CAPER: patient preferences to inform nonsurgical treatment of chronic low back pain: a discrete-choice experiment.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We developed and used a discrete-choice measure to study patient preferences with regard to the risks and benefits of nonsurgical treatments when they are making treatment selections for chronic low back pain.

Methods

"CAPER TREATMENT" (Leslie Wilson) was developed with standard choice-based conjoint procedures (discrete-choice methodology that mimics an individual's decision-making process). After expert input and pilot testing, our final measure had 7 attributes (chance of pain relief, duration of relief, physical activity changes, treatment method, treatment type, treatment time burden, and risks of treatment) with 3-4 levels each. Using Sawtooth software (Sawtooth Software, Inc., Provo, UT, USA), we created a random, full-profile, balanced-overlap experimental

SUBMITTER: Wilson L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12394812 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature