Supportive and Palliative Care research group: research projects
Below is a list of research projects in the field of supportive and palliative care.
BMH - Nursing - Supportive and Palliative Care: research - Ongoing studies
- - Assessing unmet supportive care needs and quality of life in patients with cutaneous invasive melanoma -
Principal investigators: Professor Alex Molassiotis, Dr Paul Lorigan
Co-investigators: Professor Adele Green, Mrs Jackie Hodgetts
Research associate: Mrs Lisa Brunton - A descriptive study of lung cancer patients' priority information needs and preferred level of involvement in treatment decisions
Principal investigator: Professor Karen Luker
Investigator: Professor Ann Caress
Research associate: Dr Lynn Calman - A multi-centre evaluation of complementary therapy provision for patients with cancer: access, expectations and indications for therapy
Principal investigator: Dr Dai Roberts
Investigators: Professor Ann Caress, Professor Chris Todd, Andrew Long, Dr Peter Mackereth, Ann Carter, Sam Parkin, Dr Jacqui Stringer
Research assistants: Alison McNulty, Christine Delgado , Ms Charlotte Wilson - A non-pharmacological supportive care intervention for patients with lung cancer and their caregivers in the management of the respiratory distress symptom cluster.
Principal investigator: Professor Alex Molassiotis - A qualitative exploration of financial concerns, advice, support and coping in people diagnosed with cancer and their carers
Principal investigator: Dr Kate Wilson
Investigators: Dr Ziv Amir, Professor Alys Young, Mrs Jean Hennings - A study of End of Life care planning in Care/ Nursing homes
Co-investigators: Dr Moira Attree, Prof Martin Johnson , Dr Ian Jones - Are there any benefits to patients with active progressing cancer of attending regular outpatient follow-up appointments? A qualitative study.
Principal investigator: Carole Mula
Advisor: Dr Ziv Amir - Assessing unmet needs and quality of life in multiple myeloma patients– (Prof. Alexander Molassiotis, Dr. Barbara Wilson, Dr. Jim Cavet, Susan Blair and Tracy Howe)
Principal investigator: Professor Alex Molassiotis
Investigators: Dr Barbara Potrata, Professor Andrew Howell, - Assessing unmet supportive care needs and quality of life in patients with cutaneous invasive melanoma
Principal investigator: Professor Alex Molassiotis - Cancer and the workplace: line managers’ survey
Principal investigator: Dr Ziv Amir
Investigators: Dr Philip Wynn, Dr Stuart Whitaker, Dr Joanna Brooks, Professor Karen Luker - Cancer and the workplace: occupational health physicians' national survey
Principal investigator: Dr Ziv Amir
Investigators: Dr Philip Wynn, Dr Stuart Whitaker, Professor Karen Luker - Cancer and the workplace: return to work after cancer diagnosis – employees’ perspectives
Principal investigator: Dr Ziv Amir
Investigators: Dr David Neary, Dr Tony Moran, Dr Luke Walsh, Professor Karen Luker - Cancer support and self-help groups in the United Kingdom: a national survey
Principal investigator: Dr Clare Stevinson
Investigators: Mrs Anne Lydon, Dr Ziv Amir - Children’s Hospices and the Support of Young Adults with Life Limiting Conditions
Principal investigator: Professor Sue Kirk
Research associate: Claire Fraser - Clarifying the cluster of symptoms related to chemotherapy induced nausea
Investigator: Professor Alex Molassiotis - Comparing telephone and hospital follow-up for women with breast cancer: A randomised controlled trial
Principal investigator: Professor Kinta Beaver
Investigators: Professor Graham Dunn, Professor Karen Luker
Research associate: Susan Williamson
Research assistant: Sandy Foster
Research associate: Mary Twomey - Development of a risk prediction model for chemotherapy-related nausea and vomiting.
Principal investigator: Professor Alex Molassiotis - District nurses and their provision of supportive and palliative care
Principal investigator: Dr Catherine Walshe
Advisors: Professor Karen Luker, Professor Sheila Payne - Effectiveness of home care nursing in decreasing side effects and improving quality of life in breast and colorectal cancer patients receiving oral chemotherapy
Principal investigator: Professor Alex Molassiotis
Investigators: Professor Chris Todd, Dr Andrew Wardley, Professor Karen Luker, Dr Mark Saunders, Dr Sarah Brearley - Evaluating the integration of nutritional support into the surgical management of colorectal cancer patients.
Principal investigator: Dr Sorrel Burden - Evaluation of the 'Cancer in the Workplace’ DVD and Booklet
Principal investigator: Mrs Anne Lydon
Investigators: Dr Ziv Amir, Sean Hughes - Exploring knowledge and understanding of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and the role of healthy lifestyle behaviours in patients and family members
Principal investigator: Professor Ann Caress
Investigators: Professor Karen Chalmers, Professor Karen Luker, Professor Jorgen Vestbo
Research assistant: Ms Margaret Salmon - Exploring the information needs of Singapore women with breast cancer
Principal investigator: Professor Kinta Beaver
Investigators: Katherine Koh, Dr P Lau - Factors associated with successful implementation of a Carer Support Needs Assessment Tool (CSNAT) in Hospice Home Care (HHC)
- Financial advice and support services for people affected by cancer: a synthesis of qualitative research findings
Principal investigator: Dr Kate Wilson
Investigator: Dr Ziv Amir - Flexible and responsive services during diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of cancer: patient and carer experiences and views
Principal investigator: Dr Kate Wilson
Investigators: Dr Ziv Amir, Mrs Anne Lydon - Follow-up in breast cancer clinics: reassuring for patients rather than detecting recurrence
Principal investigator: Professor Kinta Beaver
Investigator: Professor Karen Luker - Improving psychological support by District Nurses in palliative home care: a pilot study of a communication skills tool
- Investigating the follow-up care needs of people with colorectal cancer and piloting a telephone intervention.
Principal investigator: Professor Kinta Beaver
Co-investigators: Sr Janet Sheridan, Dr Shabbir Susnerwala, Mr Jonathan Heath, Professor Karen Luker - Maintaining psychological wellbeing in advanced illness: What can we learn from patients' and carers' own coping strategies?
Principal investigator: Dr Catherine Walshe
Investigators: Lynda Appleton, Dr Lynn Calman, Mr Paul Large, Professor Mari Lloyd Williams, Professor Gunn Grande - Management of older women with breast cancer in north west England
Principal investigator: Dr Katrina Lavelle
Supervisor: Professor Chris Todd
Principal Collaborator: Professor Nigel Bundred
Co-investigator: Professor Lesley Degner - Managing chemotherapy related anxiety in women with breast cancer: A focus group study to explore the acceptability of developing a specialist nurse-led psychological intervention
Principal investigators: Mrs Anne Cawthorn, Dr Linda McGowan
Investigators: Professor Philip Keeley, Bernie Shepherd - MORECare - Methods for evaluating service delivery models for end of life care (EoLC): development of best practice guidance
Principal investigator: Professor Chris Todd
Research associates: Ms Nancy Preston, Miss Vicky Short - Narrative review of information and support needs for carers of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
Principal investigator: Professor Karen Chalmers
Investigators: Professor Ann Caress, Professor Karen Luker
Research assistant: Ms Margaret Salmon - Nausea and vomiting after chemotherapy: Validation of a short clinical scale
Principal investigator: Professor Alex Molassiotis
Investigator: Ms Cynthia Rittenberg - Patient choice following initial treatment for cancer: a literature review
Principal investigator: Dr Kate Wilson
Investigator: Dr Ziv Amir - Prognosis in Palliative Care Study (PiPS)
Principal investigator: Professor Chris Todd
Investigators: Dr Patrick Stone, Dr Vaughan Keeley, Dr Laura Kelly, Chris Roberts, Wendy Makin, Dr Catherine Waight, Dr Phil Lomax, Dr Stephen Barclay - Supporting family carers to enable patient discharge from acute care at the end of life
Principal investigator: Professor Gunn Grande
Collaborators: Ashique Ahamed, Gail Ewing, Mary Ledwick, Victoria Entwistle - Testing the effect of resistance inspiratory muscle training in the management of breathlessness in lung cancer patients: a feasibility randomised trial.
Principal investigator: Professor Alex Molassiotis - The development of an intervention for cost effective and beneficial lung cancer follow up.
Principal investigator: Dr Lynn Calman
Investigators: Chris Roberts, Professor Kinta Beaver - The effectiveness and cost effectiveness of acupressure for the control and management of chemotherapy-related acute and delayed nausea.
Principal investigator: Professor Alex Molassiotis - The effectiveness of acupuncture and self-acupuncture in managing cancer-related fatigue in breast cancer patients: a pragmatic randomised trial
Principal investigator: Professor Alex Molassiotis - Treatment decision making for elderly breast cancer patients in Greater Manchester
Principal investigator: Dr Katrina Lavelle
Co-investigator: Professor Chris Todd
Principal Collaborator: Professor Nigel Bundred
Co-investigators: Professor Lesley Degner, Dr Mark Pilling
Trials manager: Mrs Charlotte Stockton-Powdrell
Research associate: Dr Anne Marie Sowerbutts - Trial to evaluate the impact of a Carer Support Needs Assessment Tool (CSNAT) intervention in hospice home care
- Using acupressure wristbands to relieve chemotherapy related nausea and vomiting, and acupuncture to manage fatigue
Principal investigator: Professor Alex Molassiotis
BMH - Nursing - Supportive and Palliative Care - Completed studies
- Cancer patients’ views and use of cancer support
Principal investigator: Professor Gunn Grande - Counselling and psychotherapy for the carer’s of those with dementia: A systematic review of the research literature
Co-investigator: Professor John Keady
Principal Collaborator: Dr Ruth Elvish - Development of a ‘what matters to family carers’ assessment tool for evaluation of care and support at end of life
Principal investigator: Dr Gail Ewing
Co-investigators: Professor Gunn Grande, Prof Sheila Payne - Evaluating the impact of a Carer Support Needs Assessment Tool in Hospice at Home care: a feasibility trial
Principal investigator: Professor Gunn Grande
Co-investigators: Dr Gail Ewing, Mrs Kay Greene, Professor Chris Todd, Professor Sheila Payne - Health professionals' views of factors that contribute to the success and effectiveness of support groups for patients with respiratory disease
Principal investigator: Professor Gunn Grande
Investigators: Brian Pateman, Mr Michael Connolly - How do circumstances around death at home affect bereaved caregivers?
Principal investigator: Professor Gunn Grande
Investigator: Gail Ewing - Inequalities in referral: Exploring differences in referrals to a Hospice at Home service between two socio-economically distinct areas of Greater Manchester.
Principal investigator:
Co-investigators: Professor Gunn Grande, Professor Ann Caress
Research assistant: Ms Charlotte Wilson - Longitudinal study of palliative lung and colorectal cancer patients.
Principal investigator: Professor Chris Todd
Investigators: Professor Gunn Grande, Dr Morag Farquhar - Methods for evaluating service delivery models for end of life care (EoLC): development of best practice guidance
Principal investigator: Professor Irene Higginson
Co-investigators: Professor Peter Fayers, Professor Gunn Grande, Dr Richard Harding, Professor Matthew Hotopf, Professor Penny Lewis, Dr Paul McCrone, Dr Myfanwe Morgan, Professor Scott Murray, Professor Chris Todd - Older adults with advanced cancer living alone: An exploratory study
Principal investigator: Dr Barbara Hanratty
Co-investigators: Prof Julia Addington-Hall, Dr Tony Arthur, Professor Gunn Grande, Prof Sheila Payne, Prof Jane Seymour - Piloting a carer support needs assessment tool to facilitate communication in palliative home care practice
Principal investigator: Professor Gunn Grande
Co-investigators: Dr Gail Ewing, Mrs Gill Booth, Professor Chris Todd, Professor Sheila Payne - Predictors of patients' use of cancer support groups: A prospective study
Principal investigator: Professor Gunn Grande
Investigators: Janine Arnott, Professor Chris Todd, Dr Bernadette Ryan-Woolley, Alex Molassiotis, Professor Anthony Howell, Dr Ziv Amir - Reminiscence groups for people with dementia and their family care givers: pragmatic 8-centre trial for joint reminiscence and maintenance versus usual treatment
Principal investigator: Professor John Keady - Research on key components of care at end- of-life for development of a tool to facilitate nursing support to family carers of dying patients
Principal investigator: Dr Gail Ewing
Co-investigators: Professor Gunn Grande, Prof Sheila Payne - Setting the stage for an international collaborative on family carer research in palliative and end of life care
Principal investigator: AProf Kelli Stajduhar
Co-investigators: Prof Linda Kristjanson, AProf Samar Aoun, Dr Chris Toye, Professor Gunn Grande - The course, correlates and outcomes of quality of life and needs of palliative colorectal and lung cancer patients
Principal investigator: Professor Gunn Grande
Investigators: Professor Chris Todd, Morag Farquhar , Dr Stephen Barclay - The impact of variations in out of hours end of life care provision on patient experience, staff and health systems
Principal investigator: Professor Chris Todd
Co-investigator: Professor Gunn Grande - Transitions between services at the end of life for older people – patient and provider perspectives
Principal investigator: Dr Barbara Hanratty
Co-investigators: Prof Julia Addington-Hall, Prof Michael Goldacre, Professor Gunn Grande, Prof Jane Seymour, Prof Sheila Payne - Workshop to develop International Collaborative on Family Caregiving Research in Palliative & End of Life Care
Principal investigator: Professor Gunn Grande
Co-investigators: AProf Kelli Stajduhar, AProf Samar Aoun, Dr Chris Toye, Prof Linda Kristjanson
BMH - Nursing - Supportive and Palliative Care - PhD research projects
- A pilot evaluation study of Nevasic Audio CD as an effective method for control and management of chemotherapy induced nausea
PhD student: Saeed Moradian
Supervisors: Dr Catherine Walshe, Professor Alex Molassiotis - An exploration of continuity of care in relation to cancer patients with specialist palliative care needs
PhD student: Sean Hughes
Supervisors: Professor Karen Luker, Dr Ziv Amir - An exploration of information needs of mammography screening among
Chinese women in the UK
PhD student: Chenyu Shang
Supervisors: Professor Kinta Beaver, Dr Carole Willard - Cancer Pain in Lebanese Children: Prevalence, Quality of Life and Coping
Supervisors: Professor Kinta Beaver, Dr Gretl McHugh
PhD student: Dina Madi