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 22 projects in "Covid"

How do we keep school students and staff safe during a pandemic?

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School life during COVID-19: a qualitative study exploring English secondary school staff and pupils’ experiences of the school-based mitigation measures

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

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Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme uptake, patient satisfaction, and QOF achievement: an ecological study from 2020–2023

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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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Roll-out of Germ Defence website through GP practices during the COVID-19 pandemic

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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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The impact of COVID-19 on self-harm and suicidal behaviour: a living systematic review

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The impact of COVID-19 on self-harm and suicidal behaviour: a living systematic review version 2
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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on self-harm and suicidal behaviour: update of living systematic review (version 2)

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DECODE: Exploring the unintended consequences of digital health tools

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Unintended consequences of online consultations: a qualitative study in UK primary care

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DECODE: Exploring the unintended consequences of online consultations

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DECODE: Unintended consequences of online access to health records

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Creating a coronavirus support app

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Providing evidence about ‘long COVID’ to healthcare services

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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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Analysing studies of COVID-19 treatments

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Association between administration of systemic corticosteroids and mortality among critically ill patients with COVID-19: a meta-analysis

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How did the COVID-19 pandemic affect access to GP services for people already experiencing problems accessing healthcare?

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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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Using National Early Warning Scores for COVID-19 hospital patients

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Prognostic value of National Early Warning Scores (NEWS2) and component physiology in hospitalised patients with COVID-19: a multicentre study

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Understanding what affected COVID-19 outcomes in care homes in Bath and North East Somerset

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Reviewing evidence on race and COVID-19 disparities

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NHS CHECK: Understanding the mental health and wellbeing of all NHS staff during the pandemic

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Understanding the experiences of people who inject drugs during the COVID-19 pandemic

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Living Under Coronavirus and Injecting Drugs in Bristol (LUCID-B): A qualitative study of experiences of COVID-19 among people who inject drugs

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How have GP practices adapted to the COVID-19 pandemic?

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Implementation of remote consulting in UK primary care following the COVID-19 pandemic: a mixed-methods longitudinal study

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Back to School: What young people, parents, carers and teachers think about COVID-19 measures in secondary schools

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Reducing COVID-19 risk in schools: a qualitative examination of secondary school staff and family views and concerns in the South West of England

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