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The following research studies are currently seeking participants. Please read the study details to see if you meet the criteria for taking part. 

 

Study into the Effects of Chronic Dizziness

Are you:

  • Over 18
  • Living in the UK
  • Affected by dizziness for 6+ months

What it involves:

  • Completeing an anonymous online questionnaire (up to 20 minutes)

Please contact: katherine.hargreaves-2@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk for more information and to take part. Read the participant information sheet here.

 

PPI - Treatments for Dizziness Following Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)

Please join us at a patient and public involvement (PPI) session on March 10 2025 at 13:00. This session will be held online via Zoom.

About the session:

Your help is needed! I am a physiotherapist working with other healthcare professionals and researchers to try and improve care for patients with traumatic brain injury. We have found that benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV), a common form of dizziness, affects around one third of people with traumatic brain injury who are in hospital. At the moment, however, we don't know what sort of treatments are effective. We are planning a clinical trial to find out which treatments work best but need some input from patients and the public to help us decide on some important aspects of the research.

In this patient and public involvement session we will ask questions such as: 

  • What is the best way to ask patients who are in hospital with a traumatic brain injury to consent to taking part in research?
  • How many follow up appointments are acceptable for patients to attend in a clinical trial?

We'd very much value your input. You don't need to have had dizziness or balance problems or a traumatic brain injury to attend. 

All welcome. To register for this session, please email info@menieres.org.uk with your name and email address, confirming you wish to attend this meeting. 

 

TELEREHAB - DSS Clinical Validation Study
  • Are you aged between 40 and 80 years old?
  • Had a fall or are concerned about falling?

OR

  • Experienced dizziness or imbalance?

AND

You've received ONE of these diagnoses:

  • Stroke
  • Mild cognitive impairment
  • Vestibular dysfunction
  • Long Covid-19

Your participation in our study “TELEREHAB – DSS Clinical Validation Study” can help us determine the effectiveness of a remote home-based augmented reality programme for balance rehabilitation compared with standard balance training. We thank you for considering participating in the study.

If you would like to receive more information, please contact the study coordinator: Brooke Nairn, email: b.nairn@ucl.ac.uk

Centre for Vestibular and Behavioural Neurosciences, University College London 33 Queen Square London WC1N 3BG. This study is funded by UK Research and Innovation UKRI, Reference Number 10062111 (under the European Union HORIZON 2021 scheme). 

 

Does Your Loved One have Persistent Postural Perceptual Dizziness (PPPD)? 

Why are we doing this study?
We know that as a partner, family member, close friend or other close relationship to someone living with PPPD, you play a vital role in their health and wellbeing. However, very little is known about the impact of PPPD on you and your daily life as a significant other. This University of Manchester Masters dissertation research project aims to explore this, so we can understand where support is needed and how we should best include you in your loved one’s PPPD healthcare journey.

What is Involved?
A short, 1:1 semi-structured interview held via Microsoft Teams to talk about your lived experience as the significant other of someone who has PPPD.

You are eligible to take part if you are:

  • A significant other of someone who has been diagnosed with PPPD. A significant other is someone who is a key figure in the person with PPPD’s life (e.g. partner, close friend, parent or child) and has daily or near daily contact with them.
  • Over the age of 18
  • Living in the UK
  • Have access to a computer, tablet or mobile phone with video and a stable internet connection (for the Microsoft Teams conversation)

If you are interested, for more information please contact: Madeleine Begg - Email: SOLE.study@manchester.ac.uk

Watch this video for more information (opens an external link on YouTube).

SOLE Study (Significant Others’ Lived Experiences) 

This study has been granted ethical approval by the University of Manchester Division of Psychology, Communication and Human Neuroscience. This project is GDPR compliant so you can be sure your data will be handled securely and confidentially, and you will not be personally-identifiable in the final manuscript or any presentations of the findings.

 

Help Research About Dizziness

The Cardiff University Dizzy Lab are developing a new questionnaire to help clinicians and researchers better understand different triggers and environments that evoke dizziness (and the feelings of anxiety that sometimes accompany them).

The aim is to improve research, the consistency of diagnosis and the assessment of rehabilitation approaches.

Anyone who is experiencing dizziness of any kind can take part because we want to ensure our questionnaire can tell the difference between different conditions (e.g. PPPD, vestibular migraine, Meniere's Disease, BPPV, vestibular neuritis, etc). You need to be over 18 to take part.

The study has two stages: Stage 1 is a 15-minute survey and Stage 2 is an optional 5-minute follow-up two weeks later. 

You can take the survey using this link, on computer, tablet or phone (the layout is better on bigger screens, but it should work fine on phones).

Please visit this link to find out more and take the survey: https://cardiffunipsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bODOmZmlVJcuj4y

Thank you very much for participating.

 

 

Do you have Persistent Postural Perceptual Disorder (3PD/PPPD)?

PARTICIPANTS REQUIRED: Volunteers required aged 18+ with a 3PD diagnosis and no cardiac, neurological, ophthalmological or psychiatric conditions

STARDUST is a UK-wide study to investigate the causes of 3PD symptoms, so that we can ultimately design new therapies

Participants will visit our Manchester laboratories to take part in simple experiments (some in VR) assessing their perception of movement. You will also need to undergo a screening interview and complete some baseline tests (IQ, visual acuity) and questionnaires to characterise symptoms.

Participants will be compensated for their time & reasonable travel expenses

If you are interested please contact: Dr. Joshua Haynes joshua.haynes@manchester.ac.uk to find out more.

Visit this link for more information.

Additionally, family and friends may wish to take part too as Control Participants are also needed for this study to help understand some of the causes of chronic dizziness.

CONTROL PARTICIPANTS REQUIRED: Healthy volunteers required aged 18+ with normal or corrected to normal eyesight.

STARDUST is a UK-wide study to investigate the causes of chronic dizziness symptoms, so we can design new therapies.

Participants will visit our Manchester laboratories to take part in simple experiments (some in VR) assessing their perception of movement. You will also need to complete some baseline tests (IQ, visual acuity) and questionnaires.

Participants will be compensated for their time & reasonable travel expenses.

If you are interested please contact Dr. Joshua Haynes: joshua.haynes@manchester.ac.uk to find out more and visit this link for more information.

 

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