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
'Examining Clinicians' use of language in Assessing Suicide Risk'
Clinicians might use more 'distancing' language such as a higher frequency of reported speech or third person pronoun use when a patient is deemed to be more at risk of suicide
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Factors predicting diabetes and its outcomes in people newly presenting with severe mental illness.
The aim of the investigation is to investigate the emergence of diabetes in people over the years after first presentation with severe mental illnesses (e.g. schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder and bipolar disorder)
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Does comorbidity of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder affect Cognitive Behavioural Therapy outcomes for patients with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?
This project will investigate the effect of co-occurring Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder on treatment outcomes for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) over a course of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. This could potentially have both
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Evaluating changes in creatine phosphokinase (CPK) following clozapine initiation
CPK, a marker of muscle breakdown, may increase following clozapine initiation but the magnitude and significance of these changes are not fully understood. This project aims to examine the patterns of
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Does the ethnicity or gender of a patient influence prescribing of the antipsychotic clozapine to people with treatment resistant schizophrenia
This project aims to understand if there are ethnic differences in prescribing clozapine and how these might be explained, using data from people who received treatment in SLaM. The literature
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The association between ethnicity and pathways to care on dementia mortality and other outcomes
The aim of the project is to explore whether there is an association between clinical outcomes (such as mortality), pathways to care, and ethnicity in the South London dementia population. The
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Depression and risk factors for stroke recurrence
Depression commonly occurs after a stroke but we don't fully understand its role as a risk factor for recurrence of stroke. We will investigate this in people with depression who have
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DO PRS (POLYGENIC RISK SCORES) FOR SQUIZOPHRENIA, BIPOLAR DISORDER AND MAJOR DEPRESSION DISTINGUISH AFFECTIVE-PSYCHOSIS DIAGNOSTIC CATEGORIES?
A newly developed method called polygenic risk score (PRS) allow us summarise individual risks for an illness across associated genetic variants into a quantitative score. The objective of the project is
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ONS census-CRIS data linkage: social and economic predictors for onset and outcomes of the mental disorders, SEP-MD study
This project will link data from UK decennial census to SLaM CRIS, permitting an assessment of individual-level social indicators (such as occupation, household poverty, migration status) associated with onset and outcomes
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The impact of early dementia diagnosis on care outcomes
It is thought that diagnosing dementia as early as possible can lead to better outcomes for those living with the disease. This project aims to understand whether people who are diagnosed
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