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Back School Efficacy on Low Back Pain and Quality of Life of Workers. COPCORD STUDY (Stage II)

NCT00596076 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE3 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 30

Last updated 2010-08-16

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Summary

The study is an intervention, Phase II COPCORD study. (COPCORD= Community Oriented Program to Control Rheumatic Diseases). The purpose of this study is to find if Back School training has any benefit on low back pain of the workers in a pharmaceutical factory in Tehran suburbs.

Conditions

  • Low Back Pain

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Back School

All the workers undergo a clinical examination for low back pain, by two trained practitioner. Those workers who are diagnosed for mechanical low back pain during the last six months fulfill a self report Quality of Life Questionnaire (SF36). The objective level of low back pain will obtain by a visual analogue scale. Then a back school training course will be held in 6 sessions, in 6 consecutive weeks. Two previously trained physiotherapists are responsible for the training course. Each series will have 10 participants. They will learn vertebral column anatomy and its function at the first session. The proper posture and exercises to reduce or inhibit low back pain are taught in the next 4 sessions. The 6th session is arranged for answering questions and checking how exercises are performed. A visual analogue scale and quality of life assessment will be held at the end of the last session and the end of the sixth month.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Tehran University of Medical Sciences

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Fereydoun Davatchi, MD · Rheumatology Research Center, Medical Sciences/University of Tehran

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
55 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-02-29
Primary Completion
2008-03-31
Completion
2008-09-30

Countries

  • Iran

Study Locations

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