None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
CBPE will improve rehabilitation outcomes, adherence, self-efficacy and knowledge for participants. CBPE can be developed using sound educational principles to foster patient understanding (see Mayer, 2001) and can incorporate behaviour changing strategies to enhance adherence (see Conner & Norman, 2005). Moreover, the facility for interactivity using computer programmes can increase patient involvement and allow programmes to be tailored to individual patients. Inherent to CBPE programmes, information is consistent and repeatable with access being limited only by computer availability. Patients can also offer multiple pathways to progress through programmes thereby accommodating individual learning styles. Although CBPE has been successfully developed in other sectors of healthcare (Keulers, Welters, Spauwen, & Houpt, 2007; Stinson et al., 2008; Stromberg, Ahlen, Fridlund, & Dahlstrom, 2002; Wetstone, Sheehan, Votow, Peterson, & Rothfield, 1985), there are no known programmes of this type for physiotherapy rehabilitation. Given the extent to which patient education is used in physiotherapy, the poor adherence to it and recent advances in technology, investigation into the effectiveness of CBPE is warranted.
Interventions
The computer-based patient education (CBPE) programme is interactive and tailored to gender and broadly to age. It consists of shoulder anatomy, shoulder exercises, adherence enhancing strategies, advice on functional activities and quizzes. Participants will be directed by the researcher to the relevant content for their disorder. The programme will be available to the participants for 8 weeks, during which time they can access it at any time. They will record their exercise adherence in a se
The computer-based patient education (CBPE) programme is interactive and tailored to gender and broadly to age. It consists of shoulder anatomy, shoulder exercises, adherence enhancing strategies, advice on functional activities and quizzes. Participants will be directed by the researcher to the relevant content for their disorder. The programme will be available to the participants for 8 weeks, during which time they can access it at any time. They will record their exercise adherence in a self-report diary. Participants in the intervention group will make action and coping plans with the researcher at the beginning of the study. Over the 8 weeks study period all participants will continue receiving standard physiotherapy treatment.
Sponsors
Auckland University of Technology
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Educational / counselling / training
Masking
Open (masking not used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
16 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
Soft tissue injury of the shoulder At least 16 years of age Understand written and spoken English Have no cognitive disorders that could impede learning.
Exclusion criteria
Any health conditions that may adversely effect the participants ability to undertake shoulder exercises.
Outcome results
None listed