Dr Rosaleen O'Brien

Maxwell, S., O’Brien. R., Stenhouse, R. Disclosure of Intimate Partner Violence Among Gay and Bisexual Men: A Narrative Inquiry. Journal of Homosexuality 1–19 20 September 2025 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00918369.2025.2563242

Henderson, M., Wittkowski, A., Buston, K., Crawford, K., MacLachlan., McConnachie, A., McIntosh, E., Messow, CM., Nixon, C., O’Brien, R., Shinwell, S., Wight, D., Xin, Y., Calam, R., Dundas, R., Law, J., Thompson, L., Wilson, P. Evaluation of parenting interventions for those with additional health and social care needs during pregnancy: THRIVE a multi-arm RCT with embedded economic and process components. Public Health Research 13 (4) May 2025 https://doi.org/10.3310/KYMT5407

Maxwell, S., Frankis, J., Stenhouse, R., O’Brien, R., Strongylou, D., McAloney, K. Gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men’s experiences of intimate partner violence in four Celtic Nations: a mixed method study. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. First published online April 12, 2025. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/08862605251331077

O’Brien, R., Apps, J., Burridge, H., Eden, A. Why responding to relationship conflict between parents matters for the police service. Briefing published by Foundations What Works Centre for Children and Families and Department of Work and Pensions on 17 March 2025. Full Briefing: https://foundations.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/full-resource-understanding-police-involvement-responding-parental-conflict.pdf. Summary document: https://foundations.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/understanding-police-involvement-responding-parental-conflict.pdf

Farquharson, B., Johnston, M., O’Brien, R., Clegg, G. “All sorts of colours of emotions”: ambulance call-handlers’ perceptions of the barriers to CPR in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Resuscitation Plus Volume 22 March 2025 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666520425000414?via%3Dihub.

Grant, A., O’Brien, R., Douglas, F., Kennedy, C., Baldie, D., Torrance, N. No Backstage: The Relentless Emotional Management of Acute Nursing Through the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of Advanced Nursing. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 2025; 81:4010–4022 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jan.16563

Ryan S & O’Brien, R. Using a Capability Approach to explore how people with intellectual disabilities can lead flourishing lives. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities. Volume37, Issue 6 November 2024 e13299 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jar.13299 (published online 13 September 2024)

Emslie, C., Dimova, E., O’Brien, R., Whiteford, M., Johnsen, S., Rush, R., Smith, I., Stockwell, T., Whittaker, A; Elliot, L. The impact of alcohol minimum unit pricing on people with experience of homelessness: Qualitative study. International Journal of Drug Policy. Volume 118, August 2023, 104095 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0955395923001433

Maxwell, S., O’Brien, R., and Stenhouse, R. October 2022. Experiences of men who have been subject to intimate partner violence in same-sex relationships. Research Report. Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh. https://rosaleenobrienresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/ipv-research-executive-summary-2022.pdf

Dimova, E., O’Brien, R., Eliot, L., Frankis, J., Emslie, C. Exploring the experiences of alcohol service use among LGBTQ+ people in Scotland: A qualitative study. International Journal of Drug Policy. Published 24 September 2022. https://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S0955395922002754

Dimova, E, O’Brien, R, Elliott, L, Frankis, J and Emslie, C. Exploring the experiences of alcohol service use among LGBTQ+ people in Scotland: A qualitative study of services users and service providers. Scottish Health Action for Alcohol Problems (SHAAP). Research Report. Publication launch 23 March 2022.

Elliot, L, Emslie, C, Dimova, E, Whiteford, M, O’Brien, R, Strachan, H, Johnsen, S, Rush, R, Iain Smith, Stockwell, T, Whittaker, A. Minimum Unit Pricing: Qualitative study of the experiences of homeless drinkers, street drinkers and service providers. Chief Scientist Office, Edinburgh. February 2022.

Buston K, O’Brien R & Maxwell K (2020) The Case for Targeted Parenting Interventions with Reference to Intergenerational Transmission of Parenting: Qualitative Evidence from Three Studies of Marginalised Mothers’ and Fathers’ Participation in Parenting Programmes. Child Care in Practice. https://doi.org/10.1080/13575279.2020.1812533

O’Brien R, Buston K, Wight D, McGee E, White J & Henderson M (2019) A realist process evaluation of Enhanced Triple P for Baby and Mellow Bumps, within a Trial of Healthy Relationship Initiatives for the Very Early years (THRIVE): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials, 20 (1), Art. No.: 351. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-019-3395-3

Henderson, M., Wittkowski, A., Buston, K., Crawford, K., MacLachlan., McConnachie, A., McIntosh, E., Messow, CM., Nixon, C., O’Brien, R., Shinwell, S., Wight, D., Xin, Y., Calam, R., Dundas, R., Law, J., Thompson, L., Wilson, P (2019) Trial of healthy relationship initiatives for the very early years (THRIVE), evaluating Enhanced Triple P for Baby and Mellow Bumps for those with additional social and care needs during pregnancy and their infants who are at higher risk of maltreatment: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. Trials, 20 (1), Art. No.: 499. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-019-3571-5

