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Research collaboration with care home residents: a systematic review of public involvement approaches Open

Megan Davies, Lisa Irvine, Tamara Backhouse, Peter Carr, Elspeth Mathie , et al. · 2025

Public Involvement to Enhance Care Home Research; Collaboration on a Minimum Data Set for Care Homes Open

Anne Killett, Kerry Micklewright, Rachael Carroll, Gizdem Akdur, Emily Allinson , et al. · 2025

Introduction Information on care home residents in England is captured in numerous data sets (care home records, General Practitioner records, community nursing, etc.) but little of this information is currently analysed in a way that is u…

Professional Development and Workforce Issues of Activity Providers in UK Care Homes: A Scoping Review Open

Gizdem Akdur, Elspeth Mathie, Megan Davies, Michelle Drury-Mulholland, Anqa Tirmazee-Kaleem , et al. · 2025

Background and Aims: This scoping review explored the role of activity providers (APs), also known as activity coordinators, in care homes for older people, and focuses on workforce issues, resources and professional development of APs in …

Quality of life, pain and use of analgesic, anxiolytic and antidepressant medication, in people living in care homes Open

Jemima Collins, Lisa Irvine, Pip Logan, Katie Robinson, Erika Sims , et al. · 2024

Background People living in care homes often have problems with pain, anxiety and depression. Whether being on analgesia, anxiolytics or antidepressants has any bearing on pain severity and quality of life (QoL) in this population, require…

National stakeholder consultation on how to measure care home residents’ quality of life Open

Gizdem Akdur, Lisa Irvine, Stacey Rand, Ann‐Marie Towers, Lucy Webster , et al. · 2024

Background The Developing research resources And minimum data set for Care Homes’ Adoption and use or DACHA study aims to create a prototype minimum data set combining residents’ information recorded by care homes with their data held in h…

Public involvement to enhance care home research; collaboration on a minimum data set for care homes Open

Anne Killett, Kerry Micklewright, Rachael Carroll, Gizdem Akdur, Emily Allinson , et al. · 2024

Introduction Information on care home residents is captured in lots of datasets (care home records, GP records, community nursing etc) but little of this information is currently analysed in a way that is useful for care providers, current…

Data Resource Profile: the Virtual International Care Homes Trials Archive (VICHTA) Open

Lisa Irvine, Jennifer Kirsty Burton, Myzoon Ali, Jo Booth, James Desborough , et al. · 2024

IntroductionRandomised controlled trials (RCTs) conducted in care home settings address a range of health conditions impacting older people, but often include a common core of data about residents and the care home environment. These data …

Activity provider-facilitated patient and public involvement with care home residents Open

Kerry Micklewright, Anne Killett, Gizdem Akdur, Priti Biswas, Pamela Blades , et al. · 2024

Data Collection in Care Homes for Older Adults: A National Survey in England Open

Barbara Hanratty, Arne Wolters, Ann‐Marie Towers, Karen Spilsbury, Julienne Meyer , et al. · 2023

Context: In many countries, there is a specification for information that should be collected by care homes. So-called ‘minimum data-sets’ (MDS) are often lengthy, and report on resident health and wellbeing, staff, and facilities. In the …

Outcome measures from international older adult care home intervention research: a scoping review Open

Sarah Kelly, Andy Cowan, Gizdem Akdur, Lisa Irvine, Guy Peryer , et al. · 2023

Background Care homes are increasingly important settings for intervention research to enhance evidence-informed care. For such research to demonstrate effectiveness, it is essential that measures are appropriate for the population, settin…

Piloting of a minimum data set for older people living in care homes in England: protocol for a longitudinal, mixed-methods study Open

Ann‐Marie Towers, Adam Gordon, Arne Wolters, Stephen Allan, Stacey Rand , et al. · 2023

Introduction Health and care data are routinely collected about care home residents in England, yet there is no way to collate these data to inform benchmarking and improvement. The Developing research resources And minimum data set for Ca…

Should we take Mum to market? Quality and funding in the care home sector Open

Stephen Allan, Lisa Irvine, Wilco P. Achterberg · 2022

Private equity investment occurs in social care. There is increasing evidence that this has negative effects on quality. Equal access to care and maintaining quality levels is vital. We recommend increasing information available to consume…

Contextual factors influencing complex intervention research processes in care homes: a systematic review and framework synthesis Open

Guy Peryer, Sarah Kelly, Jessica Blake, Jennifer Kirsty Burton, Lisa Irvine , et al. · 2022

© The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Geriatrics Society. All rights reserved. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial Lice…

Contextual factors influencing complex intervention research processes in care homes: a systematic review and framework synthesis Open

Guy Peryer, Sarah Kelly, Jessica Blake, Jennifer Kirsty Burton, Lisa Irvine , et al. · 2022

Background Care homes are complex settings to undertake intervention research. Barriers to research implementation processes can threaten studies’ validity, reducing the value to residents, staff, researchers and funders. We aimed to (i) i…

The uptake and use of a minimum data set (MDS) for older people living and dying in care homes: a realist review Open

Massirfufulay Kpehe Musa, Gizdem Akdur, Sarah Brand, Anne Killett, Karen Spilsbury , et al. · 2022

A multidomain decision support tool to prevent falls in older people: the FinCH cluster RCT Open

Pip Logan, Jane Horne, Francis A. Allen, Sarah Armstrong, Allan Clark , et al. · 2022

Background Falls in care home residents are common, unpleasant, costly and difficult to prevent. Objectives The objectives were to evaluate the clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the Guide to Action for falls prevention in Ca…

Multifactorial falls prevention programme compared with usual care in UK care homes for older people: multicentre cluster randomised controlled trial with economic evaluation Open

Pip Logan, Jane Horne, John Gladman, Adam Gordon, Tracey Sach , et al. · 2021

Objectives To determine the clinical and cost effectiveness of a multifactorial fall prevention programme compared with usual care in long term care homes. Design Multicentre, parallel, cluster randomised controlled trial. Setting Long ter…

Effects of the Norfolk diabetes prevention lifestyle intervention (NDPS) on glycaemic control in screen-detected type 2 diabetes: a randomised controlled trial Open

Michael Sampson, Allan Clark, Max Bachmann, Nikki Garner, Lisa Irvine , et al. · 2021

Evaluation of the guide to action care home fall prevention programme in care homes for older people: A multi-centre, single blinded, cluster randomised controlled trial (FINCH) Open

Pip Logan, Jane Horne, Francis A. Allen, Sarah Armstrong, Allan Clark , et al. · 2021

BackgroundFalls in care home residents are common, unpleasant, costly and difficult to prevent. Trial DesignThe objective was to evaluate the clinical and cost effectiveness of the Guide to Action for Falls Prevention Care Homes, GtACH) in…

Protocol for the development of a repository of individual participant data from randomised controlled trials conducted in adult care homes (the Virtual International Care Homes Trials Archive (VICHTA)) Open

Lisa Irvine, Jennifer Kirsty Burton, Myzoon Ali, Terence J. Quinn, Claire Goodman · 2021

Multifactorial Falls Prevention Programme Compared to Routine Care in Long Term Older Care Residents (FinCH): A Multi-Centre Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial with Economic Evaluation Open

Pip Logan, Jane Horne, John Gladman, Adam Gordon, Kate Robertson , et al. · 2021

Lifestyle Intervention With or Without Lay Volunteers to Prevent Type 2 Diabetes in People With Impaired Fasting Glucose and/or Nondiabetic Hyperglycemia Open

Michael Sampson, Allan Clark, Max Bachmann, Nikki Garner, Lisa Irvine , et al. · 2020

ISRCTN Registry Identifier: ISRCTN34805606.

Uptake and use of a minimum data set (MDS) for older people living and dying in care homes in England: a realist review protocol Open

Massirfufulay Kpehe Musa, Gizdem Akdur, Barbara Hanratty, Sarah Kelly, Adam Gordon , et al. · 2020

Introduction Care homes provide nursing and social care for older people who can no longer live independently at home. In the UK, there is no consistent approach to how information about residents’ medical history, care needs and preferenc…

Protocol for the Development of a Repository of Individual Participant Data From Randomised Controlled Trials Conducted in UK Adult Care Homes (The Virtual International Care Homes Trials Archive (VICHTA)) Open

Lisa Irvine, Jennifer Kirsty Burton, Myzoon Ali, Terence J. Quinn, Claire Goodman · 2020

Background Approximately 418,000 people live in care homes in the UK, yet accessible, robust data on care home populations and organisation are lacking. This hampers our ability to plan, allocate resources or prevent risk. Large randomised…

‘We’re passengers sailing in the same ship, but we have our own berths to sleep in’: Evaluating patient and public involvement within a regional research programme: An action research project informed by Normalisation Process Theory Open

Julia Keenan, Fiona Poland, Jonathan Boote, Amanda Howe, Helena Wythe , et al. · 2019

Combining NPT with AR allows us to assess the embeddedness of PPI within projects and programme, to inform specific local action and report broader conceptual lessons for PPI knowledge and practice informing the development of an action fr…

Young onset dementia: Public involvement in co-designing community-based support Open

Andrea Mayrhofer, Elspeth Mathie, Jane McKeown, Claire Goodman, Lisa Irvine , et al. · 2018

Whilst the support requirements of people diagnosed with young onset dementia are well-documented, less is known about what needs to be in place to provide age-appropriate care. To understand priorities for service planning and commissioni…

Randomised controlled trial of a theory-based behavioural intervention to reduce formula milk intake Open

Rajalakshmi Lakshman, Stephen J. Sharp, Fiona Whittle, Annie Schiff, Wendy Hardeman , et al. · 2018

OBJECTIVE: To assess the efficacy of a theory-based behavioural intervention to prevent rapid weight gain in formula milk-fed infants. DESIGN: In this single (assessor) blind, randomised controlled trial, 669 healthy full-term infants rece…

Nurse-Facilitated Health Checks for Persons With Severe Mental Illness: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial Open

John White, Joanne Lucas, Louise Swift, Garry Barton, Harriet Johnson , et al. · 2018

Nurses who had volunteered for a clinical trial administered health checks only to a minority of participating patients, suggesting that it may not be feasible to undertake such lengthy structured health checks in routine practice.

A theory-based behavioural intervention to reduce formula-milk intake and prevent excessive weight gain during infancy (The Baby Milk Trial): a randomised controlled trial Open

Rajalakshmi Lakshman, Stephen J. Sharp, Fiona Whittle, Annie Schiff, Wendy Hardeman , et al. · 2017

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