A/Prof James McAuley

TEAM LEADER PROFILE

Research Fellow and Group Leader, NeuRA Conjoint Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW
Honorary Research Fellow, The George Institute for Global Health

+612 9399 1266

j.mcauley@neura.edu.au

Chronic pain Back pain

A/Prof McAuley is a Research Fellow and group leader of the McAuley Pain Group at NeuRA. He has been researching low back pain for 12 years, since he obtained his PhD from Brunel University UK in 2002. After immigrating to Australia in 2004 he took up a post doc at the University of Sydney with Profs Chris Maher and Kathryn Refshauge and then at the George Institute for Global Health. In 2010 he jointed Prof Moseley at NeuRA and was appointed group leader in 2014.

Projects A/Prof James McAuley is currently involved with

CURRENT PROJECTS

AGReMA Project


AIDAN CASHIN, A/PROF JAMES MCAULEY

Developing a Guideline for Reporting Mediation Analyses (AGReMA) in randomized trials and observational studies.

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AGReMA Project

SLEEPAIN


A/PROF JAMES MCAULEY, DR SYLVIA GUSTIN, EDEL O’HAGAN, DR MARKUS HUEBSCHER
For people with back pain who are having trouble with their sleep. We are testing whether a simple sleep tablet will help people reduce their pain and sleep better.

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SLEEPAIN

PREVENT


A/PROF JAMES MCAULEY, DR SYLVIA GUSTIN, PROF LORIMER MOSELEY, DR MARKUS HUEBSCHER, ADRIAN TRAEGER, HOPIN LEE, IAN SKINNER
For people with a new low back pain episode. We are testing early intervention to reduce the risk of developing chronic low back pain.

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PREVENT

RESEARCH TEAM

Markus Hubscher

DR MARKUS HUEBSCHER Postdoctoral Fellow

Martin Rabey

DR MARTIN RABEY Research Assistant

Hopin Lee

HOPIN LEE PhD candidate

MATTHEW BAGG PhD candidate : +61 2 9399 1870
: m.bagg@neura.edu.au

AIDAN CASHIN PhD Candidate : +61 2 9399 1806
: a.cashin@neura.edu.au

EDEL O’HAGAN PhD candidate : +612 9399 1618
: e.ohagan@neura.edu.au

IAN SKINNER PhD candidate : +61 2 9399 1049
: i.skinner@neura.edu.au

ADRIAN TRAEGER PhD candidate

Audrey Wang

AUDREY WANG PhD candidate

Further information about A/Prof James McAuley

RELATED INFORMATION

The brain produces pain; it is the result of an interaction between information from our senses with our beliefs, memories and feelings. It is critical for survival, providing a warning that there is an actual or potential threat to the body, triggering defensive behaviours to protect against tissue damage or harm. Unfortunately for many people pain can become ‘stuck’, persisting long past the time when it has any useful purpose as a warning of harm. Our research is focused on low back pain, the leading cause of disability worldwide and the most common reason for chronic pain. It is directed towards understanding why many people with low back pain do not recover normally and develop chronic low back pain. Our goal is to develop and test new treatment approaches that are aimed to prevent people from developing chronic pain and to more effectively help those that have.

PUBLICATIONS

An embedded randomised controlled trial of a Teaser Campaign to optimise recruitment in primary care.

Lee H, Hübscher M, Moseley GL, Kamper SJ, Traeger AC, Skinner IW, Williams CM, McAuley JH
Clin Trials. 2017 Apr;14(2):162-169. doi: 28064524. Epub 2017 Jan.

A Teaser Campaign using a series of branded promotional postcards did not improve clinic engagement for a randomised controlled trial in primary care.

What you wear does not affect the credibility of your treatment: A blinded randomized controlled study.

Traeger AC, Skinner IW, Hübscher M, Henschke N, Moseley GL, McAuley JH
Patient Educ Couns. 2017 Jan;100(1):104-111. doi: 27522250. Epub 2015 Aug.

Professional appearance is easily modifiable, and might alter the effects of a clinical encounter. We aimed to determine whether professional attire influences a patient's perception of treatment credibility. In a trial setting, whether or not a clinician is formally dressed has no effect on perceptions of treatment credibility in patients with acute low back pain.

A randomized, placebo-controlled trial of patient education for acute low back pain (PREVENT Trial): statistical analysis plan.

Traeger AC, Skinner IW, Hübscher M, Lee H, Moseley GL, Nicholas MK, Henschke N, Refshauge KM, Blyth FM, Main CJ, Hush JM, Pearce G, Lo S, McAuley JH
Braz J Phys Ther. ;21(3):219-223. doi: 28545779. Epub 2017 May.

Making public the pre-specified statistical analysis plan for the PREVENT trial minimizes the potential for bias in the analysis of trial data, and in the interpretation and reporting of trial results.

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