Manchester Resilience Hub: Social Influences on Recovery Enquiry v1.0
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Social Influences on Recovery Enquiry (SIRE) : A preliminary interview and survey study by the NHS Manchester Resilience Hub following the Manchester Arena attack
IRAS ID
255819
Contact name
Prathiba Chitsabesan
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 0 months, 0 days
Research summary
In May 2017 a suicide bomber killed 22 and injured 239 people in a terrorist attack on the Manchester Arena. Around 19500 people were at the concert and many have suffered socially and psychologically following the incident. Some will improve over time but some need support to prevent them developing long term problems. After the event, the NHS set up a service called the Manchester Resilience Hub (‘the Hub’) to support people with mental health related difficulties.
We want to learn as much as we can from this dreadful event in order to better support people in future. It is vital for the NHS to know if the Hub has helped people in the right way. If it has been helpful, it will inform how services respond in future. We also want to be able to predict more accurately who is most likely to improve and who will have more long term problems. This will mean that NHS resources can be targeted more effectively in future and prevent people developing long term problems.
Our intention is to explore people’s experiences after the Arena event of social and interpersonal support, the impacts on their emotional health and well being and the support provided by their families, friends, colleagues and the responding services. We plan to recruit two cohorts of adult participants from among users of the Hub. The first cohort of 18 people will be asked to take part in a one off, qualitative, semi structured telephone interview lasting up to one hour. Each interview will be transcribed verbatim. Each transcript will undergo thematic analysis to identify important and common themes influencing recovery. In parallel, a second cohort of 259 participants will be asked to complete an on line survey. The survey responses will be summarised with descriptive statistics.
REC name
North West - Liverpool Central Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
19/NW/0022
Date of REC Opinion
11 Mar 2019
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion