Tuesday, December 31, 2019
The Pisces Study has now closed for recruitment (as of 31 December 2019). The study recruited young adults (age 18 to 45 years) who were experiencing ongoing back pain. Participants gave the study team permission to collect relevant follow up information from their health records, and filled in a short questionnaire about their back pain symptoms. Sixteen patients from the Practice have been involved in the research - thank you to all who took part.
Tuesday, December 17, 2019
The Early Arthritis Study has now closed for recruitment. We recruited 84 patients in total – thank you to everyone who has taken part. Any participants who joined the study during 2019 will be followed up by post and should receive a brief study questionnaire about 12 months after they had their study blood test.
Tuesday, October 1, 2019
Research Online Magazine - Frontier South West
The National Institute for Health Research bi-annual publication FRONTIER magazine for the South West is now available for you to read, with information and stories from across the region.
Participating in research takes many forms and this issue has stories showing how patients, members of the public and organisations can get involved in high quality research that changes lives.
In this issue:
- Taking part in a clinical trial was the “luckiest day of my life”
- Cornish man hopes to improve mental health treatments in the future by taking part in clinical research
- Regular crosswords and number puzzles linked to sharper brain in later life
- Somerset family take part in research looking to prevent lives lost to Type 1 diabetes
- Strides in local mental health research recognised nationally
- Taking part in health research comes highly recommended by patients in South West, survey shows
- Become a Patient Research Ambassador
Tuesday, July 9, 2019
New research study - 16 July 2019
GLAD (Genetic Links to Anxiety and Depression)
We are pleased to support a new research study called 'GLAD'. This study is exploring risk factors and genetic links in anxiety and depression. It aims to better understand depression and anxiety and help find and develop more effective treatments.
We are pleased to support a new research study called 'GLAD'. This study is exploring risk factors and genetic links in anxiety and depression. It aims to better understand depression and anxiety and help find and develop more effective treatments.
The study is open to individuals who:
· Are aged 16+
· Live in the UK
· Are currently experiencing OR have experienced (at any time in their lives) clinical levels of depression and/or anxiety, including bipolar disorder, OCD or related disorders
If you would like to find out more about this research, please visit the study website at:
On the study website, you can read further information about the research and you can register to join the study. In taking part in the research, you would be
asked to:
- provide online consent;
- complete an online questionnaire (which takes approx 30 minutes); and
- send a saliva sample through the post - the
study team will provide all the necessary sampling equipment and a freepost
envelope.
Tuesday, February 5, 2019
New Research Study - 5 February 2019
ICCD Study - Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes
The Practice is supporting a new diabetes project
called the ‘Improving Clinical Care in Diabetes (ICCD) Study’. The project would like to explore why diabetes,
and its associated complications, progress quickly in some patients and much
slower in others. Patients who agree to
take part would be followed up by a study team based at the Royal Devon &
Exeter Hospital for up to 10 years.
Patients are potentially eligible to take part if they:
- Are age 16 years or above
- Have a diagnosis of Type 1
or Type 2 Diabetes
- Are able to given written informed consent to take part and complete study questionnaires
Taking part involves:
- Signing a consent form
(your formal agreement to take part in the research)
- Sharing information about
yourself and your diabetes with the study researchers – by completing some
questionnaires and allowing researchers to collect information from your
health records
- Allowing a blood/urine sample
leftover from your routine clinical care to be used for the research to
include extracting DNA from the sample
Participation in the ICCD Study is entirely voluntary and
would not affect the care you receive from your GP or Nurses. You would be free to withdraw your consent to
take part in the study at any time, without having to give a reason.
If you would like to
find out more about this research, please contact our Research Nurse, Chris Wright
who will be pleased to discuss the study with you or post you a study
information pack (Telephone: 01404 814447).
Chris can also provide support with completing the study paperwork, if
this is needed.
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