Low Back Pain Among Care-seeking Families in General Practice

NCT ID: NCT04148144

Last Updated: 2022-07-14

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Total Enrollment

13 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2019-10-18

Study Completion Date

2021-08-20

Brief Summary

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Background Low back pain (LBP) is the largest cause of years lived with disability worldwide and often associated with low quality of life, inability to work and low physical activity levels. In Danish general practice, LBP accounts for nearly 10% of all yearly consultations, making it the number one reason for consulting a general practitioner in Denmark. An increase in care-seeking children and adolescents with LBP in general practice is seen in the pre-teen-age-years.

At present, no study has investigated on the natural prognosis of LBP among care-seeking adolescents in general practice. Furthermore, the potential impact of patient and parent-related factors on prognosis remains unknown. The aims of the study are to 1) investigate the natural prognosis of LBP and 2) identify patient and parent-related factors which my influence prognosis.

Methods Adolescents aged 8 to 19 years consulting their general practitioner due to LBP will be invited to participate in this prospective cohort study. One parent of each patient will be invited to be a part of the parallel cohort. Online questionnaires will be used to collect data on patient characterises, pain intensity, pain frequency, medication, health-related quality of life, physical activity and illness perception at baseline and at the one-year follow-up. Data on pain intensity and parent-related worries will be collected through biweekly text messages. LBP will be assessed by latent class analysis.

Discussion This study will be the first to uncover the natural prognosis of LBP within a young, care-seeking population in general practice and to investigate if factors related to the patient or parents influence prognosis.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Low Back Pain

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

COHORT

Study Time Perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

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Adolescents with low back pain

Adolescents aged 8-19 with low back pain.

No intervention included

Intervention Type OTHER

No intervention included

Parents of included adolescents

Parents recruited for the parallel cohort, are required to be a parent or a legal guardian of the included adolescent. Siblings, grandparents or a similar person are not eligible for inclusion in the parallel cohort.

No intervention included

Intervention Type OTHER

No intervention included

Interventions

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No intervention included

No intervention included

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

For adolescents in the primary cohort:

* age between 8 and 19
* experiencing low back pain

For parents in the parallel cohort:

\- parent or legal guardian of included adolescents

Exclusion Criteria

\- not providing informed consent.
Minimum Eligible Age

8 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

19 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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University College of Northern Denmark

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Aalborg University

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Christian Lund Straszek

Principal Investigator

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

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Center for General Practice at Aalborg University

Aalborg, Northern Jutland, Denmark

Site Status

Countries

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Denmark

Other Identifiers

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The YoungBack Project

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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