Digital self-care in the management of spine musculoskeletal disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Cargnin, Zulamar Aguiar; Schneider, Dulcinéia Ghizoni; Rosa-Junior, Joanito Niquini

doi:10.1590/1518-8345.6423.3909

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“…Digital approaches to the delivery of self-management are gaining popularity. Immersive technologies such as mobile health (the use of mobile phones and other wireless technology) and eHealth (the use of information and communication technology to support health and health care) have been used to provide pain therapy, education, symptom monitoring, lifestyle advice, health coaching, and cognitive behavioral therapy via virtual reality, mobile apps, or web-delivered programs in adults with diverse pain conditions [70][71][72][73][74][75][76][77][78][79][80][81][82][83][84][85][86]. Such interventions are primarily focused on improving pain, functional disability, or psychological outcomes but do not address barriers to work, facilitators of work ability, or pain self-management in the context of work, and work-related outcomes are often not measured.…”

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The Web-Based Pain-at-Work Toolkit With Telephone Support for Employees With Chronic or Persistent Pain: Protocol for a Cluster Randomized Feasibility Trial

Blake,

Chaplin,

Wainwright

et al. 2023

JMIR Res Protoc

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Background Chronic or persistent pain affects one’s ability to work or be productive at work, generating high societal and economic burden. However, the provision of work-related advice and support for people with chronic pain is variable or lacking. The Pain-at-Work (PAW) Toolkit was cocreated with people who live with pain, health care professionals, and employers. It aims to increase knowledge about employee rights and how to access support for managing a painful chronic condition in the workplace and provides advice on lifestyle behaviors that facilitate the management of chronic pain. Objective We aimed to establish the feasibility of conducting a definitive cluster randomized controlled trial comparing access to the PAW Toolkit and telephone support calls from an occupational therapist (PAW) with treatment as usual (ie, standard support from their employer). Our primary outcomes are establishing parameters of feasibility, acceptability, usability, and safety of this digital workplace health intervention. We will assess the candidate primary and secondary outcomes’ feasibility and test research processes for a definitive trial. Methods This is an open-label, parallel 2-arm pragmatic feasibility cluster randomized controlled trial with exploratory health economics analysis and a nested qualitative interview study. We aim to recruit 120 participants from at least 8 workplace clusters (any type, >10 employees) in England. The recruitment of workplaces occurs via personal approach, and the recruitment of individual participants is web based. Eligible participants are vocationally active adults aged ≥18 years with internet access and self-reporting chronic pain interfering with their ability to undertake or enjoy productive work. A restricted 1:1 cluster-level randomization is used to allocate employment settings to PAW or treatment as usual; participants are unblinded to group allocation. Following site- and individual-level consent, participants complete a web-based baseline survey (time 0), including measures of work capacity, health and well-being, and health care resource use. Follow-up is performed at 3 months (time 1) and 6 months (time 2). Feasibility outcomes relate to recruitment; intervention fidelity (eg, delivery, reach, uptake, and engagement); retention; and follow-up. Qualitative evaluation (time 2) is mapped to the Capability, Opportunity, Motivation–Behavior model and will explore intervention acceptability to employees and employers, along with individual and contextual factors influencing the delivery and uptake of the intervention. Results Ethics approval was obtained in March 2023. Trial recruitment began in June 2023. Conclusions The PAW Toolkit is the first evidence-based digital health intervention aimed at supporting the self-management of chronic or persistent pain at work. This study will inform the design of a definitive trial, including sample size estimation, approaches to cluster site identification, primary and secondary outcomes’ selection, and the final health economic model. Findings will inform approaches for the future delivery of this digital health intervention. Trial Registration ClinicalTrials.gov NCT05838677; https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05838677 International Registered Report Identifier (IRRID) DERR1-10.2196/51474

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