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Communicating Cardiovascular Disease Risk to People with Psoriasis: What Techniques do Practitioners Use? (2015)
Journal Article
Keyworth, C., Nelson, P. A., Chew-Graham, C. A., Kane, K., Pearce, C. J., Griffiths, C. E. M., …Cordingley, L. (2016). Communicating Cardiovascular Disease Risk to People with Psoriasis: What Techniques do Practitioners Use?. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 23(2), 168-178. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12529-015-9517-8

Background
Psoriasis can be associated with unhealthy lifestyle behaviours such as smoking, excess alcohol use and insufficient physical activity, consequently increasing cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. Health care practitioners are expected to d... Read More about Communicating Cardiovascular Disease Risk to People with Psoriasis: What Techniques do Practitioners Use?.

Revealing hidden depression in older people: a qualitative study within a randomised controlled trial (2015)
Journal Article
Chew-Graham. (2015). Revealing hidden depression in older people: a qualitative study within a randomised controlled trial. BMC Family Practice, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12875-015-0362-2

Background
The prevalence of depressive symptoms in older people may be as high as 20 %. Depression in older people is associated with loss, loneliness and physical co-morbidities; it is known to be under-diagnosed and under-treated. Older people ma... Read More about Revealing hidden depression in older people: a qualitative study within a randomised controlled trial.

Common and unique associated factors for medically unexplained chronic widespread pain and chronic fatigue. (2015)
Journal Article
McBeth, J., Tomenson, B., Chew-Graham, C., Macfarlane, G., Jackson, J., Littlewood, A., & Creed, F. (2015). Common and unique associated factors for medically unexplained chronic widespread pain and chronic fatigue. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 484 - 491. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychores.2015.10.004

OBJECTIVE: Chronic widespread pain and chronic fatigue share common associated factors but these associations may be explained by the presence of concurrent depression and anxiety. METHODS: We mailed questionnaires to a randomly selected sample of pe... Read More about Common and unique associated factors for medically unexplained chronic widespread pain and chronic fatigue..

'I should have taken that further' - missed opportunities during cardiovascular risk assessment in patients with psoriasis in UK primary care settings: a mixed-methods study. (2015)
Journal Article
Chew-Graham. (2015). 'I should have taken that further' - missed opportunities during cardiovascular risk assessment in patients with psoriasis in UK primary care settings: a mixed-methods study. Health Expectations, 1121-1137. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.12404

BACKGROUND: Unhealthy lifestyle is common in psoriasis, contributing to worsening disease and increased cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. CVD risk communication should improve patients' understanding of risk and risk-reducing behaviours; however, th... Read More about 'I should have taken that further' - missed opportunities during cardiovascular risk assessment in patients with psoriasis in UK primary care settings: a mixed-methods study..

Access to healthcare for long-term conditions in women involved in street-based prostitution: a qualitative study (2015)
Journal Article
Chew-Graham. (2015). Access to healthcare for long-term conditions in women involved in street-based prostitution: a qualitative study. BMC Family Practice, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12875-015-0331-9

Background
Women involved in street-based prostitution (SBP) have well-documented health problems specific to their occupation, but access to care for other chronic health problems has not been explored. Primary care is seen as the optimal context t... Read More about Access to healthcare for long-term conditions in women involved in street-based prostitution: a qualitative study.

Modelling self-management pathways for people with diabetes in primary care (2015)
Journal Article
Penn, M. L., Kennedy, A. P., Vassilev, I. I., Chew-Graham, C. A., Protheroe, J., Rogers, A., & Monks, T. (2015). Modelling self-management pathways for people with diabetes in primary care. BMC Family Practice, 112 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12875-015-0325-7

BACKGROUND: Self-management support to facilitate people with type 2 diabetes to effectively manage their condition is complex to implement. Organisational and system elements operating in relation to providing optimal self-management support in prim... Read More about Modelling self-management pathways for people with diabetes in primary care.

The ‘ENHANCE’ long-term condition review: Identifying co-morbid joint pain, depression and anxiety in patients with long-term conditions (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Tan, V., Jinks, C., Porcheret, M., Chew-Graham, C. A., Cooper, V., Healey, E. L., …Finney, A. G. (2015, July). The ‘ENHANCE’ long-term condition review: Identifying co-morbid joint pain, depression and anxiety in patients with long-term conditions. Presented at Health Service Research Network conference (HSRN) Conference (Nottingham), Nottingham Conference Centre, Burton Street, Nottingham, UK

AB0843 Case-Finding for Joint Pain and Anxiety and Depression: the Enhance Study (2015)
Journal Article
Jinks, C., Morden, A., Chew-Graham, C., Porcheret, M., Finney, A., Dziedzic, K., …Mallen, C. (2015). AB0843 Case-Finding for Joint Pain and Anxiety and Depression: the Enhance Study. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 74(Suppl 2), 1182.2-1182. https://doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2015-eular.2270

Background Osteoarthritis (OA) related joint pain and mental health problems are common and often co-exist in patients with other long term conditions (LTCs), but are under-detected and sub-optimally managed in primary care. The ENHANCE study aims to... Read More about AB0843 Case-Finding for Joint Pain and Anxiety and Depression: the Enhance Study.