Using a Co-Designed Digital Self-Management Program to Prepare Patients for Hip or Knee Replacement Surgery: Pragmatic Pilot Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The aging population has resulted in more people living longer with musculoskeletal conditions who require hip and knee replacement surgery. Lengthening waiting lists continue to be a challenge for patients and health care services.

Objective

This pragmatic study aimed to develop and test a digital self-management intervention (the HOPE [Help Overcome Problems Effectively] program) to better prepare patients waiting for hip and knee replacement surgery.

Methods

The study used a pragmatic, pre-post with follow-up, single-arm design. All intervention and data collection components were delivered online. Patients were recruited from those on the waiting list for hip or knee surgery. Following iterative co-development of the intervention, the content was refine

SUBMITTER: Horton E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12779105 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature