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Why do People With Low Back Pain Fear and Avoid Lifting?

NCT05192187 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 325

Last updated 2022-02-02

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The investigators' main focus of this trial will be to investigate

* why people with low back pain perceive lifting (with a bent back) as harmful.
* whether general measures of pain-related fear are associated with task-specific measures of perceived harmfulness
* why people with low back pain avoid lifting (with a bent back) This will be investigated using self-report (i.e., questionnaires)

Conditions

  • Low Back Pain

Interventions

OTHER

Cross-sectional self-report (questionnaires)

participants in this group will be ask to complete questionnaires on one occasion (i.e., cross-sectional investigation). The questionnaires will consist of a self-developed questionnaire and standard questionnaires. The main aspects of the self-developed questionnaires are * perceived harmfulness of activities (selection of PHODA-SeV) * cognitions about lifting and pain * reasons for avoidance behaviour (lifting) Standardised questionnaires include * NRS for pain * TSK-11 * FABQ * RMDQ

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Hasselt University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Thomas Matheve, PhD · Hasselt University

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-02-28
Primary Completion
2023-06-30
Completion
2023-12-31

Countries

  • Belgium

Study Locations

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