All Outputs (313)

Evaluation of living well, taking control: A community-based diabetes prevention and management programme (2016)
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Introduction Type 2 diabetes is a serious, expensive and growing public health challenge. In England, national guidance recommends intensive lifestyle interventions promoting weight loss for people at risk of diabetes and programmes of individualise... Read More about Evaluation of living well, taking control: A community-based diabetes prevention and management programme.

Growing Together: A mixed methods evaluation of a community gardening project delivered by a social housing association. Year 1 (2016)
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Growing Together is a community gardening project delivered by Alliance Homes on the Bournville estate, Weston-super-Mare. This is the first year report on a mixed methods evaluation of the project. The record includes a summary version of the re... Read More about Growing Together: A mixed methods evaluation of a community gardening project delivered by a social housing association. Year 1.

A SROI analysis of the Penwith Community Development Trust’s: Plant Eat and Teach (PEaT) project (2015)
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Using our Well-being Questionnaires and stakeholder interviews we have established the impact of the PEaT project on beneficiaries. Participating in the PEaT garden leads to improvements in beneficiary’ sense of well-being, reduction in social isolat... Read More about A SROI analysis of the Penwith Community Development Trust’s: Plant Eat and Teach (PEaT) project.

CLAPA Regional coordinators project: Evaluation interim report: End of year three (2015)
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Facts4Life primary school resource: Pilot evaluation report. Full technical report (2015)
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GP alcohol liaison nurse pilot project evaluation (2015)
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The GP Alcohol Liaison Nurse was first piloted by the South Gloucestershire Drug & Alcohol Action Team (DAAT) in May 2013. The report seeks to evaluate the interventions provided by the Nurse towards problematic/dependent alcohol service users in GP... Read More about GP alcohol liaison nurse pilot project evaluation.

Evaluation of the Police and Young People Together project (2015)
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Living well, taking control: Fidelity of implementation study (2015)
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Background Living Well, Taking Control (LWTC) is a community-based diabetes prevention and management programme. The core component involves a group-based education intervention that delivers a series of structured sessions to promote sustainable h... Read More about Living well, taking control: Fidelity of implementation study.

Right cot, right place, right time: improving the design and organisation of neonatal care networks – a computer simulation study (2015)
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Background There is a tension in many health-care services between the expertise and efficiency that comes with centralising services and the ease of access for patients. Neonatal care is further complicated by the organisation of care into networ... Read More about Right cot, right place, right time: improving the design and organisation of neonatal care networks – a computer simulation study.

Lighthouse interim report (2015)
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Enabling data linkage to maximise the value of public health research data (2015)
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This project was commissioned by The Wellcome Trust on behalf of the Public Health Research Data Forum. The project aimed to identify the gains to public health research from linking existing data sources, the opportunities in and barriers to such da... Read More about Enabling data linkage to maximise the value of public health research data.

Enabling data linkage to maximise the value of public health research data: Summary report (2015)
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Summary for the Wellcome Trust report on Enabling Data Linkage, including example case studies, key findings, and recommendations

CLAPA Regional Coordinators Project: Evaluation interim report: Focus group studies in the South East UK region (2015)
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Social Return on Investment Report (SROI) final report on a type 2 diabetes prevention and management programme delivered by Westbank CHC (2015)
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Final SROI report on Living Well Taking Control, diabetes prevention and management programme delivered by Westbank CHC, Devon. This is part of a Big Lottery Funded evaluation of South west Wellbeing programme. This led to a total of nine SROI an... Read More about Social Return on Investment Report (SROI) final report on a type 2 diabetes prevention and management programme delivered by Westbank CHC.

For All Healthy Living Centre's Healthy Connections Project. Final evaluation report and Social Return on Investment (SROI) Analysis (2015)
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Evaluation and SROI analysis of a mental health promotion project delivered by For All Healthy Living Centre, Weston-super-Mare. This is part of the evaluation of the South West Wellbeing programme delivered by a consortium of third sector agencie... Read More about For All Healthy Living Centre's Healthy Connections Project. Final evaluation report and Social Return on Investment (SROI) Analysis.

Psychosocial interventions for adults with visible differences: A systematic review (2014)
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Background: Some individuals with visible differences have been found to experience psychosocial adjustment problems that can lead to social anxiety and isolation. Various models of psychosocial intervention have been used to reduce social anxiety an... Read More about Psychosocial interventions for adults with visible differences: A systematic review.

Identification of the underlying factor structure of the Derriford Appearance Scale 24 (2014)
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Background. The Derriford Appearance Scale24 (DAS24) is a widely used measure of distress and dysfunction in relation to self-consciousness of appearance. It has been used in clinical and research settings, and translated into numerous European and A... Read More about Identification of the underlying factor structure of the Derriford Appearance Scale 24.

The psychosocial impact of cleft lip/palate on siblings: Research report for the cleft lip and palate association (2014)
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CLAPA regional coordinators project: Evaluation interim report (end of year two) (2014)
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Development of new psychometric instruments to measure appearance distress during adolescence: The adolescent appearance distress scales (2014)
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Measures of adolescent appearance distress have focused on weight and body shape, excluding other aspects of appearance. The absence of a psychometrically sound, general measure of appearance distress has limited evaluation of interventions and curta... Read More about Development of new psychometric instruments to measure appearance distress during adolescence: The adolescent appearance distress scales.