Archive of publications
Publications prior to 2024
The Healthy Child
- Child of our time blog. Might population-wide increases in physical activity reduce socio-economic inequalities in the proportion of children who are overweight? 2019
- Sally Kendall, Avril Nash, A Braun, G Bastug, Emeline Rougeaux, Helen Bedford. ASQ-3 and the Healthy Child Programme Two-year health and development review: Parent and professional perspectives Child: care, health and development 2019
- Anna Pearce, Steven Hope, Lucy Griffiths, Mario Cortina-Borja, Chaterine Chittleborough, Catherine Law. What if all children achieved WHO recommendations on physical activity? Estimating the impact on socio-economic inequalities in childhood overweight in the United Kingdom Millennium Cohort Study. International Journal of Epidemiology 2018
- Steven Hope, Jessica Deighton, Nadia Micali, Catherine Law. Maternal mental health and childhood injury: evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study. Archives of Diseases in Childhood. 2018
- Steven Hope; Nadia Micali; Jessica Deighton; Catherine Law. Maternal mental health at 5 years and childhood overweight or obesity at 11 years: Evidence from the UK Millennium Cohort Study. International Journal of Obesity 2018
- Steven Hope, Anna Pearce, Catherine Chittleborough, Jessica Deighton, Amelia Maika, Nadia Micali, Murthy Mittinty, Catherine Law, John Lynch. Temporal effects of maternal psychological distress on child mental health problems at ages 3, 5, 7 and 11: analysis from the UK Millennium Cohort Study. Psychological Medicine. 2018
- Kathryn Hesketh, James Fagg, G Muniz-Terrera G, Helen Bedford, Catherine Law. Hope S. Co-occurrence and clustering of health conditions at age 11: cross-sectional findings from the Millennium Cohort Study. BMJ Open. 2016
- Kathryn Hesketh, Catherine Law, Helen Bedford, Steven Hope. Co-Occurrence of Health Conditions during Childhood: Longitudinal Findings from the UK Millennium Cohort Study (MCS). PLoS One. 2016
Sally Kendall, Avril Nash, Andreas Braun, Gonca Bastug, Emeline Rougeux, Helen Bedford.
Policy Research Unit in the Health of Children, Young People and Families 2014
- Anna Pearce, Steven Hope, Hannah Lewis, Catherine Law. Family structure and socio-emotional wellbeing in the early years: a life course approach.Longitudinal and Life Course Studies 2014
- Helen Bedford, Suzanne Walton, Jane Ahn. Review of Measures of Child Development. Policy Research Unit in the Health of Children, Young People and Families 2013
- Anna Pearce, Hannah Lewis, Catherine Law. The role of poverty in explaining health variations in 7 year old children from different family structures: findings from the UK Millennium Cohort Study. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2012
Healthcare provision
- Jenny Woodman, Antonia Simon, Hanan Hauari, Ruth Gilbert. A scoping review of ‘think family’ approaches in healthcare settings: helping the child through the parent. Journal of Public Health 2019
- Ania Zylbersztejn, Ruth Gilbert, Anders Hjern, Pia Hardelid. A comparison of child mortality from potentially preventable causes of death in England and Sweden using birth cohorts from linked administrative datasets. International Journal of Population Data Science 2018
- Ruth M. Blackburn, Annie Herbert, Linda Wijlaars. Trends in hospital admissions for nonfatal adversity-related injury among youths in England, 2002-2016. JAMA Pediatrics 2018
- Maximiliane L Verfürden, Ruth E Gilbert, Neil J Sebire, Pia Hardelid. Avoidable mortality from respiratory tract infection and sudden unexplained death in children with chronic conditions: a data linkage study. Archives of Disease in Childhood 2018
- Shabeer Syed, Ruth Gilbert, Miranda Wolpert. Parent Alcohol Misuse and the Impact on Children: a rapid evidence review of service presentations and interventions. Children’s Policy Research Unit 2018
- Linda Wijlaars, Pia Hardelid, Astrid Guttman, Ruth Gilbert. Emergency admissions and long-term conditions during transition from paediatric to adult care: a cross-sectional study using Hospital Episode Statistics data. BMJ Open 2018
- Ania Zylbersztejn, Ruth Gilbert, Anders Hjern, Linda Wijlaars, Pia Hardelid. Child mortality in England compared with Sweden: a birth cohort study The Lancet 2018
- Annie Herbert, Ruth Gilbert, David Cottrall, Leah Li. Causes of death up to 10 years after admissions to hospitals for self-inflicted, drug-related or alcohol-related, or violent injury during adolescence: a retrospective, nationwide, cohort study The Lancet 2017
