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Research project

The Project About Loneliness and Social networks (PALS) study

Research groups:

Lead researcher:

Emeritus Professor Anne Rogers

Other researchers:

Professor Mari Carmen Portillo,

Doctor David Culliford,

Professor Lucy Yardley,

Doctor Ivaylo Vassilev,

Doctor Becky Band,

Doctor Sean Ewings

Research funder:

National Institute of Health and Care Research

Status:

Not active

Staff

Lead researcher

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Emeritus Professor Anne Rogers

Connect with Anne

Email: a.e.rogers@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Mari Carmen Portillo

Professor Mari Carmen Portillo

Prof of Long-term Conditions Management

Connect with Mari Carmen

Email: m.c.portillo-vega@soton.ac.uk

Doctor David Culliford

Doctor David Culliford

Principal Research Fellow

Connect with David

Email: d.j.culliford@soton.ac.uk

Professor Lucy Yardley

Professor Lucy Yardley OBE

Professorial Fellow-Research

Connect with Lucy

Email: l.yardley@soton.ac.uk

IV

Doctor Ivaylo Vassilev

Associate Professor

Connect with Ivaylo

Email: i.i.vassilev@soton.ac.uk

BB

Doctor Becky Band

Senior Research Fellow

Connect with Becky

Email: r.j.band@soton.ac.uk

Doctor Sean Ewings

Doctor Sean Ewings

Associate Professor Medical Statistics

Connect with Sean

Email: sean.ewings@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

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Research outputs

Study protocol for ‘The Project About Loneliness and Social networks (PALS)’: a pragmatic, randomised trial comparing a facilitated social network intervention (Genie) with a wait-list control for lonely and socially-isolated people

Rebecca Band,

Sean Ewings,

Tara Cheetham-Blake,

Jaimie Ellis,

Katie Breheny,

Ivaylo Vassilev,

Maria Carmen Portillo,

Lucy Yardley,

Christian Blickem,

Rebecca Kandiyali,

David Culliford,

& Anne Rogers

, 2019 , BMJ Open , 9 (8) , 1--9

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-028718

Type: article

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