NCT05192187

Why do People With Low Back Pain Fear and Avoid Lifting?

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 325 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Hasselt University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 100 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The investigators' main focus of this trial will be to investigate * why people with low back pain perceive lifting (with a bent back) as harmful. * whether general measures of pain-related fear are associated with task-specific measures of perceived harmfulness * why people with low back pain avoid lifting (with a bent back) This will be investigated using self-report (i.e., questionnaires)

Conditions

• Low Back Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Cross-sectional self-report (questionnaires)	participants in this group will be ask to complete questionnaires on one occasion (i.e., cross-sectional investigation). The questionnaires will consist of a self-developed questionnaire and standard questionnaires. The main aspects of the self-developed questionnaires are * perceived harmfulness of activities (selection of PHODA-SeV) * cognitions about lifting and pain * reasons for avoidance behaviour (lifting) Standardised questionnaires include * NRS for pain * TSK-11 * FABQ * RMDQ

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-02-01
• Primary completion: 2023-06-30
• Completion: 2023-12-31
• First posted: 2022-01-14
• Last updated: 2022-02-02

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Belgium