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  1. Approximately, half of stroke survivors experience fatigue. Fatigue may persist for many months and interferes with participation in everyday activities and has a negative impact on social and family relations...

    Authors: David C. Gillespie, Mark Barber, Marian C. Brady, Alan Carson, Trudie Chalder, Yvonne Chun, Vera Cvoro, Martin Dennis, Maree Hackett, Euan Haig, Allan House, Steff Lewis, Richard Parker, Fiona Wee, Simiao Wu and Gillian Mead
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2020 6:84
  2. Anxiety is highly prevalent in people diagnosed with bipolar disorder (BD), and can persist between acute episodes of mania and depression. Recent studies indicate that people with BD are prone to experiencing...

    Authors: Craig Steel, Kim Wright, Guy Goodwin, Judit Simon, Nicola Morant, Rod Taylor, Michael Brown, Susie Jennings, Susie Hales and Emily Holmes
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2020 6:83
  3. Individuals with type 2 diabetes (T2D) who smoke are at increased risk for many types of cancers as well as an accelerated progression of microvascular and macrovascular complications. Smoking cessation is rec...

    Authors: Sydney A. Martinez, Samantha L. Quaife, Afsheen Hasan, Kathryn A. McMillan, Laura A. Beebe and Fiona Muirhead
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2020 6:82
  4. It has been estimated that automated peritoneal dialysis (APD) is currently the fastest growing renal replacement therapy in the world. However, in light of the growing number of diabetic patients on peritonea...

    Authors: Karin Bergling, Javier de Arteaga, Fabián Ledesma and Carl Mikael Öberg
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2020 6:81
  5. The school environment plays an essential role in promoting health education and physical activity for children and adolescence, and they are more likely to adapt it into their adulthood. School health educati...

    Authors: Aysha Almas, Romaina Iqbal, Sania Sabir, Abdul Ghani and Khawar Kazmi
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2020 6:80
  6. Obesity in adolescence is predictive of obesity in adulthood and risk for chronic disease. Traditional behavioral approaches to addressing obesity in adolescence rarely yield meaningful changes in body mass in...

    Authors: Elizabeth W. Cotter, Sarah E. Hornack, Jenny P. Fotang, Elizabeth Pettit and Nazrat M. Mirza
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2020 6:79
  7. Children from low-income families experience accelerated BMI gain and learning loss during summer. Healthy Summer Learners (HSL) addresses accelerated BMI gain and academic learning loss during summer by provi...

    Authors: R. Dugger, K. Brazendale, E. T. Hunt, J. B. Moore, G. Turner-McGrievy, K. Vogler, M. W. Beets, B. Armstrong and R. G. Weaver
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2020 6:78
  8. In the NICU, interventions intended to enhance maternal sensitivity are indicated in order to optimize preterm infant development and long-term mother-infant attachment. A novel nursing intervention was develo...

    Authors: Andréane Lavallée, Marilyn Aita, José Côté, Linda Bell and Thuy Mai Luu
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2020 6:77
  9. Complications after major surgery are a significant cause of morbidity and mortality. Neck dissection is one of the most commonly performed major operations in Head and Neck Surgical Oncology. Significant surg...

    Authors: Mandeep S. Bajwa, Stacey Carruthers, Rob Hanson, Richard Jackson, Chris Braithwaite, Mike Edwards, Seema Chauhan, Catrin Tudur Smith, Richard J. Shaw and Andrew G. Schache
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2020 6:76
  10. A stroke is a sudden, life-altering event with potentially devastating consequences for survivors and their loved ones. Despite advances in endovascular and neurocritical care approaches to stroke treatment an...

    Authors: Sarah Bannon, Ethan G. Lester, Melissa V. Gates, Jessica McCurley, Ann Lin, Jonathan Rosand and Ana-Maria Vranceanu
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2020 6:75
  11. The valsalva manoeuvre is an internationally recommended initial treatment for supraventricular tachycardia (SVT). The pre-hospital use of a valsalva assist device, to help deliver this manoeuvre, could improv...

    Authors: Andrew Appelboam, Jonathan Green, Paul Ewings and Sarah Black
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2020 6:74
  12. Low quality social relationships in older adults are strongly associated with feelings of loneliness. Physical activity interventions could reduce loneliness and improve psychological well-being, among other h...

    Authors: Anastasia V. Shvedko, Janice L. Thompson, Carolyn A. Greig and Anna C. Whittaker
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2020 6:73
  13. Very few of the publicly available apps directed towards self-management of low back pain (LBP) have been rigorously tested and their theoretical underpinnings seldom described. The selfBACK app was developed ...

    Authors: Louise Fleng Sandal, Cecilie K. Øverås, Anne Lovise Nordstoga, Karen Wood, Kerstin Bach, Jan Hartvigsen, Karen Søgaard and Paul Jarle Mork
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2020 6:72
  14. Structured self-management education (SSME) for people with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) improves biomedical and psychological outcomes, whilst being cost-effective. Yet uptake in the UK remains low. An ‘Em...

    Authors: Melanie Davies, Caroline A. Kristunas, Lisa Huddlestone, Abualbishr Alshreef, Danielle Bodicoat, Simon Dixon, Helen Eborall, Agnieszka Glab, Nicky Hudson, Kamlesh Khunti, Graham Martin, Alison Northern, Mike Patterson, Rebecca Pritchard, Sally Schreder, Bernie Stribling…
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2020 6:71
  15. Hip fracture is common, affecting 20% of women and 10% of men during their lifetime. The trajectory of patients’ recovery as they transition from the acute hospital setting to their usual residence is poorly u...

    Authors: Laura C. Armitage, Yuan Chi, Mauro Santos, Beth K. Lawson, Carlos Areia, Carmelo Velardo, Peter J. Watkinson, Lionel Tarassenko, Matthew L. Costa and Andrew J. Farmer
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2020 6:70
  16. Mobility problems are present in 70–80% of stroke survivors and can result in impaired gait and reduced physical activity limiting independent living. Auditory rhythmic cueing (ARC) has been used to provide au...

    Authors: Patricia McCue, Silvia Del Din, Heather Hunter, Sue Lord, Christopher I. M. Price, Lisa Shaw, Helen Rodgers, Lynn Rochester and Sarah A. Moore
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2020 6:68
  17. An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

    Authors: Kimberly Legault, Mark Blostein, Marc Carrier, Susan Kahn, Sam Schulman, Sudeep Shivakumar, Cynthia Wu and Mark A. Crowther
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2020 6:67

    The original article was published in Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2020 6:52

  18. Hypertension (HTN) affects nearly 1 billion people globally and is a major cause of morbidity and mortality. In low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), HTN represents an unmet health care gap that can be add...

    Authors: Cole Hooley, Ana A. Baumann, Vincent Mutabazi, Angela Brown, Dominic Reeds, W. Todd Cade, Lisa de las Fuentes, Enola K. Proctor, Stephen Karengera, Kenneth Schecthman, Charles Goss, Pascal Launois, Victor G. Davila-Roman and Eugene Mutimura
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2020 6:66
  19. Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS, also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME)) is defined as fatigue that is disabling, is accompanied by additional symptoms and persists for ≥ 4 months. Treatment of CFS/ME aims...

    Authors: Hazel O’Dowd, Lucy Beasant, Jenny Ingram, Alan Montgomery, Will Hollingworth, Daisy Gaunt, Simon M. Collin, Sarah Horne, Beth Jones and Esther Crawley
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2020 6:65
  20. Diabetic retinopathy screening (DRS) leads to the earlier detection of retinopathy and treatment that can prevent or delay the development of diabetes-related blindness. However, uptake continues to be sub-opt...

    Authors: Fiona Riordan, Emmy Racine, Susan M. Smith, Aileen Murphy, John Browne, Patricia M. Kearney, Colin Bradley, Mark James, Mark Murphy and Sheena M. McHugh
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2020 6:64
  21. Globally, including in low- and middle-income [LMIC] countries, there is increased attention to and investment in interventions to prevent and respond to violence against women; however, most of these approach...

    Authors: Sarah R. Meyer, Sangeeta Rege, Prachi Avalaskar, Padma Deosthali, Claudia García-Moreno and Avni Amin
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2020 6:63
  22. Strong evidence exists that substance use is a contributory risk factor for intimate partner abuse (IPA) perpetration. Men in substance use treatment are more likely to perpetrate IPA than men from the general...

    Authors: Gail Gilchrist, Sabine Landau, Polly Radcliffe, Mary McMurran, Gene Feder, Caroline Easton, Steve Parrott, Sara Kirkpatrick, Juliet Henderson, Laura Potts, Danielle Stephens-Lewis, Amy Johnson, Beverly Love, Gemma Halliwell, Sandi Dheensa, Cassandra Berbary…
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2020 6:62
  23. Depression impacts the lives of millions of people worldwide. Behavioral activation (BA), derived from cognitive behavioral therapy, has the potential for improving depressive symptoms in patients with depress...

    Authors: Alessia D’Elia, Monica Bawor, Brittany B. Dennis, Meha Bhatt, Kathryn Litke, Kathleen McCabe, Jeff Whattam, Laura Garrick, Laura O’Neill, Scott Simons, Sandra Chalmers, Brenda Key, Stefanie Goyert, Phillip Laplante, Meredith Vanstone, Feng Xie…
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2020 6:61
  24. Fear of cancer recurrence (FCR) is common in people affected by breast cancer. FCR is associated with increased health service and medication use, anxiety, depression and reduced quality of life. Existing inte...

    Authors: Calum T. McHale, Susanne Cruickshank, Claire Torrens, Jo Armes, Deborah Fenlon, Elspeth Banks, Tom Kelsey and Gerald M. Humphris
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2020 6:60
  25. Physical inactivity and unhealthy eating are two leading behavioral risk factors contributing to preventable non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Evidence-based interventions (EBI) using community-engaged approac...

    Authors: Oluwakemi Ololade Odukoya, Steve Manortey, Michelle Takemoto, Steve Alder and Kolawole S. Okuyemi
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2020 6:59
  26. Despite the benefits of physical activity for walking ability, balance, and mood, less than 30% of stroke survivors engage in recommended levels of physical activity with high levels of sedentary behaviour obs...

    Authors: Sarah A. Moore, Leah Avery, Christopher I. M. Price and Darren Flynn
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2020 6:58
  27. There is a need for workplace programs promoting healthy eating and activity that reach low-wage employees and are scalable beyond the study site. Interventions designed with dissemination in mind aim to utili...

    Authors: Rachel G. Tabak, Jaime R. Strickland, Bridget Kirk, Ryan Colvin, Richard I. Stein, Hank Dart, Graham A. Colditz, Ann Marie Dale and Bradley A. Evanoff
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2020 6:57
  28. Frailty is characterised by increased vulnerability to falls, disability, hospitalisation and care home admission. However, it is relatively reversible in the early stages. Older people living with frailty oft...

    Authors: Anne Heaven, Peter Bower, Bonnie Cundill, Amanda Farrin, Marilyn Foster, Robbie Foy, Suzanne Hartley, Rebecca Hawkins, Claire Hulme, Sara Humphrey, Rebecca Lawton, Catriona Parker, Neil Pendleton, Robert West, John Young and Andrew Clegg
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2020 6:56
  29. Youth with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) represent a growing population with significant service needs. Prominent among these needs are high rates of co-occurring psychiatric conditions that contribute to inc...

    Authors: Kelsey S. Dickson, Gregory A. Aarons, Laura Gutermuth Anthony, Lauren Kenworthy, Brent R. Crandal, Katherine Williams and Lauren Brookman-Frazee
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2020 6:55
  30. Most severe mental disorders have their onset between the age of 17 and 27, a time when many young adults begin participating in secondary or post-secondary education. The cognitive deficits typically associat...

    Authors: Lana K. M. Otto, Jacomijn Hofstra, Michelle G. Mullen, Derek Malenczak, Nynke Boonstra, Lisette van der Meer, Wim Veling, Cees Boerhout, Gerard D. van Rijsbergen, Jos de Vries, Boudien van der Pol, Gerdina H. M. Pijnenborg and Lies Korevaar
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2020 6:54
  31. Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a prevalent women’s health condition with reproductive, metabolic, and psychological manifestations. Weight loss can improve these symptoms and is a key goal; however, many ...

