Workplace Exercise Intervention in Administrative Personnel to Reduce Spinal Pain

NCT05571124 | Unknown

• 1 other identifier: WEI
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 66
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The goal of this Clinical trial is to compare treatments in sedentary administrative personnel with back pain. The main question it aims to answer: The benefits of a workplace intervention with therapeutic exercise and pain education compared with only therapeutic exercise intervention Participants will perform active pauses in their workplace with a web-based program that consists of videos or images of exercises and pain education information. Researchers will compare a group Therapeutic exercise and pain education intervention with a group therapeutic exercise only to see if pain education plus exercise is a more beneficial intervention in reducing back pain in symptomatic administrative personnel.

Conditions

Back Pain; Sedentary Behavior

Keywords

Back Pain; Health Education; Therapeutic Exercise; Sedentary Behavior

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Reduction of Back Pain

  The primary outcome to be analysed is back pain using the Visual Analogue Scale, a subjective assessment scale of intensity from 0 to 10, with 0 being "no pain" and 10 being "the worst possible pain".

  Change from baseline back pain at six weeks

Secondary Outcomes (4)

• Back pain dysfunction

  Change from baseline back pain dysfunction at six weeks

• Health related quality of life

  Change from baseline quality of life at six weeks

• Motivation of performing therapeutic exercise

  Change from baseline motivation of performing therapeutic exercise at six weeks

• Adherence to therapeutic exercise

  Through study completion, an average of six weeks

Study Arms (2)

Therapeutic exercise

EXPERIMENTAL

It consists of implementing active breaks at the workstation through the use of the open source Learning Management System Sakai \[33\], It will be easy to use by the participants due to the platform is used by them in their daily work. Also, an administrative worker from the university will be involved in creating the modules where the content will be allocated to ensure that the navigation in the platform is user-friendly for them.musculoskeletal pathologies with sedentary lifestyles and maintained postures. The type of online application will depend on the results obtained in the qualitative phase, as we will adapt to the workers' preferences to facilitate accessibility to the content and make the experience as satisfactory as possible for them.

Behavioral: Therapeutic Exercise Intervention

No intervention

NO INTERVENTION

Participants of the control group will be on a waiting list, encouraging them to maintain the same as usual in their daily activities and working hours. Once the intervention is finished, they will have access to the platform with the same content as the intervention group.

Interventions

Therapeutic Exercise Intervention BEHAVIORAL

Participants will perform stretching and mobility exercises in short bouts of time.

Also known as: Workplace exercise intervention, Active Breaks

Therapeutic exercise

Eligibility Criteria

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

You may qualify if:

• More than 80% of the working day is in a seated position.
• Workers who have a computer or mobile device with an internet connection.
• Workers with more than three months of pain in the back area due to a non-specific cause.

You may not qualify if:

• Part-time workers.
• Pathologies that cause chronic pain.
• Radiculopathies or symptomatic disc herniations/protrusions.
• Inability to perform low-moderate intensity exercise.
• People who are active in their daily lives outside of work willing to report that they meet the minimum stipulated by the WHO (a minimum of 10,000 steps per day and 75-150 minutes of vigorous-moderate physical activity per week).
• Undergoing physiotherapy treatment through public health or a private company.
• Workers on sick leave or during pregnancy.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Universitat de Lleida: lead

Study Sites (1)

Universitat de Lleida

Lleida, Catalonia, 25008, Spain

RECRUITING

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MeSH Terms

Conditions

Back Pain; Sedentary Behavior; Health Education

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Pain; Neurologic Manifestations; Signs and Symptoms; Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms; Behavior; Adherence Interventions; Medication Adherence; Patient Compliance; Patient Acceptance of Health Care; Treatment Adherence and Compliance; Health Behavior

Study Officials

• Esther Rubinat Arnaldo, PhD

  Universitat de Lleida

  STUDY DIRECTOR

• Francesc Rubi Carnacea, PhD

  Universitat de Lleida

  STUDY DIRECTOR

Central Study Contacts

Carlos Tersa Miralles, PhD student

CONTACT

676201743; carles.tersa@udl.cat

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: DOUBLE
• Who Masked: INVESTIGATOR, OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Masking Details: To ensure that allocation is concealed, one of the researchers will randomly create the codes in opaque envelopes with the username and password for participants to log into the web platform. The evaluators will be blinded to the data collection as each participant will be assigned a code for identification. The participants will not be blinded as they are aware of the intervention they are carrying out.
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Tersa-Miralles C

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: September 30, 2022
• First Posted: October 7, 2022
• Study Start: October 1, 2023
• Primary Completion: May 30, 2024
• Study Completion: December 31, 2024
• Last Updated: December 5, 2023

Record last verified: 2023-11

Locations

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