Co‐Producing a Package of Novel Online Resources to Support the Mental Health Needs of People With Persistent Pain: BeeFree

Stevenson, K.; Evans, N.; Campbell, L.; Callaghan, P.; Lench, J.; McDonald, J.; Chew‐Graham, C. A.; Kingstone, T.

Abstract

1 Background
Low back pain and depression are the leading causes of disability in the UK (Steel et al. 2018). Persistent pain (over 3 months) affects between one-in-three and one-in-two people in the UK (Fayaz et al. 2016). Mental health problems (such as distress, anxiety and depression) are reported by one-in-four people in the UK (ONS 2016). Persistent pain and mental ill-health are linked; people with a long-term physical condition are two-three times more likely to experience a mental health problem compared with the general population (Naylor et al. 2012). Those with long-term conditions take up about half of GP appointments and two thirds of all outpatient appointments (DoH 2012).

Healthcare practitioners in primary care and those working outside of mental health settings highlight the uncertainty of managing persistent MSK pain and distress (Shivji et al. 2022). They report a lack of awareness about mental health symptoms and services and a lack of training on supporting people with comorbid mental health problems (Gunasekaran et al. 2022).

Our project aimed to address three issues identified by The Health Foundation (2018).
Understanding the links between mental health and persistent pain.

Services designed around a single condition, limiting support around h mental and physical health problems.

Variation in support for people's health and wellbeing in the workplace.

We describe the co-production of resources for people with pain and share key learning.

Citation

Stevenson, K., Evans, N., Campbell, L., Callaghan, P., Lench, J., McDonald, J., Chew‐Graham, C. A., & Kingstone, T. (2024). Co‐Producing a Package of Novel Online Resources to Support the Mental Health Needs of People With Persistent Pain: BeeFree. Musculoskeletal Care, 22(4), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1002/msc.1960

• Journal Article Type: Other
• Acceptance Date: Sep 26, 2024
• Online Publication Date: Oct 7, 2024
• Publication Date: Dec 1, 2024
• Deposit Date: Oct 18, 2024
• Publicly Available Date: Oct 18, 2024
• Journal: Musculoskeletal Care
• Print ISSN: 1478-2189
• Electronic ISSN: 1557-0681
• Publisher: Wiley
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 22
• Issue: 4
• Article Number: e1960
• Pages: 1-5
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/msc.1960
• Keywords: co‐production, digital health, mental health, multimorbidity, persistent pain, wellbeing
• Public URL: https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/950505