What patients think about a lower back pain program at a Landes health center
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Cite this article
- IMBS, Sandra,
- ROMERO, Marco,
- MAGOT, Laurent,
- LAHAYE, Judith
- and AIMÉ, Brice,
- Imbs, Sandra.,
- et al.
- Imbs, S.,
- Romero, M.,
- Magot, L.,
- Lahaye, J.
- and Aimé, B.
https://doi.org/10.1684/med.2023.890
Cite this article
- Imbs, S.,
- Romero, M.,
- Magot, L.,
- Lahaye, J.
- and Aimé, B.
- Imbs, Sandra.,
- et al.
- IMBS, Sandra,
- ROMERO, Marco,
- MAGOT, Laurent,
- LAHAYE, Judith
- and AIMÉ, Brice,
https://doi.org/10.1684/med.2023.890
Since 2018, a team from a French primary health care center, composed of general practitioners, physiotherapists, Asalée nurses, and a psychologist, has implemented a program for managing lower back pain with a high risk of becoming chronic. However, many patients who were enrolled in the program abandoned it part-way through. This qualitative study aims to explore how the patients felt about this program. It reveals that patients found positive aspects at each stage of the care process: awareness, a key message, specific learning, or psychological support, enabling some to significantly improve their lower back pain or empower themselves even before completing the program. For others, schedules that were incompatible with work or family obligations acted as significant barriers to continuing the program. Improved selection and follow-up of patients, as well as other measures to enhance the experience—particularly for working patients—could perhaps reduce absenteeism.
- lower back pain
- patient care team
- primary health care
- qualitative research
- patient education
Publisher keywords: low back pain, patient care team, patient education as topic, primary health care, qualitative research