Chronic Low Back Pain Patients' Expectations Toward Physiotherapy
CompletedNCT02123680
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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)
Non-specific chronic low back pain guidelines recommend rehabilitation along with a biopsychosocial approach. However, though psychological and social issues address important needs of professionals and patients, they have been scarcely developed in this area so far. Noteworthy, little is known about patients' expectations relative to physiotherapy for chronic low back pain (CLBP), while professional recommendations advocate taking them into consideration. A study about patients' experience will provide knowledge about the ill person's perspective and how the physiotherapists are perceived as well as the role attributed to them. The aim of this study is, thus, to explore the experience of the patients suffering from CLBP in order to highlight their expectations toward physiotherapy services and physiotherapists. The investigators will apply a critically interpretive socio-anthropological approach based on patients' interviews and observations in an intensive CLBP rehabilitation program. The results will help improve the care patients receive by facilitating the integration of biopsychosocial issues related to patient's expectations into the treatment.
Study details
- Official title
- Non-specific Chronic Low Back Pain Patients' Expectations Toward Physiotherapy and Physiotherapists: An Interpretive Socio-anthropological Study on Ill Persons' Experience
- Conditions
- Sponsor
- Haute Ecole de Santé Vaud
- Collaborators
- HES-SO Commission scientifique du domaine santé
- Start date
- 2014-04
- Primary completion
- 2015-06
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 65 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Switzerland
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * working age group (18 to 65 years old) * have a medically confirmed non-specific chronic low-back pain Exclusion Criteria: * severe mental illness * concurrent illness or co-morbidity interfering with the course of treatment.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02123680