19/94 Perinatal Mental Health Webinar 10 September 2019 Presenters - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Webinar 10 September 2019 Presenters Dr Claire Kidgell, Assistant Director (Identification & Prioritisation), NETSCC Sharon Gray, Research Manager (Identification and Prioritisation) NETSCC

19/94 Perinatal Mental Health

Session overview

• Introduction
• The research brief
• Tips for successful applications

Questions

Please type any questions you have as we go along and we will attempt to answer them at the end of the webinar We will make copies of the slides, questions and answers available following the webinar

About NIHR

• The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)

invests in research to help the NHS and care providers meet the major health and social challenges they face

• NIHR funds research that has the potential to improve

the health of patients, the public and health and care services

Participating programmes

What is applied research?

• Research with the capacity to improve patient and public
• utcomes and NHS services
• Multiple methodologies - not only trials

Not

• Discovery science
• Work involving animals or animal tissue

See remit of participating programmes - if in doubt ask

Perinatal Mental Health – Why?

The first 1001 days of a child’s life, from conception to the age of 2, are crucial in giving them the best possible start in life. Parental mental health problems during this period are common and can have a lasting impact on the development of the child. The development and improvement of perinatal mental health services is a key priority across the UK and is a key focus of the NHS Long Term Plan. There has been significant research activity in recent years but there are many areas where evidence gaps and clinical uncertainties remain.

19/94 Perinatal Mental Health – What are we looking for?

For the purposes of the call, perinatal mental health is defined from the period of preconception to 24 months after birth. Examples of topics of interest include, but are NOT limited to:

• Preconception advice and interventions for women with mental

illness.

• Evaluation of the In-reach/Out-reach teams in the Mother and

Baby Units.

• Preventing and treating postpartum psychosis.
• Traumatic events and the perinatal period.
• Mental health screening measures for partners in the perinatal

period.

19/34 Perinatal Mental Health – existing published and ongoing projects

There are a number of existing published and ongoing projects in the area of perinatal mental health across the NIHR research programmes and more widely. It is important for potential applicants to be aware of the existing NIHR research portfolio get the new NIHR branded ones to select from

General Points

• Applicants will apply to the cross-programme call, not to a

specific programme

• Applications must be in remit of one, some or all of the NETS

programmes – EME, HTA, HS&DR and PHR – info on website

• Welcome ambitious applications spanning several remits and

comprising of co-ordinated teams of investigators spanning several disciplines and centres

• Research following patient need – ensuring that NIHR research

activity follows patient need by encouraging the nation’s best researchers to conduct research in areas where the health needs are greatest

• Co-production

How to make a good application

• Explain why your research is important
• Clearly state how research addresses an explicit evidence gap –

refer to ongoing research and justify

• Consider user acceptability and uptake – involve PPI
• Consider and justify why the research is a good use of public
• money. How does it have the potential to improve health and

care?

• Consider your dissemination methods and audience from the
• utset – how will you demonstrate the impact of your research?
• Consider and explain any potential conflicts of interest

How to make a good application

• Get the right team – multidisciplinary, relevant skills
• Realistic estimate of costs at stage 1, full costs at stage 2

– allow enough time for information gathering

• Presentation to committee – information should be clear

to non-experts in the area

• Include diagrams, such as flow diagram or consort

diagram for a trial

• Reference major or related work in train and how your

application will add-value to the existing evidence base

Scientific robustness

• Appropriate and robust design and methodology to

deliver the required study outcomes

• Clear and well justified sample size and effect size –

show your workings

• Outcome – appropriate to proposal
• Backed by a Clinical Trials Unit (where appropriate)

Involve the public & patients

Public and Patient involvement (PPI) matters to the NIHR

• Embed in your study at early stage and throughout the life
• f the project
• Consider how public and patients will be involved in
• Study design / application
• In the study itself
• In dissemination of the results
• Clarify in the application how public and patients will be

involved

• Explain how PPI will benefit the research - include

rationale, activity and training

Stage 1 applications

• Internal remit and competitiveness check
• Stage 1 applications will then be considered by the

most appropriate funding committee

Stage 2 applications

• If shortlisted you will have about 8- 10 weeks to

produce a second stage application

• Stage 2 applications will be peer reviewed
• Second stage applications will then be considered by

funding committees and a recommendation to fund or not is made – if funded usually fund with changes

How to make a good full application

• At stage 2 – feedback received from the funding

committees is meant to be helpful

• Applicants should ensure they respond fully to all areas

highlighted by the funding committee

• Proof read – errors in application lead to reduced

confidence in the team – ensure changes made between first and second stage application are consistent throughout

Further support for researchers

• NIHR Research Design Service
• NIHR Website, NIHR Journals Library website, NIHR

Open Data Platform, NIHR Funding and Awards website

• Enquiries - whether remit or process, contact the

email address provided in commissioning brief crossprogramme@nihr.ac.uk

Apply by 1.00pm on Wednesday 27 November 2019 GOOD LUCK!

Any questions?