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What is the Effect of a Course for Treatment Providers on Their Patient Outcome

NCT00902642 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 364

Last updated 2009-05-15

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Summary

The goal is to acquire more in-depth knowledge on physical therapists' attitudes towards and beliefs about psychosocial factors in back pain, how physical therapists integrate psychosocial factors into their clinical practice and the effects of a training program for physical therapists in psychosocial factors on clinical practice and thereby on patient outcome in terms of disability, pain, catastrophizing, and treatment satisfaction.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

an eight day university training course designed to integrating psychosocial factors in clinical practice on a patient level

an eight day university training course on psychosocial factors for physical therapists

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Örebro University, Sweden

    collaborator OTHER

  • School of Law, Psychology, and Social Work, Örebro University, Sweden

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Örebro County Council

    lead OTHER_GOV

Principal Investigators

  • Steven J Linton, PH.D. · Center for Health and Medical Psychology and School of Law, Psychology, and Social Work, Örebro University, Sweden

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2004-09-30
Primary Completion
2006-08-31
Completion
2006-08-31

Countries

  • Sweden

Study Locations

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