Buston K, O’Brien R, Wight D & Henderson M (2019) The reflective component of the Mellow Bumps parenting intervention: Implementation, engagement and mechanisms of change. PLOS ONE, 14 (4), Art. No.: e0215461. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0215461

McCallum M, Gray CM, Hanlon P, O’Brien R & Mercer SW (2019) Exploring the utility of self-determination theory in complex interventions in multimorbidity: A qualitative analysis of patient experiences of the CARE Plus intervention. Chronic Illness. https://doi.org/10.1177/1742395319884106

Mercer SW, Fitzpatrick B, Guthrie B, Fenwick E, Grieve E, Lawson K, Boyer N, McConnachie A, Lloyd SM, O’Brien R, Watt GCM & Wyke S (2016) The CARE Plus study – a whole-system intervention to improve quality of life of primary care patients with multimorbidity in areas of high socioeconomic deprivation: exploratory cluster randomised controlled trial and cost-utility analysis. BMC Medicine, 14 (1), Art. No.: 88. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-016-0634-2

Mercer SW, O’Brien R, Fitzpatrick B, Higgins M, Guthrie B, Watt G & Wyke S (2016) The development and optimisation of a primary care-based whole system complex intervention (CARE Plus) for patients with multimorbidity living in areas of high socioeconomic deprivation. Chronic Illness, 12 (3), pp. 165-181. https://doi.org/10.1177/1742395316644304

O’Brien R, Wyke S, Watt GG, Guthrie B & Mercer SW (2014) The ‘Everyday Work’ of Living with Multimorbidity in Socioeconomically Deprived Areas of Scotland. Journal of Comorbidity, 4 (1), pp. 1-10. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.15256/joc.2014.4.32

Henderson, M., Wittkowski, A., Buston, K., Crawford, K., MacLachlan., McConnachie, A., McIntosh, E., Messow, CM., Nixon, C., O’Brien, R., Shinwell, S., Wight, D., Xin, Y., Calam, R., Dundas, R., Law, J., Thompson, L., Wilson, P (2013) Trial of Healthy Relationships Initiatives for the Very Early-years (THRIVE): A three-arm randomised controlled trial for mothers identified as vulnerable in pregnancy and their babies who are at risk of high maltreatment. NIHR. Technical Report

O’Brien R, Wyke S, Guthrie B, Watt G & Mercer S (2011) An ‘endless struggle’: a qualitative study of general practitioners’ and practice nurses’ experiences of managing multimorbidity in socio-economically deprived areas of Scotland. Chronic Illness, 7 (1), pp. 45-59. https://doi.org/10.1177/1742395310382461

O’Brien R, Rose P, Campbell C, Weller D, Neal RD, Wilkinson C, Mcintosh H & Watson E (2011) “I wish I’d told them”: A qualitative study examining the unmet psychosexual needs of prostate cancer patients during follow-up after treatment. Patient Education and Counseling, 84 (2), pp. 200-207. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2010.07.006

Watson E, O’Brien R, Campbell C, Weller D, D Neal R, Wilkinson C, W Rose P & on behalf of the Prostate Cancer Follow-Up Study Group (2011) Views of health professionals on the role of primary care in the follow-up of men with prostate cancer. Family Practice, 28 (6), pp. 647-654. https://doi.org/10.1093/fampra/cmr034

O’Brien R, Rose PW, Campbell C, Weller D, Neal RD, Wilkinson C, Watson EK & Prostate Cancer Follow-up Group (2010) Experiences of follow-up after treatment in patients with prostate cancer: a qualitative study. British Journal of Urology International, 106 (7), pp. 998-1003. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1464-410x.2010.09292.x

O’Brien R, Hunt K & Hart G (2009) ‘The average Scottish man has a cigarette hanging out of his mouth, lying there with a portion of chips’: Prospects for change in Scottish men’s constructions of masculinity and their health-related beliefs and behaviours. Critical Public Health, 19 (3-4), pp. 363-381. https://doi.org/10.1080/09581590902939774

O’Brien R, Hart G & Hunt K (2009) “Standing Out from the Herd”: Men Renegotiating Masculinity in Relation to Their Experience of Illness. International Journal of Men s Health 6(3):178-200

O’Brien R (2006) Men’s health and illness: the relationship between masculinities and health. PhD. University of Glasgow. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2817/1/2006obrienphd.pdf

O’Brien R, Hunt K & Hart G (2005) ‘It’s caveman stuff, but that is to a certain extent how guys still operate’: Men’s accounts of masculinity and help seeking. Social Science and Medicine, 61 (3), pp. 503-16. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277953605000031?via%3Dihub

Emslie C, Hunt K & O’Brien R (2004) Masculinities in Older Men: A Qualitative Study in the West of Scotland. The Journal of Men’s Studies, 12 (3), pp. 207-226. https://doi.org/10.3149/jms.1203.207