Treatment Preferences in Patients With Low Back Pain

Completed

• Conditions: Low Back Pain
• Interventions: Other: Assesment of treatment preference

• Registration Number: NCT04876105
• Lead Sponsor: Pamukkale University

Brief Summary

Together with the guidance of health professionals try to obtain information from media, popular magazines and books and the internet regarding diseases and treatment methods in patients with low back pain with the development of technology. In parallel with this information which they obtained, they turn to different treatment methods. This study was carried on examining how pain duration affects treatment preferences in patients with low back pain.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2020-11-25
• Primary Completion: 2021-04-30
• Study First Submitted: 2021-05-05
• Study First Submitted QC: 2021-05-05
• Study First Posted: 2021-05-06
• Study Completion: 2021-10-15
• Status Verified: 2022-01
• Last Update Submitted: 2022-01-26
• Last Update Posted: 2022-01-27

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 155

Inclusion Criteria

• Individuals between the ages of 18-65 with complaints of low back pain and no communication problems were included in the study.

Exclusion Criteria

• Individuals with any systemic, neurological and / or orthopedic disease diagnosed other than complaint of low back pain were excluded from the study.

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Chronic group	Assesment of treatment preference	According to the duration of low back pain, it is classified as chronic pain if it lasts for more than 3 months.
Acute-subacute group	Assesment of treatment preference	According to the duration of low back pain, it is classified as acute pain if it lasts less than a month, subacute pain if it lasts for 1-3 months.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Evaluation of treatment preferences	5 minutes	Multiple-choice survey questions were created by the researchers based on the studies in the literature regarding the pain and treatment preferences of the participants. In this survey, the patients were asked to state which of the treatment methods applied for low back pain they knew and which of these methods they preferred.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Visual Analog Scale	1 minute	Pain intensity
Oswestry Disability Index	5 minutes	Disability caused by low back pain

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Pamukkale University; 🇹🇷 Denizli, Turkey