Senior Research Fellow
- About
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- Email Address
- l.aucott@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 438160
- Office Address
Health Services Research Unit, 3rd Floor, Health Sciences Building, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, AB25 2ZDTel: +44 (0) 1224 438160,
Email l.aucott@abdn.ac.uk
- School/Department
- School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition
Biography
I am the Senior Statistician within HSRU having joined the Unit in November 2017, managing the Unit statisticians and all statistics commitments. I graduated (BSc Hons in Applied Statistics) from Hallam University, Sheffield in 1984, then went on to complete a PhD ("Analysis of Near Infra Spectra: For Compound Feeds") as a split Statistical/Biometrics discipline from the University of Aberdeen in 1991. Between 1984 -2017 I lectured statistics to mathematical/non-mathematical students at undergraduate/postgraduate levels in Preston and then back in Aberdeen. Since 2008 I have been a Senior Lecturer in medical statistics initially with the Medical Statistics Team, University of Aberdeen before joining the Unit. I have been a Royal Statistical Society (RSS) fellow since 1984 and been actively involved over the years where-ever I have been. Currently I am the chair of the local Highlands RSS group. I have had a particular interest in obesity prevention projects especially those directed towards young adults, although more recently my interests have move to be more trial methodologically based. I have a current and historical interest in using routinely collected data with an epidemiological perspective, but hope to redirect this to explore ways of embedding BIG data into new trial study designs.
Qualifications
- PhD Biostatistics1991 - University of Aberdeen
External Memberships
- Fellow of the Royal statistical Society 1981- (Current chair of local group)
- Statistician on the NIHR Public Health PHR funding board (PHR) (2017- )
- Statistician on several DMC panels for external verification of trials (2017- )
- Research
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Research Overview
Epidemiological and statistical aspects of longitudinal data. Specifically related to obesity prevention/treatment and associated lifestyle factors including nutrition, physical exercise, behaviour and attitude.
Current Research
Obesity prevention particularly for the 16-25 year olds as a hard to reach group with many of the known weight gain trigger points experienced during a lifecourse. We are currently in the process of developing suitable healthy lifestyle intervention programs for specific communities starting with participatory action research approaches.
The effect of fetal growth trajectories on later health outcomes is of particular interest and being investgated in partnership with computer science methodologies
Funding and Grants
Lorna Aucott, Amudha Poobalan, Edwin van Teijlingen. ‘Young People For Young People’ Seminar/Workshops/public Engagement Events, 2013 – 2014: funded by NHS Grampian
Dr S. Turner (PI) Dr N Miln-Tagiyeva, Prof G Devereux, Dr L Aucott. ‘Childhood Asthma Prevalence in 2014 – How and why has this changed over the past 50 years’ March 2014- Feb 2015 funded by Chest, Heart & Stroke Scotland (CH019 RGB4456)
Drs Margret Watson (PI) Dr L Aucott ‘Community pharmacy weight management referral feasibility study’Feb 2014- Oct 2014 funded by NHS-Grampian
Prof Helen Galley, Dr Lorna Aucott 2015-2018, BJA/RCoA ‘Melatonin in doctors and nurses working nightshifts (MIDNIGHT) trial’Professor Nigel Webster (PI) Prof Helen Galley, John Norrie, Lorna Aucott, Lee Allen, Patricia Cooper. ‘ Dose assessment of melatonin in sepsis trial DAMSEL2’ 2017–2019 CSO(ETM/358)
Dr Gareth Jones, Dr Lorna S. Aucott (statistician); Prof Gareth Macfarlane; Wing Commander Alexander Bennett; Dr Raj Sengupta Alison MacDonald Clinical Trial Unit Representative March 1st 2017 – 31st August 2021: Arthritis Research Uk ‘Do non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) reduce the appearance of sacroiliac joint bone marrow oedema on MRI, in spondyloarthritis’ Grant reference 21022.
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- Publications
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Short-stay urgent hospital admissions of children with convulsions: a mixed methods exploratory study to inform out of hospital care pathways.
