Ruth completed her BA in Applied Psychology, MRes in Psychological Research Methods and PhD in Psychology at the University of Sussex. Since then she has worked as a Research Assistant in the department of Health and Social Care at Kingston University and St George's University of London on a series of research projects investigating support services for family carers; a Research Assistant at the Centre for Dementia studies at BSMS on a project investigating quality of life in people with dementia and their carers; and more recently as a Research Coordinator at Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, coordinating delivery of a portfolio of studies at East Surrey Hospital.
Ruth joined SHORE-C in July 2022. She manages the data and documentation of various SHORE-C studies and helps develop the Unit's data infrastructure.
New series of workshops due to begin September 2024
RCT looking at HRQoL with two kinds of ascetic drains in untreatable cirrhosis patients. The study will compare an alternative intervention, insertion of a palliative tunnelled long-term abdominal drain (Group 1 intervention - LTAD), to standard of care large volume paracentesis (Group 2 intervention - LVP) in the management of refractory ascites.
The aim of the Q-ABC study is to address the current paucity of information available to patients and clinicians facing treatment decisions where increasingly evidence is showing surgery and radiotherapy can provide equivalent overall survival.
Evaluation of a series of workshops around the UK building on the previous workshops but incorporating new materials covering extra topics and scenarios.