Age Bias on Biopsychosocial Factors in Persons With Non-specific Low Back Pain.

Riphah International University

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Low Back Pain

Treatments: Other: Symptom Modulation Approach, Movement Control Approach, Functional Optimization Approach

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05111782

REC/1116 Aamer Naeem

Details and patient eligibility

About

Low back pain is a debilitating condition experienced by people of all age groups. This study will be completed in two stages in which back pain assessment tools will be first translated to Urdu language and later on age-related bias on biopsychosocial factors will be assessed using various biopsychosocial tools over a period of six months.

Full description

Low back pain (LBP) is an extremely common symptom experienced by people of all ages. The current incidence, prevalence and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) account for 245.9 million cases/year (15th worldwide cause; 32.4% cases associated with leg pain), 577.0 million cases (15th worldwide cause) and 64.9 million DALYs (6th worldwide cause), respectively. In recent decades, the biopsychosocial model has been applied as a framework for understanding the complexity of low back pain disability in preference to a purely biomedical approach. Considering the large population of patients with LBP and limited medical resources, the development of brief and efficient prognostic clinical tools for use in routine practice is particularly significant. Recent data from epidemiological studies suggest that LBP could affect the physical function of young and older individuals differently. The age-related differ¬ences in the prevalence of some low back pathologies may explain the differential treatment outcomes. The aim of the study is to explore the age bias on biopsychosocial factors in persons with non-specific low back pain.

Enrollment: 280 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 60 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Both male & Female patients
2. Age group 20-60 Years
3. Diagnosed with nonspecific low back pain for more than 3 months (i.e., pain localized below the costal margin and above the inferior gluteal folds with or without referred leg pain of a nociceptive mechanical nature, not attributable to a recognizable, known specific spinal pathology, for a period of at least twelve weeks)

Exclusion criteria

Any serious conditions like neurological conditions which would not allow the patient to fill the questionnaire independently, any infection, tumor, spinal surgery, cognitive impairments, or any other rheumatologic disease would be excluded.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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280 participants in 2 patient groups

Treatment Group

Experimental group

Description:

The treatment group will consist of persons with low back pain. This group will be further divided into groups for each decade.

Treatment:

Other: Symptom Modulation Approach, Movement Control Approach, Functional Optimization Approach

Healthy Control Group

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group will consist of healthy controls. This group will be further divided into groups for each decade.