Exploring the perceptions of how living with osteoarthritis affects employed people's work productivity (2023)
Journal Article
Ching, A., & Prior, Y. (2023). Exploring the perceptions of how living with osteoarthritis affects employed people's work productivity. Musculoskeletal Care, 21(3), 683-693. https://doi.org/10.1002/msc.1739

Background
Working people with osteoarthritis (OA) can experience difficulties at work due to pain and activity limitation.

Objective
To explore the impact of biopsychosocial factors on work participation in employed people with OA.

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The Workwell trial: protocol for the process evaluation of a randomised controlled trial of job retention vocational rehabilitation for employed people with inflammatory arthritis (2022)
Journal Article
Hammond, A., Radford, K., Ching, A., Prior, Y., O'Brien, R., Woodbridge, S., …Holland, P. (2022). The Workwell trial: protocol for the process evaluation of a randomised controlled trial of job retention vocational rehabilitation for employed people with inflammatory arthritis. Trials, 23, 937. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-022-06871-z

Background: The Workwell trial is a multi-centre randomised controlled trial with the aims of evaluating the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of job retention vocational rehabilitation for employed people with inflammatory arthritis, who are expe... Read More about The Workwell trial: protocol for the process evaluation of a randomised controlled trial of job retention vocational rehabilitation for employed people with inflammatory arthritis.

Perceptions of arthritis glove wear of patients with rheumatoid arthritis and persistent hand pain: A nested questionnaire study within the A‐Gloves trial (2022)
Journal Article
Hammond, A., Prior, Y., Adams, J., Firth, J., O'Neill, T., & Hough, Y. (2022). Perceptions of arthritis glove wear of patients with rheumatoid arthritis and persistent hand pain: A nested questionnaire study within the A‐Gloves trial. Musculoskeletal Care, 21(2), 405-416. https://doi.org/10.1002/msc.1709

Introduction: Arthritis gloves are prescribed in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) to reduce hand pain, stiffness, and improve hand function. As part of a randomised controlled trial, this study investigated participants’ perceptions of wearing arthritis glo... Read More about Perceptions of arthritis glove wear of patients with rheumatoid arthritis and persistent hand pain: A nested questionnaire study within the A‐Gloves trial.

Does wearing arthritis gloves help with hand pain and function? A qualitative study into patients’ views and experiences (2022)
Journal Article
Prior, Y., Bartley, C., Adams, J., Firth, J., Culley, J., O'Neill, T., & Hammond, A. (2022). Does wearing arthritis gloves help with hand pain and function? A qualitative study into patients’ views and experiences. Rheumatology Advances in Practice, 6(1), rkac007. https://doi.org/10.1093/rap/rkac007

Objectives: Arthritis gloves are frequently prescribed to people with undifferentiated inflammatory (UIA) or rheumatoid arthritis (RA), to help reduce hand pain and improve function. Nested within a randomised controlled trial testing the effectivene... Read More about Does wearing arthritis gloves help with hand pain and function? A qualitative study into patients’ views and experiences.

Arthritis glove provision in rheumatoid arthritis and hand osteoarthritis : a survey of United Kingdom rheumatology occupational therapists (2022)
Journal Article
Hammond, A., & Prior, Y. (2022). Arthritis glove provision in rheumatoid arthritis and hand osteoarthritis : a survey of United Kingdom rheumatology occupational therapists. Hand Therapy, 27(1), 3-13. https://doi.org/10.1177/17589983211060620

Introduction: Hand pain and function limitations are common in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and hand osteoarthritis (HOA). Provision of arthritis (compression) gloves to relieve hand symptoms is increasing in occupational therapy. Research evaluating ar... Read More about Arthritis glove provision in rheumatoid arthritis and hand osteoarthritis : a survey of United Kingdom rheumatology occupational therapists.

Association between chronic widespread pain and physical activity behaviour in people with fibromyalgia (2021)
Thesis
Mayana, K. Association between chronic widespread pain and physical activity behaviour in people with fibromyalgia. (Thesis). University of Salford

Background
Fibromyalgia is a prevalent chronic widespread pain condition, affecting 1 in 20 adults in the UK, predominantly women and associated with a significant psychosocial burden. Despite much interest in structured exercise for pain management... Read More about Association between chronic widespread pain and physical activity behaviour in people with fibromyalgia.

EULAR points to consider for the management of difficult-to-treat rheumatoid arthritis (2021)
Journal Article
Nagy, G., Roodenrijs, N., Welsing, P., Kedves, M., Hamar, A., van der Goes, M., …Van Laar, J. (2021). EULAR points to consider for the management of difficult-to-treat rheumatoid arthritis. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, https://doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2021-220973

Objective: To develop evidence-based European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology
(EULAR) points to consider (PtCs) for the management of difficult-to-treat rheumatoid arthritis
(D2T RA).
Methods: A EULAR Task Force was established comprisin... Read More about EULAR points to consider for the management of difficult-to-treat rheumatoid arthritis.

Compression gloves for patients with hand arthritis (C-GLOVES): A feasibility study (2021)
Journal Article
Hammond, A., & Prior, Y. (2021). Compression gloves for patients with hand arthritis (C-GLOVES): A feasibility study. Hand Therapy, 26(1), 26-37. https://doi.org/10.1177/1758998320986829

Introduction: Compression gloves are frequently provided to patients with hand arthritis. Evidence for effectiveness is limited. The aim of this study was to determine feasibility of recruitment, assessment and treatment procedures, in preparation fo... Read More about Compression gloves for patients with hand arthritis (C-GLOVES): A feasibility study.

Clinical and cost effectiveness of arthritis gloves in rheumatoid arthritis (A-GLOVES) : randomised controlled trial with economic analysis (2021)
Journal Article
Hammond, A., Prior, Y., Cotterill, S., Sutton, C., Camacho, E., Heal, C., …Firth, J. (2021). Clinical and cost effectiveness of arthritis gloves in rheumatoid arthritis (A-GLOVES) : randomised controlled trial with economic analysis. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 22, 47. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12891-020-03917-8

Background: Arthritis (or compression) gloves are widely prescribed to people with rheumatoid arthritis and other forms of hand arthritis. They are prescribed for daytime wear to reduce hand pain and improve hand function, and/or night-time wear to r... Read More about Clinical and cost effectiveness of arthritis gloves in rheumatoid arthritis (A-GLOVES) : randomised controlled trial with economic analysis.

EULAR definition of difficult-to-treat rheumatoid arthritis (2020)
Journal Article
Nagy, G., Roodenrijs, N., Welsing, P., Kedves, M., Hamar, A., van der Goes, M., …van Laar, J. (2021). EULAR definition of difficult-to-treat rheumatoid arthritis. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 80(1), 31-35. https://doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2020-217344

Background: Despite treatment according to the current management recommendations, a significant proportion of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) remain symptomatic. These patients can be considered to have ‘difficult-to-treat RA’. However, unif... Read More about EULAR definition of difficult-to-treat rheumatoid arthritis.

Chapter 26 : Occupational therapy (2020)
Book Chapter
Hammond, A., Adams, J., & Prior, Y. (2020). Chapter 26 : Occupational therapy. In D. Scott, J. Galloway, A. Cope, A. Pratt, & V. Strand (Eds.), Oxford Textbook of Rheumatoid Arthritis. Oxford: Oxford University Press

People with rheumatoid arthritis can find it painful, tiring and frustrating to perform their daily activities, work, family and social responsibilities, and leisure. Whilst drug therapy has improved outcomes, many still experience limitations in the... Read More about Chapter 26 : Occupational therapy.

British Valued Life Activities Scale [British VLAs] (2020)
Other
Prior, Y., Tennant, A., Tyson, S., & Hammond, A. (2020). British Valued Life Activities Scale [British VLAs]

The Valued Life Activities Scale (VLAs) : linguistic validation, cultural adaptation and psychometric testing in people with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases in the UK (2020)
Journal Article
Prior, Y., Tennant, A., Tyson, S., & Hammond, A. (2020). The Valued Life Activities Scale (VLAs) : linguistic validation, cultural adaptation and psychometric testing in people with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases in the UK. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 21(1), 505. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12891-020-03409-9

Background
The Valued Life Activities Scale (VLAs) measures difficulty in daily activities and social participation. With various versions involving a different number of items, we have linguistically and culturally adopted the full VLAs (33-items)... Read More about The Valued Life Activities Scale (VLAs) : linguistic validation, cultural adaptation and psychometric testing in people with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases in the UK.

