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Table 1 Clinician reported measures and time-points for data collection

From: GLA:D® Back: group-based patient education integrated with exercises to support self-management of persistent back pain — feasibility of implementing standardised care by a course for clinicians

Construct

Instrument

Before course

After course

4 months

Patient baseline registration

Individual characteristics

Age, sex, profession, role in the clinic

x

   

Experience

Years of clinical experience

x

   

Experience with GLA:D for knee and hip

Confidence

The Practitioner Confidence Scale (range 4–20) [14]

x

 

x

 

Treatment orientation

The Pain Attitudes and Beliefs Scale for Physiotherapists [15,16,17]. Biomedical subscale (range 10–60), behavioural subscale (range 9–54)

x

 

x

 

Evaluation of 2-day course

Content (0 = very poor; 10 = excellent)

 

x

  

Novelty (0 = very low; 10 = very high)

Usability (0 = very poor; 10 = very good)

Adoption

Did you start offering GLA:D Back in the clinic?

  

x

x

How many groups have started?

Number of patients in the registry

Overall impression

Everything considered, how do you think GLA:D Back works? (5-points Likert: very bad to very good)

  

x

 

Materials

How satisfied are you with the patient education materials? (0 = very unsatisfied; 10 = very satisfied)

  

x

 

How satisfied are you with the exercise programme? (0 = very unsatisfied; 10 = very satisfied)