Low back pain patients' beliefs about effective/ineffective constituents of a counseling intervention: a follow-up interview study

Abstract

Maintaining everyday activities, including retaining one's occupation, is an important factor in low back pain rehabilitation. Counselling on low back pain rehabilitation must be aligned with people's beliefs about their illness. A counselling intervention made patients adopt exercising into their long-term management of low back pain.

Views and Experiences of Persons with Chronic Diseases about Strategies that Aim to Integrate and Re-Integrate Them into Work: A Systematic Review of Qualitative Studies

“…Two mixed-methods studies were excluded because it was not possible to differentiate data obtained with qualitative and quantitative methods [ 41 , 42 ]; a third study was excluded because we could not clearly identify the views reported by PwCDs [ 43 ]. This led to a total of 24 publications included in our review [ 44 , 45 , 46 , 47 , 48 , 49 , 50 , 51 , 52 , 53 , 54 , 55 , 56 , 57 , 58 , 59 , 60 , 61 , 62 , 63 , 64 , 65 , 66 , 67 ]. The flow chart of the study selection process is presented in Figure 1 .…”

“…Participants in the included qualitative studies were most often persons suffering from mental disorders [ 44 , 45 , 46 , 48 , 50 , 52 , 56 , 59 , 60 , 61 , 62 , 63 , 67 ]. Three studies included persons with musculoskeletal disorders [ 47 , 51 , 55 ], two studies persons with cancer [ 49 , 66 ], two studies persons with mental and musculoskeletal disorders [ 53 , 64 ], and two studies a broad mix of persons with long-term conditions [ 54 , 65 ]. In the remaining two studies, participants had disabilities related to different health conditions [ 57 , 58 ].…”

“…Studies with strategies targeting employed persons generally focused on supporting persons on sick leave to return to work. Only two studies explored a measure that tried to help workers to retain their jobs [ 47 , 48 ].…”

“…Thirteen studies were conducted in Nordic countries: Denmark ( n = 4 [ 44 , 47 , 59 , 60 ]), Norway ( n = 3 [ 53 , 57 , 61 ]) and Sweden ( n = 6 [ 45 , 50 , 51 , 52 , 55 , 56 ]); nine studies were carried out in Belgium ( n = 2 [ 66 , 67 ]), France ( n = 1 [ 49 ]) and the UK ( n = 6 [ 46 , 48 , 54 , 58 , 64 , 65 ]); and two publications reported on one study performed in different European countries, namely Bosnia, Denmark, France, Greece, Norway, Poland, Spain and the UK [ 62 , 63 ].…”

“…Many subjects changed from being overwhelmed by their reactions and feeling like passive victims to understanding and feeling the potential to control the disease. They could provide professionals with more relevant information (e.g., about risky situations), their motivation to collaborate and follow the recommendations of the experts increased, and they identified new potential ways to help themselves [ 44 , 45 , 47 , 49 , 56 , 64 , 65 ].…”