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Professor Sarah Dean

Professor in Psychology Applied to Rehabilitation and Health

S.Dean@exeter.ac.uk

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College House 2.19

College House, University of Exeter, St Luke's Campus, Heavitree Road, Exeter, EX1 2LU, UK

Overview

I have extensive experience of working in interdisciplinary environments for both teaching and research at the Universities of Southampton, Otago (New Zealand) and including my current role within the South West Peninsula Applied Research Collaboration (PenARC) and at the University of Exeter Medical School. I have a dual professional background as a Chartered Physiotherapist and a Chartered Psychologist with two higher degrees in Health Psychology. I worked clinically in both the NHS and private sector, specialising in musculoskeletal rehabilitation, particularly exercise therapy for sports injuries and cardiac rehabilitation. During this time, I was also training and competing as an international athlete for Great Britain in the 400m Hurdles. I have been co-chair for UEMS Equality and Diversity committee since 2015 initiating Medical School's pilot mentoring scheme and Inspiring stories campaign.

Qualifications

PhD, Health Psychology, Kings College, University of London, 2003
MSc, Health Psychology, University of London, 1994
Graduate Diploma in Physiotherapy, Guy’s Hospital, London, 1989
BSc Joint Honours, Psychology & Physical Education, University of Birmingham, 1986
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Chartered Psychologist, British Psychological Society
Member of the Division of Health Psychology, British Psychological Society and European Health Psychology Society
Member of the Division of Sports Psychology, British Psychological Society
Member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
Health Care Professions Council registered physiotherapist, UK.
Member of the Physiotherapy Pain Association, UK

Career

Position	Institution	Dates
Professor in Psychology Applied to Rehabilitation and Health	University of Exeter Medical School, UK	July 2017- ongoing
Deputy Director / Co-Director	Exeter Clinical Trials Unit	October 2016 - March 2020
Associate Professor in Psychology Applied to Rehabilitation and Health	University of Exeter Medical School, UK	June 2015- July 2017
Senior Lecturer in Psychology Applied to Health (formerly Health Research)	University of Exeter Medical School, UK	June 2009- June 2015
Honorary Contract	Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Trust, UK	2010 on-going
Honorary Associate Professor	University of Otago, New Zealand	June 2009 on-going
Deputy Director Rehabilitation Teaching and Research Unit	School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand	May 2008 to May 2009
Senior Lecturer in Rehabilitation, Rehabilitation Teaching and Research Unit	School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand	February 2004 to May 2009
Lecturer in Physiotherapy	School of Health Professions and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Southampton, UK	April 1995 to January 2004
Acting Physiotherapy Manager	BUPA Chalybeate Hospital, Southampton, UK	August 1994 to April 1995
Senior Physiotherapist	BUPA Chalybeate Hospital, Southampton, UK	January 1991 to August 1994 (part time then full time)
Junior Physiotherapist	Guy’s Hospital, London, UK	August 1989 to January 1991

Research group links

Research

Research interests

My research area is in applied, interdisciplinary health research as an expert in applying psychology to rehabilitation and health, including goal-setting and behaviour change strategies for facilitating adherence to exercise therapy and physical activity. The clinical focus of my research is chronic condition management, especially through exercise based rehabilitation for people with stroke, urinary incontinence, spinal injury, asthma, low back pain, musculoskeletal pain, depression or cardiovascular problems. My second research focus is methodological including the science and theory of rehabilitation, measurement of exercise adherence, complex intervention development and the evaluation of intervention delivery fidelity and I use mixed methods (quantitative and qualitative) and provide process evaluation and behaviour change expertise on large collaborative multi-centre clinical trials including OPAL https://www.fundingawards.nihr.ac.uk/award/11/71/03 and ERICA https://www.theericatrial.co.uk/.

Research projects

£2.7m (2018-2022) Gilling’s Trust. What is the clinical-effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of embedded risk-of-cancer assessment of patients in primary care; the ERICA trial. Willie Hamilton, Martin Pitt, Anne Spencer, John Campbell, Rod Taylor, Gary Abel, Fiona Warren and Sarah Dean. Sarah's role is lead for the process evaluation.

£123,558 (2017-2019). Halpin Trust. DECODE. Enhancing the diagnostic pathway for dementia using DECODE. David Llewellyn, Sarah Dean, Sarah Moore, Fiona Warren, Clive Ballard, John Campbell, Willie Hamilton, Elzbieta Kuzma, Iain Lang, Laura Hill. Sarah's role is lead for the process evaluation and RCT planning.

£182,240 (2017-2018) The Stroke Association. Singing for People with Aphasia (SPA): A Pilot Randomised Controlled Trial of a Group Singing Intervention to Improve Wellbeing. Mark Tarrant, Anne Spencer, Sarah Dean, Rod Taylor, Chris Code. Sarah's role is lead for the process evaluation.

$1,104648 NZD (£586998) (2016-2018) Accident Compensation Corporation of New Zealand.The Fear Reduction Exercised Early (FREE) approach to low back pain: a cluster randomised, parallel-group, superiority trial of patient impairment 6-months post general practice consultation; and related Implementation study. Darlow B, Stanley, J, Dean S, Abbott JH, Mathieson F, Dowell A. Sarah's role is lead for the process evaluation.

£426,863 (2016-2017) NIHR Health Services and Delivery Research Programme. The changing general practitioner (GP) workforce: the development of policies and strategies for retaining in direct patient care senior GPs and those undertaking a career break. John Campbell, Raff Calitri, Chris Salisbury, Rob Anderson, Sarah Dean, Sue Richards, Grant Fitzner, Fiona Warren, Jo Wellsman, Rupa Chilvers. Sarah's role is lead for the qualitative research.

£1,494,348.80. (2016-2021). Antenatal Prophylactic Pelvic floor Exercises and localisation (APPEAL) Programme. NIHR Programme Grant for Applied Research. Khaled Ismail (University of Birmingham), Clare Davenport, Jane Daniels, Mark Pearson, Sarah Dean, Tracey Johnston, Jo-Anne Kidd-Chadwick, Nina Bridges, Christine MacArthur, Karla Hemming, Debra Bick, Douglas Tincello, Tim Coleman, Tracy Roberts, Jean Hay-Smith. Sarah's role is as mixed methods and behaviour change expert for complex intervention development and trial process evaluation.

UKCRC Clinical Trial Unit; provisional registration award September 2016. Sarah is part of the working group who prepared the submission led by Professor Rod Taylor.

£1,814,661. (2015-2018). e-coachERS Study: A multicenter randomized controlled trial of an augmented exercise referral scheme using web-based behaviour change in individuals with Type II Diabetes, Osteoarthritis or Depression. NIHR Health Technology Assessment responsive call. Adrian Taylor, Rod Taylor, John Campbell, Lucy Yardley, Paul Little, Nanette Mutrie, Kate Jolly, Nana Anokye, Colin Greaves, Sarah Dean, Josephine Erwin, Anthony Woolf, Ben Jane. Sarah‘s role is for process evaluation.

£161,180. (2015-2017). Community-based Rehabilitation Training after Stroke (ReTrain): a pilot RCT. The Stroke Association. Sarah Dean, Anne Forster, Rod Taylor, Anne Spencer, Martin James, Rhoda Allison, Shirley Stevens, Meriel Norris, Leon Poltawski. Sarah is chief investigator.

£2,115,972. (2013-2016). OPAL: Multi-centre randomized trial of the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of basic versus intensive, biofeedback-assisted pelvic floor muscle training (PFMT) for female stress or mixed urinary incontinence (OPAL-Optimising PFMT to Achieve Long-term benefits). NIHR Health Technology Assessment responsive call. Suzanne Hagen, Doreen McClurg, Cathryn Glazener, Mohamed Abdel-Fattah, Wael Agur, Carol Bugge, Sarah Dean, John Norrie, Jean Hay-Smith, Mary Kilonzo, Andrew Elders, Gladys McPherson, Alison McDonald, Joanne Booth, Brian Buckley, Karen Guerrero, Lyndsay Wilson. Sarah‘s role is as expert in exercise adherence and for process evaluation.

£10,166. (2011-2012). The IGO Study: a ‘before and after’ case series to assess the safety and teaching of a technique designed for people with stroke to Independently Get up Off the floor. Royal Devon &Exeter NHS Trust small grant fund. Sarah Dean, Jacqueline Briggs, Martin James, Leon Poltawski, Rod Taylor, Jules Jeffreys, Victoria Goodwin, Mark Wilson, Victoria Stiles. Sarah‘s role is as chief investigator.

£1,353,665. (2012-2016). HeLP: Definitive cluster randomised controlled trial, economic and process evaluation to determine effectiveness and cost effectiveness of a novel school-based intervention (Healthy Lifestyles programme) to prevent obesity in school children. NIHR Public Health Research Programme. Katrina Wyatt, Stuart Logan, Jennifer Lloyd, Sarah Dean, Charles Abraham, Colin Green, Siobhan Creanor, Rod Taylor, Melvyn Hillsdon, Richard Tomlinson. Sarah‘s role is for process evaluation.

£2,596. (2011-2012). Developing Stroke Rehabilitation Research in the South West. NIHR Stroke Research Network: Portfolio Development Opportunity. Sarah Dean, Victoria Goodwin, Leon Poltawski, Andy Gibson, Kate Boddy, James Irving, John Campbell, Rod Taylor, William Henley, Colin Green, Anne Forster, Martin James, Jacqueline Briggs, Richard Siegert, Paul Ewings. Sarah is chief investigator.

Research grants

2015 NIHR
Antenatal Prophylactic Pelvic floor Exercises and localisation (APPEAL) Programme. NIHR Programme Grant for Applied Research.
2014 The Stroke Association
Fund pilot RCT of ReTrain exercise-based intervention for Long Term Stroke Survivors
2014 NIHR HTA
e-coachERS Study is a multicenter randomized controlled trial of an augmented exercise referral scheme using web-based behaviour change in individuals with Type II Diabetes, Osteoarthritis or Depression.
2011 Stroke Research Network
Stroke research proposal development
2011 Royal Devon & Exeter Foundation Trust
Support pilot study of method to teach stroke survivors to stand from floor independently
2008 Health Research Council, New Zealand
A feasibility study of a structured means of eliciting goals in rehabilitation.

Publications

Books

Dean SG, Siegert RJ, Taylor WJ (2013). Interprofessional Rehabilitation. Abstract.

Dean SG, Siegert RJ, Taylor WJ (2013). Preface.

Dean SG, Siegert RJ, Taylor WJ (eds)(2012). Interprofessional Rehabilitation: a person-centred approach., John Wiley & Sons. Abstract.

Journal articles

Taylor WJ, Brown M, Levack W, McPherson K, Reed K, Dean SG, Weatherall M (In Press). A pilot cluster randomized controlled trial of structured goal-setting following stroke. Clinical Rehabilitation

Price LRS, Wyatt K, Lloyd J, Abraham C, Creanor S, Dean S, Hillsdon M (In Press). Are we overestimating Physical Activity prevalence in children. Journal of Physical Activity and Health

Poltawski L, Allison R, Briscoe S, Freeman J, Kilbride C, Neal D, Turton A, Dean S (In Press). Assessing the impact of upper limb disability following stroke:. a qualitative enquiry using internet-based personal accounts of stroke survivors. Disability and Rehabilitation Abstract.

Price LRS, Wyatt K, Lloyd J, Dean S, Creanor S, Abraham C, Hillsdon M (In Press). Children’s compliance with wrist worn accelerometry within a cluster randomised controlled trial: Findings from the Healthy Lifestyles Programme (HeLP). Pediatric Exercise Science

Wyatt KM, Lloyd JJ, Green C, Hurst A, McHugh C, Logan S, Taylor R, Hillsdon M, Price L, Abraham C, et al (In Press). Cluster randomised controlled trial, economic and process evaluation to determine the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of a novel intervention (Healthy Lifestyles Programme, HeLP) to prevent obesity in school children. NIHR Public Health Research

Dean S, Poltawski L, Forster A, Taylor R, Spencer A, James M, Allison R, Stevens S, Norris M, Shepherd A, et al (In Press). Community-based Rehabilitation Training after stroke: protocol of a pilot randomised controlled trial (ReTrain). BMJ Open

Levack WMM, Weatherall M, Hay-Smith EJC, Dean SG, McPherson K, Siegert RJ (In Press). Goal setting and strategies to enhance goal pursuit in adult rehabilitation: summary of a Cochrane systematic review and meta-analysis. European Journal of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine

Norris M, Poltawski L, Calitri RA, Shepherd A, Dean S (In Press). Hope and despair: a qualitative exploration of the experiences and impact of trial processes in a rehabilitation trial. Trials

Campbell JL (In Press). Identifying policies and strategies for GP retention in direct patient care in the United Kingdom: a RAND/UCLA Appropriateness Method Panel study. BMC Family Practice

Shepherd A, Pulsford R, Poltawski L, Forster A, Taylor R, Spencer A, Hollands L, James M, Allison R, Norris M, et al (In Press). Physical activity, sleep, and fatigue in community dwelling Stroke Survivors. Scientific Reports

Tarrant M, Carter M, Dean S, Taylor R, Warren F, Spencer A, Adamson J, Landa P, Code C, Calitri RA, et al (In Press). Singing for People with Aphasia (SPA): a Protocol for a Pilot Randomised Controlled Trial of a Group Singing Intervention to Improve Wellbeing. BMJ Open

Norris M, Poltawski L, Calitri RA, Shepherd A, Dean S (In Press). The acceptability and experience of a functional training programme (ReTrain) in community dwelling stroke survivors in South West England: a qualitative study. BMJ Open

Wood L, Foster NE, Dean SG, Booth V, Hayden JA, Booth A (2024). Contexts, behavioural mechanisms and outcomes to optimise therapeutic exercise prescription for persistent low back pain: a realist review. Br J Sports Med, 58(4), 222-230. Abstract. Author URL.

Simpson SA, Evans RA, Gilbert HR, Branson A, Barber S, McIntosh E, Ahmed Z, Dean SG, Doherty PJ, Gardiner N, et al (2024). Personalised Exercise-Rehabilitation FOR people with Multiple long-term conditions (PERFORM): protocol for a randomised feasibility trial. BMJ Open, 14(4). Abstract. Author URL.

Hay-Smith J, Bick D, Dean S, Salmon V, Terry R, Jones E, Edwards E, Frawley H, MacArthur C (2023). 225 ANTENATAL PELVIC FLOOR MUSCLE EXERCISE INTERVENTION TO REDUCE POSTNATAL URINARY INCONTINENCE: QUANTITATIVE RESULTS FROM a FEASIBILITY AND PILOT RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIAL. Continence, 7(BJOG. 122 7 2015).

Wilson R, Pryymachenko Y, Abbott JH, Dean S, Stanley J, Garrett S, Mathieson F, Dowell A, Darlow B (2023). A Guideline-Implementation Intervention to Improve the Management of Low Back Pain in Primary Care: a Difference-in-Difference-in-Differences Analysis. Appl Health Econ Health Policy, 21(2), 253-262. Abstract. Author URL.

Watkins R, Swancutt D, Alexander M, Moghadam S, Perry S, Dean S, Sheaff R, Pinkney J, Tarrant M, Lloyd J, et al (2023). A Qualitative Exploration of Patient and Staff Experiences of the Receipt and Delivery of Specialist Weight Management Services in the UK. Patient, 16(6), 625-640. Abstract. Author URL.

Lambert J, Taylor A, Streeter A, Greaves C, Ingram WM, Dean S, Jolly K, Mutrie N, Price L, Campbell J, et al (2023). Adding web-based support to exercise referral schemes improves symptoms of depression in people with elevated depressive symptoms: a secondary analysis of the e-coachER randomised controlled trial. Mental Health and Physical Activity, 25

Goldsmith G, Bollen JC, Salmon VE, Freeman JA, Dean SG (2023). Adherence to physical rehabilitation delivered via tele-rehabilitation for people with multiple sclerosis: a scoping review protocol. BMJ Open, 13(3), e062548-e062548. Abstract.

McDonagh ST, Dalal H, Moore S, Clark CE, Dean SG, Jolly K, Cowie A, Afzal J, Taylor RS (2023). Home-based versus centre-based cardiac rehabilitation. Cochrane Database Syst Rev, 10(10). Abstract. Author URL.

Darlow B, Brown M, Stanley J, Abbott JH, Briggs AM, Clark J, Frew G, Grainger R, Hood F, Hudson B, et al (2023). Reducing the burden of knee osteoarthritis through community pharmacy: Protocol for a randomised controlled trial of the Knee Care for Arthritis through Pharmacy Service. Musculoskeletal Care, 21(4), 1053-1067. Abstract. Author URL.

Darlow B, Krägeloh C, Abbott JH, Bennell K, Briggs AM, Brown M, Clark J, Dean S, French S, Hinman RS, et al (2023). The osteoarthritis knowledge scale. Musculoskeletal Care, 21(2), 516-526. Abstract. Author URL.

Hay-Smith EJC, Pearson M, Dean SG (2023). ‘Making Sense’ of Urinary Incontinence: a Qualitative Study Investigating Women’s Pelvic Floor Muscle Training Adherence. New Zealand Journal of Physiotherapy, 51(1), 6-13. Abstract.

Dean S, Salmon V, Terry R, Hay-Smith J, Frawley H, Chapman S, Pearson M, Boddy K, Cockcroft E, Webb S, et al (2022). 14 TEACHING EFFECTIVE PELVIC FLOOR MUSCLE EXERCISES IN ANTENATAL CARE: DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF a TRAINING PACKAGE FOR COMMUNITY MIDWIVES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM. Continence, 2, 1-2.

Stokes I, Warren F, Hay-Smith J, Elders A, Bugge C, Hagen S, Dean S (2022). 15 PELVIC FLOOR MUSCLE TRAINING ADHERENCE: EVALUATING WOMEN’S ADHERENCE TO HOME EXERCISE PRESCRIPTION IN a MULTICENTRE RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIAL. Continence, 2, 1-2.

