Back School Efficacy on Low Back Pain and Quality of Life of Workers. COPCORD STUDY (Stage II)

NCT ID: NCT00596076

Last Updated: 2010-08-16

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

PHASE3

Total Enrollment

30 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2008-02-29

Study Completion Date

2008-09-30

Brief Summary

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The study is an intervention, Phase II COPCORD study. (COPCORD= Community Oriented Program to Control Rheumatic Diseases). The purpose of this study is to find if Back School training has any benefit on low back pain of the workers in a pharmaceutical factory in Tehran suburbs.

Detailed Description

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A back school will be held on at the Modava Pharmaceutical Factory, in Tehran suburbs. We estimate that this prospective study will include almost one third of the 70 workers in the factory. The study provides objective data and subjective information from patients. The clinical benefits of back school on low back pain and quality of life will be reported at the beginning and the end of intervention and after a period of 6 months follow up.

Conditions

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Low Back Pain

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NON_RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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1

Workers with low back pain

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Back School

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

All the workers undergo a clinical examination for low back pain, by two trained practitioner. Those workers who are diagnosed for mechanical low back pain during the last six months fulfill a self report Quality of Life Questionnaire (SF36). The objective level of low back pain will obtain by a visual analogue scale. Then a back school training course will be held in 6 sessions, in 6 consecutive weeks. Two previously trained physiotherapists are responsible for the training course. Each series will have 10 participants. They will learn vertebral column anatomy and its function at the first session. The proper posture and exercises to reduce or inhibit low back pain are taught in the next 4 sessions. The 6th session is arranged for answering questions and checking how exercises are performed.

A visual analogue scale and quality of life assessment will be held at the end of the last session and the end of the sixth month.

Interventions

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Back School

All the workers undergo a clinical examination for low back pain, by two trained practitioner. Those workers who are diagnosed for mechanical low back pain during the last six months fulfill a self report Quality of Life Questionnaire (SF36). The objective level of low back pain will obtain by a visual analogue scale. Then a back school training course will be held in 6 sessions, in 6 consecutive weeks. Two previously trained physiotherapists are responsible for the training course. Each series will have 10 participants. They will learn vertebral column anatomy and its function at the first session. The proper posture and exercises to reduce or inhibit low back pain are taught in the next 4 sessions. The 6th session is arranged for answering questions and checking how exercises are performed.

A visual analogue scale and quality of life assessment will be held at the end of the last session and the end of the sixth month.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* History of mechanical low back pain in the last six months

Exclusion Criteria

* History of inflammatory spinal diseases
* Severe scoliosis
* History of spinal surgery
* History of spinal malignancy
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

55 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Tehran University of Medical Sciences

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Rheumatology Research Center

Principal Investigators

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Fereydoun Davatchi, MD

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

Rheumatology Research Center, Medical Sciences/University of Tehran

Locations

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Rheumatology Research Center

Tehran, Tehran Province, Iran

Site Status

Countries

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Iran

Other Identifiers

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85-04-41-4972

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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