Past successes in community and primary care research

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The Community and Primary Care Research Group (CPCRG) is intensively research active and has a strong proven track record of Health Services Research. Our research is often directed towards those individuals who are the most excluded or disempowered, have mental health problems and have difficulty accessing services. Below is a selection of our completed research.

Find out more about our completed projects

Care home conversations
Care home conversations
Bringing together people living and working in residential and care homes during COVID-19.
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Children and young people
Improving child psychosocial outcomes through evidence-based prevention and early intervention.
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DeSTRESS
This research examined how moralising narratives relating to individual responsibility and welfare entitlements influence the medicalisation of mental distress caused by material deprivation and social disadvantage.
Obesity
EarlyBird
Investigating childhood predictors of adult health.
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e-coachER
A multi-centred randomised controlled trial that investigated the effects of adding web-based coaching (e-coachER) to an exercise referral scheme for patients with chronic physical and mental health conditions.
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Engager
Engager was a novel intervention for supporting prisoners with common mental health problems to achieve their goals.
Home healthcare worker helping elderly man with walker.
Getting Up Following a Fall
Our study aimed to investigate older people, carer and staff attitudes towards seeking help and using techniques to get-up following a fall.
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Neighbourhood Liaison & Diversion
Formative evaluation of the implementation of the Neighbourhood Liaison and Diversion (NL&D) intervention in Devon and Cornwall.
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PARTNERS2
This NIHR funded Programme aimed to help primary care and community based mental health services work more closely together by developing a system of collaborative care based in GP surgeries for people with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
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Person-Centred Coordinated Care (PCCC)
‘Care that is guided by and organised effectively around the needs and preferences of the individual’.
Primary care research group project
PHASED: A systematic review of physical activity for alcohol and substance use disorders
Evidence synthesis with stakeholder engagement to formulate practical recommendations.
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Public Health: Plymouth Priorities (PHeePP)
Blowing the starting whistle on constructive Public Health research in Plymouth.
COVID 19
Remote-by-Default Care in the COVID-19 Pandemic: addressing the micro, meso-, and macro-level challenges of a radical new service model
COVID-19 research.
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Social prescribing
Linking individuals from primary care to social interventions which have the potential to improve health and wellbeing.
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Social prescribing for older people in the time of COVID drawing on the cultural sector
Optimising cultural provision to improve older people’s wellbeing through social prescribing in the context of COVID-19: Realist review and evaluation.
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STRENGTHEN – Firm Foundations for Health and Wellbeing
Improving health for those under community supervision, with the support of a Health Trainer.
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Supporting the rapid reorganisation of General Practice
Covid-19 research.
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Triage
Defining the Street Triage intervention and formative evaluation of implementation in Cornwall.
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Trial of physical Activity and Reduction of Smoking (TARS)
Our researchers led a national study to test the effectiveness of new support to help smokers who want to reduce but not quit.