GLA:D^® Back: implementation of group-based patient education integrated with exercises to support self-management of back pain - protocol for a hybrid effectiveness-implementation study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Reassuring patient education and exercise therapy are widely recommended interventions for back pain in clinical guidelines. However, many patients are offered non-guideline endorsed options, and strategies for effective implementation of guideline-based care have not yet been developed. This protocol outlines the evaluation of a strategy for nationwide implementation of standardised patient education and exercise therapy for people with persistent or recurrent back pain in a hybrid implementation-effectiveness design. The strategy and the evaluation were planned using the framework of the Behaviour Change Wheel.

Methods

The main activity of the implementation strategy is a two-days course for physiotherapists and chiropractors in delivering patient education and

SUBMITTER: Kongsted A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6380042 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature