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.

Digital technology and adolescent mental health

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Developing good practice indicators to assist mental health practitioners to converse with young people about their online activities and impact on mental health: a two-panel mixed-methods Delphi study

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Developing a mental health strategy with an integrated care system

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Understanding opiate substitution therapy and needle and syringe programme delivery in the UK

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PASSPORT: Creating a school-specific physical activity portfolio

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Rethinking children’s physical activity interventions at school: A new context-specific approach

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Evaluating the use of non-GP health professionals in primary care

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

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Have e-scooters made city roads safer?

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HELMET study: measuring the health impact of e-bikes and e-scooters

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

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Screenshot of journal article titled: 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 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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Roll-out of Germ Defence website through GP practices during the COVID-19 pandemic

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Screenshot of the Germ Defence paper
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Implementing Germ Defence digital behaviour change intervention via all primary care practices in England to reduce respiratory infections during the COVID-19 pandemic: an efficient cluster randomised controlled trial using the OpenSAFELY platform

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Changing Futures: Improving mental health and wellbeing through trauma-informed support for people with multiple disadvantages

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Create to Collaborate: Can we make working relationships between researchers and the public more open and engaging?

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Screenshot of paper titled: Create to Collaborate: using creative activity and participatory performance in online workshops to build collaborative research relationships
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Create to Collaborate: using creative activity and participatory performance in online workshops to build collaborative research relationships

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TellMiSaives – evaluating a peer support app for children and young people

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Screenshot of Lucy Biddle's paper about developing digital suicide prevention tools for young people
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Developing Suicide Prevention Tools in the Context of Digital Peer Support: Qualitative Analysis of a Workshop With Multidisciplinary Stakeholders

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How ill are patients admitted to virtual wards?

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Faster access to service offering Parkinson’s care

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Exploring online information about end of life care

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Information About Me: Understanding the hidden causes of delays in discharging frail older patients from hospital

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How latent patterns of interprofessional working may lead to delays in discharge from hospital of older people living with frailty – ‘Patient more confused than usual?’
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How latent patterns of interprofessional working may lead to delays in discharge from hospital of older people living with frailty – ‘Patient more confused than usual?’

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What causes delays in discharging frail older patients from hospital?

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Preventing cerebral palsy in premature babies: finding the best way to help maternity units improve their perinatal care

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Screenshot of the PReCePT study paper
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Quality improvement interventions to increase the uptake of magnesium sulphate in preterm deliveries for the prevention of cerebral palsy (PReCePT study): a cluster randomised controlled trial

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Diversity in diabetes

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Screenshot of paper about developments in the design and delivery of self-management support for children and young people with diabetes
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Developments in the design and delivery of self-management support for children and young people with diabetes: A narrative synthesis of systematic reviews

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