NCT06434688

Body Awareness and Mental Fatigue in Neck Pain

Examining Mental Fatigue, Body Awareness, and Mindfulness in People With Chronic Neck Pain

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 66 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Hacettepe University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The primary aim of the study was to examine the difference between mental fatigue, in-body, out-of-body and mindfulness parameters in people with chronic neck pain compared to a healthy control group, and to analyze the relationships between mental fatigue and neck disability level and awareness levels, and between awareness levels and neck disability level and quality of life. The secondary aim was to examine the relationships between pain intensity, frequency, duration, pain self-efficacy, physical condition, anxiety and depression, mental fatigue and awareness levels in people with chronic neck pain.

Detailed description

Neck pain is a prevalent musculoskeletal issue that can cause significant disability. Individuals with neck pain may experience changes in muscle structure and behavior, as well as sensory-perceptual-motor issues such as decreased proprioception and related neuromuscular changes. Additionally, neck pain can lead to psychological problems such as anxiety and depression.Although some awareness parameters have been evaluated in studies on neck pain in the literature and it has been shown that chronic pain is associated with impaired body awareness and that this impairment contributes to and/or maintains chronic pain, no study has been found to examine all awareness parameters in detail. Another cause that compromises the accuracy of information contributing to body awareness is mental fatigue. Mental fatigue can negatively affect a person's level of perception. In one study, it was stated that mental fatigue was a determinant of neck disability, but studies on this subject were found to be very insufficient. Therefore, the aim of this study was to examine the sub-parameters of awareness and mental fatigue in people with chronic neck pain, to compare them with healthy people and to examine the relationship between the parameters evaluated.

Conditions

• Neck Pain
• Mental Fatigue
• Mindfulness
• Awareness

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Mental Fatigue:	The Mental Fatigue Scale (MFS) will be used to assess mental fatigue.
OTHER	Body Awareness:	Individuals' general body awareness will be assessed with the Body Awareness Questionnaire (BAQ). Neck awareness of individuals will be assessed with the Fremantle Neck Awareness Questionnaire (FreBFA). Short Form of the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ - Short Form) will be used to assess people's mindfulness. \- In-body awareness: For the sense of interoception, the Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness Scale, which assesses interoceptive body awareness, will be used. To evaluate proprioception, a Cervical Range of Motion (CROM) device is used. The bucket test will be used to assess subjective visual verticality, which is one of the sub-dimensions of verticality perception. Two scales will be used to assess people's awareness of weight transfer symmetry. \- Out of Body Awareness: "Right-Left Confusion Hand Test" will be used to evaluate the mental rotation skill within the scope of the sense of extroception.
OTHER	Neck Disability Level	Neck disability index will be used to assess this parameter.
OTHER	Quality Of Life	SF-12 will be used to assess quality of life.
OTHER	Pain Assessment:	Pain intensity will be assessed by Visual Analog Scale (VAS). In addition, pain duration and pain frequency will be questioned. The Pain Self-Efficacy Questionnaire will be used to assess the confidence of people with chronic pain to perform certain tasks and behaviors despite their pain.
OTHER	Physical Condition:	Normal range of motion of the cervical region will be evaluated with the "Cervical Range of Motion" device. New York Posture Rating Scale will be used to evaluate posture. Symmetry of weight transfer to both lower extremities of the individuals in standing upright position will be evaluated.
OTHER	Anxiety and Depression:	Beck Depression and Beck Anxiety scales will be used to assess depression and anxiety.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-05-27
• Primary completion: 2024-07-29
• Completion: 2024-09-30
• First posted: 2024-05-30
• Last updated: 2024-05-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)