Care in Long Term Conditions is led by Professor Jackie Sturt and aims to explore the mind and body responses and impacts to living with long-standing health conditions.
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What we do
The Division of Care in Long Term Conditions is involved in researching various long term conditions, including diabetes stigma, diabetes distress, mental health (with a focus on in-patient wards), bladder and bowel conditions like Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) and care for older people.
Our research is applied and incorporates co-development techniques with evaluation. We involve the perspectives of those with lived experience, aiming to alleviate conditions and their symptoms to enable people to live well with long-term health issues.
Meet the researchers who work in this division.
Research groups
Clinical Diabetes Research Group
The Clinical Diabetes Research Group is led by Professor Angus Forbes and Dr Kirsty Winkley.
The group specialises in developing and evaluating complex interventions in diabetes with a focus on the psychosocial aspects of diabetes, women’s and reproductive health issues (including diabetes pregnancies), insulin management and preventing diabetes complications. We have methodological expertise in co-design, epidemiology, clinical trials and complex adaptive systems methods.
Mental Health Nursing Research Group
The Mental Health Nursing Research Group is led by Professor Alan Simpson.
The group aims to improve the delivery and experience of mental healthcare and mental health nursing across a range of service settings. It is multidisciplinary, including researchers in mental health, adult, child and learning disabilities nursing, psychology, arts and creative therapies, with an international reputation for high levels of effective involvement and co-production with diverse lived experience researchers.
Older People Research Group
The Older People Research Group is led by Professor Ruth Harris and Dr Joanne Fitzpatrick.
Older adults often live with multiple long-term conditions that require complex care. Our research develops and evaluates interventions to care for older adults in different settings, their family members, and the workforces who care for them.
BRiNG (Bladder/Bowel Research in Nursing Group)
BRiNG is led by Dr Wladzia Czuber-Dochan.
The group works to improve the lives of people living with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), other long-term gastrointestinal conditions and cancer by developing better ways to manage symptoms, support mental wellbeing and reduce health inequalities. By working closely with patients and healthcare professionals, we create practical solutions that help people live well with their condition and improve the quality of care they receive.
kHOPE (King’s Health Outcomes and Patient-relevant Evidence synthesis) Research Group
The kHOPE Research Group is led by Dr Daniel Munblit.
The group brings together people interested in outcome research to synthesise evidence and improve patient care.
Research projects
Principal investigators:
Daniel Munblit.
The kHOPE research group brings together people interested in outcome research to synthesise evidence and improve patient care.
Project status: Ongoing
Principal investigators:
Alan Simpson.
Investigating what makes activities desirable for service users to combat boredom on inpatient mental health wards.
Project status: Ongoing
Principal investigators:
Judith Parsons,
Angus Forbes.
RESET aims to reduce the experience and impacts of stigma by co-designing anti-stigma interventions with women with Type 2 diabetes.
Project status: Ongoing
Principal investigators:
Angus Forbes,
Rita Forde.
Addressing gestational diabetes stigma through co-designing multimedia anti stigma interventions
Project status: Ongoing
Principal investigators:
Jackie Sturt.
The D-stress study develops a new programme that combines the best of three existing treatments to detect, manage and prevent type 1 diabetes distress in the UK
Project status: Ongoing
Principal investigators:
Alan Simpson.
Body worn cameras are being increasingly used in healthcare, but there is little research on their impact when used in mental health services.
Project status: Ongoing
MyREMEDY (MyDiaMate for REMission of Elevated Diabetes Distress in tYpe 1 diabetes).
Project status: Ongoing