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Although the studies included within this thesis were primarily my own ideas and work,
they would not have been possible without the advice and support of my supervisors
and a number of collaborators.
The first three studies incorporated within this thesis were completed in the UK under
the supervision of Dr Mark Cropley. All three supervisors have provided support with
the data analysis and interpretation of the findings for this thesis.
My contribution to each of the studies forming part of the overarching thesis was as
follows:
For the study described in Chapter Four, I was responsible for developing the research
proposal, project materials and ethics committee application, which were refined
through consultation with one of my supervisors Dr Mark Cropley. I would like to
acknowledge the contribution of Kirsty Humphrey, an MSc student, from the University
of Surrey, UK, who helped me with the participant recruitment, collation of the
questionnaires and data entry for the study described in Chapter Four. I conducted the
data entry checks, cleaning of the data and data analysis. The results were discussed
with my supervisors who contributed to their interpretation and in the publication of the
findings within this thesis and the published paper.
For the two studies which are outlined and discussed in Chapters Five and Six, I was
primarily responsible for the completion of all aspects of the projects including writing
the research proposals, obtaining ethical approval, recruiting participants, completing
the data collection (including conducting all the interviews for the qualitative study) and
data analysis. All aspects of the development of the studies were discussed with my
supervisor Dr Mark Cropley to ensure the study was conducted to be best possible
standard.
For the fourth study, described in Chapter Seven, the project was developed as a joint
collaboration with Dr Mark Cropley. Dr Cropley lead the grant application for funding
from the University of Surrey and I provided input into the design of the study and
refinement of the intervention used to ensure this met the needs of people with FMS. I
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