Effects of Exercise and Back Counselling for Nurses

Low Back Pain Clinical Trial

Official title:

Comparative Effects of Exercise and Back Counselling on Improving Low Back Pain for Nurses

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03660956
• Other study ID #: CMUH107-REC2-120
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: September 1, 2018
• Est. completion date: July 31, 2019

Study information

• Verified date: August 2021
• Source: China Medical University Hospital
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Low back pain (LBP) is most common occupational health problem among nurses. Therefore, how to prevent and reduce low back pain have been the important issue for nurses. A Quasi-Experimental design is used in this study to compare the effectiveness of 12-week exercise and counselling program to reduce low back pain in nursing personnel compared with counselling alone.

Description:

A Quasi-Experimental design is used in this study. Purposive sampling is used to recruit participants from medical center in Central Taiwan. Participants will be randomly assigned to two groups: (1) exercise and back counselling, and (2) back counselling only. The results of this study will provide a guideline for nurses to prevent and to improve low back pain.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 4
• Est. completion date: July 31, 2019
• Est. primary completion date: February 26, 2019
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 20 Years to 65 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Has worked at current job for at least 12 months;

2. Intensity of low back pain on Visual Analogue Scale (scale 0-10) at least two during the past 3 months.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Serious former back injury (fracture, surgery, disc protrusion);

2. Pregnant;

3. Other serious disease or symptoms that limit participation exercise defined by a physician.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Back Pain
• Low Back Pain

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Exercise
Twelves-week exercise training sessions include a variety of strength, flexibility, and coordination exercises. Each exercise session lasts for one hour. Participants are expected to attend exercise session once a week and are encouraged to continue exercising at home.
• Back counselling
Procedure of back counselling includes one session back counselling, lasting one hour. The topics of back counselling session are as follows: (1) Anatomy of lumbar; (2) Factors causing low back pain; (3) Problems of physical inactivity for the lumbar; (4) Risk of poor postures for developing persistent/chronic low back pain; (5) Maintaining right posture of the lumbar; (6) Avoiding harmful loading of the back during work and leisure time.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Taiwan	China Medical University	Taichung

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
China Medical University Hospital

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Taiwan, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Change from Baseline in Pain on Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) at week 6, week 12, month 3, and month 6	Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) is used in this study to assess the intensity of low back pain with numeric rating scale 0-100 mm during the past month.	Baseline, week 6, week 12, month 3, month 6.
Secondary	Change from Baseline Musculoskeletal Symptoms in the Low Back Area at week 6, week 12, month 3 and month 6	Version of the low back questionnaire in Nordic Musculoskeletal Questionnaire (NMQ) is used in this study to assess the musculoskeletal symptoms in the low back area.	Baseline, week 6, week 12, month 3, month 6.
Secondary	Change from Baseline Functional Status at week 6, week 12, month 3 and month 6	Chinese version of Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) is used in this study to assess the baseline functional status and its change over time for patients with back pain	Baseline, week 6, week 12, month 3, month 6