Smith C, Salmon V, Jones E, Edwards E, Hay-Smith J, Frawley H, Webb S, Bick D, MacArthur C, Dean S, et al (2022). 16 TRAINING FOR MIDWIVES TO SUPPORT WOMEN TO DO THEIR EXERCISES DURING PREGNANCY. A MIXED METHOD EVALUATION OF THE MIDWIFE TRAINING DURING a FEASIBILITY AND PILOT RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIAL. Continence, 2, 1-2.

Swancutt D, Tarrant M, Ingram W, Baldrey S, Burns L, Byng R, Calitri R, Creanor S, Dean S, Evans L, et al (2022). A group-based behavioural intervention for weight management (PROGROUP) versus usual care in adults with severe obesity: a feasibility randomised controlled trial protocol. Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 8(1). Abstract.

Lambert J, Taylor A, Streeter A, Greaves C, Ingram WM, Dean S, Jolly K, Mutrie N, Taylor RS, Yardley L, et al (2022). A process evaluation, with mediation analysis, of a web-based intervention to augment primary care exercise referral schemes: the e-coachER randomised controlled trial. Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act, 19(1). Abstract. Author URL.

Bick D, Bishop J, Coleman T, Dean S, Edwards E, Frawley H, Gkini E, Hay-Smith J, Hemming K, Jones E, et al (2022). Antenatal preventative pelvic floor muscle exercise intervention led by midwives to reduce postnatal urinary incontinence (APPEAL): protocol for a feasibility and pilot cluster randomised controlled trial. Pilot Feasibility Stud, 8(1). Abstract. Author URL.

Hollands L, Calitri R, Warmoth K, Shepherd A, Allison R, Dean S, ReTrain Trial, team (2022). Assessing the fidelity of the independently getting up off the floor (IGO) technique as part of the ReTrain pilot feasibility randomised controlled trial for stroke survivors. Disabil Rehabil, 44(25), 7829-7838. Abstract. Author URL.

Burns A, Donnelly B, Feyi-Waboso J, Shephard E, Calitri R, Tarrant M, Dean SG (2022). How do electronic risk assessment tools affect the communication and understanding of diagnostic uncertainty in the primary care consultation? a systematic review and thematic synthesis. BMJ Open, 12(6), e060101-e060101. Abstract.

Sims L, Hay-Smith J, Dean S (2022). Pelvic floor exercises and female stress urinary incontinence. Br J Gen Pract, 72(717), 185-187. Author URL.

Krägeloh C, Medvedev ON, Dean S, Stanley J, Dowell A, Darlow B (2022). Rasch analysis of the Back Pain Attitudes Questionnaire (Back-PAQ). Disabil Rehabil, 44(13), 3228-3235. Abstract. Author URL.

Lamont RA, Calitri R, Mounce LTA, Hollands L, Dean SG, Code C, Sanders A, Tarrant M (2022). Shared social identity and perceived social support among stroke groups during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Relationship with psychosocial health. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, 15(1), 172-192. Abstract.

Orr N, Yeo NL, Dean SG, White MP, Garside R (2021). "It Makes you Feel That you Are There": Exploring the Acceptability of Virtual Reality Nature Environments for People with Memory Loss. Geriatrics (Basel), 6(1). Abstract. Author URL.

Calitri R, Carter M, Code C, Lamont R, Dean S, Tarrant M (2021). Challenges of Recruiting Patients into Group-Based Stroke Rehabilitation Research: Reflections on Clinician Equipoise Within the Singing for People with Aphasia (SPA) Pilot Trial. Front Psychol, 12 Author URL.

Hale L, Devan H, Davies C, Dean SG, Dowell A, Grainger R, Gray AR, Hempel D, Ingham T, Jones B, et al (2021). Clinical and cost-effectiveness of an online-delivered group-based pain management programme in improving pain-related disability for people with persistent pain-protocol for a non-inferiority randomised controlled trial (iSelf-help trial). BMJ Open, 11(2). Abstract. Author URL.

Gaboury I, Tousignant M, Corriveau H, Menear M, Le Dorze G, Rochefort C, Vachon B, Rochette A, Gosselin S, Michaud F, et al (2021). Effects of Telerehabilitation on Patient Adherence to a Rehabilitation Plan: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Trial. JMIR Res Protoc, 10(10). Abstract. Author URL.

Darlow B, Abbott H, Bennell K, Briggs AM, Brown M, Clark J, Dean S, French S, Hinman RS, Krägeloh C, et al (2021). Knowledge about osteoarthritis: Development of the Hip and Knee Osteoarthritis Knowledge Scales and protocol for testing their measurement properties. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage Open, 3(2).

Tarrant M, Lamont RA, Carter M, Dean SG, Spicer S, Sanders A, Calitri R (2021). Measurement of Shared Social Identity in Singing Groups for People with Aphasia. Frontiers in Psychology, 12 Abstract.

Tarrant M, Carter M, Dean S, Taylor R, Warren F, Spencer A, Landa P, Adamson J, Code C, Backhouse A, et al (2021). Singing for people with aphasia (SPA): Results of a pilot feasibility randomised controlled trial of a group singing intervention investigating acceptability and feasibility. BMJ Open Abstract.

Dean S, Campbell J, Price L, Taylor A, Taylor RS, Ingram W, Dean SG, Jolly K, Mutrie N, Lambert J, et al (2020). A randomised controlled trial of an augmented exercise referral scheme using web-based behavioural support for inactive adults with chronic health conditions: the e-coachER trial. BJSM

Taylor AH, Taylor RS, Ingram WM, Anokye N, Dean S, Jolly K, Mutrie N, Lambert J, Yardley L, Greaves C, et al (2020). Adding web-based behavioural support to exercise referral schemes for inactive adults with chronic health conditions: the e-coachER RCT. Health Technology Assessment, 24(63), 1-106. Abstract.

Hagen S, Bugge C, Dean SG, Elders A, Hay-Smith J, Kilonzo M, McClurg D, Abdel-Fattah M, Agur W, Andreis F, et al (2020). Basic versus biofeedback-mediated intensive pelvic floor muscle training for women with urinary incontinence: the OPAL RCT. Health Technol Assess, 24(70), 1-144. Abstract. Author URL.

Hagen S, Elders A, Stratton S, Sergenson N, Bugge C, Dean S, Hay-Smith J, Kilonzo M, Dimitrova M, Abdel-Fattah M, et al (2020). Effectiveness of pelvic floor muscle training with and without electromyography biofeedback for female urinary incontinence: multicentre randomised controlled trial. BMJ: British Medical Journal

Salmon VE, Hay-Smith EJC, Jarvie R, Dean S, Terry R, Frawley H, Oborn E, Bayliss SE, Bick D, Davenport C, et al (2020). Implementing pelvic floor muscle training in women's childbearing years: a critical interpretive synthesis of individual, professional, and service issues. Neurourol Urodyn, 39(2), 863-870. Abstract. Author URL.

Yeo NL, Elliott LR, Bethel A, White MP, Dean SG, Garside R (2020). Indoor Nature Interventions for Health and Wellbeing of Older Adults in Residential Settings: a Systematic Review. Gerontologist, 60(3), e184-e199. Abstract. Author URL.

Day J, Dean SG, Reed N, Hazell J, Lang I (2020). Knowledge needs and use in long‐term care homes for older people: a qualitative interview study of managers’ views. Health & Social Care in the Community, 30(2), 592-601.

Long H (2020). Understanding why primary care doctors leave direct patient care: a systematic review of qualitative research. BMJ Open, 10

Yeo NL, White MP, Alcock I, Garside R, Dean SG, Smalley AJ, Gatersleben B (2020). What is the best way of delivering virtual nature for improving mood? an experimental comparison of high definition TV, 360° video, and computer generated virtual reality. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 72, 101500-101500.

Abel GA, Gomez-Cano M, Mustafee N, Smart A, Fletcher E, Salisbury C, Chilvers R, Dean SG, Richards SH, Warren F, et al (2020). Workforce predictive risk modelling: development of a model to identify general practices at risk of a supply-demand imbalance. BMJ Open, 10(1). Abstract. Author URL.

Terry R, Jarvie R, Hay-Smith J, Salmon V, Pearson M, Boddy K, MacArthur C, Dean S (2020). “Are you doing your pelvic floor?” an ethnographic exploration of the interaction between women and midwives about pelvic floor muscle exercises (PFME) during pregnancy. Midwifery, 83, 102647-102647.

Hagen S, McClurg D, Bugge C, Hay-Smith J, Dean SG, Elders A, Glazener C, Abdel-Fattah M, Agur WI, Booth J, et al (2019). Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of basic versus biofeedback-mediated intensive pelvic floor muscle training for female stress or mixed urinary incontinence: Protocol for the OPAL randomised trial. BMJ Open, 9(2). Abstract.

Grant A, Dean S, Hay-Smith J, Hagen S, McClurg D, Taylor A, Kovandzic M, Bugge C (2019). Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness randomised controlled trial of basic versus biofeedback-mediated intensive pelvic floor muscle training for female stress or mixed urinary incontinence: Protocol for the OPAL (optimising pelvic floor exercises to achieve long-term benefits) trial mixed methods longitudinal qualitative case study and process evaluation. BMJ Open, 9(2). Abstract.

(2019). ICS 2019 Gothenburg Scientific Programme. Neurourology and Urodynamics, 38(S3).

Dean S, Poltawski L, Warmoth K, Goodwin V, Stiles V, Taylor R (2019). Independently Getting Off the floor (IGO): a feasibility study of teaching people with stroke to get up after a fall. International Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation, 26

Campbell JL, Fletcher E, Abel G, Anderson R, Chilvers R, Dean SG, Richards SH, Sansom A, Terry R, Aylward A, et al (2019). Policies and strategies to retain and support the return of experienced GPs in direct patient care: the ReGROUP mixed-methods study. Health Services and Delivery Research, 7(14), 1-288. Abstract.

Darlow B, Stanley J, Dean S, Haxby Abbott J, Garrett S, Wilson R, Mathieson F, Dowell A (2019). The fear reduction exercised early (free) approach to management of low back pain in general practice: a pragmatic cluster-randomised controlled trial. PLoS Medicine, 16(9). Abstract.

Dean S, Poltawski L, Forster A, Taylor RS, Spencer A, James M, Allison R, Stevens S, Norris M, Shepherd AI, et al (2018). Community-based Rehabilitation Training after stroke: Results of a pilot randomised controlled trial (ReTrain) investigating acceptability and feasibility. BMJ Open

Lloyd J, Creanor S, Logan S, Green C, Dean SG, Hillsdon M, Abraham C, Tomlinson R, Pearson V, Taylor RS, et al (2018). Effectiveness of the Healthy Lifestyles Programme (HeLP) to prevent obesity in UK primary-school children: a cluster randomised controlled trial. The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health, 2(1), 35-45. Abstract.

Ingram W, Webb D, Taylor RS, Anokye N, Yardley L, Jolly K, Mutrie N, Campbell JL, Dean SG, Greaves C, et al (2018). Multicentred randomised controlled trial of an augmented exercise referral scheme using web-based behavioural support in individuals with metabolic, musculoskeletal and mental health conditions: protocol for the e-coachER trial. BMJ Open, 8(9). Abstract. Author URL.

Sansom A, Terry R, Fletcher E, Salisbury C, Long L, Richards SH, Aylward A, Welsman J, Sims L, Campbell JL, et al (2018). Why do GPs leave direct patient care and what might help to retain them? a qualitative study of GPs in South West England. BMJ Open, 8 Abstract.

Anderson L, Sharp GA, Norton RJ, Dalal H, Dean SG, Jolly K, Cowie A, Zawada A, Taylor RS (2017). Home-based versus centre-based cardiac rehabilitation. Cochrane Database Syst Rev, 6(6). Abstract. Author URL.

Lloyd J, Dean S, Creanor S, Abraham C, Hillsdon M, Ryan E, Wyatt KM (2017). Intervention fidelity in the definitive cluster randomised controlled trial of the Healthy Lifestyles Programme (HeLP) trial: findings from the process evaluation. Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act, 14(1). Abstract. Author URL.

Frawley HC, Dean SG, Slade SC, Hay-Smith EJC (2017). Is Pelvic-Floor Muscle Training a Physical Therapy or a Behavioral Therapy? a Call to Name and Report the Physical, Cognitive, and Behavioral Elements. PHYSICAL THERAPY, 97(4), 425-437. Author URL.

Salmon VE, Hay-Smith EJC, Jarvie R, Dean S, Oborn E, Bayliss SE, Bick D, Davenport C, Ismail KM, MacArthur C, et al (2017). Opportunities, challenges and concerns for the implementation and uptake of pelvic floor muscle assessment and exercises during the childbearing years: protocol for a critical interpretive synthesis. Syst Rev, 6(1). Abstract. Author URL.

Fletcher E, Abel GA, Anderson R, Richards SH, Salisbury C, Dean SG, Sansom A, Warren FC, Campbell JL (2017). Quitting patient care and career break intentions among general practitioners in South West England: findings of a census survey of general practitioners. BMJ Open, 7(4). Abstract. Author URL.

Darlow B, Stanley J, Dean S, Abbott JH, Garrett S, Mathieson F, Dowell A (2017). The Fear Reduction Exercised Early (FREE) approach to low back pain: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. TRIALS, 18 Author URL.

Lloyd J, Creanor S, Price LRS, Abraham C, Dean S, Green C, Hillsdon M, Pearson V, Taylor R, Tomlinson R, et al (2017). Trial baseline characteristics of a cluster randomised controlled trial of a school-located obesity prevention programme; the Healthy Lifestyles Programme (HeLP) trial. BMC Public Health

Tarrant M, Warmoth K, Code C, Dean S, Goodwin V, Stein, Sugavanam T (2016). Creating psychological connections between intervention recipients: Development and focus group evaluation of a group singing session for people with aphasia. BMJ Open, 6, e009652-e009652. Abstract.

Creanor S, Lloyd J, Hillsdon M, Dean S, Green C, Taylor RS, Ryan E, Wyatt K, HeLP Trial Management Group (2016). Detailed statistical analysis plan for a cluster randomised controlled trial of the Healthy Lifestyles Programme (HeLP), a novel school-based intervention to prevent obesity in school children. Trials, 17(1). Abstract. Author URL.

Hay-Smith EJC, McClurg D, Frawley H, Dean SG (2016). Exercise adherence: Integrating theory, evidence and behaviour change techniques. Physiotherapy (United Kingdom), 102(1), 7-9.

Zwisler AD, Norton RJ, Dean SG, Dalal H, Tang LH, Wingham J, Taylor RS (2016). Home-based cardiac rehabilitation for people with heart failure: a systematic review and meta-analysis. International Journal of Cardiology, 221, 963-969. Abstract.

Darlow B, Perry M, Dean S, Mathieson F, Baxter GD, Dowell A (2016). Putting Physical Activity While Experiencing Low Back Pain in Context: Balancing the Risks and Benefits. Arch Phys Med Rehabil, 97(2), 245-251.e7. Abstract. Author URL.

Perry M, Dean S, Devan H (2016). The relationship between chronic low back pain and fatigue: a systematic review. Physical Therapy Reviews, 21(3-6), 173-183. Abstract.

Dumoulin C, Hay-Smith J, Frawley H, McClurg D, Alewijnse D, Bo K, Burgio K, Chen SY, Chiarelli P, Dean S, et al (2015). 2014 consensus statement on improving pelvic floor muscle training adherence: International Continence Society 2011 State-of-the-Science Seminar. Neurourology and Urodynamics, 34(7), 600-605. Abstract.

Dumoulin C, Hay-Smith J, Frawley H, Mcclurg D, Alewijnse D, Bo K, Burgio K, Chen S-Y, Chiarelli P, Dean S, et al (2015). 2014 consensus statement on improving pelvic floor muscle training adherence: International Continence Society 2011 State-of-the-Science Seminar. Neurourology and Urodynamics Abstract.

Norris M, Poltawski L, Dean S (2015). Developing a model of fidelity for physical rehabilitation research. Physiotherapy, 101, e1106-e1107.

Darlow B, Dean S, Perry M, Mathieson F, Baxter GD, Dowell A (2015). Easy to Harm, Hard to Heal <i>Patient Views About the Back</i>. SPINE, 40(11), 842-850. Author URL.

Hay-Smith J, Dean S, Frawley H, McClurg D, Dumoulin C (2015). Exercise adherence: integrating theory, evidence and behaviour change techniques. Physiotherapy, 101, e9-e10.

Levack WMM, Weatherall M, Hay-Smith EJC, Dean SG, McPherson K, Siegert RJ (2015). Goal setting and activities to enhance goal pursuit for adults with acquired disabilities participating in rehabilitation. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Taylor RS, Dalal H, Jolly K, Zawada A, Dean SG, Cowie A, Norton RJ (2015). Home-based versus centre-based cardiac rehabilitation. Cochrane Database Syst Rev(8). Abstract. Author URL.

McClurg D, Frawley H, Hay-Smith J, Dean S, Chen S-Y, Chiarelli P, Mair F, Dumoulin C (2015). Limited effects from limited adherence: using behavioural theory to underpin pelvic floor muscle training programs and outcomes. Physiotherapy, 101, e970-e971.

Darlow B, Dean S, Perry M, Mathieson F, Stanley J, Melloh M, Baxter GD, Dowell A (2015). Low back pain: exploring underlying beliefs and how these have been influenced. Physiotherapy, 101, e295-e296.

Poltawski L, Boddy K, Forster A, Goodwin VA, Pavey AC, Dean S (2015). Motivators for uptake and maintenance of exercise: perceptions of long-term stroke survivors and implications for design of exercise programmes. Disabil Rehabil, 37(9), 795-801. Abstract. Author URL.

Dumoulin C, Alewijnse D, Bo K, Hagen S, Stark D, Van Kampen M, Herbert J, Hay-Smith J, Frawley H, McClurg D, et al (2015). Pelvic-floor-muscle training adherence: Tools, measurements and strategies - 2011 ICS State-of-the-Science Seminar Research Paper II of IV. Neurourology and Urodynamics, 34(7), 615-621. Abstract.

Dumoulin C, Alewijnse D, Bo K, Hagen S, Stark D, Van Kampen M, Herbert J, Hay-Smith J, Frawley H, Mcclurg D, et al (2015). Pelvic-floor-muscle training adherence: Tools, measurements and strategies-2011 ICS State-of-the-Science Seminar research paper II. Neurourology and Urodynamics Abstract.

Hay-Smith J, Dean S, Burgio K, McClurg D, Frawley H, Dumoulin C (2015). Pelvic-floor-muscle-training adherence "modifiers": a review of primary qualitative studies - 2011 ICS State-of-the-Science Seminar research paper III of IV. Neurourology and Urodynamics, 34(7), 622-631. Abstract.

Hay-Smith J, Dean S, Burgio K, Mcclurg D, Frawley H, Dumoulin C (2015). Pelvic-floor-muscle-training adherence "modifiers": a review of primary qualitative studies-2011 ICS State-of-the-Science Seminar research paper III of IV. Neurourology and Urodynamics Abstract.

Mcclurg D, Frawley H, Hay-Smith J, Dean S, Chen S-Y, Chiarelli P, Mair F, Dumoulin C (2015). Scoping review of adherence promotion theories in pelvic floor muscle training - 2011 ICS State-of-the-Science Seminar research paper I of IV. Neurourology and Urodynamics Abstract.

McClurg D, Frawley H, Hay-Smith J, Dean S, Chen SY, Chiarelli P, Mair F, Dumoulin C (2015). Scoping review of adherence promotion theories in pelvic floor muscle training - 2011 ics state-of-the-science seminar research paper i of iv. Neurourology and Urodynamics, 34(7), 606-614. Abstract.

Bollen JC, Dean SG, Siegert RJ, Howe TE, Goodwin VA (2014). A systematic review of measures of self-reported adherence to unsupervised home-based rehabilitation exercise programmes, and their psychometric properties. BMJ Open, 4(6). Abstract. Author URL.

Darlow B, Dean S, Perry M, Mathieson F, Baxter GD, Dowell A (2014). Acute low back pain management in general practice: Uncertainty and conflicting certainties. Journal of Family Practice, 31(6), 723-732. Abstract.

Darlow B, Dean S, Perry M, Mathieson F, Baxter GD, Dowell A (2014). Acute low back pain management in general practice: uncertainty and conflicting certainties. Family Practice

Norman S, Dean S, Hansford L, Ford T (2014). Clinical practitioner's attitudes towards the use of Routine Outcome Monitoring within Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: a qualitative study of two Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services. Clin Child Psychol Psychiatry, 19(4), 576-595. Abstract. Author URL.

Cross B, Dean S, Hay-Smith J, Weatherall M (2014). Fear avoidance beliefs, held by occupational therapists, are associated with treatment recommendations. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 77(6), 304-312. Abstract.

Poltawski L, Norris M, Dean S (2014). Intervention fidelity: developing an experience -based model for rehabilitation research. Journal Rehabilitation Medicine, 46, 609-615.

Poltawski L, Norris M, Dean S (2014). Intervention fidelity: developing an experience-based model for rehabilitation research. J Rehabil Med, 46(7), 609-615. Abstract. Author URL.

Poltawski L, Boddy K, Forster A, Goodwin V, Pavey A, Dean S (2014). Motivators for uptake and maintenance of exercise: perceptions of long-term stroke survivors and implications for design of exercise programmes. Disability and Rehabilitation

Brown M, Levack W, McPherson KM, Dean SG, Reed K, Weatherall M, Taylor WJ (2014). Survival, momentum, and things that make me "me'': patients' perceptions of goal setting after stroke. DISABILITY AND REHABILITATION, 36(12), 1020-1026. Author URL.

Jones B, Ingham TR, Cram F, Dean S, Davies C (2013). An indigenous approach to explore health-related experiences among Māori parents: the Pukapuka Hauora asthma study. BMC Public Health, 13 Abstract. Author URL.

Poltawski L, Briggs J, Forster A, Goodwin VA, James M, Taylor RS, Dean S (2013). Informing the design of a randomised controlled trial of an exercise-based programme for long term stroke survivors: lessons from a before-and-after case series study. BMC Res Notes, 6 Abstract. Author URL.

Nunnerley JL, Hay-Smith EJC, Dean SG (2013). Leaving a spinal unit and returning to the wider community: an interpretative phenomenological analysis. Disabil Rehabil, 35(14), 1164-1173. Abstract. Author URL.

Bond M, Pavey T, Welch K, Cooper C, Garside R, Dean S, Hyde CJ (2013). Psychological consequences of false-positive screening mammograms in the UK. Evidence-Based Medicine, 18(2), 54-61. Abstract.

Poltawski L, Abraham C, Forster A, Goodwin VA, Kilbride C, Taylor RS, Dean S (2013). Synthesising practice guidelines for the development of community-based exercise programmes after stroke. Implement Sci, 8 Abstract. Author URL.

Bond M, Pavey T, Welch K, Cooper C, Garside R, Dean S, Hyde C (2013). Systematic review of the psychological consequences of false-positive screening mammograms. Health Technology Assessment, 17, 1-86. Abstract. Author URL.

Wyatt KM, Lloyd JJ, Abraham C, Creanor S, Dean S, Densham E, Daurge W, Green C, Hillsdon M, Pearson V, et al (2013). The Healthy Lifestyles Programme (HeLP), a novel school-based intervention to prevent obesity in school children: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. Trials, 14 Abstract. Author URL.

Darlow B, Dowell A, Baxter GD, Mathieson F, Perry M, Dean S (2013). The enduring impact of what clinicians say to people with low back pain. Ann Fam Med, 11(6), 527-534. Abstract. Author URL.

Wright KA, Armstrong T, Taylor A, Dean S (2012). 'It's a Double Edged Sword':. A Qualitative Analysis of the Experiences of Exercise. Amongst People with Bipolar Disorder. Journal of Affective Disorders

Taylor WJ, Brown M, William L, McPherson KM, Reed K, Dean SG, Weatherall M (2012). A pilot cluster randomized controlled trial of structured goal-setting following stroke. Clinical Rehabilitation, 26(4), 327-338.

Abraham C, Britten N, Dean S, Greaves C, Lloyd J, Poltawski L, Wyatt KM (2012). Creating Change that Counts: Evidence-led Co-creation as a Pathway to Impact. European Health Psychologist, 14(3), 64-69.

Goodwin V, Poltawski L, Kilbride C, Abraham C, Taylor RS, Forster A, Dean SG (2012). Exercise for Stroke survivors: a synthesis of evidence-based guidelines. JOURNAL OF AGING AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY, 20, S245-S245. Author URL.

Darlow B, Fullen BM, Dean S, Hurley DA, Baxter GD, Dowell A (2012). The association between health care professional attitudes and beliefs and the attitudes and beliefs, clinical management, and outcomes of patients with low back pain: a systematic review. European Journal of Pain (United Kingdom), 16(1), 3-17. Abstract.

Taylor L, Hay-Smith EJC, Dean SG (2011). Can clinical Pilates decrease pain and improve function in people complaining of non-specific chronic low back pain? a pilot study. New Zealand Journal of Physiotherapy, 1(39), 30-38.

Levack WMM, Dean SG, Siegert RJ, McPherson KM (2011). Navigating patient-centred goal setting in inpatient stroke rehabilitation: How clinicians control the process to meet pereceived professional responsibilities. Patient Education and Counselling

Dean SG, Hudson S, Hay-Smith EJC, Milosavljevic S (2011). Rural workers' experience of low back pain: exploring why they continue to work. Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation, 3(21), 395-409.

Dean SG, Hudson S, Hay-Smith EJC, Milosavljevic S (2011). Rural workers' experience of low back pain: exploring why they continue to work. J Occup Rehabil, 21(3), 395-409. Abstract. Author URL.

Dalal HM, Zawada A, Jolly K, Moxham T, Taylor RS (2010). Home based versus centre based cardiac rehabilitation: Cochrane systematic review and meta-analysis. BMJ: British Medical Journal, 340

Brown M, Dean S, Hay-Smith EJ, Taylor W, Baxter GD (2010). Musculoskeletal pain and treatment choice: an exploration of illness perceptions and choices of conventional or complementary therapies. Disabil Rehabil, 32(20), 1645-1657. Abstract.

Perry MA, Hendrick PA, Hale L, Baxter GD, Milosavljevic S, Dean SG, McDonough SM, Hurley DA (2010). Utility of the RT3 triaxial accelerometer in free living: an investigation of adherence and data loss. Applied Ergonomics, 41(3), 469-476. Abstract.

Dickson BE, Hay-Smith EJC, Dean SG (2009). Demonized Diagnosis: the Influence of Stigma on Interdisciplinary Rehabilitation of Somatoform Disorder. New Zealand Journal of Physiotherapy, 3(37), 115-121.

Levack WMM, Siegert RJ, Dean SG, McPherson KM (2009). Goal planning for adults with acquired brain injury: how clinicians talk about involving family. Brain Inj, 23(3), 192-202. Abstract. Author URL.

Gregg CD, Dean S, Schneiders AG (2009). Variables associated with active spondylolysis. Phys Ther Sport, 10(4), 121-124. Abstract. Author URL.

Copeland JM, Taylor WJ, Dean SG (2008). Factors influencing the use of outcome measures for patients with low back pain: a survey of New Zealand physical therapists. Phys Ther, 88(12), 1492-1505. Abstract. Author URL.

Dean SG, Young V, Elley CR, Bruton A (2008). Patient and Clinician Perceptions of Asthma Education and Management in Resistant Asthma: a Qualitative Study. New Zealand Family Physician, 35(4), 257-262.

Brown M, Hay-Smith J, Dean S, Taylor W (2007). Comments on article by Lewis and Johnson: 'The clinical effectiveness of therapeutic massage for musculoskeletal pain: a systematic review. Physiotherapy 2006;92:146-58'. Physiotherapy, 93(1), 78-79.

Young V, Dean SG, Elley CR, Bruton A (2007). Exploring the perceptions of patients and health professionals of asthma education and rehabilitation management in New Zealand. DISABILITY AND REHABILITATION, 29(20-21), 1652-1653. Author URL.

Elley CR, Dean S, Kerse N (2007). Physical activity promotion in general practice--patient attitudes. Aust Fam Physician, 36(12), 1061-1064. Abstract. Author URL.

Hay-Smith J, Dean S (2007). Seizing the moment: How, when and why patients and health professionals engage in rehabilitation for urinary incontinence. DISABILITY AND REHABILITATION, 29(20-21), 1638-1639. Author URL.

Hay-Smith EJC, Ryan K, Dean S (2007). The silent, private exercise: experiences of pelvic floor muscle training in a sample of women with stress urinary incontinence. Physiotherapy, 93(1), 53-61. Abstract.

Dean AY, Dean SG (2006). A pilot study investigating the use of the Orthosense Posture Monitor during a real-world moving and handling task. Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies, 10, 220-226.

Taylor WJ, Dean SG, Siegert RJ (2006). Differential association of general and health self-efficacy with disability, health-related quality of life and psychological distress from musculoskeletal pain in a cross-sectional general adult population survey. Pain, 125(3), 225-232. Abstract. Author URL.

Levack WMM, Dean SG, McPherson KM, Siegert RJ (2006). How clinicians talk about the application of goal planning to rehabilitation for people with brain injury-variable interpretations of value and purpose. Brain Inj, 20(13-14), 1439-1449. Abstract. Author URL.

Levack WMM, Taylor K, Siegert RJ, Dean SG, McPherson KM, Weatherall M (2006). Is goal planning in rehabilitation effective? a systematic review. Clinical Rehabilitation, 20(9), 739-755. Abstract.

Levack WMM, Dean S, Siegert RJ, McPherson KM, Weatherall M (2006). Is goal planning in rehabilitation effective? a systematic review. Clinical Rehabilitation, 20, 1-17.

Levack WMM, Dean SG, Siegert RJ, McPherson KM (2006). Purposes and mechanisms of goal planning in rehabilitation: the need for a critical distinction. Disabil Rehabil, 28(12), 741-749. Abstract. Author URL.

Sinnott A, Dean S (2005). Choosing appropriate measures in inpatient rehabilitation. Hosp Med, 66(4), 205-209. Abstract. Author URL.

Dean S (2005). Illness perceptions, pain and function in patients with low back pain: a prospective study. PSYCHOLOGY & HEALTH, 20, 62-62. Author URL.

Dean SG, Smith JA, Payne S, Weinman J (2005). Managing time: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of patients' and physiotherapists' perceptions of adherence to therapeutic exercise for low back pain. Disabil Rehabil, 27(11), 625-636. Abstract. Author URL.

Siegert RJ, McPherson KM, Dean SG (2005). Theory development and a science of rehabilitation. Disabil Rehabil, 27(24), 1493-1501. Abstract. Author URL.

Siegert RJ, McPherson KM, Dean SG (2005). Theory development and a science of rehabilitation. Authors' response to commentaries. Disability and Rehabilitation, 27(24), 1517-1519.

Turner JR, Carroll D, Dean S, Harris MG (1987). Heart rate reactions to standard laboratory challenges and a naturalistic stressor. Int J Psychophysiol, 5(2), 151-152. Abstract. Author URL.

DEAN S, TURNER JR, CARROLL D, HARRIS MG (1986). THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HEART-RATE REACTIVITY DURING LABORATORY AND REAL WORLD BEHAVIORAL CHALLENGE. PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY, 23(4), 432-432. Author URL.

Chapters

Denford S, Abraham C, Smith J, Lloyd J, White M, Tarrant M, Wyatt K, Greaves C, Dean S (2015). Designing and evaluating behavior change interventions to promote health. In Reynolds KJ, Branscombe NR (Eds.) The Psychology of Change: Life Contexts, Experiences, and Identities, New York: Psychology Press, Taylor & Francis, 151-169.

Abraham C, Denford S, Dean S, Greaves C, Lloyd J, Tarrant M, White M, Wyatt K (2015). Designing interventions to change health-related behaviour. In Richards D, Hallberg IR (Eds.) Complex Interventions in Health: an overview of research methods, Routledge, 103-110.

Levack WMM, Dean SG, McPherson KM, Siegert RJ (2014). Evidence-Based Goal Setting: Cultivating the Science of Rehabilitation. In Siegert RJ, Levack WMM (Eds.) Rehabilitation Goal Setting: Theory, Practice and Evidence, CRC Press.

Dean SG, Ballinger C (2013). An Interprofessional Approach to Rehabilitation. In (Ed) Interprofessional Rehabilitation, 45-78.

Dean SG, Siegert RJ, Taylor WJ (2013). Conclusion: Rethinking Rehabilitation. In (Ed) Interprofessional Rehabilitation, 167-184.

Siegert RJ, Taylor WJ, Dean SG (2013). Introduction. In (Ed) Interprofessional Rehabilitation, Wiley, 1-8.

Levack W, Dean SG (2013). Processes in Rehabilitation. In (Ed) Interprofessional Rehabilitation, 79-107.

Pryor J, Dean SG (2013). The Person in Context. In (Ed) Interprofessional Rehabilitation, 135-165.

Levack WM, Siegert RJ, Dean SG, McPherson K, Hay‐Smith EJC, Weatherall MM (2012). Goal setting and activities to enhance goal pursuit for adults with acquired disabilities participating in rehabilitation. In (Ed) Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Wiley.

Stansfield GRV, Lowe R (2010). Introduction. In Lowe R, Stansfield GRV (Eds.) The Kurdish Policy Imperative, London: the Royal Institute for International Affairs, 1-211.

Dean SG, Smith JA, Payne S (2006). Low back pain: Exploring the meaning of exercise management through interpretative phenomenological analysis. In Finlay L, Ballinger C (Eds.) Qualitative Research for Allied Health Professionals: challenging choices, England: Jonh Wiley & Sons.

Conferences

Stokes I, Warren F, Hay-Smith J, Elders A, Bugge C, Hagen S, Dean S (2022). Pelvic Floor Muscle Training Adherence: evaluating women’s adherence to home exercise prescription in a multicentre randomised controlled trial. Full text.

Major K, Warren F, Hay-Smith J, Bugge C, Hagen S, Elders A, Dean S (2022). Promoting adherence to pelvic floor muscle exercises: analysis of exercise prescription, prompts to exercise, and predictors of exercise diary return, during a randomised controlled trial. Author URL.

Walters L, Salmon V, Hay-Smith J, Bugge C, Hagen S, Elders A, Dean S (2022). Promoting pelvic floor muscle training adherence - Evaluating fidelity to intervention treatment delivery in a randomised controlled trial. Author URL.

Dean S, Salmon V, Terry R, Hay-Smith J, Frawley H, Chapman S, Pearson M, Boddy K, Cockcroft E, Webb S, et al (2022). Teaching effective pelvic floor muscle exercises in antenatal care: design and development of a training package for community midwives in the United Kingdom. Full text.

Smith C, Salmon V, Jones E, Edwards E, Hay-Smith J, Frawley H, Webb S, Bick D, MacArthur C, Dean S, et al (2022). Training for midwives to support women to do their exercises during pregnancy. A mixed method evaluation of the midwife training during a feasibility and pilot randomised controlled trial. Full text.

Taylor A, Streeter A, Ingram W, Lambert J, Dean S, Taylor R, Jolly K, Mutrie N, Greaves C (2021). The mediating effects of theory linked process measures on 12 month accelerometer recorded physical activity within the e-coacher RCT involving primary care exercise referral participants. Author URL.

Bugge C, Hay-Smith J, Grant A, Taylor A, Hagen S, McClurg D, Dean S (2019). A 24 MONTH LONGITUDINAL QUALITATIVE STUDY OF WOMEN'S EXPERIENCE OF ELECTROMYOGRAPHY BIOFEEDBACK PELVIC FLOOR MUSCLE TRAINING (PFMT) AND PFMT ALONE FOR URINARY INCONTINENCE: ADHERENCE, OUTCOME AND CONTEXT. Author URL.

Dean S, Hay-Smith J, Bugge C, McClurg D, Grant A, Taylor A, Andreis F, Elders A, Hagen S (2019). A PROCESS EVALUATION STUDY INVESTIGATING FIDELITY AND DOSE OF INTERVENTION DELIVERY AND UPTAKE OF PELVIC FLOOR MUSCLE TRAINING DELIVERED IN a RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIAL. Author URL.

Hay-Smith J, Peebles L, Farmery D, Dean S, Grainger R (2019). APPS-OLUTELY FABULOUS? - THE QUALITY OF PFMT SMARTPHONE APP CONTENT AND DESIGN RATED USING THE MOBILE APP RATING SCALE, BEHAVIOUR CHANGE TAXONOMY, AND GUIDANCE FOR EXERCISE PRESCRIPTION. Author URL.

Terry R, Jarvie R, Hay-Smith J, Salmon V, Pearson M, MacArthur C, Dean S (2019). ARE YOU DOING YOUR PELVIC FLOORS? AN ETHNOGRAPHIC EXPLORATION OF DISCUSSIONS BETWEEN WOMEN AND HEALTH PROFESSIONALS ABOUT PELVIC FLOOR MUSCLE EXERCISES DURING PREGNANCY. Author URL.

Hagen S, Elders A, Henderson L, Kilonzo M, McClurg D, Hay-Smith J, Dean S, Booth J, Bugge C (2019). EFFECTIVENESS AND COST-EFFECTIVENESS OF BIOFEEDBACK-ASSISTED PELVIC FLOOR MUSCLE TRAINING FOR FEMALE URINARY INCONTINENCE: a MULTICENTRE RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIAL. Author URL.

Calitri R, Mounce L, Abel G, Campbell J, Spencer A, Medina-Lara A, Pitt M, Shepard E, Warren F, Dean S, et al (2019). Protocol for a pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial assessing the clinical effectiveness and cost effectiveness of electronic risk-assessment tools for cancer for patients in general practice (ERICA). Author URL.

Lloyd J, Creanor S, Logan G, Green C, Dean S, Hillsdon M, Abraham C, Tomlinson R, Pearson V, Taylor R, et al (2018). Effectiveness of the Healthy Lifestyles Programme (HeLP) to prevent obesity in UK primary school children: a cluster randomised controlled trial. South West Public Health (SWPH) Scientific Conference.

Tarrant M, Carter M, Adamson J, Warren F, Taylor R, Spencer A, Landa P, Code C, Dean S, Calitri R, et al (2018). Singing for People with Aphasia (SPA): results of a pilot randomised controlled trial of a group singing intervention to improve wellbeing. Author URL.

Lloyd J, Creanor S, Streeter A, Green C, Dean S, Abraham C, Hillsdon M, Taylor R, Logan G, Tomlinson R, et al (2017). Effectiveness and cost effectiveness of the ‘Healthy Lifestyles Programme’ (HeLP) cluster randomised controlled trial: a school-based obesity prevention intervention for 9-10 year olds. ISBNPA.

Lloyd J, Dean S, Abraham C, Creanor S, Green C, Hillsdon M, Taylor R, Logan G, Tomlinson R, Pearson V, et al (2017). Findings from the process evaluation of ‘Healthy Lifestyles Programme’ (HeLP) cluster randomised controlled trial: a school-based obesity prevention intervention for 9-10 year olds. International Society for Behavioural Nutrition and Physical. Activity (ISBNPA).

Salmon VE, Hay-Smith J, Jarvie R, Dean S, Oborn E, Bayliss SE, Bick D, Davenport C, Ismail KM, MacArthur C, et al (2017). OPPORTUNITIES, CHALLENGES AND CONCERNS FOR IMPLEMENTING PELVIC FLOOR MUSCLE ASSESSMENT AND TRAINING DURING CHILDBEARING YEARS: a CRITICAL INTERPRETIVE SYNTHESIS. Author URL.

Long L, Sansom A, Aylward A, Robinson S, Anderson R, Fletcher E, Welsman J, Dean S, Campbell J (2017). UNDERSTANDING WHY UK GPS ARE LEAVING GENERAL PRACTICE-A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH. Author URL.

Bugge C, Grant A, Dean S, Smith JH, McClurg D, Hagen S (2017). What does qualitative case study methodology have to offer the interpretation of findings from trials of complex interventions? Reflections from a large complex intervention study. Author URL.

Dean S, Calitri R, Shepherd A, Hollands L, Poltawski L, James M, Allison R, Stevens S, Norris M, Spencer A, et al (2016). Community-based Rehabilitation Training after Stroke (ReTrain): Results of a pilot randomised control trial (RCT). Author URL.

Lloyd J, Creanor S, Dean S, Abraham C, Green C, Hillsdon M, Taylor R, Logan G, Tomlinson R, Pearson V, et al (2016). Engagement and retention of schools, children and their families in a cluster RCT of a novel obesity prevention intervention: the Healthy Lifestyles programme (HeLP). ISBNPA.

Hollands H, Calitri R, Shepherd A, Poltawski L, Norris M, Taylor R, Dean S (2016). The ReTrain trial: Evaluating intervention fidelity via video analysis of the independently getting up off the floor (IGO) technique. Author URL.

Tarrant M, Warmoth K, Dean S, Stein K, Code C, Goodwin V, Sugavanam T (2015). Singing for people with aphasia: a template for a new group intervention. Author URL.

Lloyd J, Wyatt K, Dean S, Abraham C (2014). The healthy Lifestyles programme (HeLP): creating the conditions for change and identifying change processes. Emerging Science in the design, evaluation and implementation of behaviour change intervention symposium, International Congress of Applied Psychology (ICAP).

Lloyd J, Wyatt K, Dean S, Abraham C (2014). The healthy Lifestyles programme (HeLP): creating the conditions for change and identifying change processes. Emerging Science in the design, evaluation and implementation of behaviour change intervention symposium. International Congress of Applied Psychology (ICAP).

Dean S (2013). THE CLINICAL APPLICATION OF BEHAVIOUR CHANGE STRATEGIES TO FACILITATE ADHERENCE TO TREATMENT. Author URL.

Dean S, Goodwin VA, Poltawski L, Stiles VH, Taylor R (2013). The IGO study: a 'before and after' case series to assess the safety and teaching of a technique designed for people with stroke to Independently Get up Off the floor. Author URL.

Bond M, Pavey T, Welch K, Cooper C, Garside R, Dean S, Hyde C (2012). PSYCHOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF FALSE-POSITIVE SCREENING MAMMOGRAMS IN THE UK: a SYSTEMATIC REVIEW. Author URL.

Wyatt K, Lloyd J, Dean S (2012). The Healthy Lifestyles Programme (HeLP); Creating the conditions for changing obesity related behaviours. UKSBM.

Dean SG, Hudson S, Dew K, Weatherall M, Howden-Chapman P (2008). 'Disability's between the ears not in the leg'.Exploring. the housing needs and rehabilitation experiences of people with lower limb amputation in New Zealand. International Congress of Behavioral Medicine.

Hudson S, Dew K, Dean SG, Montgomery H, Howden-Chapman P (2008). 'I can't sort of do what I wanted to do. ' housing needs and experiences of people with disability in New Zealand: a qualitative study following lower limb amputation. Warwick 5th Health Housing Conference.

Dean SG, Hudson S, Hay-Smith EJC, Milosavljevic S (2008). Exploring why people continue to work in spite of low back pain: the experiences of farm workers in rural New Zealand. 10th International Congress of Behavioral Medicine.

Dean SG, Taylor WJ, Siegert RJ (2008). Health self-efficacy but not pain predicts disability in the general adult population. 10th International Congress of Behavioral Medicine.

Levack WMM, Dean SG, McPherson KM, Siegert RJ (2008). Navigating the borderlands of patient-centred goal planning: a grounded theory investigation. 10th International Congress of Behavorial Medicine.

Dean SG, Hudson S, Hay-Smith EJC, Milosavljevic S (2008). Rural workers experience of low back pain: exploring why they continue to work. International Federation of Orthopaedic Manual Therapists.

Taylor WJ, Dean SG, Siegert RJ (2007). A low level of self-efficacy is not a risk factor for the development of musculoskeletal pain in the general adult population but low health self-efficacy is a consequence of persistent pain. Annals of Rheumatic Diseases.

Copeland J, Dean SG, Taylor W (2007). Clinical outcome measures invite recipe orientated practice. World Physical Therapy 15th International WCPT Congress.

Young V, Dean SG, Elley R, Bruton A (2007). Exploring patient and health professional preceptions of asthma education and rehabilititation management in New Zealand. Innovation in Rehabilitation Conference.

Levack W, Dean SG, McPherson K, Siegert R (2007). Goal planning for people with acquired brain injury - how clinicians talk about involving families. Innovation in Rehabilitation Conference.

Dean SG, Jera M, Sansom A, Howden-Chapman P (2007). Housing accessibility and Multiple Sclerosis: a qualitative exploration. Innovation in Rehabilitation Conference.

