Health care providers' understanding of self-management support for people with chronic low back pain in Ethiopia: an interpretive description.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Healthcare providers play a key role in supporting people with chronic low back pain to self-manage their condition. The study aimed at exploring how health care providers understand and conceptualize self-management and how they provide self-management support for people with chronic low back pain in Ethiopia.

Methods

Health care providers who have supported people with low back pain, including medical doctors and physiotherapists, were approached and recruited from three hospitals in Ethiopia. This study employed an interpretive descriptive approach using semi-structured interviews.

Findings

Twenty-four participants (7 women; 17 men) with a median age of 28 (range 24 to 42) years and a median of 9.5 years (range 1 to 11 years) of helping people with chron

SUBMITTER: Chala MB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8842538 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature