Needs assessment for health service design for people with back pain in a hospital setting: A qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is a need for effective health service solutions to provide greater structure and support for implementing evidence-based practice in back pain care. Patient involvement in developing these solutions is crucial to increase relevance, acceptability and uptake.

Objectives

To determine patients' perceived needs and barriers to best-practice back pain care, and potential solutions to better address care needs. The study is the third in a series of needs assessment studies feeding into the 'idea generation' for service design in a large teaching hospital in a culturally and linguistically diverse community in metropolitan Sydney, Australia.

Design

We conducted a combination of focus groups and in-depth interviews using an interpretive description approach.

SUBMITTER: Gorgon E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8957737 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature