Effectiveness of Ergonomic Training and Exercise in Automotive Factory Workers With Nonspecific Chronic Low Back Pain

NCT06864650 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: Uskudar25
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 56
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This study compares the effectiveness of ergonomic training and exercise in automotive factory workers with chronic low back pain of unknown cause.

Conditions

Work-related Illness

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (3)

• Oswestry Low Back Pain Disability Questionnaire

  It was developed to measure the functionality of individuals. The scale determines functional disability for activities such as sitting, walking, personal care, lifting, social life, travel, and sleep. There are 10 questions in this scale. Each question has 6 options. Participants are asked to choose the definition that best describes their situation from these options. A score of 0-5 is assigned for each of the sentences, and the highest possible score is 50 points. It is evaluated as mild between 1 and 10 points, moderate between 11 and 30 points, and severe between 31 and 50 points.

  14 weeks

• The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index

  Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index; It evaluates sleep duration, sleep disturbance, sleep efficiency, subjective sleep quality, sleep medication use, daytime dysfunction, and sleep delay and consists of a total of 24 questions. 19 of them are self-report scales and 5 of them consist of questions to be answered by a friend or spouse. There are 7 components with 18 questions scored in the scale, and each component is evaluated between 0 and 3 points. The total score ranges from 0 to 21, and 5 or more is an indicator of "poor sleep quality

  14 weeks

• Short form of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire

  It consists of 8 questions with a recall period defined as 'last week'. The questions of the scale ask whether the participant walks for at least 10 minutes on any given day or does moderate or vigorous activities, and how much time/day the individual spends on each of these activities.

  14 weeks

Study Arms (2)

Ergonomics training

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

group without any intervention

Other: Ergonomics training

Ergonomics training +exercise program

EXPERIMENTAL

The group that followed the 12-week exercise program

Other: Ergonomics training; Other: exercise program

Interventions

Ergonomics training OTHER

Each of the control group participants will receive separate ergonomics training. The content of this training will include the topics of "what is ergonomics, the purpose of ergonomics, musculoskeletal diseases in employees, work-related musculoskeletal risk factors."

Ergonomics training; Ergonomics training +exercise program

exercise program OTHER

stretching exercises strengthening exercises waist exercises core exercises relaxation exercises

Ergonomics training +exercise program

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 60 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• Being between 18-60 years old
• Having worked in the same factory for at least 2 years
• Working full time
• Having complained of back pain for at least 3 months
• visual analog scale\>4, pain 4 and above on visual analog scale

You may not qualify if:

• Being under 18 years old or over 60 years old
• Having worked for less than 2 years
• Working part time
• Having complained of back pain for less than 3 months
• visual analog scale Presence of psychological problems
• Using sleeping pills
• Having undergone surgical intervention in the last 6 months

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Uskudar University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Valeo Vision System

Galway, Ireland

Location

Related Publications (3)

• Stieglitz DD, Vinson DR, Hampton MC. Equipment-based Pilates reduces work-related chronic low back pain and disability: A pilot study. J Bodyw Mov Ther. 2016 Jan;20(1):74-82. doi: 10.1016/j.jbmt.2015.06.006. Epub 2015 Jun 15.

  PMID: 26891640 BACKGROUND

• Chenot JF, Greitemann B, Kladny B, Petzke F, Pfingsten M, Schorr SG. Non-Specific Low Back Pain. Dtsch Arztebl Int. 2017 Dec 25;114(51-52):883-890. doi: 10.3238/arztebl.2017.0883.

  PMID: 29321099 BACKGROUND

• Pehlevan E, Sevgin O. Effect of exercise given to factory workers with ergonomics training on pain and functionality: A randomized controlled trial. Work. 2024;78(1):195-205. doi: 10.3233/WOR-230663.

  PMID: 38701125 BACKGROUND

MeSH Terms

Interventions

Ergonomics; Resistance Training

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Engineering; Technology, Industry, and Agriculture; Exercise Therapy; Rehabilitation; Aftercare; Continuity of Patient Care; Patient Care; Therapeutics; Physical Therapy Modalities; Physical Conditioning, Human; Exercise; Motor Activity; Movement; Musculoskeletal Physiological Phenomena; Musculoskeletal and Neural Physiological Phenomena

Study Officials

• Kübra TOSYALI

  Uskudar University

  STUDY CHAIR

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: Asst. Prof. Dr.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: March 3, 2025
• First Posted: March 7, 2025
• Study Start: March 25, 2025
• Primary Completion: June 25, 2025
• Study Completion: August 10, 2025
• Last Updated: August 29, 2025

Record last verified: 2025-08

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

IE (1)