adjustment to hand injury version 3
Research type
Research Study
Full title
adjustment to hand injury: a longitudinal survey using the Common Sense Model to explore adjustment to hand injury
IRAS ID
166482
Contact name
Martin Dempster
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Queens University Belfast
Duration of Study in the UK
2 years, 1 months, 26 days
Research summary
Hand injuries are very common and are known to have physical, psychological, and functional impacts on individuals. While hand injuries are well researched and understood in terms of physical recovery, less is known about adjustment to them in terms of the psychological and functional outcomes. This project aims to explore what variables are involved in this adjustment process and what role or to what extent each is responsible for variations in adjustment between individuals.
Based on a review of the literature, the factors being explored are illness cognitions/beliefs relating to the injury, coping styles, functional use/outcomes, mood (depression), trauma symptoms (PTSD), and quality of life; as well as demographic information such as gender, marital status, and age.
All patients who present to the regional plastics unit with a hand injury and who are deemed to meet the inclusion criteria, will be provided with a research pack prior to discharge. This pack contains an information sheet, consent form, and questionnaire. Patients who wish to take part are required to complete the consent form and return it with the questionnaire to the researcher in a stamped addressed envelope. It they require alternative means of completion, only the consent form is returned and the researcher will contact them directly. A second questionnaire will then be administrated at 3 months with a final questionnaire administered at 18 months post injury. Consideration and adjustments will be made where possible to accommodate dominant hand injuries to ensure equality of access to the study.
All data will be kept securely and made anonymous at the earliest opportunity. Once the second questionnaire is returned, all personal and identifying information will be destroyed and only the anonymous data kept for analysis.REC name
North East - Newcastle & North Tyneside 2 Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
15/NE/0096
Date of REC Opinion
12 Mar 2015
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion