Culture and musculoskeletal pain: strategies, challenges, and future directions to develop culturally sensitive physical therapy care

FJJ Reis, J Nijs, R Parker, S Sharma… - Brazilian Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Pain experience has a multidimensional nature. Assessment and treatment
recommendations for pain conditions suggest clinicians use biopsychosocial approaches to …

Community health worker interventions to promote psychosocial outcomes among people living with HIV—A systematic review

HR Han, K Kim, J Murphy, J Cudjoe, P Wilson… - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Background Community health worker (CHW) interventions are a successful strategy to
promote health among HIV-negative and persons living with HIV (PLWH). Psychosocial …

Peer-led self-management interventions and adherence to antiretroviral therapy among people living with HIV: a systematic review

LM Boucher, C Liddy, A Mihan, C Kendall - AIDS and Behavior, 2020 - Springer
Adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) is essential to reduce morbidity and mortality
among people living with HIV (PLWH). However, adherence remains suboptimal, and PLWH …

The effectiveness and sustainability of peer support interventions for persons living with HIV: a realist synthesis

S Han, Y Zhang, X Yang, X Chai, J Guo, L Zhang… - BMJ Global …, 2023 - gh.bmj.com
Background Peer support is an important supplement to medical resources for persons
living with HIV (PLHIV). However, previous studies have shown mixed results about …

Levels of physical activity in people with chronic pain

R Parker, E Bergman, A Mntambo… - South African Journal of …, 2017 - journals.co.za
Background: People who suffer from chronic pain are thought to have lower levels of
physical activity compared to healthy individuals. However, there is a lack of evidence …

A scoping review of sport-based health promotion interventions with youth in Africa

AH Hansell, PR Giacobbi Jr… - Health promotion …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Africa has the highest rates of child mortality and diseases in the world. Research suggests
that sport can be an effective way to enhance health knowledge and behaviors among at …

Exploring experiences engaging in exercise from the perspectives of women living with HIV: A qualitative study

N Sahel-Gozin, M Loutfy, KK O'Brien - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Objectives To explore experiences engaging in exercise from the perspectives of women
living with HIV, specifically, i) nature and extent of exercise, ii) components that characterize …

State of the art: What have the pain sciences brought to physiotherapy?

R Parker, VJ Madden - South African Journal of Physiotherapy, 2020 - journals.co.za
Background: Pain is the most common reason for patients to seek help from a health care
professional. In the past few decades, research has yielded gains in the Pain Sciences …

Pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatments for chronic pain used by patients with pain, HIV, and depression

LA Uebelacker, EM Cherenack, A Busch, JV Baker… - AIDS and Behavior, 2022 - Springer
The objective of this study was to understand pain treatment utilization, perceived efficacy,
and differences in utilization by gender, clinic site, chronicity of pain, pain severity, and …

Self-management interventions for pain and physical symptoms among people living with HIV: a systematic review of the evidence

K Nkhoma, C Norton, C Sabin, A Winston… - JAIDS Journal of …, 2018 - journals.lww.com
Methods: We searched for controlled intervention studies in Amed, Assian, CINAHL,
Cochrane Library, Embase, Medline, PsycInfo, Scopus, and Web of Science data bases …