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Ethical challenges confronted in non-clinical, public health research with young people in England (2025)
Journal Article
Barker, R., Plackett, R., Price, A., Canvin, K., Hartwell, G., & Bonell, C. (in press). Ethical challenges confronted in non-clinical, public health research with young people in England. Qualitative Research, https://doi.org/10.1177/14687941241306241

This opinion piece emerged from a collaboration of mental health researchers working on the National Institute of Health Research 3-schools mental health programme in underserved communities. The aim is to encourage debate and reflection on the chall... Read More about Ethical challenges confronted in non-clinical, public health research with young people in England.

Understanding and improving the quality of primary care for people in prison: a mixed-methods study (2024)
Journal Article
Bellass, S., Canvin, K., Farragher, T., McLintock, K., Wright, N., Hearty, P., …Sheard, L. (2024). Understanding and improving the quality of primary care for people in prison: a mixed-methods study. Health and Social Care Delivery Research, 12(46), https://doi.org/10.3310/GRFV4068

Background
People in prison are generally in poorer health than their peers in the community, often living with chronic illness and multimorbidity. Healthcare research in prisons has largely focused on specific problems, such as substance use; less... Read More about Understanding and improving the quality of primary care for people in prison: a mixed-methods study.

A service-user digital intervention to collect real-time safety information on acute, adult mental health wards: the WardSonar mixed-methods study. (2024)
Report
Baker, J., Kendal, S., Bojke, C., Louch, G., Halligan, D., Shafiq, S., …Vincent, C. (2024). A service-user digital intervention to collect real-time safety information on acute, adult mental health wards: the WardSonar mixed-methods study. NIHR

Background
Acute inpatient mental health services report high levels of safety incidents. The application of patient safety theory has been sparse, particularly concerning interventions that proactively seek patient perspectives.

Objective(s)
De... Read More about A service-user digital intervention to collect real-time safety information on acute, adult mental health wards: the WardSonar mixed-methods study..

An evaluation of a public partnership project between academic institutions and young people with Black African, Asian and Caribbean heritage (2024)
Journal Article
Moult, A., Knight, N., Medina, N., Babatunde, O., Kingstone, T., Duffy, H., …Dziedzic, K. (in press). An evaluation of a public partnership project between academic institutions and young people with Black African, Asian and Caribbean heritage. Research Involvement and Engagement, 10(1), Article 31. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40900-024-00564-4

Background: This project (named Reinvent) aimed to promote Public Involvement (PI) in health research. Academics worked with a community group, the Eloquent Praise & Empowerment Dance Company, to develop a community partnership with young people from... Read More about An evaluation of a public partnership project between academic institutions and young people with Black African, Asian and Caribbean heritage.

Safety And Contagion In Acute Psychiatric Wards: how the milieu is implicated in the occurrence of clustered safety incidents (2024)
Journal Article
Canvin, K., Brierley-Jones, L., Ramsey, L., Baker, J., & Berzins, K. (2024). Safety And Contagion In Acute Psychiatric Wards: how the milieu is implicated in the occurrence of clustered safety incidents. Theory and Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1177/09593543231225636

In psychiatry, clustered safety incidents are often attributed to behavioural contagion. Drawing on Kindermann and Skinner’s conceptual work in our analysis of staff accounts, we explored whether clustered safety incidents could be attributable to co... Read More about Safety And Contagion In Acute Psychiatric Wards: how the milieu is implicated in the occurrence of clustered safety incidents.

Understanding the organisational influences on the quality of and access to primary care in English prisons: a qualitative interview study. (2023)
Journal Article
Sheard, L., Bellass, S., McLintock, K., Foy, R., & Canvin, K. (2023). Understanding the organisational influences on the quality of and access to primary care in English prisons: a qualitative interview study. British Journal of General Practice (BJGP), 73(735), e720-e727. https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGP.2023.0040

Primary care for routine healthcare conditions is delivered to thousands of people in the English prison estate every day but the prison environment presents unique challenges to the provision of high-quality health care. Little research has focused... Read More about Understanding the organisational influences on the quality of and access to primary care in English prisons: a qualitative interview study..

The quality of prison primary care: cross-sectional cluster-level analyses of prison healthcare data in the North of England (2023)
Journal Article
McLintock, K., Foy, R., Canvin, K., Bellass, S., Hearty, P., Wright, N., …Farragher, T. (2023). The quality of prison primary care: cross-sectional cluster-level analyses of prison healthcare data in the North of England. EClinicalMedicine, 63, Article 102171. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2023.102171

Prisoners have significant health needs, are relatively high users of healthcare, and often die prematurely. Strong primary care systems are associated with better population health outcomes. We investigated the quality of primary care delivered to p... Read More about The quality of prison primary care: cross-sectional cluster-level analyses of prison healthcare data in the North of England.

The quality of prison primary care: cross-sectional cluster-level analyses of prison healthcare data in the North of England (2023)
Journal Article
McLintock, K., Foy, R., Canvin, K., Bellass, S., Hearty, P., Wright, N., …Farragher, T. (2023). The quality of prison primary care: cross-sectional cluster-level analyses of prison healthcare data in the North of England. EClinicalMedicine, 63, Article 102171. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4456608

Background: Prisoners have significant health needs, are relatively high users of healthcare and often die prematurely. Strong primary care systems are associated with better population health outcomes. We investigated the quality of primary care del... Read More about The quality of prison primary care: cross-sectional cluster-level analyses of prison healthcare data in the North of England.

‘Trying to battle a very slow version of the system that exists outside’: Experiences of waiting for healthcare in English prisons (2023)
Journal Article
Bellass, S., Canvin, K., & Sheard, L. (in press). ‘Trying to battle a very slow version of the system that exists outside’: Experiences of waiting for healthcare in English prisons. Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, https://doi.org/10.1177/13634593231195785

Prison has been described as the ultimate form of time-punishment – a place where time is no longer a commodity for individuals to spend, but is ordered by a system which symbolises its power through the control of segments of people’s lives. As such... Read More about ‘Trying to battle a very slow version of the system that exists outside’: Experiences of waiting for healthcare in English prisons.

Correction: To what extent are patients involved in researching safety in acute mental healthcare? (Research Involvement and Engagement, (2022), 8, 1, (8), 10.1186/s40900-022-00337-x) (2023)
Journal Article
Brierley-Jones, L., Ramsey, L., Canvin, K., Kendal, S., & Baker, J. (2023). Correction: To what extent are patients involved in researching safety in acute mental healthcare? (Research Involvement and Engagement, (2022), 8, 1, (8), 10.1186/s40900-022-00337-x). Research Involvement and Engagement, 9, Article 65. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40900-023-00469-8

The quality of prison primary care: cross-sectional analyses of prison healthcare data in Northern England (2023)
Presentation / Conference
McLintock, K., Foy, R., Canvin, K., Bellass, S., Hearty, P., Wright, N., …Farragher, T. (2023, March). The quality of prison primary care: cross-sectional analyses of prison healthcare data in Northern England. Presented at BJGP Research Conference

Background Prisoners have considerable health needs, are relatively high users of health care and often die prematurely. Prison healthcare research has typically focused on specific problems such as substance misuse, but ‘routine’ primary care has re... Read More about The quality of prison primary care: cross-sectional analyses of prison healthcare data in Northern England.

“It was really poor prior to the pandemic. It got really bad after”: A qualitative study of the impact of COVID-19 on prison healthcare in England (2023)
Journal Article
Wainwright, L., Senker, S., Canvin, K., & Sheard, L. (2023). “It was really poor prior to the pandemic. It got really bad after”: A qualitative study of the impact of COVID-19 on prison healthcare in England. Health and Justice, 11, Article 6. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40352-023-00212-1

Background
The impact of COVID-19 has been exceptional, particularly on the National Health Service which has juggled COVID affected patients alongside related staff shortages and the existing (and growing) health needs of the population. In prisons... Read More about “It was really poor prior to the pandemic. It got really bad after”: A qualitative study of the impact of COVID-19 on prison healthcare in England.

Interventions to improve the implementation of evidence-based healthcare in prisons: a scoping review (2023)
Journal Article
Blackaby, J., Byrne, J., Bellass, S., Canvin, K., & Foy, R. (2023). Interventions to improve the implementation of evidence-based healthcare in prisons: a scoping review. Health & Justice, Article 1. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40352-022-00200-x

BACKGROUND: There are challenges to delivering high quality primary care within prison settings and well-recognised gaps between evidence and practice. There is a growing body of literature evaluating interventions to implement evidence-based practic... Read More about Interventions to improve the implementation of evidence-based healthcare in prisons: a scoping review.

Results of the behaviour change technique synthesis: behaviour change techniques related to intervention procedures, outcomes and mechanisms of action (2022)
Book Chapter
Baker, J., Berzins, K., Canvin, K., Kendal, S., Branthonne-Foster, S., Wright, J., …Duxbury, J. (2022). Results of the behaviour change technique synthesis: behaviour change techniques related to intervention procedures, outcomes and mechanisms of action. In Components of interventions to reduce restrictive practices with children and young people in institutional settings: the Contrast systematic mapping review. NIHR Journals Library

Background
Incidents in which children or young people experience severe distress or harm or cause distress or harm to others occur frequently in children and young people’s institutional settings. These incidents are often managed using restrictive... Read More about Results of the behaviour change technique synthesis: behaviour change techniques related to intervention procedures, outcomes and mechanisms of action.

Mapping review of interventions to reduce the use of restrictive practices in children and young people's institutional settings: The CONTRAST study (2022)
Journal Article
Baker, J., Kendal, S., Berzins, K., Canvin, K., Branthonne‐Foster, S., McDougall, T., …Duxbury, J. (2022). Mapping review of interventions to reduce the use of restrictive practices in children and young people's institutional settings: The CONTRAST study. Children & Society, 36(6), 1351-1401. https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12581

Restrictive practices are often used harmfully with children in institutional settings. Interventions to reduce their use do not appear to have been mapped systematically. Using environmental scanning, we conducted a broad-scope mapping review of Eng... Read More about Mapping review of interventions to reduce the use of restrictive practices in children and young people's institutional settings: The CONTRAST study.

Quality indicators and performance measures for prison healthcare: a scoping review. (2022)
Journal Article
Bellass, S., Canvin, K., McLintock, K., Wright, N., Farragher, T., Foy, R., & Sheard, L. (2022). Quality indicators and performance measures for prison healthcare: a scoping review. Health & Justice, 10(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s40352-022-00175-9

Background
Internationally, people in prison should receive a standard of healthcare provision equivalent to people living in the community. Yet efforts to assess the quality of healthcare through the use of quality indicators or performance measure... Read More about Quality indicators and performance measures for prison healthcare: a scoping review..

To what extent are patients involved in researching safety in acute mental healthcare? (2022)
Journal Article
Brierley-Jones, L., Ramsey, L., Canvin, K., Kendal, S., & Baker, J. (2022). To what extent are patients involved in researching safety in acute mental healthcare?. Research Involvement and Engagement, https://doi.org/10.1186/s40900-022-00337-x

Background
There is a growing need to involve patients in the development of patient safety interventions. Mental health services, despite their strong history of patient involvement, have been slow to develop patient safety interventions, particula... Read More about To what extent are patients involved in researching safety in acute mental healthcare?.

Non-pharmacological interventions to reduce restrictive practices in adult mental health inpatient settings: the COMPARE systematic mapping review (2021)
Report
Baker, J., Berzins, K., Canvin, K., Benson, I., Kellar, I., Wright, J., …Stewart, D. (2021). Non-pharmacological interventions to reduce restrictive practices in adult mental health inpatient settings: the COMPARE systematic mapping review. National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) - Health Services and Delivery Research (HS&DR) Programme

Objectives
The study aimed to provide a mapping review of non-pharmacological interventions to reduce restrictive practices in adult mental health inpatient settings; classify intervention components using the behaviour change technique taxonomy; ex... Read More about Non-pharmacological interventions to reduce restrictive practices in adult mental health inpatient settings: the COMPARE systematic mapping review.