Psychological Medicine Research

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BETTER MANAGEMENT OF DEPRESSION FOR PEOPLE WITH CANCER This research programme is funded by Cancer Research UK. It includes a large Symptom Monitoring Service for cancer outpatients and two randomised clinical trials of depression management (SMaRT oncology-2 and 3) which are being carried out across Scotland with bases in the Edinburgh Cancer Research Centre and the Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre.
COMPASS A UK National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) research collaborative between the University of Edinburgh, Kings College, London, and the University of Leeds for supportive and palliative care research.

PACE A randomised controlled trial of adaptive pacing, cognitive behaviour therapy and graded exercise as supplements to standardised specialist medical care versus standardised specialist medical care alone for patients with the chronic fatigue syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis.

EPAT A cluster randomised trial to find out if the institutionalisation of pain assessment using the EPAT package reduces pain in cancer unit inpatients more than usual care.