Effectiveness of Therapeutic Alliance and Minimal Intervention for Chronic Low Back Pain
CompletedNot applicableNCT02497625
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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)
This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of minimal intervention and therapeutic alliance in pain, specific and general disability, global perceived effect, empathy, credibility and expectation of improvement in patients with chronic non-specific low back pain
Study details
- Official title
- Effectiveness of the Addition of Therapeutic Alliance to Minimal Intervention Treatment for Chronic Low Back Pain With Low Risk of Psychosocial Factors: a Randomized Controlled Trial
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Behavioral: Positive Therapeutic Alliance
- Behavioral: Usual care
- Other: Control group
- Sponsor
- Universidade Cidade de Sao Paulo
- Start date
- 2015-09
- Primary completion
- 2017-06-30
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 80 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Brazil
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria * Patients waiting for treatment in the waiting list of physical therapy clinics * Diagnosis of chronic non-specific low back pain (over 12 weeks) * More than 18 years * Able to read and write the Portuguese language * Low risk of psychosocial factors (less than 3 points in the STarT Back Screening Tool). Exclusion criteria * Spine surgery history * Nerve root compromise * Cognitive impairment related disorders * Pregnants
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02497625