The Effect of Two Short Education Programs for Nonspecific Low Back Pain in a Workers' Health Care Organization

NCT ID: NCT00665821

Last Updated: 2019-08-28

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

TERMINATED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

657 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2008-09-30

Study Completion Date

2011-02-28

Brief Summary

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The purpose of this study is to assess the effect of two different types of health education programs on the disability, beliefs related to low back pain and duration of sick leave in patients seen at a workers' health care organization

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Low Back Pain

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

OTHER

Blinding Strategy

DOUBLE

Participants Outcome Assessors

Interventions

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Classic back pain prevention education, and cognitive behavioral management.

Classic education: postural hygiene, Back Guide. Cognitive behavioral management: active management, Back Book.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

General health education

General health education: a booklet describing general norms for maintaining good health

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* low back pain patients, with or without referred or radiated pain
* no systemic disease or criteria for referral to surgery

Exclusion Criteria

* inability to fill out the questionnaires and scales
* bedridden
* rheumatologic inflammatory disease, cancer or fibromyalgia
* suspicion of fibromyalgia
* spinal fracture
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

65 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Hospital Laboral SOLIMAT

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role collaborator

Kovacs Foundation

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Francisco M Kovacs, MD, PhD

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

Kovacs Foundation, Palma de Mallorca, 07012, Spain

Andrés Barriga, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Hospital Laboral Solimat, Toledo, Spain

Locations

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Kovacs Foundation

Palma de Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain

Site Status

Hospital Laboral SOLIMAT

Toledo, Castille-La Mancha, Spain

Site Status

Countries

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Spain

References

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Burton AK, Waddell G, Tillotson KM, Summerton N. Information and advice to patients with back pain can have a positive effect. A randomized controlled trial of a novel educational booklet in primary care. Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 1999 Dec 1;24(23):2484-91. doi: 10.1097/00007632-199912010-00010.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 10626311 (View on PubMed)

Frost H, Lamb SE, Doll HA, Carver PT, Stewart-Brown S. Randomised controlled trial of physiotherapy compared with advice for low back pain. BMJ. 2004 Sep 25;329(7468):708. doi: 10.1136/bmj.38216.868808.7C. Epub 2004 Sep 17.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 15377573 (View on PubMed)

Kovacs F, Abraira V, Santos S, Diaz E, Gestoso M, Muriel A, Gil del Real MT, Mufraggi N, Noguera J, Zamora J; Spanish Back Pain Research Network. A comparison of two short education programs for improving low back pain-related disability in the elderly: a cluster randomized controlled trial. Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2007 May 1;32(10):1053-9. doi: 10.1097/01.brs.0000261556.84266.0f.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 17471084 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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FK-S-24

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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