Carol Coole

Contact

• workRoom B108 Medical School
  Queen's Medical Centre
  Nottingham
  NG7 2UH
  UK
• work0115 823 0247
• carolyn.coole@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

Carol Coole qualified as an Occupational Therapist in 1976 and has worked in a variety of clinical areas. From 1995 she was based at the Spinal Disorders Unit at Queens Medical Centre, which led to an interest in ergonomics/human factors. She gained an MSc in Human Factors in Manufacturing Engineering at the University of Nottingham in 1999. Following this she returned to clinical work, helping to develop a new multidisciplinary rehabilitation service for people with persisting back problems until 2008 when she was awarded a three year Primary Care Fellowship by Arthritis Research UK and registered for a part-time PhD with the Division of Rehabilitation and Ageing.

Expertise Summary

Keywords:

Rehabilitation research, occupational therapy, lower back pain, vocational rehabilitation

Research Summary

Carol Coole's research is concerned with changing perceptions of work ability in people with low back pain. Low back pain is a main cause of sickness absence and loss of employment and while the UK… read more

Recent Publications

• DRUMMOND A, COOLE C, BREWIN C and SINCLAIR E, 2012. Hip precautions following pimary total hip replacement: a national survey of current occupational therapy practice British Journal of Occupational Therapy. (In Press.)
• COOLE C, DRUMMOND A, SACH TH AND WATSON PJ., 2011. Assessing the feasibility of collecting health care resource use data from general practices for use in an economic evaluation of vocational rehabilitation for back pain. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice.. 17(1), 204-207
• COOLE, C., DRUMMOND, A., WATSON, P.J. and RADFORD, K., 2010. What concerns workers with low back pain? Findings of a qualitative study of patients referred for rehabilitation Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation. 20(4), 472-80
• CAROL COOLE, PAUL J WATSON and AVRIL DRUMMOND, 2010. Staying at work with back pain: patients’ experiences of work-related help received from GPs and other clinicians. A qualititative study. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders: HIGHLY ACCESSED. 11(190),

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• College of Occupational Therapy Specialist section for occupational therapy in work practice and productivity, East Midlands- Representative

Current Research

Carol Coole's research is concerned with changing perceptions of work ability in people with low back pain. Low back pain is a main cause of sickness absence and loss of employment and while the UK government intends healthcare to become more work-focused, there is little provision of vocational rehabilitation within the NHS and a lack of evidence as to how the needs of this client group can best be met. The aim of the current study is to test the feasibility of delivering a NHS vocational intervention to employed patients with persisting and/or recurrent low back pain, as well as how acceptable the intervention is to patients, and the costs involved. This three year study currently in the process of being written up.

She is also working on the following projects within the division:

• CLAHRC Return to Work after Stroke
• CLAHRC Wii Star study

• Occupational Therapy in Care Homes
• The use of occupational therapy hip precautions in Total Hip Replacement
• CLAHRC Return-to-Work after Stroke
• CLAHRC Wii Star Upper Limb Study

• Occupational Therapy hip precautions following total hip replacement

• DRUMMOND A, COOLE C, BREWIN C and SINCLAIR E, 2012. Hip precautions following pimary total hip replacement: a national survey of current occupational therapy practice British Journal of Occupational Therapy. (In Press.)
• COOLE C, DRUMMOND A, SACH TH AND WATSON PJ., 2011. Assessing the feasibility of collecting health care resource use data from general practices for use in an economic evaluation of vocational rehabilitation for back pain. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice.. 17(1), 204-207
• COOLE, C., DRUMMOND, A., WATSON, P.J. and RADFORD, K., 2010. What concerns workers with low back pain? Findings of a qualitative study of patients referred for rehabilitation Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation. 20(4), 472-80
• CAROL COOLE, PAUL J WATSON and AVRIL DRUMMOND, 2010. Staying at work with back pain: patients’ experiences of work-related help received from GPs and other clinicians. A qualititative study. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders: HIGHLY ACCESSED. 11(190),
• COOLE C, WATSON PJ AND DRUMMOND A., 2010. Low back pain patients’ experiences of work modification; a qualititative study. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders: HIGHLY ACCESSED. 11(277),
• COOLE, C., WATSON P.J and DRUMMOND A., 2010. Work problems due to low back pain: what do GPs do? A questionnaire survey. Family Practice. 21(1), 31-37
• COOLE C. and HASLEGRAVE, C.M., 2000. Reducing Risks for Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders in School Nurseries Contemporary Ergonomics. 317-321
• COOLE, C. and HASLEGRAVE, C.M., Effects of Work Organisation on Risk Factors for Musculoskeletal Disorders for Nursery School Staff In: 1st International Conference on Occupational Risk Prevention, Tenerife, 2000.