Category: Health and wellbeing
Social, psychological, and psychopathological predictors of disordered eating
Exploring social media use, body appreciation, self-esteem, anxiety and depressive symptoms as predictors of disordered eating.
Effect of carbohydrate reduction on obesity and type 2 diabetes among adults in Africa
Evaluating the role of carbohydrate reduction in the prevention and management of obesity and reversal of type 2 diabetes in Africa.
Exploring socio-economic and cultural influences on self-management of type 2 diabetes in Kenya
Investigating the socio-economic and cultural influences on self-management and control of type 2 diabetes in Kenya.
Objectively measured physical activity patterns of adolescents in Ghana
This project will help address the urgent issue of insufficient physical activity levels among adolescents in Ghana.
Social prescription of fruit and vegetables in Black minority ethnic groups
This study will pilot social prescribing of fruit and vegetables among the Black ethnic minorities in Greater Manchester.
Meditation and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to treat Sleep Paralysis
Investigating the use of meditation and cognitive behavioural therapy to reduce reliance on pharmacological interventions to treat sleep paralysis.
Developing a multidisciplinary lifestyle behaviour and interventions research hub in Ghana
Ghana is experiencing a nutrition transition with transitioning dietary habits and sedentary lifestyles related to urban demographic change.
An illness like any other? Exploring understandings of mental illness in elite sport settings
The “mental illness is like any other illness” trope may inflate stigma rather than reduce it.
Men on the margins: constructing health behaviour within communities of deprivation
This study will explore the intersection between masculinity and poverty and its impact on health.
The development and evaluation of a digital intervention to increase physical activity in disabled older adults
A potential way to promote physical activity in community-dwelling older adults with disabilities is through web-based (or digital) interventions.