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‘I’m managing my diabetes between two worlds’: Beliefs and experiences of diabetes management in British South Asians on holiday in the East: a qualitative study (2015)
Journal Article
Patel, N. R., Kennedy, A., Blickem, C., Reeves, D., & Chew-Graham, C. (in press). ‘I’m managing my diabetes between two worlds’: Beliefs and experiences of diabetes management in British South Asians on holiday in the East: a qualitative study. Journal of Diabetes Research, Article 5436174. https://doi.org/10.1155/2016/5436174

Background. Diabetes is disproportionately high among British South Asians compared to the general UK population. Whilst the migrant British South Asians group has received most attention on research related to diabetes management, little considerati... Read More about ‘I’m managing my diabetes between two worlds’: Beliefs and experiences of diabetes management in British South Asians on holiday in the East: a qualitative study.

Symptom perceptions and help-seeking behaviour prior to lung and colorectal cancer diagnoses: a qualitative study. (2015)
Journal Article
McLachlan, S., Mansell, G., Sanders, T., Yardley, S., van der Windt, D., Brindle, L., …Little, P. (2015). Symptom perceptions and help-seeking behaviour prior to lung and colorectal cancer diagnoses: a qualitative study. Family Practice, 568 - 577. https://doi.org/10.1093/fampra/cmv048

BACKGROUND: Lung and colorectal cancer are common and have high UK mortality rates. Early diagnosis is important in reducing cancer mortality, but the literature on lung and colorectal cancers suggests many people wait for a considerable time before... Read More about Symptom perceptions and help-seeking behaviour prior to lung and colorectal cancer diagnoses: a qualitative study..

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.

Illness beliefs and the sociocultural context of diabetes self-management in British South Asians: a mixed methods study (2015)
Journal Article
Chew-Graham. (2015). Illness beliefs and the sociocultural context of diabetes self-management in British South Asians: a mixed methods study. BMC Family Practice, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12875-015-0269-y

Background British South Asians have a higher incidence of diabetes and poorer health outcomes compared to the general UK population. Beliefs about diabetes are known to play an important role in self-management, yet little is known about the socioc... Read More about Illness beliefs and the sociocultural context of diabetes self-management in British South Asians: a mixed methods study.

046. Integrating Care for Joint Pain and Anxiety and Depression into Reviews for Long-Term Conditions: The Enhance Study (2015)
Journal Article
Jinks, C., Morden, A., Chew-Graham, C., Porcheret, M., Finney, A., Dziedzic, K., …Mallen, C. (2015). 046. Integrating Care for Joint Pain and Anxiety and Depression into Reviews for Long-Term Conditions: The Enhance Study. Rheumatology, 54(S1), https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/kev088.046

Joint pain and mental health problems are common and often co-exist with other long-term conditions (LTCs), but are under-detected and sub-optimally managed in primary care. The aim of the ENHANCE study is to develop and test the feasibility and acc... Read More about 046. Integrating Care for Joint Pain and Anxiety and Depression into Reviews for Long-Term Conditions: The Enhance Study.

Managing depression in people with multimorbidity: a qualitative evaluation of an integrated collaborative care model (2015)
Journal Article
Chew-Graham. (2015). Managing depression in people with multimorbidity: a qualitative evaluation of an integrated collaborative care model. BMC Family Practice, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12875-015-0246-5

Background Patients with comorbid depression and physical health problems have poorer outcomes compared with those with single long term conditions (LTCs), or multiple LTCs without depression. Primary care has traditionally struggled to provide inte... Read More about Managing depression in people with multimorbidity: a qualitative evaluation of an integrated collaborative care model.

Non-disclosure of chronic kidney disease in primary care and the limits of instrumental rationality in chronic illness self-management (2015)
Journal Article
Chew-Graham. (2015). Non-disclosure of chronic kidney disease in primary care and the limits of instrumental rationality in chronic illness self-management. Social Science and Medicine, 31 - 39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.02.035

Early detection of long term conditions is predicated on assumptions that lifestyle changes and medications can be used to reduce or manage the risk of condition progression. However, ambiguity remains about the nature and place of diagnostic disclos... Read More about Non-disclosure of chronic kidney disease in primary care and the limits of instrumental rationality in chronic illness self-management.

Integrated primary care for patients with mental and physical multimorbidity: cluster randomised controlled trial of collaborative care for patients with depression comorbid with diabetes or cardiovascular disease (2015)
Journal Article
Chew-Graham. (2015). Integrated primary care for patients with mental and physical multimorbidity: cluster randomised controlled trial of collaborative care for patients with depression comorbid with diabetes or cardiovascular disease. BMJ, https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.h638

Objective To test the effectiveness of an integrated collaborative care model for people with depression and long term physical conditions. Design Cluster randomised controlled trial. Setting 36 general practices in the north west of England.... Read More about Integrated primary care for patients with mental and physical multimorbidity: cluster randomised controlled trial of collaborative care for patients with depression comorbid with diabetes or cardiovascular disease.

Improving the care of people with long-term conditions in primary care: protocol for the ENHANCE pilot trial (2015)
Journal Article
Healey, E. L., Jinks, C., Tan, V. A., Chew-Graham, C. A., Lawton, S. A., Nicholls, E., …Mallen, C. D. (2015). Improving the care of people with long-term conditions in primary care: protocol for the ENHANCE pilot trial. Journal of Comorbidity, 5(1), 135 -149. https://doi.org/10.15256/joc.2015.5.60

Background: Long-term conditions (LTCs) are important determinants of quality of life and healthcare expenditure worldwide. Whilst multimorbidity is increasingly the norm in primary care, clinical guidelines and the delivery of care remain focused o... Read More about Improving the care of people with long-term conditions in primary care: protocol for the ENHANCE pilot trial.