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  1. Little is known about the feasibility of progressive shoulder exercises (PSE) for patients with glenohumeral osteoarthritis (OA) or rotator cuff tear arthropathy (CTA). The aim of this study was to investigate...

    Authors: Josefine Beck Larsen, Helle Kvistgaard Østergaard, Theis Muncholm Thillemann, Thomas Falstie-Jensen, Lisa Cecilie Urup Reimer, Sidsel Noe, Steen Lund Jensen and Inger Mechlenburg
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2022 8:168
  2. Falls are highly common in patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD); around two-thirds of AD patients fall annually. Fall events are major drivers of injury, early institutionalization, and shorter survival. Bal...

    Authors: Lekha V. Yesantharao, Paul Rosenberg, Esther Oh, Jeannie Leoutsakos, Cynthia A. Munro and Yuri Agrawal
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2022 8:167
  3. Oral anticoagulants (OACs) are commonly prescribed, have well-documented benefits for important clinical outcomes but have serious harms as well. Rates of OAC-related adverse events including thromboembolic an...

    Authors: Anne M. Holbrook, Kristina Vidug, Lindsay Yoo, Sue Troyan, Sam Schulman, James Douketis, Lehana Thabane, Stephen Giilck, Yousery Koubaesh, Sylvia Hyland, Karim Keshavjee, Joanne Ho, Jean-Eric Tarride, Amna Ahmed, Marianne Talman, Blair Leonard…
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2022 8:166
  4. Younger women (defined as those < 50 years who are likely pre-menopausal at time of diagnosis) with breast cancer often experience persistent treatment-related side effects that adversely affect their physical...

    Authors: K. Sharples, N. K. Vear, J. Porter-Steele, D. J. Anderson, T. H. Moeke-Maxwell, B. B. Laing, L. Young, T. G. Bailey, S. Benge, Y. Huang, E. Crowley, R. Day, R. Cartwright, M. Findlay, D. Porter, M. Kuper…
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2022 8:165
  5. Osteoarthritis (OA) pain is common and leads to functional impairment for many older adults. Physical activity can improve OA outcomes for older adults, but few are appropriately active. Behavioral interventio...

    Authors: Jennifer C. Plumb Vilardaga, Sarah A. Kelleher, Allison Diachina, Jennie Riley and Tamara J. Somers
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2022 8:164
  6. Compared to men in the general population, men in substance use treatment are more likely to perpetrate intimate partner abuse (IPA). The ADVANCE group intervention for men in substance use treatment is tailor...

    Authors: Gail Gilchrist, Sabine Landau, Sandi Dheensa, Juliet Henderson, Amy Johnson, Beverly Love, Laura Potts, Polly Radcliffe, Zohra Zenasni, Steve Parrott, Jinshuo Li, Kate Thomson, Georges-Jacques Dwyer, Richard Turner, Gemma Halliwell, Cassandra Berbary…
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2022 8:163
  7. There are conflicting results on the effect of preoperative exercise programs on long-term function and little evidence on short-term function. The aim is to assess the feasibility of a preoperative strengthen...

    Authors: Lissa Pacheco-Brousseau, Johanna Dobransky, Alanna Jane, Paul E. Beaulé and Stéphane Poitras
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2022 8:162
  8. Neurogenic lower urinary tract dysfunction is an abnormality in the presence of underlying neurologic disease. A recent systematic review and meta-analysis demonstrated that storage phase symptoms are the pred...

    Authors: Hawra B. Al Dandan, Rose Galvin, Katie Robinson, Doreen McClurg and Susan Coote
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2022 8:161
  9. Determining whether complex rehabilitation interventions are delivered with fidelity is important. Implementation fidelity can differ between sites, therapists delivering interventions and, over time, threaten...

    Authors: Jain Anne Holmes, Joanna Clare Fletcher-Smith, Jose Antonio Merchán-Baeza, Julie Phillips and Kathryn Radford
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2022 8:160
  10. Sleep problems are reported in up to 50% of adolescents and young adults (AYA) with cancer. Cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia (CBTi) is considered the gold-standard treatment. In the AYA population, C...

    Authors: Emma Vaughan, Maria Ftanou, Jeremy Lewin, Andrew Murnane, Ilana Berger, Joshua F. Wiley, Martha Hickey, Dani Bullen, Michael Jefford, Jeremy Goldin, Jeremy Stonehouse and Kate Thompson
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2022 8:159
  11. Persistent pain in adolescence adversely affects everyday life and is an important public health problem. The primary aim was to determine the feasibility of an 8-week app-based self-management intervention to...

    Authors: Erik Grasaas, Sølvi Helseth, Liv Fegran, Jennifer Stinson, Milada Småstuen, Chitra Lalloo and Kristin Haraldstad
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2022 8:158
  12. Authors: N. Dippel, T. In-Albon, S. Schneider, H. Christiansen and E.-L. Brakemeier
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2022 8:157

    The original article was published in Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2022 8:145

  13. A previous suicide attempt is an important predictor of future suicide. However, there are no evidence-based interventions administered in UK general hospital contexts to reduce suicidal behaviour in patients ...

    Authors: Rory C. O’Connor, Susie Smillie, Heather McClelland, Jenna-Marie Lundy, Corinna Stewart, Suzy Syrett, Marcela Gavigan, Alex McConnachie, Bethany Stanley, Michael Smith, Gregory K. Brown, Barbara Stanley and Sharon A. Simpson
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2022 8:156
  14. Staff absenteeism and presenteeism incur high costs to the NHS and are associated with adverse health outcomes. The main causes are musculoskeletal complaints and mental ill-health, which are potentially modif...

    Authors: Rachel Adams, Rachel Jordan, Peymané Adab, Tim Barrett, Sheriden Bevan, Lucy Cooper, Ingrid DuRand, Pollyanna Hardy, Nicola Heneghan, Kate Jolly, Sue Jowett, Tom Marshall, Margaret O’Hara, Kiran Rai, Hugh Rickards, Ruth Riley…
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2022 8:155
  15. Motor dysfunctions, such as slower walking speed, precede the occurrence of dementia and mild cognitive impairment, suggesting that walking parameters are effective biomarkers for detecting early sub-clinical ...

    Authors: Tatsuya Fukuoka, Shun Irie, Yoshiteru Watanabe, Toshiki Kutsuna and Akiko Abe
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2022 8:154
  16. To adapt and partly validate a Danish online version of the patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) Oxford Physical Activity Questionnaire (“OPAQ”) and evaluate mobile phones and tablets as data capturing tool...

    Authors: Charlotte Raadkjær Lykkegaard, Sonja Wehberg, Frans Boch Waldorff, Jens Søndergaard and Sinead Holden
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2022 8:153
  17. Good physical health and capacity is a requirement for offshore wind service technicians (WTs) who have substantial physical work demands and are exposed to numerous health hazards. Workplace physical exercise...

    Authors: Anne Skov Oestergaard, Louise Fleng Sandal, Trine Fernando Smidt and Karen Søgaard
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2022 8:152
  18. Evidence for the effectiveness of interventions aimed at improving the health-related quality of life of people living with cancer and/or family members is compelling. However, most interventional research has...

    Authors: Israel Gabriel, Debra Creedy, Amanda McGuire and Elisabeth Coyne
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2022 8:151
  19. Patient organisations may be an under-utilised resource in follow-up of patients requiring long-term exercise as part of their disease management. The purpose of this study was to explore the feasibility of a ...

    Authors: Kenth Louis Joseph, Hanne Dagfinrud, Kåre Birger Hagen, Kristine Røren Nordén, Camilla Fongen, Ole-Martin Wold, Rana S. Hinman, Rachel K. Nelligan, Kim L. Bennell and Anne Therese Tveter
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2022 8:150
  20. Exposure-based psychological treatment appears to have beneficial effects for several patient groups that commonly report distress related to persistent somatic symptoms. Yet exposure-based treatment is rarely...

    Authors: Jonna Hybelius, Anton Gustavsson, Sandra af Winklerfelt Hammarberg, Eva Toth-Pal, Robert Johansson, Brjánn Ljótsson and Erland Axelsson
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2022 8:149
  21. Postnatal depression (PND) affects 13% of new mothers, with numbers rising during the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite this prevalence, many women have difficulty with or hesitancy towards accessing pharmacological ...

    Authors: Rebecca H. Bind, Carolina Estevao, Daisy Fancourt, Katie Hazelgrove, Kristi Sawyer, Lavinia Rebecchini, Celeste Miller, Paola Dazzan, Nick Sevdalis, Anthony Woods, Nikki Crane, Manonmani Manoharan, Alexandra Burton, Hannah Dye, Tim Osborn, Lorna Greenwood…
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2022 8:148
  22. Patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) often have limited ability to communicate making it more difficult to identify and effectively treat their pain. Family caregivers or close friends of critically ill p...

    Authors: Anmol Shahid, Victoria S. Owen, Bonnie G. Sept, Shelly Longmore, Andrea Soo, Rebecca Brundin-Mather, Karla D. Krewulak, Stephana J. Moss, Kara M. Plotnikoff, Céline Gélinas, Kirsten M. Fiest and Henry T. Stelfox
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2022 8:147
  23. As part of the internal pilot of the EMPOWER trial investigating the second-line antiemetic therapies in severe emesis in pregnancy (https://​www.​isrctn.​com/​ISRCTN16924692

    Authors: Mabel Leng Sim Lie, Catherine McParlin, Elaine McColl, Ruth H. Graham and Stephen C. Robson
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2022 8:146
  24. Depression is a serious disorder in childhood and adolescence. Affected children and adolescents show significant impairments in various aspects of life. Studies on the effectiveness or efficacy of psychothera...

    Authors: N. Dippel, T. In-Albon, S. Schneider, H. Christiansen and E.-L. Brakemeier
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2022 8:145

    The Correction to this article has been published in Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2022 8:157

  25. National audits are a common, but variably effective, intervention to improve services. This study aimed to design an intervention to increase the effectiveness of national audit.

    Authors: Michael Sykes, Elaine O’Halloran, Lucy Mahon, Jenny McSharry, Louise Allan, Richard Thomson, Tracy Finch and Niina Kolehmainen
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2022 8:143
  26. Yoga has been shown to reduce pain and improve function in populations with chronic low back pain (cLBP), yet the underlying molecular mechanisms remain elusive. This study examined the feasibility and accepta...

    Authors: Bandita Adhikari, Angela Starkweather, Wanli Xu, Rebecca L. Acabchuk, Divya Ramesh, Bright Eze, Yuxuan Yang, Gee Su Yang, Joseph Walker, Reinhard Laubenbacher and Crystal L. Park
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2022 8:142
  27. Musculoskeletal disorders are a costly burden for health care and social care services. Patients with musculoskeletal disorders are often treated by physiotherapists in primary health care. Psychosocial variab...

    Authors: Madelene Törnblom and Eva Ekvall Hansson
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2022 8:141
  28. There is a need to provide highly repetitive and intensive therapy programs for patients after stroke to improve sensorimotor impairment. The employment of technology-assisted training may facilitate access to...

    Authors: Corina Schuster-Amft, Jan Kool, J. Carsten Möller, Raoul Schweinfurther, Markus J. Ernst, Leah Reicherzer, Carina Ziller, Martin E. Schwab, Simon Wieser and Markus Wirz
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2022 8:139
  29. High-grade gliomas are the most common primary malignant brain tumor in adults having a median survival of only 13–16 months. This is despite the current standard of maximal safe surgical resection followed by...

    Authors: Alireza Mansouri, Carolyn Lai, Damon Scales and Farhad Pirouzmand
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2022 8:138
  30. Freezing of gait (FOG) is notoriously difficult to quantify, which has led to the use of multiple markers as outcomes for clinical trials. The instrumented timed up and go (TUG) and the many parameters that ca...

    Authors: Gonzalo J. Revuelta, Aaron Embry, Jordan J. Elm, Shonna Jenkins, Philip Lee and Steve Kautz
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2022 8:137
  31. Deaths from second-hand smoke (SHS) exposure are increasing, but there is not sufficient evidence to recommend a particular SHS intervention or intervention development approach. Despite the available guidance...

    Authors: Ian Kellar, Zunayed Al Azdi, Cath Jackson, Rumana Huque, Noreen Dadirai Mdege and Kamran Siddiqi
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2022 8:136
  32. Health and social service providers receive limited education on recognizing and responding to family violence. With adequate education, providers could be prepared to identify individuals subjected to family ...

    Authors: Melissa Kimber, Meredith Vanstone, Gina Dimitropoulos, Delphine Collin-Vézina and Donna Stewart
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2022 8:135
  33. The Corona-Vakzin-Konsortium project (CoVaKo) analyses the efficacy and safety of COVID-19 vaccines in a real-world setting, as well as breakthrough infections in Bavaria, Germany. A subproject of CoVaKo aims to ...

    Authors: Nikoletta Zeschick, Lisette Warkentin, Thomas Kühlein, Philipp Steininger, Klaus Überla, Susann Hueber and Maria Sebastião
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2022 8:134
  34. The prevalence of low back pain increases with age and has a profound impact on physical and psychosocial health. With increasing age comes increasing comorbidity, and this also has pronounced health consequen...

    Authors: Katie de Luca, Megan Yanz, Aron Downie, Julie Kendall, Søren T. Skou, Jan Hartvigsen, Simon D. French, Manuela L. Ferreira and Sita M. A. Bierma-Zeinstra
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2022 8:133
  35. The last 20 years have seen a marked increase in the use of cluster randomised trials (CRTs) in schools to evaluate interventions for improving pupil health outcomes. Schools have limited resources and partici...

    Authors: Kitty Parker, Saskia Eddy, Michael Nunns, ZhiMin Xiao, Tamsin Ford, Sandra Eldridge and Obioha C. Ukoumunne
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2022 8:132
  36. Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is a common treatment for severe knee osteoarthritis. Medial-pivot TKA systems (MP-TKA) are theoretically better than posterior-stabilized TKA systems (PS-TKA) in improving static...

    Authors: Cathy W. T. Lo, Matthew A. Brodie, William W. N. Tsang, Stephen R. Lord, Chun-Hoi Yan and Arnold Y. L. Wong
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2022 8:131
  37. Maternal sepsis is a life-threatening condition, defined by organ dysfunction caused by infection during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period. It is estimated to account for between one-tenth and h...

    Authors: Sheikh Irfan Ahmed, Raheel Sikandar, Rubina Barolia, Bakhtawar M. Hanif Khowaja, Kashif Ali Memon, James Cheshire, Catherine Dunlop, Arri Coomarasamy, Lumaan Sheikh and David Lissauer
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2022 8:130
  38. There is a paucity of evidence to support interventions that address the social needs of children and families with chronic medical conditions. The primary objective of this pilot randomized controlled trial (...

    Authors: Gita Wahi, Stacey Marjerrison, Carline Gutierrez, Kimberley Krasevich, Katherine M. Morrison and Lehana Thabane
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2022 8:129
  39. An increasing number of schools in rural settings are implementing multi-tier positive behavioral interventions and supports (PBIS) to address school-climate problems. PBIS can be used to provide the framework...

    Authors: Ricardo Eiraldi, Barry L. McCurdy, Muniya S. Khanna, Jessica Goldstein, Rachel Comly, Jennifer Francisco, Laura E. Rutherford, Tara Wilson, Kathryn Henson, Thomas Farmer and Abbas F. Jawad
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2022 8:128
  40. Although much work has been done on US abortion ideology, less is known relative to the psychological processes that distinguish personal abortion beliefs or how those beliefs are communicated to others. As pa...

    Authors: Danny Valdez, Kristen N. Jozkowski, Katherine Haus, Marijn ten Thij, Brandon L. Crawford, María S. Montenegro, Wen-Juo Lo, Ronna C. Turner and Johan Bollen
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2022 8:127
  41. Community- and strengths-based psychosocial interventions are central to mental health and psychosocial support guidelines, but rigorous evidence regarding the effectiveness of these interventions is limited. ...

    Authors: M. Claire Greene, Annie Bonz, Maria Cristobal, Carolina Vega, Lena S. Andersen, Alejandra Angulo, Andrea Armijos, María Esther Guevara, Lucia Benavides, Alejandra de la Cruz, Maria Jose Lopez, Arianna Moyano, Andrea Murcia, Maria Jose Noboa, Abhimeleck Rodriguez, Jenifer Solis…
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2022 8:126
  42. Digital cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-i) in people with low back pain (LBP) may be efficacious in improving both sleep and pain; and twin trial designs provide greater precision of treatment e...

    Authors: Kevin K. N. Ho, Milena Simic, Marina B. Pinheiro, Christopher B. Miller, Manuela L. Ferreira, Ronald R. Grunstein, John L. Hopper, Juan R. Ordoñana and Paulo H. Ferreira
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2022 8:125
  43. Hip fractures in older adults are significant contributors to severe functional decline and disability as well as hospitalization and increased health care costs. Research shows that timely referral to geriatr...

    Authors: Chantal Backman, Anne Harley, Steve Papp, Colleen Webber, Stéphane Poitras, Randa Berdusco, Paul E. Beaulé and Veronique French-Merkley
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2022 8:124
  44. Cognitive problems affect up to 70% of people with multiple sclerosis (MS), which can negatively impact mood, ability to work, and quality of life. Addressing cognitive problems is a top 10 research priority f...

    Authors: Gogem Topcu, Laura Smith, Jacqueline R. Mhizha-Murira, Nia Goulden, Zoë Hoare, Avril Drummond, Deborah Fitzsimmons, Nikos Evangelou, Klaus Schmierer, Emma C. Tallantyre, Paul Leighton, Kimberley Allen-Philbey, Andrea Stennett, Paul Bradley, Clare Bale, James Turton…
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2022 8:123
  45. Despite elevated risk of cardiometabolic disease among those with serious mental illness, and widespread recognition that physical activity interventions are required, there are multiple barriers to implementi...

    Authors: Sharlene Kaye, Amy Lewandowski, Mitchell Dunne, Julia Bowman and Vicki Archer
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2022 8:122
  46. HIV self-testing (HIVST) is one of the recommended approaches for HIV testing services, particularly for helping reach populations who would not normally access facility-based HIV testing. Key stakeholder enga...

    Authors: Tivani Mashamba-Thompson, Richard Lessells, Tafadzwa Dzinamarira, Paul Drain and Lehana Thabane
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2022 8:121
  47. In psychological research, control conditions in the form of “treatment as usual” provide support for intervention efficacy, but do not allow the attribution of positive outcomes to the unique components of th...

    Authors: Lucy Ymer, Adam McKay, Dana Wong and Jennie Ponsford
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2022 8:120
  48. Women with a history of gestational diabetes (GDM) are at 7-fold increase in the risk of developing diabetes. Insufficient sleep has also been shown to increase diabetes risk. This study aimed to explore the f...

    Authors: Sirimon Reutrakul, Pamela Martyn-Nemeth, Lauretta Quinn, Brett Rydzon, Medha Priyadarshini, Kirstie K. Danielson, Kelly G. Baron and Jennifer Duffecy
    Citation: Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2022 8:119

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