Cohort Profile: Baseline Characteristics of Veterans from Improving Veteran Access to Integrated Management of Back Pain (AIM-Back) - an Embedded Pragmatic, Cluster Randomized Trial in the United States.

Purpose: AIM-Back is an embedded pragmatic clinical trial (ePCT) with cluster randomization designed to increase access and compare the effectiveness of two different non-pharmacological care pathways for low back pain (LBP) delivered within the Veteran Administration Health Care System (VAHCS). This manuscript describes baseline characteristics of AIM-Back participants as well as the representativeness of those referred to the AIM-Back program by sex, age, race, and ethnicity, relative to Veterans with low back pain at participating clinics.

Participants: To be eligible for AIM-Back, Veterans were referred to the randomized pathway at their clinic by trained primary care providers (Referral cohort).

Political Parties and Household Food Insecurity Among Canadian Provinces: A Panel Data Analysis, 2005-2014.

In Canada, links between social determinants and household food insecurity (HFI) are well-documented, but the influence of political parties remains unclear. This study examines whether political parties predict HFI rates across Canadian provinces and explores the mediating roles of low income and social assistance. Panel data from 2005 to 2014 were obtained from Statistics Canada, with political party strength categorized as left, center, or right.

The association between exposure to a radio campaign on nutrition and mothers' nutrition- and health-related attitudes and minimal acceptable diet of children 6-36 months old: a quasi-experimental trial.

Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of a radio campaign involving serial 10-minute drama episodes, 10-minute on air discussion of each episode by trained community health workers and 30-minute phone-ins from listeners in improving mothers' nutrition- and health-related attitudes (HNRAs) and children's minimum acceptable diet (MAD).

Design: A two-arm quasi-experimental trial with a pre-post design was used to quantify the effect of a radio campaign on nutrition before and immediately after the 6-month intervention. Difference-in-difference (DID) analysis was performed to assess the intervention's effect.

The implementation of a pain navigator program in the department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) health care systems: a cluster randomized pragmatic clinical trial.

Objective: This manuscript describes the uptake of the AIM-Back Pain Navigator Pathway (PNP) designed to encourage use of non-pharmacologic care options within the Veterans Health Administration (VHA).

Design: This manuscript describes the implementation of a telehealth intervention from one arm of a multisite, embedded, cluster-randomized pragmatic trial comparing the effectiveness of two novel clinical care pathways that provide access to non-pharmacologic care for Veterans with low back pain (LBP).

Setting: Ten VHA clinics.

Altered Movement Coordination during Functional Reach Tasks in Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain and Its Relationship to Numerical Pain Rating Scores.

Identifying the effects of pain catastrophizing on movement patterns in people with chronic low back pain (CLBP) has important clinical implications for treatment approaches. Prior research has shown people with CLBP have decreased lumbar-hip ratios during trunk flexion movements, indicating a decrease in the contribution of lumbar flexion relative to hip flexion during trunk flexion. In this study, we aim to explore the relationship between pain catastrophizing and movement patterns during trunk flexion in a CLBP population.