Internet App to Self-Manage Occasional Low Back Pain (BackPain2)

Oregon Center for Applied Science

Status: Completed

Conditions: Low Back Pain

Treatments: Behavioral: FitBack on-line intervention; Other: Alternative Website Control

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Industry; NIH

Identifiers

NCT01950091

R44AR054652 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Back Pain II Study

Details and patient eligibility

About

Nonspecific low back pain (NLBP) is the diagnosis for 85% of low back pain sufferers with no underlying medical cause (e.g., herniated disc, spinal stenosis) that requires physician care. Treatment, however, is impractical for many physicians to implement during office visits, and there are relatively few providers for NLBP treatment that follow national pain control guidelines. This study evaluated the efficacy of an on-line intervention using desktop computers or mobile technology to help users self treat NLBP occurrences and to engage in activities to decrease future occurences.

Full description

Methods. A total of 606 adults, 18 years of age and older were recruited, screened, and consented online. They were assessed on-line at baseline, at two months weeks, and at four months After the baseline assessments, participants were randomized into NLBP treatment (TX), alternative website control (AWC), and no-contact control groups. The TX and AWC groups received 8 weekly emails prompt to visit their respective experimental websites.

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Enrollment: 606 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• suffered low back pain in previous 3 months
• employed or family of employee

Exclusion criteria

• on-going medical care for low back pain
• positive response to questions about symptoms which medically disqualify potential participant

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Factorial Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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606 participants in 3 patient groups

FitBack on-line intervention

Experimental group

Description:

On-line Fitback intervention: Self care for on-going pain; behaviors to lessen the chance of reoccurrence

Treatment:

Behavioral: FitBack on-line intervention

Alternative website control

Active Comparator group

Description:

Intervention is a Menu of links to 4 popular Websites offering back pain education

Treatment:

Other: Alternative Website Control

Usual care control group

No Intervention group

Description:

No contact; Control group