Outputs (3)

Lessons from the PROTECT-CH COVID-19 platform trial in care homes (2025)
Journal Article
Bath, P. M., Ball, J., Boyd, M., Gage, H., Glover, M., Godfrey, M., Guthrie, B., Hewitt, J., Howard, R., Jaki, T., Juszczak, E., Lasserson, D., Leighton, P., Leyland, V., Shen Lim, W., Logan, P., Meakin, G., Montgomery, A., Ogollah, R., Passmore, P., …Gordon, A. L. (2025). Lessons from the PROTECT-CH COVID-19 platform trial in care homes. Health Technology Assessment, https://doi.org/10.3310/MTRS8833

Background
Coronavirus disease-2019 was associated with significant mortality and morbidity in care homes in 2020–1. Repurposed antiviral drugs might reduce morbidity and mortality through reducing viral transmission, infection, replication and infl... Read More about Lessons from the PROTECT-CH COVID-19 platform trial in care homes.

Using online methods to recruit participants into mental health clinical trials: considerations and recommendations from the RE-MIND study (2024)
Journal Article
Iflaifel, M., Hall, C. L., Green, H. R., Willis, A., Rennick-Egglestone, S., Juszczak, E., Townsend, M., Martin, J., & Sprange, K. (2024). Using online methods to recruit participants into mental health clinical trials: considerations and recommendations from the RE-MIND study. Trials, 25, Article 596. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-024-08435-9

Background: Ensuring diversity in clinical trials can be a challenge, which may be exacerbated when recruiting vulnerable populations, such as participants with mental health illness. As recruitment continues to be the major cause of trial delays, re... Read More about Using online methods to recruit participants into mental health clinical trials: considerations and recommendations from the RE-MIND study.

Widening participation – recruitment methods in mental health randomised controlled trials: a qualitative study (2023)
Journal Article
Iflaifel, M., Hall, C. L., Green, H. R., Willis, A., Rennick-Egglestone, S., Juszczak, E., Townsend, M., Martin, J., & Sprange, K. (2023). Widening participation – recruitment methods in mental health randomised controlled trials: a qualitative study. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 23(1), Article 211. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-023-02032-1

Background:

Barriers to mental health research participation are well documented including distrust of services and research; and stigma surrounding mental health. They can contribute to a lack of diversity amongst participants in mental health r... Read More about Widening participation – recruitment methods in mental health randomised controlled trials: a qualitative study.