One-Page Patient Fact Sheets for Low Back Pain in Primary Care: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Supporting informed decision-making is a fundamental aspect of primary care for low back pain. Two alternative approaches are providing fact sheets that list information about managing back pain or fact sheets that give advice on how to self-manage back pain, the comparative effects of which are unknown.

Objective

To determine the effects of 1-page fact sheets on patient-reported preparedness for shared decision-making among people with low back pain.

Design, setting, and participants

This 2-group parallel randomized clinical trial recruited 1080 adults from April 1, 2023, to April 30, 2024, who had recently seen their physician for uncomplicated low back pain. Participants were randomized to receive 1 of 2 one-page fact sheets. Outcomes were collected imme

SUBMITTER: Longtin C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12272283 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature