Association Between Low Back Pain and Quality of Sleep

Kovacs Foundation

Status: Completed

Conditions: Disability; Quality of Sleep; Depression; Catastrophizing; Subacute or Chronic Low Back Pain

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00906152

FK-29

Details and patient eligibility

About

A prospective study to assess the association between the change in quality of sleep and the change in intensity of pain in Spanish patients seen for subacute or chronic low back pain. The objective is to determine the prevalence of sleep alterations, the association between quality of sleep and intensity of pain, degree of disability, intensity of catastrophizing and depression.

Enrollment: 437 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patients with non-specific low back pain of more than 14 days duration
• seen in health centers participating in the study
• who accept to participate and sign the consent form
• without age limits and regardless of gender

Exclusion criteria

• inability to complete the questionnaires (illiteracy, dementia)
• inflammatory rheumatologic disease, fibromyalgia, cancer in last 5 years

Trial design

437 participants in 1 patient group

Subacute low back pain; chronic low back pain

Description:

Patients with subacute or chronic low back pain seen in the Primary Care Centers participating in the study.