Educational Tools to Improve Beliefs About Pain and Reduce Pain-related Disability

NCT03301428 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: CLBP EDUC
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 300
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This trial aims at comparing the effectiveness of different didactic tools developed for patients with chronic pain to correct misbeliefs and improve disability in patients with chronic low back pain

Conditions

Beliefs; Disability Physical

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (2)

• Pain Beliefs Questionnaire

  Questionnaires to test patients' beliefs

  Change from baseline to the three-month follow-up

• Roland-Morris Disability Questionnaire

  Disability questionnaire

  Change from baseline to the three-month follow-up

Secondary Outcomes (3)

• Brief-Illness Perception Questionnaire

  Baseline, one month after receiving the tool, one-month follow-up and three-month follow-up

• Back-PAQ questionnaire

  Baseline, one month after receiving the tool, one-month follow-up and three-month follow-up

• Pain intensity

  Baseline, one month after receiving the tool, one-month follow-up and three-month follow-up

Study Arms (3)

Retrain pain educational website

EXPERIMENTAL

Participants will be invited to consult an educational website developped for patients with chronic pain

Other: Retrain pain educational website

Booklet

EXPERIMENTAL

Participants will be invited to read an educational booklet for patients with chronic pain

Other: Booklet

Control

NO INTERVENTION

Participants in this group will receive the 2 educational tools at the end of the study

Interventions

Retrain pain educational website OTHER

Patients in this group will be invited to consult an educational website developped for patients with chronic pain

Retrain pain educational website

Booklet OTHER

Patients in this group will be invited toread an educational booklet developped for patients with chronic pain

Booklet

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 65 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• individuals with non-specific persistent low back pain (pain \> 6 months) who had their pain assessed by their general practitioner or a specialist within the last 3 months

You may not qualify if:

• specific low back pain,
• educational treatment (back school, cognitive-behavioral, pain neurosciences education) in progress or planned during the study period
• previous consultation of the didactic tools investigated in the present study
• nerve root compromise,
• recent spinal surgery (\<3 months)
• not fluent in French
• no regular access to a computer and the internet
• present follow-up by a psychiatrist

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Liege: lead

Study Sites (1)

Liege University Hospital

Liège, Belgium

Location

Study Officials

• Christophe Demoulin

  Liege University Hospital

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Invited Professor

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: September 1, 2017
• First Posted: October 4, 2017
• Study Start: November 1, 2017
• Primary Completion: May 1, 2019
• Study Completion: February 1, 2020
• Last Updated: March 25, 2020

Record last verified: 2020-03

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

BE (1)