IN 2015 SCPHRP members Ruth Jepson, Michelle Estrade, Stephen Malden and Daryll Archibald carried out a landscape review of current and ongoing obesity research that has been conducted on Scottish populations in the last decade, on behalf of NHS Health Scotland. This research was intended to supplement revisions that were …
WELCOME TO STAND UP FOR HEALTH The Stand Up for Health intervention has been developed and tested within the Ipsos MORI call centre in Leith. The researchers conducted qualitative focus groups and facilitated a workshop to understand the needs and context of the call centre. Based on the qualitative data, …
An interactive resource and educational tool for the Community Alcohol Campaign, led by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde. Please note, the publication contains certain elements that are for example purposes only and not relevant to the project i.e video. [iframe src=”https://indd.adobe.com/embed/e4b5016e-c05e-4bbf-aa92-f263db38ed1e?startpage=1&allowFullscreen=true” width=”525″ height=”371″ frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen=”” class=”alignleft”] SCPHRP has been working with Lee …
We are collaborating with Vicki Cooke at TRE Scotland to evaluate the effectiveness on stress-reduction of TRE (Tension & Trauma Release Exercises) on University Students. Mar 24, 2016
We are collaborating to design, implement and evaluate school-based mental-health promotion interventions, particularly utilising stress-reduction mind-body skills such as yoga. Mar 24, 2016
We’ve recently developed and designed a parenting support project. The Care Project is a parenting support programme for kinship carers looking after teenagers. It provides teenager-based parenting skills around connectedness, conflict management and behaviour control. To encourage maximum learning, it utilises a four-part learning process: self-awareness; learning; self-monitoring; and reflection. …
SCPHRP Jane Hartley will be attending a mental health conference which is looking at NHS England’s new five year mental health plan: A new era for mental health care is on the horizon… Mental Health: Moving Forwards – The Five Year Plan will explore how the new national strategy for mental health …
SCPHRPs Jane Hartley is attending an interdisciplinary symposium, organised by the Centre for Medical Humanities and Anthropology Department at Durham University as part of the Life of Breath project to ‘explore, discuss and gain insight into the perception and experience of breath and breathing practices both historically and cross-culturally’. “I’m …
The Early Years Working Group, together with Better Births Initiative (Royal College of Midwives) and the Evidence for Action Team (NHS Health Scotland) recently organised a free, half-day event at the University of Edinburgh to promote effective continuity and transition of care throughout maternity and to health visiting services. The …
A new research article from the SCPHRP team, led by Prof. John Frank, has explored the evidence supporting seven potential societal investments (aimed at different stages of the lifecourse) that could help improve health and reduce health inequalities. The research team used hard-to-find comparable analyses of routinely collected data to gauge the relative extent to which …
