All Outputs (10)

The impact of prior care experience on nursing students' compassionate values and behaviours: A mixed methods study. (2024)
Journal Article

Compassion is critical to the provision of high-quality healthcare and is foregrounded internationally as an issue of contemporary concern. Paid care experience prior to nurse training has been suggested as a potential means of improving compassion,... Read More about The impact of prior care experience on nursing students' compassionate values and behaviours: A mixed methods study..

Testing a newly developed activity pacing framework for chronic pain/fatigue: a feasibility study (2021)
Journal Article

Abstract Objectives To test the feasibility of using a new activity pacing framework to standardise healthcare professionals’ instructions of pacing, and explore whether measures of activity pacing/symptoms detected changes following treatment. D... Read More about Testing a newly developed activity pacing framework for chronic pain/fatigue: a feasibility study.

“Pacing does help you get your life back”: The acceptability of a newly developed activity pacing framework for chronic pain/fatigue (2021)
Journal Article

Objectives We have developed and feasibility tested an activity pacing framework for clinicians to standardise their recommendations of activity pacing to patients with chronic pain/fatigue. This study aimed to explore the acceptability and fidelity... Read More about “Pacing does help you get your life back”: The acceptability of a newly developed activity pacing framework for chronic pain/fatigue.

Engaging stakeholders to refine an activity pacing framework for chronic pain/fatigue: A nominal group technique (2019)
Journal Article

Objectives Due to the current absence of a standardized guide for activity pacing, the concept of pacing is interpreted in various ways by healthcare professionals, patients and researchers. Consequently, the effects of pacing across different condi... Read More about Engaging stakeholders to refine an activity pacing framework for chronic pain/fatigue: A nominal group technique.

Survey of activity pacing across healthcare professionals informs a new activity pacing framework for chronic pain/fatigue (2019)
Journal Article

INTRODUCTION: Activity pacing is considered a key component of rehabilitation programmes for chronic pain/fatigue. However, there are no widely used guidelines to standardize how pacing is delivered. This study aimed to undertake the first stage in d... Read More about Survey of activity pacing across healthcare professionals informs a new activity pacing framework for chronic pain/fatigue.

Activity pacing: moving beyond taking breaks and slowing down (2018)
Journal Article

This brief communication responds to the paper by Jeong and Cho (Qual Life Res 26(4):903-911, 2017) that has described activity pacing in limited terms of adjusting activities through going at a slower rate and taking breaks. Activity pacing was repo... Read More about Activity pacing: moving beyond taking breaks and slowing down.

Activity Pacing is Associated With Better and Worse Symptoms for Patients With Long-term Conditions (2017)
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BACKGROUND: Activity pacing has been associated with both improved and worsened symptoms, and its role in reducing disability among patients with long-term conditions has been questioned. However, existing studies have measured pacing according to un... Read More about Activity Pacing is Associated With Better and Worse Symptoms for Patients With Long-term Conditions.

Assessing the Psychometric Properties of an Activity Pacing Questionnaire for Chronic Pain and Fatigue. (2015)
Journal Article

Background Therapists frequently advise the use of activity pacing as a coping strategy to manage long-term conditions (eg, chronic low back pain, chronic widespread pain, chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis). However, activity pacing... Read More about Assessing the Psychometric Properties of an Activity Pacing Questionnaire for Chronic Pain and Fatigue..

Exploring patients' opinions of activity pacing and a new activity pacing questionnaire for chronic pain and/or fatigue: a qualitative study. (2015)
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Objective Despite the frequent recommendation of activity pacing as a coping strategy for patients with chronic pain and/or fatigue, pacing is interpreted in different ways and there is an absence of a widely accepted pacing scale. We have developed... Read More about Exploring patients' opinions of activity pacing and a new activity pacing questionnaire for chronic pain and/or fatigue: a qualitative study..

The development of an activity pacing questionnaire for chronic pain and/or fatigue: a Delphi technique. (2013)
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Objective Activity pacing is frequently advised as a coping strategy for the management of chronic conditions (such as chronic low back pain, chronic widespread pain and chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis). Despite anecdotal support... Read More about The development of an activity pacing questionnaire for chronic pain and/or fatigue: a Delphi technique..