An Internet-Based Consumer Resource for People with Low Back Pain (MyBackPain): Development and Evaluation
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Setchell, Jenny
Nielsen, Mandy
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People increasingly use the internet to obtain information about health complaints, including low back pain (LBP). LBP is the leading cause of disability internationally, and outcomes are worsening. There is an urgent need for resources that aid improvement of outcomes. There have been calls to engage consumers in the development of resources, but this has rarely been implemented. MyBackPain is a website that was developed with extensive involvement of consumers to ensure that the resource meets their needs for content and presentation. This paper aimed to describe the multistep process undertaken to develop the MyBackPain website and provide an extensive evaluation of its impact. Development of MyBackPain involved 10 steps, many of which have been published in the academic literature. These steps included consultation regarding consumer needs, evaluation of existing internet resources, identification of key messages to be reinforced, identification of frequently asked questions, consensus for content, content development (including development of algorithms to guide tailoring of the user experience), development of consumer-focused evidence-based treatment summaries, development of descriptions of health care providers, and testing. Evaluation included qualitative examination of people's interactions with the website and its effects on their daily lives and an ongoing randomized controlled trial of impact of use of the site on people's LBP-related health literacy, clinical outcomes, and treatment choices. It is hoped that the website can aid in the reduction of the massive burden of LBP and provide a template for the development of resources for other conditions.
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JMIR Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies
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© Paul William William Hodges, Jenny Setchell, Mandy Nielsen. Originally published in JMIR Rehabilitation and Assistive Technology (http://rehab.jmir.org), 31.03.2020. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in JMIR Rehabilitation and Assistive Technology, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on http://rehab.jmir.org/, as well as this copyright and license information must be included.
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Biomedical engineering
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back pain
evidence-based health care
patient education
patient internet portals
patient involvement
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Hodges, PW; Setchell, J; Nielsen, M, An Internet-Based Consumer Resource for People with Low Back Pain (MyBackPain): Development and Evaluation, JMIR Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies, 2020, 7 (1), pp. e16101:1-e16101:13