Publications
Journal Articles
Mescouto, Karime, Olson, Rebecca E., Costa, Nathalia, Evans, Kerrie, Dillon, Miriam, Walsh, Kelly, Jensen, Niamh, Hodges, Paul W., Lonergan, Kathryn, Weier, Megan and Setchell, Jenny (2023). Fostering equitable change in health services: Using critical reflexivity to challenge dominant discourses in low back pain care in Australia. Journal of Health Services Research & Policy, 1-10. doi: 10.1177/13558196231193862
Costa, Nathalia, Butler, Prudenc, Dillon, Miriam, Mescouto, Karime, Olson, Rebecca, Forbes, Roma and Setchell, Jenny (2023). "I felt uncertain about my whole future"-a qualitative investigation of people's experiences of navigating uncertainty when seeking care for their low back pain. Pain. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002975
Parambath, Sarika, Costa, Nathalia, Schneider, Carmen Huckel and Blyth, Fiona M. (2023). What guides back pain care? A content analysis of low back pain directives in the Australian context. Health Research Policy and Systems, 21 (1) 49. doi: 10.1186/s12961-023-00997-5
Murray, Fabiana Silveira, Costa, Nathalia, Jesus‐Moraleida, Fabianna and Meziat‐Filho, Ney (2023). What are Brazilian orthopaedists' views on the diagnosis and treatment of patients with chronic nonspecific low back pain? A qualitative investigation. Musculoskeletal Care. doi: 10.1002/msc.1778
Pearce, Louise, Costa, Nathalia, Sherrington, Catherine and Hassett, Leanne (2023). Implementation of digital health interventions in rehabilitation: A scoping review. Clinical Rehabilitation, 37 (11), 026921552311722-1551. doi: 10.1177/02692155231172299
Dillon, M., Olson, R., Mescouto, K., Costa, N. and Setchell, J. (2023). How physiotherapists attend to the human aspects of care when working with people with low back pain: a thematic analysis. Health Sociology Review. doi: 10.1080/14461242.2022.2161927
Cuadra, Gabriela, Oliveira, Juliana S., Pinheiro, Marina B., Tiedemann, Anne, Sherrington, Catherine, Pivotto, Luiza, Khalatbari-Soltani, Saman, Sharma, Sweekriti and Costa, Nathalia (2023). Physical Activity Interventions for Adults Aged 60+ Years in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Scoping Review. Journal of Physical Activity and Health, 20 (7), 1-8. doi: 10.1123/jpah.2022-0508
Suri, Pradeep, Tanus, Adrienne D., Torres, Nikki, Timmons, Andrew, Irimia, Bianca, Friedly, Janna L., Korpak, Anna, Daniels, Clinton, Morelli, Daniel, Hodges, Paul W., Costa, Nathalia, Day, Melissa A., Heagerty, Patrick J. and Jensen, Mark P. (2022). The Flares of Low back pain with Activity Research Study (FLAReS): study protocol for a case-crossover study nested within a cohort study. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 23 (1) 376, 376. doi: 10.1186/s12891-022-05281-1
Mescouto, Karime, Olson, Rebecca E, Costa, Nathalia, Evans, Kerrie, Dillon, Miriam, Jensen, Niamh, Walsh, Kelly, Weier, Megan, Lonergan, Kathryn, Hodges, Paul W. and Setchell, Jenny (2022). ‘Engaging on a slightly more human level’: A qualitative study exploring the care of individuals with back pain in a multidisciplinary pain clinic. Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, 1-22. doi: 10.1177/13634593221127817
Costa, Nathalia, Mescouto, Karime, Dillon, Miriam, Olson, Rebecca, Butler, Prudence, Forbes, Roma and Setchell, Jenny (2022). The ubiquity of uncertainty in low back pain care. Social Science and Medicine, 313 115422, 115422. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115422
Costa, Nathalia, Blyth, Fiona M., Parambath, Sarika and Huckel Schneider, Carmen (2022). What’s the problem of low back pain represented to be? An analysis of discourse of the Australian context. Disability and Rehabilitation, 45 (20), 1-11. doi: 10.1080/09638288.2022.2125085
Costa, Nathalia, Smits, Esther J., Kasza, Jessica, Salomoni, Sauro, Rodriguez-Romero, Beatriz, Ferreira, Manuela L and Hodges, Paul W. (2022). Are objective measures of sleep and sedentary behaviours related to low back pain flares?. Pain, 163 (9), 1829-1837. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002585
Costa, Nathalia, Blyth, Fiona M, Amorim, Anita B, Parambath, Sarika, Shanmuganathan, Selvanaayagam and Huckel Schneider, Carmen (2022). Implementation initiatives to improve low back pain care in Australia: A scoping review. Pain Medicine, 23 (12), 1979-2009. doi: 10.1093/pm/pnac102
