GLA:D® Back Australia: a mixed methods feasibility study for implementation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Practice-based guidelines recommend patient education and exercise as first-line care for low back pain (LBP); however, these recommendations are not routinely delivered in practice. GLA:D® Back, developed in Denmark to assist clinicians to implement guideline recommendations, offers a structured education and supervised exercise program for people with LBP in addition to a clinical registry to evaluate patient outcomes. In this study we evaluated the feasibility of implementing the GLA:D® Back program in Australia. We considered clinician and patient recruitment and retention, program fidelity, exploring clinicians' and patients' experiences with the program, and participant outcome data collection.

Methods

Clinicians (chiropractors and physiotherapists) were rec

SUBMITTER: Fernandez M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8989099 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature