-designed and co-delivered place-based community interventions to reduce inequity in early initiation of antenatal care
BACKGROUND: Early initiation of antenatal care provides timely screening, advice and support. Inequities in early care initiation exist in high-income countries, but there is scant evidence on effective interventions. The community REACH (Research for Equitable Antenatal Care and Health) trial aimed to assess the effectiveness of co-produced place-based interventions to strengthen community support for early care initiation. METHODS: Matched-pair…
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