Browsing Research publications by Author "Sharma, Shivani"
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Measuring patients' experience with renal services in the UK: development and validation of the Kidney PREM
Hawkins, Janine; Wellsted, David; Corps, Claire; Fluck, Richard; Gair, Rachel; Hall, Natalie; Busby, Amanda; Rider, Beth; Farrington, Kenneth; Sharma, Shivani; Van Der Veer, Sabine (2022-08-01)Background: Patient experience is a recognized aspect of quality of care for people with chronic kidney disease (CKD), but current patient-reported experience measures (PREMs) only focus on dialysis care. We developed and ... -
Mind-Mindedness in Mothers of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Kirk, Elizabeth; Sharma, Shivani (2017-11-01)Background: Little is currently understood about the ways in which caregivers represent the internal mental states of their child with autism. Previous research has shown that being mind-minded can limit the experience of ... -
Multi-disciplinary team-based simulation training in acute care settings: a systematic review of the impact on team performance
Agbo, Christopher; Koshoedo, Seilo; Sridharan, Sivakumar; Spearpoint, Ken; Sharma, Shivani; Ashaye, Kunle (2021-12-16)Background: Teamwork plays an essential role in providing quality health care and ensuring good outcomes and safe practices in any health care system. This has been demonstrated in several studies in emergency care where ... -
Narrowing the gap in careers in clinical research and academia for healthcare professionals: A scoping review on the role of major funding bodies in the UK
Curtis-Lopez, Carlos; Robinson, Daniel; Shirke, Manasi; Dominic, Catherine; Sharma, Shivani; Roy, Anindita; Bhala, Neeraj; Daga, Sunil; Patel, Rakesh (2020-11-23)Differential attainment (DA) exists in research and academia, where individuals with protected characteristics face barriers to progression at different stages from selection in training or career pathways through to ... -
Non-adherence to immunosuppressants following renal transplantation: a protocol for a systematic review
Hucker, Abigail; Bunn, Frances; Carpenter, Lewis; Lawrence, Christopher; Farrington, Kenneth; Sharma, Shivani (2017-09-28)Abstract Introduction Adherence to immunosuppressant medication is essential for renal transplant recipients. This review aims to summarise what is known about non-adherence, with a view to providing comprehensive evidence ... -
A Personal Construct Approach to Understanding Stress in Mothers of Children Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Sharma, Shivani; Winter, David; McCarthy, Michelle (2013)This study explored the contribution of Personal Construct Psychology (PCP) and the repertory grid technique to understanding stress when raising a child diagnosed with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Associations between ... -
Prevalence and outcomes of chronic liver disease in patients receiving dialysis: systematic review and meta-analysis
Swift, Oscar; Sharma, Shivani; Ramanarayanan, Sivaramakrishnan; Umar, Hamza; Laws, Keith; Vilar, Enric; Farrington, Kenneth (2021-11-18)Background Patients receiving dialysis for end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) commonly co-exhibit risk factors for hepatic impairment. This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to quantify the co-existence of chronic ... -
Same traits, different variance : Item-Level Variation Within Personality Measures
Churchyard, Jamie; Pine, Karen; Sharma, Shivani; Fletcher, Ben (2014-02-11)Personality trait questionnaires are regularly used in individual differences research to examine personality scores between participants, although trait researchers tend to place little value on intra-individual variation ... -
Sense-making narratives of autistic women diagnosed in adulthood: a systematic review of the qualitative research
Kelly, Carole; Sharma, Shivani; Theresa-Jieman, Anna; Ramon, Shulamit (2022-05-20)Few qualitative studies have explored the lives of autistic women diagnosed in adulthood, despite this knowledge being essential to inform awareness of the intersection of autism and gender. This systematic review was ... -
Solid organ transplantation during COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons from an international web-based survey on resources' allocation
Giovinazzo, Francesco; Avolio, Alfonso W.; Galiandro, Federica; Vitale, Alessandro; Dalla Riva, Giulio V.; Biancofiore, Gianni; Sharma, Shivani; Muiesan, Paolo; Agnes, Salvatore; Burra, Patrizia (2021-02-11)Background. Solid organ transplants (SOTs) are life-saving interventions, recently challenged by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). SOTs require a multistep process, which can be affected by COVID-19 at several phases. ... -
Study to investigate the effectiveness of using a humanoid robot (Kaspar) to improve the social skills of children with an Autism Spectrum Disorder: a randomised controlled feasibility trial
Irvine, Karen; Sharma, Shivani; Wellsted, David; Mengoni, Silvana; Robins, Ben; Dautenhahn, Kerstin (2019-09-15) -
To admit or not to admit? : The effect of framing on risk assessment decision making in psychiatrists
Jefferies-Sewell, Kiri; Sharma, Shivani; Gale, Tim; Hawley, Chris J.; Georgiou, George; Laws, K.R. (2015-02)To investigate whether presentation of risk information in different formats (frequency, percentage and semantic) influences inpatient admission decisions by psychiatrists -
Transplant programmes during COVID-19: Unintended consequences for health inequality
Sharma, Shivani; Laurence , Christopher; Giovinazzo, Franceso (2020-05-10) -
Understanding the Day to Day Experience of Managing; A Qualitive Analysis of 27 Renal Patients on Haemodialysis
Munro Wild, Helen; Hawkins, Janine; Wellsted, David; Davenport, Andrew; Cockwell, Paul; Sharma, Shivani; Rider, Beth; Smith, Megan; Farrington, Kenneth (2021-06-22) -
The use of culturally adapted and translated depression screening questionnaires with South Asian haemodialysis patients in England
Sharma, Shivani; Norton, Sam; Bhui, Kamaldeep; Mooney, Roisin; Caton, Emma; Bansal, Tarun; Day, Clara; Davenport, Andrew; Duncan, Neill; Kalra, Philip A; Da Silva-Gane, Maria; Randhawa, Gurch; Warwick, Graham; Wellsted, David; Yaqoob, Magdi; Farrington, Ken (2023-04-07)Background: Depression is common amongst patients receiving haemodialysis (HD). Assessment and intervention when faced with language and cultural barriers is challenging. To support clinician decisions, we conducted a ... -
The use of social robots with children and young people on the autism spectrum: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Kouroupa, Athanasia; Laws, Keith R.; Irvine, Karen; Mengoni, Silvana E.; Baird, Alister; Sharma, Shivani (2022-06-22)Background: Robot-mediated interventions show promise in supporting the development of children on the autism spectrum. Objectives: In this systematic review and meta-analysis, we summarize key features of available evidence ... -
Variation in personality states as predicted by interpersonal context
Churchyard, Jamie; Pine, Karen; Sharma, Shivani; Fletcher, Ben (2019-01-01)Diary studies of personality have shown that personality is variable, and can help the person deal appropriately with the different interpersonal demands they encounter. This study aims to demonstrate how interpersonal ... -
Who waits longest for a kidney? : Inequalities in access to kidney transplantation among Black and Asian Minority Ethnic (BAME) groups in the UK
Morgan, Myfanwy; Sims, Jessica; Jain, Neerja; Randhawa , Gurch; Sharma, Shivani; Kirit, Modi (2015-05-15)Black and Asian Minority Ethnic (BAME) groups are over-represented on active kidney transplantation waiting lists and have relatively long waiting times. This inequality arises from a particularly high need for kidney ...