Centre for Mental Health and Society

Current Projects

TRIDENT

Investigators Emily Peckham

Funded by NIHR

Started 2024

Finished 2029

Title –  Tobacco risk reDuctions with E-Cigarette Nicotine Therapy among adults with serious MI (TRIDENT). Being led from Oxford University by Professor Paul Aveyard. Aims To develop a brief offer of an e-cigarette, and a continued support programme given by mental health professionals (MHPs) that meets the needs of people with serious mental illness (SMI) […]

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Developing an international minimum data set for burn registries: Delphi study for A Burns Common Data Element Minimum Data Set (ABCDE-MDS)

Investigators Bebbingon, E., Poole, R.

Funded by ISPF

Started 2024

Finished 2024

This study will use expert consensus using a Delphi process to develop an international minimum data set for burn injuries. This would be a list of variables (information) that should be collected about every patient who presents to a hospital with a burn injury around the world. By standardising the variables collected about patients, it […]

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Health and Care Research Wales Social Care PhD Studentship Award 2023

Funded by Health and Care Research Wales

Started 2023

Finished 2026

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Title: In Wales, are contemporary models of front-line social care for people with recurrent mental ill health fit for purpose? : a mixed methods study. Summary: Welsh Government policy recognises that providing social support in the community is complex. They are putting forward plans to create services that join up better, in order to meet […]

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Smoking cessation in young people with severe mental illness who smoke

Investigators Emily Peckham

Funded by Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust

Started 2023

Finished 2024

People with severe mental illness (SMI) experience a mortality gap of 15-20 years and one of the main reasons for this is due to preventable physical health conditions such as heart disease, hypertension and diabetes. Smoking is one of the main contributory factors to these preventable health conditions and people with SMI are more likely […]

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Scoping Review Male Suicide Prevention (PHW)

Investigators Rob Poole, John Carden, Robert Higgo, Sadia Nafees

Funded by Public Health Wales

Started 2023

Finished 2024

The review will be conducted by researchers at CFMHAS. This research centre was established in 2012, and it is currently led by Rob Poole, Professor of Social Psychiatry and Peter Huxley, Professor of Mental Health Research.  CFMHAS focuses on research that has a direct application to improve the mental well-being of the general population or […]

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Substance Misuse Services Evaluation in HMP Berwyn: a mixed method study

Investigators Dr Sadia Nafees, Dr Simon Newman, Dr Justin Lawson, Amber O'Brien, Prof Peter Huxley, Prof Rob Poole, Kim Barnett

Funded by BCUHB

Started 2022

Finished 2024

This study aims to capture a prisoners journey (including previous offending history to 6 months post release).  It will also explore the risk factors for illicit drug usage and to evaluate the SMS management during their stay in prison.

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Supporting Physical Activity through Co-production in people with severe mental illness (SPACES)

Investigators Emily Peckham

Funded by NIHR

Started 2021

Finished 2027

SPACES is a research project whose aim is to develop an intervention to help people with severe mental ill health to become more active. The project is a collaboration between researchers and people with lived experience of severe mental ill health. Researchers from Bangor University, York St John, University of York, Leeds, Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam […]

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INSIGHT: Integrating social determinants of health in medical education during Psychiatry prison placements

Investigators Sadia Nafees,Jakub Matusiuak, Rob Poole

Started 2021

Background: The importance of the social determinants of health (SDOH) is increasingly recognised. However, medical students are taught about them as epidemiological facts. We established a programme in North Wales involving prison placements for medical students, accompanied by specific teaching to contextualise SDOH to individual patients’ mental health problems. This is being evaluated over a […]

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South Asia Self-Harm Initiative (SASHI)

Investigators CA Robinson, P Huxley, A Krayer, M Krishna, K Nikopoulos, R Poole; GV Krishnaveni & K Kumaran, R Rajendra,y, N Husain, I Leroi, P Taylor, K Hawton

Funded by RCUK, Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF)

Started 2017

Global Challenge Research Fund: South Asia Self Harm research capability building Initiative (GCRF-SASHI) SASHI formed in late 2015 as a collaboration led by the Centre for Mental Health and Society at Bangor University. It is a partnership between researchers working in South Asia and the UK. The purpose of the GCRF-SASHI project is to help […]

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Co-SPACES

Investigators Emily Peckham

Funded by NIHR

Finished 2025

Co-SPACES is part of SPACES which is a research project whose aim is to develop an intervention to help people with severe mental ill health to become more active. The project is a collaboration between researchers and people with lived experience of severe mental ill health. Researchers from Bangor University, York St John, University of […]

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Optimising autologous adipose tissue suitability as an adjunct to human breast reconstruction

Investigators Sadia Nafees, Jakub Matusiuak

This PhD project aims to identify adipose tissue donor site most suited to deliver lasting effects of  lipomodelling breast reconstruction. Adipose tissue volume loss is a known issue leading to patient dissatisfaction and likely return to the surgery. Identification of most suited donor site based on research analysis, may result or contribute to lasting surgery […]

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Development of self-harm registry for North Wales

Investigators Bebbington E,. Poole, R,. Krayer, A, Robinson, C.

Funded by Bangor University

Finished 2025

The aim of the project is to adapt processes from the UKRI MRC funded GCRF South Asia Self-Harm Initiative (SASHI) and to establish systems that will enable future implementation of a self-harm register in emergency departments across BCUHB and, eventually, nationally across Wales. We will: • Bring together and work with key partners in unscheduled […]

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SMILE

Investigators Emily Peckham. Sadia Nafees

Funded by NIHR

Title: Enabling Service Users with Severe Mental Illness to Learn about and Engage (SMILE) with Good Oral Health: Co-production, Feasibility and Acceptability of a Systems intervention Aim: Co-production of an oral health intervention to improve oral health in people with severe mental illness and testing its feasibility and acceptability Objectives: Co-produce materials for a behaviour change […]

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Deterring and Reducing Opioid Prescribing in Primary care (DROPP)

Investigators John Bailey, Sadia Nafees, Rob Poole, Simon Gill. Lucy Jones

Impact of the work: Building on research in CFMHAS on the identification, development, treatment, effectiveness, harms, and experiences of patients and prescribers of prolonged high-dose medication for chronic pain, we have underway a project to identify every patient prescribed high doses of opioids for pain in a local GP cluster and intervene to reduce those […]

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