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Preferences for Psychological Therapy or Support Within an ARMS Psychological Therapies Trial: The Importance of Targeted Intervention for Unusual Sensory Experiences (2025)
Journal Article
Hamilton, J., Singh, A., Gibbs, C., Barclay, N. A., Birkett, L., Boyle, C., Brandon, T., Dudley, R., Einbeck, J., Larry, V., Simpson, J., Dodgson, G., & Fernyhough, C. (2025). Preferences for Psychological Therapy or Support Within an ARMS Psychological Therapies Trial: The Importance of Targeted Intervention for Unusual Sensory Experiences. Early Intervention in Psychiatry, 19(4), Article e70035. https://doi.org/10.1111/eip.70035

Background: Individuals with an at risk mental state (ARMS) often experience hallucinatory‐type experiences, which we refer to as unusual sensory experiences (USE). However, it is not known whether individuals want to know more about USE or discuss t... Read More about Preferences for Psychological Therapy or Support Within an ARMS Psychological Therapies Trial: The Importance of Targeted Intervention for Unusual Sensory Experiences.

Trends in adult mortality rates in India, 1970 to 2018: age-period-cohort analysis. (2024)
Journal Article
Misra, S., Singh, A., Goli, S., & James, K. S. (2024). Trends in adult mortality rates in India, 1970 to 2018: age-period-cohort analysis. Journal of Biosocial Science, 56(6), 929-951. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021932024000270

High premature adult deaths in developing countries are gaining attention, as recent studies show their increasing impact on overall mortality rates. This paper has twofold objectives: firstly, it investigates the long-term trends and patterns of adu... Read More about Trends in adult mortality rates in India, 1970 to 2018: age-period-cohort analysis..

A Comparison of Threshold-Free Measures for Assessing the Effectiveness of Educational Interventions (2024)
Journal Article
Einbeck, J., Coolen-Maturi, T., Uwimpuhwe, G., & Singh, A. (online). A Comparison of Threshold-Free Measures for Assessing the Effectiveness of Educational Interventions. The Journal of Experimental Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/00220973.2024.2405738

The effectiveness of educational interventions has traditionally been evaluated using effect size measures which focus on a single feature of the distribution of the outcomes under intervention and control conditions: a (standardized) mean difference... Read More about A Comparison of Threshold-Free Measures for Assessing the Effectiveness of Educational Interventions.

Elicitation of Priors for Intervention Effects in Educational Trial Data (2024)
Book Chapter
Zhang, Q., Uwimpuhwe, G., Vallis, D., Singh, A., Coolen-Maturi, T., & Einbeck, J. (2024). Elicitation of Priors for Intervention Effects in Educational Trial Data. In J. Einbeck, H. Maeng, E. Ogundimu, & K. Perrakis (Eds.), Developments in Statistical Modelling (28-33). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-65723-8_5

Effect sizes for educational interventions are commonly small, and hence decisions to re-grant efficacy trials (small trials with homogeneous populations under idealized conditions) as effectiveness trials (larger trials with heterogeneous population... Read More about Elicitation of Priors for Intervention Effects in Educational Trial Data.

Are Informal Older Workers Utilizing Less Healthcare Services? Evidence from the Longitudinal Ageing Study in India, Wave-1 (2024)
Journal Article
Chowdhury, P., & Singh, A. (2024). Are Informal Older Workers Utilizing Less Healthcare Services? Evidence from the Longitudinal Ageing Study in India, Wave-1. Journal of Population Ageing, 17(4), 721-749. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12062-024-09458-5

India’s informal sector employs many workers without social security benefits, such as pension support and health insurance. Many older workers continue to work in this sector beyond the retirement age (60 + years) due to financial and health needs.... Read More about Are Informal Older Workers Utilizing Less Healthcare Services? Evidence from the Longitudinal Ageing Study in India, Wave-1.

