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Effective delivery styles and content for self-management interventions for chronic musculoskeletal pain: a systematic literature review

Effective delivery styles and content for self-management interventions for chronic musculoskeletal pain: a systematic literature review
Effective delivery styles and content for self-management interventions for chronic musculoskeletal pain: a systematic literature review
Objectives: the objective of the study was to report the evidence for effectiveness of different self-management course characteristics and components for chronic musculoskeletal pain.

Methods: we searched 9 relevant electronic databases for randomized, controlled trials (RCTs). Two reviewers selected studies against inclusion criteria and assessed their quality. We classified RCTs according to type of course delivery (group, individual, mixed or remote), tutor (healthcare professional, lay or mixed), setting (medical, community or occupational), duration (more or less than 8 weeks), and the number and type of components (psychological, lifestyle, pain education, mind body therapies, and physical activity). We extracted data on pain intensity, physical function, self-efficacy, global health, and depression and compared these outcomes for self-management and usual care or waiting list control. We used random effects standardized mean difference meta-analysis. We looked for patterns of clinically important and statistically significant beneficial effects for courses with different delivery characteristics and the presence or absence of components across outcomes over 3 follow-up intervals.

Results: we included 46 RCTs (N=8539). Group-delivered courses that had healthcare professional input showed more beneficial effects. Longer courses did not necessarily give better outcomes. There was mixed evidence of effectiveness for components of courses, but data for courses with a psychological component showed slightly more consistent beneficial effects over each follow-up period.

Discussion: serious consideration should be given to the development of short (<8 weeks) group and healthcare professional-delivered interventions but more research is required to establish the most effective and cost-effective course components
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Carnes, Dawn, Homer, Kate E., Miles, Clare L., Pincus, Tamar, Underwood, Martin, Rahman, Anisur and Taylor, Stephanie J.C. (2012) Effective delivery styles and content for self-management interventions for chronic musculoskeletal pain: a systematic literature review. The Clinical Journal of Pain, 28 (4), 344-354. (doi:10.1097/Ajp.0b013e31822ed2f3). (PMID:22001667)

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Abstract

Objectives: the objective of the study was to report the evidence for effectiveness of different self-management course characteristics and components for chronic musculoskeletal pain.

Methods: we searched 9 relevant electronic databases for randomized, controlled trials (RCTs). Two reviewers selected studies against inclusion criteria and assessed their quality. We classified RCTs according to type of course delivery (group, individual, mixed or remote), tutor (healthcare professional, lay or mixed), setting (medical, community or occupational), duration (more or less than 8 weeks), and the number and type of components (psychological, lifestyle, pain education, mind body therapies, and physical activity). We extracted data on pain intensity, physical function, self-efficacy, global health, and depression and compared these outcomes for self-management and usual care or waiting list control. We used random effects standardized mean difference meta-analysis. We looked for patterns of clinically important and statistically significant beneficial effects for courses with different delivery characteristics and the presence or absence of components across outcomes over 3 follow-up intervals.

Results: we included 46 RCTs (N=8539). Group-delivered courses that had healthcare professional input showed more beneficial effects. Longer courses did not necessarily give better outcomes. There was mixed evidence of effectiveness for components of courses, but data for courses with a psychological component showed slightly more consistent beneficial effects over each follow-up period.

Discussion: serious consideration should be given to the development of short (<8 weeks) group and healthcare professional-delivered interventions but more research is required to establish the most effective and cost-effective course components

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Published date: May 2012
Organisations: Psychology

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Local EPrints ID: 355329
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/355329
ISSN: 0749-8047
PURE UUID: 33032bfb-bcd7-45fa-be27-8eb988746105
ORCID for Tamar Pincus: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-3172-5624

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Author: Dawn Carnes
Author: Kate E. Homer
Author: Clare L. Miles
Author: Tamar Pincus ORCID iD
Author: Martin Underwood
Author: Anisur Rahman
Author: Stephanie J.C. Taylor

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