Publications by authors named "C Eccleston"
Health literacy-responsive health professionals will be increasingly important in addressing healthcare access and equity issues. This international scoping review aims to understand the extent and ways in which health professionals respond to healthcare users' health literacy, identifying tools used to measure health literacy responsiveness and training to support the development of these attributes. Four online databases were searched.
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- * Critical issues in research include poor governance, lack of diversity, inadequate stakeholder engagement, and issues with data transparency and reporting, which can lead to misguided clinical practices and low value care.
- * The article proposes the ENTRUST-PE framework to enhance the reliability of pain research, aiming to build trust among stakeholders and calling for collective action to improve the quality and outcomes of pain science.
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- Chronic pain is a big problem for many people, and doctors often use antidepressants to help with it, but we didn't know which ones work best or are safe.* -
- The goal of this study was to see how well antidepressants help with chronic pain (not headaches) and whether they have any side effects.* -
- Researchers looked at a lot of studies (176 in total) with many people involved (28,664) to find out if antidepressants really help with pain and improve people's lives.*
Multiple large longitudinal cohorts provide opportunities to address questions about predictors of pain and pain trajectories, even when not anticipated in the design of the historical databases. This focus article uses 2 empirical examples to illustrate the processes of assessing the measurement properties of data from large cohort studies to answer questions about pain. In both examples, data were screened to select candidate variables that captured the impact of chronic pain on self-care activities, productivity, and social activities.
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