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What Do Service Users Want from Mental Health Social Work? A Best–Worst Scaling Analysis (2019)
Journal Article
Wilberforce, M., Abendstern, M., Batool, S., Boland, J., Challis, D., Christian, J., …Roberts, D. (2019). What Do Service Users Want from Mental Health Social Work? A Best–Worst Scaling Analysis. British Journal of Social Work, 50(5), 1324-1344. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcz133

Despite being a profession dedicated to the empowerment of service users, empirical study of mental health social work appears dominated by the perspectives of social workers themselves. What service users value is less often reported. This study, au... Read More about What Do Service Users Want from Mental Health Social Work? A Best–Worst Scaling Analysis.

What Do Service Users Want from Mental Health Social Work? A Best–Worst Scaling Analysis (2019)
Journal Article
Wilberforce, M., Abendstern, M., Batool, S., Boland, J., Challis, D., Christian, J., …Roberts, D. (2019). What Do Service Users Want from Mental Health Social Work? A Best–Worst Scaling Analysis. British Journal of Social Work, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcz133

Despite being a profession dedicated to the empowerment of service users, empirical study of mental health social work appears dominated by the perspectives of social workers themselves. What service users value is less often reported. This study, au... Read More about What Do Service Users Want from Mental Health Social Work? A Best–Worst Scaling Analysis.

The nature and extent of prisoners’ social care needs: Do older prisoners require a different service response? (2019)
Journal Article
Tucker, S., Hargreaves, C., Cattermull, M., Roberts, A., Walker, T., Shaw, J., & Challis, D. (2021). The nature and extent of prisoners’ social care needs: Do older prisoners require a different service response?. Journal of Social Work, 21(3), 310-328. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468017319890077

Summary: In light of longstanding concern about the lack of social care in prisons, the 2014 Care Act made local authorities in England responsible for identifying, assessing and meeting prisoners’ social care needs. However, service planning is diff... Read More about The nature and extent of prisoners’ social care needs: Do older prisoners require a different service response?.

Commissioning social care for people with dementia living at home: findings from a national survey (2019)
Journal Article
Davies, S., Hughes, J., Ahmed, S., Clarkson, P., Challis, D., & HoSt-D (Home Support in Dementia) Programme Management Group. (2020). Commissioning social care for people with dementia living at home: findings from a national survey. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 35(1), 53-59. https://doi.org/10.1002/gps.5214

Objective: To explore the complexities, circumstances, and range of services commissioned for people with dementia living at home. Methods: A national survey was used to collect data from English local authorities in 2015. Commissioners of servic... Read More about Commissioning social care for people with dementia living at home: findings from a national survey.

Applying a new concept of embedding qualitative research: an example from a quantitative study of carers of people in later stage dementia (2019)
Journal Article
Abendstern, M., Davies, K., Chester, H., Clarkson, P., Sutcliffe, C., Hughes, J., …Challis, D. (2019). Applying a new concept of embedding qualitative research: an example from a quantitative study of carers of people in later stage dementia. BMC Geriatrics, 19(1), Article 227. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-019-1240-x

Background Qualitative methods are increasingly included in larger studies to provide a richer understanding of people’s experience. This paper explores the potential of using a novel approach to embedded qualitative design as part of an observation... Read More about Applying a new concept of embedding qualitative research: an example from a quantitative study of carers of people in later stage dementia.

Mental health social work in multidisciplinary community teams: An analysis of a national service user survey (2019)
Journal Article
Boland, J., Abendstern, M., Wilberforce, M., Pitts, R., Hughes, J., & Challis, D. (2021). Mental health social work in multidisciplinary community teams: An analysis of a national service user survey. Journal of Social Work, 21(1), 3-25. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468017319860663

© The Author(s) 2019. Summary: The article addresses the continued lack of clarity about the role of the mental health social worker within community mental health teams for working age adults and particularly the limited evidence regarding this from... Read More about Mental health social work in multidisciplinary community teams: An analysis of a national service user survey.

Reflecting on the research encounter for people in the early stages of dementia: Lessons from an embedded qualitative study (2019)
Journal Article
Abendstern, M., Davies, K., Poland, F., Chester, H., Clarkson, P., Hughes, J., …Challis, D. (2020). Reflecting on the research encounter for people in the early stages of dementia: Lessons from an embedded qualitative study. Dementia, 19(8), 2732-2749 . https://doi.org/10.1177/1471301219855295

© The Author(s) 2019. Gathering meaningful data from people with dementia presents challenges to researchers involved in both qualitative and quantitative studies. Careful planning and implementation are required, including skilful and sympathetic ma... Read More about Reflecting on the research encounter for people in the early stages of dementia: Lessons from an embedded qualitative study.

Protocol for the development of an evidence-based ‘Best Practice Model’ for Teams Managing Crisis in Dementia (2019)
Working Paper
Stanyon, M., Streater, A., Coleston-Shields, D., Yates, J., Challis, D., Dening, T., …Orrell, M. Protocol for the development of an evidence-based ‘Best Practice Model’ for Teams Managing Crisis in Dementia

Background: Teams working in the community to manage crisis in dementia are available, but with widely varying models of practice it is difficult to determine the effectiveness of such teams. The aim of this study is to develop a model of best pra... Read More about Protocol for the development of an evidence-based ‘Best Practice Model’ for Teams Managing Crisis in Dementia.

What is important to people living with dementia?: The 'long-list' of outcome items in the development of a core outcome set for use in the evaluation of non-pharmacological community-based health and social care interventions (2019)
Journal Article
Harding, A. J., Morbey, H., Ahmed, F., Opdebeeck, C., Lasrado, R., Williamson, P. R., …Reilly, S. T. (2019). What is important to people living with dementia?: The 'long-list' of outcome items in the development of a core outcome set for use in the evaluation of non-pharmacological community-based health and social care interventions. BMC Geriatrics, 19(1), Article 94. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-019-1103-5

© 2019 The Author(s). Background: Core outcome sets (COS) prioritise outcomes based on their importance to key stakeholders, reduce reporting bias and increase comparability across studies. The first phase of a COS study is to form a 'long-list' of o... Read More about What is important to people living with dementia?: The 'long-list' of outcome items in the development of a core outcome set for use in the evaluation of non-pharmacological community-based health and social care interventions.