Patients' treatment beliefs in low back pain: Development and validation of a questionnaire in primary care

Pain

Volumn 156, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1489-1500

  Dima, Alexandra ^a,e   Lewith, George T ^a   Little, Paul ^a   Moss Morris, Rona ^b   Foster, Nadine E ^c   Hankins, Matthew ^d   Surtees, George ^a   Bishop, Felicity L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d IQVIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acupuncture; Exercise; Low back pain; Manual therapy; Medication beliefs; Nonparametric item response theory; Pain medication; Psychometrics; Questionnaire validation; Scale; Treatment beliefs

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT;

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSESSMENT OF HUMANS; CONVERGENT VALIDITY; CRITERION RELATED VALIDITY; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY; EXERCISE; FACE VALIDITY; FEMALE; HEALTH BELIEF; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; LOW BACK PAIN; LOW BACK PAIN TREATMENT BELIEF QUESTIONNAIRE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE; NERVE ROOT COMPRESSION; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; ANALGESIA; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULOSKELETAL MANIPULATION; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PATIENT; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARDS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUPUNCTURE THERAPY; ADULT; ANALGESICS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULOSKELETAL MANIPULATIONS; PAIN MANAGEMENT; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PATIENTS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84945300097     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: 18726623     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000000193     Document Type: Article

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