Dr Anju Devianee Keetharuth
BA, MA, MBA, PhD (Sheffield)
Population Health, School of Medicine and Population Health
Health Economist
+44 114 222 0884
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Population Health, School of Medicine and Population Health
Regent Court (ScHARR)
30 Regent Street
Sheffield
S1 4DA
- 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
- Exploring the factors that drive clinical negligence claims: stated preferences of those who have experienced unintended harm. Patient: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research. View this article in WRRO
- Behaviour change intervention for toothbrushing (lesson and text messages) to prevent dental caries in secondary school pupils: the BRIGHT randomized control trial. Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology. View this article in WRRO
- Understanding UK public views on normative decisions made to value health-related quality of life in children: a qualitative study. Social Science & Medicine, 340. View this article in WRRO
- Symptom Burden in Idiopathic Multicentric Castleman Disease: Protocol for the Development of a Novel Standardized Patient Reported Outcome Measure. Blood, 142(Supplement 1), 7342-7342.
- Convergent validity of EQ-5D with core outcomes in dementia: a systematic review. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 20(1).
- Assessing the psychometric performance of EQ-5D-5L in dementia: a systematic review. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 20.
- Psychometric evaluation of the German version of the Recovering Quality of Life (ReQoL) measures in patients with affective disorders. The European Journal of Health Economics.
- A discrete choice experiment to elicit general population preferences around the factors influencing the choice to make clinical negligence claims. Value in Health. View this article in WRRO
- Validation of ‘Care Of the Dying Evaluation’ (CODETM) within an international study exploring bereaved relatives’ perceptions about quality of care in the last days of life. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. View this article in WRRO
- Measuring health-related quality of life and well-being : a head-to-head psychometric comparison of the EQ-5D-5L, ReQoL-UI and ICECAP-A. The European Journal of Health Economics, 23(2), 165-176. View this article in WRRO
- Which outcomes are most important to measure in patients with COVID-19 and how and when should these be measured? Development of an international standard set of outcomes measures for clinical use in patients with COVID-19: a report of the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM) COVID-19 Working Group. BMJ Open, 11(11). View this article in WRRO
- Developing an international standard set of patient-reported outcome measures for psychotic disorders. Psychiatric Services. View this article in WRRO
- Estimating a preference-based index for mental health from the recovering quality of life measure: valuation of recovering quality of life utility index. Value in Health. View this article in WRRO
- 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
- Quality of life impact of mental health conditions in England: results from the adult psychiatric morbidity surveys. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 6(12).
- 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
- View this article in WRRO Mapping Short Warwick and Edinburgh Measure of Well Being Scale (SWEMWBS) to Recovering Quality of Life (ReQoL) to estimate health utilities. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes.
- Bracing Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis (BASIS) study – night-time versus full-time bracing in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: study protocol for a multicentre, randomized controlled trial. Bone & Joint Open, 4(11), 873-880.
- 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
- 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.
Chapters
- Recovering Quality of Life (ReQoL) In Krägeloh C, Alyami M & Medvedev ON (Ed.), International Handbook of Behavioral Health Assessment Springer 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)
- 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.