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Dr Mark Pearson's Projects (22)

Understanding barriers and facilitators to implementing physical activity interventions for patients receiving immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy: A qualitative study Nov 1, 2023 - Jul 31, 2025
Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have huge potential for the treatment of metastatic melanoma, renal, head and neck, and lung cancers. While recent research shows that exercise improves chemoradiotherapy outcomes, its role as an adjunctive treatme... Read More about Understanding barriers and facilitators to implementing physical activity interventions for patients receiving immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy: A qualitative study.

Living well with chronic breathlessness: Improving the sustainable use of supported self-management strategies Mar 1, 2023 - Dec 31, 2024
Chronic (persistent) breathlessness restricts social lives and day-to-day tasks. Breathlessness services can support people to self-manage, but there is often a gap between knowing what to do and doing it - true for patients, carers and clinicians al... Read More about Living well with chronic breathlessness: Improving the sustainable use of supported self-management strategies.

BREATHE-INDIA: BREATHlEssness in INDIA - Development of a breathlessness beliefs and behaviour education intervention for use in the community-setting Oct 1, 2022 - Mar 31, 2024
PUBLIC HEALTH CHALLENGE: Chronic (persistent) breathlessness despite treatment of causal disease(s) 1 is associated with disability and a vicious cycle of avoiding physical activity-related breathlessness,2 deconditioning and increasing breathlessnes... Read More about BREATHE-INDIA: BREATHlEssness in INDIA - Development of a breathlessness beliefs and behaviour education intervention for use in the community-setting.

Arts for the Blues: Towards integrating arts-based approaches to tackling depression in healthcare settings in the North West Jan 31, 2022 - Jul 30, 2023
In this project we will develop a strategy for making the Arts for the Blues intervention easily available to adults and children struggling with depression, low mood or anxiety. This group therapy uses visual arts, music, dance, drama and creative w... Read More about Arts for the Blues: Towards integrating arts-based approaches to tackling depression in healthcare settings in the North West.

Supporting, enabling and sustaining home care workers to deliver end-of-life care: amultiple-methods community-based case study Oct 1, 2022 - Mar 31, 2025
This 30 month study will;
1) To understand the experience of social care assistants providing end of life care, the care they give, how they work with healthcare staff and family members or friends, and what all involved (including the person receiv... Read More about Supporting, enabling and sustaining home care workers to deliver end-of-life care: amultiple-methods community-based case study.

Adapting a smartphone-based rehabilitation programme for older adults living with and beyond cancer: an intervention development study Apr 1, 2022 - Apr 30, 2024
The number of people living with and beyond cancer is growing; many are over 65 years old who often have different and more complicated healthcare needs than younger people.

Being active is one of the best things people with, or who have had, canc... Read More about Adapting a smartphone-based rehabilitation programme for older adults living with and beyond cancer: an intervention development study.

TRANSFORM: Detecting, preventing, and managing delirium in specialist palliative care units: Co-design and feasibility study of a flexible and scalable implementation strategy to deliver guideline-adherent delirium care Feb 15, 2021 - Dec 31, 2023
Systematic identification, assessment and management of delirium, common in cancer, is crucial; causes may be reversible, preventing further deterioration and death. Currently clinical guidelines are not implemented in hospices. A relevant and flexib... Read More about TRANSFORM: Detecting, preventing, and managing delirium in specialist palliative care units: Co-design and feasibility study of a flexible and scalable implementation strategy to deliver guideline-adherent delirium care.

PrimaryBreathe: programme to develop and test a brief remote primary care intervention for chronic breathlessness Sep 1, 2022 - Aug 31, 2027
Breathlessness affects the daily lives of one in ten adults and a quarter of those aged over 70. The number of people experiencing breathlessness is growing worldwide as long-term health conditions, like heart or lung disease, become more common. COV... Read More about PrimaryBreathe: programme to develop and test a brief remote primary care intervention for chronic breathlessness.

Strategies to address unprofessional behaviours among staff in acute healthcare settings: a realist review Oct 1, 2021 - Dec 31, 2022
The unprofessional behaviours of healthcare staff towards each other are known to be widespread. In poor workplace cultures such behaviours can be considered ‘normal’. Yet they significantly affect an individual’s ability to work without fear and spe... Read More about Strategies to address unprofessional behaviours among staff in acute healthcare settings: a realist review.

I3: Building Critical Mass, Increasing Scale and Impact for Palliative Care through International Collaboration Aug 1, 2019 - Mar 31, 2025
The world population is ageing and, with the growth of multi-morbidities, UK deaths are expected to increase by 40% by 2040. New models of care and treatments are urgently needed to improve quality of life for the significantly increased numbers of p... Read More about I3: Building Critical Mass, Increasing Scale and Impact for Palliative Care through International Collaboration.