Cost effectiveness of an occupational physical therapy programme on primary and secondary prevention of low back pain: economic evaluation alongside a cluster randomised controlled trial
- Conditions
- ow back pain (LBP)Musculoskeletal DiseasesBack pain
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN42542680
- Lead Sponsor
- Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam (The Netherlands)
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 500
The study population is recruited from companies throughout the Netherlands. Companies who want to take up the programme from the occupational health consultancy that executes the intervention under study within a year are asked to participate in the study.
Inclusion criteria for companies are:
1. Willingness to participate in the study
2. The possibility of forming a control group within the same company with workers with approximately the same physically demanding jobs and high prevalence of musculoskeletal complaints
3. Willingness to concur with randomisation of the intervention and study protocol.
Inclusion criteria for workers:
All workers in the work units of these companies who are working at least 3 days per week, are willing to comply with the research protocol and follow-up measurements are asked to participate in the study.
Does not comply with the above inclusion criteria
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The primary outcome measure is the occurrence and duration of LBP and subsequent sickness absence.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Secondary outcome measures are pain intensity, functional disability due to low back pain complaints, general health and quality of life. The economic evaluation is conducted from a societal perspective and includes both direct and indirect costs due to LBP.