Back School Efficacy on Low Back Pain and Quality of Life of Workers. COPCORD STUDY (Stage II)

NCT00596076 | Completed Phase 3 DMC

• 1 other identifier: 85-04-41-4972
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 30
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The study is an intervention, Phase II COPCORD study. (COPCORD= Community Oriented Program to Control Rheumatic Diseases). The purpose of this study is to find if Back School training has any benefit on low back pain of the workers in a pharmaceutical factory in Tehran suburbs.

Conditions

Low Back Pain

Keywords

Low back pain

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• 1- Comparison of quality of life in patients with low back pain before and after Back school training. 2- Comparison of low back pain based on a visual analogue scale before and after back school training.

  6 months

Study Arms (1)

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EXPERIMENTAL

Workers with low back pain

Behavioral: Back School

Interventions

Back School BEHAVIORAL

All the workers undergo a clinical examination for low back pain, by two trained practitioner. Those workers who are diagnosed for mechanical low back pain during the last six months fulfill a self report Quality of Life Questionnaire (SF36). The objective level of low back pain will obtain by a visual analogue scale. Then a back school training course will be held in 6 sessions, in 6 consecutive weeks. Two previously trained physiotherapists are responsible for the training course. Each series will have 10 participants. They will learn vertebral column anatomy and its function at the first session. The proper posture and exercises to reduce or inhibit low back pain are taught in the next 4 sessions. The 6th session is arranged for answering questions and checking how exercises are performed. A visual analogue scale and quality of life assessment will be held at the end of the last session and the end of the sixth month.

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Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 55 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• History of mechanical low back pain in the last six months

You may not qualify if:

• History of inflammatory spinal diseases
• Severe scoliosis
• History of spinal surgery
• History of spinal malignancy

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Tehran University of Medical Sciences: lead

Study Sites (1)

Rheumatology Research Center

Tehran, Tehran Province, 14114, Iran

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Low Back Pain

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Back Pain; Pain; Neurologic Manifestations; Signs and Symptoms; Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms

Study Officials

• Fereydoun Davatchi, MD

  Rheumatology Research Center, Medical Sciences/University of Tehran

  STUDY CHAIR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: phase 3
• Allocation: NON RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: OTHER

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: January 5, 2008
• First Posted: January 16, 2008
• Study Start: February 1, 2008
• Primary Completion: March 1, 2008
• Study Completion: September 1, 2008
• Last Updated: August 16, 2010

Record last verified: 2010-08

Locations

IR (1)