Effects of Pain Neuroscience Education vs. Self-Management Education in Low Back Pain
CompletedNot applicableNCT03714061
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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)
Chronic low back pain interventions may include exercises, manual therapy, health education, and pain education, strategies based on psychological or behavioral change approaches, as well as biopsychosocial interventions. Pain self-management programs basically aim to engage the participant in activities, stimulating the patient to be more active in life and live despite the pain. However, pain neuroscience education is a new approach recognized as therapeutic patient education (ETP) and is best described as a form of cognitive rather than behavioral therapy. However, there are few studies in the literature comparing those types pain education. Thus, the purpose of this study will be to compare the immediate effects of an educational program focused on Pain Neuroscience Education vs. Pain self-management educations for patients with chronic low back pain considering the outcomes of pain intensity, catastrophizing and pain self-efficacy.
Study details
- Official title
- Effects of Pain Neuroscience Education Compared to Self-Management Education for Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain: a Randomized Clinical Trial
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Other: Pain Neuroscience Education
- Other: Self-Management Education
- Sponsor
- University of Sao Paulo
- Start date
- 2018-12-20
- Primary completion
- 2019-10-30
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 60 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: 1. Aged between 18 and 60 years; 2. Medical diagnosis of nonspecific CLBP in the last 3 months and/or pain at least half of the days in the past 6 months, that is located between T12 and the gluteal folds; 3. Pain intensity equal to or greater than three on numerical pain rating scale (NPRS) 4. Score greater than 14% on the Oswestry Disability Index and 5. Acceptable cognitive function assessed by Mini-Mental examination. Exclusion Criteria: 1. red flags indicative of systemic involvement; 2. neurological symptoms, psychiatric, rheumatologic and cardiac diseases; 3. active radiculopathy; 4. lumbar stenosis; 5. spondylolisthesis; 6. history of spinal surgeries; 7. pregnancy; 8. previous physical therapy for low back in the past year
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03714061