Interactive Sections Of An Internet-Based Intervention Increase Patient Empowerment: A Study With Chronic Back Pain Patients

Brief summary (from the registry)

The aim of the study is to study how to improve patients' management of chronic back pain, particularly their management of prescription medication, through increasing health literacy and patient empowerment through an internet based intervention. We do this by designing both patient education materials and physician communication strategies to increase literacy and volitional components of patients. We will test two conditions using a website called Oneself: one providing only information (literacy-only control) and a second providing relational communications designed to increase both literacy and volitional empowerment. To test the self-management enhancing effects of empowerment and health literacy, we will conduct a longitudinal experiment with 51 chronich back pain patients over two months. This span of time is the minimum necessary to achieve a systematic change in self-management and literacy skills, increasing also the range of possible decisions to be made and actions to be real-ized by the patients.

Study details

Official title

Interactive Sections Of An Internet-Based Intervention Increase Patient Empowerment: A Randomized Controlled Study With Chronic Back Pain Patients

Conditions

• Group 1 (Control): Access to a Static Version of the Website Containing Only Static Features (i.e. Library, First Aid, and FAQ)
• Group2 (Intervention) Access to an Interactive Version of the Website Containing Both Static and Interactive Features

Interventions

• Other: Internet-based

Sponsor

University of Lugano

Start date

2013-03

Primary completion

2013-09

Sex

All

Age range

from 18 Years

Results posted

No results posted in this snapshot

Countries

Switzerland

Total sites listed

1

Eligibility criteria