Improving power calculations in educational trials (2023)
Report
Singh, A., Uwimpuhwe, G., Vallis, D., Akhter, N., Coolen-Maturi, T., Einbeck, J., Higgins, S., Culliney, M., & Demack, S. (2023). Improving power calculations in educational trials. Education Endowment Foundation

The aim of this study was to investigate and empirically derive parameters commonly used for statistical power and sample size calculations to better inform future trial design. Towards achieving this aim, the research project leveraged the richness... Read More about Improving power calculations in educational trials.

Individual participant data meta-analysis: pooled effect of EEF funded educational trials on low baseline attaining group (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Uwimpuhwe, G., Singh, A., Akhter, N., Ashraf, B., Coolen-Maturi, T., Robinson, T., Higgins, S., & Einbeck, J. (2023, July). Individual participant data meta-analysis: pooled effect of EEF funded educational trials on low baseline attaining group. Presented at International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Dortmund

The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF), a charity aiming to break the link between socioeconomic disadvantage and pupil attainment, has commissioned over 200 randomised controlled trials. The collection of data from these trials, the `EEF Data Arch... Read More about Individual participant data meta-analysis: pooled effect of EEF funded educational trials on low baseline attaining group.

Informal sector employment and the health outcomes of older workers in India (2023)
Journal Article
Chowdhury, P., Mohanty, I., Singh, A., & Niyonsenga, T. (2023). Informal sector employment and the health outcomes of older workers in India. PLoS ONE, 18(2), Article e0266576. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266576

A large proportion of the older population in India constitutes an undeniable share of workforce after the retirement age. This stresses the need to understand the implications of working at older ages on health outcomes. The main objective of this s... Read More about Informal sector employment and the health outcomes of older workers in India.

Quality of Life of the Elderly during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Asian Countries: A Cross-Sectional Study across Six Countries (2022)
Journal Article
Marzo, R. R., Khanal, P., Ahmad, A., Rathore, F. A., Chauhan, S., Singh, A., Shrestha, S., AlRifai, A., Lotfizadeh, M., Younus, D. A., Billah, M. A., Rahman, F., Sivaladchanam, Y., Mohan, D., & Su, T. T. (2022). Quality of Life of the Elderly during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Asian Countries: A Cross-Sectional Study across Six Countries. Life, 12(3), Article 365. https://doi.org/10.3390/life12030365

Background: Few studies have explored the determinants of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in the elderly during the COVID-19 pandemic. Identifying these factors may help implement appropriate policies to enhance HRQoL in the elderly. Therefore... Read More about Quality of Life of the Elderly during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Asian Countries: A Cross-Sectional Study across Six Countries.

Individual Participant Data Meta-analysis of the Impact of Educational Interventions on Pupils Eligible for Free School Meals (2021)
Journal Article
Ashraf, B., Singh, A., Uwimpuhwe, G., Higgins, S., & Kasim, A. (2021). Individual Participant Data Meta-analysis of the Impact of Educational Interventions on Pupils Eligible for Free School Meals. British Educational Research Journal, 47(6), 1675-1699. https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3749

Meta-analysis is the synthesis of findings from research projects, which enables an estimate of the average or pooled effect across various studies. This study presents findings from the intention to treat analysis for a series of educational evaluat... Read More about Individual Participant Data Meta-analysis of the Impact of Educational Interventions on Pupils Eligible for Free School Meals.

Does the prenatal factor or the postnatal factor contribute more to changes in the child sex ratio in India? An investigation in the context of fertility and mortality transition (2021)
Journal Article
Yadav, A. K., Ram, F., Singh, A., & Shekhar, C. (2022). Does the prenatal factor or the postnatal factor contribute more to changes in the child sex ratio in India? An investigation in the context of fertility and mortality transition. Journal of Biosocial Science, 54(3), 473-481. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021932021000171

There has been a drastic decline in the child sex ratio (number of females per 1000 males between ages 0 and 4) in India and many of its states. This study aimed to examine if prenatal factors, such as change in sex ratio at birth, or postnatal facto... Read More about Does the prenatal factor or the postnatal factor contribute more to changes in the child sex ratio in India? An investigation in the context of fertility and mortality transition.

