Meeting psychosocial needs to improve health: a prospective cohort study
Journal Article
Snowden, A., Young, J., & Savinc, J. (2020)
Meeting psychosocial needs to improve health: a prospective cohort study. BMC Cancer, 20(1), Article 528. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-020-07022-w
Background
Cancer impacts on patients and their families across a range of different domains. For that reason, optimal cancer care has moved away from a disease-centric focus ...
Can proactive support prevent unscheduled care? A controlled observational retrospective cohort study in cancer patients in Scotland
Journal Article
Snowden, A., Young, J., & Savinc, J. (2024)
Can proactive support prevent unscheduled care? A controlled observational retrospective cohort study in cancer patients in Scotland. BMC Health Services Research, 24, Article 457. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-024-10923-2
Introduction: Preventative spend is a global health and social care strategy. Improving Cancer Journeys (ICJ) is a proactive, holistic, multidisciplinary project consistent wi...
Have increased deaths at home during the pandemic returned to pre-pandemic levels? An analysis of publicly available Scottish death registrations
Journal Article
Savinc, J., & Atherton, I. M. (2023)
Have increased deaths at home during the pandemic returned to pre-pandemic levels? An analysis of publicly available Scottish death registrations. Journal of Public Health, 45(4), e664–e667. https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdad156
Deaths at home increased in Scotland at the start of the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic by ~35%. The majority did not involve COVID-19. This has implications for...
Dashboard application for monitoring routinely collected data by the Improving Cancer Journeys project in Glasgow
Digital Artefact
Savinc, J. (2020)
Dashboard application for monitoring routinely collected data by the Improving Cancer Journeys project in Glasgow. [Application]
An online demo version of the application can be viewed at https://jsvnc.shinyapps.io/dashboard-pivot-data/;
Please allow a minute to load, then click on "Load made-up data" o...
Reducing patient delay in acute coronary syndrome: Randomized controlled trial testing effect of behaviour change intervention on intentions to seek help
Journal Article
Farquharson, B., Johnston, M., Williams, B., Smith, K., Dombrowski, S., Jones, C., …Abyhankar, P. (2023)
Reducing patient delay in acute coronary syndrome: Randomized controlled trial testing effect of behaviour change intervention on intentions to seek help. British Journal of Health Psychology, 28(1), 188-207. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjhp.12619
Objectives
The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of a behaviour change intervention to reduce patient delay with symptoms of acute coronary syndrome.
Design
A 3-...
Novel linkage of health and prison data in Scotland: Investigating access to services for mental health and substance use following release from prison
Journal Article
Connell, C., Kjellgren, R., & Savinc, J. (2023)
Novel linkage of health and prison data in Scotland: Investigating access to services for mental health and substance use following release from prison. International Journal of Population Data Science, 8(2), Article 3:99. https://doi.org/10.23889/ijpds.v8i2.2314
Objectives
To compare the use of NHS services for mental health and substance use (MH/SU) between people released from prison and the general population. This paper describes ...
Childhood adversity, mental health and suicide (CHASE): a protocol for a longitudinal case-control linked data study
Journal Article
Dougall, N., Savinc, J., Maxwell, M., Karatzias, T., O'Connor, R. C., Williams, B., …Nolan, L. (2020)
Childhood adversity, mental health and suicide (CHASE): a protocol for a longitudinal case-control linked data study. International Journal of Population Data Science, 5(1), https://doi.org/10.23889/ijpds.v5i1.1338
Introduction
Suicide is a tragic outcome with devastating consequences. In 2018, Scotland experienced a 15% increase in suicide from 680 to 784 deaths. This was marked among y...