Back Pain Clinical Trial
Official title:
Blinding Assessment of Manual Therapy Interventions of the Back in Swiss Graduate Students: a Blinding Feasibility Randomized Controlled Trial
Verified date | April 2023 |
Source | Balgrist University Hospital |
Contact | n/a |
Is FDA regulated | No |
Health authority | |
Study type | Interventional |
There is marked uncertainty regarding the feasibility of achieving adequate blinding in randomized controlled trials of manual therapy. In other words, whether participants and outcome assessors can accurately perceive randomly assigned interventions is unclear. This feasibility trial was conducted as part of a doctoral epidemiology course at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Within the practice-based context of the class and using a study population of healthy graduate students enrolled in the course, the investigators aimed to evaluate blinding of participants randomly assigned (similar to tossing a coin) to one of two manual therapy interventions (active versus control). The investigators also aimed to assess blinding among outcome assessors.
Status | Completed |
Enrollment | 24 |
Est. completion date | November 8, 2022 |
Est. primary completion date | November 8, 2022 |
Accepts healthy volunteers | Accepts Healthy Volunteers |
Gender | All |
Age group | 18 Years and older |
Eligibility | Inclusion Criteria: - 18 years of age or older - enrolled in a doctoral-level epidemiology course at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Exclusion Criteria: - serious pathology (i.e., cancer, severe scoliosis, inflammatory disease, infection, cauda equina syndrome or progressive motor deficit) - history of spine surgery - obvious contraindication to manual therapy (i.e., spinal fracture) |
Country | Name | City | State |
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Switzerland | University of Zurich | Zürich | Zurich |
Lead Sponsor | Collaborator |
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Cesar A Hincapié, DC PhD | Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute, University of Zurich |
Switzerland,
Type | Measure | Description | Time frame | Safety issue |
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Other | Back function - self-reported flexibility, immediately before the one-time intervention session. | Participants answered the question, "How would you rate your back flexibility at the moment?" (adapted from The International Fitness Scale [IFIS]). Possible answers (5-point scale) include "Very poor," "Poor," "Average," "Good," and "Very good." | Immediately before the one-time intervention session (study day 1). | |
Other | Back function - self-reported flexibility, immediately after the one-time intervention session. | Participants answered the question, "How would you rate your back flexibility at the moment?" (adapted from The International Fitness Scale [IFIS]). Possible answers (5-point scale) include "Very poor," "Poor," "Average," "Good," and "Very good." | Immediately after the one-time intervention session (study day 1). | |
Other | Back function - self-reported ache, pain, discomfort in the upper back, immediately before the one-time intervention session. | Ache, pain, discomfort in the upper back by asking, "During the past week, have you experienced ache, pain, discomfort in your upper back?". If answered "Yes," participants were asked to rate the degree of discomfort: "How uncomfortable do you feel with the ache, pain, or discomfort in your upper back?". These two questions were adapted from the Cornell Musculoskeletal Discomfort Questionnaire. | Immediately before the one-time intervention session (study day 1). | |
Other | Back function - self-reported ache, pain, discomfort in the upper back, immediately after the one-time intervention session. | Ache, pain, discomfort in the upper back by asking, "During the past week, have you experienced ache, pain, discomfort in your upper back?". If answered "Yes," participants were asked to rate the degree of discomfort: "How uncomfortable do you feel with the ache, pain, or discomfort in your upper back?". These two questions were adapted from the Cornell Musculoskeletal Discomfort Questionnaire. | Immediately after the one-time intervention session (study day 1). | |
Other | Back function - self-reported ache, pain, discomfort in the lower back, immediately before the one-time intervention session. | Ache, pain, discomfort in the lower back by asking, "During the past week, have you experienced ache, pain, discomfort in your lower back?". If answered "Yes," participants were asked to rate the degree of discomfort: "How uncomfortable do you feel with the ache, pain, or discomfort in your lower back?". These two questions were adapted from the Cornell Musculoskeletal Discomfort Questionnaire. | Immediately before the one-time intervention session (study day 1). | |
Other | Back function - self-reported ache, pain, discomfort in the lower back, immediately after the one-time intervention session. | Ache, pain, discomfort in the lower back by asking, "During the past week, have you experienced ache, pain, discomfort in your lower back?". If answered "Yes," participants were asked to rate the degree of discomfort: "How uncomfortable do you feel with the ache, pain, or discomfort in your lower back?". These two questions were adapted from the Cornell Musculoskeletal Discomfort Questionnaire. | Immediately after the one-time intervention session (study day 1). | |
Other | Lumbar spine range of motion, immediately before the one-time intervention session. | Maximum active total flexion and extension (0 to 100+ degrees) in standing position, measured with a validated mobile phone measuring device placed at the level of T12. Higher scores represent higher flexibility. | Immediately before the one-time intervention session (study day 1). | |
Other | Lumbar spine range of motion, immediately after the one-time intervention session. | Maximum active total flexion and extension (0 to 100+ degrees) in standing position, measured with a validated mobile phone measuring device placed at the level of T12. Higher scores represent higher flexibility. | Immediately after the one-time intervention session (study day 1). | |
Other | Change in lumbar spine range of motion, difference between after and before intervention measurements. | Change in maximum active total flexion and extension (0 to 100+ degrees) in standing position, measured with a validated mobile phone measuring device placed at the level of T12. Higher scores represent higher flexibility. | Immediately before and after the one-time intervention session (study day 1). | |
Primary | Blinding feasibility of participants, measured by the Bang blinding index. | The Bang blinding index ranges from -1 to 1, with 0 representing satisfactory blinding. It can be interpreted as the proportion of participants correctly answering their allocated intervention within an intervention arm beyond chance. For the Bang BI, a score with an absolute value of =0.3 (i.e., -0.3 to 0.3) was deemed compatible with satisfactory blinding, although blinding scenarios (comparing blinding indices in active vs. control arms) were discussed.
Participants were asked: "To which extent do you know which intervention you received?" and were given five possible answers: "I strongly believe I received the active intervention", "I somewhat believe I received the active intervention", "I somewhat believe I received the control intervention", "I strongly believe I received the control intervention", and "I do not know [whether I received the active or control intervention]". |
Immediately after the one-time intervention session (study day 1). | |
Secondary | Blinding feasibility of participants, measured by the James blinding index. | The James blinding index ranges from 0 (all correct responses) to 1 (all 'don't know' responses), where 0.5 corresponds to 50% of responses being correct, and 50% incorrect. Lack of satisfactory blinding may be claimed if the two-sided confidence interval of the James blinding index does not cover 0.5.
Immediately after the intervention, participants rated their perception about received intervention on a five-point scale: "I strongly believe I received the active intervention", "I somewhat believe I received the active intervention", "I somewhat believe I received the control intervention", "I strongly believe I received the control intervention", and "I do not know [whether I received the active or control intervention]". |
Immediately after the one-time intervention session (study day 1). | |
Secondary | Blinding feasibility of outcome assessors, measured by the Bang blinding index. | The Bang blinding index ranges from -1 to 1, with 0 representing satisfactory blinding. It can be interpreted as the proportion of outcome assessors who correctly answered the allocated intervention of participants within an intervention arm beyond chance.
Outcome assessors were asked, "To which extent do you know which intervention (active intervention or control intervention) the patient received?" on a five-point scale: "I strongly believe that they received the active intervention," "I somewhat believe that they received the active intervention," "I somewhat believe that they received the control intervention," "I strongly believe that they received the control intervention," "I don't know [whether this participant received active or control intervention]." |
Immediately after the one-time intervention session (study day 1). | |
Secondary | Factors contributing to perceived intervention arm allocation among study participants. | Factors contributing to perceived intervention arm allocation among study participants were explored with an open-ended free text question: "Please briefly explain your answer regarding the question above [question above: "To which extent do you know which intervention you received?"]. | Immediately after the one-time intervention session (study day 1). | |
Secondary | Factors contributing to perceived intervention arm allocation among outcome assessors. | Factors contributing to perceived intervention arm allocation among outcome assessors were explored with an open-ended free text question: "Please briefly explain your answer regarding the question above [question above: "To which extent do you know which intervention (active intervention or control intervention) the patient received?"]. | Immediately after the one-time intervention session (study day 1). | |
Secondary | Blinding feasibility of outcome assessors, measured by the James blinding index. | The James blinding index ranges from 0 (all correct responses) to 1 (all 'don't know' responses), where 0.5 corresponds to 50% of responses being correct, and 50% incorrect. Lack of satisfactory blinding may be claimed if the two-sided confidence interval of the James blinding index does not cover 0.5.
Outcome assessors were asked, "To which extent do you know which intervention (active intervention or control intervention) the patient received?" on a five-point scale: "I strongly believe that they received the active intervention," "I somewhat believe that they received the active intervention," "I somewhat believe that they received the control intervention," "I strongly believe that they received the control intervention," "I don't know [whether this participant received active or control intervention]." |
Immediately after the one-time intervention session (study day 1). |
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