Janice Connell

BSc (Hons) Behavioural Sciences

Population Health, School of Medicine and Population Health

Research Associate in Mental Health Outcomes Research

j.connell@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 5208

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Regent Court (ScHARR)

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Janice Connell
Population Health, School of Medicine and Population Health
Regent Court (ScHARR)
30 Regent Street
Sheffield
S1 4DA

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My first research post, from 2002 to 2007, was at the Psychological Therapies Research Centre (PTRC), University of Leeds, working on a project to develop the CORE Outcome Measure (CORE-OM) and CORE Audit and Evaluation System (CORE-A). This is now the most widely used outcome measure/evaluation system in UK psychotherapy services.

After spending some time producing evaluation and benchmarking reports for psychotherapy services using the CORE System, the subsequent development and analysis of the CORE National Database has resulted in the collaborative authorship of over 20 academic papers relating to the audit of an evaluation of mental health services, benchmarking and the psychometric properties of the CORE-OM.

In addition to this, I also led and published reports on a systematic scoping review of student counselling services for the BACP and the evaluation of trauma counselling service in Northern Ireland for the Southern Health and Social Services Board, Northern Ireland.

From 2007 to Dec 2009 I was seconded from Leeds University to Sheffield University to work on the evaluation of the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme. This involved my first foray into the evaluation of mental health services using both qualitative and quantitative research methods. In conjunction with the analysis of routinely collected service data, the evaluation included interviewing key stakeholders and service users to investigate service delivery and service user experience.

The resulting interest in service evaluation from both a quantitative and qualitative perspective has culminated in a research role at ScHARR investigating the appropriateness of existing generic preference based quality of life measures (E5-QD and SF-36) for mental health service users.

The project is considering this question from both a qualitative and quantitative perspective. My focus is primarily on the qualitative aspect of the research which involves conducting a systematatic review and synthesis of existing qualitative studies and taking lessons/theories learned from this into interviews with people with a range of mental health difficulties recruited from primary and secondary care.

I am also currently the local project manager for a HTA funded multi-centred study investigating the clinical and cost effectiveness of self-help interventions for people with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

Current projects

Validating generic preference based questionnaires of health in mental health populations: Your mental health and its effect on your quality of life - are we asking the right questions? – PI: Prof John Brazier, ScHARR, Department of Health Economics and Decision Science
Obsessive Compulsive Treatment Efficacy Trial (OCTET) – PI: Professor Karina Lovell, Professor of Mental Health, School of Nursing, Midwifery & Social Work, University of Manchester.

Research interests: My research interests revolve around mental health and the evaluation of mental health services from both a quantitative and qualitative perspective. In particular, I am interested in the measurement of quality of life of people with mental health problems.

