Biopsychosocial Education and Chronic Low Back Pain

Tehran University of Medical Sciences

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Chronic Low Back Pain

Treatments: Behavioral: back school

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00600197

86-03-41-5465

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to examine whether the biopsychosocial educational program could improve patients' health-related quality of life at 3-6-12-18-24-30 and 36 - month follow up.

Full description

Little information exists on biopsychosocial educational program as a multidimensional and interdisciplinary program in which Quality Of Life is as an outcome measure. Thus this educational Program designed in this study is a an outpatient program that used a health education approach to empower participants through a process of assessment, education and skill building in three dimensions of physical,mental and social that leading to improved quality of life. The purpose of this study was to examine to what extent this educational Program could improve low back pain patients' HRQOL.

Enrollment: 170 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 70 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Low Back Pain lasting more than 12 weeks with or without pain radiating to the legs.
• age 18-70 years.

Exclusion criteria

• Osteoporosis
• Newly operation on the back up to 2 years before the beginning of the study
• Fresh vertebral fracture
• Malignancy
• Infection in the back
• spondylolisthesis
• Problem in understanding Farsi Language

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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170 participants in 2 patient groups

Back school

Experimental group

Description:

a kind of educational program for low back pain

Treatment:

Behavioral: back school

back school

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: back school