Research Centre
Associate Professor, Health Sciences Stirling
Lecturer in Criminology, Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology
Research Assistant, Biological and Environmental Sciences
Senior Lecturer in Nursing, Health Sciences Stirling
Professor of Nursing, CHeCR
Review
Robertson S, Hughes T, Boardman J, McFadden A, Whittaker A & Marryat L (2025) Impact of exposure to opioids in pregnancy on offspring developmental outcomes in the pre-school years: an Umbrella Review.. BMJ Paediatrics Open. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjpo-2024-003058
Article
Matheson C, Vucic C, Dumbrell J, Robertson R, Ritchie T, Duncan C, Kessavalou K, Woolston C & Schofield J (2024) Clinical Outcomes of Benzodiazepine Prescribing for People Receiving Opioid Agonist Treatment: A Systematic Review of the Evidence. Pharmacy, 12 (5), Art. No.: 152. https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy12050152
Preprint / Working Paper
Dombrowski SU, Hoddinott P, Swingler J, Macaulay L, O’Dolan C, Cotton S, Avenell A, Getaneh AM, Gray CM, Hunt K, Kee F, MacLean A, McKinley MC, Torrens C & van der Pol M (2024) Long-term Effects of Text Messages with Financial Incentives for Men with Obesity: Two-year Follow-up of the Game of Stones trial. https://www.medrxiv.org/. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.12.12.24318921
Preprint / Working Paper
Dombrowski SU, Hoddinott P, Macaulay L, O’Dolan C, Swingler J, Cotton S, Avenell A, Getaneh AM, Gray C, Hunt K, Kee F, MacLean A, McKinley MC, Torrens C & Marjon vdP (2024) Secondary analysis of the Game of Stones trial of text messages with financial incentives for men with obesity [Secondary analysis: The Game of Stones trial]. https://www.medrxiv.org/. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.12.19.24319336
Article
Meades R, Moran PM, Hutton U, Khan R, Maxwell M, Cheyne H, Delicate A, Shakespeare J, Hollins K, Pisavadia K, Doungsong P, Edwards RT, Sinesi A & Ayers S (2024) Acceptability of identification and management of perinatal anxiety: a qualitative interview study with postnatal women. Front. Public Health, 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2024.1466150
Article
Tsantila F, Rugulies R, Coppens E, De Witte H, Arensman E, Kahar A, Cerga-Pashoja A, Corcoran P, De Winter L, Greiner B, Griffin E, Hogg B, Leduc C, Leduc M & Maxwell M (2024) Towards an assessment of psychosocial work factors in a multi-level mental health intervention in the workplace: results from the MENTUPP pilot-study. International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00420-024-02096-6
Article
Aust B, Leduc C, Cresswell-Smith J, O’Brien C, Rugulies R, Leduc M, Dhalaigh DN, Dushaj A, Fanaj N, Guinart D, Maxwell M, Reich H, Ross V, Sadath A & Paterson C (2024) The effects of different types of organisational workplace mental health interventions on mental health and wellbeing in healthcare workers: a systematic review. International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, 97 (5), pp. 485-522. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00420-024-02065-z
Article
Dougall N, Savinc J, Maxwell M, Karatzias T, O'connor RC, Williams B, John A, Cheyne H, Fyvie C, Bisson JI, Hibberd C, Abbott-Smith S, Nolan L & Murray J (2024) Childhood adversity and mental health admission patterns prior to young person suicide (CHASE): a case-control 36 year linked hospital data study, Scotland UK 1981–2017. BJPsych Open, 10 (e124), p. 1–11. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bjpsych-open/article/childhood-adversity-and-mental-health-admission-patterns-prior-to-young-person-suicide-chase-a-casecontrol-36-year-linked-hospital-data-study-scotland-uk-19812017/FB49448D61F8DCBC55CA8C1F0E81BADC; https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2024.69
Policy Document
Gilmore L, Honeybull L, Lewis S, Smith E, Cheyne H, Aladangady N, Featherstone B, Maxwell M, Neale J & Radcliffe P (2024) Scoping review: mapping clinical guidelines and policy documents that address the needs of women who are dependent on drugs during the perinatal period. National Institute for Health Research.
