Professor Martin Knapp

Director of PSSRU at LSE; Professor of Social Policy; Director of the NIHR School for Social Care Research

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Research Interests

Martin Knapp is Professor of Social Policy and Director of the Personal Social Services Research Unit at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He has also been Director of the NIHR School for Social Care Research since 2009. His current research emphases are primarily dementia, child and adult mental health, autism and long-term social care; much of his work has an economic focus, and in all of it he seeks to tease out the policy implications. He has published almost 600 peer-review journal papers and 15 books. His work has had numerous impacts on policy and practice in these areas.

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Martin Knapp's Publications

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Maintenance cognitive stimulation therapy: an economic evaluation within a randomised controlled trial (2015)

D'Amico F, Rehill A, Knapp M, Aguirre E, Donovan H, Hoare Z, Hoe J, Russell I, Spector A, Streater A, Whitaker C, Woods R, Orrell M

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 16, 1, 63-70

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Peer-led self-management for people with severe mental disorders: an economic evaluation (2015)

Iemmi V, Crepaz-Kay D, Cyhlarova E, Knapp M

Journal of Mental Health Training, Education and Practice 10, 1

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Comparison of general population, patient, and carer utility values for dementia health states (2015)

Rowen D, Mulhern B, Banerjee S, Tait R, Watchurst C, Smith S, Young T, Knapp M, Brazier J

Medical Decision Making 35, 1, 68-80

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How do child and adolescent mental health problems influence public sector costs? Interindividual variations in a nationally representative British sample (2015)

Knapp M, Snell T, Healey A, Guglani S, Evans-Lacko S, Fernández J-L, Melzer D, Ford T

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 56, 6, 667-676

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Cost-effectiveness of the mental health and development model for schizophrenia-spectrum and bipolar disorders in rural Kenya (2015)

de Menil V, Knapp M, McDaid D, Raja S, Kingori J, Waruguru M, Kippen-Wood S, Mannarath S, Lund C

Psychological Medicine 45, 13, 2747-2756

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Participation of psychiatric nurses in public and private mental healthcare in Kenya (2015)

de Menil V, Knapp M

BJPsych International 12, 1, 19-21

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Dependence in Alzheimer's disease and service use costs, quality of life, and caregiver burden: the DADE study (2015)

Jones R, Romeo R, Trigg R, Knapp M, Sato A, King D, Niecko T, Lacey L, for the DADE Investigator Group

Alzheimer's & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association 11, 3, 280-290

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Interventions designed to improve therapeutic communications between black and minority ethnic people and professionals working in psychiatric services: a systematic review of the evidence for their effectiveness (2015)

Bhui K, Aslam R, Palinski A, McCabe R, Johnson M, Weich S, Singh S, Knapp M, Ardino V, Szczepura A

Health Technology Assessment 19, 31

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Investing in advocacy for parents with learning disabilities: what is the economic argument? (2015)

Bauer A, Wistow G, Dixon J, Knapp M

British Journal of Learning Disabilities 43, 1, 66-74

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Protocol of a cluster randomized trial evaluation of a patient and carer-centered system of longer-term stroke care (LoTS care) (2015)

Forster A, Young J, Nixon J, Chapman K, Murray J, Patel A, Knapp M, Anwar S, Breen R, Mellish K, Holloway I, Farrin A

International Journal of Stroke 10, 2, 259-263

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The relationship between changes in quality of life outcomes and progression of Alzheimer's disease: results from the Dependence in AD in England 2 longitudinal study (2015)

Jones R, Romeo R, Trigg R, Knapp M, Sato A, King D, Niecko T

International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 30, 4, 400-408

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Perinatal depression and child development: exploring the economic consequences from a South London cohort (2015)

Bauer A, Pawlby S, Plant D, King D, Parmiente C, Knapp M

Psychological Medicine 45, 1, 51-61

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Improving Well-being and Health for People with Dementia (WHELD): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial (2014)

Whitaker R, Fossey J, Ballard C, Orrell M, Moniz-Cook E, Woods R, Murray J, Stafford J, Knapp M, Romeo R, Woodward-Carlton B, Testad I, Khan Z

Trials , 15:284

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Impact of macro-level socio-economic factors on rising suicide rates in South Korea: panel-data analysis in East Asia (2014)

Hong J, Knapp M

Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics 17, 4, 151-162

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Development and evaluation of tools and an intervention to improve patient- and carer-centred outcomes in Longer-Term Stroke care and exploration of adjustment post stroke: the LoTS care research programme (2014)

Forster A, Mellish K, Farrin A, Bhakta B, House A, Hewison J, Murray J, Patel A, Knapp M, Breen R, Chapman K, Holloway I, Hawkins R, Shannon R, Nixon J, Jowett A, Horton M, Alvarado N, Anwar S, Tennant A, Godfrey M, Young J

NIHR Programme Grants for Applied Research 2, 6, 1-262

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Improving the experience of dementia and enhancing active life - living well with dementia: study protocol for the IDEAL study (2014)

Clare L, Nelis S, Quinn C, Martyr A, Henderson C, Hindle J, Jones I, Jones R, Knapp M, Kopelman M, Morris R, Pickett J, Rusted J, Savitch N, Thom J

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 1, 164

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Long-term clinical and cost-effectiveness of psychological intervention for family carers of people with dementia: a single-blind, randomised, controlled trial (2014)

Livingston G, Barber J, Rapaport P, Knapp M, Griffin M, King D, Romeo R, Livingston D, Mummery C, Walker Z, Hoe J, Cooper C

The Lancet Psychiatry 1, 7, 539-548

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START (STrAtegies for RelaTives) study: a pragmatic randomised controlled trial to determine the clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a manual-based coping strategy programme in promoting the mental health of carers of people with dementia (2014)

Livingston G, Barber J, Rapaport P, Knapp M, Griffin M, Romeo R, King D, Livingston D, Lewis-Holmes E, Mummery C, Walker Z, Hoe J, Cooper C

Health Technology Assessment 18, 61, 1-242

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Cost-utility of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy versus U.S. Food and Drug Administration recommended drugs and usual care in the treatment of patients with fibromyalgia: An economic evaluation alongside a 6-month randomised controlled trial (2014)

Luciano J, D'Amico F, Cerdà-Lafont M, Peñarrubia-Maria M, Knapp M, Cuesta-Vargas A, Serrano-Blanco A, García-Campayo J

Arthritis Research and Therapy 16, 5, 451

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National trends and local delivery in old age mental health services: towards an evidence base. A mixed-methodology study of the balance of care approach, community mental health teams and specialist mental health outreach to care homes (2014)

Challis D, Tucker S, Wilberforce M, Brand C, Abendstern M, Stewart K, Jasper R, Harrington V, Verbeek H, Jolley D, Fernandez J, Dunn G, Knapp M, Bowns I

NIHR Programme Grants for Applied Research 2, 4, 1-519

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