Research projects

Our research projects are carefully selected from ideas and projects submitted from our health and care community. They fall under our themes of healthier childhoods, mental health, public health and prevention, and integrated and optimal care.

Showing 106 projects in "Behavioural and qualitative science"

Bridging Gaps: Improving access to healthcare for women who have experienced trauma

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Trauma-informed co-production: Collaborating and combining expertise to improve access to primary care with women with complex needs

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Supporting families to adjust following a dementia diagnosis: Adapting LivDem

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“How can you think about losing your mind?”: A reflexive thematic analysis of adapting the LivDem group intervention for couples and families living with dementia

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Reducing Hepatitis C reinfection among people who inject drugs

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Improving access to reasonable adjustments for patients with cancer

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Hearing Loss and Patient Reported Experience (HELP): using patient experience to improve hearing loss services

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Trauma-focused cognitive behavioural therapies for children in care

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Access to best-evidenced mental health support for care-experienced young people: Learnings from the implementation of cognitive therapy for PTSD

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Introducing vending machines for HIV self-testing and STI self-sampling kits

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Acceptability of digital vending machines to access STI and HIV tests in two UK cities

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Building research capacity in children’s social care: the SEEDS project

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How can we design weight management services with under-represented groups?

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How can we design weight management services with under-represented groups

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Co-designing adult weight management services: a qualitative study exploring barriers, facilitators, and considerations for future commissioning

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SHarED: Supporting people who are ‘high impact users’ of emergency departments

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Supporting High-impAct useRs in Emergency Departments (SHarED) quality improvement: a mixed-method evaluation

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SHarED: Supporting ‘high impact users’ of emergency departments

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Innovate Healthier Together: increasing innovation in health services

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Sharing learning to embed trauma-informed systems across public services

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The ADViSE pilot: Using sexual health services to support people who have experienced domestic violence and abuse

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Assessing for domestic violence in sexual health environments: a qualitative study

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Improving the response to domestic violence in sexual health clinics

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Evaluating ADViSE: a domestic abuse intervention in sexual health clinics

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How Do You Move? Improving the communication of the national physical activity guidelines

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Lets talk about physical activity
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“Let’s Talk about Physical Activity”: Understanding the Preferences of Under-Served Communities when Messaging Physical Activity Guidelines to the Public

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Evaluating new guidance for parents on talking to children about weight positively

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Developing a mental health strategy with an integrated care system

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Changing society’s attitudes to death and grieving: Good Grief Connects

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How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected people in rural areas who take opioid substitutes?

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Understanding and learning from rural drug service adaptations to opioid substitution therapy during the COVID-19 pandemic: the What C-OST? study

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Understanding how GPs promote physical activity as a treatment for depression

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