It’s safe to move! A protocol for a randomised controlled trial investigating the effect of a video designed to increase people’s confidence becoming more active despite back pain
Introduction Social media provide promising contemporary platforms for sharing public health information with a broad audience. Before implementation, testing social media campaigns that are intended to engage audiences and initiate behaviour change is necessary. This trial aims to investigate the e...
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| author | Ian A Harris Adrian C Traeger James H McAuley Siobhan M Schabrun Benedict Martin Wand Aidan Cashin Christopher Michael Williams Edel O'Hagan Sean O'Neill |
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| description | Introduction Social media provide promising contemporary platforms for sharing public health information with a broad audience. Before implementation, testing social media campaigns that are intended to engage audiences and initiate behaviour change is necessary. This trial aims to investigate the effectiveness of a public health campaign to increase people’s confidence in becoming more active despite low back pain in comparison with no intervention.Methods and analysis This is an online randomised controlled trial with two intervention groups and one control group in a 1:1:1 allocation. People over 18 years of age and fluent in English will be recruited via social media advertising. We developed a social media-based public health campaign to support recommendations for managing low back pain. The interventions are two videos. Participants in the control group will be asked questions about low back pain but will not view either video intervention. The primary outcome will be item 10 of the Pain Self-Efficacy Questionnaire, which asks participants to rate how confident they would feel to gradually become more active despite pain ranging from 0 (not at all confident) to 6 (completely confident). This outcome will be measured immediately in all participant groups. We will compare group mean of the three arms of the trial using univariate analyses of variance.Ethics and dissemination This trial has been prospectively registered with the Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry. We obtained ethical approval from our institutions Human Research Ethics Committee before data collection. We will publish the results in a peer-reviewed medical journal and on institution websites.Trial registration number Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (ACTRN12622000466741). |
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| spelling | doaj-art-4eb04f3afd524eabb7fb5560eaf039da2025-01-31T10:10:10ZengBMJ Publishing GroupBMJ Open2044-60552022-07-0112710.1136/bmjopen-2022-063250It’s safe to move! A protocol for a randomised controlled trial investigating the effect of a video designed to increase people’s confidence becoming more active despite back painIan A Harris0Adrian C Traeger1James H McAuley2Siobhan M Schabrun3Benedict Martin Wand4Aidan Cashin5Christopher Michael Williams6Edel O'Hagan7Sean O'Neill82 Sydney School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia2 Institute for Musculoskeletal Health, Sydney School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia2 Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA), Randwick, New South Wales, Australia2 Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA), Randwick, New South Wales, AustraliaFaculty of Medicine, Nursing & Midwifery and Health Sciences, The University of Notre Dame Australia, Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia10 School of Health Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia5 School of Health Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, AustraliaCentre for Pain IMPACT, Neuroscience Research Australia, Randwick, New South Wales, AustraliaMaridulu Budyari Gumal, Sydney, New South Wales, AustraliaIntroduction Social media provide promising contemporary platforms for sharing public health information with a broad audience. Before implementation, testing social media campaigns that are intended to engage audiences and initiate behaviour change is necessary. This trial aims to investigate the effectiveness of a public health campaign to increase people’s confidence in becoming more active despite low back pain in comparison with no intervention.Methods and analysis This is an online randomised controlled trial with two intervention groups and one control group in a 1:1:1 allocation. People over 18 years of age and fluent in English will be recruited via social media advertising. We developed a social media-based public health campaign to support recommendations for managing low back pain. The interventions are two videos. Participants in the control group will be asked questions about low back pain but will not view either video intervention. The primary outcome will be item 10 of the Pain Self-Efficacy Questionnaire, which asks participants to rate how confident they would feel to gradually become more active despite pain ranging from 0 (not at all confident) to 6 (completely confident). This outcome will be measured immediately in all participant groups. We will compare group mean of the three arms of the trial using univariate analyses of variance.Ethics and dissemination This trial has been prospectively registered with the Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry. We obtained ethical approval from our institutions Human Research Ethics Committee before data collection. We will publish the results in a peer-reviewed medical journal and on institution websites.Trial registration number Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (ACTRN12622000466741).https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/12/7/e063250.full |
| spellingShingle | Ian A Harris Adrian C Traeger James H McAuley Siobhan M Schabrun Benedict Martin Wand Aidan Cashin Christopher Michael Williams Edel O'Hagan Sean O'Neill It’s safe to move! A protocol for a randomised controlled trial investigating the effect of a video designed to increase people’s confidence becoming more active despite back pain BMJ Open |
| title | It’s safe to move! A protocol for a randomised controlled trial investigating the effect of a video designed to increase people’s confidence becoming more active despite back pain |
| title_full | It’s safe to move! A protocol for a randomised controlled trial investigating the effect of a video designed to increase people’s confidence becoming more active despite back pain |
| title_fullStr | It’s safe to move! A protocol for a randomised controlled trial investigating the effect of a video designed to increase people’s confidence becoming more active despite back pain |
| title_full_unstemmed | It’s safe to move! A protocol for a randomised controlled trial investigating the effect of a video designed to increase people’s confidence becoming more active despite back pain |
| title_short | It’s safe to move! A protocol for a randomised controlled trial investigating the effect of a video designed to increase people’s confidence becoming more active despite back pain |
| title_sort | it s safe to move a protocol for a randomised controlled trial investigating the effect of a video designed to increase people s confidence becoming more active despite back pain |
| url | https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/12/7/e063250.full |
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