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
MyHealthE: A patient-facing digital platform for informing and improving child and adolescent mental health service research and delivery
MyHealthE is a patient- and caregiver-facing online platform which was launched in SLaM Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) in 2021. This project will explore how MyHealthE can support research
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Self-harm in people with mild cognitive impairment or dementia
Self-harm is believed to occur in 5-10% of people with dementia and is poorly understood. This project aims to explore which people with dementia carry out self-harm and in which context.
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Investigating association between psychotropic drugs and seasonal respiratory infection in mental health outpatients
We recently found that antidepressants might reduce the risk of COVID-19 infection, possibly by stopping the virus entering the airways. In this study we want to explore whether psychiatric medications might
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Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services for Children and Young People with Social Work Involvement: Referral decisions and later outcomes
Although many children and young people with social work involvement experience mental health difficulties, very little is known about their access to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). This research
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Investigating the Incidence of Bladder problems in individual with FND (functional Neurological Disorder)
Current incidence of bladder problems in people with functional neurological disorders is unknown and likely to be under-appreciated from anecdotal evidence. This project will seek to provide further evidence on this.
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An investigation of the consequences of obsessive compulsive symptoms (OCS) and comorbid obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) on service use, medications, mortality and other adverse outcomes in individuals with serious mental illness
Obsessive compulsive symptoms (OCS) and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) are common in people with serious mental illness and have been linked to worse outcomes including, poorer quality of life, more suicide attempts,
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Laboratory markers of inflammation and physical health risk, course of disease and mortality in people with eating disorders
Physical health monitoring is key in people with eating disorders to keep them safe. However, clinical markers of inflammation and other blood markers of physical risk are often misinterpreted in emergency
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Outcomes of specialist assessments for treatment-resistant Psychosis: 2-year mirror-image study.
The National Psychosis Service (NPS) produces out-patient and outreach assessments aimed at providing specialist input into the management of complex and refractory psychosis. This study will seek to quantify the long-term
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‘Assessing the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of Recovery Colleges in England (Work package 4 of the RECOLLECT (Recovery Colleges Characterisation and Testing) Programme Grant for Applied Research)’
This project is part of the larger RECOLLECT programme (PGfAR; NIHR200605) which aims to develop the evidence base for Recovery Colleges in England and understand how they can provide the most
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Depicting ethnic variations in receival of trauma assessment among service users accessing SLaM services between February 2022 to July 2022: A CRIS study
Profound inequalities exist for racial and ethnic minority groups accessing and navigating mental health care services and a large proportion of these groups navigating services have experienced trauma. The purpose of
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