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University of Sao Paulo |
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| Information provided by: | University of Sao Paulo |
| ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00803413 |
Purpose
Do Back School and/or supervised walking improve reported pain and spine flexibility in sedentary women with chronic low back pain (LBP)?
| Condition | Intervention |
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Chronic Low Back Pain |
Behavioral: Back School Intervention Behavioral: Supervised Walking Intervention Behavioral: Back School and Walking Behavioral: Control Group |
| Study Type: | Interventional |
| Study Design: | Prevention, Randomized, Double Blind (Investigator, Outcomes Assessor), Placebo Control, Parallel Assignment |
| Official Title: | Effect of Back School and Supervised Walking in Sedentary Women With Chronic Low Back Pain: a Randomized Controlled Trial. |
| Enrollment: | 119 |
| Study Start Date: | August 2002 |
| Study Completion Date: | March 2004 |
| Primary Completion Date: | June 2003 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
| Arms | Assigned Interventions |
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Back School
Participants received weekly sessions of 45 minutes including: 15-minute lectures about basics of spine's anatomy, ergonomics, techniques of lifting and transportation of weights and volumes, body posture in several daily tasks and situations, and spine preventive care; 30 minutes of on-place supervised exercises for posture and spine flexibility (muscle stretching, relaxation, strengthening)
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Behavioral: Back School Intervention
Patients were submitted once a week for 5 consecutive weeks to sessions of 45 minutes including: 15-minute lectures about basics of spine's anatomy, ergonomics, techniques of lifting and transportation of weights and volumes, body posture in several daily tasks and situations, and spine preventive care; 30 minutes of on-place supervised exercises for posture and spine flexibility (muscle stretching, relaxation, strengthening)
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Supervised Walking
Participants received weekly sessions of 45 minutes including: 15-minute lectures about basics of physical activity, its advantages and benefits, barriers and facilitators, types and opportunities; 30 minutes of on-place supervised walking in group
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Behavioral: Supervised Walking Intervention
Patients were submitted once a week for 5 consecutive weeks to sessions of 45 minutes including: 15-minute lectures about basics of physical activity, its advantages and benefits, barriers and facilitators, types and opportunities; 30 minutes of on-place supervised walking in group.
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Back School and Walking
Participants received weekly sessions of 90 minutes including: 30-minute lectures about basics of spine's anatomy, ergonomics, techniques of lifting and transportation of weights and volumes, body posture in several daily tasks and situations, spine preventive care, and about physical activity, its advantages and benefits, barriers and facilitators, types and opportunities; 30 minutes of on-place supervised exercises for posture and spine flexibility (muscle stretching, relaxation, strengthening); 30 minutes of on-place supervised walking in group
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Behavioral: Back School and Walking
Weekly sessions of 90 minutes including: 30-minute lectures about basics of spine's anatomy, ergonomics, techniques of lifting and transportation of weights and volumes, body posture in several daily tasks and situations, spine preventive care, and about physical activity, its advantages and benefits, barriers and facilitators, types and opportunities
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Control Group
Participants received weekly sessions of 45 minutes including lectures about: stress control, healthy nutrition (2 lectures), sleep hygiene and injury prevention; beside the 2-page folder content this group received no other information about LBP, BS or walking all along the follow-up.
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Behavioral: Control Group
Weekly sessions of 45 minutes including lectures about: stress control, healthy nutrition (2 lectures), sleep hygiene and injury prevention.; beside the 2-page folder content this group received no other information about LBP, BS or walking all along the follow-up.
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From August 2002 to March 2004, one hundred nineteen volunteers sedentary women with chronic LBP and age ranging from 32 to 60 years old, randomly allocated to four groups of participants assigned as Back School (BS; N=28), Supervised Walking (W; N=32), Back School and Supervised Walking (BS+W; N=29), and Control Group (CG; N=30) were submitted to interventions once a week for 5 consecutive weeks and followed for up to 6 months. The groups BS, W, and BS+W received LBP-targeted lectures and on-place practical sessions of each respective intervention. CG received print information about LBP and 5 different lectures unrelated to LBP.
Eligibility| Ages Eligible for Study: | 30 Years to 60 Years |
| Genders Eligible for Study: | Female |
| Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
Exclusion Criteria:
Contacts and Locations| Brazil | |
| Center for Health Promotion - Hospital das Clínicas - FMUSP | |
| São Paulo, Brazil, 05403-000 | |
| Principal Investigator: | Mario Ferreira Junior, PhD | Hospital das Clínicas - São Paulo University School of Medicine |
More Information
| Responsible Party: | Hospital das Clínicas - São Paulo University School of Medicine ( Mario Ferreira Junior ) |
| Study ID Numbers: | BSSW2002 |
| Study First Received: | November 7, 2008 |
| Results First Received: | November 7, 2008 |
| Last Updated: | December 4, 2008 |
| ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00803413 |
| Health Authority: | Brazil: National Committee of Ethics in Research |
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Chronic low back pain Back School Walking Physical activity |
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Signs and Symptoms Neurologic Manifestations Low Back Pain Pain Back Pain |
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