Undergraduate Physiotherapists' Use of the Internet to Fulfil Their Information Needs During a Theoretical Examination: A Randomized Crossover Trial.

Background: The internet is widely used by healthcare students and professionals alike to fulfil their information needs, yet limited research has utilised web log analysis to evaluate how they do so.

Aims: To elicit information needs among students via the administration of a multiple choice questionnaire (MCQ) and to evaluate how they use the internet to fulfil these needs.

Methods: Forty final-year physiotherapy students (63% female) completed a MCQ under two conditions: i) 'assisted' with internet access and ii) 'unassisted' without internet access.

Exploring athlete pain assessment experiences and priorities; a two-part qualitative series of athlete and physiotherapist interactions. Part One. "Gauging and discerning" - Athlete & physiotherapist pain assessment experiences and interactions.

Objectives: To explore the content (subjective questions, objective tools and outcome measures) and discuss the nature (qualitative elements and wider considerations) of the athlete pain assessment by facilitating shared understandings of athletes and sports physiotherapists.

Design: Qualitative research using a hermeneutic phenomenological approach.

Methods: We carried out focus groups comprising a deliberate criterion sample using a constructivist perspective.

Exploring athlete pain assessment experiences and priorities; a two-part qualitative series of athlete and physiotherapist interactions. Part Two. "Forging our future" - Athlete and physiotherapists' priorities for pain assessment and beyond.

Objectives: To explore the priorities and directions of athlete upper and lower limb pain assessment by facilitating shared understandings of athletes and sport physiotherapists.

Design: Qualitative research using a hermeneutic phenomenological approach.

Methods: We carried out focus groups comprising a deliberate criterion sample using a constructivist perspective.

'Another world of pain'-athlete and sport physiotherapist perspectives on the unique experience of pain in sport.

Our objective to explore athlete's and sports physiotherapists' experiences of sports-related pain in the upper and lower limb. Using a constructivist and pragmatic perspective, we carried out focus groups comprising a deliberate criterion sample of athletes and sports physiotherapists. We used a topic guide that moved from open exploratory questions to questions focusing on the phenomena of sports-related pain in athletes.

A Review of the Design of Multimedia Patient Educational Materials in Low Back Pain Research.

Low back pain guidelines recommend patient education as a component of management. Multimedia education materials to provide patient education are increasingly being used not only due to the convenience of digital services but also because this is an efficient way to deliver educational information to under-resourced or rural/remote regions without optimal healthcare services. To maximize the knowledge transfer of research findings and low back pain guidelines, scientifically backed information must evolve beyond journal prints, bland government websites, and the basic web design of budget-constrained advocacy groups.

An Evaluation of the Design of Multimedia Patient Education Materials in Musculoskeletal Health Care: Systematic Review.

Background: Educational multimedia is a cost-effective and straightforward way to administer large-scale information interventions to patient populations in musculoskeletal health care. While an abundance of health research informs the content of these interventions, less guidance exists about optimizing their design.

Objective: This study aims to identify randomized controlled trials of patient populations with musculoskeletal conditions that used multimedia-based patient educational materials (PEMs) and examine how design was reported and impacted patients' knowledge and rehabilitation outcomes.

Designing multimedia patient education materials for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: A protocol for a feasibility randomized controlled trial of patient education videos.

Triple-masked three-armed feasibility parallel randomized controlled trial. Multimedia patient education materials are increasingly used in healthcare. While much research focuses on optimising their scientific content, research is equally needed to optimise design and implementation.