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Getting back to life after stroke: co-designing a peer-led coaching intervention to enable stroke survivors to rebuild a meaningful life after stroke (2018)
Journal Article
Masteron-Algar, P., Williams, S., Burton, C. R., Arthur, C., Hoare, Z., Morrison, V., …Elghenzai, S. (2018). Getting back to life after stroke: co-designing a peer-led coaching intervention to enable stroke survivors to rebuild a meaningful life after stroke. Disability and Rehabilitation, https://doi.org/10.1080/09638288.2018.1524521

Purpose Rebuilding one’s life after stroke is a key priority persistently identified by patients yet professionally led interventions have little impact. This co-design study constructs and tests a novel peer-led coaching intervention to improve pos... Read More about Getting back to life after stroke: co-designing a peer-led coaching intervention to enable stroke survivors to rebuild a meaningful life after stroke.

Return to work after stroke: feasibility of 6-year follow-up (2018)
Journal Article
Phillips, J., Gaffney, K., Phillips, M., & Radford, K. (2018). Return to work after stroke: feasibility of 6-year follow-up. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 82(1), 27-37. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308022618791976

Introduction Little is known about long-term work sustainability of stroke survivors. A feasibility trial of early stroke specialist vocational rehabilitation had 32/46 (69.5%) participants available for follow-up at 12 months post stroke. Of these,... Read More about Return to work after stroke: feasibility of 6-year follow-up.

Early, specialist vocational rehabilitation to facilitate return to work after traumatic brain injury: the FRESH feasibility RCT (2018)
Journal Article
Radford, K. A., Sutton, C., Sach, T., Holmes, J., Watkins, C. L., Forshaw, D., …Phillips, J. (2018). Early, specialist vocational rehabilitation to facilitate return to work after traumatic brain injury: the FRESH feasibility RCT. Health Technology Assessment, 22(33), https://doi.org/10.3310/hta22330

Background Up to 160,000 people incur traumatic brain injury (TBI) each year in the UK. TBI can have profound effects on many areas of human functioning, including participation in work. There is limited evidence of the clinical effectiveness and... Read More about Early, specialist vocational rehabilitation to facilitate return to work after traumatic brain injury: the FRESH feasibility RCT.

Informing evaluation of a smartphone application for people with acquired brain injury: a stakeholder engagement study (2018)
Journal Article
Kettlewell, J., Phillips, J., Radford, K. A., & das Nair, R. (2018). Informing evaluation of a smartphone application for people with acquired brain injury: a stakeholder engagement study. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 18(1), Article 33. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12911-018-0611-0

Background Brain in Hand is a smartphone application (app) that allows users to create structured diaries with problems and solutions, attach reminders, record task completion and has a symptom monitoring system. Brain in Hand was designed to supp... Read More about Informing evaluation of a smartphone application for people with acquired brain injury: a stakeholder engagement study.

Return to work after stroke: feasibility six year follow-up (2018)
Journal Article
Phillips, J., Radford, K., Phillips, M., Gaffney, K., Stevens, J., & Coult, M. (2018). Return to work after stroke: feasibility six year follow-up

Background: In a feasibility trial of early occupational therapy vocational rehabilitation (VR), more VR participants were in work at 12 months compared to those who received usual NHS rehabilitation after stroke (UC) (11 [65%] v 6 [35%]) (Radford e... Read More about Return to work after stroke: feasibility six year follow-up.

Psychosocial factors associated with change in pain and disability outcomes in chronic low back pain patients treated by physiotherapist: a systematic review (2018)
Journal Article
Alhowimel, A., Alotaibi, M., Radford, K. A., & Coulson, N. S. (in press). Psychosocial factors associated with change in pain and disability outcomes in chronic low back pain patients treated by physiotherapist: a systematic review. SAGE Open Medicine, https://doi.org/10.1177/2050312118757387

Background: Almost 80% of people have low back pain at least once in their life. Clinical guidelines emphasize the use of conservative physiotherapy and the importance of staying active. While the psychological factors predicting poor recovery follow... Read More about Psychosocial factors associated with change in pain and disability outcomes in chronic low back pain patients treated by physiotherapist: a systematic review.