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Developing and testing a measure of consultation-based reassurance for people with low back pain in primary care: a cross-sectional study

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, July 2016
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Title
Developing and testing a measure of consultation-based reassurance for people with low back pain in primary care: a cross-sectional study
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BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, July 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12891-016-1144-2
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Nicola Holt, Tamar Pincus

Abstract

Reassurance from physicians is commonly recommended in guidelines for the management of low back pain (LBP), but the process of reassurance and its impact on patients is poorly researched. We aimed to develop a valid and reliable measure of the process of reassurance during LBP consultations. Items representing the data-gathering stage of the consultation and affective and cognitive reassurance were generated from literature on physician-patient communication and piloted with expert researchers and physicians, a Patient and Public Involvement group, and LBP patients to form a questionnaire. Patients presenting for LBP at 43 General Practice surgeries were sent the questionnaire. The questionnaire was analysed with Rasch modelling, using two samples from the same population of recent LBP consultations: the first (n = 157, follow-up n = 84) for exploratory analysis and the second (n = 162, follow-up n = 74) for confirmatory testing. Responses to the questionnaire were compared with responses to satisfaction and enablement scales to assess the external validity of the items, and participants completed the questionnaire again one-week later to assess test-retest reliability. The questionnaire was separated into four subscales: data-gathering, relationship-building, generic reassurance, and cognitive reassurance, each containing three items. All subscales showed good validity within the Rasch models, and good reliability based on person- and item-separations and test-retest reliability. All four subscales were significantly positively correlated with satisfaction and enablement for both samples. The final version of the questionnaire is presented here. Overall, the measure has demonstrated a good level of validity and generally acceptable reliability. This is the first measure to focus specifically on reassurance for LBP in primary care settings, and will enable researchers to further understanding of what is reassuring within the context of low back pain consultations, and how outcomes are affected by different types of reassurance. Additionally, the measure may provide a useful training and audit tool for physicians. The new measure requires testing in prospective cohorts, and would benefit from further validation against ethnographic observation of consultations in real time.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Netherlands 1 1%
Unknown 78 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 13 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 11%
Other 8 10%
Researcher 7 9%
Lecturer 5 6%
Other 16 20%
Unknown 21 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 18 23%
Medicine and Dentistry 14 18%
Psychology 5 6%
Engineering 3 4%
Social Sciences 2 3%
Other 10 13%
Unknown 27 34%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 30 July 2016.
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#5,653,189
of 23,314,015 outputs
Outputs from BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders
#1,025
of 4,132 outputs
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#92,818
of 356,102 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders
#21
of 86 outputs
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