Professor Martin Knapp

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

020 7955 6225

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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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Adaptive pacing, cognitive behaviour therapy, graded exercise, and specialist medical care for chronic fatigue syndrome: a cost-effectiveness analysis (2012)

McCrone P, Sharpe M, Chalder T, Knapp M, Johnson AL, Goldsmith K, White PD

PLoS One 7, 8

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Mental health in an age of austerity (editorial) (2012)

Knapp M

Evidence-Based Mental Health 15, 3, 54-55

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Effect of telehealth on use of secondary care and mortality: findings from the Whole System Demonstrator cluster randomised trial (2012)

Steventon A, Bardsley M, Billings J, Dixon J, Doll H, Hirani S, Cartwright M, Rixon L, Knapp M, Henderson C, Rogers A, Fitzpatrick R, Hendy J, Newman S

British Medical Journal 344, 344:e3874

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Dementia care costs and outcomes: a systematic review (2012)

Knapp M, Iemmi V, Romeo R

International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 28, 6, 551-561

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An organisational analysis of the implementation of telecare and telehealth: the whole systems demonstrator (2012)

Knapp M, Chrysanthaki T, Barlow J, Knapp M, Rogers A, Sanders C, Bower P, Bowen R, Fitzpatrick R, Bardsley M, Newman S

BMC Health Services Research 12, 12:403

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Effect of telehealth on quality of life and psychological outcomes over 12 months (Whole Systems Demonstrator telehealth questionnaire study): nested study of patient reported outcomes in a pragmatic, cluster randomised controlled trial (2012)

Cartwright M, Hirani S, Rixon L, Beynon M, Doll H, Bardsley M, Steventon A, Knapp M, Henderson C, Rogers A, Bower P, Sanders C, Fitzpatrick R, Barlow J, Newman S

British Medical Journal 346, 346:f653

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Estimating preference-based single index measures for dementia using the DEMQOL and DEMQOL-Proxy (2012)

Rowen D, Mulhern B, Banerjee S, Van Hout B, Young T, Knapp M, Smith S, Lamping D, Brazier J

Value in Health 15, 2, 346-356

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Improving the measurement of QALYs in dementia: developing patient- and carer-reported health state classification systems using Rasch analysis (2012)

Mulhern B, Smith S, Rowen D, Brazier J, Knapp M, Lamping D, Loftus V, Howard R, Banerjee S

Value in Health 15, 2, 323-333

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The potential of case management for people with dementia: a commentary (2012)

Koch T, Iliffe S, Manthorpe J, Stephens B, Fox C, Robinson L, Livingston G, Coulson S, Knapp M, Chew-Graham C, Katona C, CARE-DEM research team

International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 27, 12, 1305-1314

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The local burden of mental common disorders and health policy: an analysis based on a large health survey in Catalonia (Spain) [La carga local de los trastornos emocionales. Un análisis basado en una encuesta de salud poblacional en Cataluña, España] (2012)

Sabes-Figuera R, Knapp M, Bendeck M, Mompart-Penina A, Salvador-Carulla L

Gaceta Sanitaria 26, 1, 24-29

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Patient education methods to support quality of life and functional ability among patients with schizophrenia: a randomised clinical trial (2012)

Pitkänen A, Välimäki M, Kuosmanen L, Katajisto J, Koivunen M, Hätönen H, Patel A, Knapp M

Quality of Life Research 21, 2, 247-256

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Cost-effectiveness comparisons between antidepressant treatments in depression: evidence from database analyses and prospective studies (2012)

Pan YJ, Knapp M, McCrone P

Journal of Affective Disorders 139, 113-125

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Donepezil and memantine for moderate to severe Alzheimer’s disease (2012)

Howard R, McShane R, Lindesay J, Ritchie C, Baldwin A, Barber R, Burns A, Dening T, Findlay D, Holmes C, Hughes A, Jacoby R, Jones R, Jones R, McKeith I, Macharouthu A, O’Brien J, Passmore P, Sheehan B, Juszczak E, Katona C, Hills R, Knapp M, Ballard C, Brown R, Banerjee S, Onions C, Griffin M, Adams J, Gray R, Johnson T, Bentham P, Phillips P

New England Journal of Medicine 366, 10, 893-903

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A cluster randomized controlled trial of a structured training programme for caregivers of inpatients after stroke (TRACS) (2012)

Forster A, Young J, Nixon J, Kalra L, Smithard D, Patel A, Knapp M, Monaghan J, Breen R, Anwar S, Farrin A

International Journal of Stroke 7, 1, 94-99

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Good friends are hard to find? The social networks of people with mental illness 12 years after deinstitutionalisation (2012)

Forrester-Jones R, Carpenter J, Coolen-Schrijner P, Cambridge P, Tate A, Hallam A, Beecham J, Knapp M, Wooff D

Journal of Mental Health 21, 1, 4-14

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Mental health disability: an international perspective (2012)

Drake R, Bond G, Thornicroft G, Knapp M, Goldman H

Journal of Disability Policy Studies 23, 2, 110-120

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Personalisation through Individual Budgets: does it work and for whom? (2012)

Netten A, Jones K, Knapp M, Fernández J-L, Challis D, Glendinning C, Jacobs S, Moran N, Stevens M, Wilberforce M

British Journal of Social Work 42, 8, 1556-1573

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The impact of Individual Budgets on the targeting of support: findings from a national evaluation of pilot projects in England (2012)

Jones K, Netten A, Fernández J-L, Knapp M, Challis D, Glendinning C, Jacobs S, Manthorpe J, Moran N, Stevens M, Wilberforce M

Public Money and Management 32, 6, 417-424

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Development of a social inclusion index to capture subjective and objective life domains (Phase II): psychometric development study (2012)

Huxley P, Evans S, Madge S, Webber M, Burchardt T, Knapp M, McDaid D

Health Technology Assessment 16, 1, 1-241

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Cost-effectiveness analysis in child and adolescent mental health problems: an updated review of literature (2011)

Kilian R, Losert C, Park A, McDaid D, Knapp M

Psychiatrische Praxis 38, s.01 s.03

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