Effectiveness and cost-utility of a multifaceted eHealth strategy to improve back pain beliefs of patients with non-specific low back pain: a cluster randomised trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To assess the effectiveness and cost-utility of a multifaceted eHealth strategy compared to usual care in improving patients' back pain beliefs, and in decreasing disability and absenteeism.

Design

Stepped-wedge cluster randomised trial with parallel economic evaluation.

Setting

Dutch primary healthcare.

Participants

Patients diagnosed with non-specific low back pain by their general practitioner or physiotherapist. Patients with serious comorbidities or confirmed pregnancy were excluded. 779 patients were randomised into intervention group (n=331, 59% female; 60.4% completed study) or control group (n=448, 57% female; 77.5% completed study).

Interventions

The intervention consisted of a multifaceted eHealth strategy that included a (mobile) w

SUBMITTER: Suman A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6924789 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature