Zara Hansen
PhD
Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
I graduated from Keele University with a BSc (Hons) in Physiotherapy in 1997. I then worked within the NHS and private sector specialising in the area of musculoskeletal outpatients. During this time I developed a special interest in chronic pain management that led me to undertake a Post Graduate Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) at the University of East Anglia from 2002-3.
In 2004 I joined the University of Warwick Clinical Trials Unit as a Clinical Research Fellow investigating the clinical and cost effectiveness of a cognitive behavioural (CB) group approach to chronic low back pain (Back Skills Training Trial; BeST). My PhD, conducted at the University of Warwick, investigated the competence of physiotherapists to deliver CB approaches and was awarded in 2014.
I have been working within the RRIO team since July 2014 as a Post-Doctoral Research Assistant in CBT. I am primarily interested in using the CBT model to improve patient care through up skilling health professionals and also using CBT to enable patient self-management. I am a co-applicant on the BOOST Trial and will be primarily involved in intervention development and delivery.
Outside of the RRIO group I deliver CBT training for health professionals and retain practice links through continued work as a CBT therapist and as a physiotherapist.
Recent publications
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Journal article
Richmond H. et al, (2018), Physiotherapy, 104, 107 - 115
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Implementation of the Back Skills Training Programme
Poster
Sugavanam T. et al, (2017)
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Journal article
Hopewell S. et al, (2017), BMJ Open, 7, e018004 - e018004
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Implementation into practice: the development, enhancement and delivery of an online training programme to support clinicians in the replication of the back skills training (best) programme in practice
Conference paper
Richmond H. et al, (2017), TRIALS, 18
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Journal article
Fordham B. et al, (2017), Spine