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Helen Sweeting is affiliated with the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom and has a research focus situated primarily within the fields of Medicine and Health Professions. Their work spans several subfields including General Health Professions, Physiology, Clinical Psychology, Health, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The scientist's research topics cover diverse areas, particularly concentrating on:

  • Smoking Behavior and Cessation
  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Intimate Partner and Family Violence
  • Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • Injury Epidemiology and Prevention
  • Health disparities and outcomes

Recent publications authored by Helen Sweeting include:

  • School Climate, Peer Relationships, and Adolescent Mental Health: A Social Ecological Perspective, 2020, Youth & Society
  • Mental health disorders and adolescent peer relationships, 2020, Social Science & Medicine
  • Socioeconomic patterning of vaping by smoking status among UK adults and youth, 2020, BMC Public Health
  • Food and the prison environment: a meta-ethnography of global first-hand experiences of food, meals and eating in custody, 2023, Health & Justice
  • A school intervention for 13- to 15-year-olds to prevent dating and relationship violence: the Project Respect pilot cluster RCT, 2020, Public Health Research

Sweeting frequently collaborates with several coauthors, notable for multiple joint works, including:

  • Kate Hunt
  • Ashley Brown
  • Evangelia Demou
  • Rachel O'Donnell
  • Sean Semple

Publication venues where their work has been frequently published include:

  • BMC Public Health
  • Oral Presentations
  • Public Health Research
  • Nicotine & Tobacco Research
  • Tobacco Control

Best Publications

  • Gender differences in health: are things really as simple as they seem?

    Sally Macintyre;Kate Hunt;Helen Sweeting

  • Transition matters: pupils’ experiences of the primary–secondary school transition in the West of Scotland and consequences for well‐being and attainment

    Patrick West;Helen Sweeting;Robert Young

  • Measurement and Definitions of Obesity In Childhood and Adolescence: A field guide for the uninitiated

    Helen N Sweeting

  • Adolescent Bullying, Relationships, Psychological Well-Being, and Gender-Atypical Behavior: A Gender Diagnosticity Approach

    Robert Young;Helen Sweeting

  • Peer victimization and depression in early–mid adolescence: A longitudinal study

    Helen Sweeting;Robert Young;Patrick West;Geoff Der

  • Effects of a high-dose 24-h infusion of tranexamic acid on death and thromboembolic events in patients with acute gastrointestinal bleeding (HALT-IT): an international randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

    Ian Roberts;Haleema Shakur-Still;Adefemi Afolabi;Adegboyega Akere

  • Dementia and the phenomenon of social death

    Helen Sweeting;Mary Gilhooly

  • Fifteen, female and stressed: changing patterns of psychological distress over time

    Patrick West;Helen Sweeting

  • International genome-wide meta-analysis identifies new primary biliary cirrhosis risk loci and targetable pathogenic pathways

    Heather J. Cordell;Younghun Han;George F. Mells;Yafang Li

  • Gendered dimensions of obesity in childhood and adolescence.

    Helen N Sweeting

  • Evidence on equalisation in health in youth from the West of Scotland.

    Patrick West;Helen Sweeting

  • Being Different: Correlates of the Experience of Teasing and Bullying at Age 11.

    Helen Sweeting;Patrick West

  • School effects on pupils' health behaviours: evidence in support of the health promoting school

    P. West;H. Sweeting;A.H. Leyland

  • Do television and electronic games predict children's psychosocial adjustment? Longitudinal research using the UK Millennium Cohort Study

    Alison Parkes;Helen Sweeting;Daniel Wight;Marion Henderson

  • Parenting stress and parent support among mothers with high and low education.

    Alison Parkes;Helen Sweeting;Daniel Wight

  • YOUTH TRANSITIONS: PATTERNS OF VULNERABILITY AND PROCESSES OF SOCIAL INCLUSION

    Andy Furlong;Fred Cartmel;Andy Biggart;Helen Sweeting

  • Prevalence of deliberate self harm and attempted suicide within contemporary Goth youth subculture: longitudinal cohort study

    Robert Young;Helen Sweeting;Patrick West

  • Family life and health in adolescence: A role for culture in the health inequalities debate

    Helen Sweeting;Patrick West

  • Family and friends' influences on the uptake of regular smoking from mid‐adolescence to early adulthood

    Patrick West;Helen Sweeting;Russell Ecob

  • Sex differences in health at ages 11, 13 and 15

    Helen Sweeting;Patrick West

Frequent Co-Authors

Kate Hunt
Kate Hunt University of Stirling
Patrick West
Patrick West University of Glasgow
Michaela Benzeval
Michaela Benzeval University of Essex
Chris Bonell
Chris Bonell London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Daniel Wight
Daniel Wight University of Glasgow
Alastair H. Leyland
Alastair H. Leyland University of Glasgow
Linda Bauld
Linda Bauld University of Edinburgh
Geoff Der
Geoff Der University of Glasgow
Ron H. J. Scholte
Ron H. J. Scholte Radboud University
Reiner Hanewinkel
Reiner Hanewinkel Institute for Therapy and Health Research

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