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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Economic and ethical implications of improving access to health care for older people with intellectual disabilities in England: a cost-effectiveness modelling study of health checks (2017)

Bauer A, Taggart L, Rasmussen J, Hatton C, Owen L, Knapp M

The Lancet 390, S4

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Health economics as a tool for decision-making in mental health care (2017)

Knapp M

Mental Health Economics , 179-190

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Support at Home: Interventions to Enhance Life in Dementia (SHIELD) – evidence, development and evaluation of complex interventions (2017)

Orrell M, Hoe J, Charlesworth G, Russell I, Challis D, Moniz-Cook E, Knapp M, Woods R, Hoare Z, Aguirre E, Toot S, Streater A, Crellin N, Whitaker C, D'Amico F, Rehill A

Programme Grants for Applied Research 5, 5

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Instruments measuring disease-specific quality of life in family carers of people with neurodegenerative diseases: a systematic review (2017)

Page T, Farina N, Brown A, Daley S, Bowling A, Basset T, Livingston G, Knapp M, Murray J, Banerjee S

BMJ Open , 7:e013611

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Technology-based tools and services for people with dementia and carers: Mapping technology onto the dementia care pathway (2017)

Lorenz K, Freddolino P, Comas-Herrera A, Knapp M, Damant J

Dementia

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Factors associated with carer quality of life of people with dementia: a systematic review (2017)

Farina N, Page T, Daley S, Brown A, Bowling A, Basset T, Livingston G, Knapp M, Murray J, Banerjee S

Alzheimer’s and Dementia 13, 5, 572-581

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The effectiveness of advance care planning in improving end-of-life outcomes for people with dementia and their carers: a systematic review and critical discussion (2017)

Dixon J, Karagiannidou M, Knapp M

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

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Barriers to receipt of social care services for working carers and the people they care for in times of austerity (2017)

Brimblecombe N, Pickard L, King D, Knapp M

Journal of Social Policy

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Childhood bullying victimization is associated with use of mental health services over five decades: a longitudinal nationally representative cohort study (2017)

Evans-Lacko S, Takizawa R, Brimblecombe N, King D, Knapp M, Maughan B, Takizawa R

Psychological Medicine 47, 1, 127-135

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Factors associated with the quality of life of family carers of people with dementia: a systematic review (2017)

Farina N, Page T, Daley S, Brown A, Bowling A, Basset T, Livingston G, Knapp M, Murray J, Banerjee S

Alzheimer's & Dementia

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MODEM: A comprehensive approach to modelling outcome and costs impacts of interventions for dementia. Protocol paper (2017)

Comas-Herrera A, Knapp M, Wittenberg R, Banerjee S, Bowling A, Grundy E, Jagger C, Farina N, Lombard D, Lorenz K, McDaid D

BMC Health Services Research 17, 17:25

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Costs and economic consequences of a help-at-home scheme for older people in England (2017)

Bauer A, Knapp M, Wistow G, Perkins M, King D, Iemmi V

Health and Social Care in the Community 25, 2, 780-789

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The cost of care homes for people with dementia in England: a modelling approach (2016)

Romeo R, Knapp M, Salverda S, Orrell M, Fossey J, Ballard C

International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

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The cost of diagnosis and early support in patients with cognitive decline (2016)

Pennington M, Gomes M, Chrysanthaki T, Hendriks J, Wittenberg R, Knapp M, Black N, Smith S

International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

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Global patterns of workplace productivity for people with depression: absenteeism and presenteeism costs across eight diverse countries (2016)

Evans-Lacko S, Knapp M

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 51, 11, 1525-1537

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Cost of depression in the workplace (2016)

Evans-Lacko S, Knapp M

Mental Health Matters 3, 6, 43-44

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Positive behavioural support for children and adolescents with learning disabilities and behaviour that challenges: an initial exploration of service use and costs (2016)

Iemmi V, Knapp M, Reid C, Sholl C, Ferdinand M, Buescher A, Trachtenberg M

Tizard Learning Disability Review 21, 4

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Peer support and reminiscence therapy for people with dementia and their family carers: a factorial pragmatic randomised trial (2016)

Charlesworth G, Burnell K, Crellin N, Hoare Z, Hoe J, Knapp M, Russell I, Wenborn J, Woods R, Orrell M

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry 87, 11, 1218-1228

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A randomised controlled trial of calcium channel blockade (CCB) with Amlodipine For the treatment oF subcortical ischaEmic vasCular demenTia (AFFECT): study protocol (2016)

Greenan C, Murphy L, Yu LM, Kehoe P, Coulthard E, Bath P, Stewart R, Corbett A, Thomas A, Connelly P, Arrojo F, Canning R, Wallach S, Henderson C, McGuinness B, O’Sullivan M, Holmes C, Knapp M, Ballard C, Passmore P, AFFECT Investigators

Trials , 17:324

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What is standard care for people with learning disabilities and behaviour that challenges and what does it cost? (2016)

Iemmi V, Knapp M, Gore N, Cooper V, Brown FJ, Reid C, Saville M, BC Delphi Group

British Journal of Learning Disabilities 44, 4, 309-321

British Journal of Learning Disabilities

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