What Are the Brakes and Levers of Physical Activity Practice for Patients With Chronic Lower Back Pain?

Non-specific Chronic Lower Back Pain Clinical Trial

Official title:

What Are the Brakes and Levers of Physical Activity Practice for Patients With Chronic Lower Back Pain : a Qualitative Study

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02466360
• Other study ID #: CHU-0237
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: June 5, 2015
• Last updated: June 8, 2015
• Start date: January 2012
• Est. completion date: April 2014

Study information

• Verified date: June 2015
• Source: University Hospital, Clermont-Ferrand
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: France: Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Non-specific chronic lower back pain is a common pathology which is a real public health problem. Around 84% of the population could have non-specific chronic lower back pain at least once in their lives and 8% of that non-specific lower back pain could become chronical (pain that would last at least 3 months). This proportion of patients represents 85% of the costs related to this pathology.

Physical activity practice is involved in medical care for plenty of chronical diseases and particularly for chronic lower back pain. In 2003, World Health Organization pointed out the poor adhesion of patients with chronical diseases to medical prescriptions and the after-effects it could have on illness evolution. Therefore, adhesion to physical activity practice for patients with chronic lower back pain is one of the most challenging matters for medical teams.

The aim of this study was to identify the brakes and levers of physical activity practice for these patients. Sixteen individual interviews and four focus groups have been carried out on patients with chronic lower back pain who were taken care of either by a rachis functional restoration program or by primary care.

Description:

Non-specific chronic lower back pain is a common pathology which is a real public health problem. Around 84% of the population could have non-specific chronic lower back pain at least once in their lives and 8% of that non-specific lower back pain could become chronical (pain that would last at least 3 months). This proportion of patients represents 85% of the costs related to this pathology.

Physical activity practice is involved in medical care for plenty of chronical diseases and particularly for chronic lower back pain. In 2003, World Health Organization pointed out the poor adhesion of patients with chronical diseases to medical prescriptions and the after-effects it could have on illness evolution. Therefore, adhesion to physical activity practice for patients with chronic lower back pain is one of the most challenging matters for medical teams.

The aim of this study was to identify the brakes and levers of physical activity practice for these patients. Sixteen individual interviews and four focus groups have been carried out on patients with chronic lower back pain who were taken care of either by a rachis functional restoration program or by primary care.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 29
• Est. completion date: April 2014
• Est. primary completion date: April 2014
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Male or female who are at least 18 years old

• Patients with non-specific chronic lower back pain

Exclusion Criteria:

• Mental or physical disabilities incompatible with focus groups/individual interviews and filling out questionnaires.

• Inability to understand or speak French properly

• Symptomatic lower back pain

Study Design

Time Perspective: Cross-Sectional

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Back Pain
• Low Back Pain
• Non-specific Chronic Lower Back Pain

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Back Belief questionnaire

• QUEBEC scale

• Fear Avoidance beliefs questionnaire

• Visual analog scale

• individual interviews

• Focus groups

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
France	CHU de Clermont-Ferrand	Clermont-Ferrand

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University Hospital, Clermont-Ferrand	Université Montpellier

Country where clinical trial is conducted

France, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Individual interviews	patients with non-specific chronic lower back pain explain directly to their doctors what is preventing them from having physical activity	at day 1	Yes
Secondary	questions about their lower back pain and physical activity		at day 1	Yes
Secondary	Back Belief questionnaire	- Back Belief questionnaire that evaluates patients' knowledge about lower back pain	at day 1	Yes
Secondary	QUEBEC scale	- QUEBEC scale that evaluates the impact of lower back pain on the daily lives of patients	at day 1	Yes
Secondary	Fear Avoidance Beliefs questionnaire	- Fear Avoidance Beliefs questionnaire that evaluates fears and beliefs about the disease	at day 1	Yes
Secondary	Visual Analog Scale	Visual Analog Scale that evaluates pain	at day 1	Yes