Danielle Southerst, Cesar A Hincapié, Hainan Yu, Leslie Verville, André Bussières, Douglas P Gross, Paulo Pereira, Silvano Mior, Andrea C Tricco, Christine Cedraschi, Ginny Brunton, Margareta Nordin, Jessica J Wong, Gaelan Connell, Heather M Shearer, Astrid DeSouza, Javier Muñoz Laguna, Joyce G B Lee, Daphne To, Rahim Lalji, Kent Stuber, Martha Funabashi, Léonie Hofstetter, Danny Myrtos, Andrew Romanelli, Brett Guist, James J Young, Sophia da Silva-Oolup, Maja Stupar, Dan Wang, Kent Murnaghan, Carol Cancelliere
PURPOSE: Evaluate benefits and harms of education/advice for chronic primary low back pain (CPLBP) in adults to inform a World Health Organization (WHO) standard clinical guideline. METHODS: Electronic databases were searched for randomized controlled trials (RCTs) assessing education/advice compared with placebo/sham, usual care, or no intervention (including comparison interventions where the attributable effect of education/advice could be isolated). We conducted meta-analyses and graded the certainty of evidence...
December 2023: Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation