Funder: NIHR Programme Grants for Applied Research. Total grant £1,999,936.00

Start date: 05/01/2015. End date: 04/01/2020.

Funder: NIHR Programme Grants for Applied Research.

Collaborators: Kirstie Haywood (Warwick): Total 12 co-applicants.

Description: To develop and test a self-management support programme for people living with chronic headache comprising individually tailored and generic components (CHESS intervention). The programme will have six work-streams:

1) piloting the recruitment process;

2) developing a brief diagnostic interview to support accurate diagnosis;

3) developing an education and self-management support intervention;

4) choosing the most appropriate PROMs: including a review of PROMs; a review of outcomes used in headache clinical trials; development of a core outcome set for headache trials (KH to lead);

5) running a RCT and parallel economic intervention;

6) evaluate the processes needed to develop and deliver the trial.

Progress: Grant awarded. Project commenced January 2015. Making progress with both reviews; developing protocol for core outcome set and consensus meeting (for Summer 2016).