PloS ONEContributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0301071
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The experience of poor sleep in people with fibromyalgia: a qualitative meta-synthesis
Sleep Medicine, vol. 115, no. Suppl 1, pp. 192Contributions to Journals: Abstracts- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sleep.2023.11.539
Cost-effectiveness of cognitive behavioural and personalised exercise interventions for reducing fatigue in inflammatory rheumatic diseases
Rheumatology, vol. 62, no. 12, pp. 3819-3827Contributions to Journals: ArticlesIdentifying and prioritising future interventions with stakeholders to improve paediatric urgent care pathways in Scotland, UK: a mixed-methods study
BMJ Open, vol. 13, no. 10, e074141Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSymptomatic benefits of testosterone treatment in patient subgroups: a systematic review, individual participant data meta-analysis, and aggregate data meta-analysis
The Lancet Healthy Longevity, vol. 4, no. 10, pp. e561-e572Contributions to Journals: ArticlesRegional variations in short stay urgent paediatric hospital admissions: a sequential mixed-methods approach exploring differences through data linkage and qualitative interviews
BMJ Open, vol. 13, no. 9, e072734Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAntenatal size, early childhood growth, and asthma within a cohort created by data linkage
Pediatric Pulmonology, vol. 58, no. 8, pp. 2364-2374Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ppul.26499
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/20915/1/Turner_etal_Antenatal_Size_Early_VOR.pdf
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Audit, Feedback, and Education to Improve Quality and Outcomes in Transurethral Resection and Single-Instillation Intravesical Chemotherapy for Nonmuscle Invasive Bladder Cancer Treatment: Protocol for a Multicenter International Observational Study With an Embedded Cluster Randomized Trial
JMIR Research Protocols, vol. 12, e42254Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.2196/42254
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/21161/1/Gallagher_JMIRRP_Audit_Feedback_and_VOR.pdf
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Deucravacitinib for treating moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis
Evidence Review Group report in support of NICE STA Programme. London: National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. 155 pagesBooks and Reports: Commissioned ReportsPROSPECT: 4- and 6-year follow-up of a randomised trial of surgery for vaginal prolapse
International Urogynecology Journal, vol. 34, pp. 67-78Contributions to Journals: ArticlesStudy protocol: transurethral REsection and Single instillation intravesical chemotherapy Evaluation in bladder Cancer Treatment (RESECT). A multi-centre international observational study with embedded cluster randomised trial of audit, feedback and education.
JMIR Research ProtocolsContributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.2196/preprints.42254
Insights from and limitations of data linkage studies: analysis of short stay urgent admission referral source from routinely collected Scottish data
Archives of Disease in Childhood, vol. 108, pp. 245-246Contributions to Journals: ArticlesCost utility analysis of shockwave lithotripsy versus ureteroscopic stone treatment in adults
BJU International, vol. 131, no. 2, pp. 253-261Contributions to Journals: ArticlesShort stay hospital admissions for an acutely unwell child: a qualitative study of outcomes that matter to parents and professionals
PloS ONE, vol. 17, no. 12, e0278777Contributions to Journals: ArticlesRemotely delivered cognitive behavioural and personalised exercise interventions for fatigue severity and impact in inflammatory rheumatic diseases: a multi-centre randomised controlled parallel open-label group trial (LIFT)
The Lancet Rheumatology, vol. 4, no. 8, pp. e534-e545Contributions to Journals: ArticlesManagement of the first stage of convulsive status epilepticus in adults: a systematic review of current randomised evidence
Journal of Neurology, vol. 269, no. 7, pp. 3420-3429Contributions to Journals: Review articlesMarine-derived n-3 fatty acids therapy for stroke (Review-Intervention)
The Cochrane database of systematic reviews, vol. 2022, no. 6, CD012815Contributions to Journals: Review articlesHousehold income, fetal size and birth weight: An analysis of eight populations
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, vol. 76, pp. 629-636Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2021-218112
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Adverse cardiovascular events and mortality in men during testosterone treatment: an individual patient and aggregate data meta-analysis
The Lancet Healthy Longevity, vol. 3, no. 6, pp. e381–393Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe EMPOWER blended digital intervention for relapse prevention in schizophrenia: a feasibility cluster randomised controlled trial in Scotland and Australia
The Lancet Psychiatry, vol. 9, no. 6, pp. 477-486Contributions to Journals: ArticlesDigital smartphone intervention to recognise and manage early warning signs in schizophrenia to prevent relapse: the EMPOWER feasibility cluster RCT
Health Technology Assessment, vol. 26, no. 27, pp. v-122Contributions to Journals: ArticlesIdentifying the outcomes important to men with hypogonadism: a qualitative evidence synthesis
Journal of Andrology, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 625-641Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAxicabtagene ciloleucel for treating relapsed or refractory low-grade non-Hodgkin lymphoma
London: Evidence Review Group report in support of NICE STA Programme. London: National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. 106 pagesBooks and Reports: Commissioned ReportsPre-hospital and emergency department treatment of convulsive status epilepticus in adults: an evidence synthesis
Health technology assessment (Winchester, England), vol. 26, no. 20, pp. 1-76Contributions to Journals: ArticlesShockwave lithotripsy compared with ureteroscopic stone treatment for adults with ureteric stones: the TISU non-inferiority RCT
Health technology assessment (Winchester, England), vol. 26, no. 19, pp. 1-70Contributions to Journals: Articles