We were intereviewed by Airing Pain's Paul Evans at the 2024 British Pain Society meeting, giving an update on our WITHIN study. The episode is out now.

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[00:00] Introduction by Paul Evans
Overview of Pain Concern’s work and the British Pain Society’s Annual Scientific Meeting 2024 as the context for the interviews.

[00:45] Professor Nicole Tang on Mental Defeat
She explains how chronic pain impacts identity and self-perception, drawing analogies from animal behavior. Discusses mental defeat as a predictor of distress and its relationship with suicidal behavior.

[02:27] Vicky Sandy-Davis on Person-Centred Care
She explains diagnostic overshadowing and highlights the importance of personalized care for individuals with learning disabilities and chronic pain. Shares challenges in supporting offenders with learning disabilities in the criminal justice system.

[16:26] Ian Taverner and Sarah Harrisson discuss Patient Involvement in Research
They discuss the value of integrating lived experiences of chronic pain sufferers into research.
They highlight the gap in representation of individuals with severe pain in public involvement initiatives. and advocate for meaningful participation of patients in shaping research.

[19:25] Nicole Tang and Jenna Gillett discuss the Warwick Mental Defeat Study and how mental defeat impacts pain management and affects levels of suicidal behaviour.

[30:00] Nicole Tang and Jenna Gillett discuss challenges in communicating research outcomes – the importance of making tools and findings accessible to clinicians and researchers. They talk about plans to share the mental defeat questionnaire for broader use in healthcare.

Congratulations to our fellow, @KristyThemelis who is shortlisted for 'best poster' and gave a fantastic presentation on our predictors of suicidality in #ChronicPain findings as part of the WITHIN study #BPSASM2023 pic.twitter.com/rTuP1yOOjC

— WITHIN Study (@StudyWithin) May 9, 2023

Very well done to @JennaLGillett and @KristyThemelis from the WITHIN team who have two posters at the @BritishPainSoc ASM in Glasgow! #BPSASM2023 pic.twitter.com/HRNUbd8ACz

— WITHIN Study (@StudyWithin) May 9, 2023

Congratulations to Dr Kristy Themelis, who has been awarded an IASP travel bursary to attend the World Congress on Pain in Toronto this Sept! We look forward to seeing her and her fabulous teammates presenting their posters (based on the MRC WITHIN study) in this most high-profile event in the field.

Congratulations to our Research Assistant

who co-presented some of her previous work today at #MHPNConf and won best Oral Presentation with Beth Morris! Their work looked at #IBD patients' information and support needs (pre-COVID) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11