We are pleased to report that we have obtained ethical approval to keep in touch with the Living with Breathlessness study‘s Longitudinal Interview Study cohort. This extension to the study is called “Living with Breathlessness – Keeping in Touch”. This will enable us to collect data for a further 18 months, giving us 3-year trajectory […]
September 2014: Early study recruits completed data collection
Early patient, informal carer and health care professional recruits to the interview studies have now completed their 18-months’ participation. We are continuing with longitudinal data collection from the remainder of the cohort and plan to have completed their data collection in the first half of 2015. Data collection from our patient postal survey cohort is […]
July 2014: Prize winners!
The team presented their poster ‘Preparedness to care in advanced COPD. How prepared are informal carers of patients with advanced COPD and what are their support needs? Baseline data from an ongoing longitudinal study’ at Cambridge Institute of Public Health and won a runner up poster prize.
June 2014: Two papers presented at EACP 2014 in Lleida 5th-7th June
‘Variation in care and support needs of patients with advanced COPD – baseline data from an ongoing longitudinal study of trajectories and need’ (an oral paper). ‘Preparedness to care in advanced COPD. How prepared are informal carers of patients with advanced COPD and what are their support needs? Baseline data from an ongoing longitudinal study’ (a […]
April 2014 – Recruitment Closed
Having exceeded our overall recruitment target, study recruitment has now closed. We are continuing with longitudinal data collection from our cohorts of participants – patients and carers taking part in the Longitudinal Interview Study, patients taking part in the Care Preferences Survey and health care professionals taking part in the Barriers & Facilitators Study. It […]
March 2014: Conference presentations
Poster presented at Marie Curie Cancer Care & Palliative Care Section of RSM conference, London, 28th March 2014; ‘How prepared are informal carers of patients with advanced COPD and what are their support needs? Baseline data from an ongoing longitudinal study’. Oral presentation at Palliative Care Congress, Harrogate, 12th-14th March 2014; ‘How prepared are informal carers […]