Improving the operational skills of the health personel working in the emergency dept Dec 1, 2013 - Dec 31, 2015
Research in the Countries, involved in the project, on the level of implementation of EU policies related to patients' safety, with a particular focus on emergency departments, actuality and future perspectives (existing laws, rules, guidelines, best... Read More about Improving the operational skills of the health personel working in the emergency dept.

Nursing education: what can perspectives from the social sciences contribute Jan 1, 2015 - Apr 30, 2016
Nursing students care for people from very different backgrounds to their own both in placements during undergraduate training and throughout their careers. Caring for patients requires empathy: seeing the world from others? perspectives. The social... Read More about Nursing education: what can perspectives from the social sciences contribute.

Analysis Database - Lundbeck Apr 1, 2015 - Jan 31, 2016
Research study entitled ' Evolution of drinking patterns 2-3 years in ill, heavy drinkers, with or without treatment'.

Beverage purchasing & Pricing - ARUK Jan 1, 2015 - Mar 31, 2016
To record beverage choice, place of purchase and price paid by ill drinkers seen at alcohol problems services in Edinburgh and Glasgow Hospital (general and psychiatric) over a three year period in order to monitor any impact on this group of the int... Read More about Beverage purchasing & Pricing - ARUK.

Rethinking Health: Community Public Health Demonstration Project Apr 1, 2015 - Mar 31, 2021

Administration Data Research Centre Scotland Jan 1, 2015 - Oct 31, 2018
The Administrative Data Research Centre (ADRC) - Scotland aims to make research and make available de-identified administrative data to the research community.
The ADRC will have a core service that will:
•provide state-of-the-art facilities for re... Read More about Administration Data Research Centre Scotland.

Career trajectories of Nurses in Scotland 2001-2011 Sep 1, 2015 - Mar 31, 2016
Background
Evidence-informed recruitment and retention strategies are required to ensure the nursing workforce has sufficient capacity and capability to deliver care to Scotland?s population. Current demographic and disease trends mean that people i... Read More about Career trajectories of Nurses in Scotland 2001-2011.

Behavioural Couples Therapy Jan 15, 2016 - Mar 31, 2018
Behavioural Couples Therapy (BCT) is a psychosocial intervention for the treatment of alcohol and drug problems; recommended by NICE for discordant couples where one person has an addiction and the other does not. Evidence suggests: BCT can be effect... Read More about Behavioural Couples Therapy.

Nursing student classes evaluation Oct 1, 2015 - Feb 28, 2016
To deliver ABI training to the following Nursing cohorts: Mental Health; Midwifery: Adult: Learning Disabilities: Child (Students will be 2nd/3rd year students prior to practice placements).

? Training will be facilitated by Napier working in par... Read More about Nursing student classes evaluation.

Low uptake of physical activity programmes by men; why don’t they go? Sep 1, 2016 - Jul 31, 2022
This nurse-led project will be an interdisciplinary collaboration between leading researchers working in Edinburgh Napier University, in the University of Sydney, and Flinders University, Adelaide Australia, nurses in NHS Fife and allied health profe... Read More about Low uptake of physical activity programmes by men; why don’t they go?.

Improving outcomes for children and families affected by paternal substance misuse: a feasibility study of the Parents Under Pressure programme for fathers Apr 1, 2017 - Mar 31, 2019
The impact of parental drug misuse on children and families is a major public health problem [4]. Parental drug misuse is closely associated with poor parenting, poor child development and increased rates of child maltreatment, particularly neglect [... Read More about Improving outcomes for children and families affected by paternal substance misuse: a feasibility study of the Parents Under Pressure programme for fathers.

Improving early detection of melanoma by increasing young people�s awareness of symptoms, skin self-examination and communication: A quasi-experimental trial with embedded process evaluation Jun 1, 2016 - May 31, 2017
Aims
To adapt our existing brief school-based psycho-educational cancer awareness intervention to focus exclusively on increasing early detection of melanoma among young people (14-15 years) and test intervention effectiveness against a no intervent... Read More about Improving early detection of melanoma by increasing young people�s awareness of symptoms, skin self-examination and communication: A quasi-experimental trial with embedded process evaluation.

Young males' constructions of the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccine Apr 1, 2014 - Jul 31, 2015
The proposed research aims to provide greater understanding about how international vaccine policies are experienced by men in the US, UK and Spain. The research fits with recently completed published research which explored young women's constructio... Read More about Young males' constructions of the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccine.

Analysis of mortality data from dependent drinking cohort Mar 1, 2015 - Jul 30, 2015
To investigate predictors of death, and predictors of mode of death, related to drinking. Examining patterns of drinking, preferred beverage, other drug use, smoking, associated social problems and place in the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation.

CSO - Effects of Scottish Gov. changes in Alcohol policy�.. Feb 1, 2015 - Jan 19, 2016
To record beverage choice, place of purchase and price paid by ill drinkers attending the alcohol problems services in Edinburgh and Glasgow over a 3 year period in order to monitor any impact of the introduction of a minimum unit price for the sale... Read More about CSO - Effects of Scottish Gov. changes in Alcohol policy�...

Interventions to reduce risky sexual behaviour Aug 1, 2014 - Oct 31, 2015

Talking Technology Enabled Care - A personalised, visual digital platform to transform service delivery between health, social care and housing services Feb 1, 2018 - Jan 31, 2019
Technology has been heralded as a potential enabler of communication between individuals and those in their informal or
professional care network. Enabling people to effectively talk about their needs and concerns is the first step in providing care... Read More about Talking Technology Enabled Care - A personalised, visual digital platform to transform service delivery between health, social care and housing services.

Promoting smoking cessation during pregnacy: combined feasibility and pilot of a randomised controlled trial of a narrative and image-based intervention delivered via text-messaging. Feb 1, 2017 - Jul 31, 2019
We have developed an intervention that aims to help pregnant women to stop smoking by sending text messages with embedded behaviour change techniques (BCTs), as part of an engaging story with pictures, from early in their pregnancy until after they g... Read More about Promoting smoking cessation during pregnacy: combined feasibility and pilot of a randomised controlled trial of a narrative and image-based intervention delivered via text-messaging..

Supporting Recovery Through Integration: What Works? What Doesn’t? Oct 1, 2017 - Dec 31, 2017
Integration of health and social care services is happening across the United Kingdom. Integrating services is important as it puts more focus on supporting the lives – not just the health – of individuals and families. Vulnerable groups in society,... Read More about Supporting Recovery Through Integration: What Works? What Doesn’t?.

Individual and contextual deprivation: Association with cancer outcomes and implications for cancer policy Apr 1, 2019 - Sep 30, 2021
This project will use data from the Longitudinal Study for England and Wales to investigate inequalities in survival after a cancer diagnosis. It will compare and contrast estimates for survival obtained when using areal measures of deprivation to th... Read More about Individual and contextual deprivation: Association with cancer outcomes and implications for cancer policy.