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Planning, Building and Living in the New Millennium - Accommodation Needs of Adults (18-64) with physical and /or sensory disabilities in the Southern Board's area

Interviews with people living in nursing and residential homes. Questionnaire survey of people with physical and/or sensory disabilities living in the community and carers of people living in the community.

Author: Karen McCoy - Southern Health and Social Services Council

Tel: 028 38349900. Email: karenmc@shssb.n-i.nhs.uk

The Wheelchair Service - The experiences and perceptions of users

Focus groups with wheelchair users to identify the issues and generally explore users' experiences. Postal questionnaire to quantify users' experiences.

Author: Karen McCoy - Southern Health and Social Services Council

Tel: 028 3834 9900. Email: karenmc@shssb.n-I.nhs.uk

Indoor Mobility Project (IMP)Exploratory Study of older users' perspectives on mobility related assistive technology research

Focus Group discussions have been held involving 37 participants with varying disabilities. Mobility issues were explored and ideas for assistive help. Groups were reconvened in Oct 2000 to trial a stair-climbing aid and to consider new approaches to information finding.

Author: Claudine McCreadie - Age Concern Institute of Gerontology

Tel: 020 7872 3035. Email: claudine.mccreadie@kcl.ac.uk

Wayfinding Project: An information/navigation aid for complex indoor spaces - feasibility study to establish older people's needs

5 Focus Group discussions were held involving 60 participants to find out about wayfinding experiences and ideas/views about the device and how it should be developed. One group were severely (mostly prelingually) deaf. Eleven volunteers from the groups trialled a simulated version of the device in July 1999 at the Mile End Hospital E.1.

Author: Claudine McCreadie - Age Concern Institute of Gerontology

Tel: 020 7872 3035. Email: claudine.mccreadie@kcl.ac.uk

Satisfaction study on elderly patients and their carers with the discharge process.

Stage One - Evaluate hospital discharge policy against cluster standards. Stage Two - Distributed 600 questionnaires to over 65 patients 6/52 after discharge.

Author: Sandra McElhinney - Northern Health and Social Services Council

Tel: 02825655777. Email: sandra.mcelhinney@nhssc.n-i.nhs.uk

Website: www.nhssc.org

The NHS - Health for All ?

Focus groups and accessible questionnaire widely advertised among MENCAP membership.

Author: E.B. McGinnis - MENCAP

Tel: 020 7696 5566.

Enhancing patient/family participation in research and clinical service development: Evaluating the case of stroke

The study focuses on stroke research and care in south London where a large, ongoing and well established stroke research programme is already in place and where an ambitious programme of stroke service development has recently begun. It will develop and evaluate methods for enhancing user (patient/family) participation in two areas: stroke research and stroke service development; and it will assess the impact of participation on research and service development. The findings will have wider application, particularly in relation to engaging with older health service users and people with chronic disease.

Author: Christopher McKevitt - Division of Health and Social Care Research Kings College London

Tel: 0207 848 6628. Email: christopher.mckevitt@kcl.ac.uk

A National Evaluation of the NSPCC's Young People's Centres by Young People

Following training of the young co-researchers we visited 5 Young People's Centres to interview young people, and staff; to undertake focus groups with staff members and read any secondary data. We also undertook a 'ghostshopper exercise' with a telephone referral to each of the YPC's and national helpline. This data was then analysed, written up and disseminated- including a conference facilitated by the co-researchers.

Author: Hugh McLaughlin - School of Community, Health Sciences and Social CareUniversity of Salford

Tel: 01612950727. Email: h.mclaughlin@salford.ac.uk

Website: www.seek.salford.ac.uk/profiles/MCLAUGHLIN713.jsp

HARP-2: Treatment with Simvastatin in Acute Lung Injury

When people become critically ill, for various reasons including severe infection or following injury in a road traffic accident, their lungs often fail, which is termed "acute respiratory distress syndrome" (ARDS). ARDS is primarily caused by the body’s immune system response to the injury; is common; can affect any age group and is commonly fatal. Furthermore, even after recovery from lung injury, patients subsequently experience a poorer quality of life. Many survivors of this condition are unable to return to work or look after themselves. Unfortunately, to date there is currently no effective treatment for this lung injury. The HARP-2 study is designed to investigate if the drug simvastatin, commonly used to treat high cholesterol, is safe and effective in the treatment of this lung injury. The study will take place over 5 years in Intensive Care Units (ICU’s) in Ireland and in the United Kingdom. People suffering from ARDS will be randomly divided into two groups; one group will be given the active drug and the other a dummy drug with no activity (placebo). This design means that any difference in the experience of patients will be due to whether or not they received simvastatin and not to any other difference that could influence the outcome of treatment. The study team comprises experts in study design, senior doctors who work in critical care units, and experts in ARDS. We will also take blood samples to measure markers of inflammation which will allow us to determine if simvastatin can reduce the immune response which causes the lung injury. In addition, we will determine how severe the damage to the patients’ lungs is, and how fast they recover. If simvastatin is effective, it would help save the lives of these sufferers, improving the quality of life of survivors and potentially reduce costs, by reducing time spent in Intensive Care Units.

Author: Christine McNally - Clinical Research Support Centre

Tel: 028 9063 5794. Email: harp2@crsc.n-i.nhs.uk

Recovery from child sexual abuse trauma within an arts therapies programme for women.

Four cycles of research were undertaken each with a different group of women who had participated in a multi-model arts therapy group. Interviews were coded and analysed. Findings were checked and refined with research participants prior to write-up.

Author: Bonnie Meekums (PhD, SRDMT, MAHPP) - Tameside and Glossop Mental Health Services

Tel: 0161 331 5082. Email: bonniem@unisonfree.net