Dr Jacqueline Mair awarded grant to study effects of adaptive pacing therapy

Dr Jacqueline Mair, Senior Scientist in the Mobile Health Interventions module at FHT, has been awarded a United Kingdom National Institute of Health Research grant. The grant will be administered through her collaboration with the University of West Scotland.

The grant will support her project study, titled ‘Using Activity Tracking and Just-in-Time Messaging to Improve Adaptive Pacing: A Pragmatic Randomised Control Trial’. She will look at how adaptive pacing can be used to improve outcomes for patients suffering from Long Covid and fatigue. The research team will experiment sending ‘just-in-time’ notifications to patients' smartphones when they are at risk of over-exertion, and then examine if such reminders help improve the patients' chronic symptoms.

Adaptive pacing therapy is a technique commonly used to treat people with chronic fatigue syndrome. The team are working closely with patients suffering from Long Covid and currently studying the if the approach will help people fully recover.