Research programmes

Staff in the Centre for Nursing and Allied Health Research are actively engaged on research projects within the main programmes listed below, using a variety of methodological approaches (qualitative and quantitative), and involving multidisciplinary collaborations. Our research programmes are grouped into eight themes centred on patient and family experience and evidence-based outcomes:

• communicating complex information to children and families and influencing informed decision-making
• use of evidence to influence and optimise clinical care
• interventions to improve patient and family experience of care, including transition to adult services
• outcomes of symptom management
• staff, family and patient perception of risk and satisfaction with care
• development, validation and application of outcome measures
• methodologies for strengthening the collective voice of children and young people
• understanding effects of conditions, illness and treatment on daily lives