Health care providers’ understanding of self-management support for people with chronic low back pain in Ethiopia: an interpretive description

BACKGROUND: Healthcare providers play a key role in supporting people with chronic low back pain to self-manage their condition. The study aimed at exploring how health care providers understand and conceptualize self-management and how they provide self-management support for people with chronic lo...

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Autores principales: Chala, Mulugeta Bayisa, Miller, Jordan, Ghahari, Setareh, Wondie, Yemataw, Abebe, Abey, Donnelly, Catherine
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8842538/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35164738
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-022-07610-5
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author Chala, Mulugeta Bayisa
Miller, Jordan
Ghahari, Setareh
Wondie, Yemataw
Abebe, Abey
Donnelly, Catherine
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Miller, Jordan
Ghahari, Setareh
Wondie, Yemataw
Abebe, Abey
Donnelly, Catherine
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description BACKGROUND: Healthcare providers play a key role in supporting people with chronic low back pain to self-manage their condition. The study aimed at exploring how health care providers understand and conceptualize self-management and how they provide self-management support for people with chronic low back pain in Ethiopia. METHODS: Health care providers who have supported people with low back pain, including medical doctors and physiotherapists, were approached and recruited from three hospitals in Ethiopia. This study employed an interpretive descriptive approach using semi-structured interviews. FINDINGS: Twenty-four participants (7 women; 17 men) with a median age of 28 (range 24 to 42) years and a median of 9.5 years (range 1 to 11 years) of helping people with chronic low back pain were interviewed. Seven major themes related to health care providers’ understanding of self-management support for people with chronic low back pain in Ethiopia emerged. The findings show that self-management was a new concept to many and health care providers’ had a fragmented understanding of self-management. They used or suggested several self-management support strategies to help people with CLBP self-manage their condition without necessarily focusing on enhancing their self-efficacy skills. The participants also discussed several challenges to facilitate self-management support for people with chronic low back pain. Despite the lack of training on the concept, the providers discussed the potential of providing self-management support for people with the condition. CONCLUSIONS: Self-management was a new concept to health care providers. The providers lack the competencies to provide self-management support for people with chronic low back pain. There is a need to enhance the health care providers’ self-management support competencies through training. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12913-022-07610-5.
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spelling pubmed-88425382022-02-16 Health care providers’ understanding of self-management support for people with chronic low back pain in Ethiopia: an interpretive description Chala, Mulugeta Bayisa Miller, Jordan Ghahari, Setareh Wondie, Yemataw Abebe, Abey Donnelly, Catherine BMC Health Serv Res Research BACKGROUND: Healthcare providers play a key role in supporting people with chronic low back pain to self-manage their condition. The study aimed at exploring how health care providers understand and conceptualize self-management and how they provide self-management support for people with chronic low back pain in Ethiopia. METHODS: Health care providers who have supported people with low back pain, including medical doctors and physiotherapists, were approached and recruited from three hospitals in Ethiopia. This study employed an interpretive descriptive approach using semi-structured interviews. FINDINGS: Twenty-four participants (7 women; 17 men) with a median age of 28 (range 24 to 42) years and a median of 9.5 years (range 1 to 11 years) of helping people with chronic low back pain were interviewed. Seven major themes related to health care providers’ understanding of self-management support for people with chronic low back pain in Ethiopia emerged. The findings show that self-management was a new concept to many and health care providers’ had a fragmented understanding of self-management. They used or suggested several self-management support strategies to help people with CLBP self-manage their condition without necessarily focusing on enhancing their self-efficacy skills. The participants also discussed several challenges to facilitate self-management support for people with chronic low back pain. Despite the lack of training on the concept, the providers discussed the potential of providing self-management support for people with the condition. CONCLUSIONS: Self-management was a new concept to health care providers. The providers lack the competencies to provide self-management support for people with chronic low back pain. There is a need to enhance the health care providers’ self-management support competencies through training. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12913-022-07610-5. BioMed Central 2022-02-14 /pmc/articles/PMC8842538/ /pubmed/35164738 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-022-07610-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Chala, Mulugeta Bayisa
Miller, Jordan
Ghahari, Setareh
Wondie, Yemataw
Abebe, Abey
Donnelly, Catherine
Health care providers’ understanding of self-management support for people with chronic low back pain in Ethiopia: an interpretive description
title Health care providers’ understanding of self-management support for people with chronic low back pain in Ethiopia: an interpretive description
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title_fullStr Health care providers’ understanding of self-management support for people with chronic low back pain in Ethiopia: an interpretive description
title_full_unstemmed Health care providers’ understanding of self-management support for people with chronic low back pain in Ethiopia: an interpretive description
title_short Health care providers’ understanding of self-management support for people with chronic low back pain in Ethiopia: an interpretive description
title_sort health care providers’ understanding of self-management support for people with chronic low back pain in ethiopia: an interpretive description
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8842538/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35164738
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-022-07610-5
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