Dr SOPHIE HALL's Outputs (27)

Dog-assisted interventions for children and adults with mental health or neurodevelopmental conditions: systematic review (2025)
Journal Article
Shoesmith, E., Hall, S., Sowden, A., Stevens, H., Pervin, J., Riga, J., McMillan, D., Mills, D., Clarke, C., Wu, Q., Gibsone, S., & Ratschen, E. (2025). Dog-assisted interventions for children and adults with mental health or neurodevelopmental conditions: systematic review. British Journal of Psychiatry, https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2025.8

Background
Dog-assisted interventions (DAIs) to improve health-related outcomes for people with mental health or neurodevelopmental conditions are becoming increasingly popular. However, DAIs are not based on robust scientific evidence.

Aims
To... Read More about Dog-assisted interventions for children and adults with mental health or neurodevelopmental conditions: systematic review.

Mixed-methods study to develop extensions to the SPIRIT and CONSORT statements for factorial randomised trials: the Reporting Factorial Trials (RAFT) study (2025)
Journal Article
Hall, S. S., Juszczak, E., Birchenall, M., Elbourne, D., Beller, E., Chan, A.-W., Little, P., Montgomery, A. A., & Kahan, B. C. (2025). Mixed-methods study to develop extensions to the SPIRIT and CONSORT statements for factorial randomised trials: the Reporting Factorial Trials (RAFT) study. BMJ Open, 15(2), Article e082917. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-082917

Background Extensions to Standard Protocol Items: Recommendations for Interventional Trials (SPIRIT) and Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) reporting recommendations specifically for factorial trials have been developed by the Repor... Read More about Mixed-methods study to develop extensions to the SPIRIT and CONSORT statements for factorial randomised trials: the Reporting Factorial Trials (RAFT) study.

Guidance for protocol content and reporting of factorial randomised trials: explanation and elaboration of the CONSORT 2010 and SPIRIT 2013 extensions (2025)
Journal Article
Kahan, B. C., Juszczak, E., Beller, E., Birchenall, M., Chan, A.-W., Hall, S., Little, P., Fletcher, J., Golub, R. M., Goulao, B., Hopewell, S., Islam, N., Zwarenstein, M., Elbourne, D., & Montgomery, A. (2025). Guidance for protocol content and reporting of factorial randomised trials: explanation and elaboration of the CONSORT 2010 and SPIRIT 2013 extensions. BMJ, 388, Article e080785. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2024-080785

This report presents the explanation and elaboration paper for the CONSORT (Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials) 2010 and SPIRIT (Standard Protocol Items: Recommendations for Interventional Trials) 2013 extensions for factorial trials. Factori... Read More about Guidance for protocol content and reporting of factorial randomised trials: explanation and elaboration of the CONSORT 2010 and SPIRIT 2013 extensions.

Flourishing and job satisfaction in employees working in UK clinical trial units: a national cross-sectional survey (2024)
Journal Article
Hall, S. S., Riga, E., Sprange, K., Hagan, P., Carr, L., Taylor, J., Thomson, L., & Mitchell, E. J. (2024). Flourishing and job satisfaction in employees working in UK clinical trial units: a national cross-sectional survey. BMC Health Services Research, 24(1), Article 1522. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-024-11986-x

Background
To evaluate healthcare interventions in clinical trials, it is crucial to attract and retain a skilled workforce. The job demands associated with developing and running clinical trials have been linked with difficulties in recruiting and... Read More about Flourishing and job satisfaction in employees working in UK clinical trial units: a national cross-sectional survey.

A national evaluation of QbTest to support ADHD assessment: a real-world, mixed methods approach (2024)
Journal Article
Hall, S. S., McKenzie, C., Thomson, L., Ingall, B.-R., Groom, M. J., McGlennon, N., Dines-Allen, M., & Hall, C. L. (2024). A national evaluation of QbTest to support ADHD assessment: a real-world, mixed methods approach. BMC Health Services Research, 24(1), Article 1201. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-024-11693-7

Background: QbTest is a commercially available, computerised test of attention, impulsivity, and activity designed to assist with the diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Health Innovation East Midlands (formerly East Midland... Read More about A national evaluation of QbTest to support ADHD assessment: a real-world, mixed methods approach.

Waiting-list interventions for children and young people using child and adolescent mental health services: a systematic review (2024)
Journal Article
Valentine, A. Z., Hall, S. S., Sayal, K., & Hall, C. L. (2024). Waiting-list interventions for children and young people using child and adolescent mental health services: a systematic review. BMJ Mental Health, 27(1), 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjment-2023-300844

Question Children and young people experience delays in assessment and/or treatment within mental health services. The objective of this systematic review, funded by the Emerging Minds Network, was to explore the current evidence base for mental heal... Read More about Waiting-list interventions for children and young people using child and adolescent mental health services: a systematic review.

