Preference and expectation for treatment assignment in a randomized controlled trial of once- vs twice-weekly yoga for chronic low back pain

Global Advances In Health and Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 34-39

  Tran, Huong H ^a   Weinberg, Janice ^b   Sherman, Karen J ^c,d   Saper, Robert B ^a  

^a BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c CENTER FOR HEALTH STUDIES   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Expectation; Low back pain; Preference; Yoga

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXPECTATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOW BACK PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL FUNCTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SHORT FORM 36; SOCIAL STATUS; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; YOGA;

EID: 85009280849     PISSN: 2164957X     EISSN: 21649561     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7453/gahmj.2014.066     Document Type: Article

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