A Comparison of Two Self-management Programmes for Patients With Back Pain
Unknown statusNot applicableNCT03791164
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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 investigation is a mixed methods research proposal to answer the question: 'Does Using the Pain Toolkit Improve Outcomes for Patients accessing the North of England Regional Back Pain Pathway?'. The study is part of a 5 year professional doctorate programme at Teesside University. The aim of the study is to test whether with a double blind randomised controlled trial patients accessing the North of England Regional Back Pain Pathway experience reduced Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) when using the pain toolkit compared to a control group of patients offered the standard treatment. The study also contains a nested qualitative element which aims to explore the participants' experiences of using the Pain Toolkit. According to the British Pain Society (2017), chronic pain management is a significant burden to the National Health Service NHS. Back pain alone accounts for a significant disease burden and loss in productivity among working people (Al Mazroa 2013 and TUC 2008). Commissioners must justify their expenditure on health services to the local population and therefore for an area such as pain management where there is significant disease prevalence (WHO 2013) and significant costs, potential service developments should be considered. The development of the pain toolkit (Pain Toolkit 2017a) as a straightforward, easy to use self-management option offers a potentially cost effective support mechanism for patients but as yet there is no evidence to support its use in clinical practice. This study aims to fill that knowledge gap.
Study details
- Official title
- A Comparison of Two Different Self-management Programmes for Patients With Back Pain: A Double-blind Randomised Controlled Trial.
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Behavioral: The Pain Toolkit
- Behavioral: the Back Book
- Sponsor
- Teesside University
- Start date
- 2019-01-24
- Primary completion
- 2021-04
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- true
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * : patients with back pain who have been referred to the North of England regional back pain service who consent to take part in the study Exclusion Criteria: * Exclusion criteria are patients with red flag indicators where immediate referral to secondary is indicated (NICE 2016). In addition children less than 18 years and, people who do not speak English and people with reduced mental capacity will be excluded
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03791164