Psychological distress during pandemic Covid-19 among adult general population: Result across 13 countries (2021)
Journal Article
Marzo, R. R., Ismail, Z., Nu Htay, M. N., Bahari, R., Ismail, R., Villanueva, E. Q., Singh, A., Lotfizadeh, M., Respati, T., Irasanti, S. N., Sartika, D., Mong, P., Lekamwasam, S., Thapa, B. B., Kucuk Bicer, B., Aye, S. S., Songwathana, K., El-Abasiri, R. A., Ahmad, A., Nikmat, A., …Su, T. T. (2021). Psychological distress during pandemic Covid-19 among adult general population: Result across 13 countries. Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health, 10, Article 100708. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cegh.2021.100708

The COVID-19 pandemics caused an unprecedented mortality, distress, and globally poses a challenge to mental resilience. To our knowledge, this is the first study that aimed to investigate the psychological distress among the adult general population... Read More about Psychological distress during pandemic Covid-19 among adult general population: Result across 13 countries.

Multisite educational trials: estimating the effect size and its confidence intervals (2021)
Journal Article
Singh, A., Uwimpuhwe, G., Li, M., Einbeck, J., Higgins, S., & Kasim, A. (2022). Multisite educational trials: estimating the effect size and its confidence intervals. International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 45(1), 18-38. https://doi.org/10.1080/1743727x.2021.1882416

In education, multisite trials involve randomisation of pupils into intervention and comparison groups within schools. Most analytical models in multisite educational trials ignore that the impact of an intervention may be school dependent. This stud... Read More about Multisite educational trials: estimating the effect size and its confidence intervals.

A Survey of Psychological Distress among Bangladeshi People During the COVID-19 Pandemic   (2021)
Journal Article
Marzo, R. R., Singh, A., & Mukti, R. F. (2021). A Survey of Psychological Distress among Bangladeshi People During the COVID-19 Pandemic  . Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health, 10, Article 100693. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cegh.2020.100693

Introduction Previous studies conducted on the psychological impact of infectious outbreaks have found heavy psychological burdens among general population with more severe affect in the current pandemic. The main aim of this study is to examine the... Read More about A Survey of Psychological Distress among Bangladeshi People During the COVID-19 Pandemic  .

Application of Bayesian posterior probabilistic inference in educational trials (2020)
Journal Article
Uwimpuhwe, G., Singh, A., Higgins, S., & Kasim, A. (2021). Application of Bayesian posterior probabilistic inference in educational trials. International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 44(5), 533-554. https://doi.org/10.1080/1743727X.2020.1856067

Educational researchers advocate the use of an effect size and its confidence interval to assess the effectiveness of interventions instead of relying on a p-value, which has been blamed for lack of reproducibility of research findings and the misuse... Read More about Application of Bayesian posterior probabilistic inference in educational trials.

What has contributed to the large sex differentials in lifespan variation and life expectancy in South Korea? (2020)
Journal Article
Singh, A., & Kim, Y. (2021). What has contributed to the large sex differentials in lifespan variation and life expectancy in South Korea?. Journal of Biosocial Science, 53(3), 396-406. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021932020000267

To date, research on sex differentials in lifespan variation and life expectancy has mainly been conducted in Western countries and there is a dearth of data from South Korea. This study aimed to further the understanding of mortality transition and... Read More about What has contributed to the large sex differentials in lifespan variation and life expectancy in South Korea?.

Latent Class Evaluation in Educational Trials: What Percentage of Children Benefits from an Intervention? (2020)
Journal Article
Uwimpuhwe, G., Singh, A., Higgins, S., Coux, M., Xiao, Z., Shkedy, Z., & Kasim, A. (2022). Latent Class Evaluation in Educational Trials: What Percentage of Children Benefits from an Intervention?. The Journal of Experimental Education, 90(2), 404-418. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220973.2020.1767021

Educational stakeholders are keen to know the magnitude and importance of different interventions. However, the way evidence is communicated to support understanding of the effectiveness of an intervention is controversial. Typically studies in educa... Read More about Latent Class Evaluation in Educational Trials: What Percentage of Children Benefits from an Intervention?.