Physiotherapy students’ assessment of psychosocial yellow flags in low back pain

South African Journal of Physiotherapy

 
 
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Title Physiotherapy students’ assessment of psychosocial yellow flags in low back pain
 
Creator Parker, R.
 
Subject — yellow flags; physiotherapy students; assessment
Description Background: Low Back Pain (LBP) makes up a large proportion of referrals to physiotherapy worldwide. Thus training in its effective assessment and management is essential. With psychosocial yellow flags having been recognised as the strongest predictors of chronicity in LBP, guidelines on the management of LBP emphasise the importance of assessing and managing yellow flags. Aim: The aim of this research was to explore whether physiotherapy students were able to assess risk of chronicity based on the presence of yellow flags in descriptions of people with LBP.Method: A postal semi-structured questionnaire based on clinicalvignettes was sent to all the Level 3 physiotherapy students studying at Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh.Results: The survey was responded to by 15 of the students (35%). The respondents overestimated risk of chronic LBP from the vignettes. Evaluation of risk for chronicity was based on few yellow flags i.e. the strongest predictors of chronicity were not effectively interpreted resulting in incorrect determination of risk for chronic LBP. All respondents included at least one risk factor not supported by the evidence. Conclusions: Physiotherapy students in this study did not appear to respond appropriately to the presence ofyellow flags in the presented vignettes.
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
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Date 2007-01-08
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — —
Format application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/sajp.v63i1.114
 
Source South African Journal of Physiotherapy; Vol 63, No 1 (2007); 3-8 2410-8219 0379-6175
 
Language eng
 
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Rights Copyright (c) 2007 R. Parker https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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