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Lack of consensus across clinical guidelines regarding the role of psychosocial factors within low back pain care: a systematic review.

Lack of consensus across clinical guidelines regarding the role of psychosocial factors within low back pain care: a systematic review.

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It is widely accepted that psychosocial prognostic factors should be addressed by clinicians in their assessment and management of patient suffering from low back pain (LBP). On the other hand, an overview is missing how these factors are addressed in clinical LBP guidelines. Therefore, our objective was to summarize and compare recommendations regarding the assessment and management of psychosocial prognostic factors for LBP chronicity, as reported in clinical LBP guidelines. We performed a systematic search of clinical LBP guidelines (PROSPERO registration number 154730). This search consisted of a combination of previously published systematic review articles and a new systematic search in medical or guideline-related databases. From the included guidelines, we extracted recommendations regarding the assessment and management of LBP which addressed psychosocial prognostic factors (i.e., psychological factors ('yellow flags'), perceptions about the relationship between work and health, ('blue flags'), system or contextual obstacles ('black flags') and psychiatric symptoms ('orange flags')). In addition, we evaluated the level or quality of evidence of these recommendations. In total, we included 15 guidelines. Psychosocial prognostic factors were addressed in 13/15 guidelines regarding their assessment and in 14/15 guidelines regarding their management. Recommendations addressing psychosocial factors almost exclusively concerned 'yellow' or 'black flags', and varied widely across guidelines. The supporting evidence was generally of very low quality. We conclude that in general, clinical LBP guidelines do not provide clinicians with clear instructions about how to incorporate psychosocial factors in LBP care and should be optimized in this respect. More specifically, clinical guidelines vary widely in whether and how they address psychosocial factors, and recommendations regarding these factors generally require better evidence support. This emphasizes a need for a stronger evidence-base underlying the role of psychosocial risk factors within LBP care, and a need for uniformity in methodology and terminology across guidelines. Perspective This systematic review summarized clinical guidelines on low back pain (LBP) on how they addressed the identification and management of psychosocial factors. This review revealed a large amount of variety across guidelines in whether and how psychosocial factors were addressed. Moreover, recommendations generally lacked details and were based on low quality evidence.

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OrganisatieHAN University of Applied Sciences
AfdelingAcademie Paramedische Studies
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LectoraatWerkzame Factoren in Fysiotherapie en Paramedisch Handelen
Gepubliceerd inJournal of Pain Churchill Livingstone
Jaar2021
TypeArtikel
DOI10.1016/j.jpain.2021.04.013
TaalOnbekend

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