Perceptions and use of self-management support strategies to improve the management of spine pain patients in a French-Canadian chiropractic teaching program: a mixed method study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Clinical guidelines for managing non-specific spine pain recommend providing patient education and self-management support strategies (SMSS) as first-line treatment. However, SMSS implementation in daily chiropractic care remains challenging. This study aimed to assess the level of patient activation in their care, explore chiropractic senior interns and clinician supervisors' beliefs about evidence-based practice (EBP) and self-management support, and identify theoretical barriers and facilitators to implementing SMSS.

Methods

We used a three-phase mixed-methods convergent design. In phase 1, during the spring and summer of 2022, 250 consecutive adults with spine pain at the outpatient chiropractic clinic at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Cana

SUBMITTER: Rousseau P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12560557 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature