Professor Sarah Dean
Professor of Psychology Applied to Rehabilitation and Health
Expertise
Rehabilitation Medicine, Health Psychology, Physiotherapy
Biography
My research interests include applying psychology to rehabilitation medicine, such as goal-setting and facilitating adherence to exercise therapy, for a number of different chronic conditions including stroke, low back pain and urinary incontinence.
I use qualitative and mixed methods approaches for my research. A recently published textbook captures much of my approach to rehabilitation research and teaching; I was the lead editor for the book and contributed as author to five of the seven chapters: Dean, S.G., Siegert, R.J. & Taylor, W.J. (editors). (2012) Interprofessional Rehabilitation: a person-centred approach. Wiley Blackwell: Oxford.
As part of my PenARC role I am also the academic lead for the peninsula wide Making Sense of Evidence workshops. These one-day workshops are open to clinicians, NHS staff, applied health researchers as well as patients and members of the public who are involved with PenARC.
Publications
- A group-based behavioural intervention for weight management (PROGROUP) versus usual care in adults with severe obesity: a feasibility randomised controlled trial protocol
- Assessing the fidelity of the independently getting up off the floor (IGO) technique as part of the ReTrain pilot feasibility randomised controlled trial for stroke survivors
- Knowledge about osteoarthritis: Development of the Hip and Knee Osteoarthritis Knowledge Scales and protocol for testing their measurement properties
- “It Makes You Feel That You Are There”: Exploring the Acceptability of Virtual Reality Nature Environments for People with Memory Loss
- “It Makes You Feel That You Are There”: Exploring the Acceptability of Virtual Reality Nature Environments for People with Memory Loss
- Group singing intervention to improve wellbeing for people with aphasia
- Effectiveness of pelvic floor muscle training with and without electromyography biofeedback for female urinary incontinence: the OPAL multicentre randomised controlled trial
- Knowledge needs and use in long-term care homes for older people: a qualitative interview study of managers’ views
- “Are you doing your pelvic floor?” An ethnographic exploration of the interaction between women and midwives about pelvic floor muscle exercises (PFME) during pregnancy
- Implementing pelvic floor muscle training in women’s childbearing years: A critical interpretive synthesis of individual, professional, and service issues
- Independently Getting Off the floor: a feasibility study of teaching people with stroke to get up after a fall
- Are we over estimating physical activity prevalence in children?
- Children’s compliance with wrist-worn accelerometry within a cluster-randomized controlled trial: Findings from The Healthy Lifestyles Programme (HeLP)
- Cluster randomised controlled trial and economic and process evaluation to determine the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of a novel intervention [Healthy Lifestyles Programme (HeLP)] to prevent obesity in school children
- Effectiveness of the Healthy Lifestyles Programme (HeLP) to prevent obesity in UK primary-school children: a cluster randomised controlled trial
- Trial baseline characteristics of a cluster randomised controlled trial of a school-located obesity prevention programme; the Healthy Lifestyles Programme (HeLP) trial
- Opportunities, challenges and concerns for the implementation and uptake of pelvic floor muscle assessment and exercises during the childbearing years: Protocol for a Critical Interpretive Synthesis
- Detailed statistical analysis plan for a cluster randomised controlled trial of the Healthy Lifestyles Programme (HeLP), a novel school-based intervention to prevent obesity in school children
- Home-based cardiac rehabilitation for people with heart failure: A systematic review and meta-analysis
- Community-based Rehabilitation Training after stroke: protocol of a pilot randomised controlled trial (ReTrain)
- Creating psychological connections between intervention recipients: Development and focus group evaluation of a group singing session for people with aphasia
- Assessing the impact of upper limb impairment following stroke: a qualitative enquiry using internet-based personal accounts of stroke survivors
- Goal setting and strategies to enhance goal pursuit for adults with acquired disability participating in rehabilitation
- Acute low back pain management in general practice: uncertainty and conflicting certainties
- Clinical practitioner’s attitudes towards use of routine outcome monitoring within child and adolescent mental health services: a qualitative study of two Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
- Motivators for uptake and maintenance of exercise: perceptions of long-term stroke survivors and implications for design of exercise programmes
- A systematic review of measures of self-reported adherence to unsupervised home-based rehabilitation exercise programmes, and their psychometric properties
- Intervention fidelity: developing an experience-based model for rehabilitation research
- Fear avoidance beliefs, held by occupational therapists, are associated with treatment recommendations
- Synthesising practice guidelines for the development of community-based exercise programmes after stroke
- Survival, momentum, and things that make me ”me”: patients’ perceptions of goal setting after stroke
- Informing the design of a randomised controlled trial of an exercise-based programme for long term stroke survivors: lessons from a before-and-after case series study
- The Healthy Lifestyles Programme (HeLP), a novel school-based intervention to prevent obesity in school children: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
- An indigenous approach to explore health-related experiences among M
- The enduring impact of what we say to people with low back pain
- Leaving a spinal unit and returning to the wider community: an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
- Creating Change that Counts: Evidence-led Co-creation as a Pathway to Impact
- Psychological consequences of false-positive screening mammograms in the UK
- Interprofessional Rehabilitation: a person-centred approach
- Goal setting and activities to enhance goal pursuit for adults with acquired disabilities participating in rehabilitation
- It’s a double edged sword’: a qualitative analysis of the experiences of exercise amongst people with Bipolar Disorder
- The association between health care professional attitudes and beliefs and the attitudes and beliefs, clinical management, and outcomes of patients with low back pain: a systematic review
- Navigating patient-centered goal setting in inpatient stroke rehabilitation: how clinicians control the process to meet perceived professional responsibilities
- Rural workers’ experience of low back pain: exploring why they continue to work
- Can clinical Pilates decrease pain and improve function in people complaining of non-specific chronic low back pain? A pilot study
- Utility of the RT3 triaxial accelerometer in free living: an investigation of adherence and data loss
- Musculoskeletal pain and treatment choice: an exploration of illness perceptions and choices of conventional or complementary therapies