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Bad news in a good way: clinicians' experiences of communicating the diagnosis and prognosis of prolonged disorder of consciousness to relatives (2025)
Journal Article
Shapiro, A., Quinn-Thomas, F., & Hunter, S. (2025). Bad news in a good way: clinicians' experiences of communicating the diagnosis and prognosis of prolonged disorder of consciousness to relatives. British Journal of Neuroscience Nursing, 21(1), https://doi.org/10.12968/bjnn.2024.0008

Background:
Sensitive and effective communication is essential when delivering difficult information to families of people with prolonged disorders of consciousness (PDOC); however, clinicians' experiences and strategies to improve the experience ar... Read More about Bad news in a good way: clinicians' experiences of communicating the diagnosis and prognosis of prolonged disorder of consciousness to relatives.

Interventions for people with perceptual disorders after stroke: the PIONEER scoping review, Cochrane systematic review and priority setting project (2024)
Journal Article
Hazelton, C., Todhunter-Brown, A., Campbell, P., Thomson, K., Nicolson, D. J., McGill, K., SY Chung, C., Dorris, L., Gillespie, D. C., Hunter, S. M., Williams, L. J., & Brady, M. C. (2024). Interventions for people with perceptual disorders after stroke: the PIONEER scoping review, Cochrane systematic review and priority setting project. Health Technology Assessment, 28(69), 1-141. https://doi.org/10.3310/WGJT3471

Stroke often affects recognition and interpretation of information from our senses, resulting in perceptual disorders. Evidence to inform treatment is unclear. To determine the breadth and effectiveness of interventions for stroke-related perceptual... Read More about Interventions for people with perceptual disorders after stroke: the PIONEER scoping review, Cochrane systematic review and priority setting project.

Patient and public involvement in an evidence synthesis project: description of and reflection on involvement (2024)
Journal Article
Thomson, K., Todhunter-Brown, A., Brady, M. C., Campbell, P., Dorris, L., Hunter, S. M., Nicolson, D. J., & Hazelton, C. (2024). Patient and public involvement in an evidence synthesis project: description of and reflection on involvement. Research Involvement and Engagement, 10(1), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40900-024-00637-4

Background: We conducted an NIHR-funded evidence synthesis project, reviewing evidence relating to interventions for perceptual disorders following stroke. This related paper describes how people with lived experience of stroke-related perceptual dis... Read More about Patient and public involvement in an evidence synthesis project: description of and reflection on involvement.

Implementing constraint-induced movement therapy into practice in sub-acute stroke: Experiences and perceptions of stroke survivors and therapists (2024)
Journal Article
Jarvis, K., Edelstyn, N., & Hunter, S. (2024). Implementing constraint-induced movement therapy into practice in sub-acute stroke: Experiences and perceptions of stroke survivors and therapists. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, https://doi.org/10.1177/03080226241261183

Introduction:
Constraint-induced movement therapy has been shown to be effective in a sub-group of sub-acute stroke survivors but has not been widely implemented in the United Kingdom. This study explored therapist and stroke survivor perceptions an... Read More about Implementing constraint-induced movement therapy into practice in sub-acute stroke: Experiences and perceptions of stroke survivors and therapists.

CSP2023: 497 Service evaluation of STROKESTRA®-Stoke, a collaborative community-based music-making stroke therapy programme: the therapists' perspective (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Syczyk, O., Clare, L., Rutley, R., Aries, A., Hunter, S., & O'Mara, M. (2023, November). CSP2023: 497 Service evaluation of STROKESTRA®-Stoke, a collaborative community-based music-making stroke therapy programme: the therapists' perspective. Poster presented at Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) 2023 Annual Conference, Birmingham Conference and Events Centre, Hill Street, , Birmingham, B5 4EW

A retrospective service evaluation exploring physiotherapists' perspectives of a collaborative music-making programme (STROKESTRA®-Stoke) for people post stroke and their partner/carer was undertaken. The evaluation focused on the programme's benefit... Read More about CSP2023: 497 Service evaluation of STROKESTRA®-Stoke, a collaborative community-based music-making stroke therapy programme: the therapists' perspective.

Interventions for perceptual disorders following stroke. (2022)
Journal Article
Hunter, S. (2022). Interventions for perceptual disorders following stroke. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, CD007039 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD007039.pub3

BACKGROUND: Perception is the ability to understand information from our senses. It allows us to experience and meaningfully interact with our environment. A stroke may impair perception in up to 70% of stroke survivors, leading to distress, increase... Read More about Interventions for perceptual disorders following stroke..

Nursing Mothers' Experiences of Musculoskeletal Pain Attributed to Poor Posture During Breastfeeding: A Mixed Methods Study (2022)
Journal Article
Aburub, A., Darabseh, M. Z., Alsharman, A., Hegazy, M. M., & Hunter, S. M. (2022). Nursing Mothers' Experiences of Musculoskeletal Pain Attributed to Poor Posture During Breastfeeding: A Mixed Methods Study. Breastfeeding Medicine, 17(11), 926-931. https://doi.org/10.1089/bfm.2022.0105

Background: Breastfeeding has various benefits for infants and mothers. However, if not performed in the correct posture, prolonged breastfeeding could cause musculoskeletal-related symptoms such as shoulder, neck, and upper back pain. In Jordan, nur... Read More about Nursing Mothers' Experiences of Musculoskeletal Pain Attributed to Poor Posture During Breastfeeding: A Mixed Methods Study.

Stroke survivors’ views on their priorities for upper-limb recovery and the availability of therapy services after stroke: a longitudinal, phenomenological study (2022)
Journal Article
Purton, J., Sim, J., & M. Hunter, S. (2022). Stroke survivors’ views on their priorities for upper-limb recovery and the availability of therapy services after stroke: a longitudinal, phenomenological study. Disability and Rehabilitation, 45(19), 3059-3069. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638288.2022.2120097

Purpose
Forty percent of stroke survivors have a persistent lack of function in the upper limb, causing significant disability. Most personal-care tasks and meaningful activities require bi-manual function of both upper limbs. However, lower-limb mo... Read More about Stroke survivors’ views on their priorities for upper-limb recovery and the availability of therapy services after stroke: a longitudinal, phenomenological study.