Kalpita Baird
Statistician

Research

Projects

• BASIL/BASIL+ - An RCT of the BASIL programme, a psychological intervention, for mitigating depression and loneliness during the Covid-19 pandemic in older people with long-term health conditions
• CASCADE - Case finding for depression in primary care: a regression discontinuity design
• DIDACT - Multi-centre randomised controlled trial to assess the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of surgery compared with sling immobilisation in the management of adults with radiological diagnosis of a displaced fracture of the distal clavicle that does not involve the acromioclavicular joint.
• FINCH – A feasibility RCT of a Forest school intervention to improve the mental health of KS2
  children (aged 7-11).
• FLARE - A multi-centre, two-arm, non-inferiority, parallel group, randomised controlled trial with an internal pilot, economic evaluation and nested qualitative study, to assess whether the repair of the Flexor Digitorum Profundus (FDP) alone results in a as good as quality of life compared to repairing FDP and the Flexor Digitorum Superficialis (FDS).
• INTERACT - A cluster RCT of Intensive Interaction to support the communication abilities of children and young people with Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities (PMLD)
• PACT – a programme of six inter-linked studies to understand and improve the experience and safety of care for elderly patients during transitions from hospital to home
• MODS - A programme aiming to develop and evaluate an intervention to improve physical and psychological functioning in older adults with long-term physical health conditions and low mood or depression
• OSTRICH - An RCT of the effectiveness of two types of orthotics for treatment of symptomatic flat feet in children
• SWHSI-2 - A pragmatic multicentre randomised controlled trial to assess the clinical and cost effectiveness of negative pressure wound therapy versus usual care for surgical wounds healing by secondary intention
• TEEMUP – A professional development programme to develop early numeracy in Reception and Year 1 pupils: a cluster randomised controlled trial
• Year 6 Science – A multi-phase project to develop a Year 6 science attainment assessment for use as an evaluation outcome measure
• YorQuit - A 3-arm RCT to test the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of smoking cessation interventions within lung cancer screening programmes in Yorkshire

Research group(s)

• Trials and Statistics

Publications

Full publications list

• Kalpita Baird's publications