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Research project

Rapid Participatory Co-Design & Implementation of an Evidence-based Digital Behaviour Change Intervention to Improve Hand Hygiene & Limit the Spread of the 2019-nCoV outbreak

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Lucy Yardley OBE

Professorial Fellow-Research
Connect with Lucy

Email: L.Yardley@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Paul Little

Professor in Primary Care Research
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Email: P.Little@soton.ac.uk

Emeritus Professor Michael Moore

Connect with Michael

Email: mvm198@soton.ac.uk

Dr Merlin Willcox

Clinical Lecturer in General Practice

Research interests

  • Global maternal and child health
  • Antibiotic stewardship
  • Systematic reviews
Connect with Merlin

Email: M.L.Willcox@soton.ac.uk

Professor Nick Francis

Head of School

Research interests

  • Infections in primary care
  • Antimicrobial stewardship
  • Respiratory infections
Connect with Nick

Email: Nick.Francis@soton.ac.uk

Research outputs

Effectiveness of digital interventions to improve household and community infection prevention and control behaviours and to reduce incidence of respiratory and/or gastro-intestinal infections: a rapid systematic review
Natalie Gold, Xiaoyang Hu, Sarah Denford, Ru-yu Xia, Lauren Towler, Julia Groot, Rachel Gledhill, Merlin Willcox, Ben Ainsworth, Sascha, Jane Miller, Michael Moore, Paul Little, Richard Amlôt, Tim Chadborn & Lucy Yardley, 2021, BMC Public Health, 21(1), 1180
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-021-11150-8
Type: article
Infection control behavior at home during the COVID-19 pandemic: Observational study of a web-based behavioral intervention (Germ Defence)
Ben Ainsworth, Sascha Miller, James Denison-Day, Beth Stuart, Julia Groot, Cathy Rice, Jennifer Bostock, Xiaoyang Hu, Kate Morton, Lauren, Brittany Towler, Michael Moore, Merlin Willcox, Tim Chadborn, Natalie Gold, Richard Amlôt, Paul Little & Lucy Yardley, 2021, Journal of Medical Internet Research, 23(2)
DOI: 10.2196/22197
Type: article