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Karen Rodham is affiliated with the University of Chichester in the United Kingdom and has a multifaceted research profile spanning medicine, psychology, and social sciences. Their work includes focus areas such as musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation, suicide and self-harm studies, psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, motivation and self-concept in sports, behavioral health and interventions, intergenerational family dynamics and caregiving, and family support in illness.

The scientist has contributed to various academic outlets including:

  • Psychology and Health (2 publications)
  • The Lancet Psychiatry (1 publication)
  • Patient Education and Counseling (1 publication)
  • Health & Social Care in the Community (1 publication)
  • International Journal of Prison Health (1 publication)

Recent peer-reviewed publications authored or co-authored by this researcher include:

  • Understanding suicidal ideation and behaviour in individuals with chronic pain: a review of the role of novel transdiagnostic psychological factors, 2020, The Lancet Psychiatry
  • How do peer support interventions for the self-management of chronic pain, support basic psychological needs? A systematic review and framework synthesis using self-determination theory, 2022, Patient Education and Counseling
  • Understanding the psychological and social influences on office workers taking breaks; a thematic analysis, 2020, Psychology and Health
  • Supporting and sustaining care at home: Experiences of adult daughters who support a parent with dementia to remain in their own home, 2021, Health & Social Care in the Community
  • Understanding weight gain in female prisoners, 2024, International Journal of Prison Health

Karen Rodham has published a book titled Self-Management for Persistent Pain: The Blame, Shame and Inflame Game? in 2020, through the University of Chichester, which has been cited in relevant literature.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with this researcher include:

  • Jennifer Taylor (3 joint publications)
  • Jeff Gavin (2 joint publications)
  • Olivia J Kirtley (1 joint publication)
  • Catherine Crane (1 joint publication)
  • Nicola Stenberg (1 joint publication)

Their work is mainly situated in the following fields and subfields:

  • Main fields of study: Medicine, Psychology, Social Sciences
  • Subfields: Sociology and Political Science, Clinical Psychology, Pharmacology, General Health Professions, Social Psychology

Best Publications

  • Deliberate self harm in adolescents: self report survey in schools in England

    Keith E. Hawton;Karen Rodham;Emma Evans;Rosamund Weatherall

  • The prevalence of suicidal phenomena in adolescents: A systematic review of population-based studies

    Emma Evans;Keith Hawton;Karen Rodham;Jonathan Deeks

  • Factors associated with suicidal phenomena in adolescents: a systematic review of population-based studies.

    Emma Evans;Keith Hawton;Karen Rodham

  • Reasons for deliberate self-harm: comparison of self-poisoners and self-cutters in a community sample of adolescents.

    Karen Rodham;Keith Hawton;Emma Evans

  • In what ways are adolescents who engage in self-harm or experience thoughts of self-harm different in terms of help-seeking, communication and coping strategies?

    Emma Evans;Keith Hawton;Karen Rodham

  • By Their Own Young Hand: Deliberate Self-harm and Suicidal Ideas in Adolescents

    Keith Hawton;Karen Rodham;Emma Evans

  • The Presentation of “Pro-Anorexia” in Online Group Interactions

    Jeff Gavin;Karen Rodham;Helen Poyer

  • Suicidal phenomena and abuse in adolescents: a review of epidemiological studies.

    Emma Evans;Keith Hawton;Karen Rodham

  • The Ethics of Using the Internet to Collect Qualitative Research Data

    Karen Rodham;Jeff Gavin

  • Exploring analytical trustworthiness and the process of reaching consensus in interpretative phenomenological analysis: lost in transcription

    Karen Rodham;Fiona Fox;Fiona Fox;Natasha Doran

  • Lost to the NHS: a mixed methods study of why GPs leave practice early in England

    Natasha J Doran;Fiona E Fox;Karen Rodham;Gordon J Taylor

  • Epidemiology and Phenomenology of Nonsuicidal Self-Injury

    Karen Rodham;Keith Hawton

  • Investigating the “Self” in Deliberate Self-Harm

    Joanna Adams;Karen Rodham;Jeff Gavin

  • Ethnic and gender differences in drinking, smoking and drug taking among adolescents in England: a self-report school-based survey of 15 and 16 year olds.

    Karen Rodham;Keith E. Hawton;Emma Evans;Rosamund Weatherall

  • I hear, I listen and I care: a qualitative investigation into the function of a self-harm message board

    Karen Rodham;Jeff Gavin;Meriel Miles

  • The Ouch! Factor: Problems in Conducting Sensitive Research

    A. Alty;K. Rodham

  • Twelve years' experience with the Patient Generated Index (PGI) of quality of life: a graded structured review

    Faith Martin;Laura Camfield;Karen Rodham;Petra Kliempt

  • Doing weight: Pro-ana and recovery identities in cyberspace

    Sarah Christine Riley;Karen Rodham;Jeffrey Gavin

  • Distinguishing between subgroups of adolescents who self-harm.

    Emily Hargus;Keith E. Hawton;Karen Rodham

  • Insights into Pain: A Review of Qualitative Research

    Mike Osborn;Karen Rodham

Frequent Co-Authors

Neil S. Coulson
Neil S. Coulson University of Nottingham
Edmund Keogh
Edmund Keogh University of Bath
Stephen P. Lewis
Stephen P. Lewis University of Guelph
Elizabeth E. Lloyd-Richardson
Elizabeth E. Lloyd-Richardson University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Paul Stallard
Paul Stallard University of Bath
Susan M. Ring
Susan M. Ring University of Bristol
Daryl B. O'Connor
Daryl B. O'Connor University of Leeds
Mark Conner
Mark Conner University of Leeds
Debbie A. Lawlor
Debbie A. Lawlor University of Bristol
Fiona Jones
Fiona Jones St George's, University of London

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