All Outputs (140)

Protocol for a randomised controlled trial for Reducing Arthritis Fatigue by clinical Teams (RAFT) using cognitive-behavioural approaches (2015)
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Hewlett, S., Ambler, N., Almeida, C., Blair, P. S., Choy, E., Dures, E., …Pollock, J. (2015). Protocol for a randomised controlled trial for Reducing Arthritis Fatigue by clinical Teams (RAFT) using cognitive-behavioural approaches. BMJ Open, 5(8), https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2015-009061

Introduction: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) fatigue is distressing, leading to unmanageable physical and cognitive exhaustion impacting on health, leisure and work. Group cognitive-behavioural (CB) therapy delivered by a clinical psychologist demonstrate... Read More about Protocol for a randomised controlled trial for Reducing Arthritis Fatigue by clinical Teams (RAFT) using cognitive-behavioural approaches.

More than just minutes of stiffness in the morning: Report from the OMERACT rheumatoid arthritis flare group stiffness breakout sessions (2015)
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Woodworth, T. G., March, L., Furst, D. E., Christensen, R., Choy, E. H., Bykerk, V. P., …Bingham III, C. O. (2015). More than just minutes of stiffness in the morning: Report from the OMERACT rheumatoid arthritis flare group stiffness breakout sessions. Journal of Rheumatology, 42(11), 2182-2184. https://doi.org/10.3899/jrheum.141172

The Journal of Rheumatology Copyright © 2015. All rights reserved. Objective. Stiffness was endorsed within the rheumatoid arthritis (RA) flare core domain set at the previous Outcome Measures in Rheumatology meeting (OMERACT 11). Two stiffness break... Read More about More than just minutes of stiffness in the morning: Report from the OMERACT rheumatoid arthritis flare group stiffness breakout sessions.

Development of a physical activity programme for people with recently diagnosed rheumatoid arthritis (2015)
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Cramp, F. A., Withall, J., Haase, A., Walsh, N., Young, A., & Hewlett, S. (2015). Development of a physical activity programme for people with recently diagnosed rheumatoid arthritis. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 74(Supp 2), 1336. https://doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2015-eular.1647

Background People with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are less physically active (PA) than the general population and lower PA levels are associated with work disability, reduced physical function and co-morbidities. This suggests an urgent need to identi... Read More about Development of a physical activity programme for people with recently diagnosed rheumatoid arthritis.

Stiffness is more than just duration and severity: A qualitative exploration in people with rheumatoid arthritis (2014)
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Kirwan, J., Halls, S., Dures, E., Kirwan, J. R., Pollock, J., Baker, G., …Hewlett, S. (2014). Stiffness is more than just duration and severity: A qualitative exploration in people with rheumatoid arthritis. Rheumatology, 54(4), 615-622. https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/keu379

© The Author 2014. Objective. Stiffness is internationally recognized as an important indicator of inflammatory activity in RA but is poorly understood and difficult to measure. The aim of this study was to explore the experience of stiffness from th... Read More about Stiffness is more than just duration and severity: A qualitative exploration in people with rheumatoid arthritis.

A Q-methodology study of flare help-seeking behaviours and different experiences of daily life in rheumatoid arthritis (2014)
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Hughes, R., Richards, P., Flurey, C. A., Morris, M., Pollock, J., & Hewlett, S. (2014). A Q-methodology study of flare help-seeking behaviours and different experiences of daily life in rheumatoid arthritis. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 15(1), 364. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2474-15-364

© 2014 Lin et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. Background: Previous studies have not addressed rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients' help-seeking behaviours for RA flares, and only one small qualitative study has addressed how patients experience dail... Read More about A Q-methodology study of flare help-seeking behaviours and different experiences of daily life in rheumatoid arthritis.

The potential use of physical activity to help manage fatigue in rheumatoid arthritis: Lessons from other long-term conditions (2014)
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Salmon, V., Hewlett, S., Walsh, N., Kirwan, J. R., Urban, M., Morris, M., & Cramp, F. (. (2014). The potential use of physical activity to help manage fatigue in rheumatoid arthritis: Lessons from other long-term conditions. Rheumatology, 53(S1), i122. https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/keu106.010

Background: Fatigue is a major symptom of RA and the need for effective interventions is evident. Programmes based upon physical activity (PA) have been shown to improve patient reported fatigue in other long term conditions (LTCs). To inform the dev... Read More about The potential use of physical activity to help manage fatigue in rheumatoid arthritis: Lessons from other long-term conditions.

It's like a juggling act: Rheumatoid arthritis patient perspectives on daily life and flare while on current treatment regimes (2014)
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Hughes, R., Flurey, C. A., Morris, M., Richards, P., & Hewlett, S. (2014). It's like a juggling act: Rheumatoid arthritis patient perspectives on daily life and flare while on current treatment regimes. Rheumatology, 53(4), 696-703. https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/ket416

Objective: The objective of this study was to explore patients' experiences of RA daily life while on modern treatments. Methods: The methods of this study comprised semi-structured interviews with 15 RA patients, analysed using inductive thematic an... Read More about It's like a juggling act: Rheumatoid arthritis patient perspectives on daily life and flare while on current treatment regimes.

Rheumatology clinicians' experiences of brief training and implementation of skills to support patient self-management (2014)
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Dures, E., Hewlett, S., Ambler, N., Jenkins, R., Clarke, J., & Gooberman-Hill, R. (2014). Rheumatology clinicians' experiences of brief training and implementation of skills to support patient self-management. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 15(1), 108. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2474-15-108

Background: Self-management of arthritis requires informed, activated patients to manage its physical and psychosocial consequences. Patient activation and self-management can be enhanced through the use of cognitive-behavioural approaches, which hav... Read More about Rheumatology clinicians' experiences of brief training and implementation of skills to support patient self-management.

Updating the OMERACT Filter: Core areas as a basis for defining core outcome sets (2014)
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Landewé, R. B., D'Agostino, M. A., Kirwan, J. R., Boers, M., Hewlett, S., Beaton, D., …Tugwell, P. (2014). Updating the OMERACT Filter: Core areas as a basis for defining core outcome sets. Journal of Rheumatology, 41(5), 994-999. https://doi.org/10.3899/jrheum.131309

Objective. The Outcome Measures in Rheumatology (OMERACT) Filter provides guidelines for the development and validation of outcome measures for use in clinical research. The "Truth" section of the OMERACT Filter presupposes an explicit framework for... Read More about Updating the OMERACT Filter: Core areas as a basis for defining core outcome sets.

Establishing a core domain set to measure rheumatoid arthritis flares: Report of the OMERACT 11 RA flare workshop (2014)
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Orbai, A. M., Bykerk, V. P., Lie, E., Bartlett, S. J., Alten, R., Boonen, A., …Choy, E. H. (2014). Establishing a core domain set to measure rheumatoid arthritis flares: Report of the OMERACT 11 RA flare workshop. Journal of Rheumatology, 41(4), 799-809. https://doi.org/10.3899/jrheum.131252

Objective. The OMERACT Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) Flare Group (FG) is developing a data-driven, patient-inclusive, consensus-based RA flare definition for use in clinical trials, longterm observational studies, and clinical practice. At OMERACT 11, we... Read More about Establishing a core domain set to measure rheumatoid arthritis flares: Report of the OMERACT 11 RA flare workshop.

Updating the omeract filter: Discrimination and feasibility (2014)
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OØstergaard, M., Landewé, R. B., D'Agostino, M. A., OØstergaard, M., Wells, G., Beaton, D. E., …Van Der Heijde, D. M. (2014). Updating the omeract filter: Discrimination and feasibility. Journal of Rheumatology, 41(5), 1005-1010. https://doi.org/10.3899/jrheum.131311

The " Discrimination" part of the OMERACT Filter asks whether a measure discriminates between situations that are of interest. " Feasibility" in the OMERACT Filter encompasses the practical considerations of using an instrument, including its ease of... Read More about Updating the omeract filter: Discrimination and feasibility.

Patient involvement in outcome measures for Psoriatic arthritis (2014)
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O'Sullivan, D., Tillett, W., Adebajo, A., Brooke, M., Campbell, W., Coates, L. C., …McHugh, N. (2014). Patient involvement in outcome measures for Psoriatic arthritis. Current Rheumatology Reports, 16(5), 418. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11926-014-0418-7

Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is a heterogeneous inflammatory arthritis with a varied clinical phenotype. There has been considerable international collaboration over recent years to develop and prioritise appropriate disease domains and outcome measures... Read More about Patient involvement in outcome measures for Psoriatic arthritis.

Updating the omeract filter: Implications for patient-reported outcomes (2014)
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Voshaar, M. M., Nikaï, E., Landewé, R. B., Boers, B., Kirwan, J. R., Bartlett, S. J., …Gossec, L. (2014). Updating the omeract filter: Implications for patient-reported outcomes. Journal of Rheumatology, 41(5), 1011-1015. https://doi.org/10.3899/jrheum.131312

Objective: At a previous Outcome Measures in Rheumatology (OMERACT) meeting, participants reflected on the underlying methods of patient-reported outcome (PRO) instrument development. The participants requested proposals for more explicit instrument... Read More about Updating the omeract filter: Implications for patient-reported outcomes.

Updating the OMERACT filter: Implications for imaging and soluble biomarkers (2014)
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Landewé, R. B., Østergaard, M., D'Agostino, M. A., Boers, M., Kirwan, J., Van Der Heijde, D., …Conaghan, P. G. (2014). Updating the OMERACT filter: Implications for imaging and soluble biomarkers. Journal of Rheumatology, 41(5), 1016-1024. https://doi.org/10.3899/jrheum.131313

Objective. The Outcome Measures in Rheumatology (OMERACT) Filter provides a framework for the validation of outcome measures for use in rheumatology clinical research. However, imaging and biochemical measures may face additional validation challenge... Read More about Updating the OMERACT filter: Implications for imaging and soluble biomarkers.

Reliability and sensitivity to change of the bristol rheumatoid arthritis fatigue scales (2013)
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Nicklin, J. K., Cramp, F. A., Hewlett, S. E., Dures, E. K., Dures, E., Hewlett, S., …Kirwan, J. R. (2013). Reliability and sensitivity to change of the bristol rheumatoid arthritis fatigue scales. Rheumatology, 52(10), 1832-1839. https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/ket218

Objective. To examine the reliability (stability) and sensitivity of the Bristol Rheumatoid Arthritis Fatigue scales (BRAFs) and patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) developed to capture the fatigue experience. The Multi-Dimensional Questionnair... Read More about Reliability and sensitivity to change of the bristol rheumatoid arthritis fatigue scales.

Non-pharmacological interventions for fatigue in rheumatoid arthritis (2013)
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Cramp, F., Cramp, F. (., Hewlett, S., Almeida, C., Kirwan, J. R., Choy, E. H., …Christensen, R. (2013). Non-pharmacological interventions for fatigue in rheumatoid arthritis. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2013(8), https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD008322.pub2

© 2013 The Cochrane Collaboration. Background: Fatigue is a common and potentially distressing symptom for people with rheumatoid arthritis with no accepted evidence based management guidelines. Non-pharmacological interventions, such as physical act... Read More about Non-pharmacological interventions for fatigue in rheumatoid arthritis.

Identifying core domains to assess flare in rheumatoid arthritis: An OMERACT international patient and provider combined Delphi consensus (2012)
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Christensen, R., Furst, D. E., Strand, V., Leong, A. L., Bykerk, V., Boonen, A., …Hewlett, S. (2012). Identifying core domains to assess flare in rheumatoid arthritis: An OMERACT international patient and provider combined Delphi consensus. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 71(11), 1855-1860. https://doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2011-201201

Objectives: For rheumatoid arthritis (RA), there is no consensus on how to define and assess flare. Variability in flare definitions impairs understanding of findings across studies and limits ability to pool results. The OMERACT RA Flare Group sough... Read More about Identifying core domains to assess flare in rheumatoid arthritis: An OMERACT international patient and provider combined Delphi consensus.

Exploring the cultural validity of rheumatology outcomes (2012)
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Sanderson, T., Hewlett, S., Calnan, M., Morris, M., Raza, K., & Kumar, K. (2012). Exploring the cultural validity of rheumatology outcomes. British Journal of Nursing, 21(17), 1015-1023

In rheumatoid arthritis (RA), the use of a ‘core’ set of treatment outcomes was pioneered to ensure that the same outcomes are measured across all clinical trials to enable comparison of trial results. However, studies have not investigated the inf... Read More about Exploring the cultural validity of rheumatology outcomes.

Cognitiveg-behavioural approaches to self-management in rheumatic disease (2012)
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Dures, E., & Hewlett, S. (2012). Cognitiveg-behavioural approaches to self-management in rheumatic disease. Nature Reviews Rheumatology, 8(9), 553-559. https://doi.org/10.1038/nrrheum.2012.108

Patients with rheumatic disease must adjust psychosocially and behaviourally in order to manage the impact of symptoms and treatment on their daily lives, and the emotional consequences of the disease. However, patients can improve their well-being b... Read More about Cognitiveg-behavioural approaches to self-management in rheumatic disease.

'To Suddenly Have a Name for this Thing... Was Wonderful': The Patient's Experience of Receiving a Diagnosis of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (2012)
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Mccabe, C. S., Mchugh, N., Elliott, B., Waldron, N., Brown, S. J., & Hewlett, S. (2012). 'To Suddenly Have a Name for this Thing... Was Wonderful': The Patient's Experience of Receiving a Diagnosis of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. Musculoskeletal Care, 10(3), 135-141. https://doi.org/10.1002/msc.1010

Objectives: The aim of this study was to explore the patient's perception of receiving a diagnosis of systemic lupus erythematosus (lupus) and reports on their experience of the period between onset of symptoms and receiving a definitive diagnosis. M... Read More about 'To Suddenly Have a Name for this Thing... Was Wonderful': The Patient's Experience of Receiving a Diagnosis of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus.