Service Delivery

Co-Production: An Ethical Model for Mental Health Research?

External author(s) only (2019-07)

Commentary arguing for involving people with a diagnosis of mental health disorders and/or their caregivers as co-researchers in mental health research.

Variation in spend on young mental health across Clinical Commissioning Groups in England: a cross-sectional observational study

External author(s) only (2019-08)

Objectives To investigate whether the rate of spend on child and adolescent mental health is influenced by demand for other competing services in local commissioning decisions. Design Analysis of spend data by Clinical ...

Consent to discuss participation in research: a pilot study

Potts, Jennifer; Barrera, Alvaro; Hancock, Mark; Bell, Stuart; Cipriani, Andrea; Geddes, John R; Henshall, Catherine (2019-09)

Background. Equitable access to research studies needs to be increased for all patients. There is debate about which is the best approach to use to discuss participation in research in real-world clinical settings. Objective. ...

Reducing attendance at trauma clinics by providing first-point-of-contact treatment

O'Neill, Angela (2019-09-02)

In 2016, the urgent and ambulatory care service in Oxfordshire formed part of a cross-organisational partnership working group. The group consisted of Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust community minor injury units (MIUs) ...

Patient safety regulation in the NHS: mapping the regulatory landscape of healthcare

Vincent, Charles (2019-07)

Objectives The current research project sought to map out the regulatory landscape for patient safety in the English National Health Service (NHS). Method We used a systematic desk-based search using a variety of sources ...

Collecting self-report research data with people with dementia within care home clinical trials: Benefits, challenges and best practice

Perfect, Devon (2019-08)

One-third of people with dementia live in care home settings and in order to deliver better evidence-based care, robust research including clinical trials is required. Concerns have been raised by researchers about the ...

Paediatric enteral feeding at home: an analysis of patient safety incidents

Vincent, Charles; Page, Bethan (2019-06)

Aims To describe the nature and causes of patient safety incidents relating to care at home for children with enteral feeding devices. Methods We analysed incident data relating to paediatric nasogastric, gastrostomy ...

Investigating causal mechanisms in randomised controlled trials

Lee, Hopin; Lamb, Sarah E (2019-08)

Introduction: In some randomised trials, the primary interest is in the mechanisms by which an intervention exerts its effects on health outcomes. That is, clinicians and policy-makers may be interested in how the intervention ...

Can rapid approaches to qualitative analysis deliver timely, valid findings to clinical leaders? A mixed methods study comparing rapid and thematic analysis

Henshall, Catherine (2018-08)

Objectives: This study compares rapid and traditional analyses of a UK health service evaluation dataset to explore differences in researcher time and consistency of outputs. Design: Mixed methods study, quantitatively ...

Qualitative study of barriers to clinical trial retention in adults with recently diagnosed type 1 diabetes

Henshall, Catherine (2018-07)

Objectives: Regular physical exercise may preserve β cell function in newly diagnosed adults with type 1 diabetes (T1D). However, clinical trials to test this theory require the recruitment and retention of adults with ...

R package to identify sudden gains

Wiedemann, Milan; Thew, Graham R; Ehlers, Anke (PsyArXiv, 2019)

Sudden gains are large and stable changes on an outcome variable between consecutive measurements, for example during a psychological intervention with multiple assessments. Researching these occurrences could help understand ...

Evolutionary biology: an essential basic science for the training of the next generation of psychiatrists

Ayton, Agnes (2019-06)

Evolutionary science can serve as the high-level organising principle for understanding psychiatry. Evolutionary concepts generate new models and ideas for future psychiatric study, research, policy and therapy. The authors ...

Combining Pharmacological and Nonpharmacological Interventions in Network Meta-analysis in Psychiatry

Cipriani, Andrea (2019-04)

Network meta-analyses (NMAs) assess the comparative associations of 2 or more interventions even if they have not been compared in a randomized clinical trial.1 The validity of NMAs is founded on the assumption of transitivity ...

Co‐producing research with youth: The NeurOx young people’s advisory group model

External authors only (2019-03)

Context: The 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child states that children have the right to be heard in all matters affecting them. The Convention inspired a surge in research that investigates young people's ...

Barriers and incentives to recruitment in mental health clinical trials

Cipriani, Andrea (2019-05)

Research provides valuable information that improves patients’ outcomes and should inform clinical decision-making.1 There are many research methodologies2 and randomised controlled trials (RCTs) are at the top of the ...

Mixed effects approach to the analysis of the stepped wedge cluster randomised trial—Investigating the confounding effect of time through simulation

Geddes, John R (2018-12)

A stepped wedge cluster randomised trial (SWCRT) is a multicentred study which allows an intervention to be rolled out at sites in a random order. Once the intervention is initiated at a site, all participants within that ...