Effectiveness of A Telehealth Postural Awareness Program Combined With Exercise In People With Neck Pain

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Completed

• Conditions: Neck Pain
• Interventions: Behavioral: A postural awareness program with exercises

• Registration Number: NCT05509491
• Lead Sponsor: Hacettepe University

Brief Summary

People with neck pain often experience pain, neck disability, and poor quality of life. Postural-based awareness programs are evidence-based interventions for postural problems and neck pain disorders. This study aims to determine the effectiveness of a telehealth physiotherapist-delivered postural awareness program combined with exercise in people with neck pain. Pain, neck disability, leisure time management, and exercise stage of change were evaluated.

Detailed Description

Pain with visual analog scale, neck disability with Neck Disability Index, Leisure time management with Leisure Time Management Scale, and exercise stage of change with exercise Stage of change Scale were determined. The authors aim to find out if there are any changes before and after the program on the pain, neck disability, and evaluation subscale of the leisure time management scale, and exercise stage of change of participants.

Basic Information
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Recruitment & Eligibility
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Study & Design
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Trial Locations

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2022-02-05
• Primary Completion: 2022-04-10
• Study Completion: 2022-05-20
• Status Verified: 2022-08
• Study First Submitted: 2022-08-18
• Study First Submitted QC: 2022-08-19
• Last Update Submitted: 2022-08-19
• Study First Posted: 2022-08-22
• Last Update Posted: 2022-08-22

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 40

Inclusion Criteria

• being aged 18 years or over,
• volunteering to take part in the study,
• being a student of online education,
• without a history of any neurological or orthopedic problem,
• with resting neck pain (as measured by the VAS) lasting ≤30 days
• that is aggravated by movement without extending distal to the shoulders.

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Exclusion Criteria

• rheumatological diseases, malignity or structural deformities,
• previous surgical intervention related to the neck region,
• severe pain (more than 7 in 0 to 10 VAS)

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Postural Awareness Program with Exercises in people with neck pain	A postural awareness program with exercises	Postural education, bad posture, good posture, awareness, their effects in daily life

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Neck pain	5 minute	Visual Analog Scale- The evaluations of this study was performed at beginning and end of study. Neck pain was determined with Visual Analog Scale with 0 indicating "no pain", 10 indicating "the most severe pain

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Neck Disability	10 minute	Neck Disability Index-The Neck Disability Index consists of 10 items: pain intensity, personal care, lifting, reading, headache, concentration, work, driving, sleeping and recreation. Individuals included in the study were asked to rate each title between 0 (no disability) and 5 (complete disability). The total score ranges between 0 (no disability) and 50 (complete disability)
Leisure Time Management	10 minute	Leisure Time Management- This scale consists of four sub-dimensions and 15 items. These sub-dimensions were investigated as "evaluation", "programming", "leisure attitude", "goal setting and method". The answer codes of each item vary between 1 and 5 as a Likert type.
Exercise Stage of Change	10 minute	Exercise Stage of Change Scale-The "Exercise Behavior Change Steps Questionnaire" aims to determine the individual's exercise behavior steps. The four items in the questionnaire, in which the participants' wishes for exercise are tried to be determined, are answered as yes/no. Individuals' intention to exercise and their habits of participating in exercise are divided into five different exercise behavior steps according to their responses to the items: Pre-tendency, Tendency, Preparation, Movement and Continuity.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Tezel Yıldırım Şahan; 🇹🇷 Ankara, Turkey