PhD scholarship for Jade Barclay: Improving women’s health: managing hypermobility-related multimorbidity

Opportunity

This project will lay the research foundations for the development of a future digital health solution – an evidence-based hypermobility navigation toolkit for patients and clinicians – which, in turn, will improve patient outcomes and their experiences in navigating the healthcare system.

Project Objective

1. Establish international consensus of management priorities for hypermobility-related conditions.
2. Identify variance of priorities between clinicians and patients, or other subgroups.
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3. Understand how unrecognised/unmanaged hypermobility contributes to the global burden of multimorbidity and chronic pain.
4. Close evidence gaps by triangulating heterogenous sources – RCT’s, service utilisation claims, Delphi consensus, social media discourse.
5. Embed multimorbidity-informed evidence in clinical guidelines, education, and screening, co-designed with health consumers.
6. Elevate the profile of inclusive representation in research and clinical guidelines to Close the Multimorbidity Gap.