Field of work
David Richards is an experienced nurse and health services researcher. He is author of more than 290 peer reviewed and professional journal articles, books and book chapters. He is joint editor of the book 'Complex Interventions in Health', and has obtained more than £14m (NOK 167m) in external research funding during his career. He undertakes research into complex healthcare interventions including systematic reviews, pilot and feasibility trials, full scale clinical trials and mixed method studies that integrate experimentally-derived outcomes data with findings from observational qualitative studies.
David is an emeritus Senior Investigator in the UK’s National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Faculty. He has been at the forefront of national and international efforts to improve access to treatment for those suffering from high-prevalence mental health problems such as depression, leading the development of the low-intensity treatment methods. He was a Clinical Informatics Advisor to the UK Department of Health from 2008-2011. He has also worked and published extensively on the evidence base for fundamental nursing care. Until recently, he was President of the European Academy of Nursing Science and Head of Nursing at the University of Exeter, UK.
Between 2020-2022, he was chief investigator of the NIHR funded ‘COVID-NURSE’ cluster randomised controlled clinical trial, evaluating a pandemic-specific clinical nursing protocol used by nurses caring for patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19.
Health Services Research
Fundamental Nursing Care
Clinical Trials
Systematic Reviews
Research Methods
Primary care mental health
Fundamental Nursing Care
Low-intensity psychological therapies
Mixed methods research methods
Diabest
Publications
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Interprofessional follow-up for people at risk of type 2 diabetes in primary healthcare–a randomized controlled trial with embedded qualitative interviews
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Evaluation of an interprofessional follow-up intervention among people with type 2 diabetes in primary care—A randomized controlled trial with embedded qualitative interviews
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Evaluation of a COVID-19 fundamental nursing care guideline versus usual care: The COVID-NURSE cluster randomized controlled trial
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Diabetes Distress and Associations With Demographic and Clinical Variables: A Nationwide Population-Based Registry Study of 10,186 Adults With Type 1 Diabetes in Norway
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An mHealth Intervention to Improve Guardians’ Adherence to Children’s Follow-Up Care for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in Tanzania (GuardiansCan Project): Protocol for a Development and Feasibility Study
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A multicomponent complex intervention for supportive follow-up of persons with chronic heart failure: a randomized controlled pilot study (the UTILE project)
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Patient activation in adults attending appointments in general practice: a cross-sectional study
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Misinterpreting the MRC Framework on complex interventions
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Team-based Guided Self-Determination follow-up among people at risk of developing Type 2 diabetes or with manifest disease in four general practices in Vestland and Viken.
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How well do Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Behavioural Activation for depression repair anhedonia? A secondary analysis of the COBRA randomized controlled trial
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Efficacy and moderators of cognitive therapy versus behavioural activation for adults with depression: study protocol of a systematic review and meta-analysis of individual participant data
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Socioeconomic Indicators of Treatment Prognosis for Adults with Depression: A Systematic Review and Individual Patient Data Meta-analysis
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Nurses’ strategies for overcoming barriers to fundamental nursing care in patients with COVID-19 caused by infection with the SARS-COV-2 virus: Results from the ‘COVID-NURSE’ survey
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A Patient Stratification Approach to Identifying the Likelihood of Continued Chronic Depression and Relapse Following Treatment for Depression
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Self-care, symptom experience, needs, and past health-care utilization in individuals with heart failure: results of a cross-sectional study
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The contribution of depressive ‘disorder characteristics’ to determinations of prognosis for adults with depression: an individual patient data meta-analysis
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Increasing recruitment into covid-19 trials: fund nursing trials
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Impact of COVID-19 and other infectious conditions requiring isolation on the provision of and adaptations to fundamental nursing care in hospital in terms of overall patient experience, care quality, functional ability, and treatment outcomes: systematic review
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Fundamental nursing care in patients with the sars-cov-2 virus: results from the ‘covid-nurse’ mixed methods survey into nurses’ experiences of missed care and barriers to care
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Effectiveness of collaborative care in reducing suicidal ideation: An individual participant data meta-analysis.
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COVID-NURSE: Evaluation of a fundamental nursing care protocol compared with care as usual on experience of care for noninvasively ventilated patients in hospital with the SARS-CoV-2 virus-Protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial
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Role of age, gender and marital status in prognosis for adults with depression: An individual patient data meta-analysis
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Ungt fólk með tegund 1 sykursýki: Reynsla ungs fólks af þátttöku í íhlutun þar sem PAID-streitukvarðinn var notaður
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Use of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) in clinical diabetes consultations: the DiaPROM randomised controlled pilot trial
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Young adults with type 1 diabetes and their experiences with diabetes follow‐up and participation in the DiaPROM pilot trial: A qualitative study
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Re: David Oliver: Getting Defensive over Patient Experience in the Pandemic. It’s a pan-professional endemic issue.
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Behavioural activation therapy for depression in adults
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The role of relapse prevention for depression in collaborative care: a systematic review
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Personalising psychotherapies for depression using a novel mixed methods approach: an example from Morita therapy
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Year 2020, truly the ‘international year of the nurse and the midwife’
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Observational research on fundamental nursing care: Enough already!
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What is Morita Therapy? The Nature, Origins, and Cross-Cultural Application of a Unique Japanese Psychotherapy
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Nurses’ and physicians’ experiences with diabetes consultations and the use of dialogue tools in the DiaPROM pilot trial: A qualitative study
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Piloting the Problem Areas in Diabetes Scale in Clinical Practice: The DiaPROM Pilot Trial
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Piloting the Problem Areas in Diabetes Scale in Clinical Practice: The DiaPROM Pilot Trial
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Electronic capturing of patient-reported outcome measures on a touchscreen computer in clinical diabetes practice (the DiaPROM trial): a feasibility study
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Use of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) in clinical diabetes consultations: study protocol for the DiaPROM randomised controlled trial pilot study
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The Second Triennial Systematic Literature Review of European Nursing Research: Impact on Patient Outcomes and Implications for Evidence-Based Practice