Hudson S, Dean SG, Dew K, Howden-Chapman P (2007). Housing needs and access experiences: Voices of people with lower limb amputations in New Zealand. Public Health Association Conference.

Hay-Smith J, Dean SG (2007). Seizing the moment: how, when and why patients' and health professionals' engage in rehabilitation for urinary incontinence. Innovation in Rehabilitation Conference.

Taylor W, Vipond N, Siegert R, Dean SG (2007). Stability of self-efficacy scores in a general population survey. Innovation in Rehabilitation Conference.

Dean SG, Weinman J, Tennant A, Taylor W (2007). The coherence subscale of the Illness Perception Questionnaire adapted for low back pain: a Rasch analysis. UK Society for Rehabilitation Research Summer Meeting.

Copeland J, Taylor W, Dean SG (2007). The role of clinical outcome measures in the treatment of low back pain - the result of two focus groups. Innovation in Rehabilitation Conference.

Dean SG, Hay-Smith EJC (2007). The special specialist: exploring how health professionals facilitate understanding and adherence to conservative treatment for women with urinary incontinence. World Physical Therapy 15th International WCPT Congress.

Hudson S, Dean SG, Howden-Chapman P, Dew K, Robinson J (2007). To explore the housing needs and experiences of people with lower limb amputations in New Zealand. Innovation in Rehabilitation Conference.

Dean SG, Hay-Smith EJC, Pollock N (2006). Do patients and health professionals share coherent views regarding treatment?. International Continence Society.

Levack WMN, Dean SG, McPherson KM, Siegert RJ (2006). How clinicians talk about the purpose, process and experience of goal planning in interdisciplinary rehabilitation. New Zealand Association of Occupational Therapy Conference.

Dean SG, Hay-Smith EJC (2006). Outside - inside: a qualitative study exploring the public and privat esperience of urinary incontinence. International Society of Behavioural Medicine 9th World Congress.

Hay-Smith J, Dean SG, Ryan K (2006). The silent private exercise: experience pelvic floor muscle training in a sample of stress urinary incontinent women. Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Physiotherapy Conference.

Dean SG, Elley R, Young V (2005). An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of patient's and professionals' perceptions of adherence to asthma education and prevention: a pilot study in New Zealand primary health care. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis Conference.

Dean SG (2005). Emotional disclosure in health care: dilemmas for health professionals and researchers. 19th Annual Conference of the European Health Psychology Society Synergy Symposium.

Dean SG (2005). Illness perceptions, pain and function in patients with low back pain: a prospective study. 19th Annual Conference of the European Health Psychology Society.

Dean SG (2005). Rethinking expectations as a physiotherapist. Applying psychology to the rehabilitation of patients with low back pain. Southern Pysiotherapy Symposium 3.

Siegert RJ, Levack W, Dean SG, McPherson K (2005). The whys and wherefores of goal setting in rehabilitation. Indian Association for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, XXX111 Annual National Conference.

Dean SG, Weinman J, Payne S (2005). Utility of the Orthosense Posture Monitor for facilitating exercise and postural advice for low back pain: a pilot study. 2nd International Conference on Movement Dysfunction.

Dean SG (2005). What factors contibute to treatment adherence? Using examples of self-management for urinary incontinence, asthma and low back pain. Southern Physiotherapy Symposium 3.

Dean SG, Weinman J, Payne S (2004). Exercise Therapy for Low Back Pain: a Pragmatic Controlled Trial ofa Psychological Approach to promote Adherence and Outcome. 5th Interdisciplinary World Congress on Low Back and Pelvic Pain.

Dean SG (2004). The Pain, the Patient and the Professional. New Zealand Pain Society Conference.

Dean SG, Payne S, Weinman J (2002). Pain and the Professional. UK Health Psychology Conference.

Dean SG, Weinman J, Payne S, Smith J (2001). 'Factors contributing to therapeutic exercise adherence for low back pain'. Proceedings of the British Psychological Society.

Dean SG, Weinman J, Payne S (2001). Training physiotherapists to adopt an illness perception approach with their low back pain (LBP) patients. European and UK Health Psychology Conference.

Dean SG, Weinman J, Payne S, Smith J (2000). Adhering to therapeutic exercise for low back pain. Proceedings of the British Psychological Society.

Dean SG (1999). A preliminary investigation into the perceptions of patients with regard to (a)non-specific low back pain and (b)physical activity. Proceedings of the British Psychological Society.

Dean SG (1998). Non specific low back pain - why are some patients afraid to move?. Third Interdisciplinary World Congress on Low Back and Pelvic Pain.

Dean SG (1998). The Role of Patients' Outcome Expectancy in Prediciting Adherence to Physiotherapeutic Exercises for Musculoskeletal Problems. Physiotherapy.

Reports

Bond M, Pavey T, Welch K, Cooper C, Garside R, Dean S, Hyde C (2011). Systematic review of the psychological consequences of false-positive screening mammograms. NIHR HTA, NICE.

External Engagement and Impact

Committee/panel activities

The Stroke Association research funding panel, ongoing

National Institute of Health Research funding programme: Programme Grants for Applied Research, Behavioural Science and Qualitative research methodologist. 2022 ongoing

In 2016, 2017 and 2018 I have been a member of the Equality Charter Unit's Athena Swan assessment panels.

Chair of a symposium: Exercise Adherence: integrating theory, evidence and behaviour change techniques. World Congress of Physical Therapy, Singapore May 2015.

Member of the expert panel and keynote speaker at a research activity seminar as part of the pre annual scientific meeting for the International Continence Society, August 2011 in Glasgow

Chair of expert panel for determining minimum data set for musculoskeletal rehabilitation services in Scotland, May 2010 in Glasgow.

Grant reviewer for RfPB, CSO Scotland, HTA, SDO, HSR, Stroke Association, Physiotherapy Research Foundation and EME.

Editorial responsibilities

Associate editor for Trials

Invited lectures

Strategies to Increase Adherence – Understanding Motivation. Invited Speaker. 45th Annual Meeting of the International Continence Society, Montreal, Canada, 6th -9th October 2015

What Research in Rehabilitation should and could be: Making better use of theoretical frameworks e.g. International Classification of Functioning (ICF) in rehabilitation research, Invited Speaker, Southern Danish University, Odense, Denmark September 2016.

Changing Patient Attitudes Towards Exercise Therapy. Invited Speaker. Primary Care and Public Health Conference, Birmingham, 20th May 2015.

Dean, S.G. (2013). The clinical application of behaviour change strategies to facilitate adherence to treatment. British Rheumatological Society. Invited Speaker. Birmingham, 23-25 April, 2013.

Dean, S.G. (2012). Developing and evaluating a physical Rehabilitation Training programme, called ARNI, for long term stroke survivors. Invited speaker. UK Stroke Forum, Harrogate 4-6 December 2012.

Dean, S.G. (2012). The evidence for and clinical application of, goal planning in rehabilitation. Invited speaker. Manchester Stroke and Cardiovascular Clinical Network Study day. Manchester, 9 November, 2012.

Dean, S.G. (2014) Principles and practice of behaviour change: an overview; and Facilitating positive exercise behaviours. KE Conferences Behaviour Change: Evidence and Principles as applied to Exercise Rehabilitation. Invited speaker, NHLI Education Centre, South Kensington, London, 7th July 2014.

Dean, S.G. (2004). The Pain, the Patient and the Professional. Keynote address. New Zealand Pain Society Conference, New Plymouth, New Zealand, May 2004.

Dean, S.G. (2005). Rethinking expectations as a physiotherapist. Applying psychology to the rehabilitation of patients with low back pain. Invited speaker. Southern Physiotherapy Symposium 3. Queenstown, New Zealand, 19-20 November, 2005.

Dean, S.G. (2005). What factors contribute to treatment adherence? Using examples of self-management for urinary incontinence, asthma and low back pain. Invited speaker. Southern Physiotherapy Symposium 3. Queenstown, New Zealand, 19-20 November, 2005.

Workshops/Conferences organised

Scientific Committee Rehabilitation World Congress Denmark 2022 (virtual).

Teaching

My current position is involves both teaching and research and the former involves undergraduates and post-graduates. I teach undergraduate Medical and Medical Science students and lead the final year Medical Science option module called Rehabilitation Science module for the new Sport & Exercise Medical Science degree and co-lead a new Behaviour Change module for the Public Health MSc. In addition I developed the undergraduate Medical ‘Making Sense of Evidence’ curriculum. I am also academic lead for PenARC’s Making Sense of Evidence workshops which provide critical appraisal skills training around the region. I teach on the new Applied Health Research MSc programme, facilitate PenARC’s Clinical Engagement workshops and I have an honorary contract with the University of Otago, teaching one module on research methods for the Aviation Medicine and Occupational Health Research Methods distance learning MSc course.

Modules

2023/24

Supervision / Group

Research Fellows

Raff Calitri
Rohini Terry
Victoria Salmon

Postdoctoral researchers

Sarah Morgan-Trimmer

Postgraduate researchers

Abdullah Al Haj Yonis
Alex Burns
Luana De Giorgio

Alumni

Thandiwe Hara-Msulira

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