NCT03660956

Effects of Exercise and Back Counselling for Nurses

Comparative Effects of Exercise and Back Counselling on Improving Low Back Pain for Nurses

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 4 (actual)
• Sponsor: China Medical University Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Low back pain (LBP) is most common occupational health problem among nurses. Therefore, how to prevent and reduce low back pain have been the important issue for nurses. A Quasi-Experimental design is used in this study to compare the effectiveness of 12-week exercise and counselling program to reduce low back pain in nursing personnel compared with counselling alone.

Detailed description

A Quasi-Experimental design is used in this study. Purposive sampling is used to recruit participants from medical center in Central Taiwan. Participants will be randomly assigned to two groups: (1) exercise and back counselling, and (2) back counselling only. The results of this study will provide a guideline for nurses to prevent and to improve low back pain.

Conditions

• Low Back Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Exercise	Twelves-week exercise training sessions include a variety of strength, flexibility, and coordination exercises. Each exercise session lasts for one hour. Participants are expected to attend exercise session once a week and are encouraged to continue exercising at home.
BEHAVIORAL	Back counselling	Procedure of back counselling includes one session back counselling, lasting one hour. The topics of back counselling session are as follows: (1) Anatomy of lumbar; (2) Factors causing low back pain; (3) Problems of physical inactivity for the lumbar; (4) Risk of poor postures for developing persistent/chronic low back pain; (5) Maintaining right posture of the lumbar; (6) Avoiding harmful loading of the back during work and leisure time.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-09-01
• Primary completion: 2019-02-26
• Completion: 2019-07-31
• First posted: 2018-09-07
• Last updated: 2021-08-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Taiwan