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Patrick Callaghan

Professor of Mental Health Nursing, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences

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Biography

Dr Patrick Callaghan RN BSc MSc PhD CPsychol. CSCi, FHEA, Professor of Mental Health Nursing, Chartered Health Psychologist and Chartered Health Scientist, University of Nottingham & Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, UK. Visiting Professor of Mental Health, University of Dublin, Trinity College, Fellow Higher Education Academy, UK. Associate Director (NHS Engagement) Mental Health Research Network and External Education Peer Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London

Professor Callaghan is a Mental Health Nurse and Chartered Health Psychologist. He is Professor of Mental Health Nursing at the University of Nottingham, UK and Nottinghamshire NHS Healthcare Trust where he heads a research programme designed to enable people to recover from mental distress, leading on service evaluation, testing the effect of psychosocial interventions on health and well being and investigating links between mental health nursing and service user outcomes. Patrick is past Area Commissioner and Non-Executive Director of the Mental Health Act Commission in England, and Associate Commissioner with the Healthcare Commission. He is an advisor to the Department of Health in England on mental health nursing and research, and is a past advisor on health and social policy issues to the Royal College of Nursing, UK. He was a member of the reference panel for the Chief Nursing Officer's Review of Mental Health Nursing that reported in April 2006; he co-chaired the education sub-group of this review. He has generated more than £1million in externally funded grant income from prestigious sources including the European Union, National Institute of Health (NIHR) in England as well as charitable foundations. He has published approximately 65 papers in nursing, psychology and medical journals and presented more than 40 conference papers worldwide. He is an Investigator with the NIHR, a Professorial Fellow of the Institute of Mental Health and has 23 years experience in working in Universities in England and overseas.

Expertise Summary

Social Cognition Models of Health-related Behaviour

Psychological Interventions

Mental Health Nursing Processes and Outcomes

Quantitative Research Methods

Mental Health Service Evaluation

Teaching Summary

Social Cognition Models of Health-related Behaviour

Psychological Interventions

Mental Health Nursing Processes and Outcomes

Quantitative Research Methods

Mental Health Service Evaluation

Research Summary

  • 2009

    Callaghan, P et al

    £241,000

    H.E.A.L.T.H. project revised: Pragmatic RCT of exercise with young people diagnosed with anxiety and depression

    NIHR Research For Patient Benefit Programme

    2010

    Lovell, Callaghan et al al

    £100,000

    Service user involvement in care planning

    NIHR Programme Grant Development Grant

    2010

    Repoer, Callaghan et et al

    £390,000

    Evaluation of peer support workers in mental health

    Health Foundation

Recent Publications

Other responsibilities

Joint appointment with Nottinghamshire Healthcare HS Trust

Past Research

1992

P. Callaghan & R. Adams

£60,000

Identifying and evaluating the effect of therapeutic nursing on patient outcomes with particular reference to Quality of Life in a special hospital

University of East London

Broadmoor Hospital, Berkshire

1994

P. Callaghan, H.P.French,

E. Holroyd, K. Sellick

S. Dudley-Brown

HK$31,860

(£2548)

The Effectiveness of Tutorials in Behaviourial Sciences for Nurses: An Action Learning Project

University Grants Committee of Hong Kong

1998

P. Callaghan

HK$77,000

(£6160)

Designing equivalent, reliable and valid measures of variables that may predict exercise behaviour in young Chinese people

Hong Kong Government Health Services Research Committee

1998

A.Molassiotis, P. Callaghan

S.F.Twinn

HK$307,000

(£24,560)

Randomized Controlled Trial of the effectiveness of group cognitive-behavioural interventions and peer support/counselling in symptomatic HIV patients.

Hong Kong AIDS Trust Fund

2000

P. Callaghan, T. J. Coats

L. Leigh, A. Smith

L. Bowers

£67,000

An evaluation of the laison mental health service at the A & E department of the Royal London Hospital

NHS R & D Levy

2000

L.Bowers

P.Callaghan and 5 European

partners

EU 491,000

(£250,000)

The European Violence in Psychiatry Research Group Dissemination Project

European Union (5th Framework Programme)

2001

L. Turner & P. Callaghan

£20,000

Evaluating the introduction of a pilot client attachment scheme in mental health nursing education

City University research award

2001

L. Bowers, P. Callaghan et al.

£106,129

The right people for the job: choosing staff that will adjust positively and productively to working in the new personality disorder (PD) services

The Home Office

2002

L. Bowers, P. Callaghan et al

£300,000

City Nurses Project: evaluating care of young people with mental health problems in East London

Square Smile Appeal of Lord Mayor of London

2003

P. Callaghan

£25,000

Evaluation of Blood Borne Virus Project

ELC MH Trust

2004

P.Callaghan

£156,000

Developing international excellence

RAE Development Fund City University, London

2005

J.Jones, P.Callaghan et al.

£78,475

Developing Strategies for the Management of Disruptive Patient Behaviours in the Haemodialysis Units at Barts and the London Trust

Research Advisory Board Barts and the London NHS Trust

2006

P.Callaghan, E. Khalil and S. Owen

£99,307

Pragmatic randomised controlled trial of a preferred intensity exercise programme to improve physiological and associated psychological, social and wellbeing outcomes of women living with depression

Burdett Trust

2006

J.Schneider, P Callaghan et al

£25,068

Better outcomes for the most excluded: evidence review of aclmn and mapping of existing services

Care Services Improvement Partnership

2007

P. Callaghan et al.

£248, 750

An evaluation of the Chief Nursing Officer's Review of Mental Health Nursing.

National Institute of Health Research - Policy Research Programme

2008

J. Schenider, P. Callaghan et al

£299,000

Inpatient care of people with dementia

National Institute of Health Research - NCC SDO programme

2008

C.Adams,P Callaghan & P.Liddle

£479,000

Dental Care Trial for People with Severe Mental Illness: Part of £14m CLARHC mental health theme

NIHR

2009

Callaghan, Higgins et al

€58,000

Evaluation of the impact of a Mental Health Recovery and Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) Education Programme

The Irish Mental Health & Recovery Education Consortium

Future Research

The role of self-efficacy in exercise adherence

Care Planning in Mental Health Services

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