Coping with chronic lower back pain: Designing and testing the online tool ONESELF

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 625-645

  Schulz, Peter J ^a   Rubinelli, Sara ^a   Zufferey, Maria Caiata ^a   Hartung, Uwe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACK PAIN; CHRONIC LOW BACK PAIN; COMPREHENSION IMPROVEMENT; CONDITION; HEALTH LITERACY; LOGFILE; ON-LINE TOOLS; QUALITATIVE EVALUATIONS;

HEALTH;

EID: 77956567768     PISSN: 10836101     EISSN: 10836101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1083-6101.2009.01509.x     Document Type: Article

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