Dr Karime Andrade Mescouto
Casual Academic
School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Musculoskeletal Injury and Pain
RECOVER Injury Research Centre
Researcher biography
Karime Mescouto (she/her/ela/dela) is a Brazilian physiotherapist and a Postdoctoral researcher at RECOVER at The University of Queensland, Australia. Karime works in the Improving health outcomes after musculoskeletal injury team, assisting researchers with qualitative research designs to progress projects. Before pursuing her PhD, Karime worked as a clinician and as a physiotherapy lecturer at two universities in Brazil. In her doctoral research, she was interested in enhancing low back pain healthcare delivery by critically looking at the biopsychosocial model of health. She used a variety of critical qualitative methodologies and collaborated with clinicians and people with lived experience of back pain to explore the social, cultural and interpersonal aspects of clinical and research practices. She holds a master's degree in Rehabilitation Science and a Graduate Certificate in Clinical Physiotherapy.
Her research interests involve using qualitative methodologies in exploring sociocultural aspects of pain experiences and health and using sociological and philosophical theories in health sciences to foster equitable research, clinical and educational practices.
Publications
Journal Articles
Mescouto, Karime, Olson, Rebecca E., Plage, Stefanie, Zulfiqar, Asma, Setchell, Jenny, Dune, Tinashe, Suleman, Sameera, Cummins, Drew, Prasad-Ildes, Rita and Costa, Nathalia (2024). Navigating whiteness: affective relational intensities of non-clinical psychosocial support by and for culturally and linguistically diverse people. Frontiers in Sociology, 9 1282938. doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2024.1282938
Fernandes, Livia G., Mescouto, Karime A., Costa, Leonardo O. P. and Saragiotto, Bruno Tirotti (2023). Ways public health users interact with online health information: a qualitative study. Health and Technology, 13 (6), 905-913. doi: 10.1007/s12553-023-00784-w
Fernandes, Lívia G., Mescouto, Karime A., Costa, Leonardo O. P. and Saragiotto, Bruno Tirotti (2023). Ways public health users interact with online health information: a qualitative study. Health and Technology, 13 (6), 1-9. doi: 10.1007/s12553-023-00784-w
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, 29 (1), 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, 164 (12), 2749-2758. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002975
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, 32 (3), 277-293. doi: 10.1080/14461242.2022.2161927
Mescouto, Karime, Tan, Meris and Setchell, Jenny (2023). Reciprocity in low back pain care and its role in power dynamics: a give-and-take approach. Physical Therapy, 103 (1) pzac145. doi: 10.1093/ptj/pzac145
Mescouto, Karime, Olson, Rebecca Eileen and Setchell, Jenny (2022). Towards an ethical multiplicity in low back pain care: practising beyond the biopsychosocial model. Sociology of Health and Illness, 45 (3), 522-541. doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.13598
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, 28 (1), 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
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
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
Mescouto, Karime (2022). (Un)learning: a physiotherapist’s PhD journey. Journal of Humanities in Rehabilitation.
Matias, Monayane Grazielly Leite, Cavalcante, Antônio Felipe Lopes, Andrade Mescouto, Karime, Silva-Filho, Edson Meneses, Baptista, Abrahão Fontes, Okano, Alexandre Hideki and Pegad, Rodrigo (2022). Does anodal transcranial direct current stimulation over left motor cortex show body side pain-related difference in fibromyalgia?. Brazilian Journal Of Pain, 5 (2), 112-118. doi: 10.5935/2595-0118.20220020-pt
Matias, Monayane Grazielly Leite, Cavalcante, Antônio Felipe Lopes, Mescouto, Karime Andrade, Silva-Filho, Edson Meneses, Baptista, Abrahão Fontes, Okano, Alexandre Hideki and Pegad, Rodrigo (2022). Does anodal transcranial direct current stimulation over left motor cortex show body side pain-related difference in fibromyalgia?. Brazilian Journal Of Pain, 5 (2). doi: 10.5935/2595-0118.20220020
Mescouto, Karime, Olson, Rebecca E., Hodges, Paul W. and Setchell, Jenny (2020). A critical review of the biopsychosocial model of low back pain care: time for a new approach?. Disability and Rehabilitation, 44 (13), 1-15. doi: 10.1080/09638288.2020.1851783
Pegado, Rodrigo, Silva, Luana Karyne, Dantas, Hegila da Silva, Camara, Hialison Andrade, Mescouto, Karime Andrade, Silva-Filho, Edson Meneses, Lopes, Johnnatas Mikael, Barbosa Cabral Micussi, Maria Thereza Albuquerque and Correia, Grasiela Nascimento (2020). Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation for Treatment of Primary Dysmenorrhea: Preliminary Results of a Randomized Sham-Controlled Trial. Pain Medicine, 21 (12), 3615-3623. doi: 10.1093/pm/pnz202
Filho, Edson Meneses da Silva, Albuquerque, Jéssica Andrade de, Mescouto, Karime Andrade and Freitas, Rodrigo Pegado de Abreu (2020). Effects of transcranial direct current stimulation on the working memory of post-stroke people: an integrative review. Manual Therapy, Posturology & Rehabilitation Journal, 1-6. doi: 10.17784/mtprehabjournal.2017.15.496
Mescouto, Karime and Setchell, Jenny (2020). Patients as partners in research: a practical example of how researchers are contributing to the patient-partnership revolution. Journal of Orthopaedic and Sports Physical Therapy, 50 (7), 347-349. doi: 10.2519/jospt.2020.0105
Conference Papers
Mescouto, Karime, Olson, Rebecca and Setchell, Jenny (2022). Towards ethical multiplicity in low back pain care: practicing beyond the biopsychosocial model. The Australian Sociological Association, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 28 November - 2 December 2022.
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.
Mescouto, Karime, Olson, Rebecca E., Hodges, Paul W. and Setchell, Jenny (2021). Does the biopsychosocial model speak to social justice? Results from a critical review. Back and Neck Pain Forum, Online, 11 - 13 November 2021.
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.
Costa, Nathalia , Olson, Rebecca , Mescouto, Karime , Hodges, Paul , Dillon, Miriam , Evans, Kerrie , Walsh, Kelly , Jensen, Niamh and Setchell, Jenny (2021). (Un)certainty in low back pain (LBP) care – insights from a qualitative investigation. Back and Neck Pain Forum - online, Online, November 2021.
Research Report
Plage, Stefanie, Olson, Rebecca, Suleman, Sameera, Setchell, Jenny, Costa, Nathalia, Mescouto, Karime and Dune, Tinashe (2024). Submission to the Mental Health Community Support Services - Psychosocial Supports Consultation. Brisbane, QLD Australia: Queensland Government.
Thesis
Mescouto, Karime Andrade (2023). Enhancing low back pain care: thinking and practising critically beyond the biopsychosocial model. PhD Thesis, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/fb040ca
Video Document
Setchell, Jenny , Olson, Rebecca E. , Mescouto, Karime , Costa, Nathalia , Cook, Nadia , Woods, Sofia and Bock, Sarah (2022). Power and the Clinic.