Integrating physical and psychological care for low back pai

Not Applicable

Conditions: low back pain
chronic pain
Musculoskeletal - Other muscular and skeletal disorders
Physical Medicine / Rehabilitation - Physiotherapy

Registration Number: ACTRN12624000649516

Lead Sponsor: Central Queensland University

Brief Summary: Not available

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: ot yet recruiting

Sex: All

Target Recruitment: 100

Inclusion Criteria

MSK clinician inclusion criteria:
Registered chiropractors or physiotherapists in private practice who see patients with persistent LBP.

Patient participant inclusion criteria:
[1] experienced LBP pain for more than 6 months, [2] are classified as high risk on using the STarT Back tool (i.e., experience mental health difficulties associated with their LBP), [3] are 18 years of age and older, [4] have regular access to a computer and the internet, [5] able to read and understand English, [6] are not at acute risk of suicide, [7] not already receiving psychological treatment for their pain from a psychologist, [8] not experiencing pain as a result of serious pathology and [9] seeking musculoskeletal care from a chiropractor or physiotherapist either privately or via third party insurance schemes.

Exclusion Criteria

Patients with acute or sub-acute low back pain
Patients who do not exhibit mental health difficulties associated with their persistent pain
below 18 years

Study & Design

Study Type: Interventional

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
recruitment feasibility of patients with persistent LBP from physiotherapy and chiropractic practices around Australian to participate in an eHealth pain management program.<br>[We will determine this by calculating the proportion of patients with persistent LBP recruited by MSK clinicians and enrolled in the Pain Course, with the total sample of patients recruited by MSK clinicians. This will be complete by auditing of recruitment records Upon conclusion of the study]

Secondary Outcome Measures