Case studies

The Mental Imagery for Suicidality in Students Trial (MISST): A feasibility study

Dr Peter Taylor, from the University of Manchester, along with Dr Jasper Palmier-Claus from Lancaster University approached the RDS NW for advice on their research funding application titled, “The Mental Imagery for Suicidality in Students Trial (MISST): A feasibility study” Suicide is the main cause of death in young people. Many students experience suicidal thoughts. These thoughts can be distressing. They can lead to suicide attempts and worse mental health. University and NHS services typically manage this risk. However, there are few treatments for targeting suicidal thinking in students. The project aims to evaluate a new talking therapy called the…

Improving quality of life through the routine use of the Patient Concerns Inventory for head and neck cancer patients (PCI-QOL)

The NIHR Research Design Service North West (RDS NW) provides advice on all aspects of developing a research funding application in applied health or social care. Prof Simon Rogers was successful in securing funding from the NIHR Research for Patient Benefit (RfPB) Programme for the PCI-QOL project, a collaboration between the Faculty of Health and Social Care at Edgehill University, where Simon is a Professor, and Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, where he is a consultant Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon. During the development of the funding application, Simon sought advice from the RDS NW, which Simon commented as being,…

A psychological intervention for suicide applied to patents with psychosis: the CARMS trial (Cognitive AppRoaches to coMbatting Suicidality)

The CARMS project is funded by the Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation (EME) Programme, an MRC and NIHR partnership, 13/161/25. *The EME Programme is funded by the MRC and NIHR, with contributions from the CSO in Scotland and NISCHR in Wales and the HSC R&D Division, Public Health Agency in Northern Ireland. The Research Design Service (RDS) provides free research design and methodological advice to people intending to apply for national peer reviewed funding competitions in applied health and social care research. Many of these funding programmes have a two stage application process, whereby the applicant completes an outline of their…

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