The Effect of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy on the Outcome of Spinal Surgery

Clalit Health Services

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Back Pain

Treatments: Behavioral: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02237105

MMC14276-13CTIL

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is designed to examine the efficacy of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) on the outcome of spinal surgery.

The goal of this treatment is to change the coping style, thoughts, behavior and adaptive perception of the patient, and to replace them with an adaptive style.

The patients in this study will be randomly divided into two groups. One group will undergo Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) before having spinal surgery. The other group will be a control group, and will not have any psychological intervention.

Enrollment: 20 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patients who intended to undergo spinal surgery

Exclusion criteria

• patients who does not speak Hebrew language

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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20 participants in 2 patient groups

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Group

Experimental group

Description:

This group will undergo Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) before having spinal surgery

Treatment:

Behavioral: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

control group

No Intervention group

Description:

This group will not undergo any psychological intervention before the spinal surgery.