Treatment Preferences in Patients With Low Back Pain

Pamukkale University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Low Back Pain

Treatments: Other: Assesment of treatment preference

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04876105

24.11.2020/24

Details and patient eligibility

About

Together with the guidance of health professionals try to obtain information from media, popular magazines and books and the internet regarding diseases and treatment methods in patients with low back pain with the development of technology. In parallel with this information which they obtained, they turn to different treatment methods. This study was carried on examining how pain duration affects treatment preferences in patients with low back pain.

Enrollment: 155 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Individuals between the ages of 18-65 with complaints of low back pain and no communication problems were included in the study.

Exclusion criteria

• Individuals with any systemic, neurological and / or orthopedic disease diagnosed other than complaint of low back pain were excluded from the study.

Trial design

155 participants in 2 patient groups

Acute-subacute group

Description:

According to the duration of low back pain, it is classified as acute pain if it lasts less than a month, subacute pain if it lasts for 1-3 months.

Treatment:

Other: Assesment of treatment preference

Chronic group

Description:

According to the duration of low back pain, it is classified as chronic pain if it lasts for more than 3 months.

Treatment:

Other: Assesment of treatment preference