Patient Education and Motor Control Exercise Among Rural Community-dwelling Adults With Chronic Low Back Pain
CompletedNot applicableNCT03393104
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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)
Low back pain (LBP) is the leading cause of years lived with disability globally with increasing concern about its impact in low- and middle-income countries like those situated in Africa where most people are living in rural areas with limited access to health care. Epidemiological studies in Nigeria suggest that the burden of chronic low back pain (CLBP) in rural areas is greater than in urban areas, with both biomechanical and psychological factors being implicated. However, despite the burden of CLBP in rural Nigeria, rehabilitation services are lacking even at the rural primary healthcare centers due to the absence of physiotherapists. Current clinical practice guidelines unanimously recommend education including instruction on self-management options, and exercise as frontline interventions to help individuals with CLBP. However, the specific content of these interventions are rarely described. Patient education (PE) strategies incorporating both biomedical and psychosocial information have been shown to be beneficial for CLBP. Moreover, exercises in the form of motor control exercises (MCEs) have been proven to be effective for CLBP. However, RCTs examining the effects of PE and MCE individually or in combination among rural community-dwelling adults with CLBP are scarce. The purpose of this study is to determine the effects of PE and MCE program on selected clinical and psychosocial variables among rural community-dwelling adults with nonspecific CLBP.
Study details
- Official title
- Effects of Patient Education and Motor Control Exercise on Selected Clinical and Psychosocial Variables Among Rural Community-dwelling Adults With Chronic Low Back Pain: a Randomized Clinical Trial
- Conditions
- Nonspecific Chronic Low Back Pain
- Interventions
- Behavioral: Motor Control Exercise
- Behavioral: Patient Education
- Sponsor
- Bayero University Kano, Nigeria
- Start date
- 2018-03-03
- Primary completion
- 2019-10-01
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 70 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Nigeria
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
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Inclusion Criteria: 1. Male and female between 16 and 70 years old. 2. Primary complaint of LBP with or without leg pain experienced at least over the previous 3 months duration. 3. Mean LBP intensity at least ≥ 3 on numerical rating scale during the past week. 4. Ability to read/understand English or Hausa language. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Previous history of thoracic spine or lumbosacral spine surgery. 2. Any neurological findings indicating radiculopathy. 3. Evidence of serious spine pathology (e.g. tumor, infection, fracture, spinal stenosis, inflammatory disease). 4. Unstable or severe disabling chronic cardiovascular and pulmonary disease. 5. History of serious psychological or psychiatric illness. 6. Current pregnancy.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03393104