An Interventional Study on Low Back Pain and Quality of Life Among the Ambulance Drivers in Malaysia's Hospitals
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 198
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Comparison of Quality of life in patients with Low back Pain before and after Integrated back pain module delivered.
研究概览
简要总结
The study is a community interventional study by using an integrated back pain module (IBPM). The purpose of this study is to find out if the module training has any benefit on Low Back pain among ambulance drivers. The effectiveness of the module is determined by baseline quality of life results compared with after the intervention program completed.
详细描述
An integrated back pain module (IBPM) will be implemented for ambulance drivers (Respondent) in peninsular Malaysia. Pre-intervention assessment and post-intervention assessment will be conducted in 18 government hospitals involved. There is nine Hospital in Perak that has been selected as an intervention group and nine Hospital in Kelantan will be the Control group. Two different regions are selected; the North region will be the intervention group (Perak) while East Coast will be the control group (Kelantan). The clinical benefits of the IBPM module low back pain and quality of life will be reported at the beginning and the end of the intervention and after a period of 6 months follow up.
The protocol for the intervention group (Perak) included five components of the education module (IBPM) such as the structure and function of the spine, causes of LBP, how to avoid low back pain at the workplace, Exercise methods, and psychology management. The overall objectives are to help ambulance driver manage their LBP and prevent future LBP recurrences. The first step of the protocol is subjects are required to attend an introductory course for one day and then the intervention will last for 6 months. Research staff will explain how to operate and use the module. Subjects must comply with all the care and prevention guidelines of the research module so that it achieves the expected results. They also need to complete the checklist provided in the Edmodo software via their respective smartphones. Tokens in the form of top-ups will be entered automatically after the checklist is received by researchers.
The exercise will be performed by participants 5 times per week for a total of 24 weeks. Each individual session will take around 5 minutes to perform exercises independently and sending their report through Edmodo. Light soft tissue exercises techniques such as active muscle stretching, and strengthening exercises will be used as needed to facilitate the educational module therapy.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 20 Years 至 60 Years（Adult）
- 性别
- Male
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Adult ≥ 18 years old.
- •Working experience ≥ 1 year
排除标准
- •Patients with Uncontrolled Chronic Illness such as Hypertension, Diabetes Mellitus, Osteoarthritis and Gout.
- •Injury or surgery of the spine
结局指标
主要结局
Comparison of Quality of life in patients with Low back Pain before and after Integrated back pain module delivered.
时间窗: Change from baseline, 6 weeks, 12 weeks, and 24 weeks
Quality of life was assessed by Short-Form 36 Health Survey (SF-36) High scores indicate good quality of life and low scores represent poor quality of life.
次要结局
未报告次要终点
研究者
Ab Hamid Bin Abas
Principal Investigator
Universiti Sains Malaysia