Dear Doctors,
I am a postgraduate student carrying out a Counselling Psychology Doctoral research project titled:
Practitioners' experience of working with chronic musculoskeletal pain patients who catastrophise.
I am writing to Doctors, Physiotherapists, Osteopaths, and Acupuncturists to see if practitioners are interested in participating in the study.
The study aims to explore the experiences of practitioners working with chronic musculoskeletal pain patients. The main focus of the study is to explore your experiences with patients who use the negative pain coping strategy, Catastrophising, compared to with other patients who do not.
Catastrophising: Focussing on and ruminating over pain, considering oneself as 'helpless', and magnifying pain and disability (by assuming the worst possible outcome).
I am seeking more GPs for this study as recruitment has been very difficult. Participation involves completion of a self-report questionnaire taking 20mins. The questionnaire can be emailed to you, and sent back as an attachment.
The study aims to support practitioners in their work with chronic pain patients by investigating how 'Catastrophising' may impact the Practitioner-Patient relationship. The doctorate is being undertaken at City University London, UK.
Please contact me via email (details below) if would like a questionnaire sent to you or if you have any questions.
The study has received NHS LREC ethical approval, and R&D approval from a London Primary Care Trust. In addition the research is being carried out in accordance with the British Psychological Society's Code of Conduct for Research.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
S.Khan
Counselling Psychology,
School of Social Sciences,
City University,
Northampton Square ,
London EC1V OHB
Email:
Shoma.K@gmail.com
COMPLETED QUESTIONNAIRES RECEIVED BY JAN.31st WILL BE ENTERED INTO A RAFFLE TO WIN UP TO FOUR RECENTLY PUBLISHED TEXT BOOKS IN THE FIELD OF PAIN MANAGEMENT.