    Authors: Carolyn Ee, Caroline A. Smith, Michael Costello, Lisa Moran, Genevieve Z. Steiner, Nigel Stepto, Adele Cave, Atekah Albrehee and Helena Teede
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2020 6:53
  32. There is uncertainty regarding the safety and effectiveness of direct oral anticoagulant agents in patients with antiphospholipid syndrome (APS). We performed a multicenter feasibility study to examine our abi...

    Authors: Kimberly Legault, Mark Blostein, Marc Carrier, Susan Kahn, Sam Schulman, Sudeep Shivakumar, Cynthia Wu and Mark A. Crowther
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2020 6:52

    The Correction to this article has been published in Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2020 6:67

  33. Poor menstrual health and hygiene (MHH) is a globally recognised public health challenge. A pilot study of an MHH intervention was conducted in two secondary schools in Entebbe, Uganda, over 9 months. The inte...

    Authors: Ruth Nalugya, Clare Tanton, Laura Hytti, Catherine Kansiime, Kevin Nakuya, Prossy Namirembe, Shamira Nakalema, Stella Neema, Connie Alezuyo, Saidat Namuli Musoke, Belen Torondel, Suzanna C. Francis, David A. Ross, Chris Bonell, Janet Seeley and Helen A. Weiss
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2020 6:51
  34. Treatment of locally advanced oesophago-gastric adenocarcinoma usually entails neo-adjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) and surgery. Surgery is associated with high morbidity and mortality. Cardiopulmonary reserve of p...

    Authors: J. Chmelo, A. W. Phillips, A. Greystoke, S. J. Charman, L. Avery, K. Hallsworth, J. Welford and R. C. F. Sinclair
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2020 6:50
  35. Working in good jobs is associated with good health. High unemployment rates are reported in those disabled with musculoskeletal pain. Supported employment interventions work well for helping people with menta...

    Authors: Robert Froud, Mary Grant, Kim Burton, Jonathan Foss, David R. Ellard, Kate Seers, Deb Smith, Mariana Barillec, Shilpa Patel, Kirstie Haywood and Martin Underwood
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2020 6:49
  36. The guidelines for pilot and feasibility studies were published in 2016. Little is known about the guideline adherence of TCM (traditional Chinese medicine) pilot trials or whether the guidelines can significa...

    Authors: Guowei Li, Darong Wu, Xuejiao Chen, Jie Zeng, Ziyi Li and Lehana Thabane
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2020 6:48
  37. Myofascial (self-)treatments, such as foam rollers to therapeutic instruments in manual therapy, are utilized increasingly in prevention and therapy in healthy people, athletes, and patients suffering from chr...

    Authors: Patrick Weber, Christine Graf, Werner Klingler, Nadine Weber and Robert Schleip
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2020 6:47
  38. We sought to evaluate the acceptability of a psychological therapy programme (Therapy for Inter-episode Mood Variability in Bipolar Disorder (ThrIVe-B)) for individuals with ongoing bipolar mood instability an...

    Authors: Kim Wright, Gemma Palmer, Mahmood Javaid, Mohammod Mostazir and Tom Lynch
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2020 6:46
  39. Cameroon still has relatively high maternal mortality rate (MMR) of 596/100,000 live births. Approximately 40% of births are unattended by skilled healthcare personnel with high out-of-pocket expenditures. Poo...

    Authors: Miriam N. Nkangu, Patrick M. Okwen, Lawrence Mbuagbaw, Donald K. Weledji, Janet Hatcher Roberts and Sanni Yaya
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2020 6:45
  40. Individual Placement and Support (IPS) is a model of vocational rehabilitation originally developed to help people with severe mental illness obtain and maintain employment. Work disability is common amongst p...

    Authors: Michelle M. Holmes, Sabina C. Stanescu, Catherine Linaker, Catherine Price, Nick Maguire, Simon Fraser, Cyrus Cooper and Karen Walker-Bone
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2020 6:44
  41. We aimed to investigate and optimise the acceptability and usefulness of a patient leaflet about antibiotic prescribing decisions made during hospitalisation, and to explore individual patient experiences and ...

