Validation in French Language of the Questionnaire EARS

University Hospital, Clermont-Ferrand

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chronic Low Back Pain

Treatments: Other: Exercise Adherence Rating Scale (EARS)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03963440

RNI 2018 COUDEYRE

2018-A00616-49 (Other Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The main objective of this work is to validate in French the questionnaire EARS, adapted to chronic low back pain.

Physical exercise is often recognized as necessary for primary and secondary prevention and treatment of chronic diseases. This is particularly true of chronic low back pain. It is therefore of paramount importance that compliance with such treatment be assessed to allow for readjustments, as well as drug treatment. No gold standard6-7 measured patient adherence to exercise programs until the creation of the EARS in 2016 by E.Godfrey and his team (Exercise Adherence Rating Scale, literally "joining physical exercise programs")

EARS is a reliable and validated psychometric assessment questionnaire that assesses adherence to prescribed physical exercise in chronic low back pain.

Full description

Self-management of the patient to perform these exercises involves good collaboration with the care prescriber, leaving patients to manage and monitor their health. Long-term adherence to care programs, including physical exercise, is paramount for these patients in order to maintain a beneficial long-term effect, which is the case in non-specific chronic low back pain. However, evidence shows that compliance levels following a physical exercise prescription are low, limiting the benefits this could bring.

Currently, EARS is validated for chronic low back pain in its English version. To our knowledge and to the knowledge of the questionnaire's author, E.Godfrey, there are no other studies that have examined the validation of EARS in the French language for chronic low back pain.

Patients will be asked to complete a series of questionnaires after completing the non-opposition form. The management of non-specific chronic low back pain also requires evaluation through questionnaires, in accordance with the usual practices of the services participating in the study. No intervention will be taken.

Enrollment: 120 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Both sexes
• Adult (>18 years old)
• Chronic Low Back Pain evolving for at least 3 months
• Acceptance to participate in the study
• Patients affiliated to a social security scheme (beneficiary entitled)

Exclusion criteria

• Patient under guardianship, or protection of justice.
• Patient in the incapacity to answer the questionnaire.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Screening

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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120 participants in 1 patient group

Cohorte 1

Experimental group

Description:

Inclusion and first questionnaires period (10 questionnaires), after geting consent, during normal patient consultation schedule for functional restoration program of the lumbar spine (1 to 3 weeks hospital in day care). Second questionnaire period at 48h (Only EARS questionnaire) Third questionnaires period (10 questionnaires) at the end of the restoration program hospital care. Fourth and last questionnaires period (10 questionnaires) at 3 months during a normal patient follow-up consultation No additional appointments.

Treatment:

Other: Exercise Adherence Rating Scale (EARS)