Miss Karen Wood

  • Research Associate (General Practice & Primary Care)

telephone: 0141 330 2816
email: Karen.Wood@glasgow.ac.uk

Room 301, General Practice and Primary Care, Clarice Pears Building, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8TB

Import to contacts

Biography

Karen graduated from the University of Glasgow in 2009 with an MA (Hons) in Public Policy. She worked at the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit from 2010 based in the Survey Office on several studies, including recruitment and administration for the Football Fans In Training (FFIT) programme. In 2011, she joined the Understandings and Uses of Public Health Research programme. Her work focussed on newsprint media representations of the Scottish Government's Minimum Unit Pricing of alcohol policy and second-hand smoking and children.

Since 2013, Karen has worked at General Practice and Primary Care on a range of research studies including qualitative interview/focus group studies, systematic reviews and randomised controlled trials. Her research has focused on several areas such as the management of long term conditions amongst adults with learning disabilities and mindfulness interventions for people with diabetes, epilepsy, Parkinson's Disease and MS. She also worked with the Scottish School of Primary Care on their evaluation of primary care transformation in Scotland. From 2014, Karen worked on the EU FP7  InMINDD (Innovative, Midlife Intervention for Dementia Deterrence) randomised controlled trial, completing recruitment and data collection in Scotland and contributing to the process evaluation. Most recently, she has been involved in the EU Horizon 2020 funded project 'selfBACK', which aims to develop and trial a smartphone application for the self-management of low back pain.

Research interests

  • Primary Care
  • Health Research
  • Qualitative Research
  • Randomised Controlled Trials and Process Evaluations
  • Systematic Reviews

Publications

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Number of items: 20.

2025

Stochkendahl, Mette Jensen, Nicholl, Barbara I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5639-0130, Wood, Karen, Mair, Frances S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9780-1135, Mork, Paul Jarle, Søgaard, Karen and Rasmussen, Charlotte D.N. (2025) The engagement of healthcare providers in implementing the selfBACK randomised controlled trial - A mixed-methods process evaluation. Digital Health, 11, p. 20552076241313159. (doi: 10.1177/20552076241313159) (PMID:39845520) (PMCID:PMC11752214)

2023

Wood, Karen, Sardar, Aleema, Eton, David T., Mair, Frances S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9780-1135, Kidd, Lisa ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2709-4011, Quinn, Terence J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1401-0181 and Gallacher, Katie I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8620-8758 (2023) Adaptation and content validation of a patient-reported measure of treatment burden for use in stroke survivors: the patient experience with treatment and self-management in stroke (PETS-stroke) measure. Disability and Rehabilitation, (doi: 10.1080/09638288.2023.2241360) (PMID:37545161) (Early Online Publication)

Gallacher, Katie I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8620-8758, Taylor-Rowan, Martin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3027-5369, Eton, David T., McLeod, Hamish ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4225-1815, Kidd, Lisa ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2709-4011, Wood, Karen, Sardar, Aleema, Quinn, Terry J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1401-0181 and Mair, Frances S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9780-1135 (2023) Protocol for the development and validation of a patient reported measure (PRM) of treatment burden in stroke. Health Open Research, 5, 17. (doi: 10.12688/healthopenres.13334.1)

Rughani, Guy, Nilsen, Tom I.L., Wood, Karen, Mair, Frances S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9780-1135, Hartvigsen, Jan, Mork, Paul J. and Nicholl, Barbara I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5639-0130 (2023) The selfBACK artificial intelligence-based smartphone app can improve low back pain outcome even in patients with high levels of depression or stress. European Journal of Pain, 27(5), pp. 568-579. (doi: 10.1002/ejp.2080) (PMID:36680381)

2022

Svendsen, Malene J., Nicholl, Barbara I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5639-0130, Mair, Frances S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9780-1135, Wood, Karen, Rasmussen, Charlotte D. N. and Stochkendahl, Mette J. (2022) One size does not fit all: participants’ experiences of the selfBACK app to support self-management of low back pain—a qualitative interview study. Chiropractic and Manual Therapies, 30, 41. (doi: 10.1186/s12998-022-00452-2) (PMID:36192724) (PMCID:PMC9531397)

Øverås, Cecilie K., Nilsen, Tom I.L., Nicholl, Barbara I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5639-0130, Rughani, Guy, Wood, Karen, Søgaard, Karen, Mair, Frances S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9780-1135 and Hartvigsen, Jan (2022) Multimorbidity and co-occurring musculoskeletal pain do not modify the effect of the selfBACK app on low back pain-related disability. BMC Medicine, 10, 53. (doi: 10.1186/s12916-022-02237-z) (PMID:35130898) (PMCID:PMC8822859)

2021

Cunningham, Y. et al. (2021) Understanding stakeholder views regarding the design of an intervention trial to reduce anticholinergic burden: a qualitative study. Frontiers in Pharmacology, 12, 608208. (doi: 10.3389/fphar.2021.608208) (PMID:34867311) (PMCID:PMC8633300)

Sandal, L. F. et al. (2021) Effectiveness of app-delivered, tailored self-management support for adults with lower back pain–related disability. JAMA Internal Medicine, 181(10), pp. 1288-1296. (doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2021.4097) (PMID:34338710) (PMCID:PMC8329791)

2020

Svendsen, Malene Jagd, Wood, Karen, Kyle, John, Cooper, Kay, Rasmussen, Charlotte Diana Nørregaard, Sandal, Louise Fleng, Stochkendahl, Mette Jensen, Mair, Frances S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9780-1135 and Nicholl, Barbara I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5639-0130 (2020) Barriers and facilitators to patient uptake and utilisation of digital interventions for the self-management of low back pain: a systematic review of qualitative studies. BMJ Open, 10(12), e038800. (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-038800) (PMID:33310794) (PMCID:PMC7735096)

Rasmussen, Charlotte Diana Nørregaard, Svendsen, Malene Jagd, Wood, Karen, Nicholl, Barbara I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5639-0130, Mair, Frances S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9780-1135, Sandal, Louise Fleng, Mork, Paul Jarle, Søgaard, Karen, Bach, Kerstin and Stochkendahl, Mette Jensen (2020) App-delivered self-management intervention trial selfBACK for people with low back pain: protocol for implementation and process evaluation. JMIR Research Protocols, 9(10), e20308. (doi: 10.2196/20308) (PMID:33118959) (PMCID:PMC7661240)

2019

Simpson, Robert, Simpson, Sharon, Wood, Karen, Mercer, Stewart W. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1703-3664 and Mair, Frances S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9780-1135 (2019) Using normalisation process theory to understand barriers and facilitators to implementing mindfulness-based stress reduction for people with multiple sclerosis. Chronic Illness, 15(4), pp. 306-318. (doi: 10.1177/1742395318769354) (PMID:29699410)

Sandal, L. F. et al. (2019) An app-delivered self-management program for people with low back pain: protocol for the selfBACK randomised controlled trial. JMIR Research Protocols, 8(12), e14720. (doi: 10.2196/14720) (PMID:31793897) (PMCID:PMC6918200)

Jani, B. et al. (2019) Evaluation of New Models of Primary Care in Scotland: Lanarkshire Case Study. Project Report. Scottish School of Primary Care.

2018

Hanlon, Peter ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5828-3934, Macdonald, Sara ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5380-6943, Wood, Karen, Allan, Linda and Cooper, Sally-Ann ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6054-7700 (2018) Long-term condition management in adults with intellectual disability in primary care: a systematic review. BJGP Open, 2(1), (doi: 10.3399/bjgpopen18X101445)

2017

Simpson, Robert, Byrne, Sharon, Wood, Karen, Mair, Frances S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9780-1135 and Mercer, Stewart W. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1703-3664 (2017) Optimising mindfulness-based stress reduction for people with multiple sclerosis. Chronic Illness, 14(2), pp. 154-166. (doi: 10.1177/1742395317715504) (PMID:28661195)

Wood, Karen, Lawrence, Maggie, Jani, Bhautesh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7348-514X, Simpson, Robert and Mercer, Stewart W. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1703-3664 (2017) Mindfulness-based interventions in epilepsy: a systematic review. BMC Neurology, 17(1), 52. (doi: 10.1186/s12883-017-0832-3) (PMID:28320349) (PMCID:PMC5360054)

2015

Patterson, Chris ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5914-8718, Katikireddi, Srinivas Vittal ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6593-9092, Wood, Karen and Hilton, Shona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0633-8152 (2015) Representations of minimum unit pricing for alcohol in UK newspapers: a case study of a public health policy debate. Journal of Public Health, 37(1), pp. 10-49. (doi: 10.1093/pubmed/fdu078) (PMID:25312002) (PMCID:PMC4340327)

2014

Wood, Karen, Patterson, Chris ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5914-8718, Katikireddi, Srinivasa Vittal and Hilton, Shona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0633-8152 (2014) Harms to ‘others’ from alcohol consumption in the minimum unit pricing policy debate: A qualitative content analysis of UK newspapers (2005-2012). Addiction, 109(4), pp. 578-584. (doi: 10.1111/add.12427)

Hilton, Shona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0633-8152, Wood, Karen, Patterson, Chris ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5914-8718 and Katikireddi, Srinivasa Vittal (2014) Implications for alcohol minimum unit pricing advocacy: what can we learn for public health from UK newsprint coverage of key claim-makers in the policy debate? Social Science and Medicine, 102, pp. 157-164. (doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.11.041)

Hilton, Shona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0633-8152, Wood, Karen, Bain, Josh, Patterson, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5914-8718, Duffy, Sheila and Semple, Sean (2014) Newsprint coverage of smoking in cars carrying children: a case study of public and scientific opinion driving the policy debate. BMC Public Health, 14(1116), (doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-1116)

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Number of items: 20.

Articles

Stochkendahl, Mette Jensen, Nicholl, Barbara I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5639-0130, Wood, Karen, Mair, Frances S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9780-1135, Mork, Paul Jarle, Søgaard, Karen and Rasmussen, Charlotte D.N. (2025) The engagement of healthcare providers in implementing the selfBACK randomised controlled trial - A mixed-methods process evaluation. Digital Health, 11, p. 20552076241313159. (doi: 10.1177/20552076241313159) (PMID:39845520) (PMCID:PMC11752214)

Wood, Karen, Sardar, Aleema, Eton, David T., Mair, Frances S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9780-1135, Kidd, Lisa ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2709-4011, Quinn, Terence J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1401-0181 and Gallacher, Katie I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8620-8758 (2023) Adaptation and content validation of a patient-reported measure of treatment burden for use in stroke survivors: the patient experience with treatment and self-management in stroke (PETS-stroke) measure. Disability and Rehabilitation, (doi: 10.1080/09638288.2023.2241360) (PMID:37545161) (Early Online Publication)

Gallacher, Katie I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8620-8758, Taylor-Rowan, Martin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3027-5369, Eton, David T., McLeod, Hamish ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4225-1815, Kidd, Lisa ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2709-4011, Wood, Karen, Sardar, Aleema, Quinn, Terry J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1401-0181 and Mair, Frances S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9780-1135 (2023) Protocol for the development and validation of a patient reported measure (PRM) of treatment burden in stroke. Health Open Research, 5, 17. (doi: 10.12688/healthopenres.13334.1)

Rughani, Guy, Nilsen, Tom I.L., Wood, Karen, Mair, Frances S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9780-1135, Hartvigsen, Jan, Mork, Paul J. and Nicholl, Barbara I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5639-0130 (2023) The selfBACK artificial intelligence-based smartphone app can improve low back pain outcome even in patients with high levels of depression or stress. European Journal of Pain, 27(5), pp. 568-579. (doi: 10.1002/ejp.2080) (PMID:36680381)

Svendsen, Malene J., Nicholl, Barbara I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5639-0130, Mair, Frances S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9780-1135, Wood, Karen, Rasmussen, Charlotte D. N. and Stochkendahl, Mette J. (2022) One size does not fit all: participants’ experiences of the selfBACK app to support self-management of low back pain—a qualitative interview study. Chiropractic and Manual Therapies, 30, 41. (doi: 10.1186/s12998-022-00452-2) (PMID:36192724) (PMCID:PMC9531397)

Øverås, Cecilie K., Nilsen, Tom I.L., Nicholl, Barbara I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5639-0130, Rughani, Guy, Wood, Karen, Søgaard, Karen, Mair, Frances S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9780-1135 and Hartvigsen, Jan (2022) Multimorbidity and co-occurring musculoskeletal pain do not modify the effect of the selfBACK app on low back pain-related disability. BMC Medicine, 10, 53. (doi: 10.1186/s12916-022-02237-z) (PMID:35130898) (PMCID:PMC8822859)

Cunningham, Y. et al. (2021) Understanding stakeholder views regarding the design of an intervention trial to reduce anticholinergic burden: a qualitative study. Frontiers in Pharmacology, 12, 608208. (doi: 10.3389/fphar.2021.608208) (PMID:34867311) (PMCID:PMC8633300)

Sandal, L. F. et al. (2021) Effectiveness of app-delivered, tailored self-management support for adults with lower back pain–related disability. JAMA Internal Medicine, 181(10), pp. 1288-1296. (doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2021.4097) (PMID:34338710) (PMCID:PMC8329791)

Svendsen, Malene Jagd, Wood, Karen, Kyle, John, Cooper, Kay, Rasmussen, Charlotte Diana Nørregaard, Sandal, Louise Fleng, Stochkendahl, Mette Jensen, Mair, Frances S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9780-1135 and Nicholl, Barbara I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5639-0130 (2020) Barriers and facilitators to patient uptake and utilisation of digital interventions for the self-management of low back pain: a systematic review of qualitative studies. BMJ Open, 10(12), e038800. (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-038800) (PMID:33310794) (PMCID:PMC7735096)

Rasmussen, Charlotte Diana Nørregaard, Svendsen, Malene Jagd, Wood, Karen, Nicholl, Barbara I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5639-0130, Mair, Frances S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9780-1135, Sandal, Louise Fleng, Mork, Paul Jarle, Søgaard, Karen, Bach, Kerstin and Stochkendahl, Mette Jensen (2020) App-delivered self-management intervention trial selfBACK for people with low back pain: protocol for implementation and process evaluation. JMIR Research Protocols, 9(10), e20308. (doi: 10.2196/20308) (PMID:33118959) (PMCID:PMC7661240)

Simpson, Robert, Simpson, Sharon, Wood, Karen, Mercer, Stewart W. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1703-3664 and Mair, Frances S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9780-1135 (2019) Using normalisation process theory to understand barriers and facilitators to implementing mindfulness-based stress reduction for people with multiple sclerosis. Chronic Illness, 15(4), pp. 306-318. (doi: 10.1177/1742395318769354) (PMID:29699410)

Sandal, L. F. et al. (2019) An app-delivered self-management program for people with low back pain: protocol for the selfBACK randomised controlled trial. JMIR Research Protocols, 8(12), e14720. (doi: 10.2196/14720) (PMID:31793897) (PMCID:PMC6918200)

Hanlon, Peter ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5828-3934, Macdonald, Sara ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5380-6943, Wood, Karen, Allan, Linda and Cooper, Sally-Ann ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6054-7700 (2018) Long-term condition management in adults with intellectual disability in primary care: a systematic review. BJGP Open, 2(1), (doi: 10.3399/bjgpopen18X101445)

Simpson, Robert, Byrne, Sharon, Wood, Karen, Mair, Frances S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9780-1135 and Mercer, Stewart W. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1703-3664 (2017) Optimising mindfulness-based stress reduction for people with multiple sclerosis. Chronic Illness, 14(2), pp. 154-166. (doi: 10.1177/1742395317715504) (PMID:28661195)

Wood, Karen, Lawrence, Maggie, Jani, Bhautesh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7348-514X, Simpson, Robert and Mercer, Stewart W. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1703-3664 (2017) Mindfulness-based interventions in epilepsy: a systematic review. BMC Neurology, 17(1), 52. (doi: 10.1186/s12883-017-0832-3) (PMID:28320349) (PMCID:PMC5360054)

Patterson, Chris ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5914-8718, Katikireddi, Srinivas Vittal ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6593-9092, Wood, Karen and Hilton, Shona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0633-8152 (2015) Representations of minimum unit pricing for alcohol in UK newspapers: a case study of a public health policy debate. Journal of Public Health, 37(1), pp. 10-49. (doi: 10.1093/pubmed/fdu078) (PMID:25312002) (PMCID:PMC4340327)

Wood, Karen, Patterson, Chris ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5914-8718, Katikireddi, Srinivasa Vittal and Hilton, Shona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0633-8152 (2014) Harms to ‘others’ from alcohol consumption in the minimum unit pricing policy debate: A qualitative content analysis of UK newspapers (2005-2012). Addiction, 109(4), pp. 578-584. (doi: 10.1111/add.12427)

Hilton, Shona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0633-8152, Wood, Karen, Patterson, Chris ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5914-8718 and Katikireddi, Srinivasa Vittal (2014) Implications for alcohol minimum unit pricing advocacy: what can we learn for public health from UK newsprint coverage of key claim-makers in the policy debate? Social Science and Medicine, 102, pp. 157-164. (doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.11.041)

Hilton, Shona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0633-8152, Wood, Karen, Bain, Josh, Patterson, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5914-8718, Duffy, Sheila and Semple, Sean (2014) Newsprint coverage of smoking in cars carrying children: a case study of public and scientific opinion driving the policy debate. BMC Public Health, 14(1116), (doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-1116)

Research Reports or Papers

Jani, B. et al. (2019) Evaluation of New Models of Primary Care in Scotland: Lanarkshire Case Study. Project Report. Scottish School of Primary Care.

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Teaching

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MSc in Primary Care
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