Project description. Financial stress experienced by university students is a driving factor for poor wellbeing, lower academic performance and retention.
Background and Aims. Depression and anxiety in working adults are prevalent and costly. Mental health promotion and prevention in workplaces is a collective responsibility but much of the evidence base focusses on the individual and much of the evidence comes from outside the UK.
Adults with complex needs who are placed within secure settings are likely to have a range of healthcare needs, both physical and psychological (Kahn, 2010; Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health, 2008).
Participant recruitment is an acknowledged challenge for clinical trials in any area of health research. If projects cannot recruit the required numbers of participants, they may be forced to close and potentially useful interventions may therefore be prevented from being made available, and public money may be wasted.
Policy and practice in many areas of health and education have been informed by results from birth cohorts, which are longitudinal datasets that follow large numbers of individuals from birth and throughout their lives.
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a common chronic respiratory condition with high symptom-burden, slow relentless progressive impact, and substantial informal carer-burden.