Managing Achilles Pain - a pilot study; version 2.0
Research type
Research Study
Full title
The association of working alliance, outcome expectation, adherence and self-efficacy with clinical outcomes for Achilles tendon-related pain: protocol for a pilot cohort study (the MAP study)
IRAS ID
219457
Contact name
Adrian J Mallows
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Essex
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 6 months, 1 days
Research summary
Having a painful Achilles tendon is fairly common. Recent research suggests how treatment is delivered may be influential on the success of treatment. Based on previous work, we think a person's expectations, beliefs and who delivers the treatment to them may be important.
Exploring these factors has yet to be investigated for people with a painful Achilles tendon, and in order to do so we have designed this ‘pilot study’ to help us develop a larger study. The primary aim of this study is to help to develop a larger study which will investigate the association and predictive relationship of expectations, beliefs and who delivers the treatment with adherence and outcome for people with a painful Achilles tendon. This is important because a greater understanding of these relationships could lead to opportunities to optimise treatment delivery.
Adults who have been assessed by a physiotherapist at one of our research sites (either an NHS hospital or private physiotherapy clinic, both located in East Anglia, England) and have been determined to have a painful Achilles tendon requiring treatment from the physiotherapist are eligible to take part in the study. We are asking participants to complete an online questionnaire 3 times over a 3 month period. Participants will be contacted by email to remind them to take the follow up surveys. Some participants may then be invited to participate in a follow up interview about their experience of taking part. Overall, the study will run for six months in total and fulfils part of the Chief Investigator's PhD thesis.
REC name
London - Camden & Kings Cross Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
17/LO/1583
Date of REC Opinion
14 Sep 2017
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion