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Evaluation of Sleep Quality in Patients With Chronic Neck Pain

Not Applicable
Completed
Conditions
Neck Pain
Sleep
Interventions
Other: Sleep Quality
Registration Number
NCT03314285
Lead Sponsor
Alper Mengi
Brief Summary

This study aimed to investigate the effect of chronic neck pain on sleep quality and to determine the factors that may be related to sleep disturbance.

Detailed Description

It is thought that chronic neck pain affects sleepiness negatively. However, there are no studies on chronic neck pain and sleep quality. In this study, we would like to determine whether there is a link between chronic neck pain and sleep quality and the factors that may be related.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
86
Inclusion Criteria
  • Patient has chronic mechanical neck pain for at least 3 months and without radicular pain
  • Patient's visual analogue scale score is 3 and over
Exclusion Criteria
  • History of neurological deficit
  • History of cervical stenosis, cervical surgery, spondylolisthesis, scoliosis
  • History of central or peripheral nervous system disorders
  • History of inflammatory neck pain
  • Pregnant or breast feeding
  • History of fibromyalgia disease
  • History of severe osteoporosis or osteomalacia
  • History of infectious, malignancy, and active psychiatric disease
  • Noncooperative
  • Patient has chronic pain in a region other than the neck region

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Healthy volunteersSleep QualityHealthy volunteers without any disease will be evaluated for sleep quality by the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Scale.
Neck PainSleep QualityPatients with chronic mechanical neck pain will be evaluated for sleep quality by the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Scale.
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Pittsburg Sleep Quality Scale30 day

Sleep quality to be measured by the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Scale.The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Scale is a 19-item self-rated questionnaire for evaluating subjective sleep quality the previous month. The 19 questions are combined into 7 clinically-derived component scores, each weighted equally from 0-3. The 7 component scores are added to obtain a global score ranging from 0-21, with higher scores indicating worse sleep quality.

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Pain Severity7 day

The pain severity was evaluated using a 10 cm visual analogue scale , where 0 represented no pain, while 10 represented unbearable pain.At evaluation, the average of the pain in activity , in rest , and during the night for the last one week were inquired.

Demographic Data30 day

Gender, Age, Education Level, Job

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Gaziosmanpasa Taksim Research and Education Hospital

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Istanbul, Turkey

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