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Journal articles

Brazier J, Peasgood T, Mukuria C, Marten O, Kreimeier S, Luo N, Mulhern B, Pickard AS, Augustovski F, Greiner W , Engel L et al (2022) The EQ Health and Wellbeing: Overview of the Development of a Measure of Health and Wellbeing and Key Results. Value in Health.
Carlton J, Peasgood T, Mukuria C, Connell J, Brazier J, Ludwig K, Marten O, Kreimeier S, Engel L, Belizán M , Yang Z et al (2022) Generation, selection, and face validation of items for a new generic measure of quality of life : the EQ Health and Wellbeing. Value in Health. View this article in WRRO
Mukuria C, Connell J, Carlton J, Peasgood T, Scope A, Clowes M, Rand S, Jones K & Brazier J (2022) Qualitative Review on Domains of Quality of Life Important for Patients, Social Care Users, and Informal Carers to Inform the Development of the EQ Health and Wellbeing. Value in Health.
Ohlsen S, Sanders T, Connell J & Wood E (2021) Integrating mental health care into home‐based nursing services : a qualitative study utilising normalisation process theory. Journal of Clinical Nursing. View this article in WRRO
Wood E, Ohlsen S, Fenton S-J, Connell J & Weich S (2021) Social prescribing for people with complex needs : a realist evaluation. BMC Family Practice, 22(1). View this article in WRRO
Faija CL, Connell J, Welsh C, Ardern K, Hopkin E, Gellatly J, Rushton K, Fraser C, Irvine A, Armitage CJ , Wilson P et al (2020) What influences practitioners’ readiness to deliver psychological interventions by telephone? A qualitative study of behaviour change using the Theoretical Domains Framework. BMC Psychiatry, 20.
O'Cathain A, Connell J, Long J & Coster J (2020) ‘Clinically unnecessary’ use of emergency and urgent care: A realist review of patients' decision making. Health Expectations, 23(1), 19-40. View this article in WRRO
Grundy A, Keetharuth D, Barber R, Carlton J, Connell J, Taylor Buck E, Barkham M, Ricketts T, Robotham D, Rose D , Kay J et al (2019) Public Involvement in health outcomes research: lessons learnt from the development of the Recovering Quality of Life (ReQoL) measures.. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 17. View this article in WRRO
Evans R, Connell J, Ablard S, Rimmer M, O'Keeffe C & Mason S (2019) The impact of different liaison psychiatry models on the emergency department: A systematic review of the international evidence. Journal of Psychosomatic Research. View this article in WRRO
Nye A, Connell J, Haake R & Barkham M (2018) Person-centred experiential therapy (PCET) training within a UK NHS IAPT service: experiences of selected counsellors in the PRaCTICED trial. British Journal of Guidance & Counselling. View this article in WRRO
Keetharuth D, Taylor Buck E, Acquadro C, Conway K, Connell J, Barkham M, Carlton J, Ricketts TN, Barber R & Brazier JE (2018) Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Data in the Development of Outcome Measures: The Case of the Recovering Quality of Life (ReQoL) Measures in Mental Health Populations. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 15(7), 1342-1342. View this article in WRRO
Keetharuth D, Brazier J, Connell J, Bjorner J, Carlton J, Taylor Buck E, Ricketts T, McKendrick K, Browne J, Croudace T & Barkham M (2018) Recovering Quality of Life (ReQoL): a new generic self-reported outcome measure for use with people experiencing mental health difficulties. The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science, 212(1), 42-49. View this article in WRRO
Hardy GE, Bishop-Edwards L, Chambers E, Connell J, Dent-Brown K, Kothari G, O'Hara R & Parry GD (2017) Risk factors for negative experiences during psychotherapy.. Psychotherapy Research, 29(3), 403-414. View this article in WRRO
Lovell K, Bower P, Gellatly J, Byford S, Bee P, McMillan D, Arundel C, Gilbody S, Gega L, Hardy G , Reynolds S et al (2017) Low-intensity cognitive-behaviour therapy interventions for obsessive-compulsive disorder compared to waiting list for therapist-led cognitive-behaviour therapy: 3-arm randomised controlled trial of clinical effectiveness. PLOS Medicine, 14(6). View this article in WRRO
Lovell K, Bower P, Gellatly J, Byford S, Bee P, McMillan D, Arundel C, Gilbody S, Gega L, Hardy G , Reynolds S et al (2017) Clinical effectiveness, cost-effectiveness and acceptability of low-intensity interventions in the management of obsessive–compulsive disorder: the Obsessive–Compulsive Treatment Efficacy randomised controlled Trial (OCTET). Health Technology Assessment, 21(37), 1-132. View this article in WRRO
Saxon D, Ashley K, Bishop-Edwards L, Connell J, Harrison P, Ohlsen S, Hardy GE, Kellett S, Mukuria C, Mank T , Bower P et al (2017) A pragmatic randomised controlled trial assessing the non-inferiority of counselling for depression versus cognitive-behaviour therapy for patients in primary care meeting a diagnosis of moderate or severe depression (PRaCTICED): Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.. Trials, 18(1), 93-93. View this article in WRRO
Gellatly J, Bower P, McMillan D, Roberts C, Byford S, Bee P, Gilbody S, Arundel C, Hardy G, Barkham M , Reynolds S et al (2014) Obsessive Compulsive Treatment Efficacy Trial (OCTET) comparing the clinical and cost effectiveness of self-managed therapies: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. Trials, 15(1). View this article in WRRO
Connell J, O'Cathain A & Brazier J (2014) Measuring quality of life in mental health: Are we asking the right questions?. Social Science & Medicine, 120, 12-20. View this article in WRRO
Brazier J, Connell J, Papaioannou D, Mukuria C, Mulhern B, Peasgood T, Lloyd MJ, Paisley S, O’Cathain A, Barkham M , Knapp M et al (2014) A systematic review, psychometric analysis and qualitative assessment of Generic Preference-Based Measures of Health in Mental Health Populations and the estimation of mapping functions from widely used specific measures. Health Technology Assessment, 18(34).
Barkham M, Bewick B, Mullin T, Gilbody S, Connell J, Cahill J, Mellor-Clark J, Richards D, Unsworth G & Evans C (2013) The CORE-10: A short measure of psychological distress for routine use in the psychological therapies. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 13(1), 3-13.
Mukuria C, Brazier J, Barkham M, Connell J, Hardy G, Hutten R, Saxon D, Dent-Brown K & Parry G (2013) Cost-effectiveness of an improving access to psychological therapies service.. Br J Psychiatry, 202(3), 220-227.
Connell J, Brazier J, O'Cathain A, Lloyd-Jones M & Paisley S (2012) Quality of life of people with mental health problems: a synthesis of qualitative research.. Health Qual Life Outcomes, 10, 138. View this article in WRRO
Brazier J, Mulhern B, Alonso J, Connell J, Papaioannou D & Vilagut G (2012) Are generic preference-based measures valid in mental health? A mixed methods enquiry. QUALITY OF LIFE RESEARCH, 21, 1-1.
Barkham M, Stiles WB, Connell J & Mellor-Clark J (2012) Psychological treatment outcomes in routine NHS services: What do we mean by treatment effectiveness?. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 85(1), 1-16.
Barkham M, Mellor-Clark J, Connell J, Evans C, Evans R & Margison F (2010) Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation (CORE) - The CORE Measures and System: Measuring, Monitoring and Managing Quality Evaluation in the Psychological Therapies, 175-219.
Twigg E, Barkham M, Bewick BM, Mulhern B, Connell J & Cooper M (2009) The young person's CORE: Development of a brief outcome measure for young people. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 9(3), 160-168.
Barkham M, Stiles WB, Connell J, Twigg E, Leach C, Lucock M, Mellor-Clark J, Bower P, King M, Shapiro DA , Hardy GE et al (2008) Effects of psychological therapies in randomized trials and practice-based studies.. Br J Clin Psychol, 47(Pt 4), 397-415.
Stiles WB, Barkham M, Mellor-Clark J & Connell J (2008) Routine psychological treatment and the Dodo verdict: a rejoinder to Clark et al. (2007).. Psychol Med, 38(6), 905-910.
Cahill J, Barkham M, Hardy G, Gilbody S, Richards D, Bower P, Audin K & Connell J (2008) A review and critical appraisal of measures of therapist-patient interactions in mental health settings.. Health Technol Assess, 12(24), iii-47.
Stiles WB, Barkham M, Mellor-Clark J & Connell J (2008) Effectiveness of cognitive-behavioural, person-centred, and psychodynamic therapies in UK primary-care routine practice: replication in a larger sample.. Psychol Med, 38(5), 677-688.
Stiles WB, Barkham M, Connell J & Mellor-Clark J (2008) Responsive regulation of treatment duration in routine practice in United Kingdom primary care settings: replication in a larger sample.. J Consult Clin Psychol, 76(2), 298-305.
Connell J, Barkham M & Mellor-Clark J (2008) The effectiveness of UK student counselling services: an analysis using the CORE System. BRIT J GUID COUNS, 36(1), 1-18.
Connell J, Barkham M & Mellor-Clark J (2007) CORE-OM mental health norms of students attending university counselling services benchmarked against an age-matched primary care sample. BRIT J GUID COUNS, 35(1), 41-57.
Connell J, Barkham M, Stiles WB, Twigg E, Singleton N, Evans O & Miles JNV (2007) Distribution of CORE-OM scores in a general population, clinical cut-off points and comparison with the CIS-R. BRIT J PSYCHIAT, 190, 69-74.
Barkham M, Mellor-Clark J, Connell J & Cahill J (2006) A core approach to practice-based evidence: A brief history of the origins and applications of the CORE-OM and CORE System. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 6(1), 3-15.
Connell J, Grant S & Mullin T (2006) Client initiated termination of therapy at NHS primary care counselling services. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 6(1), 60-67.
Barkham M, Connell J, Stiles WB, Miles JNV, Margison F, Evans C & Mellor-Clark J (2006) Dose-effect relations and responsive regulation of treatment duration: the good enough level.. J Consult Clin Psychol, 74(1), 160-167.
Sinclair A, Barkham M, Evans C, Connell J & Audin K (2005) Rationale and development of a general population well-being measure: Psychometric status of the GP-CORE in a student sample. BRIT J GUID COUNS, 33(2), 153-173.
Barkham M, Gilbert N, Connell J, Marshall C & Twigg E (2005) Suitability and utility of the CORE-OM and CORE-A for assessing severity of presenting problems in psychological therapy services based in primary and secondary care settings.. Br J Psychiatry, 186, 239-246.
Evans C, Connell J, Barkham M, Marshall C & Mellor-Clark J (2003) Practice-based evidence: Benchmarking NHS primary care counselling services at national and local levels. CLIN PSYCHOL PSYCHOT, 10(6), 374-388.
Evans C, Connell J, Barkham M, Margison FR, Clark JM & Audin K (2002) A copyleft (free) self-report measure for psychological therapies: Psychometric properties and utility of the CORE-OM. J AFFECT DISORDERS, 68(1), 109-110.
Evans C, Connell J, Barkham M, Margison F, McGrath G, Mellor-Clark J & Audin K (2002) Towards a standardised brief outcome measure: psychometric properties and utility of the CORE-OM.. Br J Psychiatry, 180, 51-60.
Mellor-Clark J, Connell J, Barkham M & Cummins P (2001) Counselling outcomes in primary health care: a CORE system data profile. European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling, 4(1), 65-86.
Barkham M, Margison F, Leach C, Lucock M, Mellor-Clark J, Evans C, Benson L, Connell J, Audin K & McGrath G (2001) Service profiling and outcomes benchmarking using the CORE-OM: toward practice-based evidence in the psychological therapies. Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation-Outcome Measures.. J Consult Clin Psychol, 69(2), 184-196.
Barkham M, Margison F, Leach C, Lucock M, Mellor-Clark J, Evans C, Benson L, Connell J, Audin K & McGrath G (2001) Service profiling and outcomes benchmarking using the CORE-OM: Toward practice-based evidence in the psychological therapies.. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 69(2), 184-196.
Margison FR, Barkham M, Evans C, McGrath G, Clark JM, Audin K & Connell J (2000) Measurement and psychotherapy. Evidence-based practice and practice-based evidence.. Br J Psychiatry, 177, 123-130.
Evans C, Mellor-Clark J, Margison F, Barkham M, Audin K, Connell J & McGrath G (2000) CORE: Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation. Journal of Mental Health, 9(3), 247-255.
Mellor-clark J, Barkham M, Connell J & Evans C (1999) Practice-based evidence and standardized evaluation: Informing the design of the CORE system. European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling, 2(3), 357-374.
Barkham M, Evans C, Margison F, Mcgrath G, Mellor-Clark J, Milne D & Connell J (1998) The rationale for developing and implementing core outcome batteries for routine use in service settings and psychotherapy outcome research. Journal of Mental Health, 7(1), 35-47.
Faija CL, Connell J, Gellatly J, Rushton K, Lovell K, Brooks H, Armitage C, Bower P & Bee P () Enhancing the quality of psychological interventions delivered by telephone in mental health services: increasing the likelihood of successful implementation using a theory of change. BMC Psychiatry, 23(1).
Peasgood T, Mukuria C, Carlton J, Connell J & Brazier J () Criteria for item selection for a preference-based measure for use in economic evaluation. Quality of Life Research.
Irvine A, Drew P, Bower P, Ardern K, Armitage CJ, Barkham M, Brooks H, Connell J, Faija CL, Gellatly J , Rushton K et al () ‘So just to go through the options…’: patient choice in the telephone delivery of the NHS Improving Access to Psychological Therapies services. Sociology of Health & Illness.
Peasgood T, Mukuria C, Carlton J, Connell J, Devlin N, Jones K, Lovett R, Naidoo B, Rand S, Rejon-Parrilla JC , Rowen D et al () What is the best approach to adopt for identifying the domains for a new measure of health, social care and carer-related quality of life to measure quality adjusted life years? Application to the development of the EQ-HWB?. European Journal of Health Economics.
Barkham M, Saxon D, Hardy GE, Bradburn M, Galloway D, Wickramasekera N, Keetharuth AD, Bower P, King M, Elliott R , Gabriel L et al () Clinical and cost-effectiveness of person-centred experiential therapy vs. cognitive behavioural therapy for moderate and severe depression delivered in the English Improving Access to Psychological Therapies national programme: A pragmatic randomised non- inferiority trial [PRaCTICED]. The Lancet Psychiatry.

Conference proceedings papers

Connell J, Carlton J, Peasgood T, Mukuria C, Brazier J, Augustovski F, Belizan M, Engel L, Greiner W, Hanna L , Ludwig K et al (2018) Extending the QALY: developing and testing the proposed items for a new generic measure - results from qualitative review and face validity with patients, social care users and carers. QUALITY OF LIFE RESEARCH, Vol. 27 (pp S189-S189)
Mukuria C, Connell J, Carlton J, Peasgood T, Brazier J, Scope A, Clowes M & Jones K (2018) Developing Content for a New Generic Qaly Measure: Results from a Qualitative Literature Review (E-Qaly Project). Value in Health, Vol. 21 (pp S110-S110)
Connell J, Carlton J, Grundy A, Taylor Buck E, Keetharuth AD, Ricketts T, Barkham M, Robotham D, Rose D & Brazier J (2018) The importance of content and face validity in instrument development: lessons learnt from service users when developing the Recovering Quality of Life measure (ReQoL). Quality of Life Research, Vol. 27(7) (pp 1893-1902) View this article in WRRO
Velikova G, Valderas JM, Potter C, Batchelder L, A’Court C, Baker M, Bostock J, Coulter A, Fitzpatrick R, Forder J , Fox D et al (2017) Proceedings of Patient Reported Outcome Measure’s (PROMs) Conference Oxford 2017: Advances in Patient Reported Outcomes Research. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, Vol. 15(S1) View this article in WRRO
Brazier JE, Keetharuth A, Connell J, Carlton J, Buck ET, Ricketts T & Barkham M (2016) First validation of the short recovering quality of life (ReQoL) measure. QUALITY OF LIFE RESEARCH, Vol. 25 (pp 96-96)
Keetharuth A, Brazier JE, Connell J, Carlton J, Ricketts T, Buck ET, Barkham M, Bjorner JB, Croudace T & Browne J (2016) Constructing the short recovering quality of life (ReQoL) measure for use in a mental health population: combining psychometric and qualitative evidence. QUALITY OF LIFE RESEARCH, Vol. 25 (pp 70-70)
Connell J, Brazier JE, Carlton J, Buck ET, Grundy A, Keetharuth A, Ricketts T & Barkham M (2016) Developing the recovery of quality of life measure (ReQoL): the views of mental health service users on potential items. QUALITY OF LIFE RESEARCH, Vol. 25 (pp 46-47)
Brazier J, Keetharuth A, Connell J, Barkham M, Carlton J, Ricketts T & Taylor-Buck L (2016) Constructing Classification System For A New Qaly Measure In Mental Health: Recovering Quality Of Life (Reqol). Value in Health, Vol. 19(3) (pp A190-A190) View this article in WRRO
Keetharuth A, Brazier J, Gibbons E, Ricketts T, Khan M, Connell J & Barkham M (2014) PROMs in Secondary Mental Health Services in the UK: a Feasibility Study and Lessons Learnt. JOURNAL OF MENTAL HEALTH POLICY AND ECONOMICS, Vol. 17 (pp S10-S10)
Brazier JE, Connell J & O’Cathain A (2014) DO EQ-5D AND SF-6D ask the right questions in mental health? a content validation using interviews with patients. Value in Health, Vol. 17(3) (pp A194-A194)

Reports

Parry G, Barkham M, Brazier J, Dent-Brown K, Hardy G, Kendrick T, Rick J, Chambers E, Chan T, Connell J , Hutten R et al (2011) An evaluation of a new service model: Improving Access to Psychological Therapies demonstration sites 2006-2009. Final report. NIHR Service Delivery and Organisation programme View this article in WRRO
Hutten R, Parry GD, Barkham , Brazier , Dent-Brown , Hardy , Rick J, Chambers , Connell , de Lusignan S , Mukuria et al (2011) An evaluation of a new service model: Improving Access to Psychological Therapies demonstration sites 2006-2009, Final Report. View this article in WRRO
Rick J, Hutten R, Chambers E, Connell J, Hardy G & Parry G (2010) Implementing IAPT: Early findings from the demonstration sites. Interim Report of the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies Evaluation
Hutten R, Rick J, Chambers E, Connell J, Hardy G & Parry GD (2010) Implementing IAPT: lessons from the demonstration sites. View this article in WRRO

Posters

Brazier J, Keetharuth A, Connell J, Carlton J, Buck ET, Ricketts T & Barkham M Constructing a classification system for a new QALY measure in mental health: recovering quality of life (ReQoL).
Brazier J, Keetharuth A, Connell J, Barkham M & Ricketts T ReQoL: Recovering Quality of LIfe.
Connell J, Brazier J & Keetharuth A Development of the Recovering Quality of Life Measure (2014).
Brazier J, Keetharuth A, Connell J, Carlton J, Ricketts T, Buck ET & Barkham M First validation of the Recovering Quality of Life measures: a new PROM for use in mental health.
Keetharuth D, Connell J, Karimi M, Barkham M, Ricketts T & Brazier J ReQol - Recovering Quality of Life (Quality in Mental Health Conference 23 March 2015).