Effectiveness of A Telehealth Postural Awareness Program Combined With Exercise In People With Neck Pain

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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People with neck pain often experience pain, neck disability, and poor quality of life. Postural-based awareness programs are evidence-based interventions for postural problems and neck pain disorders. This study aims to determine the effectiveness of a telehealth physiotherapist-delivered postural awareness program combined with exercise in people with neck pain. Pain, neck disability, leisure time management, and exercise stage of change were evaluated.

Detailed Description
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Pain with visual analog scale, neck disability with Neck Disability Index, Leisure time management with Leisure Time Management Scale, and exercise stage of change with exercise Stage of change Scale were determined. The authors aim to find out if there are any changes before and after the program on the pain, neck disability, and evaluation subscale of the leisure time management scale, and exercise stage of change of participants.

Official Title
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Postural Awareness Program With Exercises In Patients With Neck Pain

Conditions
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Neck Pain

Intervention / Treatment
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* Behavioral: A postural awareness program with exercises


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria: being aged 18 years or over, volunteering to take part in the study, being a student of online education, without a history of any neurological or orthopedic problem, with resting neck pain (as measured by the VAS) lasting ≤30 days that is aggravated by movement without extending distal to the shoulders. Exclusion Criteria: rheumatological diseases, malignity or structural deformities, previous surgical intervention related to the neck region, severe pain (more than 7 in 0 to 10 VAS)

Ages Eligible for Study
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Minimum Age: 18 Years
Maximum Age: 60 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study
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All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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No

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Design Details

Primary Purpose: Treatment
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Interventional Model Description: 12-week physiotherapist delivered a postural awareness program with exercises
Masking: None (Open Label)


Arms and Interventions

| Participant Group/Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
| --- | --- |
| Experimental: Postural Awareness Program with Exercises in people with neck pain<br>Postural education, bad posture, good posture, awareness, their effects in daily life | Behavioral: A postural awareness program with exercises<br>* A program about postural awareness, bad posture, good posture and their effects on daily life<br>|

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Neck pain | Visual Analog Scale- The evaluations of this study was performed at beginning and end of study. Neck pain was determined with Visual Analog Scale with 0 indicating no pain, 10 indicating the most severe pain | 5 minute | 

Secondary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Neck Disability | Neck Disability Index-The Neck Disability Index consists of 10 items: pain intensity, personal care, lifting, reading, headache, concentration, work, driving, sleeping and recreation. Individuals included in the study were asked to rate each title between 0 (no disability) and 5 (complete disability). The total score ranges between 0 (no disability) and 50 (complete disability) | 10 minute | 
| Leisure Time Management | Leisure Time Management- This scale consists of four sub-dimensions and 15 items. These sub-dimensions were investigated as evaluation, programming, leisure attitude, goal setting and method. The answer codes of each item vary between 1 and 5 as a Likert type. | 10 minute | 
| Exercise Stage of Change | Exercise Stage of Change Scale-The Exercise Behavior Change Steps Questionnaire aims to determine the individual's exercise behavior steps. The four items in the questionnaire, in which the participants' wishes for exercise are tried to be determined, are answered as yes/no. Individuals' intention to exercise and their habits of participating in exercise are divided into five different exercise behavior steps according to their responses to the items: Pre-tendency, Tendency, Preparation, Movement and Continuity. | 10 minute | 

 Terms related to the study
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Keywords Provided by Centre Hospitalier Valida
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neck pain, neck, telehealth, awareness, posture, exercise