Publications by authors named "A Scantlebury"
Background: Autistic children can experience mental health, social and emotional difficulties. Carol Gray's Social Stories™ are a highly personalised intervention that provide social information in a short individually tailored story.
Methods: A multi-site pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial to evaluate the clinical and cost-effectiveness of Social Stories™ alongside care as usual in autistic children aged 4-11 years.
Background: Differences in the way autistic children experience the world can contribute to anxiety and stress. Carol Gray's Social Stories™ are a highly personalised intervention to support children by providing social information about specific situations in an individual story.
Objectives: This randomised controlled trial aimed to establish whether Social Stories are clinically effective and cost-effective in improving social responsiveness and social and emotional health in children on the autism spectrum in schools.
Article Synopsis
- The study emphasizes the lack of representative recruitment in research trials, highlighting the need to include under-served populations, particularly during study design and funding decisions.
- It presents case studies of three UK-based trials that effectively utilized publicly available demographic datasets to identify and recruit under-served communities, considering factors like health, socio-economic status, and ethnicity.
- The discussion points out challenges in using these datasets, such as time and expertise requirements, while suggesting that the methods can be adapted for various study types beyond trials.
Introduction: The waiting list for elective surgery in England recently reached over 7.8 million people and waiting time targets have been missed since 2010. The high-volume low complexity (HVLC) surgical hubs programme aims to tackle the backlog of patients awaiting elective surgery treatment in England.
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