Dr Rachel O'Brien
Senior Lecturer
Summary
Rachel O'Brien is a senior lecturer in occupational therapy. She leads the Masters level research module, and dissertation module for pre registration and post graduate Occupational therapy degrees.
She was part of a research team involved in evaluating the effective of a job retention programme for people with early inflammatory arthritis funded by AR UK. Her research interests are muscukloskeletal conditions and work.
About
Rachel O'Brien is a senior lecturer in occupational therapy. She leads the Masters level research module, and dissertation module for pre registration and post graduate Occupational therapy degrees.
She was part of a research team involved in evaluating the effective of a job retention programme for people with early inflammatory arthritis funded by AR UK. Her research interests are muscukloskeletal conditions and work. She has published articles in peer reviewed journals and presented at national and international conferences.
She was part of a multidisciplinary team who developed an on line course for allied health professionals specialising in regional musculoskeletal conditions for EULAR.
Musculoskeletal conditions
Work
Teaching
College of Health, Wellbeing and Life Sciences
AR UK funded trial Work Rehabilitation in Inflammatory Arthritis. Effectiveness and cost effectiveness of an occupational therapy (OT) job retention intervention: a randomised controlled trial
Occupational Therapy
pre reg MSc OT
MSc OT D/L
BSc OT
Research
AR UK funded trial Work Rehabilitation in Inflammatory Arthritis. Effectiveness and cost effectiveness of an occupational therapy (OT) job retention intervention: a randomised controlled trial
DeQuervain's disease: Development and evaluation of a cognitive behavioural education programme and its impact on physical, psychological and functional performance.
Publications
Journal articles
Hammond, A., O'Brien, R., Woodbridge, S., Parker, J., & Ching, A. (2023). The Work Experience Survey – Rheumatic conditions (United Kingdom): Psychometric properties and identifying the workplace barriers of employed people with inflammatory arthritis receiving vocational rehabilitation. Musculoskeletal Care. http://doi.org/10.1002/msc.1835
Hammond, A., Tennant, A., Ching, A., Parker, J., Prior, Y., Gignac, M.A.M., ... O'Brien, R. (2023). Psychometric testing of the British‐English perceived workplace support scale, work accommodations, benefits, policies and practices scale, and work transitions index in four rheumatic and musculoskeletal conditions. Musculoskeletal Care. http://doi.org/10.1002/msc.1807
Hammond, A., Tennant, A., Ching, A., Parker, J., Prior, Y., Gignac, M.A.M., ... O'Brien, R. (2023). Psychometric testing of the British‐English long‐term conditions job strain scale, long‐term conditions work spillover scale and work‐health‐personal life perceptions Scale in four rheumatic and musculoskeletal conditions. Musculoskeletal Care. http://doi.org/10.1002/msc.1774
Hammond, A., Tennant, A., Ching, A., Parker, J., Prior, Y., Gignac, M.A.M., ... O'Brien, R. (2023). Psychometric testing of the British English workplace activity limitations Scale in four rheumatic and musculoskeletal conditions. Rheumatology advances in practice, 7 (1). http://doi.org/10.1093/rap/rkad028
Hammond, A., Radford, K.A., Ching, A., Prior, Y., O’Brien, R., Woodbridge, S., ... Holland, P. (2022). The Workwell trial: protocol for the process evaluation of a randomised controlled trial of job retention vocational rehabilitation for employed people with inflammatory arthritis. Trials, 23 (1). http://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-022-06871-z
Hammond, A., Sutton, C., Cotterill, S., Woodbridge, S., O'Brien, R., Radford, K., ... Parker, J. (2020). The effect on work presenteeism of job retention vocational rehabilitation compared to a written self-help work advice pack for employed people with inflammatory arthritis: protocol for a multi-centre randomised controlled trial (the WORKWELL trial). BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 21 (1), 607. http://doi.org/10.1186/s12891-020-03619-1
Hammond, A., O'Brien, R., Woodbridge, S., Bradshaw, L., Prior, Y., Radford, K., ... Pulikottil-Jacob, R. (2017). Job retention vocational rehabilitation for employed people with inflammatory arthritis (WORK-IA): a feasibility randomized controlled trial. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 18, 315. http://doi.org/10.1186/s12891-017-1671-5
O'Brien, R. (2016). I want to work : a vocational rehabilitation case study following a brachial plexus injury. International Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation, 24 (1), 40-43. http://doi.org/10.12968/ijtr.2017.24.1.40
O'Brien, R., Woodbridge, S., Hammond, A., Adkin, J., & Culley, J. (2013). The development and evaluation of a vocational rehabilitation training programme for rheumatology occupational therapists. Musculoskeletal Care, 11 (2), 99-105. http://doi.org/10.1002/msc.1050