Does a Video-based Education Tool Related to Strengthening Result in Different Functional Outcomes Compared to Traditional Physical Therapy Education for Patients?

Patients receiving physical therapy (PT) at the UICFP will be screened for eligibility according to inclusion and exclusion criteria by treating physical therapists including obtaining consent to participate in the study at date of initial physical therapy evaluation or before the patient leaves from the second follow up visit.

• Checking for inclusion and exclusion criteria will be referenced by the treating therapist from the "Patient Checklist Data Form" (PCDF)
• If a patient does not meet any of the inclusion criteria or meets one of the exclusion criteria they will be excluded from the study.
• If a patient is being added in the above manner on a date past initial evaluation the physical therapist must record previous data needed that is available from patient records (date of evaluation, Patient Specific Functional Scale (PSFS) average score). The PSFS will be provided to all possible candidates in the clinic as part of the standard intake paperwork. Therefore, the PSFS should still be available for data after obtaining consent.

• Upon passing exclusion and inclusion criteria and obtaining informed consent, patients will be randomized into either the control or experimental group. Only after these setup steps will the PCDF be filled out and, if appropriate, provide the Strength Education Video (SEV) for viewing.

  o Once included into the study subjects will be randomly assigned to one of two groups: control group (CG) or experimental group (EG).

• CG will receive standard PT care
• EG will receive standard care in addition to being provided a SEV.

The EG will also be provided a handout with a link and QR code to the video on YouTube.com and disclaimer from the consent form.

• Disclaimer quoted from consent form: "Please follow the link bellow to the video hosted on YouTube.com. Please be aware that by viewing the video on YouTube.com you are agreeing to YouTube and Google's terms and conditions. This will not be sharing any of your protected health information held by the University of Illinois Hospital system or the University of Illinois at Chicago. You are not obligated to click on or view this link. It is intended as a helpful tool for your benefit. Please reach out to your treating physical therapist with any questions or concerns"
• Treating physical therapist will record the date of SEV viewing on the PCDF. - The PCDF will be used to record patient information by the treating physical therapist and have a study subject identification (ID) number added by either Daniel Robinson or Jessica Pop when performing data entry described later in protocol.

Subject information contained in the PCDF includes:

• Treating Physical Therapist
• Patient Name
• Medical Record Number
• Age
• Sex
• Subject ID code
• Which group subject is allocated to (Control or experimental)
• Inclusion criteria checklist
• Exclusion criteria checklist
• Date of evaluation
• Evaluation PSFS score
• Date of SEV viewing (if in EG)
• Session number of SEV viewing (if in EG)
• Follow up PSFS score
• Follow up session number
• Follow up date
• Discharge PSFS score
• Discharge session number
• Discharge date
• Secondary Discharge PSFS score
• Secondary Discharge Session number
• Secondary Discharge date
• Tertiary Discharge PSFS score
• Tertiary Discharge Session number
• Tertiary Discharge date
• Indication if patient was discharged early from PT or had an unplanned discharge from PT.

Data from the PCDF will be entered without patient names into a Private Data Excel Sheet (PDES). This spreadsheet will be kept in a Box Health Data Folder (BHDF) only available to the study investigators (Daniel Robinson, Jessica Pop, and Brian Baranyi) using a secure password containing at least: one uppercase letter, one lower case letter, one number, one symbol, and at least 8 characters.

- Functional changes with PT will be tracked for both groups using a Patient Specific Functional Scale (PSFS) questionnaire at initial evaluation, follow up at session 3 or 4 (evaluation not counting as a session), and at any date of anticipated discharge.

The PSFS being utilized has been altered slightly from its original form for the purpose of clarifying to patients that 10 is a high functional performance skill. This is being done due to subjective reports from clinicians that patients commonly misread the questionnaire selecting 10 as a score of low function based on pain being the common question they receive. The changes made do not involve adding any new words or content changes that would be expected to alter nature of answers.

• If questions arise regarding the content of the SEV then the treating physical therapist will be permitted to answer and apply the content at their discretion. All therapists will have pre-approved the content of the video to ensure there are no contradictions to their usual methods of care. Data will be gathered for up to 3 months.