Rate My Professor David Wellsted

Wellsted's research specializations encompass the design and evaluation of complex interventions in health, social care, and public health settings; health care measurement, particularly PREMs; psychosocial dimensions of living with ESRD, Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), and diabetes; quality of life assessments in these populations; conservative management and end-of-life care for ESRD patients; adherence and behavior change techniques such as self-affirmation; and longitudinal analytical methods, including medical statistics, research designs, and meta-analysis. He has been a member of the NIHR East of England Research Design Service since 2008, leading the Hertfordshire group since 2003, and serves as a reviewer for NIHR funding programs including HTA, PGfAR, RfPB, and HSDR, as well as journals such as Kidney International, Clinical Oncology, Journal of Health Psychology, Psychology Health and Medicine, and International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice. Key publications include 'Quality of Life and Survival in Patients with Advanced Kidney Disease' (2012), 'Effects of exercise on obsessive-compulsive disorder symptoms: a systematic review with meta-analysis' (2023), 'Patient-Reported Experience Measures to Evaluate and Improve In-Center Hemodialysis Care' (2024), 'Disease-specific predictive formulas for energy expenditure in the dialysis population' (2014), 'You cannot choose your family: sociological ambivalence in the hemodialysis unit' (2015), and 'Identifying Depression in South Asian Patients with End-Stage Renal Disease' (2011).