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The impact of inadequate health literacy in a musculoskeletal pain population (2018)
Journal Article
Lacey, R., Campbell, P., Lewis, M., & Protheroe, J. (2018). The impact of inadequate health literacy in a musculoskeletal pain population. https://doi.org/10.3928/24748307-20181101-01

Musculoskeletal conditions are a major cause of ill-health and disability. Inadequate health literacy may partly explain why musculoskeletal self-management programmes are not effective for some patients. This study prospectively evaluates the impact... Read More about The impact of inadequate health literacy in a musculoskeletal pain population.

Self-management of a musculoskeletal condition for people from harder to reach groups: a qualitative patient interview study. (2018)
Journal Article
Protheroe. (2018). Self-management of a musculoskeletal condition for people from harder to reach groups: a qualitative patient interview study. Disability and Rehabilitation, 1 - 9. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638288.2018.1485182

BACKGROUND: This study recorded the functional health literacy levels of people with musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions from harder to reach groups and explored their experiences in engaging with health care professionals to self-manage their MSK condi... Read More about Self-management of a musculoskeletal condition for people from harder to reach groups: a qualitative patient interview study..

Empowering people to help speak up about safety in primary care: Using codesign to involve patients and professionals in developing new interventions for patients with multimorbidity (2018)
Journal Article
Knowles, S., Hays, R., Senra, H., Bower, P., Locock, L., Protheroe, J., …Daker-White, G. (2018). Empowering people to help speak up about safety in primary care: Using codesign to involve patients and professionals in developing new interventions for patients with multimorbidity. Health Expectations, 21(2), 539-548. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.12648

Background Multimorbidity, defined as the presence of two or more long-term conditions, is increasingly common in primary care, and patients with multimorbidity may face particular barriers to quality of care and increased safety risks due to the co... Read More about Empowering people to help speak up about safety in primary care: Using codesign to involve patients and professionals in developing new interventions for patients with multimorbidity.

Celebrating the health literacy skills and capabilities of parents in Stoke-on-Trent: A Photovoice Study (2018)
Journal Article
Protheroe. (2018). Celebrating the health literacy skills and capabilities of parents in Stoke-on-Trent: A Photovoice Study. Journal of Health Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105318763494

Parents play a vital role in promoting children’s health. The parental health literacy skills are important since the decisions they make can have an impact on other family members’ health and well-being. Using an assets-based approach, this project... Read More about Celebrating the health literacy skills and capabilities of parents in Stoke-on-Trent: A Photovoice Study.

Evidence flowers: An innovative, visual method of presenting “best evidence” summaries to health professional and lay audiences (2018)
Journal Article
Babatunde, O., Tan, V., Jordan, J., Dziedzic, K., Chew-Graham, C., Jinks, C., …Van Der Windt, D. (2018). Evidence flowers: An innovative, visual method of presenting “best evidence” summaries to health professional and lay audiences. Research Synthesis Methods, 9(2), 273-284. https://doi.org/10.1002/jrsm.1295

Background & Aims Barriers to dissemination and engagement with evidence pose a threat to implementing evidence-based medicine. Understanding, retention, and recall can be enhanced by visual presentation of information. The aim of this exploratory r... Read More about Evidence flowers: An innovative, visual method of presenting “best evidence” summaries to health professional and lay audiences.

Epidemiology of paediatric presentations with musculoskeletal problems in primary care. (2018)
Journal Article
Protheroe, & Dunn. (2018). Epidemiology of paediatric presentations with musculoskeletal problems in primary care. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 40 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12891-018-1952-7

BACKGROUND: Musculoskeletal disease is a common cause of morbidity, but there is a paucity of musculoskeletal research focusing on paediatric populations, particularly in primary care settings. In particular, there is limited information on populatio... Read More about Epidemiology of paediatric presentations with musculoskeletal problems in primary care..

Epidemiology of paediatric presentations with musculoskeletal problems in primary care (2018)
Journal Article
Protheroe. (2018). Epidemiology of paediatric presentations with musculoskeletal problems in primary care. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12891-018-1952-7

Background Musculoskeletal disease is a common cause of morbidity, but there is a paucity of musculoskeletal research focusing on paediatric populations, particularly in primary care settings. In particular, there is limited information on populatio... Read More about Epidemiology of paediatric presentations with musculoskeletal problems in primary care.