Healthcare Professionals’ Perceptions of and Attitudes towards a Standardized Content Description of Interdisciplinary Rehabilitation Programs for Patients with Chronic Pain—A Qualitative Study
(2023) In International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 20(9).- Abstract
Interdisciplinary pain rehabilitation (IPR) is a recommended treatment for people with chronic pain. An inadequate description of the content of IPR programs makes it difficult to draw conclusions regarding their effects. The purpose of this study was to describe the perceptions and attitudes of healthcare professionals toward a content description of IPR programs for patients with chronic pain. Individual interviews with healthcare professionals (n = 11) working in IPR teams in Sweden were conducted between February and May 2019. Analysis of the interviews resulted in a theme: interdisciplinary pain rehabilitation is a complex intervention, with three categories: limitations in the description of IPR programs; lack of knowledge about... (More)
Interdisciplinary pain rehabilitation (IPR) is a recommended treatment for people with chronic pain. An inadequate description of the content of IPR programs makes it difficult to draw conclusions regarding their effects. The purpose of this study was to describe the perceptions and attitudes of healthcare professionals toward a content description of IPR programs for patients with chronic pain. Individual interviews with healthcare professionals (n = 11) working in IPR teams in Sweden were conducted between February and May 2019. Analysis of the interviews resulted in a theme: interdisciplinary pain rehabilitation is a complex intervention, with three categories: limitations in the description of IPR programs; lack of knowledge about IPR and chronic pain; and facilitating and hindering factors for using the content description of IPR programs. Conclusion: Healthcare professionals perceived that IPR programs could be described through a general content description. A general content description could enhance the quality of IPR programs through a better understanding of their content and a comparison of different IPR programs. Healthcare professionals also expressed the importance of a content description being a guide rather than a steering document.
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- Åhlfeldt, Douglas Anderson ; Vixner, Linda ; Stålnacke, Britt Marie ; Boersma, Katja ; Löfgren, Monika ; Fischer, Marcelo Rivano LU and Enthoven, Paul
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- publishing date
- 2023-05
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- Contribution to journal
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- published
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- keywords
- complex interventions, content description, healthcare professionals, individual interviews, interdisciplinary pain rehabilitation, TIDieR checklist
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- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
- volume
- 20
- issue
- 9
- article number
- 5661
- publisher
- MDPI AG
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- pmid:37174179
- scopus:85159055565
- ISSN
- 1661-7827
- DOI
- 10.3390/ijerph20095661
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- English
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- yes
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- 23761f4d-8eb6-4590-9e7d-9905b7c60f2d
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abstract = {{<p>Interdisciplinary pain rehabilitation (IPR) is a recommended treatment for people with chronic pain. An inadequate description of the content of IPR programs makes it difficult to draw conclusions regarding their effects. The purpose of this study was to describe the perceptions and attitudes of healthcare professionals toward a content description of IPR programs for patients with chronic pain. Individual interviews with healthcare professionals (n = 11) working in IPR teams in Sweden were conducted between February and May 2019. Analysis of the interviews resulted in a theme: interdisciplinary pain rehabilitation is a complex intervention, with three categories: limitations in the description of IPR programs; lack of knowledge about IPR and chronic pain; and facilitating and hindering factors for using the content description of IPR programs. Conclusion: Healthcare professionals perceived that IPR programs could be described through a general content description. A general content description could enhance the quality of IPR programs through a better understanding of their content and a comparison of different IPR programs. Healthcare professionals also expressed the importance of a content description being a guide rather than a steering document.</p>}},
author = {{Åhlfeldt, Douglas Anderson and Vixner, Linda and Stålnacke, Britt Marie and Boersma, Katja and Löfgren, Monika and Fischer, Marcelo Rivano and Enthoven, Paul}},
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keywords = {{complex interventions; content description; healthcare professionals; individual interviews; interdisciplinary pain rehabilitation; TIDieR checklist}},
language = {{eng}},
number = {{9}},
publisher = {{MDPI AG}},
series = {{International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health}},
title = {{Healthcare Professionals’ Perceptions of and Attitudes towards a Standardized Content Description of Interdisciplinary Rehabilitation Programs for Patients with Chronic Pain—A Qualitative Study}},
url = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20095661}},
doi = {{10.3390/ijerph20095661}},
volume = {{20}},
year = {{2023}},
}