The Effect of Workplace Interventions on the Treatment of Low-back Pain

Finnish Institute of Occupational Health

Status: Completed

Conditions: Back Pain

Treatments: Other: Workplace intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03481426

ESormunen

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study evaluates the effect of workplace interventions on work ability promotion among workers with back problems. The half of participant will receive Information, advice and guidance for back problems in addition to participatory workplace actions organized by Occupational Health Physiotherapist. The other half will receive only Information, advice and guidance without workplace intervention.

Full description

Musculoskeletal symptoms, especially back pain, account for the majority of days lost.

In order to enhance the health and working careers of people with MSD, it is important that work can be arranged in such a way that they can remain in work life despite MSD.In the field of work ability promotion, various stakeholders; the worker, employer, professionals in occupational health services (OHS) interact to optimize actions and practices to prevent absences from work and promote remaining at work. This study aims to investigate participatory working practices and modles of co-operation among OHS and workplaces.

Enrollment: 107 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Back pain for at least two weeks or frequently occuring periods within the past 12 months

Exclusion criteria

• Back problems with forcoming surcical operation

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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107 participants in 2 patient groups

Workplace intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

Workers with back problems receive both information/advice and participatory workplace intervention organized by Occupational Health Physioterapist.

Treatment:

Other: Workplace intervention

Information and advice group

No Intervention group

Description:

Workers with back problems receive only information / advice by Occupational Health Physiotherapist, not the workplace intervention.