Janet Darby

Contact

• workRoom B98 Medical School
  Queen's Medical Centre
  Nottingham
  NG7 2UH
  UK
• work0115 823 0225
• janet.darby@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

Janet Darby qualified as an occupational therapist in 1995 at the University of Derby. She has worked as an occupational therapist since this date predominately in the field of older people, both in the physical and mental health care setting. She taught on the undergraduate occupational therapy programme at the University of Derby from 2003 to 2005, and completed an MSc in Allied Health at the University of Derby in 2002. She is currently completing a Professional Doctorate at the University of Salford. She is a member of the College of Occupational Therapists and a member of the older persons specialist section. She has a particular interest in the study of older people.

Expertise Summary

Janet Darby is a qualified occupational therapist with 15 years experience working with older people in both the physical and mental health care setting, both in the hospital and in the community. She qualified in 1995 and has worked in a variety of settings, including the hospital, day centre, and in the community. She has also worked as both a team leader (older persons mental health) and as an Advanced Practitioner (acute older persons mental health).

Research Summary

Janet Darby's current areas of research interest span across different groups in Rehabilitation & Ageing. She is involved with recruiting for a number of studies and, as a qualified occupational… read more

Current Research

Janet Darby's current areas of research interest span across different groups in Rehabilitation & Ageing. She is involved with recruiting for a number of studies and, as a qualified occupational therapist, also provides occupational therapy intervention. She is currently completing the following research studies:

Getting Out of the House

• Recruits participants for this randomised controlled trial
• The study investigates the effectiveness of an outdoor mobility programme provided by occupational therapists for stroke survivors
• Participants in the intervention group receive up to twelve occupational therapy visits

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Acute Medicine Interface Geriatrician Outcome Study

• Recruits patients aged over seventy years from the Acute Medical Unit at the Queen's Medical Centre
• This randomised controlled trial investigates the effectiveness of an interface geriatrician service for frail older people
• Looks at those identified as at high risk of readmission, functional decline or death

She is also completing a Qualitative Study with intervention participants from the Acute Medicine Interface Geriatrician Outcome Study.

This study aims to explore patient and carer perspectives on:

• Care and treatment received whilst on the Acute Medical Unit
• The discharge process
• How patients managed with their activities since returning home
• Up to 30 patients and carers will be interviewed following discharge and data will be analysed using both thematic and narrative analysis.

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She recently completed a study to investigate the effectiveness of recruitment strategies in multi-centre randomised controlled trials. This revealed that the success of recruitment strategies varied across different geographical sites and a wide range of recruitment strategies are therefore recommended in multi centre trials. This study was presented as a poster at the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics in Bologna, Italy in April 2011.