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Sarah Hewlett's Outputs (160)

A Q-methodology study of flare help-seeking behaviours and different experiences of daily life in rheumatoid arthritis (2014)
Journal Article

© 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.

It's like a juggling act: Rheumatoid arthritis patient perspectives on daily life and flare while on current treatment regimes (2014)
Journal Article

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)
Journal Article

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.

Establishing a core domain set to measure rheumatoid arthritis flares: Report of the OMERACT 11 RA flare workshop (2014)
Journal Article

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.

Identifying core domains to assess flare in rheumatoid arthritis: An OMERACT international patient and provider combined Delphi consensus (2012)
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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.

'To Suddenly Have a Name for this Thing... Was Wonderful': The Patient's Experience of Receiving a Diagnosis of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (2012)
Journal Article

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.