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Chris J. Main
Health Psychology
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Backs in the Future: A Journey Through the Spinal Landscape
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Open AccessOpening the Workplace After COVID-19: What Lessons Can be Learned from Return-to-Work Research?
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Erratum to: Implementation Science and Employer Disability Practices: Embedding Implementation Factors in Research Designs
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Open AccessEmployer Policies and Practices to Manage and Prevent Disability: Foreword to the Special Issue
Purpose Employer policies and practices have been shown to impact workplace disability, but research in this area has waned in recent years despite an aging workforce, a growing prevalenc...
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Open AccessImplementation Science and Employer Disability Practices: Embedding Implementation Factors in Research Designs
Purpose For work disability research to have an impact on employer policies and practices it is important for such research to acknowledge and incorporate relevant aspects of the workplac...
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Open AccessEmployer Policies and Practices to Manage and Prevent Disability: Conclusion to the Special Issue
Purpose Research of employer policies and practices to manage and prevent disability spans many disciplines and perspectives, and there are many challenges related to stakeholder collabor...
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Conceptual, Methodological, and Measurement Challenges in Addressing Return to Work in Workers with Musculoskeletal Disorders
Traditionally, the problem of return to work for people with musculoskeletal disorders has been viewed primarily from a biomedical or biomechanical/ergonomic perspective. Research on the outcome of treatment, ...
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Towards an Approach to Return to Work Interventions in Musculoskeletal Disorders
In the companion paper (Main and Shaw 2015 in this Handbook) the conceptual, methodological, and measurement challenges influencing return to work (RTW) were addressed. This chapter begins with consideration o...
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Challenges to Remaining at Work with Common Health Problems: What Helps and What Influence Do Organisational Policies Have?
Introduction: Common health problems have a significant impact on work productivity (presenteeism), and sickness absence. The aim of this study was to examine the attitudes and beliefs of...
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What Happens to Work if you’re Unwell? Beliefs and Attitudes of Managers and Employees With Musculoskeletal Pain in a Public Sector Setting
Introduction: Musculoskeletal complaints can impact on work in terms of productivity, sickness absence and long term incapacity for work. While employee attitudes and knowledge can drive absenteeism and presentee...
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Early Patient Screening and Intervention to Address Individual-Level Occupational Factors (“Blue Flags”) in Back Disability
Objective To develop a consensus plan for research and practice to encourage routine clinician screening of occupational factors associated with long-term back disability. Methods A 3-day...
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An Examination of the Psychometric Properties and Factor Structure of the Feelings of Stigmatization Questionnaire
As the experience of stigma and its psychological dimensions require careful measurement, the purpose of this study was to examine the psychometric properties and factor structure of the Feelings of Stigmatiza...
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Worry and Pathological Worry in Patients with Psoriasis: Cross Sectional and Longitudinal Analyses of the Penn State Worry Questionnaire (PSWQ) in Four Samples of Patients
The purpose of the present study was to examine the psychometric properties of the Penn state Worry Questionnaire (PSWQ) in patients with psoriasis. A series of cross-sectional and longitudinal studies were un...
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Attentional Bias for Psoriasis-Specific and Psychosocial Threat in Patients with Psoriasis
Information processing biases relate to the manner in which people attend to particular types of information more readily than others. This bias, which is central to cognitive models of disorder, has not been ...
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Screening for patients at risk of develo** chronic incapacity
Formal investigations of psychiatric disorders and long-term personality characteristics have been relatively unhelpful in the prediction of future incapacity. Clinical studies of pain patients have led to a n.....
