Cost-effectiveness analysis of app-delivered self-management support (selfBACK) in addition to usual care for people with low back pain in Denmark.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study aims to investigate the cost-effectiveness of individually tailored self-management support, delivered via the artificial intelligence-based selfBACK app, as an add-on to usual care for people with low back pain (LBP).

Design

Secondary health-economic analysis of the selfBACK randomised controlled trial (RCT) with a 9-month follow-up conducted from a Danish national healthcare perspective (primary scenario) and a societal perspective limited to long-term productivity in the form of long-term absenteeism (secondary scenario).

Setting

Primary care and an outpatient spine clinic in Denmark.

Participants

A subset of Danish participants in the selfBACK RCT, including 297 adults with LBP randomised to the intervention (n=148) or the control grou

SUBMITTER: Kongstad LP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11381704 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature