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Development and preliminary psychometric properties of the Care Experience Feedback Improvement Tool (CEFIT) (2016)
Journal Article
Beattie, M., Shepherd, A., Lauder, W., Atherton, I., Cowie, J., & Murphy, D. J. (2016). Development and preliminary psychometric properties of the Care Experience Feedback Improvement Tool (CEFIT). BMJ Open, 6(6), Article e010101. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2015-010101

Objective To develop a structurally valid and reliable, yet brief measure of patient experience of hospital quality of care, the Care Experience Feedback Improvement Tool (CEFIT). Also, to examine aspects of utility of CEFIT.

Background Measuring... Read More about Development and preliminary psychometric properties of the Care Experience Feedback Improvement Tool (CEFIT).

An evaluation to assess the implementation of NHS delivered Alcohol Brief Interventions: Final Report. (2011)
Preprint / Working Paper
Parkes, T., Atherton, I., Evans, J., Gloyn, S., McGhee, S., Stoddart, B., Eadie, D., Brooks, O., MacAskill, S., Petrie, D., & Choudury, H. An evaluation to assess the implementation of NHS delivered Alcohol Brief Interventions: Final Report

Alcohol Brief Interventions (ABIs) have been identified as an effective strategy for treating people whose alcohol consumption is posing a risk to their health. As part of its Alcohol Strategy the Scottish Government established a health improvement... Read More about An evaluation to assess the implementation of NHS delivered Alcohol Brief Interventions: Final Report..

Housing First: Considering Components for Successful Resettlement of Homeless People with Multiple Needs (2011)
Journal Article
Nicholls, C. M., & Atherton, I. (2011). Housing First: Considering Components for Successful Resettlement of Homeless People with Multiple Needs. Housing Studies, 26(5), 767-777. https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2011.581907

‘Housing First’ programmes in the US involve the provision of mainstream scatter sited permanent housing at the initial stage of support for homeless individuals with multiple needs. This is in contrast to dominant approaches (in the US and Europe) t... Read More about Housing First: Considering Components for Successful Resettlement of Homeless People with Multiple Needs.

Differences in 5-year survival after a 'homeless' or 'housed' drugs-related hospital admission: a study of 15-30-year olds in Scotland (2010)
Journal Article
Dibben, C., Dibben, C., Atherton, I., Doherty, J., & Baldacchino, A. (2011). Differences in 5-year survival after a 'homeless' or 'housed' drugs-related hospital admission: a study of 15-30-year olds in Scotland. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 65(9), 780-785. https://doi.org/10.1136/jech.2009.101352

Background Young drug misusers and the homeless both have a greater risk of death than their peers. This study sought to estimate the additional impact of homelessness on the risk of death for young drugs misusers.


Methods From all admissions t... Read More about Differences in 5-year survival after a 'homeless' or 'housed' drugs-related hospital admission: a study of 15-30-year olds in Scotland.

'Housing First' as a means of addressing multiple needs and homelessness. (2008)
Journal Article
Atherton, I., & Nicholls, C. M. (2008). 'Housing First' as a means of addressing multiple needs and homelessness. European journal of homelessness, 2, 289-303

This paper considers the effectiveness of Housing First and its applicability to the European context. Housing First approaches explicitly incorporate secure tenures as an intrinsic part of support packages for homeless people who have mental health... Read More about 'Housing First' as a means of addressing multiple needs and homelessness..