Visualising, navigating and making time: The use of a digital solution in treatment and rehabilitation from low back pain.

Illness trajectories are particularly characterised by the temporal dimension of human existence. In the area of low back pain, patients often have challenging temporal experiences such as unproductive waiting time and fragmented, repetitive consultations over many years. This study seeks to investigate relationships between digital technologies, temporal agency, and illness, through describing how users experienced a new digital solution, BackTrace, targeting patients with low back pain.

The practice of information appraisal: An ethnographic study of a health information intervention.

As healthcare systems grow increasingly complex, greater demands are placed on patients' abilities to find, understand, appraise, and use health information - often termed their 'health literacy'. Most health literacy research does not focus on information appraisal. When it does, there is a tendency to equate it with patients' assessment of credibility.

How does mHealth influence consulting practice between health professionals and individuals with low back pain? - A qualitative study from the perspective of health professionals.

Purpose: This study explored how health professionals experience in what way a digital self-monitoring solution influences their consulting practice targeting individuals with low back pain.

Material And Methods: This was a qualitative study adopting a constructivist grounded theory approach. Nineteen health professionals participated in the pilot test of the digital self-monitoring solution Data were collected cross-sectionally and consisted of: (a) audio recordings from focus groups with health professionals, (b) field notes from participant observation of online meetings with health professionals, (c) field notes from participant observations of consultations between health professionals and individuals with low back pain and (d) audio recordings from workshops with health professionals.