Assessment-based diagnosis with graded treatment recommendations including excercise preferences for therapeutic services to increase effectiveness of rehabilitation in chronic low back pai

Not Applicable

• Conditions: M51; M53; M54; Other intervertebral disc disorders; Other dorsopathies, not elsewhere classified; Dorsalgia

• Registration Number: DRKS00008831
• Lead Sponsor: Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bayern Süd

Brief Summary

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Detailed Description

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Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2015-07-29
• Last Update Posted: 19 August 2024

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Complete
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 320

Inclusion Criteria

Participants must be in the scope of the rehabilitation treatment standards chronic back pain of the German Pension Fund.

Exclusion Criteria

- insufficient German language skills, the questions are in german
- no evidence of acute, dangerous diseases (red flags)

Study & Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
The primary outcome is the function ability measured by the questionnaire Funktionsfragebogen Hannover (FFbH-R) used at the beginning, the end and six months after the rehabilitation

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Secondary endpoints are the self-reported disabilities through pain measured by the Pain Disability Index (PDI), the intensity of pain measured by the numerical rating scale (NRS) as well as psychological symptoms gathered by the patient health questionnaire (PHQ-4). The questions are contained in the questionnaire at the beginning, the end and six months after rehabilitation.<br>Adding to the above mentioned questions the success of rehabilitation will be assessed at the third wave (six months) by items, which are also asked in the routine survey of the German pension fund (DRV). <br>The therapeutic application, aftercare recommendations and the medical performance rating will be extracted from the discharge letters.