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Article
Resentful, Resigned and Respectful: Opioid Analgesics, Pain and Control, a Qualitative Study
Cooper R, Matheson C, Pagan E & Radford H (2025) Resentful, Resigned and Respectful: Opioid Analgesics, Pain and Control, a Qualitative Study. Pharmacy, 13 (1). https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy13010025
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Cowie J, Findlay S, Archibald R, Currie S, Campbell P, Hutcheon D, van der Pol M, MacLennan G, Cook E, Lock B & Hoddinott P (2025) Feasibility study of a co-designed, evidence-informed and community-based incentive intervention to promote healthy weight and well-being in disadvantaged communities in Scotland. BMJ Open, 15, Art. No.: e092908. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2024-092908
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Farquharson B, Johnston M, O’Brien R & Clegg G (2025) “All sorts of colours of emotions”: ambulance call-handlers’ perceptions of the barriers to CPR in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Resuscitation Plus, 22, Art. No.: 100904. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resplu.2025.100904
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Assessing the reporting quality of published qualitative evidence syntheses in the Cochrane Library
Giltenane M, O’Mahony A, silveira bianchim m & France E (2025) Assessing the reporting quality of published qualitative evidence syntheses in the Cochrane Library. Cochrane Evidence Synthesis and Methods.
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Prevalence and treatment of perinatal anxiety: diagnostic interview study
Ayers S, Sinesi A, Meade R, Cheyne H, Maxwell M, Best C, McNicol S, Williams LR, Hutton U, Howard G, Shakespeare J, Alderdice F, Jomeen J & the MAP Study Team (2025) Prevalence and treatment of perinatal anxiety: diagnostic interview study. BJPsych Open, 11 (1), Art. No.: e5. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2024.823
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Foster R, Carver H, Matheson C, Pauly B, Wallace J, MacLennan G, Budd J & Parkes T (2025) Applying Normalisation Process Theory to a peer-delivered complex health intervention for people experiencing homelessness and problem substance use. Communications Medicine, 5, Art. No.: 13. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43856-024-00721-6
Review
Robertson S, Hughes T, Boardman J, McFadden A, Whittaker A & Marryat L (2025) Impact of exposure to opioids in pregnancy on offspring developmental outcomes in the pre-school years: an Umbrella Review.. BMJ Paediatrics Open. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjpo-2024-003058
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Jouanny C, Abhyankar P & Maxwell M (2024) A mixed methods systematic literature review of barriers and facilitators to help-seeking among women with stigmatised pelvic health symptoms. BMC Women's Health, 24, Art. No.: 217. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12905-024-03063-6
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Using visual methods to further enhance qualitative evidence synthesis
Silveira Bianchim M, France E & Noyes J (2024) Using visual methods to further enhance qualitative evidence synthesis. Cochrane Evidence Synthesis and Methods, 2 (12), Art. No.: e70009. https://doi.org/10.1002/cesm.70009
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Matheson C, Vucic C, Dumbrell J, Robertson R, Ritchie T, Duncan C, Kessavalou K, Woolston C & Schofield J (2024) Clinical Outcomes of Benzodiazepine Prescribing for People Receiving Opioid Agonist Treatment: A Systematic Review of the Evidence. Pharmacy, 12 (5), Art. No.: 152. https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy12050152
Preprint / Working Paper
Macaulay L, O’Dolan C, Swingler J, Torrens C, MacLean A, Turner K, Avenell A, Cotton S, Dombrowski SU, Gray CM, MacLennan G, Hunt K, Kee F, McKinley MC & Hoddinott P (2024) Men with long-term conditions in the Game of Stones text messaging and financial incentives trial: an explortory mixed methods study. https://www.medrxiv.org/. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.13.24318555v1; https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.12.13.24318555
Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a peer-delivered, relational, harm reduction intervention to improve mental health, quality of life, and related outcomes, for people experiencing homelessness and substance use problems: The ‘SHARPS’ cluster randomised controlled trial.
PI: Professor Tessa Parkes
Funded by: National Institute for Health Research and The Salvation Army
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PRISMA reporting guideline and standards for qualitative evidence synthesis
PI: Professor Emma France
Funded by: Medical Research Council
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Long Covid and Critical Service Occupations: impact on Employees and Organisations
PI: Dr Alice MacLean
Funded by: Chief Scientist Office
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Chitetetzo: improving adolescent road safety and reducing road traffic collisions
PI: Professor Edward Duncan
Funded by: Medical Research Council
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Improving outcomes of out of hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA): applying behavioural science to enhance dispatcher assistance and increase rates of cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
PI: Dr Barbara Farquharson
Funded by: British Heart Foundation
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Governing parental opioid use: a relational ethnography
PI: Professor Anne Whittaker
Funded by: Economic and Social Research Council
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Methods of assessing perinatal anxiety: The acceptability, effectiveness and feasibility of different approaches
PI: Professor Helen Cheyne
Funded by: National Institute for Health Research
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Mental Health Promotion and Intervention in Occupational Settings: MENTUPP
PI: Professor Margaret Maxwell
Funded by: European Commission (Horizon 2020)
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Long Covid: Amplifying the voices of people with lived experience to improve understanding, support, treatment and education. Share-to-improve: Long Covid experience (COv-VOICES) Study
PI: Professor Kate Hunt
Funded by: Chief Scientist Office
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A meta-ethnography of how children and young people with chronic non-cancer pain and their families experience and understand their condition, pain services and treatments
PI: Professor Emma France
Funded by: National Institute for Health Research
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Outpatient cervical ripening for induction of labour
PI: Professor Helen Cheyne
Funded by: National Institute for Health Research
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Understanding the contextual factors that impact on the effective provision of opiate substitution therapy (OST) and needle and syringe programmes (NSP) in the UK: a multi-method study and realist evaluation of what works, for whom and under what circumstances
PI: Professor Catriona Matheson
Funded by: National Institute for Health Research
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Clinical Academic Careers for Scotland
PI: Professor Margaret Maxwell
Funded by: Scottish Government
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Improving the mental health of farmers: preferences and feasibility for community based supports.
PI: Professor Margaret Maxwell
Funded by: Chief Scientist Office
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Improving Maternal Mental Health in South East Asia through assets based approaches
PI: Professor Margaret Maxwell
Funded by: Medical Research Council
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Developing a behavioural intervention to increase lay-people's intentions to initiate CPR in the event of Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest (OHCA)
PI: Dr Barbara Farquharson
Funded by: Medical Research Council
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Tender Distress Brief Intervention
PI: Professor Edward Duncan
Funded by: Scottish Government
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DBI COVID study
PI: Professor Edward Duncan
Funded by: Scottish Government
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Creating Safe Handover Systems In Pre-Hospital Care
PI:
Funded by: Chief Scientist Office
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Gordon Aikman MND Scholarship
PI: Professor Edward Duncan
Funded by: Scottish Government and MND Scotland
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