    Authors: Fiona Mowbray, Katy Sivyer, Marta Santillo, Nicola Jones, Tim E. A. Peto, A. Sarah Walker, Martin J. Llewelyn and Lucy Yardley
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2020 6:43
  42. Untreated heterozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH) causes high low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) levels and increased cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. Despite pharmacological treatment, man...

    Authors: Fiona J. Kinnear, Julian P. Hamilton-Shield, David J. Stensel, Graham Bayly, Aidan Searle, Alice E. Thackray and Fiona E. Lithander
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2020 6:42
  43. The most common management strategy for tinnitus provided in the UK audiology clinics is education and advice. This may also be combined with some form of sound therapy (e.g. digital hearing aids). While educa...

    Authors: Rachel H. Haines, Jennifer White, Garry Meakin, Wei Tan, Trish Hepburn, Paul Leighton, Chloi Theriou, David Stockdale, Christine Almey, Richard Nicholson, Deborah A. Hall and Magdalena Sereda
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2020 6:41
  44. Most patients with minor stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA) are discharged with little or no specialised follow-up. Nonetheless, these patients have a high prevalence of cognitive impairments and a cons...

    Authors: Jacob Liljehult, Stig Molsted, Tom Møller, Dorthe Overgaard, Lis Adamsen, Mary Jarden and Thomas Christensen
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2020 6:40
  45. Excess gestational weight gain (GWG) in pregnant adolescents is a major public health concern. Excess GWG increases risk of pregnancy complications as well as postpartum and offspring obesity and cardiometabol...

    Authors: Lauren B. Shomaker, Lauren D. Gulley, Emma L. M. Clark, Allison M. Hilkin, Bernadette Pivarunas, Marian Tanofsky-Kraff, Kristen J. Nadeau, Linda A. Barbour, Stephen M. Scott and Jeanelle L. Sheeder
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2020 6:39
  46. A thoracolumbar fracture is the most common fracture of the spinal column. Where the fracture is not obviously stable or unstable, the optimal management is uncertain. There are variations between surgeons, tr...

    Authors: Elizabeth Cook, Alison Booth, Elizabeth Coleman, Arabella Scantlebury, Catriona McDaid, Catherine Hewitt, Belen Corbacho, Amar Rangan, Joy Adamson, Arun Ranganathan, Almas Khan, Sashin Ahuja, Emma Turner, Peter May, Catherine Hilton and David J. Torgerson
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2020 6:38
  47. Physical inactivity contributes to disability and falls in older adults. Falls prevention exercise (FaME) programmes improve physical activity and physical function and reduce falling rates. Improvements in ph...

    Authors: Sarah Audsley, Denise Kendrick, Pip Logan, Matthew Jones and Elizabeth Orton
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2020 6:37
  48. Malnutrition is a complex and costly condition that is common among older adults in the United States (US), with up to half at risk for malnutrition. Malnutrition is associated with several non-medical (i.e., ...

    Authors: Andrea M. Morris, Jessa K. Engelberg Anderson, Brenda Schmitthenner, Aileen F. Aylward, Rayad B. Shams, Karen Hurka-Richardson and Timothy F. Platts-Mills
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2020 6:36
  49. Cancer is the second leading cause of death globally. Early detection and disease management lead to a better survival rate. Consequently, discovery of novel methods in cancer early diagnosis is a field of act...

    Authors: Gaétan Chanteloup, Marine Cordonnier, Nicolas Isambert, Aurélie Bertaut, Guillaume Marcion, Carmen Garrido and Jessica Gobbo
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2020 6:35
  50. Residents living and dying in long-term care (LTC) homes represent one of society’s most frail and marginalized populations of older adults, particularly those residents with advanced dementia who are often ex...

    Authors: Sharon Kaasalainen, Paulette V. Hunter, Vanina Dal Bello-Haas, Lisa Dolovich, Katherine Froggatt, Thomas Hadjistavropoulos, Maureen Markle-Reid, Jenny Ploeg, Joyce Simard, Lehana Thabane, Jenny T. van der Steen and Ladislav Volicer
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2020 6:34

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