Lancashire Clinical Trials Unit

The Lancashire Clinical Trials Unit (CTU) has been set up to manage health related trials for UCLan and external organisations.
The Lancashire CTU team has accrued many years of experience in the skills required to develop, manage and analyse clinical trials with a growing specialisation in trials of complex interventions, in particular feasibility trials.
The formulation of the Lancashire CTU structure was initiated in 2012 and we are currently supporting national and international trials.
The Lancashire CTU offers a quality assured service for the coordination and delivery of key services pertaining to robust clinical trials of complex interventions and other well-designed studies.
We offer support in:
- Trial design and developing collaborative applications to funders
- Trial and site set-up and on-going management, including oversight monitoring
- Randomisation
- Data management (including form (CRF) design, data entry and data cleaning)
- Statistical analysis and reporting
These services are underpinned by our robust quality assurance processes.
We specialise in complex intervention trials in the topic areas of:
- Stroke
- Midwifery
- Cancer
- Musculoskeletal health
- Public/population health
- Mental health
If you are interested in engaging with the Lancashire Clinical Trials Unit then please apply for our support by contacting the Lancashire Clinical Trials Unit as early as possible.
- Trial design and development
- Feasibility trials
- Complex intervention trials
- Trial management
- Data management
- Statistics
- Trial Reporting
- Research
- Quality Assurance
2019
Ouyang M, Boaden E, Arima H, Lavados PM, Billot L, Hackett ML, Olavarría VV, Muñoz-Venturelli P, Song L, Rogers K, Middleton S, Pontes-Neto OM, Lee T-H, Watkins C, Robinson T, Anderson CS, for the HeadPoST Investigators (2019) International Journal of Stroke, doi.org/10.1177/1747493019858778. Dysphagia screening and risks of pneumonia and adverse outcomes after acute stroke: an international multicentre study
(2019) Stanmore EK, Mavroeidi A, de Jong LD, Skelton DA, Sutton CJ, Benedetto V, Munford LA, Meekes W, Bell V & Todd C. BMC Medicine, 17; 49The effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of strength and balance Exergames to reduce falls risk for people aged 55 years and older in UK assisted living facilities: a multi-centre, cluster randomised controlled trial
Minhas JS, Wang X, Lavados PM, Moullaali TJ, Arima H, Billot L, Hackett ML, Olavarria VV, Middleton S, Pontes-Neto O, Asita De Silva H, Lee TH, Pandian JD, Mead GE, Watkins C, Chalmers J, Anderson CS, Robinson TG & on behalf of the HeadPoST investigators (2019) . Journal of Human Hypertension ISSN 0950-9240Blood pressure variability and outcome in acute ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke: a post hoc analysis of the HeadPoST study
Thomas LH, Coupe J, Cross L, Tan AL and Watkins CL (2019) Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Issue 2. Art. No.: CD004462. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD004462.pub4..Interventions for treating urinary incontinence after stroke in adults
2018
Holland EJ, Watkins CL, Boaden E and Lightbody CE (2018) . Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation 25 (1). pp. 54-60. ISSN 1074-9357Fidelity to a motivational interviewing intervention for those with post-stroke aphasia: A small scale feasibility study
Gibson JME, Thomas LH, Harrison JJ, Watkins CL (2018) . Journal of Clinical Nursing, 27(9-10):2041-2051. doi: 10.1111/jocn.14346 http://clok.uclan.ac.uk/21881/Stroke survivors’ and carers’ experiences of a systematic voiding programme to treat urinary incontinence after stroke
Patel K, Watkins CL, Sutton CJ, Holland E-J, Benedetto V, Auton, MF, Barer D, Chatterjee K, Lightbody CE (2018) , 4:152. doi: 10.1186/s40814-018-0343-z http://clok.uclan.ac.uk/24218/Motivational interviewing for low mood and adjustment early after stroke: a feasibility randomised trial. Pilot and Feasibility Studies
Radford, Kate, Sutton, Chris J, Sach, Tracey, Holmes, Jain, Watkins, Caroline Leigh, Forshaw, Denise, Jones, Trevor, Hoffman, Karen O’Connor, Rory et al (2018) Health Technology Assessment, 22 (33). pp. 1-156. ISSN 1366-5278.Early, specialist vocational rehabilitation to facilitate return to work after traumatic brain injury: the FRESH feasibility RCT
Directors
Prof Dame Caroline Watkins, Dr Gordon Prescott, Denise Forshaw
Trial Design and Statistical Analysis
Information Systems
Data Management
Administration
- COMMITS
- CONVINCE
- ICONS II
- WORKWELL
- STROLLERS
- GHRG INDIA - IMPROVISE
- FRESH
- ICONS
- ICARE
- ENDCAT
- HeadPoST
- EXERGAMES
- A-GLOVES
- ADOPTS
- TREAT-UI
- TIPPS
- Cancer, Supportive and Palliative Care Research Group
- Clinical Practice Research Unit (Stroke Care)
- COMENSUS
- Health Research Methodology and Implementation (HeRMI)
- Maternal and Infant Nutrition and Nurture Unit (MAINN)
- Research in Childbirth and Health Unit (ReaCH)