Evaluation of a Canadian back pain mass media campaign

Spine

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 906-913

  Gross, Douglas P ^a   Russell, Anthony S ^a   Ferrari, Robert ^a   Battié, Michele C ^a   Schopflocher, Donald ^a   Hu, Richard ^b   Waddell, Gordon ^c   Buchbinder, Rachelle ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c Unumprovident   (United Kingdom)

^d CABRINI HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^e MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Back pain; Beliefs; Education; Mass media campaign; Social marketing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BACKACHE; CANADA; DATA BASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS MEDIUM; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUASI EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL MARKETING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WORK DISABILITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BACK PAIN; CANADA; CULTURE; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MASS MEDIA; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951938371     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3181c91140     Document Type: Article

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