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Administrative data

NCT number NCT05226156
Other study ID # Back study 3 months
Secondary ID
Status Completed
Phase
First received
Last updated
Start date April 27, 2021
Est. completion date March 16, 2022

Study information

Verified date May 2022
Source Joint Academy
Contact n/a
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority
Study type Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Exercise and education is recommended as the first-line treatment by evidence-based, international guidelines for low back pain (LBP). Despite consensus regarding treatment, there is a gap between guidelines and what is offered to patients and less than half of the patients with nonspecific low back pain receive proper first-line care. The aim of this study was to examine the short-term effect in pain and function in people with nonspecific LBP, participating in the digitally delivered treatment program Joint Academy.


Description:

Low back pain (LBP) is the 4th leading cause of Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) among adults aged 25-49.. According to evidence-based clinical guidelines, exercise and education constitute the first-line intervention. In an attempt to support the implementation of the guidelines, the BetterBack Modell of Care (MoC), a face-to-face concept including exercise and education, was developed and tested in primary care clinics in Sweden since 2017. The BetterBack (MoC) is a package of education and training that includes structured assessment by a physiotherapist, information on cause and prognosis for LBP and individualised exercise. BetterBack has so far shown that physiotherapists experience increased self-efficacy for assessing and treating patients with LBP and that patients experience improved knowledge for self-care. Despite clinical guidelines for LBP, there is a gap between guidelines and what is offered to patients with LBP, and valuable health resources are still used for examinations and treatments that are proven ineffective or even harmful. Traditional face-to-face interventions present barriers, such as limited access and lack of flexibility, which may limit the patients' adherence with the interventions. Digital delivery of the management program may be one way of overcoming such barriers. Telehealth, defined as the 'delivery of healthcare at a distance using information and communication technology' (ICT) could be a solution to many access barriers and has been rapidly adopted by many healthcare professions and accelerating even more throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Literature investigating the use of telehealth for the management of musculoskeletal pain is growing. Systematic reviews have demonstrated that telehealth can provide improvements in pain, physical function and disability that are similar to that of usual face-to-face care for individuals with musculoskeletal conditions such as osteoarthritis and non-specific low back pain. The use of telehealth also seems to increase exercise adherence for a variety of musculoskeletal conditions. However, there is a vast heterogeneity between studies included in these systematic reviews with respect to the intervention (type of exercise and education) and the ICT strategy provided, highlighting the need for further evidence-based digital programs to strengthen these findings. Joint Academy® (JA), a digitally delivered treatment program with exercise and education was developed to increase access to and facilitate implementation of guideline derived and evidence-based treatment for musculoskeletal pain. The first JA program was introduced in 2016 for persons with hip- and knee OA and showed reduced pain and improved function. A recent randomized controlled trial on patients with knee OA showed that the digital program was superior to usual care. During 2021, a similar programme for persons with LBP, inspired by the Swedish face-to-face Better Back MoC was introduced. The purpose of this study was to evaluate 3-months changes in pain and function during participation in the digitally delivered Joint Academy® (JA) exercise and education treatment program for patients with low back pain. A second aim was to examine the association of sociodemographis, health-related and treatment-related factors with outcome.


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Completed
Enrollment 2593
Est. completion date March 16, 2022
Est. primary completion date March 15, 2022
Accepts healthy volunteers No
Gender All
Age group 18 Years and older
Eligibility Absolute exclusion criteria - < age 18 years * Pregnancy - Concerns of low back pain due to "red flags" (e. g cancer, fracture, infection, cauda equina syndrome) Relative (to be further examined before inclusion) - Radiculopati - Previous or current cancer or unvoluntary weight loss - Opioid demanding pain or pain in rest (cancer?, fracture?, infection?) - Inflammatory back pain (atypical pain) - Older patients (>75 years) with multiple disease - Structural deformities (atypical pain)

Study Design


Related Conditions & MeSH terms


Intervention

Behavioral:
Digitally delivered exercise and education treatment Joint Academy
The Joint Academy® (www.jointacademy.com) program for people with LBP consists of video instructed and progressively adaptable daily exercises, patient education through text lessons and a continuous asynchronous chat function with a personal reg. physiotherapist who supervises the patient during the full participation period. The program also contains three telephone consultations with a physiotherapist that were compulsory, one at the start, one after six weeks and one after three month.

Locations

Country Name City State
Sweden Arthro Therapeutics Malmö

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
Joint Academy Lund University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Sweden, 

Outcome

Type Measure Description Time frame Safety issue
Primary Pain Numeric Rating Scale (NRS) Pain was assessed weekly using the Numerical Rating Scale (NRS), with the instruction "Mark on this scale how much pain you had the last week in your hip/knee", followed by a 0-10 scale where 0 indicates No pain and 10 indicates Maximum pain. Weekly change from baseline to three months
Secondary Oswersty Disability Index (ODI) The ODI is divided into ten sections to assess the level of pain and interference with several activities including; sleep, self-care, sex life, social life and travelling. Each question has six possible responses which are scored from 0 to 5 (good to bad). The score for each section is added and divided by the total possible score (50 if all sections are completed), and the resulting score is multiplied by one hundred to yield a percentage score with 0% equivalent to no disability and 100% equivalent to a great deal of disability. baseline and 3 months
Secondary PASS Patient Acceptable Symtom State, descriptive, not link to other patient-reported outcome measures. PASS was assessed at follow-up with the question: "Considering your lower back function, do you feel that your current state is satisfactory? (yes/no). The PASS is a treatment-response criterion developed to determine the clinical relevance of a treatment effect. Answering no is referred to as PASS(-), yes is referred to as PASS (+), and changing from no at baseline to yes at 3 months as PASS(-to+). baseline and 3 months
Secondary Radicular pain Radicular pain assessed with Numerical Rating Scale (NRS), with the instruction "Mark on this scale how much pain you had the last week in your hip/knee", followed by a 0-10 scale where 0 indicates No pain and 10 indicates Maximum pain. baseline and 3 months
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