Improvements in general practitioner beliefs and stated management of back pain persist 4.5 years after the cessation of a public health media campaign

Spine

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Buchbinder, Rachelle ^a,b   Jolley, Damien ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CABRINI INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Back pain; Disability; General practitioner beliefs; Media campaign; Population based; Primary prevention

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; AUSTRALIA; BACKACHE; BED REST; BEHAVIOR; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INFORMATION CENTER; KNOWLEDGE; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBOSACRAL SPINE; MALE; PHYSICIAN; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUASI EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; WORK; X RAY FILM;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BACK PAIN; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MALE; MASS MEDIA; NEW SOUTH WALES; ODDS RATIO; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; QUESTIONNAIRES; TIME FACTORS; VICTORIA;

EID: 33947134919     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.brs.0000256885.00681.00     Document Type: Article

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