The Ability of Chronic Pain Patients to Self-diagnose Their Chief Source of Low Back Pain
CompletedNot applicableNCT06630676
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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 investigative team will provide 27 slides with bullet points and images of pain referral patterns for different causes (e.g., herniated disc, facet joint arthritis) for patients seen for a new visit with a chief complaint of chronic low back pain. This material is all publicly available but has been compiled in presentation form. This will have educational benefit for patients, discussing clinical signs and symptoms, risk factors and basic treatments. There will also be a smaller control group of that gets a condensed 4-slide presentation. After review of the slides, an independent observer will ask the patient what they think are the 2 most likely causes of their LBP (in order of likelihood) and match that with the attending physician and trainee, who will independently do the same. The investigative team will then determine how concordant the patient's answers are with the physicians and also record outcomes.
Study details
- Official title
- The Ability of Chronic Pain Patients to Self-diagnose Their Chief Source of Low Back Pain
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Sponsor
- Northwestern University
- Collaborators
- University of Washington
- Start date
- 2024-10-16
- Primary completion
- 2026-05-08
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- United States
- Total sites listed
- 2
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * • Age \> 18 years * Primary complaint of LBP or sciatica * Duration of LBP \> 3 months Exclusion Criteria: * • Referral for a specific diagnostic procedure or who present with a pre-established diagnosis * Inability to understand written English
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT06630676