Managing expectations and reducing morbidity after surgery for breast cancer.
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Project Title |
Managing expectations and reducing morbidity after surgery for breast cancer. |
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Funder & Dates |
Department for the Economy (DfE) and Cancer Focus Northern Ireland |
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Principal Investigator or Primary Supervisor (if PhD project) |
Dr Daniel P Kerr |
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Co-Investigators or additional supervisors |
Dr Iseult M. Wilson, Dr Sean O’Connor, Dr Nicole E. Blackburn, Prof Eilis McCaughan. |
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Research Fellow(s) or PhD Student |
Mariya Sotirova |
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Name & Institution of Collaborators |
Ulster University |
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Description of Project: Aim; Methods; Expected Outcomes |
To design, develop and test an online intervention for self-management of post-surgical rehabilitation of the shoulder and arm, based on users’ evaluations, through iterative cycles of user-testing and intervention refinement, and tailored according to the major types of shoulder and arm functional problems incurred by people after a surgery for BC. |
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