Exploring Illness and Recovery Experiences

This section includes research projects that prioritise the perspectives of those with lived experiences of physical or mental health problems, services or treatment.

Projects

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Digital personalised cancer care planning

Coproducing personalised care in a digital age: using the Adversity, Restoration and Compatibility (ARC) framework to inform the co-design of a digital care planning tool for people with colorectal cancer

Understanding the attitudes to research and research priorities of clinical staff working with people with severe mental illness

Exploring the use, acceptability and contextual factors that impact the use of digital interventions by people with mental health conditions to support their physical health: A mixed methods study protocol

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Health Champions

MUMS ALONE: The Perinatal Loneliness Study

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The effects of the asylum process on mental health

This project aims to understand the mental health effects of the UK asylum process on Afghan and Iranians.

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Constructing a grounded theory of critical illness survivorship: The dualistic worlds of survivors and family members

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Liminality in the occupational identity of mental health peer support workers: A qualitative study

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"Somebody else’s business": The challenge of caring for patients with mental health problems on medical and surgical wards

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Activities on acute inpatient mental health wards: A qualitative narrative synthesis

Mixed methods evaluation of Body Worn Cameras (BWCs) on acute inpatient mental health units

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Stakeholder views on using Body Worn Cameras in Acute Mental Health Wards: A scoping study

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Recovery-focused care planning and coordination in community (COCAPP) and inpatient (COCAPPA) mental health settings

Refocus on Recovery

Developing and testing a recovery intervention in NHS Adult Community Mental Health Teams

Living With and Beyond Cancer Study

Making sense of living with and beyond cancer

Avoidable harm in mental health social care

WHELD

Improving Wellbeing and Health for People with Dementia

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Management of pain in people with dementia living in care homes

SHAPED

Towards an evidence-based clinical management of visual hallucinations: prevalence, prognosis, impact and pathophysiology

FACTOID

A feasibility study of acceptance and commitment therapy for older people with treatment-resistant generalised anxiety disorder

COMMEND

A feasibility study and Randomised Controlled Trial of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for people with Motor Neuron Disease

ADEPT

Optimising psychological treatment for Anxiety Disorders in Pregnancy: a feasibility study for a Trial of time-intensive CBT versus weekly CBT

PATHFINDER

Problem Adaptation Therapy for Individuals with Mild to Moderate Dementia and Depression

DAISIES

A multi-centre RCT comparing effectiveness of inpatient treatment versus stepped care day patient treatment for people with severe Anorexia Nervosa

Online peer support for preventing comorbid depression in people with long-term conditions

RECOLLECT 2

Recovery colleges characterisation and testing

QUAHRC

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