Dog owner mental health is associated with dog behavioural problems, dog care and dog-facilitated social interaction: a prospective cohort study (2023)
Journal Article
Barcelos, A. M., Kargas, N., Assheton, P., Maltby, J., Hall, S., & Mills, D. S. (2023). Dog owner mental health is associated with dog behavioural problems, dog care and dog-facilitated social interaction: a prospective cohort study. Scientific Reports, 13(1), Article 21734. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-48731-z

Despite numerous qualitative and cross-sectional studies investigating how dog-related factors may impact owners’ well-being, empirical studies to test these causal effects are lacking. This prospective cohort study examined the correlation and poten... Read More about Dog owner mental health is associated with dog behavioural problems, dog care and dog-facilitated social interaction: a prospective cohort study.

Pet ownership and grief - Exploring how pet ownership effects owners' mental wellbeing during times of grief, a qualitative pilot study (2023)
Journal Article
French, B., Anctil, Z., Brown, B., & Hall, S. (2023). Pet ownership and grief - Exploring how pet ownership effects owners' mental wellbeing during times of grief, a qualitative pilot study. Pet Behaviour Science, 15, 1-19

Animal-assisted interventions (AAIs) have exhibited encouraging outcomes in enhancing human mental health. However, research has investigated the potential benefits of untrained pets for human mental wellbeing, as training animals for AAI can be cost... Read More about Pet ownership and grief - Exploring how pet ownership effects owners' mental wellbeing during times of grief, a qualitative pilot study.

Consensus Statement for Protocols of Factorial Randomized Trials: Extension of the SPIRIT 2013 Statement (2023)
Journal Article
Kahan, B. C., Hall, S. S., Beller, E. M., Birchenall, M., Elbourne, D., Juszczak, E., Little, P., Fletcher, J., Golub, R. M., Goulao, B., Hopewell, S., Islam, N., Zwarenstein, M., Chan, A.-W., & Montgomery, A. A. (2023). Consensus Statement for Protocols of Factorial Randomized Trials: Extension of the SPIRIT 2013 Statement. JAMA Network Open, 6(12), Article e2346121. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.46121

Importance

Trial protocols outline a trial’s objectives as well as the methods (design, conduct, and analysis) that will be used to meet those objectives, and transparent reporting of trial protocols ensures objectives are clear and facilitates... Read More about Consensus Statement for Protocols of Factorial Randomized Trials: Extension of the SPIRIT 2013 Statement.

Reporting of Factorial Randomized Trials: Extension of the CONSORT 2010 Statement (2023)
Journal Article
Kahan, B. C., Hall, S. S., Beller, E. M., Birchenall, M., Chan, A.-W., Elbourne, D., Little, P., Fletcher, J., Golub, R. M., Goulao, B., Hopewell, S., Islam, N., Zwarenstein, M., Juszczak, E., & Montgomery, A. A. (2023). Reporting of Factorial Randomized Trials: Extension of the CONSORT 2010 Statement. JAMA Network Open, 330(21), 2106-2114. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2023.19793

Importance

Transparent reporting of randomized trials is essential to facilitate critical appraisal and interpretation of results. Factorial trials, in which 2 or more interventions are assessed in the same set of participants, have unique method... Read More about Reporting of Factorial Randomized Trials: Extension of the CONSORT 2010 Statement.

Patients’ experience of accessing support for tics from primary care in the UK: an online mixed-methods survey (2023)
Journal Article
Marino, C., Khan, K., Groom, M. J., Hall, S. S., Anderson, S., Mcnally, E., Murphy, T., & Hall, C. L. (2023). Patients’ experience of accessing support for tics from primary care in the UK: an online mixed-methods survey. BMC Health Services Research, 23, Article 788. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-023-09753-5

Background
Tics are common in children and young people and may persist into adulthood. Tics can cause challenges with social, occupational, physical, and academic functioning. The current study explores the perceptions of adults with tics and paren... Read More about Patients’ experience of accessing support for tics from primary care in the UK: an online mixed-methods survey.

Refining Anger: Summarizing the Self-Report Measurement of Anger (2022)
Journal Article
Maltby, J., Norton, W. H. J., McElroy, E., Cromby, J., Halliwell, M., & Hall, S. S. (2022). Refining Anger: Summarizing the Self-Report Measurement of Anger. Journal of Personality Assessment, https://doi.org/10.1080/00223891.2022.2152345

The current paper presents a five-factor measurement model of anger summarizing scores on public-domain self-report measures of anger. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses of self-report measures of anger (UK, n = 500; USA, n = 625) suggest f... Read More about Refining Anger: Summarizing the Self-Report Measurement of Anger.

Resilience, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), and anger: A linguistic inquiry into the psychological processes associated with resilience in secondary school STEM learning (2022)
Journal Article
Hall, S. S., McGill, R. M., Puttick, S., & Maltby, J. (2022). Resilience, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), and anger: A linguistic inquiry into the psychological processes associated with resilience in secondary school STEM learning. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 92(3), 1215-1238. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjep.12496

Aim:

To examine resilience in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) learning within an ecological model, identifying the psychological processes associated with resilient, and non-resilient learning to develop a framework for p... Read More about Resilience, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), and anger: A linguistic inquiry into the psychological processes associated with resilience in secondary school STEM learning.

