Educational Tools to Improve Beliefs About Pain and Reduce Pain-related Disability

Disability Physical Clinical Trial

Official title:

Effectiveness of Different Educational Tools to Improve Beliefs About Pain and Reduce Pain-related Disability in Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain: a Randomized Controlled Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03301428
• Other study ID #: CLBP EDUC
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: November 1, 2017
• Est. completion date: February 1, 2020

Study information

• Verified date: March 2020
• Source: University of Liege
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This trial aims at comparing the effectiveness of different didactic tools developed for patients with chronic pain to correct misbeliefs and improve disability in patients with chronic low back pain

Description:

This trial aims at comparing the effectiveness of different didactic tools (an educational website vs a booklet) developed for patients with chronic pain to correct misbeliefs and improve disability in patients with chronic low back pain.

Participants of the 2 experimental groups will be invited to use the tool they receive during a one-month period.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 300
• Est. completion date: February 1, 2020
• Est. primary completion date: May 1, 2019
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 65 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• individuals with non-specific persistent low back pain (pain > 6 months) who had their pain assessed by their general practitioner or a specialist within the last 3 months

Exclusion Criteria:

• specific low back pain,

• educational treatment (back school, cognitive-behavioral, pain neurosciences education) in progress or planned during the study period

• previous consultation of the didactic tools investigated in the present study

• nerve root compromise,

• recent spinal surgery (<3 months)

• not fluent in French

• no regular access to a computer and the internet

• present follow-up by a psychiatrist

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Beliefs
• Disability Physical

Intervention

Other:
• Retrain pain educational website
Patients in this group will be invited to consult an educational website developped for patients with chronic pain
• Booklet
Patients in this group will be invited toread an educational booklet developped for patients with chronic pain

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Belgium	Liege University Hospital	Liège

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Liege

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Belgium, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Pain Beliefs Questionnaire	Questionnaires to test patients' beliefs	Change from baseline to the three-month follow-up
Primary	Roland-Morris Disability Questionnaire	Disability questionnaire	Change from baseline to the three-month follow-up
Secondary	Brief-Illness Perception Questionnaire	Questionnaire about patients' beliefs/representations	Baseline, one month after receiving the tool, one-month follow-up and three-month follow-up
Secondary	Back-PAQ questionnaire	Questionnaire about patients' beliefs	Baseline, one month after receiving the tool, one-month follow-up and three-month follow-up
Secondary	Pain intensity	Pain Numeric rating scale	Baseline, one month after receiving the tool, one-month follow-up and three-month follow-up