Search the CRIS Projects
Welcome to the CRIS project search area. As you will see below, there are a number of ways to find information about our CRIS projects. Simply add the criteria you are looking for into the relevant search field to see the relevant projects.
Please contact the CRIS Administrator for further details on existing projects or to apply to use CRIS for your own study. Email: cris.administrator@slam.nhs.uk
Exploring the impact of welfare benefit changes on referrals to secondary mental health in learning disability (MHLD) services.
The welfare benefit system has undergone significant change. There are concerns that these changes are adversely impacting individuals with intellectual disabilities and mental health illnesses. This project examines the referrals to
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Uses of the Dragon Cafe in SLaM Clinical Records
There are over 2,300 references to the Dragon Cafe, a user-led community space, in SLaM patient records, but we do not know how SLaM staff perceive the space. We will be
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Use of intramuscular clozapine in initiating and maintaining clozapine treatment in treatment-resistant schizophrenia
Clozapine is the gold standard treatment for treatment resistant schizophrenia but it is rarely enforced and therefore rarely used in non-compliant patients. We aim to investigate whether the use of intramuscular
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Using unsupervised Natural Language Processing methods for understanding and modeling vocabulary use in CRIS
Natural language processing (NLP) techniques have been successfully developed to extract clinical concepts such as symptoms (hallucinations), treatments (clozapine) and diagnoses (schizophrenia) from health record text such as data from CRIS,
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Is air pollution associated with adverse health outcomes in people with dementia
Studies have linked traffic derived air pollution exposures with increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, and cognitive impairment. This study will investigate the link between air pollution and adverse health
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Is air pollution associated with inpatient use in people with psychosis
The World Health Organization (WHO) recently estimated that ambient air pollution causes 482,000 premature deaths within the WHO European Region with an estimated economic cost of US$ 1.575 trillion including morbidity
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Longitudinal changes in cognitive impairment for patients with Schizophrenia
This project seeks to investigate how cognitive problems such as difficulties in thinking and memory change over time in patients with schizophrenia patients, by developing novel ways to detect mentions of
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Examining CAMHS referral rates by schools with respect to Place2Be counselling service provision and the factors associated with CAMHS referrals rates by schools
This research project aims to examine the effect of Place2Be counselling service on CAMHS referral rates by schools whilst taking into account school level factors associated with CAMHS referral rates of
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Assessment of service use associated with a diagnosis of Personality Disorder
The Mental Health Policy Research Unit is working on a project for NHS England and the Dept of Health and Social Care to identify and model cost-effective methods of providing community
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Using machine learning to predict the likelihood of depression relapse
Some people have recurring episodes of depression and others do not. This project will investigate if machine learning (computer algorithms to identify patterns in data) can be used to determine the
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