Less is more. Discovering the latent factors of trait resilience (2022)
Journal Article
Maltby, J., & Hall, S. S. (2022). Less is more. Discovering the latent factors of trait resilience. Journal of Research in Personality, 97, Article 104193. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2022.104193

The current paper establishes the latent factors of many direct or proxy trait resilience assessments. Study 1 (n = 849) demonstrates four latent factors (recovery, sustainability, adaptability, and social cohesion) among 61 direct and proxy assessme... Read More about Less is more. Discovering the latent factors of trait resilience.

Theoretical Foundations to the Impact of Dog-Related Activities on Human Hedonic Well-Being, Life Satisfaction and Eudaimonic Well-Being (2021)
Journal Article
Barcelos, A. M., Kargas, N., Maltby, J., Hall, S., Assheton, P., & Mills, D. S. (2021). Theoretical Foundations to the Impact of Dog-Related Activities on Human Hedonic Well-Being, Life Satisfaction and Eudaimonic Well-Being. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(23), Article 12382. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182312382

Cross-sectional comparisons of well-being between dog owners and non-owners commonly generate inconsistent results. Focusing on the uniqueness of the relationship might help address this issue and provide a stronger foundation for dog-related psychot... Read More about Theoretical Foundations to the Impact of Dog-Related Activities on Human Hedonic Well-Being, Life Satisfaction and Eudaimonic Well-Being.

Identifying the psychological processes used by male and female students when learning about science technology engineering and mathematics: A linguistic inquiry (2021)
Journal Article
Hall, S. S., Puttick, S., & Maltby, J. (2021). Identifying the psychological processes used by male and female students when learning about science technology engineering and mathematics: A linguistic inquiry. Science Education, 105(6), 1151-1172. https://doi.org/10.1002/sce.21679

Learning in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) is challenging, leaving many students to give up on these subjects. Specifically, females are underrepresented in STEM industries. Identifying how male and female students deal with... Read More about Identifying the psychological processes used by male and female students when learning about science technology engineering and mathematics: A linguistic inquiry.

Implementation of Telehealth Services to Assess, Monitor, and Treat Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Systematic Review (Preprint) (2020)
Preprint / Working Paper
Valentine, A. Z., Hall, S. S., Young, E., Brown, B. J., Groom, M. J., Hollis, C., & Hall, C. L. (2020). Implementation of Telehealth Services to Assess, Monitor, and Treat Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Systematic Review (Preprint)

Background:

Telehealth has rapidly developed over the past 20 years, so it is essential we identify effective telehealth technologies for implementation in clinical practice. In response to COVID-19 there is increasing momentum behind the developm... Read More about Implementation of Telehealth Services to Assess, Monitor, and Treat Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Systematic Review (Preprint).

A framework for understanding how activities associated with dog ownership relate to human well-being (2020)
Journal Article
Maria Barcelos, A., Kargas, N., Maltby, J., Hall, S., & Mills, D. S. (2020). A framework for understanding how activities associated with dog ownership relate to human well-being. Scientific Reports, 10, Article 11363. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-68446-9

There is notorious inconsistency regarding mental health benefits of dog ownership, partially due to repeated cross-sectional studies comparing dog owners and non-owners, without taking into account the heterogeneity of dog-owner dyads, especially th... Read More about A framework for understanding how activities associated with dog ownership relate to human well-being.

Perceptions of Dogs in the Workplace: The Pros and the Cons (2017)
Journal Article
Hall, S., Wright, H., McCune, S., Zulch, H., & Mills, D. (2017). Perceptions of Dogs in the Workplace: The Pros and the Cons. Anthrozoös, 30(2), 291-305. https://doi.org/10.1080/08927936.2017.1311053

With growing interest in the value of animal companionship to human health, and increasing business awareness of promoting work-based health innovations and improving employees’ feelings of support, there has been a rise in interest about allowing do... Read More about Perceptions of Dogs in the Workplace: The Pros and the Cons.

Effects of Pet Dogs for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and their Families: Expectations versus reality (2016)
Journal Article
Wright, H., Hall, S., Hames, A., Hardiman, J., Burgess, A., Team, P., Mills, R., & Mills, D. (2016). Effects of Pet Dogs for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and their Families: Expectations versus reality. Human-Animal Interactions, 4(2), 38 - 58. https://doi.org/10.1079/hai.2016.0009

Previous studies have examined the specific benefits of therapy and assistance dogs on children with autism, but until recently only anecdotes existed concerning the benefits of pet dogs. We conducted structured interviews with 40 parents of children... Read More about Effects of Pet Dogs for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and their Families: Expectations versus reality.