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Validation of the French Version RTWSE (Return To Work Self Efficacy Scale)

CompletedNCT03088969
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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)

The back pain connected to the work stay a major problem in industrialized countries, in particular because of the repercussions of this affection on the work (sick leave, absenteeism, handicap and inaptitude). It is difficult to consider among all the patients with a Chronic Low Back Pain in the work: how much they are going to stop. However, Investigator can consider that approximately 20 % of the patients have a sick leave. Several studies showed well that more the sick leave work stoppage goes on more the risk of not resumption of work increases. Several risk factors were associated to the evolutionary forecast of the pathology and thus to the extension extra time of the sick leave: individual, environmental, psychosocial and organizational. The evaluation of the self-efficiency perceived of return in the work of the patients by a validated auto-questionnaire is thus an additional objective parameter determining the risk factors of unfavorable evolution of the patients with Low Back Pain. This parameter also allows highlight other levers of actions in the therapeutic education.

Study details

Official title
Validation of the French Version of the Questionnaires of Self-efficacy Received From the People With a Chronic Low Back Pain After Return to the Work (10 and 19 Items)
Interventions
  • Other: questionnaire RTWSE
Sponsor
University Hospital, Clermont-Ferrand
Start date
2016-04
Primary completion
2017-12
Sex
All
Age range
from 18 Years to 65 Years
Results posted
No results posted in this snapshot
Countries
France
Total sites listed
1

Eligibility criteria

Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Both sexes * Adult (\>18 years old) * Chronic Low Back Pain evolving for at least 3 months * Acceptance to participate in the study * Patients affiliated to a social security scheme (beneficiary entitled) Exclusion Criteria: * Patient under guardianship, or protection of justice. * Patient in the incapacity to answer the questionnaire.

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03088969