Prevention, Healthcare and Rehabilitation Section
The Prevention, Health Care and Rehabilitation section, led by Dr Michael Perkin, focuses on disease prevention (including behaviour change trials), mental health research, primary care research, evidence-based health care, consequences and rehabilitation of people with long term conditions, and personalised self-management support.
Section Head: Dr Michael Perkin
ConcePTION
The ConcePTION project aims to build a platform that can use Real World Data (RWD) to generate Real World Evidence (RWE) regarding safety of medication use in pregnancy and breast-feeding for evidence-based decision-making in clinical and regulatory settings.
City St George's researchers are involved five methodologically diverse sub-projects demonstrating how the ConcePTION platform could facilitate future studies of medication use and safety based on data from health registries and linked databases in Europe in a distributed, timely, and scientifically sound way.
Diabetes and Infection Risk in Different Ethnic Groups
Infections are an important cause of morbidity and mortality in patients living with diabetes. Our study uses a large primary care database linked to hospital and mortality records to examine the risk of infections in people of different ethnicities living with type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes and pre-diabetes. We are also examining the effects of diabetes control on infection risks using HbA1c recordings. We are working with a Patient Study Advisory Group of men and women living with diabetes and pre-diabetes of different ages and ethnicities to help us in our interpretation and dissemination of findings
Funder NIHR Research for Patient Benefit (NIHR202213) Jan 2022-Sept 2023 - £153,558 Investigators: Tess Harris, Julia Critchley, Iain Carey, Derek Cook, Steve DeWilde
Collaborators: Umar Chaudhry, Peter Whincup, Arshia Panahloo, Naveed Sattar
LISTEN Trial
Professor Fiona Jones is Co-Chief Investigator for a NIHR funded study to codesign and evaluate personalised self-management support for people living with long Covid- started August 2021 and completes April 2024. We are currently recruiting people with long covid who will be randomised to receiving the intervention or continue with their usual care. This trial is for anyone that has symptoms lasting longer than 12 weeks, who hasn’t been hospitalised because of Covid. More details on the Listen website Home (listentrial.co.uk)
Tulay Project
The TULAY Project, funded by NIHR Global Health, is a partnership with De La Salle University, led by University of Plymouth. TULAY will develop community-based physical rehabilitation services in the Philippines. City St George's (Professor Fiona Jones) and Southampton University are co-applicants. Bridges Self-Management with SGUL are leading on the co-design of a comprehensive program to provide quality healthcare to underserved communities. This international collaboration highlights the power of teamwork in advancing healthcare innovation and aims to make impact on the lives of stroke survivors and their families in the Philippines. Started October 2022 and completes in 2026.
TIPTOE
TIPTOE is an NIHR HTA funded study MulTI-domain Self-management in Older People wiTh OstEoarthritis and Multi-Morbidities (TIPTOE) led by Cardiff University. Professor Fiona Jones (City St George's as a co-applicant and Bridges Self-Management are leading on the co-design and intervention delivery which will be evaluated in a clinical trial. The intervention is aimed at people over the age of 70 living with joint pain and other co-morbidities and their supporter/family member. Started October 2022 and completes 2026.