NCT06138158

Improvement of Fear-avoidance Beliefs in Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain

Improvement of Fear-avoidance Beliefs in Patients With Chronic Non-specific Low Back Pain Treated at the Non-specific Low Back Pain Treated in the Back School

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 39 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Non-specific chronic low back pain is the main cause of public spending on health care and labor, with a prevalence of 10.2%. Its therapeutic management is difficult, with moderate levels of pain and persistent disability over time, influenced by psychosocial factors, such as "fear-avoidance" beliefs. The supervised therapeutic exercise program associated with an educational component is one of the most effective interventions to reduce pain and disability in these patients, but its efficacy seems to be less if there are erroneous beliefs, avoidance attitudes, or fear of physical activity, since it makes it difficult to follow the recommendations. The Back School would address this problem, seeking to improve pain, disability and increase quality of life.

Detailed description

The main objective of this study is to evaluate the influence of the intervention of the Back School of the Hospital Universitario Insular de Gran Canaria in reducing the levels of "fear-avoidance" beliefs in patients with non-specific chronic low back pain.

Conditions

• Non Specific Low Back Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Exercise and Education Group	Physical exercise and pain education

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-11-11
• Primary completion: 2024-10-11
• Completion: 2024-11-01
• First posted: 2023-11-18
• Last updated: 2024-11-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain