PALS: peer support for community dwelling older people with chronic low back pain: a feasibility and acceptability study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

(i) Examine the feasibility and acceptability of a peer support intervention (PALS) to facilitate self-management in community dwelling older adults with Chronic Low Back Pain (CLBP), and (ii) examine the feasibility of study methods in order to inform the design of a future randomised controlled trial.

Design

Mixed methods feasibility and acceptability study.

Setting

Community.

Participants

18 older adults (aged 65 to 79) with CLBP and 6 peer support volunteers (PSVs) aged 34 to 65.

Intervention

Six sessions of 1 to 3hours duration, approximately 2 weeks apart, delivered in mutually convenient public places, or by telephone. Each session had a suggested topic and each participant and PSV had a PALS manual detailing aims and target outcomes fo

SUBMITTER: Cooper K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7029274 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature