Dr Katrina Turner

Summary

Katrina is a senior qualitative methodologist.  She has extensive knowledge and experience of using in-depth interviews, focus groups and observations. Katrina has particular expertise in designing and overseeing qualitative studies nested within large randomised controlled trials, and developing and supervising the qualitative elements of large programme grants. Most of her research has been in the areas of primary care mental health.

Biography

Katrina joined the Centre of Academic Primary Health Care in September 2004.  Prior to doing so she worked at the MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, Glasgow, and at the University of Glasgow on mixed method studies that focused on the health and health behaviours of children and adolescents.

Katrina has a background in health sciences, health promotion and health education, and a PhD from a Department of Applied Social Science. Her PhD thesis focused on young women's views and experiences of teenage pregnancy and motherhood.

Teaching

Teaching leadership:

Joint lead for the Human Basis of Medicine teaching (HBoM) unit.  HBoM forms a substantial part of year 1 of the MB ChB degree course and consists of five sub-elements: Society, Health and Medicine, Clinical Epidemiology, Ethics and Law, Whole Person Care and Introduction to Primary Care.

Joint Helical theme lead for Social and Behavioural Science in Medicine.  The Bristol medical curriculum is currently being rewritten.  The new curriculum (MB21) will be launched in September 2017.  There will be 16 helical themes which run across the curriculum.  I am responsible for ensuring Social and Behavioural Sciences are interwoven throughout the 5 years of MB21.  

Member of the MB ChB year one curriculum deveopment group.  This group is responsible for developing the structure, content and materials for the new year one in MB21.

Teaching deliverly

Tutor and lecturer on Society, Health and Medicine: 10 week course delivered to all first year Bristol medical students

Academic foundation 2 (AF2) tutor for qualitative research methods: I deliver a half-day teaching session on qualitative research methods

Lecturer and tutor on short courses delivered within the School of Social and Community Medicine.  

Current PhD supervisor to 3 students

Keywords

• Integration of qualitative methods within RCTs

Skills

• Depression
• psychosis
• personality disorders

Methodologies

• qualitative research methods

Expertise

In my current post I have a responsibility to develop and manage qualitative studies, many of which are nested within large RCTs. I also provide advice to students and colleagues about the design and conduct of qualitative research projects. My research interests include childhood obesity, diabetes, depression, and sexual health.

Memberships

Organisations

Bristol Medical School (PHS)

Other sites

• Populationhealth

Centres, collaborations and units

• Centre for Academic Primary Care
• Centre for Academic Mental Health

Admin staff

• School of Social and Community Medicine Admin staff

Links

• @DrKMTurner

Recent publications

• Richards, SH, Dickens, C, Anderson, R, Richards, DA, Taylor, RS, Ukoumunne, OC, Turner, KM, Gandhi, M, Kuyken, W, Gibson, A, Davey, A, Warren, F, Winder, R & Campbell, J, 2018, ‘Assessing the effectiveness of Enhanced Psychological Care for patients with depressive symptoms attending cardiac rehabilitation compared with treatment as usual (CADENCE): A pilot cluster randomised controlled trial’. Trials, vol 19.
• Sebire, S, Toumpakari, Z, Turner, K, Cooper, A, Page, A, Malpass, A & Andrews, R, 2018, ‘“I've made this my lifestyle now”: A prospective qualitative study of motivation for lifestyle change among people with newly diagnosed type two diabetes mellitus’. BMC Public Health.
• Wiles, N, Taylor, A, Turner, N, Barnes, M, Campbell, J, Lewis, G, Morrison, J, Peters, T, Thomas, L, Turner, K & Kessler, D, 2018, ‘Management of treatment resistant depression in primary care: a mixed methods study’. British Journal of General Practice.
• Selman, L, Fox, F, Aabe, N, Turner, K, Rai, D & Redwood, S, 2017, ‘‘You are labelled by your children’s disability’: A community-based, participatory study of stigma among Somali parents of children with autism living in the United Kingdom’. Ethnicity and Health.
• French, LRM, Thomas, L, Campbell, J, Kuyken, W, Lewis, GH, Williams, C, Wiles, NJ & Turner, KM, 2017, ‘Individuals' Long Term Use of Cognitive Behavioural Skills to Manage their Depression: A Qualitative Study’. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, vol 45., pp. 46-57
• Searle, A, Jago, R, Henderson, J & Turner, K, 2017, ‘Children’s, parents' and health professionals' views on the management of childhood asthma: a qualitative study’. npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine, vol 27.
• Pritchett, R, Jolly, K, Daley, A, Turner, K & Bradbury-Jones, C, 2017, ‘Women’s experiences of exercise as a treatment for their postnatal depression: a nested qualitative study’. Journal of Health Psychology.
• Turner, K, Winder, R, Campbell, J, Richards, D, Gandhi, M, Dickens, C & Richards, S, 2017, ‘Patients and nurses’ views on providing psychological support within cardiac rehabilitation programmes: a qualitative study’. BMJ Open, vol 7.
• Jeal, N, Macleod, J, Salisbury, C & Turner, K, 2017, ‘Identifying possible reasons why female street sex workers have poor drug treatment outcomes: a qualitative study’. BMJ Open, vol 7.
• Turner, K, Percival, J, Kessler, D & Donovan, J, 2017, ‘Exploring patients' treatment journeys following randomisation in mental health trials to improve future trial conduct: a synthesis of multiple qualitative data sets’. Trials, vol 18.

View complete publications list in the University of Bristol publications system

Projects

• ComMando: Community Mandolean trial