EULAR points to consider for the development, evaluation and implementation of mobile health applications aiding self-management in people living with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (2019)
Journal Article
Najm, A., Nikiphorou, E., Kostine, M., Richez, C., Pauling, J., Finckh, A., …Berenbaum, F. (2019). EULAR points to consider for the development, evaluation and implementation of mobile health applications aiding self-management in people living with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases. RMD Open, 5(2), https://doi.org/10.1136/rmdopen-2019-001014

Background: Mobile health applications (apps) are available to enable people with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMDs) to better self-manage their health. However, guidance on the development and evaluation of such apps is lacking.
Objectiv... Read More about EULAR points to consider for the development, evaluation and implementation of mobile health applications aiding self-management in people living with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases.

2019 EULAR recommendations for the generic core competences of health professionals in rheumatology (2019)
Journal Article
Edelaar, L., Nikiphorou, E., Fragoulis, G., Iagnocco, A., Haines, C., Bakkers, M., …Vliet Vlieland, T. (2020). 2019 EULAR recommendations for the generic core competences of health professionals in rheumatology. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 79(1), 53-60. https://doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2019-215803

Background/objectives. To maintain and optimize the quality of care provided by health
professionals in rheumatology (HPRs), adequate educational offerings are needed. This task force (TF) aimed to develop evidence-based recommendations for the gene... Read More about 2019 EULAR recommendations for the generic core competences of health professionals in rheumatology.

Measure of Activity Performance in the Hand (MAP-Hand) questionnaire (2018)
Other
Prior, Y., Tenant, A., Tyson, S., Kjeken, I., & Hammond, A. (2018). Measure of Activity Performance in the Hand (MAP-Hand) questionnaire. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders

Measure of Activity Performance of the Hand (MAP-Hand) questionnaire : linguistic validation, cultural adaptation and psychometric testing in people with rheumatoid arthritis in the UK (2018)
Journal Article
Prior, Y., Tennant, A., Tyson, S., Kjeken, I., & Hammond, A. (2018). Measure of Activity Performance of the Hand (MAP-Hand) questionnaire : linguistic validation, cultural adaptation and psychometric testing in people with rheumatoid arthritis in the UK. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 19(1), 275. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12891-018-2177-5

Background: Developed in the Norway, the Measure of Activity Performance of the Hand (MAP-Hand) assesses 18 activities performed using the hands. It was developed for people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) using patient generated items, which are scor... Read More about Measure of Activity Performance of the Hand (MAP-Hand) questionnaire : linguistic validation, cultural adaptation and psychometric testing in people with rheumatoid arthritis in the UK.

Linguistic validation, validity and reliability of the British English versions of the Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand (DASH) questionnaire and QuickDASH in people with rheumatoid arthritis (2018)
Journal Article
Hammond, A., Prior, Y., & Tyson, S. (2018). Linguistic validation, validity and reliability of the British English versions of the Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand (DASH) questionnaire and QuickDASH in people with rheumatoid arthritis. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 19, 118. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12891-018-2032-8

Background: Although the Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand (DASH) questionnaire is widely used in the UK, no British English version is available. The aim of this study was to linguistically validate the DASH into British English and then te... Read More about Linguistic validation, validity and reliability of the British English versions of the Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand (DASH) questionnaire and QuickDASH in people with rheumatoid arthritis.

Job retention vocational rehabilitation for employed people with inflammatory arthritis (WORK-IA) : a feasibility randomized controlled trial (2017)
Journal Article
controlled trial. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 18, 315. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12891-017-1671-5

Background: Inflammatory arthritis leads to work disability, absenteeism and presenteeism (i.e. at-work productivity loss) at high cost to individuals, employers and society. A trial of job retention vocational rehabilitation (VR) in the United State... Read More about Job retention vocational rehabilitation for employed people with inflammatory arthritis (WORK-IA) : a feasibility randomized controlled trial.

The psychometric properties of the Evaluation of Daily Activity Questionnaire in seven musculoskeletal conditions (2017)
Journal Article
Hammond, A., Prior, Y., Tennant, A., & Tyson, S. (2018). The psychometric properties of the Evaluation of Daily Activity Questionnaire in seven musculoskeletal conditions. Disability and Rehabilitation, 40(17), 2070-2080. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638288.2017.1323027

Purpose: To psychometrically test the Evaluation of Daily Activity Questionnaire in seven
musculoskeletal conditions.
Materials and Methods: 1200 people with: ankylosing spondylitis; osteoarthritis; systemic
lupus erythematosus; systemic sclerosi... Read More about The psychometric properties of the Evaluation of Daily Activity Questionnaire in seven musculoskeletal conditions.