A team of us are currently running a project testing out a prototype of a digital app for taking pictures of meals (plates of food before and after eating), and reporting hunger, mood, and any symptoms. This is for potential use for identifying problem foods and/or malnutrition among older people in the care home setting
We aim to: 1) Establish a single nuclear transcriptomic atlas of sarcopenia from muscle biopsies from distinctly phenotyped individuals. and 2) Explore the influence of lifestyle factors on the composition and molecular phenotype of cells within muscle. You are being invited to take part in a research study that aims to improve our understanding of
Len De Nys, University of Stirling and Anna Catriona Whittaker, University of Stirling When you’re suffering from stress, it can affect almost every aspect of your life – even down to how well you sleep at night. While it’s normal to experience stress over things every now and again, if it continues to affect your
Is it feasible to use the digital music and movement resources of the danceSing Care company to improve wellbeing in the resident care home population? Executive Summary We wanted to find out if digital music and movement resources could be delivered in care homes. We rolled out a 12-week programme to 10 care homes and
This is the link where potential volunteers can find the participant information sheet https://stirling.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/validation-of-the-hydration-habits-questionnaire-partici-2
Hello, my name is Milena Banic, and I am a PhD researcher at the University of Stirling. I am recruiting volunteers for an omega-3 supplementation study where we will investigate blood, muscle, and fat tissue in response to 12 weeks of omega-3 supplementation followed by 8 weeks of washout. What do you have to do
Hope you’re all keeping well as the weather turns colder. University of Stirling colleagues are seeking volunteers for a pilot research project which aims to understand how and why digital sport imagery elicits particular visual attention and emotional responses among intergenerational groups. This collaborative research pilot between researchers at the University of Stirling (UoS) and the company Capture
check out our video about our latest published results and the research article: https://doi.org/10.1123/japa.2021-0130
We are urgently looking for a volunteer on an external advisory panel on a bid that I am submitting in 3 weeks. At this stage we would just be seeking a named person interested in taking part, and the actual role would depend on whether or not we get the funding. Here is the information:
An opportunity has arisen for a volunteer on an expert advisory panel we are convening before Christmas to develop the measures to use with older people living in care homes. These measures will be to assess things like social connectedness, wellbeing, quality of life etc. and will be used next year to evaluate the impact
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