Title: Developing a strength-based training intervention for people living with MLTC
Funder: NIHR Academy (Team Science Award)
PI: Professor Miles Witham, Newcastle University
Project Summary: This award will lay the groundwork for a large-scale funding bid to evaluate strength-based training intervention for people living with MLTC at risk of functional impairment. Specific preliminary work to develop the major funding bid will include updating existing systematic reviews in this area, national surveys to establish current practice, intervention co-design and trial co-design with public contributors.
PPIE: The steering group for this work includes public members of the workstream, and the intervention and trial will be co-designed by a small core group of people with lived experience of MLTC, with wider consultation with a diverse set of public contributors.
Title: Exploring the association between physical activity interventions and development of multiple long-term conditions in younger people with mental health conditions
Funder: Multiple Long-Term Conditions (MLTC) Cross-NIHR Collaboration (CNC)
PI: Professor James Sheppard, University of Oxford
Project Summary: This study will use systematic review methods to examine existing evidence on physical activity as an intervention to reduce risk factors for MLTC in patients with anxiety and depression and detailed public and patient engagement to explore the acceptability of these interventions in this population.
PPIE: The team are working with panels of younger people living with mental health conditions drawn from different communities to identify what physical activity interventions will be potentially acceptable to the participants in future studies and ultimately in routine clinical practice.