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Conclusion
Our study seem to suggest that some IPs have a mediating or a moderating effect on pain intensity, physical function and pain interference during a matched care physiotherapy treat- ment.
Our findings indicate that the IP dimensions Consequences, Personal control, Identity, Concern and Emotional response, might be important to include in a matched-care treatment of LBP, because they enhance the positive mediation effect of all three primary outcomes. In addition, at baseline, assessing Personal control may be relevant to determine the outcome prognosis of successful physiotherapy management of persistent LBP.
acknowledgements
We would like to thank the attributing patients for participating in this research. Further, the contribution to this study by primary care physiotherapists Alisha van den Waarsenburg, Es- ther Beker, Jef Huibers, Daron Buenting and Ben van Koppen is much appreciated. Thanks to Les Hearn for scientific proofreading and English editing (les_hearn@yahoo.co.uk)
This study is supported by a grant of the Dutch government; NWO- 023.005.029
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