Completed

Evaluation of a Low Back Pain Patient Education Program

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What is being tested

Patient education evaluation

Procedure
Who is being recruted

Treatment Adherence and Compliance+14

+ Adherence Interventions

+ Back Pain

Over 18 Years
+18 Eligibility Criteria
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How is the trial designed

Treatment Study

Interventional
Study Start: February 1998
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Summary

Principal SponsorStanford University
Last updated: May 3, 2013
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Study start date: February 1, 1998

Actual date on which the first participant was enrolled.

This study will develop and evaluate in a randomized trial a low back pain intervention that allows subjects to talk with each other and with health professionals via an Internet discussion group. The intervention consists of a book and a videotape and is based on interaction with other participants in the program and health professionals through a closed password protected moderated Internet discussion group. Outcome measures include health behaviors, such as exercise; health status, such as pain and disability; and health care use, such as number of visits to doctors and other health care providers. Patients will be randomized either to the treatment group and followed for 6, 12, 18, and 24 months with the intervention.

NCT00000408
Principal SponsorStanford University
Last updated: May 3, 2013
Sourced from a government-validated database.Claim as a partner

Protocol

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.
Design Details

580 patients to be enrolled

Total number of participants that the clinical trial aims to recruit.

Treatment Study

These studies test new ways to treat a disease, condition, or health issue. The goal is to see if a new drug, therapy, or approach works better or has fewer side effects than existing options.

Eligibility

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria: person's general health condition or prior treatments.
Conditions
Criteria

Any sex

Biological sex of participants that are eligible to enroll.

Over 18 Years

Range of ages for which participants are eligible to join.

Healthy volunteers not allowed

If individuals who are healthy and do not have the condition being studied can participate.

Conditions

Pathology

Treatment Adherence and ComplianceAdherence InterventionsBack PainBehaviorNeurologic ManifestationsPainPatient Acceptance of Health CarePatient ComplianceSigns and SymptomsPathological Conditions, Signs and SymptomsWounds and InjuriesHealth BehaviorMedication AdherenceHealth EducationLow Back PainBack InjuriesChronic Pain

Criteria

5 inclusion criteria required to participate
Must be 18 years old
Must have access to a computer with e-mail and expect to have this access for at least 3 years
Must have seen a doctor for back pain at least once in the past year
Must live in the United States
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13 exclusion criteria prevent from participating
Age under 18
Back pain due to a car accident or other major injury within the last 6 months
Back pain or sciatica due to systemic disease (inflammatory rheumatic diseases, tumor, or other)
Back surgery in the past 6 months
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Study Plan

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Treatment Groups

2 intervention groups are designated in this study

This study does not include a placebo group 

Treatment Groups

Group I

Experimental

Group II

No Intervention
usual care

Study Centers

These are the hospitals, clinics, or research facilities where the trial is being conducted. You can find the location closest to you and its status.

This study has 1 location

Stanford University

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CompletedOne Study Center