Table 3 Research topics identified by the knee pain forum
Topic | Research ideas |
|---|---|
Changing uncertainty and expectations | - How can we deal with the uncertainty about what can be done for knee pain (patients and professionals)? - How can we overcome the problems of poor expectations in relation to knee pain in society? - How to shift societal expectations? |
Defining effective interventions | - How to build issues into daily life. This needs studies to make initiatives more appropriate to people - Testing multi-agency working - Long term research required - Why aren't GPs or other health care professionals giving lifestyle advice? |
Evaluate public health interventions | - Evaluate the results of media and dissemination of research messages. For example, evaluate the outcome of delivering hard hitting messages on behaviour change - Develop community interventions, which need to be free of charge |
Implementation | - How can we get more evidence into practice? |
Primary Prevention | - Studies with key groups, like children, younger adults, parents. - What do key groups know about knee pain and the musculoskeletal health? - Do they know of the impact of risk factors for themselves or their children? |