Exploring the feasibility and acceptance of an optimised physiotherapy approach for lateral elbow tendinopathy: a qualitative investigation within the OPTimisE trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To explore the acceptability of an optimised physiotherapy (OPTimisE) intervention for people with lateral elbow tendinopathy (LET) and feasibility of comparing it to usual care in a randomised controlled trial.

Design

Semistructured interviews, analysed using thematic analysis and mapped onto the COM-B model of behaviour change.

Setting

Conducted as part of the OPTimisE Pilot & Feasibility randomised controlled trial within physiotherapy departments in the United Kingdom National Health Service.

Participants

17 patients with LET (purposively sampled to provide representativeness based on age, sex, ethnicity, deprivation index and treatment allocation) and all 8 physiotherapists involved as treating clinicians or site principal investigators.

Resu

SUBMITTER: Bateman M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10941140 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature