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Correlation of Trust and Outcomes Following Physical Therapy for Chronic Low Back Pain

CompletedNCT03443401
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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 investigate whether changes in trust between physical therapist and patient correlate to outcomes after receiving physical therapy care. We will be utilizing established questionnaires from the medical literature and one new generated questionnaire.

Study details

Official title
Correlation of Trust and Outcomes Following Physical Therapy for Chronic Low Back Pain
Interventions
  • Procedure: Standard physical therapy care
Sponsor
University of South Dakota
Collaborators
Iowa Physical Therapy Foundation
Start date
2018-04-08
Primary completion
2020-09-24
Sex
All
Age range
from 18 Years
Results posted
Yes, on ClinicalTrials.gov
Countries
United States
Total sites listed
11

Eligibility criteria

Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * age range 18 years of age or older, able to speak and read English, seeking physical therapy treatment for persistent low back pain of 3 months or greater. Being treated by a PT participant in the study Exclusion Criteria: * younger than 18 years of age, unable to speak or read English, patient needing to be referred out at any time for different level of medical care, concurrent pregnancy or cancer diagnosis, initial treating physical therapist does not see patient for 80% of treatments during episode of care

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03443401