The Online Patient Satisfaction Index for Patients With Low Back Pain: Development, Reliability, and Validation Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Low back pain is highly prevalent, and most often, a specific causative factor cannot be identified. Therefore, for most patients, their low back pain is labeled as nonspecific. Patient education and information are recommended for all these patients. The internet is an accessible source of medical information on low back pain. Approximately 50% of patients with low back pain search the internet for health and medical advice. Patient satisfaction with education and information is important in relation to patients' levels of inclination to use web-based information and their trust in the information they find. Although patients who are satisfied with the information they retrieve use the internet as a supplementary source of information, dissatisfied patients tend to avoi

SUBMITTER: Afzali T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8663703 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature