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  • What information do patients need following a whiplash injury? The perspectives of patients and physiotherapists

    Author(s)
    Maujean, Annick
    Sterling, Joanna
    Sterling, Michele
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Maujean, Annick A.
    Sterling, Michele
    Sterling, Joanna
    Year published
    2018
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    Abstract
    Purpose: The aims of the present study were to identify information that individuals with whiplash associated disorders (WAD) need to know in the early stages of recovery and to establish whether there is a difference between what physiotherapists and whiplash-injured patients perceive as important information. Method: Forty-one participants were recruited (20 whiplash-injured patients, 21 physiotherapists). Participants were asked to provide five statements to one open-ended question about what they believe is the most important information individuals with WAD need to know in the early stages of recovery. Participants ...
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    Purpose: The aims of the present study were to identify information that individuals with whiplash associated disorders (WAD) need to know in the early stages of recovery and to establish whether there is a difference between what physiotherapists and whiplash-injured patients perceive as important information. Method: Forty-one participants were recruited (20 whiplash-injured patients, 21 physiotherapists). Participants were asked to provide five statements to one open-ended question about what they believe is the most important information individuals with WAD need to know in the early stages of recovery. Participants provided 182 statements which were reviewed independently and organised into themes by two of the authors. Results: Six key themes emerged from the statements. These included general information about whiplash injury, treatment and recovery, reassurance, provision of poor information and patients’ interaction with general practitioners, maintaining daily activities, and compensation claims and litigation. Both patients and physiotherapists agreed on the type of general whiplash information that should be provided however, major differences were found with regard to information pertaining to compensation claims and litigation and maintaining daily activities. Conclusions: The findings of this study provide some insight into the type of information that WAD individuals require in the early stages of recovery.
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    Journal Title
    Disability and Rehabilitation
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1080/09638288.2017.1289253
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    This publication has been entered into Griffith Research Online as an Advanced Online Version.
    Subject
    Medical and Health Sciences not elsewhere classified
    Medical and Health Sciences
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/344361
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