Public Health Research

Volume 5 (2017)

10 issues

Extended Research Article

Could scale-up of parenting programmes improve child disruptive behaviour and reduce social inequalities? Using individual participant data meta-analysis to establish for whom programmes are effective and cost-effective

Frances Gardner
,
Patty Leijten
,
Joanna Mann
,
Sabine Landau
,
Victoria Harris
,
Jennifer Beecham
et al.
  • Journal:
    Public Health Research Volume: 5, Issue: 10
  • Published:
    7 December 2017

Extended Research Article

Results of the First Steps study: a randomised controlled trial and economic evaluation of the Group Family Nurse Partnership (gFNP) programme compared with usual care in improving outcomes for high-risk mothers and their children and preventing abuse

Jacqueline Barnes
,
Jane Stuart
,
Elizabeth Allen
,
Stavros Petrou
,
Joanna Sturgess
,
Jane Barlow
et al.
  • Journal:
    Public Health Research Volume: 5, Issue: 9
  • Published:
    27 November 2017

Extended Research Article

Pilot trial and process evaluation of a multilevel smoking prevention intervention in further education settings

Adam Fletcher
,
Micky Willmott
,
Rebecca Langford
,
James White
,
Ria Poole
,
Rachel Brown
et al.
  • Journal:
    Public Health Research Volume: 5, Issue: 8
  • Published:
    25 October 2017

Extended Research Article

Adapting the ASSIST model of informal peer-led intervention delivery to the Talk to FRANK drug prevention programme in UK secondary schools (ASSIST + FRANK): intervention development, refinement and a pilot cluster randomised controlled trial

James White
,
Jemma Hawkins
,
Kim Madden
,
Aimee Grant
,
Vanessa Er
,
Lianna Angel
et al.
  • Journal:
    Public Health Research Volume: 5, Issue: 7
  • Published:
    24 October 2017

Extended Research Article

Evaluation of Health in Pregnancy grants in Scotland: a natural experiment using routine data

Alastair H Leyland
,
Samiratou Ouédraogo
,
Julian Nam
,
Lyndal Bond
,
Andrew H Briggs
,
Ron Gray
et al.
  • Journal:
    Public Health Research Volume: 5, Issue: 6
  • Published:
    11 October 2017

Extended Research Article

Assessing the impact and cost-effectiveness of needle/syringe provision and opiate substitution therapy on hepatitis C transmission among people who inject drugs in the United Kingdom: analysis of pooled datasets and economic modelling

Lucy Platt
,
Sedona Sweeney
,
Zoe Ward
,
Lorna Guinness
,
Matthew Hickman
,
Vivian Hope
et al.
  • Journal:
    Public Health Research Volume: 5, Issue: 5
  • Published:
    2 October 2017

Extended Research Article

The Novel Psychoactive Substances in the UK Project: empirical and conceptual review work to produce research recommendations

Noreen D Mdege
,
Nick Meader
,
Charlie Lloyd
,
Steve Parrott
,
Jim McCambridge
  • Journal:
    Public Health Research Volume: 5, Issue: 4
  • Published:
    29 June 2017

Extended Research Article

Health impacts of the M74 urban motorway extension: a mixed-method natural experimental study

David Ogilvie
,
Louise Foley
,
Amy Nimegeer
,
Jonathan R Olsen
,
Richard Mitchell
,
Hilary Thomson
et al.
  • Journal:
    Public Health Research Volume: 5, Issue: 3
  • Published:
    28 April 2017

Extended Research Article

Steps Towards Alcohol Misuse Prevention Programme (STAMPP): a school- and community-based cluster randomised controlled trial

Harry Sumnall
,
Ashley Agus
,
Jon Cole
,
Paul Doherty
,
David Foxcroft
,
Séamus Harvey
et al.
  • Journal:
    Public Health Research Volume: 5, Issue: 2
  • Published:
    12 April 2017

Extended Research Article

Increasing boys' and girls' intention to avoid teenage pregnancy: a cluster randomised control feasibility trial of an interactive video drama based intervention in post-primary schools in Northern Ireland

Maria Lohan
,
Áine Aventin
,
Lisa Maguire
,
Rhonda Curran
,
Clíona McDowell
,
Ashley Agus
et al.
  • Journal:
    Public Health Research Volume: 5, Issue: 1
  • Published:
    28 March 2017