Article
Assessment of perinatal anxiety: diagnostic accuracy of five measures
Ayers S, Coates R, Sinesi A, Cheyne H, Maxwell M, Best C, McNicol S, Williams LR, Uddin N, Hutton U, Howard G, Shakespeare J, Walker JJ, Alderdice F & Jomeen J (2024) Assessment of perinatal anxiety: diagnostic accuracy of five measures. The British Journal of Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2023.174
Article
Hughes T, McFadden A, Whittaker A, Boardman JP & Marryat L (2024) Antenatal care of women who use opioids: a qualitative study of practitioners’ perceptions of strengths and challenges of current service provision in Scotland. Whittaker A (Researcher) BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 24 (1), Art. No.: 75. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-024-06265-w; https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-024-06265-w
Article
Knox O, Parker D, Johnson D, Dombrowski SU, Thomson G, Clarke J, Hoddinott P, Jolly K & Ingram J (2023) Text message conversations between peer supporters and women to deliver infant feeding support using behaviour change techniques: A qualitative analysis. Midwifery, 127, Art. No.: 103838. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2023.103838
Article
Nicoll A, Roulstone S, Williams B & Maxwell M (2023) Understanding capacity for implementing new interventions: A qualitative study of speech and language therapy services for children with speech sound disorder. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders. https://doi.org/10.1111/1460-6984.12979
Article
A qualitative systematic review of mental health among haemodialysis patients
Janiszewska I & Whittaker A (2023) A qualitative systematic review of mental health among haemodialysis patients. Journal of Kidney Care, 8 (5), pp. 217-226. https://doi.org/10.12968/jokc.2023.8.5.217
Conference Paper (unpublished)
Silveira Bianchim M, Jordan A, Uny I, Noyes J, Forbat L, Line C, Ruth T & France E (2023) Co-producing with children and young people for a meta-ethnography on experiences of chronic pain, treatments and services.. Abstracts of the 27th Cochrane Colloquium. Cochrane Colloquium, London, UK, 04.09.2023-06.09.2023. https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.cd202301
Article
Meta-review of the barriers and facilitators to women accessing perinatal mental healthcare
Webb R, Uddin N, Constantinou G, Ford E, Easter A, Shakespeare J, Hann A, Roberts N, Alderdice F, Sinesi A, Coates R, Hogg S & Ayers S (2023) Meta-review of the barriers and facilitators to women accessing perinatal mental healthcare. BMJ Open, 13 (7), Art. No.: e066703. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-066703
Other
Panel discussion 6 - Stakeholder engagement and evidence synthesis
France E (2023) Panel discussion 6 - Stakeholder engagement and evidence synthesis. ESMARConf - Evidence Synthesis & Meta-analysis in R Conference, online only, 27.03.2023-31.03.2023.
Presentation / Talk
France E, Noyes J, Jordan A, Uny I, Forbat L, Caes L, Turley R & Silveira Bianchim M (2022) How children and young people with chronic pain and their families live with pain and perceive pain treatments and services - a meta-ethnography. RCN International Nursing Research Conference 2022, Cardiff, Wales, 05.09.2022-06.09.2022.
Conference Paper (unpublished)
France E, Turley R, Uny I, Forbat L, Caes L, Jordan A, Noyes J & Bianchim MS (2022) A meta-ethnography of how children and young people with chronic pain and their families experience and perceive pain services and treatments and living with pain. RCPCH Conference, Liverpool, 28.06.2022-30.06.2022.
Article
Fenocchi L, Best C, Mason H, Elders A, Hagen S & Maxwell M (2022) Long-term effects and costs of pelvic floor muscle training for prolapse: trial follow-up record-linkage study. International Urogynecology Journal. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00192-022-05272-9
Test, evidence, transition: supporting faster breast cancer diagnosis
PI: Dr Erica Gadsby
Funded by: Cancer Research UK
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A meta-ethnography of how children and young people with chronic non-cancer pain and their families experience and understand their condition, pain services and treatments
PI: Professor Emma France
Funded by: National Institute for Health Research
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Improving Maternal Mental Health in South East Asia through assets based approaches
PI: Professor Margaret Maxwell
Funded by: Medical Research Council
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Creating Safe Handover Systems In Pre-Hospital Care
PI:
Funded by: Chief Scientist Office
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Vale of Leven Inspiring Care Scholarship Programme, Within the Clinical Academic Research Careers
PI: Professor Margaret Maxwell
Funded by: Scottish Government
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