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Moving pain management programmes into the digital age: development and evaluation of an online PMP for people with chronic pain.
- Source :
- Frontiers in Pain Research; 2024, p1-10, 10p
- Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- Introduction: In response to Coronovirus Disease (COVID-19) health care restrictions, the pain management programme delivered group treatment digitally (OPMP). We aimed to: 1) evaluate pain related outcomes of the OPMP, 2) evaluate patient satisfaction and qualitive feedback of the OPMP and 3) compare OPMP outcomes with the pre-pandemic face to face (F2F) PMP outcomes. Methods: Age, gender, pain duration, occupational status, referral information and patient satisfaction data were collected. Pre- and post-treatment pain related outcomes were compared by calculating mean difference, benchmarking with effect size (Cohen's d) and determining clinically significant change (CSC) for OPMP and F2F PMP. Results: Two-hundred and thirty-seven patients provided outcome data, with 60 completing the OPMP and 177 completing the F2F PMP. OPMP patients were 10 years younger than the F2F PMP (44.8 vs 53.3), more were female (6.5:1 vs 2.8:1), more were working (45% vs 27%) and fewer were retired (3% vs 17%). The OPMP showed improvements comparable to the F2F PMP. Large effect size was reported across all outcome domains including objective physical outcomes. Eighty-one percent of OPMP patients were 'extremely likely' to recommend the programme but just over 50% of patients felt F2F would provide greater clinical benefits. Conclusion: The results support that OPMP is effective for carefully selected patients following a multidisciplinary team assessment however more complex cases still require F2F PMP. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- EFFECT sizes (Statistics)
AUDITING
CHRONIC pain
HUMAN services programs
HEALTH status indicators
COMPUTER software
T-test (Statistics)
STATISTICAL hypothesis testing
SELF-efficacy
MEDICAL care
BENCHMARKING (Management)
RETIREMENT
QUESTIONNAIRES
FUNCTIONAL assessment
INTERNET
AGE distribution
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
CHI-squared test
PRE-tests & post-tests
PAIN management
PAIN
PATIENT satisfaction
HEALTH outcome assessment
BODY movement
DATA analysis software
CLINICS
COVID-19 pandemic
EMPLOYMENT
HEALTH care teams
GROUP process
ACTIVITIES of daily living
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Frontiers in Pain Research
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 176855545
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3389/fpain.2024.1337734