NCT00809640

Active Management for Low Back Pain for 6 to 8 Year Old Schoolchildren

Active Management for Low Back Pain Taught to 6 to 8 Year Old Schoolchildren

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 700 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Kovacs Foundation · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 6 Years – 8 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The objective is to assess the effectiveness of a prevention campaign promoting active management in shifting beliefs in 6 to 8 year old schoolchildren. Subjects will be taken from a random sample of schools in Majorca, Spain: private, public and concerted. A 10 item questionnaire will be given to all children in that age group, to be answered in class on days 1, 14 and 97. Schools will be randomly assigned to the study and control groups. In the study group the students will get a Back Comic-Book (promotes active management) after the first assessment. The control group will have no other intervention than the questionnaire.

Conditions

• Low Back Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Education (Back Comic-Book)	Through the Back Comic-Book the schoolchildren are taught prevention methods for low back pain.

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-02-01
• Primary completion: 2009-05-01
• Completion: 2009-06-01
• First posted: 2008-12-17
• Last updated: 2009-12-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain