| ARM 1: The intervention group | ARM 2: The control group |
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The new online material | The Patient Handbook (standard website) | |
Participants | Adult patients consulting Danish general practice with low back pain | |
Timing of intervention | Patients will be recruited consecutively. A patient will commence after a consultation at the GP and after providing informed consent online | |
Intervention delivery mode | Interventions can be delivered on smartphones, tablets, or PCs | |
Duration of intervention | Patients will receive reminders to access their interventions during the 12-week period, which corresponds to the total follow-up period | |
Intervention provider | The new online information is developed by patients, GPs, and the research group | The Patient Handbook is developed by Sundhed.dk. Containing articles written by medical doctors and allied healthcare professionals |
Intervention provider training | The provider/development group consists of an interdisciplinary team of researchers, with input from users (patients and GPs) | The provider group consists of a variety of healthcare professionals. Medical doctors are responsible for the content |
Site of intervention delivery | The interventions will be delivered at patients’ homes, or at other places where patients choose to access the material | |
Intervention process | Patients will be reminded to access the intervention after 1, 2, 4, 8, and 12Â weeks. The interventions can be accessed as frequently as the patients prefer. Patients log on with username and password. Following login, patients will be led to a questionnaire containing two questions. At baseline and after 12Â weeks the questionnaires are longer | |
Intervention content | Guideline concordant information and advice for LBP produced by healthcare professionals an patients | Guideline concordant information and advice for LBP produced by healthcare professionals |
Intervention materials | The interventions are delivered online. Some patients might choose to print exercise programmes or other materials on paper | |
Fidelity of treatment | Fidelity will be measured by the number occasions entering the information (both groups) and number of clicks and duration spent on their online information material (intervention group) |