- A Herbert, LPMM Wijlaars, A Zylbersztejn, D Cromwell, P Hardelid. Data Resource Profile: Hospital Episode Statistics Admitted Patient Care (HES APC). International Journal of Epidemiology 2017
- Annie Herbert, Arturo Gonzalez-Izquierdo, Janice McGhee, Leah Li, Ruth Gilbert. Time-trends in rates of hospital admission of adolescents for violent, self-inflicted or drug/alcohol-related injury in England and Scotland, 2005-2011: population-based analysis. Journal of Public Health 2016
- Miriam Maclean, Scott Sims, Melissa O’Donnell, Ruth Gilbert. Out-of-Home Care Versus In-home Care for Children Who Have Been Maltreated: A Systematic Review of Health and Wellbeing Outcomes. Child Abuse Review 2016
- Linda Wiljars, Pia Hardelid, Jenny Woodman, Janice Allister, Ronny Cheung, Ruth Gilbert. Who comes back with what? A retrospective cohort of reasons for emergnecy re-admission to hospital for children and young people in England Archives of Disease in Childhood 2016
- Melissa O’Donnell, Scott Sims, Miriam Maclean, Arturo Gonzalez-Izquierdo, Ruth Gilbert, Fiona Stanley. Trends in injury admissions associated with alcohol in adolescents in Western Australia and England. Drug and Alcohol Review 2015
- Annie Herbert, Ruth Gilbert, Arturo Gonzalez-Izquierdo, Alexandra Pitman, Leah Li. Ten year risks of death and emergency re-admission in adolescents hospitalised with violent, drug or alcohol related or self inflicted injury; a population based cohort study. PLOS Med 2015
- Linda Wijlaars, Pia Hardelid, Jenny Woodman, Janic Allister, Ronny Cheung, Ruth Gilbert. Contribution of recurrent admissions in children and young people to emergency hospital admissions: retrospective cohort analysis of hospital episode statistics. Archives of Disease in Childhood 2015
- Jenny Woodman, Hannah Lewis, Ronny Cheung, Ruth Gilbert, Linda Wijlaars. Integrating primary and secondary care for children and young people: sharing practice. Archives of Disease in Childhood 2015
- Annie Herbert, Ruth Gilbert , Arturo Gonzalez-Izquierdo, Leah Li. Violence, self-harm and drug or alcohol misuse in adolescents admitted to hospitals in England for injury: a retrospective cohort study. BMJ Open 2015
- Hilary Davies, Ruth Gilbert, Irene Petersen, Kathryn Johnson, Irwin Nazareth, Melissa O’Donnell, Astrid Guttman, Arturo Gonzalez-Izquierdo. Neonatal drug withdrawal Syndrome; a cross country comparison using hospital administrative data in England, USA, Western Australia and Ontario, Canada. Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal Neonatal Edition 2015
- Jenny Woodman and Ruth Gilbert. The role of health services in responding to child maltreatment. In: Eds Bentovim,A, Gray,J. Eradicating child maltreatment. Jessica Kingsley, London 2014
- Jenny Woodman, D Hodson, R Gardner, A Woolley, J Allister, I Rafi, S de Lusignan, Ruth Gilbert. The GP’s role in responding to child maltreatment. NSPCC, London 2014
- Effective interventions and programming (chapter 4). In: European report on preventing child maltreatment. Eds Sethi, D, Bellis,M, Hughes,K, Gilbert,R, Mitis,F, Galea,G. WHO Europe; Copenhagen 2014
- Arturo Gonzalez-Izquierdo, Mario Cortina-Borja, Jenny Woodman, Jacquie Mok, Janice McGhee, Julie Taylor, Chloe Parkin, Andrew Woolley, Ruth Gilbert. Maltreatment or violence-related injury in children and adolescents admitted to the NHS: comparison of trends in England and Scotland between 2005 and 2011. BMJ Open 2014
- Arturo Gonzalez-Izquierdo, Allison Ward, Polly Smith, Clare Wolford, Jo Begent, Yiannis Ioannou, Ruth Gilbert. Notifications for child safeguarding from an acute hospital in response to presentations to healthcare by parents. Child: Care, Health and Development 2014
- Social Care Institute for Excellence and Policy Research Unit in the Health of Children, Young People and Families. Partnership working in child protection: improving liaison between acute paediatric and child protection services2013
- Arturo Gonzalez-Izquierdo, Allison Ward , Melissa O’Donnell, Leah Li, Andreas Roposch, Fiona Stanley, Ruth Gilbert. Cross-country comparison of victimisation-related injury admission in children and adolescents in England and Western Australia. BMC Health Services Research 2013
- JJ Lee, Arturo Gonzalez-Izquierdo, Ruth Gilbert. Risk of Maltreatment-Related Injury: A Cross-Sectional Study of Children under Five Years Old Admitted to Hospital with a Head or Neck Injury or Fracture. PloS One 2012
Adolescent Health
- Aswathikutty Gireesh, Shikta Das, Russell Viner. The Impact of Health Behaviours and Deprivation on Wellbeing in a National Sample of English Young People. BMJ Paediatrics Open 2018
- Anuja Pandey, Daniel Hale, Shikta Das, Anne-Lise Goddings, Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Russell Viner. Effectiveness of universal self-regulation-based interventions to improve self-regulation, and effects on distant health and social outcomes in children and adolescents: a systematic review and meta-analysis. The Lancet 2017
- Daniel Hale and Russell Viner. The correlates and course of multiple health risk behaviour in adolescence. BMC Public Health 2016
- Nicola Shackleton, Daniel Hale, Russell Viner. Trends and socioeconomic disparities in preadolescent’s health in the UK:evidence from two birth cohorts 32 years apart. Journal of Epidemiology and Commnity Health 2016
- Daniel Hale, L Bevilacqua, Russell Viner. Adolescent health and adult education and employment: a systematic review. Pediatrics 2015
- Daniel Hale, Natasha Fitzgerald-Yau, Russell Viner. A systematic review of effective intervention programs for reducing multiple health risk behaviours in adolescence. American Journal of Public Health 2014
- Laura Vallejo-Torres, Daniel Hale, Stephen Morris, Russell Viner. Income-related inequality in health and health-related behaviour: exploring the equalisation hypothesis. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2014
- Daniel Hale, Russell Viner. Trends in multiple substance use in adolescents in England, 1998-2009. Journal of Public Health 2013
- Daniel Hale, Russell Viner. Policy responses to multiple risk behaviours in adolescents. Journal of Public Health 2012
Mental health
- Daniel Hayes, Julian Edbrooke-Childs, R. Town, Miranda Wolpert, N. Midgley.
Barriers and facilitators to shared decision making in child and youth mental health: Exploring young person and parent perspectives using the Theoretical Domains Framework European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 2018 - Suzet Tanya Lereya, Meera Patel, Joao Pedro Garcez Aurelio dos Santos and Jessica Deighton. Mental Health Difficulties, Attainment & Attendance: A Cross-sectional Study European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 2019
- Holly Bear, Julian Edbrooke-Childs, Sam Norton, Karolin Krause, Miranda Wolpert. Treatment response following routine mental health care among children and adolescents with anxiety and/or depression: A systematic review and meta-analysis Available at SSRN 2018
- Julian Childs, Amy Macdougall, Daniel Hayes, Jenna Jacob, Jessica Deighton & Miranda Wolpert. Service-level variation, patient-level factors, and treatment outcome in those seen by child mental health services European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 2017
- Helen Cheng, Daniel Hayes, Julian Edbrooke-Childs, Kate Martin, Louise Chapman, Miranda Wolpert. What approaches for promoting shared decision-making are used in child mental health? a scoping review Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy 2017
- Evelyn Sharples, C Qinn, V Goveas, Dawid Gondek, Jessica Deighton, Miranda Wolpert, Julian Edbrooke-Childs. A qualitative exploration of attitudes toward use of routine outcome measures in child and adolescent mental health services. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry 2017
- Dawid Gondek, Julian Edbrooke-Childs, Tjasa Velikonja, Louise Chapman, Felicity Saunders, Daniel Hayes, Miranda Wolpert. Facilitators and Barriers to Person-centred Care in Child and Young People Mental Health Services: A Systematic Review Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy 2016
- Julian Edbrooke-Childs, Dawid Gondek, Jessica Deighton, Peter Fonagy, Miranda Wolpert. When is sessional monitoring more likely in child and adolescent mental health services? Administration and Policy in Mental Health 2016
- D Gondek, Julian Edbrooke-Childs, E Fink, Jessical Deighton, Miranda Wolpert. Feedback from outcome measures and treatment effectiveness, treatment efficiency and collaborative practice: s systematic review. Administration and Policy in Mental Health 2016
- J Jacob, Julian Edbrooke-Childs, S Holley, D Law, Miranda Wolpert. Horses for courses? a qualitative exploration of goals forumulated in mental health settings by young people, parents and clinicians. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry 2015
- Jessica Deighton, Rachel Argent, Julian Childs, Jenna Bradley, Isobel Fleming, Miranda Wolpert. Associations between evidence-based practice and mental health outcomes in child and adolescent mental health services. Cinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry 2015
- Praveetha Patalay, Elian Fink, Peter Fonagy and Jessica Deighton. Unpacking the associations between heterogeneous externalising symptom development and academic attainment in middle childhood. European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 2015
- Julian Edbrooke-Childs, R Newman, Isobel Fleming, Jessica Deighton, Miranda Wolpert. The association between ethnicity and care pathway for children with emotional problems in routinely collected child and adolescent mental health services data. European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 2015
- Julian Edbrooke-Childs, Jenna Jacob, Duncan Law, Jessica Deighton, Miranda Wolpert. Interpreting standardized and idiographic outcome measures in CAMHS: what does change mean and how does it relate to functioning and experience? Child and Adolescent Mental Health 2015
- Julian Edbrooke-Childs, Jenna Bradley, Rachel Argent, P Patalay, Jessica Deighton, Miranda Wolpert. The relationship between child- and parent-reported shared decision making and child-, parent-, and clinician-reported treatment outcome in routinely collected child mental health services data. Cinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry 2015
- Miranda Wolpert, Anke Görzig, Jessica Deighton, Andrew Fugard, Robert Newman, Tamsin Ford. Comparison of indices of clinically meaningful change in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS): difference scores, reliable change, crossing clinical thresholds and “added value” - an exploration using parent rated scores on the SDQ. Child and Adolescent Mental Health 2014
- K Curtis-Tyler, Miranda Wolpert, Julian Edbrooke-Childs. A qualitative exploration of patient and clinician views on the use of Patient Reported Outcome Measures in child mental health and diabetes services in the United Kingdom. Administration and Policy in Mental Health 2014
- Jessica Deighton, Tim Croudace, Peter Fonagy, Jeb Brown, Praveetha Patalay, Miranda Wolpert. Measuring mental health and wellbeing outcomes for children and adolescents to inform practice and policy: a review of child self-report measures. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2014
Long Term Conditions
- Amal R. Khanolkar, Rakesh Amin, David Taylor-Robinson, Russell M. Viner, Justin Warner, and Terence Stephenson. Inequalities in glycaemic control in childhood onset type 2 diabetes in England and Wales – A national population-based longitudinal study. Paediatric Diabetes 2019
- Dimitrios Charalampopoulos et al. Exploring variation in glycaemic control across and within eight high-income countries: A cross-sectional analysis of 64,666 children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes Diabetes Care 2018
- Amal R. Khanolkar, Rakesh Amin, David Taylor-Robinson, Russell Viner, Justin Warner, Evelien F. Gevers, and Terence Stephenson. Diabetic ketoacidosis severity at diagnosis and glycaemic control in the first year of childhood onset type 1 diabetes - A longitudinal cohort study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2017
- Amal Khanolkar, Rakesh Amin, David Taylor-Robinson, Russell Viner, Justin Warner, Evelien Gevers, Terence Stephenson. Ethnic differences in early glycemic control in childhood-onset type 1 diabetes. BMJ Open Diabetes Research and Care 2017
- Dimitrios Charalampopoulos, Rakesh Amin, J. T. Warner, G Muniz-Terrera, Veena Mazarello Paes, Russell Viner, Terence Stephenson. Clinic variation in glycaemic control for children with Type 1 diabetes in England and Wales: a population-based, multilevel analysis Diabetic Medicine 2017
- Veena Mazarello Paes, Dimitrios Charalampopoulos, Russell Viner, Julie Edge, Terence Stephenson, Rakesh Amin. Predictors of glycemic control in the first year of diagnosis of childhood onset type 1 diabetes: A systematic review of quantitative evidence. Pediatric Diabetes 2017
- Amal Khanolkar, Rakesh Amin, David Taylor-Robinson, Russell Viner, Justin Warner, Evelien Gevers, Terence Stephenson. Ethnic differences in early glycemic control in childhood-onset type 1 diabetes. BMJ Open Diabetes Research and Care 2017
- Helen Roberts, Terence Stephenson, Lisa Arai. Bureacracy, trust and time: recruitment in a low-risk study of paediatric protocols for children who miss medical appointments. Archives of Disease in Childhood 2017
- Veena Mazarello Paes, Dimitrios Charalampopoulos, Julie Edge, David Taylor-Robinson, Russell Viner, Terence Stephenson, Rakesh Amin. Predictors of glycemic control in the first year of diagnosis of childhood onset type 1 diabetes: A systematic review of quantitative evidence. Paediatric Diabetes Journal 2017
- Khanolkar, A. R., Amin, R., Taylor-Robinson, D., Viner, R., Warner, J., Stephenson, T. Ethnic Minorities Are at Greater Risk for Childhood-Onset Type 2 Diabetes and Poorer Glycemic Control in England and Wales. Journal of Adolescent Health 2016
- Amal R. Khanolkar, Rakesh Amin, David Taylor-Robinson, Russell Viner, Justin Warner and Terence Stephenson. Young people with Type 1 diabetes of non-white ethnicity and lower socio-economic status have poorer glycaemic control in England and Wales. Diabetic medicine 2016
- Veena Mazarello Paes, Dimitrios Charalampopoulos, Amal Khanolkar, David Taylor-Robinson, Russell Viner, Julie Edge, Terence Stephenson, Rakesh Amin. Protocol for systematic review of evidence on the determinants and influence of early glycaemic control in childhood-onset Type 1 Diabetes. PROSPERO 2015
- K Curtis-Tyler, Lisa Arai, Terence Stephenson, Helen Roberts. What makes for a good or bad paediatric chronic illness servce from the view point of children, young people, carers clinicians and support staff. A synthesis of qualitative findings. Archives of Disease in Childhood 2015
- Lisa Arai, Terence Stephenson and Helen Roberts. The unseen child and safeguarding; Did Not Attend Guidelines in the NHS. Archives of Disease in Childhood 2015
Health Economics
- Francesca Solmi, Mariya Melnychuk, Stephen Morris, The cost of mental and physical health disability in childhood and adolescence to families in the UK: findings from a repeated cross-sectional survey using propensity score matching BMJ Open 2018
- Mariya Melnychuk, Francesca Solmi and Stephen Morris. Using compensating variation to measure the costs of child disability in the UK 2017
- Laura Vallejo-Torres, Daniel Hale, Stephen Morris, Russell Viner. Income-related inequality in health and health-related behaviour: exploring the equalisation hypothesis. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2014
The Sociology of Health and Illness
- Helen Roberts, Anne Ingold, Kristin Liabo, Grazia Manzotti, David Reeves, Hannah Bradby. Moving on: Transitions out of care for young people with learnng disabilities in England and Sweden. British Journal of Learning Disabilities. 2018
- Helen Roberts, Kristen Liabo. Anonymity in participatory research: Is it attainable? Is it desirable? SAGE 2017
- Kristen Liabo, Anne Ingold, Helen Roberts. Co-production with “vulnerable” groups: Balancing protection and participation. Health Science Reports 2017
- Hannah Bradby, Kristin Liabo, Anne Ingold, Helen Roberts. Visibility, resilience and vulnerability in young migrants. Sage Health 2017
- Helen Roberts, Hannah Bradby, Anne Ingold, Grazie Manzotti, David Reeves, Kristin Liabo. Moving on: multiple transitions for unaccompanied child migrants leaving care in England and Sweden. Journal of Social Science Studies 2017
- Kristen Liabo, Anne Ingold, C. McKenna, Helen Roberts. Leaving foster or residential care: a participatory study of care leavers’ experiences of health and social care transitions. Child: care, health and development 2016
- Helen Roberts, Terence Stephenson, Lisa Arai. Bureacracy, trust and time: recruitment in a low-risk study of paediatric protocols for children who miss medical appointments. Archives of Disease in Childhood 2017
- K Curtis-Tyler, Lisa Arai, Terence Stephenson, Helen Roberts. What makes for a good or bad paediatric chronic illness servce from the view point of children, young people, carers clinicians and support staff. A synthesis of qualitative findings. Archives of Disease in Childhood 2015
- Lisa Arai, Terence Stephenson and Helen Roberts. The unseen child and safeguarding; Did Not Attend Guidelines in the NHS. Archives of Disease in Childhood 2015
- Lisa Arai, S. Stapley and Helen Roberts. ‘Did not attends’ in children 0-10: a scoping review. Child: Care, Health and Development 2013