Low Back Pain and Depression: Cohort Study

Depression Clinical Trial

Official title: Low Back Pain Disability, Intensity and Widespread Pain and Relationship to Postpartum Depression

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

The aims of this study are to investigate whether pelvic pain and low back pain disability are associated with postpartum depression and to compare the prevalence between women without Low back pain and disability and women with Low Back Pain (LBP) and disability every trimester, and correlate postpartum Depression and some clinical and biopsychosocial variables: subgroups of LBP, disability, pain intensity, pain widespread and nationality, in a cohort of Spanish women at 2 months postpartum.

Clinical Trial Description

295 pregnant women will formed the cohort, during all pregnancy and two months after delivery. The Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale was used to evaluate depressive symptoms at 2 months postpartum. The LBP will be evaluated based on self-administrated questionnaire, and the patients with LBP will be classified in to lumbopelvic groups according to mechanical assessment of the lumbar spine, pelvic pain provocation tests, standard history, pain intensity on visual analogue scale, spread of pain through pain drawings and Oswestry index was used to evaluated the disability. Logistics regression analysis will performed to explain the predictors of depression. ;

Study Design

Observational Model: Cohort, Time Perspective: Prospective

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Back Pain
• Depression
• Depressive Disorder
• Low Back Pain
• Pelvic Pain

• NCT number: NCT02142972
• Study type: Observational
• Source: Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: October 2011
• Completion date: May 2014