Effectiveness of Basic Body Awareness Therapy (BBAT) in Patients Suffering From Fibromyalgia

Cristina Bravo

Status: Completed

Conditions: Fibromyalgia

Treatments: Other: Basic Body Awareness Therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02830295

University of Lleida

Details and patient eligibility

About

A randomized trial of Basic Body Awareness Therapy (BBAT) is applied in fibromyalgia patients as compared with a control intervention consisting of treatment as an usual. Sessions of BBAT lasted 90 minutes each and took place twice a week for 5 weeks. The primary end point is a change in the Visual Analog Scale score and Body Awareness Rating Scale and the secondary end points include Hospital Anxiety Depression, State Trait Anxiety Inventory, Beck Depression Inventory and Short Form 36. All assessments will be repeated at post treatment, 12 weeks and 24 weeks

Full description

This work is a clinical trial of randomised and controlled groups. The hypothesis of study is that Basic Body Awareness Therapy applied in patients with fibromyalgia improves, more than usual treatment, the pain, normalization of postural pattern and movement, improve in psychologic state and improve of quality life.

The study population will be selected followed the inclusion criteria of fibromyalgia, and will be selected in area of primary health center, the patients will be divided in 2 groups, control group and treatment group. The groups will be examined at the begin, at 1 month of the begin of treatment, in 3 months, 6 months and one year to evaluated the outcomes in long time.

The dependence measurements will be Visual Analog Scale, Basic Body Awareness Rating Scale (BARS), SF-36, STAI A/R, BDI-II. The independence measurements will be demographic items: sex, age, country, level of studies, social status,..

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patients diagnosed of fibromyalgia according the American college of Rheumatology with 6 months at least
• the patients have to stay in different position as lying, sitting and standing

Exclusion criteria

• pregnancy
• suffering from another diseases that increase the pain or another specific diagnosis as rheumatic, heart disease and infectious disease

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

Basic Body Awareness Therapy

Experimental group

Description:

The Basic Body Awareness Therapy is usual therapy of physiotherapy in health mental in nord of europe. BBAT is based in twelve movements and massage that improve the movement quality of patient, also BBAT improves others movement qualities like biomechanical, physiologic, socio-cultural and existential.

Treatment:

Other: Basic Body Awareness Therapy

control

No Intervention group

Description:

the patients which below receive the treatment as usual, according the clinic guidelines of Health government