Research (Hansard, 19 July 1995)

§ Mr. Malone

The information is shown in the table.

Title	Researcher/Establishment
(a) Research relating to women and lifestyle
Further analysis of data from the National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (ends January 1996)	Mrs. K. Wellings, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Mrs. J. Wordsworth, St. Mary's Hospital
Evaluation of smoking cessation training pack for health care professionals working with young mothers (ends September 1995)	Professor H. Graham, University of Warwick
Protective factors in adolescent smokers (ends March 1996)	Dr. J. Holland and Professor A. Oakley, University of London
Quantative/behavioural study: why do adolescent girls smoke? (ends January 1996)	Dr. Lloyd, University of Sussex
A comparative study of the daily lives and smoking behaviour of working class women with children (ended December 1994)	Professor H. Graham, University of Warwick
Preventing relapses to smoking in pregnant women (ends December 1997)	Dr. P. Hajar, London Hospital Medical School, and Dr. R. West, St. George's Hospital
Health care delivery to drug-using pregnant women (ends December 1995)	Dr. H. Klee, Metropolitan University Manchester
The effects of passive smoking; analysis of data on the effects of mother and foetus in pregnancy (ended early 1994)	Professor J. Golding, University of Bristol
Prostitution and HIV related risk behaviour—a study of drug-using prostitutes, their clients and their health care needs (ended 1992)	Mrs. J. Faugier, University of Warwick
(b) International stroke trial
International stroke trial to randomise 20,000 acute stroke patients between treatment with aspirin, heparin, both or neither—funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC—ends 1997)	Dr. P. Sandercock and Professor C. Warlow, Edinburgh University

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Title	Researcher/ Establishment
(c) Randomised controlled trial of counselling and antidepressants in primary care
Randomised controlled trial of counselling and antidepressants in primary care—funded by the MRC (ends 1997)	Dr. Lewis, Institute of Psychiatry, London
A comparison of the efficacy and cost effectiveness of counselling, cognitive behavioural therapy, and usual treatment by general practitioner for patients with depression and mixed anxiety and depression	National Health Service Research and Development Programme funding
To establish the efficacy and cost effectiveness of counselling in primary care for patients with chronic depression and anxiety	National Health Service Research and Development Programme funding
(d) Research into the use of stroop test to examine monothematic delusional states
To examine the clinical features and nosological status of eating disorders of childhood onset—in addition to other measures stroop paradigm will be used to measure the extent of psychopathological disturbance in children with eating disorders—funded by the MRC (ends 1988)	Professor Cooper, Institute of Child Health

Note:

1. In relation to (a), within a developing area of study, in collaboration with the MRC, the Department is undertaking several studies on the nutrition of adult men and women, and with children.

2. In relation to (b), the Stroop paradigm or test is a psychological test of information processing. The classical Stroop paradigm consists of a colour word. These may be either congruent (eg the word RED with a red coloured patch) or incongruent (eg the word BLUE with a red patch). When subjects are asked to read the word of identify the colour of the patch, the reaction time is slowed in the incongruous situation; this is known as the Stroop effect and is related to a more general psychological effect known as latent inhibition.