The Effect of Two Short Education Programs for Nonspecific Low Back Pain in a Workers' Health Care Organization

Kovacs Foundation

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Low Back Pain

Treatments: Behavioral: General health education; Behavioral: Classic back pain prevention education, and cognitive behavioral management.

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00665821

FK-S-24

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to assess the effect of two different types of health education programs on the disability, beliefs related to low back pain and duration of sick leave in patients seen at a workers' health care organization

Enrollment: 657 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• low back pain patients, with or without referred or radiated pain
• no systemic disease or criteria for referral to surgery

Exclusion criteria

• inability to fill out the questionnaires and scales
• bedridden
• rheumatologic inflammatory disease, cancer or fibromyalgia
• suspicion of fibromyalgia
• spinal fracture

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind