NCT06605248

NOTUS Feasibility Study: Reducing Chronic Low Back Pain With Mobile App Intervention

NOTUS Feasibility Trial: Enhancing Chronic Back Pain Management With Mobile App-based Pain Education and Clinical Hypnosis in Primary Care

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (actual)
• Sponsor: Neuroscience Research Australia · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This feasibility study will investigate the feasibility of screening, recruiting, and delivering a mobile app intervention that involves pain education and clinical hypnosis to people seeking treatments for chronic low back pain (chronic LBP) in general practices in Australia. This study aims to assess the recruitment strategy, the willingness of participants to be included in the proposed treatments, whether the intervention can be delivered as intended within the health care system and clinical setting, the adherence of participants to the proposed treatment, response rates to questionnaires, loss to the short-term follow-up, and the appropriateness and acceptability of the interventions. This feasibility study will inform possible modifications in the recruitment and treatments for the main clinical trial. A total of 60 participants will be randomised into two treatment groups.

Conditions

• Low Back Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	App-based self-management tool plus usual care	The app-based self-management tool will be delivered after patients receive usual care from their general practitioners. The 8-week mobile app intervention will involve daily sessions on pain education and clinical hypnosis for back pain management (5 minutes, 15 minutes of listening to hypnotherapy audio and engaging in physical/social activities for 5 minutes.
BEHAVIORAL	Patient information digital fact-sheet plus usual care	The face-sheet will be delivered after patients receive usual care from their general practitioners.This digital intervention will contain educational material for chronic back pain that includes details about diagnosis, prognosis and treatment options.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-10-08
• Primary completion: 2025-03-13
• Completion: 2025-03-13
• First posted: 2024-09-20
• Last updated: 2025-05-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Australia