Dr Anju Devianee Keetharuth
BA, MA, MBA, PhD (Sheffield)
School of Health and Related Research
Health Economist
+44 114 222 0884
Full contact details
School of Health and Related Research
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West Court
2 Mappin Street
Sheffield
S1 4DT
- Profile
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I joined HEDS as a health economist in November 2010. After my doctorate in development economics, I worked as a trade policy adviser at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and External Trade in Fiji (Overseas Development Institute Fellow). I then worked as an Economic Affairs Officer researching foreign direct investment at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). I have also been teaching economics at the University of Sheffield. Prior to joining HEDS, I was employed as an Economic Adviser at the Department of Health in the Choice Analysis and Patient Reported Outcomes Measures (PROMs) team.
- Research interests
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My research interests include outcome measurement, psychometrics, economic evaluation and current health policy analysis including PROMs. I am also interested in economic evaluation of mental health policies and community services. I am also a yoga teacher in my spare time and interested in researching how yoga can improve the health of the population.
Current projects
- Policy Research Unit in Economic Evaluation of Health and Care Interventions (EEPRU)
- CI: Allan Wailoo and Mark Sculpher. (Funding body: DoH; 2019/24)
- Recovering Quality of Life (ReQoL): Development of a brief generic measure for use with mental health populations. Click here for more details.
- Measuring and Valuing Health
- CI: Allan Wailoo and Mark Sculpher. (Funding body: DoH; 2019/24)
- Efficiency, cost and quality of mental healthcare provision (EMHeP)
- CI: Rowena Jacobs, University of York Funding body: Health Foundation
- Health economist on BRIGHT trial. Brushing reminder 4 oral health: the clinical and cost-effectiveness of a short messaging service behaviour change programme to improve the oral health of young people living in deprived areas
- Health economist on EMBEDDING trial: Evaluating the impact of an intervention to increase uptake of self-management education programme for Type 2 diabetes in primary care: a wait-list cluster randomised controlled trial.
- Policy Research Unit in Economic Evaluation of Health and Care Interventions (EEPRU)
- Publications
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Journal articles
- Use of a modified World Café process to discuss and set priorities for a Community of Practice supporting implementation of ReQoL a new mental health and quality of life Patient Reported Outcome Measure (PROM). Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes, 4(1). View this article in WRRO
- Electronic personal assessment questionnaire for vascular patients (ePAQ-VAS) development and validity. British Journal of Surgery. View this article in WRRO
- An emerging framework for fully incorporating public involvement (PI) into patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs). Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes, 4(1). View this article in WRRO
- 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
- Exploring the item sets of the Recovering Quality of Life (ReQoL) measures using factor analysis. Quality of Life Research. View this article in WRRO
- 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
- 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
- A preventative lifestyle intervention for older adults (lifestyle matters): a randomised controlled trial. Age And Ageing, 46, 627-634. View this article in WRRO
- Sensitivity and responsiveness of the EQ-5D-3L in patients with uncontrolled focal seizures: an analysis of Phase III trials of adjunctive brivaracetam. Quality of Life Research, 26(3), 749-759. View this article in WRRO
- Systematic review and qualitative evidence synthesis of patient-reported outcome measures for abdominal aortic aneurysm. British Journal of Surgery, 104(4), 317-327. View this article in WRRO
- Patient-reported outcome measures in patients with peripheral arterial disease: a systematic review of psychometric properties.. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 14(1), 161-161. View this article in WRRO
- Eliciting Societal Preferences for Weighting QALYs for Burden of Illness and End of Life. Medical Decision Making, 36(2), 210-222.
- Comparison of Modes of Administration and Alternative Formats for Eliciting Societal Preferences for Burden of Illness. Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, 14(1), 89-104. View this article in WRRO
- Are policy decisions on surgical procedures informed by robust economic evidence? A systematic review. International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, 30(4), 381-393. View this article in WRRO
- Quality of life impact of mental health conditions in England: results from the adult psychiatric morbidity surveys. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 12(6). View this article in WRRO
- Economic Evidence of Surgical Procedures in Cancer: A Systematic Literature Review. Value in Health, 16(7), A411-A411.
- Lifestyle Matters for maintenance of health and wellbeing in people aged 65 years and over: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. Trials, 14(1), 302-302. View this article in WRRO
- Use of generic and condition-specific measures of health-related quality of life in NICE decision-making: a systematic review, statistical modelling and survey. Health Technology Assessment, 18(9). View this article in WRRO
Conference proceedings papers
- Factor analyses identified one dominant global factor in a new scale for recovering quality of life (ReQoL) for mental health patients. QUALITY OF LIFE RESEARCH, Vol. 25 (pp 95-95)
- Comparison of an online survey and face-to-face interviews for eliciting societal preferences. QUALITY OF LIFE RESEARCH, Vol. 23 (pp 49-49)
- 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)
- Use of a modified World Café process to discuss and set priorities for a Community of Practice supporting implementation of ReQoL a new mental health and quality of life Patient Reported Outcome Measure (PROM). Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes, 4(1). View this article in WRRO
- Grants
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Placement Fellowship financed by ESRC/MRC/CLAHRC/NIHR. During this placement (February - August 2013), I was based at the Sheffield Health and Social Care Trust working on the use of PROMs in clinical and managerial decision-making. A copy of my end of award report can be found here.