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A social norms approach to changing school children’s perceptions of tobacco usage (2017)
Journal Article
Sheikh, A., Vadera, S., Ravey, M., Lovatt, G., & Kelly, G. (2017). A social norms approach to changing school children’s perceptions of tobacco usage. Health Education, 117(6), 530-539. https://doi.org/10.1108/he-01-2017-0006

Purpose: Over 200,000 young people in the UK embark on a smoking career annually, thus continued effort is required to understand the types of interventions that are most effective in changing perceptions about smoking amongst teenagers. Several auth... Read More about A social norms approach to changing school children’s perceptions of tobacco usage.

Development of a patient-reported outcome measure for the foot affected by rheumatoid arthritis (2012)
Journal Article
Walmsley, S., Ravey, M., Graham, A., Teh, L., & Williams, A. (2012). Development of a patient-reported outcome measure for the foot affected by rheumatoid arthritis. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 65, 413-422. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2011.11.00

Objective: To develop an idiographic and nomothetic patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) for the assessment and evaluation of patients with feet affected by rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Study Design and Setting: The development of the Salford Rheum... Read More about Development of a patient-reported outcome measure for the foot affected by rheumatoid arthritis.

Commentary on the ‘‘Development of a sex offender assessment and treatment service within a Community Learning Disability Team (the SHEALD project): part 2’’ (2011)
Journal Article
Team (the SHEALD project): part 2’’. Tizard Learning Disability Review, 16(3), 17-20

Purpose – This paper aims to provide a commentary on the previous paper in this issue on the ‘‘Development of a sex offender assessment and treatment service within a Community Learning Disability Team (the SHEALD project): part 2’’ Design/methodo... Read More about Commentary on the ‘‘Development of a sex offender assessment and treatment service within a Community Learning Disability Team (the SHEALD project): part 2’’.

Rheumatoid arthritis patients' experiences of wearing therapeutic footwear - A qualitative investigation (2007)
Journal Article
Williams, A., Nester, C., & Ravey, M. (2007). Rheumatoid arthritis patients' experiences of wearing therapeutic footwear - A qualitative investigation. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 8(104), https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2474-8-104

Background: Specialist 'therapeutic' footwear is recommended for patients with diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA) as a beneficial intervention for reducing foot pain, improving foot health, and increasing general mobility. However, many pat... Read More about Rheumatoid arthritis patients' experiences of wearing therapeutic footwear - A qualitative investigation.

The rheumatoid foot: a systematic literature review of patient reported outcome measures
Journal Article
Walmsley, S., Williams, A., Ravey, M., & Graham, A. The rheumatoid foot: a systematic literature review of patient reported outcome measures. Journal of Foot and Ankle Research, 3(12), https://doi.org/10.1186/1757-1146-3-12

Background The foot is often the first area of the body to be systematically affected by rheumatoid arthritis. The multidimensional consequences of foot problems for patients can be subjectively evaluated using patient-reported outcome measures (P... Read More about The rheumatoid foot: a systematic literature review of patient reported outcome measures.

Women’s experiences of wearing therapeutic footwear in three European countries
Journal Article
Williams, A., Nester, C., Ravey, M., Kottink, A., & Morey-Klapsing, G. Women’s experiences of wearing therapeutic footwear in three European countries. Journal of Foot and Ankle Research, 3(23), https://doi.org/10.1186/1757-1146-3-23

Background: Therapeutic footwear is recommended for those people with severe foot problems associated with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). However, it is known that many do not wear them. Although previous European studies have recommended service and f... Read More about Women’s experiences of wearing therapeutic footwear in three European countries.