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Pain Concern - Pain Matters

Wed, 24 Sep 2025 12:58:00 GMT

Celebrating the 30th Anniversay of Pain Concern, the Pain Matters editorial team has put together a comprehensive evidence-based manual for navigating pain (issue #89). Our lab's updated leaflet - Getting a good night's sleep - was one of the featured articles.

Pocketmags offers a smart phone friendly digital version of the full Pain Matters. This is for a cost of £1.75/issue for subscribers. This comes with access to our whole digital back catalogue and audio option at no extra cost. Every subscription supports our work. At the end of October, issues 88 and 89 will become 'special' issues — and remain — free of charge on Pocketmags.

Airing Pain #147: Person-Centred Care

Thu, 05 Dec 2024 12:05:57 GMT

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.

Time Stamps:

[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.

Prof Tang talks to BBC Future about sleep

Tue, 15 Oct 2024 08:31:00 GMT

Need a good night's sleep? Try changing how you think about it

Our hectic modern lives can often leave us feeling sleep-deprived, but what if much of a good night's sleep was down to our state of mind?

Interviewed and written by Amanda Ruggeri for BBC Future

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20241014-need-a-good-nights-sleep-trying-changing-how-you-think-about-it

Airpain podcast

Fri, 02 Dec 2022 15:46:00 GMT

The WITHIN team were delighted to welcome Paul Evans, the host of Airing Pain Podcast, to the Warwick Sleep and Pain Lab for a podcast episode.

Paul interviewed our WITHIN Team members (Principle Investigator: Prof Nicole Tang, Research Fellow: Dr Kristy Themelis, PhD Student: Jenna Gillett and Research Assistant: Paige Karadag) and two of our study participants about the study, as well as taking part in the study as a participant himself.

Bedtime social media use, sleep and wellbeing

Tue, 29 Sep 2020 22:16:00 GMT

Check out the new paper "Bedtime social media use, sleep, and affective wellbeing in young adults: an experience sampling study" by Ahuti Das-Friebel and the Warwick SMaRT team. It just came out in the Special Issue "Waking up to the importance of sleep for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Disorders" of Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. Open Access!

WITHIN gets a mention in Yorkshire Bylines

Thu, 09 Jul 2020 23:37:00 GMT

Dr Frances Cole - a respected pain clinician and co-founder of My Live Well with Pain - introduced our project to the Yorkshire community. Click here to read.

Dr Tang on BBC Cov & War Radio

Mon, 28 Oct 2019 09:55:00 GMT

with Trish Adudu on the Breakfast Show talking about the clock change.

Opioids are not sleep aids, and can actually worsen sleep

Wed, 12 Jun 2019 17:44:07 GMT

Check out our new study published in Sleep Medicine Reviews

https://warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/opioids_are_not

SLEEP Editor's Choice

Tue, 09 Apr 2019 11:12:58 GMT

New article authored by David Richter Michael D Krämer Nicole K Y TangHawley E Montgomery-Downs and Sakari Lemola

Long-term effects of pregnancy and childbirth on sleep satisfaction and duration of first-time and experienced mothers and fathers

has been highlighted in the latest issue of SLEEP (vol 42) as the Editor's choice.

See full article here: https://academic.oup.com/sleep/article/42/4/zsz015/5289255?guestAccessKey=9be5b24f-aa1c-4147-9ac6-60f8c06970ac

See press release here: https://warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/new_parents_face/

Sleep matters to the Heart

Mon, 07 Jan 2019 11:46:00 GMT

Dr. Tang was interviewed by Rachael Healey of the British Heart Foundation Magazine, Heart Mattersm, on dealing with insomnia.

Read the article here: https://www.bhf.org.uk/informationsupport/heart-matters-magazine/wellbeing/dealing-with-insomnia