Effect of an Outpatient Intervention Program in Patients With Chronic Back or Neck Pain
CompletedNot applicableNCT01981798
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This study has no listed site in Canada in this snapshot. It is included as part of the worldwide chronic pain corpus.
Brief summary (from the registry)
To investigated whether an ambulant intervention program with a behavioral therapy approach would exert a long-term effect on chronic unspecific back or neck pain. Specifically, the effect on patients with pronounced fear avoidance behavior and/or with psychosocial limitations was addressed.
Study details
- Official title
- The Long-term Effect of an Outpatient Intervention Program With a Behavioral Therapy Approach in Patients With Chronic Back or Neck Pain With a Focus on Psychosocial Aspects
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Behavioral: Physiotherapy and occupational therapy
- Sponsor
- Orthopedic Hospital Vienna Speising
- Start date
- 2006-03
- Primary completion
- 2008-02
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 55 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Austria
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * minimum age 18 years, maximum age: men 55 years, women 50 years. * the patients had been on sick leave for a minimum of 4 and a maximum of 22 days during the preceding 12 months because of nonspecific spinal symptoms in the back or neck. * The patients had to be working at the start of the study. Exclusion Criteria: * Specific causes of spinal symptoms (after spinal surgery, known vertebral body fractures, disk prolapse with motor deficits or other radicular lesions, tumor, osteomyelitis, spondylodiscitis, rheumatic disease, osteoporosis). * Retired persons, those in the process of being screened for retirement, unemployed persons, * pregnancy or persons on maternity leave * Planned surgery during the phase of intervention * persons who were unable to participate in the intervention program for other reasons (physical, psychological, linguistic or organizational).
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT01981798