Effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioral Treatment and Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) for Chronic Low Back Pain

Kovacs Foundation

Status and phase

Completed

Phase 2

Conditions

Chronic Low Back Pain

Treatments

Behavioral: Cognitive Behavioral Treatment

Behavioral: Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT00360802

FK-FIS-22

Details and patient eligibility

About

The primary purpose of this study is to determine the effectiveness of two psychological techniques in chronic low back pain patients treated in hospital pain clinics. The techniques are: cognitive behavioral treatment and mindfulness based stress reduction (MBSR). This is a multiple site project in which patients come from 16 different pain clinics throughout Spain. The control group is formed by patients under usual medical treatment at pain clinics. The two intervention groups also receive usual medical treatment at pain clinics plus one psychological therapy treatment. The sample size is 330 subjects.

Enrollment

330 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 70 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Chronic low back pain and failed back surgery patients
With or without referred or radiated pain
Who are between 18 and 70 years of age (inclusive)

Exclusion criteria

Patients with red flags for systemic disease or criteria for surgery
With intolerable intensity of pain despite 6 weeks or more of non-surgical treatment
With pain that appears only on walking and disappears with sitting, persists after 6 months of conservative treatment, and is a possible spinal stenosis
Under psychological or psychiatric treatment
Unable to fill out the questionnaires
Have received cognitive behavioral treatment in the past
Have ongoing work litigation or are in the process of obtaining permanent disability.