Supported Health Professionals Research Projects
Exploring Patients’ Knowledge of Non-Pharmacological Treatments for OA: An International Survey in Italy, Sweden, Russia and the United Kingdom
Convenor: Simone Battista, Italy
Models of pain and fatigue in Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Diseases
Convenor: Fernando Estévez-Lopez from Spain
Development and evaluation of a web-based interdisciplinary patient education programme on life style behaviour with a focus on promoting physical activity and exercise in patients with systemic sclerosis Cross-cultural adaptation and psychometric testing of work patient reported outcome measures in people with rheumatoid arthritis in the UK, Sweden and the Czech Republic |
Toward standardized reporting of most commonly used patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) in Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) to enhance comparability Convenor: Birgit Prodinger, Switzerland |
Physical activity and aerobic capacity assessment - a survey among patients and health professionals in Sweden, Ireland, Denmark and Belgium (2015-2016) |
Psychometric testing of the Valued Life Activities Scale and Measure of Activity Performance in the Hand in people with rheumatoid arthritis (2014-2015) |
Patient self-reported quality of osteoarthritis care - comparing cross-national data from Denmark, UK, Portugal and Norway (2013-2014) |
Promotion of Health-Enhancing Physical Activity in Sweden, Italy and the Netherlands - a comparative study (2012-2013) |
A common measure of patient reported outcome for SSC in Europe (2011-2012) |
Explicating treatment processes in care of patients with rheumatoid arthritis: Perspectives gained from three different European welfare states (2010-2011) |
Development of a Dutch and German version of the Evaluation of Daily Activities Questionnaire (EDAQ) for use in Rheumatoid Arthritis (2009-2010) |
Evaluation and development of clinical outcome measures and instruments in Systemic Sclerosis from the perspective of patients (2008-2009) |
Translation and validation of the Leeds Foot Impact Scale for rheumatoid arthritis into Dutch, German and Hungarian, using Rasch analysis (2007-2009) |
An investigation into patients experience of therapeutic footwear (2006-2008) |
Parental self-efficacy in parents with a JIA child, PASE study (2005-2007) |
Adaptation of the Educational Needs Tool for use in four European countries (2004-2006) |
Cross-cultural adaptation of the RA-work instability scale (2003-2005) |
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