Projects
The following sections have projects
- Centre for the Economics of Mental Health (CEMH)
- Community Mental Health
- Eating Disorders
- Epidemiology
- General Psychiatry
- Mental Health and Ageing
- Mental Health Nursing
- Neuropsychology and neuroimaging studies of ADHD and related childhood disorders
- Old Age Psychiatry
- Primary Care Mental Health
- Recovery
- Self Harm
- Service User Research Enterprise (SURE)
- Social Psychiatry
- Society, Culture & Mental Health
- WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Mental Health and Section of Mental Health Policy
- Women's Mental Health
Centre for the Economics of Mental Health (CEMH)
- “Personalised Care in Mental Health Research Group” - What Research Is Needed?
- A randomised control trial of Cognitive Remediation Therapy for patients with schizophrenia
- A randomised controlled trial of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and Motivational Interviewing for people with Type 1 diabetes mellitus with persistent sub-optimal glycaemic control
- A randomised controlled trial of joint crisis plans to reduce compulsory treatment of people with psychosis (CRIMSON)
- A randomised trial to compare the effect of graded exercise and counselling with usual care plus a booklet for patients with fatigue in primary care
- Capital Volunteering
- CBT for young people with obsessive-compulsive disorder
- CHOICES: A pilot patient preference randomised controlled trial of admission to a Women’s Crisis House compared with psychiatric hospital admissions
- Clinical effectiveness and cost of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation versus ECT in severe depression: a multi-centre randomised controlled trial and economic analysis
- Cognitive therapy for Health Anxiety in Medial Patients (CHAMP)
- CONNECT
- Economic consequences of early intervention for autism
- European Autism Information System (EAIS)
- Evaluation of the use of electronic monitoring as a condition of bail
- Genome-based therapeutic drugs for depression (GENDEP)
- Health economics collaboration in Finland
- HTA Study of Antidepressants for Depression in Dementia (HTA-SADD Trial): A definitive multi-centre pragmatic randomised controlled trial of clinical and cost-effectiveness
- Inclusion for DSPD – Dangerous People with Severe Personality Disorder: evaluating assessment and treatment (IDEA)
- Inpatient alternatives to traditional inpatient care (TAS)
- Linking Abuse and Recovery through Advocacy (LARA)
- Neuroleptics in adults with challenging behaviour and intellectual disability (NACBID)
- Neuroprotection and natural history in Parkinson Plus syndromes (NNIPPS)
- Pacing, graded activity and cognitive behaviour therapy: a randomised evaluation (the MRC PACE trial)
- Randomised control trial of the use of an arthritis self-management programme in primary care
- Randomised controlled trial of a cholinesterase inhibitor in the management of agitation in dementia (CALM-AD)
- Randomised Injecting Opioid Treatment Trial (RIOTT): Evaluation of injectable methadone and heroin treatment in the UK
- Randomised trial of group therapy for adolescents who repeatedly harm themselves (ASSIST)
- Stigma And discrimination Programme to Promote Healthcare access & social Inclusion: Research Evaluation (SAPPHIRE Programme)
- Supported Work and Needs (SWAN) – An innovative employment programme for patients with severe mental illness
- The clinical and cost-effectiveness of rehabilitation for patients with chronic knee pain: a cluster randomised trial
- The COMO cluster randomised control trial of integrated mental health care for dual diagnosis comorbidity
- The economic impact of early intervention for people with psychosis
- The JOSHUA Study
- The pre-school autism communications trial (PACT)
- Treatment seeking and treatment outcomes in people suffering from post traumatic stress following war and migration in the Balkans (STOP study)
- Trial of outcomes for child and adolescent anorexia nervosa (TOuCAN)
- Understanding poverty and disadvantage among prisoners’ families: problems and possible solutions
- Unit Costs in Criminal Justice (UCCJ)
Community Mental Health
- A randomised controlled trial of joint crisis plans to reduce compulsory treatment of people with psychosis (CRIMSON)
- An investigation into the clinical effectiveness and costs of individual and group CBT offered to people with depression (GAIN)
- Anti-Stigma Training and Evaluation Collaboration (ASTEC)
- Capital Volunteering
- Cares of Life Project
- Conceal or Reveal (CORAL PROJECT)
- Evaluation of Prison Mental Health In-reach Services in England and Wales
- Evaluation of See me, the national Scottish campaign against the stigma and discrimination associated with mental ill health
- GAMIAN-Europe Pan European Stigma Study
- Institutional Treatment, Human Rights and Care Assessment (ITHACA)
- International Study of Discrimination and Stigma Outcomes in Mental Health (INDIGO)
- Management for released prisoners with severe and enduring mental illness
- Reducing Stigma and Discrimination against People with Mental Health Problems: Time to Change
- SHiFT’s annual tracker survey of experiences of stigma and discrimination
- Stigma And discrimination Programme to Promote Healthcare access & social Inclusion: Research Evaluation (SAPPHIRE Programme)
- Stigma Publications
- Supported Work and Needs (SWAN) – An innovative employment programme for patients with severe mental illness
- The COMO cluster randomised control trial of integrated mental health care for dual diagnosis comorbidity
- The Pathway of Prisoners with Mental Health Problems through Prison Health Services and the Effect of the Prison Environment on the Mental Health of Prisoners
Eating Disorders
Epidemiology
- 10/66 THREE CONTINENTS: Evaluating intervention for dementia
- 10/66: Dementia care in Mexico, Peru and Argentina
- 10/66: The epidemiology of dementia in admixed populations in Cuba and Brazil
- Alcohol use disorder and job strain among bank workers in Salvador, Brazil
- Cardiovascular risk, nutrition and dementia incidence in admixed populations undergoing rapid health transition – Latin America and China
- Changing family relationships and perinatal depression in Turkey
- Common mental disorders among women victims of trafficking returning to Moldova
- Compositional and contextual explanations for cross-cultural differences in reported disability among older people in low income countries
- Depression, disability and socio-economic position among older adults ‘left behind’ by out-migration: a multilevel study in Kanchanaburi Province, Thailand
- Fatality rate, Fatal and Non-Fatal Repetition of Deliberate Self-Harm – A community cohort study in Taiwan
- Investigation of the relationship between n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids and the cognitive decline in patients with late-life depression
- Migration, experience of abuse and mental health in the young Thai population
- MINDFUL – European Survey of Mental Health Indicators
- Outcome of poor mental health in trafficked women in Europe
- Perinatal maternal mental health in Ethiopia
- Psychological Status of Adolescent Migrants from Three Gorges to Zhejiang Province, China
- Randomised controlled trial of a community-based intervention to prevent postnatal depression in Goa, India
- Risk factors for suicide in Karachi, Pakistan
- Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)
- The clinical course and impact of major depression in an Ethiopian rural community
- The Medical Research Council Cognitive Function and Ageing Study (MRC CFAS)
- Towards a better understanding of the exceptionally low prevalence of DSMIV dementia in a community-based population of south India
General Psychiatry
- IMPaCT (Improving physical health and reducing substance use in severe mental illness)
- PsyGrid
- School performance and psychosis
- Social factors in the development of psychosis
- Suicide and psychosis
Mental Health and Ageing
- Capital Volunteering
- DEMQOL Responsiveness Study
- HTA Study of Antidepressants for Depression in Dementia (HTA-SADD Trial): A definitive multi-centre pragmatic randomised controlled trial of clinical and cost-effectiveness
- The experiences and needs of people with dementia and serious visual impairment: a qualitative study
Mental Health Nursing
- Absconding
- Attacks(scale)
- City Nurses
- City-128
- Conflict and Containment (CONSEQ)
- Containment (scale)
- Interaction
- Literature Reviews
- Locked Doors
- NOIIS (scale)
- Personality Disorder
- Smoking Cessation
- TAWS
Neuropsychology and neuroimaging studies of ADHD and related childhood disorders
- An investigation into polyunsaturated fatty acids and assessments of brain function in children/adolescents with and without ADHD
- Comparison between children with ADHD, with OCD and with autism spectrum disorder in brain structure and function
- Comparison of the effects of Atomoxetine and Methylphenidate on functional brain activation in medication-naive children with ADHD
- Norm data on the MARS neuropsychological task battery
- Pharmacological fMRI on the effects of Fluoxetine on brain function in children with ADHD and High Functioning Autism
Old Age Psychiatry
- APOE and cytokines as biological markers of recovery from delirium in elderly medical inpatients
- Brains for Dementia Research
- Clinical effectiveness and cost of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation versus ECT in severe depression: a multi-centre randomised controlled trial and economic analysis
- Donepezil and Memantine in Moderate to Severe Alzheimer’s Disease
- Plasma based biomarkers for Alzheimer's Disease
- Randomised controlled trial of a cholinesterase inhibitor in the management of agitation in dementia (CALM-AD)
Primary Care Mental Health
- Analyses of data on psychopathic traits derived from the ONS surveys into children and adolescence (a collaborative exercise with Department of Child Psychiatry)
- Analyses of Swedish birth cohort data, the aims of which are to explore the aetiology of personality disorder
- Developing young people’s involvement in primary care mental health: towards consumer produced quality standards
- The JOSHUA Study
- The QUEST project
- UPBEAT
Recovery
- [CARDS] Clinical Assessment of Risk Decision Support
- [TAG] Threshold Assessment Grid
- An investigation into the clinical effectiveness and costs of individual and group CBT offered to people with depression (GAIN)
- Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of Needs-Oriented Discharge Planning And Monitoring for high utilisers of psychiatric services (NODPAM)
- Evaluating a model of staff training in recovery
- Evaluation of the Threshold Assessment Grid (TAG) as a means of improving access from primary care to mental health services
- Inpatient alternatives to traditional inpatient care (TAS)
Self Harm
Service User Research Enterprise (SURE)
- A randomised controlled trial of joint crisis plans to reduce compulsory treatment of people with psychosis (CRIMSON)
- Experiences of Continuity and Health and social Outcomes in mental health (ECHO)
- Genome-based therapeutic drugs for depression: ethical, legal and social implications (GENDEP ELSI)
- Inpatient alternatives to traditional inpatient care (TAS)
- Institutional Treatment, Human Rights and Care Assessment (ITHACA)
- International Study of Discrimination and Stigma Outcomes in Mental Health (INDIGO)
- Linking Abuse and Recovery through Advocacy (LARA)
- Outcomes of involuntary admissions in England (InvolvE)
- Patient involvement in improving the evidence base on inpatient mental health care (PERCEIVE)
- Perceptions of user involvement
- Pilot study to investigate service users' and carers' views regarding genetic research in schizophrenia
- Reducing Stigma and Discrimination against People with Mental Health Problems: Time to Change
- Service Users’ Satisfaction with Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Comorbid Schizophrenia and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
- SHiFT’s annual tracker survey of experiences of stigma and discrimination
Social Psychiatry
- “Personalised Care in Mental Health Research Group” - What Research Is Needed?
- Adult placement/fostering in UK mental health care
- Cares of Life Project
- Enhancing Delivery and Outcomes of Vocational Rehabilitation: improving employment for young people with a first episode of psychosis.
- Roles of cortisol and polymorphisms in the serotonin transporter gene in predicting major depression in high risk women
- South London and Maudsley Trust Service Improvement Project. Modernising Teams’ Service Delivery: Implementing the NICE Schizophrenia Guideline
- The Connecting People: An exploratory study of how health and social care workers help people to develop and maintain relationships
Society, Culture & Mental Health
- A comparison of the process and outcome of two types of community forensic mental health services
- Bethlem’s Irish: Migration and Distress in Nineteenth Century London
- Randomised controlled trial of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy in active suicidal ideations – a feasibility study in Sri Lanka
- The aspirations, experiences and well-being of unaccompanied asylum seeking children
WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Mental Health and Section of Mental Health Policy
- Inequity in mental health in urban Tanzania
- Kenya: five year programme to integrate mental health into primary care provision
- Mental health reform in Russia – an integrated approach to achieve social inclusion and recovery
- The Mental Health Country Profile and Policy Template follow up study 2006
Women's Mental Health
- CHOICES: A pilot patient preference randomised controlled trial of admission to a Women’s Crisis House compared with psychiatric hospital admissions
- Effectiveness of Services for Mothers with Mental Illness
- Linking Abuse and Recovery through Advocacy (LARA)
- Migration and Mental Health in Women
- PROVIDE
- Smoking, Mental Disorders and Pregnancy: Barriers to, and facilitators of, smoking cessation in pregnancy women with mental disorders (SCIP)
- Stigma And discrimination Programme to Promote Healthcare access & social Inclusion: Research Evaluation (SAPPHIRE Programme)
- Women with Bipolar Disorder and Pregnancy: Factors influencing their decision-making regarding treatment