O’Sullivan, Isobel C., da Costa, Nathalia Cordeiro, Franettovich Smith, Melinda M., Vicenzino, Bill, Crossley, Kay M., Kamper, Steven J., van Middelkoop, Marienke, Menz, Hylton B., Tucker, Kylie, O’Leary, Karina T. and Collins, Natalie J. (2022). Adolescent perspectives on participating in a feasibility trial investigating shoe inserts for patellofemoral pain. Journal of Foot and Ankle Research, 15 (1) 37, 37. doi: 10.1186/s13047-022-00537-4
Mescouto, Karime, Olson, Rebecca E., Hodges, Paul W., Costa, Nathalia, Patton, Mary Anne, Evans, Kerrie, Walsh, Kelly, Lonergan, Kathryn and Setchell, Jenny (2022). Physiotherapists both reproduce and resist biomedical dominance when working with people with low back pain: a qualitative study towards new praxis. Qualitative Health Research, 32 (6), 104973232210843-915. doi: 10.1177/10497323221084358
King, Marguerite Helen, Costa, Nathalia, Lewis, Amy, Watson, Kate and Vicenzino, Bill (2022). Throwing in the deep end: athletes, coaches and support staff experiences, perceptions and beliefs of upper limb injuries and training load in elite women’s water polo. BMJ Open Sport and Exercise Medicine, 8 (1) e001214, e001214. doi: 10.1136/bmjsem-2021-001214
Costa, N., Olson, R., Mescouto, K., Hodges, P. W., Dillon, M., Evans, K., Walsh, K., Jensen, N. and Setchell, J. (2022). Uncertainty in low back pain care – insights from an ethnographic study. Disability and Rehabilitation, 45 (5), 1-12. doi: 10.1080/09638288.2022.2040615
Smits, Esther Josefina, Salomoni, Sauro, Costa, Nathalia, Rodríguez-Romero, Beatriz and Hodges, Paul W. (2022). How reliable is measurement of posture during sleep: real-world measurement of body posture and movement during sleep using accelerometers. Physiological Measurement, 43 (1) 015001, 015001. doi: 10.1088/1361-6579/ac482f
O’Sullivan, Isobel C., Crossley, Kay M., Kamper, Steven J., van Middelkoop, Marienke, Vicenzino, Bill, Franettovich Smith, Melinda M., Menz, Hylton B., Smith, Anne J., Tucker, Kylie, O’Leary, Karina T., Costa, Nathalia and Collins, Natalie J. (2021). HAPPi Kneecaps! A double-blind, randomised, parallel group superiority trial investigating the effects of sHoe inserts for adolescents with patellofemoral PaIn: phase II feasibility study. Journal of Foot and Ankle Research, 14 (1) 64, 1-11. doi: 10.1186/s13047-021-00498-0
Setchell, Jenny, Olson, Rebecca, Turpin, Merrill, Costa, Nathalia, Barlott, Tim, O’Halloran, Kate, Wigginton, Britta and Hodges, Paul (2021). Afflexivity in post-qualitative inquiry: prioritising affect and reflexivity in the evaluation of a health information website. Health Sociology Review, (3), 1-16. doi: 10.1080/14461242.2021.1976068
Setchell, Jenny, Costa, Nathalia, Abrosimoff, Monica and Hodges, Paul W. (2021). Exploring why people with back pain use the pain management strategies they do: is research looking in the wrong places?. Pain Medicine, 22 (10), 2298-2306. doi: 10.1093/pm/pnab246
Costa, Nathalia, Smits, Esther J., Kasza, Jessica, Salomoni, Sauro E., Ferreira, Manuela and Hodges, Paul W. (2021). Low back pain flares : how do they differ from an increase in pain?. The Clinical Journal of Pain, 37 (5), 313-320. doi: 10.1097/ajp.0000000000000926
Costa, Nathalia, Smits, Esther, Kasza, Jessica, Salomoni, Sauro, Ferreira, Manuela, Sullivan, Michael and Hodges, Paul W. (2021). ISSLS PRIZE IN CLINICAL SCIENCE 2021: What are the risk factors for low back pain flares and does this depend on how flare is defined?. European Spine Journal, 30 (5), 1089-1097. doi: 10.1007/s00586-021-06730-6
De Silva, Theresa, Hodges, Paul W., Costa, Nathalia and Setchell, Jenny (2020). Potential unintended effects of standardized pain questionnaires: A qualitative study. Pain Medicine , 21 (2), e22-e33. doi: 10.1093/pm/pnz252
Costa, Nathalia, Nielsen, Mandy, Jull, Gwendolen, Claus, Andrew P. and Hodges, Paul W. (2020). Low back pain websites do not meet the needs of consumers: A study of online resources at three time points. Health Information Management Journal, 49 (2-3), 137-149. doi: 10.1177/1833358319857354
Costa, Nathalia, Hodges, Paul W., Ferreira, Manuela L., Makovey, Joanna and Setchell, Jenny (2020). What triggers an LBP flare? A content analysis of individuals' perspectives. Pain Medicine, 21 (1), 13-20. doi: 10.1093/pm/pnz021
Setchell, Jenny, Turpin, Merrill, Costa, Nathalia and Hodges, Paul (2020). Working with potential tensions in individual’s interactions with online consumer health education about back pain: Findings from a photo-elicitation and observational study. JMIR Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies, 7 (1) e17130, e17130. doi: 10.2196/17130
Tan, Dominique, Hodges, Paul W., Costa, Nathalia, Ferreira, Manuela and Setchell, Jenny (2019). Impact of flare-ups on the lives of individuals with low back pain: A qualitative investigation. Musculoskeletal Science and Practice, 43, 52-57. doi: 10.1016/j.msksp.2019.06.003
Setchell, Jenny, Costa, Nathalia, Ferreira, Manuela and Hodges, Paul W. (2019). What decreases low back pain? A qualitative study of patient perspectives. Scandinavian Journal of Pain, 19 (3), 597-603. doi: 10.1515/sjpain-2019-0018
Costa, Nathalia, Ferreira, Manuela L., Setchell, Jenny, Makovey, Joanna, Dekroo, Tanya, Downie, Aron, Diwan, Ashish, Koes, Bart, Natvig, Bard, Vicenzino, Bill, Hunter, David, Roseen, Eric, Rasmussen-Barr, Eva, Guillemin, Francis, Hartvigsen, Jan, Bennell, Kim, Costa, Leonardo, Macedo, Luciana, Pinheiro, Marina, Underwood, Martin, Van Tulder, Mauritus, Johansson, Melker, Enthoven, Paul, Kent, Peter, O'Sullivan, Peter, Suri, Pradeep, Genevay, Stephane and Hodges, Paul W. (2019). A definition of flare in low back pain (LBP): A multiphase process involving perspectives of individuals with LBP and expert consensus. The Journal of Pain, 20 (11), 1267-1275. doi: 10.1016/j.jpain.2019.03.009
Costa, Nathalia, Ferreira, Manuela L., Cross, Marita, Makovey, Joanna and Hodges, Paul W. (2018). How is symptom flare defined in musculoskeletal conditions: a systematic review. Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism, 48 (2), 302-317. doi: 10.1016/j.semarthrit.2018.01.012
Setchell, Jenny, Costa, Nathalia, Ferreira, Manuela, Makovey, Joanna, Nielsen, Mandy and Hodges, Paul W. (2017). Individuals' explanations for their persistent or recurrent low back pain: a cross-sectional survey. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 18 (1) 466. doi: 10.1186/s12891-017-1831-7
Setchell, Jenny, Costa, Nathalia, Ferreira, Manuela, Makovey, Joanna, Nielsen, Mandy and Hodges, Paul W. (2017). What constitutes back pain flare? A cross sectional survey of individuals with low back pain. Scandinavian Journal of Pain, 17 (1), 294-301. doi: 10.1016/j.sjpain.2017.08.003
Conference Papers
Costa, Nathalia, Olson, Rebecca, Mescouto, Karime, Hodges, Paul, Dillon, Miriam, Evans, Kerrie, Walsh, Kelly, Jensen, Niahm and Setchell, Jenny (2022). (Un)certainty and emotions in low back pain care - insights from an ethnographic study. The Australian Sociological Association Conference, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 28 November - 2 December 2022.
Da Costa, N., King, M., Lewis, A., Vicenzino, B. and Watson, K. (2021). Throwing in the deep end, upper limb injuries and training load in elite women's water polo: experiences, perceptions and beliefs of athletes, coaches and staff. 2021 SMA e-Conference, Online, 8-9 October 2021. Chatswood, NSW Australia: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/j.jsams.2021.09.069
Mescouto, K., Olson, R., Hodges, P.W., Costa, N., Patton, M., Evans, K., Walsh, K. and Setchell, J. (2021). Swimming upstream against biomedical assumptions: a participatory qualitative study to change low back pain practice. World Physiotherapy Congress, Online, 9-11 April 2021.
Research Report
Olson, Rebecca, Cordeiro da Costa, Nathalia , Plage, Stefanie, Dune, Tinashe and Setchell, Jenny (2023). Program evaluation on the characteristics of specialist psychosocial mental health support programs for people from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Backgrounds in Queensland Final Report. Brisbane, QLD Australia: SocioHealthLab and Queensland Health.
Video Document
Setchell, Jenny , Olson, Rebecca E. , Mescouto, Karime , Costa, Nathalia , Cook, Nadia , Woods, Sofia and Bock, Sarah (2022). Power and the Clinic.
Thesis
Cordeiro da Costa, Nathalia Kelly (2020). Understanding low back pain (LBP) flares: identifying definitions, features and risk-factors. PhD Thesis, School of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/7c26a25