Effects of Patient Education Manual in Patient With Chronic Low Back Pain
NCT ID: NCT04600843
Last Updated: 2020-10-28
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Basic Information
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COMPLETED
NA
24 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2019-12-30
2020-09-30
Brief Summary
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Detailed Description
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This study was conducted by developing a patient education manual given to patients along with routine physical therapy. The study findings showed that the patients with combination of patient education manual and routine physical therapy improved their disability level significantly more than the patients in control group receiving routine physical therapy alone. However, there was no significant difference in improvement of pain itself and spinal ranges of lumbar region except lumbar flexion which was improved significantly among patient education manual group. When the analysis was performed for within group pre and post interventional difference in both groups separately, it was seen that patient improved in both groups significantly at all stages of measurements such as 2nd, 3rd and 6th week, p value less than 0.05.
Looking closer, it was seen that pain was improving similarly in both groups, p value more than 0.05. However, it was slightly better in Group A, having combination of patient education manual and routine physical therapy, with a slight mean difference i.e. -.33333 at 2nd and 4th week and -.41667 at 6th week post intervention. In past studies pain has been reported to be significantly better with patient education groups.
The disability was measured by Oswestry Disability Index for back pain. It was seen that patients having patient education manual significantly improved at all assessment stages i.e. at 2nd, 4th and 6th week, p value less than 0.05. This was the only outcome in this study showing a significantly better effect of patient education manual with straight and clear findings. The mean difference was of 4.25000 at 2nd week, while peak mean difference of 8.83333 points was seen at 4th week which declined to 4.83333 at 6th week but it was still significantly better as compared to routine physical therapy group. It also indicated the gradually fading off difference in long term assessment. In previous studies functional has always been found to improve with patient education. This might due to nature of this outcome which is based on patients' experience and perception, which means due to patient education or information material, it is possible that it has uplifted moral of patients and ultimately, they feel better in all aspects of function. Whatsoever the reason, disability can be greatly improved by use of patient education method in patient with low back pain.
The spinal ranges was the special outcome measure in current study that has been addressed the least in previous literature. It was seen that except lumbar flexion, all ranges were improving without any significant difference, even the improvement in lumbar flexion became same at 6th week assessment. Moreover, there was no consistency in mean difference of ranges, some ranges improved slightly better at one stage of assessment while the same ranges were slightly less improved at other stage, but overall there was no significant difference.
A study had discussed effect of patient education on ranges in terms of its long-term impact and recurrence of hypomobility in spinal region. The study has multiple outcome measures such as pain, disability, ranges and quality of life. The study suggested that all in short term patient education played a significantly better role in improving pain, function and life quality but ranges were no different. Furthermore, all ranges were not measured due to their consistently being similar.
It can be said that all outcomes in which were clinician-based has no difference of improvement in patient education manual group or that of control group while the outcome which were based on patient's perception were improved more among patient education manual group. This pattern can be seen in satisfaction with manual therapy. Although, satisfaction was not associated with treatment group as shown by non-significant p value of chi square more than 0.05, but it can be seen that patients with patient education manual reported themselves to be 'very satisfied' category while in control group the majority patients reported themselves in 'satisfied' category. This showed that all patients were satisfied with care provided for treatment of backpain but providing a patient education manual can further boost their satisfaction which is then reflected in their function.
In short, the outcomes such as function were improved with combination of patient education manual and routine physical therapy while the pain and ranges were no different with or without patient education manual. There needs further studies with more sample size and long term assessment in order see long term impact of patient education manual.
Conditions
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Study Design
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RANDOMIZED
PARALLEL
TREATMENT
NONE
Study Groups
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Physical therapy with Patient education
Treated with proper physical therapy treatment protocol according to patient presenting condition and patient education manual
Physical therapy with Patient education
patient manual was translated and validated in Urdu which was provided to patients so that they can follow it at home
Physical Therapy without patient Education
Treated with proper physical therapy treatment protocol according to patient presenting condition
Physical Therapy without patient Education
Group B was only treated with proper physical therapy treatment protocol according to patient presenting condition
Interventions
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Physical therapy with Patient education
patient manual was translated and validated in Urdu which was provided to patients so that they can follow it at home
Physical Therapy without patient Education
Group B was only treated with proper physical therapy treatment protocol according to patient presenting condition
Other Intervention Names
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
* localized low back pain
Exclusion Criteria
* Ankylosing spondylitis
* spinal stenosis
* Fibromyalgia
* 0steoprosis
* Cognitive impairment
* Traumatic injury
20 Years
50 Years
ALL
No
Sponsors
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Riphah International University
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Principal Investigators
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Syed Shakil Ur-Rehman, PhD
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
Riphah International University
Locations
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Salamat Hospital,Satellite Town
Chak One Hundred Seventy-five Nine Left, Punjab Province, Pakistan
Countries
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References
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Other Identifiers
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REC/RCRS/20/1003 Mubashra
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id