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Dr Sharon McCann

Dr Sharon McCann
Dr Sharon McCann
Dr Sharon McCann

MA(Hons); MSc;PhD

Advanced Research Fellow

About
Email Address
sharon.mccann@abdn.ac.uk
Telephone Number
+44 (0)1224 438154
Office Address

Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen, Health Sciences Building, Foresterhill Aberdeen AB25 2ZD

School/Department
School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition

Biography

I am a qualitative social science researcher, with a particular interest in the design and delivery of person centred trials.   I rejoined HSRU in May 2021 following a career break, having previously spent 15 years in the Unit working across a broad range of qualitative and mixed methods projects linked to trials. 

I currently lead the mixed-methods process evaluations in many of our trials to improve both the experience for potential participants and the overall efficiency of the trial. Work in this area is ongoing across the portfolio of CHaRT trials. 

Qualifications

  • PhD Patients' perspectives on participation in clinical trials 
    2007 - University of Aberdeen 
  • MSc Health Services & Public Health Research 
    1997 - University of Aberdeen 
  • MA (Hons) Sociology & Social Policy 
    1996 - University of Glasgow 

Internal Memberships

Member of HSRU Public Engagement Group.

Research

Research Overview

Expertise in qualitative methodology. Particular interest in using qualitative methods to improve understanding and experiences of patients, families and healthcare staff. 

Research Areas

Applied Health Sciences

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Research Specialisms

  • Health Studies
  • Health and Social Care

Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.

Current Research

  • Learning from healthcare professionals' experiences of using remote consulting for 'Care and Support Planning' during COVID-19 (CASPER project).
  • Multimorbidity and Pregnancy: Determinants, Clusters, Consequences & Trajectories (Mum-PreDiCT: MRC)

Past Research

  • Health Care Improvement study:  To explore the systems, organisational and patient barriers and facilitators to quality improvement in primary dental care ( Chief Scientist Office)
  • An ethnographic study of group decision-making and member roles to understand and improve how Trial Steering Committees and Trial Management Groups contribute to trial conduct (MRC Network of Hubs FOR Trials Methodology Research).
  • Understanding the Dynamics of Organisational Culture Change in the NHS: Creating Safe Places For Patients and Staff (NHS  Service Delivery and Organisation R&D programme).
  • MRC platform study aimed at developing the intervention and outcome components of a proposed randomised controlled trial of a national screening programme for open angle glaucoma (MRC)
  • CSO Training Fellowship:  Patients’ perspectives on participation in randomised controlled trials (PhD)
  • Issues in data monitoring and interim analysis of trials: the DAMOCLES project (HTA R&D)
  • The REFLUX trial -Randomised trial evaluating laparoscopic surgery in adults with gastro- oesophageal reflux disease (HTA)
  • Support groups for men who have prostate cancer, their families and friends: identifying best practice models (Prostate Cancer UK)

 

Collaborations

NHS Year of Care Partnership

Publications

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  • Experiences of involving patients and the public as partners in randomised clinical trials:: a qualitative evidence scoping review

    Darlene, V., McCann, S., Gillies, K.
    Figshare. 8 pages.
    Other Contributions: Other Contributions

  • Implementing and evaluating Care and Support Planning: a qualitative study of health professionals’ experiences in public polyclinics in Singapore

    Entwistle, V., McCann, S., Weng Keong LOH, V., Tai, E. S., Hian TAN, W., Wei YEW, T.
    BMC Primary Care, vol. 24, 212
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • The development of a core outcome set for studies of pregnant women with multimorbidity

    Lee, S. I., Hanley, S., Vowles, Z., Plachcinski, R., Moss, N., Singh, M., Gale, C., Fagbamigbe, A. F., Azcoaga-Lorenzo, A., Subramanian, A., Taylor, B., Nelson-Piercy, C., Damase-Michel, C., Yau, C., McCowan, C., O'Reilly, D., Santorelli, G., Dolk, H., Hope, H., Phillips, K., Abel, K. M., Eastwood, K. A., Kent, L., Locock, L., Loane, M., Mhereeg, M., Brocklehurst, P., McCann, S., Brophy, S., Wambua, S., Sudasinghe, S. P. B., Thangaratinam, S., Nirantharakumar, K., Black, M., MuM-PreDiCT Group
    BMC medicine , vol. 21, 314
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • 'We all want to succeed, but we've also got to be realistic about what is happening': An ethnographic study of relationships in trial oversight and their impact

    Daykin, A., Selman, L. E., Cramer, H., McCann, S., Shorter, G. W., Sydes, M. R., Gamble, C., Macefield, R., Lane, J. A., Shaw, A.
    Trials, vol. 18, no. 1, 612
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Patient-, organization-, and system-level barriers and facilitators to preventive oral health care: a convergent mixed-methods study in primary dental care

    Templeton, A. R., Young, L., Bish, A., Gnich, W., Cassie, H., Treweek, S., Bonetti, D., Stirling, D., Macpherson, L., McCann, S., Clarkson, J., Ramsay, C., PMC study team
    Implementation Science, vol. 11, pp. 1-14
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Understanding the Health Care Experiences and needs of People Living with Huntingtons Disease (HD): An Exploratory Study

    Rae, D., McCann, S., Miedzybrodzka, Z.
    8th European-Huntington's-Disease-Network Plenary Meeting, pp. A83-A83
    Contributions to Journals: Abstracts

  • Recruitment to trials: insights from a meta-ethnography of qualitative studies

    McCann, S., Campbell, M., Entwistle, V.
    Contributions to Journals: Conference Articles

  • Service user groups as co-applicants on a platform study for a trial

    Morgan, H., Hoddinott, P., Thomson, G., Crossland, N., Dykes, F., McCann, S., Campbell, M.
    Trials, vol. 14, no. Suppl 1, pp. O35
    Contributions to Journals: Abstracts

  • Recruitment to clinical trials: a meta-ethnographic synthesis of studies of reasons for participation

    McCann, S., Campbell, M., Entwistle, V.
    Journal of Health Services Research & Policy, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 233-241
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Stress in nurses: stress-related affect and its determinants examined over the nursing day

    Johnston, D. W., Jones, M. C., Charles, K., McCann, S. K., McKee, L.
    Annals of Behavioral Medicine, vol. 45, no. 3, pp. 348-356
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Patient safety: whose vision?

    Charles, K., McKee, L., McCann, S.
    The reform of health care: shaping, adapting and resisting policy development. Dickinson, H., Mannion, R. (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 122-136, 15 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Developing the clinical components of a complex intervention for a glaucoma screening trial: a mixed methods study

    Burr, J. M., Campbell, M. K., Campbell, S. E., Francis, J. J., Greene, A., Hernández, R., Hopkins, D., McCann, S. K., Vale, L. D., Glaucoma screening Platform Study group
    BMC Medical Research Methodology, vol. 11, no. -, 54
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • A quest for patient-safe culture: contextual influences on patient safety performance

    Charles, K., McKee, L., McCann, S.
    Journal of Health Services Research & Policy, vol. 16 , no. Suppl 1, pp. 57-64
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Reasons for participating in randomised controlled trials: conditional altruism and considerations for self

    McCann, S. K., Campbell, M. K., Entwistle, V. A.
    Trials, vol. 11, pp. 31
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Understanding the dynamics of organisational culture change: creating safe places for patients and staff

    McKee, L., West, M., Flin, R., Grant, A., Johnston, D., Jones, M., Miles, C., Charles, K., Dawson, J., McCann, S., Yule, S.
    Southampton, United Kingdom: NIHR Service Delivery and Organisation programme. 423 pages
    Books and Reports: Commissioned Reports

  • Factors Influencing the Participation of Older People in Clinical Trials: Data Analysis from the MAVIS Trial

    Fearn, P., Avenell, A., McCann, S. K., Milne, A. C., MacLennan, G. S., MAVIS Trial Group
    Journal of Nutrition, Health & Aging, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 51-56
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Medical versus surgical management for gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD) in adults

    Wileman, S. M., McCann, S., Grant, A. M., Krukowski, Z. H., Bruce, J.
    Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, no. 3, CD003243
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Determinants of negative affect in nurses during the working day: The role of demand, reward, control and desire for more control

    Johnston, D., Jones, M. M., McCann, S. K., Mckee, L.
    Annals of Behavioral Medicine, vol. 35, no. Supplement 1, pp. S123-S123
    Contributions to Journals: Abstracts

  • A proposed charter for clinical trial data monitoring committees: helping them to do their job well.

    Campbell, M. K., Grant, A. M., McCann, S. K., Walker, A. E., Wallace, S. A., The DAMOCLES Study Group
    The Lancet, vol. 365, no. 9460, pp. 711-722
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Data monitoring in randomised controlled trials: surveys of recent practice and policies

    Clemens, F., Elbourne, D., Darbyshire, J., Pocock, S., Grant, A. M., Campbell, M. K., McCann, S. K., Walker, A. E., Wallace, S. A., DAMOCLES Group
    Clinical Trials, vol. 2, pp. 22-33
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Reported use of data monitoring committees in the main published reports of randomized controlled trials: a cross-sectional study

    Sydes, M., Spiegelhalter, D., Altman, D., Babiker, A., Parmar, M., Grant, A. M., Campbell, M. K., McCann, S. K., Walker, A. E., Wallace, S. A.
    Clinical Trials, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 48-59
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Small group processes relevant to data monitoring committees in controlled clinical trials: an overview of reviews

    Walker, A. E., McCann, S. K., Campbell, M. K., Grant, A. M., Wallace, S. A.
    Clinical Trials, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 282-296
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Systematic qualitative review of the literature on data monitoring committees for randomized controlled trials

    Sydes, M., Spiegelhalter, D., Altman, D., Babiker, A., Parmar, M., Grant, A. M., Campbell, M. K., McCann, S. K., Walker, A. E., Wallace, S. A.
    Clinical Trials, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 60-79
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

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