Table 1 Questionnaire to LBP patients for evaluation of the patient education booklet

Usability of the booklet

1. Which factors facilitated your ability to read or pay attention to the information in the booklet during the appointment? (open answer)

2. How could the booklet be further improved? (open answer)

Influence on the desire for medical imaging

3. Did you wish to undergo medical imaging due to LBP at the appointment? (Yes/no)

4. Which factors affected your desire to undergo medical imaging due to LBP during the appointment? (open answer)

5. Did the booklet have an influence on whether you wished or did not wish for imaging? (Yes/no)

Usefulness in improving the understanding of LBP

6. Which elements of the booklet did you find useful for understanding LBP? (open answer)

Usefulness in improving the outcomes of LBP

7. Which elements of the booklet did you find useful for the management of LBP? (open answer)

8. Which elements of the booklet did you not find useful? (open answer)

Likert scale questions, answer options: 1) disagree completely 2) disagree to some extent, 3) not agree or disagree, 4) agree to some extent, and 5) agree completely

9. I believe that the booklet is useful for my understanding of LBP.

10. After reading the booklet, I feel safer to be physically active.

11. The booklet reduced my fears related to LBP.

12. I believe that the booklet will enhance my recovery.

13. The booklet is/was not useful for me at all.

Additional question

14. Did you receive the booklet from a physician or a physiotherapist?