Why do People With Low Back Pain Fear and Avoid Lifting?

Hasselt University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Low Back Pain

Treatments: Other: Cross-sectional self-report (questionnaires)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05192187

ThomasMatheve-2021-3

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators' main focus of this trial will be to investigate

• why people with low back pain perceive lifting (with a bent back) as harmful.
• whether general measures of pain-related fear are associated with task-specific measures of perceived harmfulness
• why people with low back pain avoid lifting (with a bent back) This will be investigated using self-report (i.e., questionnaires)

Enrollment: 325 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 100 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• low back pain >3 months

Exclusion criteria

• healthy persons
• low back pain <3 months

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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325 participants in 1 patient group

LBP

Experimental group

Description:

This group will be asked to complete self-reported questionnaires on a single occasion (cross-sectional)

Treatment:

Other: Cross-sectional self-report (questionnaires)