Decision Making Programme Projects
Current projects
Title: Decision to transfer: Risk assessment and decision making in labour in remote and rural settings
Investigators: Dr Helen Cheyne, Professor Len Dalgleish, Professor Catherine Niven, Dr Janet Tucker, Dr Ashalatha Shetty, Sarah McLeod
Funder: CSO
Title: An evaluative study of the KCND programme in NHSScotland
Investigators: Dr Helen Cheyne, Professor Catherine Niven
Funder: Scottish Government Health Directorates
Title: Establishing women –led priorities in maternity care research
Investigators: Dr Helen Cheyne, Professor Christine McCourt
Funder: NMAHP RU
Title: Royal College of Midwives studentship in normality and decision making
Investigators: Dr Helen Cheyne, Professor Catherine Niven
Funder: Royal College of Midwives and University of Stirling
Title: Developing Maternal Confidence in the Neonatal Unit: Which infant feeding practices promote self-efficacy in mothers of pre-term babies?
Investigators: Dr Vivien Swanson, Dr Rhona McInnes, Dr Helen Cheyne, Dr Helen Mactier, Elizabeth Callander
Funder: Centre for Integrated Healthcare Research
Title: A study of clinicians’ assessment and decision making regarding patients’ ‘readiness to transfer’ from the State Hospital.
Investigators: Dr Edward AS Duncan, Prof. Len Dalgleish, Dr. Lindsay Thomson & Professor Catherine Niven
Funder: The State Hospital 2008-2009
Title: Shared decision making interventions for people with mental health conditions
Investigators: Dr Edward AS Duncan, Dr Catherine Best, Dr Suzanne Hagen
Funder: NMAHP Research Unit
Completed projects
Title: A cluster randomised trial to investigate the use of a decision aid for the diagnosis of active labour in term pregnancy. The Early Labour Study in Scotland.
Investigators: Dr Helen Cheyne, Dr Vanora Hundley, Dr Dawn Dowding, Professor Ian Greer, Professor John Martin Bland, Professor Catherine Niven, Dr Lorna Aucott, Dr Paul McNamee
Funder: CSO
Title: The Scottish Trial of Refer or Keep: STORK
Investigators: Dr Helen Cheyne, Professor Catherine Niven, Professor Ronan O’Carroll, Fiona Dagg-Bell, Fiona Greig
Funder: NHS Quality Improvement Scotland
Title: The development and evaluation of a computerised clinical guidance tree for benign prostatic hyperplasia and hypertension
Investigators: Dr Dawn Dowding, Professor Richard Bland, Pat Thomson, Chris Mair
Funder: CSO
Title: Observation and acutely ill psychiatric in-patients: A social judgement analysis.
Investigators: Dr Brodie Paterson, Dr Dawn Dowding, Sandy McComish, Dr R Morrison, I Aitken
Funder CSO
An examination of how expert and novice nurses use clinical assessment tools for decision making in continuing care.
Investigators: Professor Catherine Niven, Dr Dawn Dowding, Dr Jo Booth
Funders: CSO Studentship
Title: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Judgement and Decision Making in Mental Health.
Funder: Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professions Research Training Scheme (Scotland). 2004-2006
Investigator: Dr Edward AS Duncan
Title: Prioritising clients’ problems to inform intervention: Improving consistency and agreement in occupational therapy decision making in community mental health teams. Funder: The Wingate Foundation. 2005-2006
Investigator: Dr Edward AS Duncan, Prof. Len Dalgleish & Prof Catherine Niven
Title: An evaluation of smoking cessation interventions with mentally disordered offenders in conditions of special security.
Funder: The Scottish Executive
Investigator: Dr Edward AS Duncan
Title: A Review of Scottish Ambulance Service See and Teat Guidelines
Investigator: Keith Colver, David Fitzpatrick, Dr Edward AS Duncan
Funder: Scottish Ambulance Service
Ongoing Postgraduate Supervision
Title: Optimising caseload management: Developing an Intervention in paediatric occupational therapy.
Postgrad Student: Niina Kolehmainen
Funder: Scottish Executive Chief Scientist Research Training Fellowship.
Supervisors: Dr Jill Francis Dr Edward AS Duncan, Prof Lorna McKee and Prof. Adrian Grant
Title: Goal Setting in a Hospice Setting
Postgrad Student: Sally Boa
Funder: Strathcarrron Hospice
Supervisors: Prof. Sally Wyke, Dr Edward AS Duncan, Dr Erna Haradsdottir
Title: Normal birth and decision-making
Postgrad student: Mary Ross-Davie
Funder: The Royal College of Midwives in conjunction with University of Stirling
Supervisors: Prof Catherine Niven, Dr Helen Cheyne
Title: Normal birth and decision-making
Postgrad student: Angela Kerrighan
Funder: NMAHP Research Unit
Supervisors: Prof Catherine Niven, Dr Helen Cheyne
Title:Alcohol consumption and pregnancy
Postgrad student: Lawrence Doi
Funder University of Stirling Department of Nursing
Supervisors: Dr Ruth Jepson, Prof Sally Wyke, Dr Helen Cheyne