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"

Evaluating social prescribing link workers: a national project

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Improving treatment decisions for urinary blockages in patients with advanced cancer

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Evaluating Unity Sexual Health rapid results service

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Modelling patient flows and resource use within a sexual health clinic through discrete event simulation to inform service redesign

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Evaluating the Recommended Summary Plan for Emergency Care and Treatment (ReSPECT)

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Using the recommended summary plan for emergency care and treatment (ReSPECT) in care homes: a qualitative interview study

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Do pooled budgets help children with complex needs?

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Examining how to improve HIV prevention and testing in GP practices

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What impact are remote consultations having on NHS clinicians?

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Evaluating the impact of new stop-smoking services in hospitals

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Evaluating ‘we can move’: a whole systems approach to addressing low levels of physical activity in Gloucestershire

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Navigating the river(s) of systems change: a multi-methods, qualitative evaluation exploring the implementation of a systems approach to physical activity in Gloucestershire, England

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Can a community building initiative help increase people’s opportunities for physical activity in Gloucestershire?

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Ripple effects mapping: capturing the wider impacts of systems change efforts in public health

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Lessons from the ‘Everyone In’ programme to help people who were homeless during COVID-19

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Getting Fit for Surgery: evaluating a pre-surgery ‘health optimisation’ policy

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Commissioner, clinician, and patient experiences of a pre‐surgical health optimisation programme – a qualitative study

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EPICCC-19: Exploring perspectives on COVID-19’s impact on continence care

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Professional perspectives on impacts, benefits and disadvantages of changes made to community continence services during the COVID-19 pandemic: findings from the EPICCC-19 national survey

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Providing smartphones to survivors of modern slavery and human trafficking

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Overcoming Digital Exclusion during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Impact of Mobile Technology for Survivors of Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking – A Mixed Method Study of Survivors and Support Service Provider Views

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Understanding which strategies to prevent childhood obesity work best

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Can personalised care help people live well with Parkinson’s disease?

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Improving knowledge sharing in urgent care

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Evaluating ‘Breathing Space’: a safe space for people experiencing mental health crisis

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Working with the Samaritans on the Step-by-Step suicide recovery programme for schools

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Engaging patients meaningfully in self-harm research: user involvement and appropriate outcomes

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Measuring outcomes in trials of interventions for people who self-harm: qualitative study of service users' views

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