Could a Simple Information Booklet Modify Low Back Pain Patients Beliefs After Lumbar Discectomy?

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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The purpose of this study is to translate and assess an evidence based educational booklet on low back pain patients beliefs after lumbar discectomy.

Detailed Description
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A translation / back-translation of the Your back operation was performed and a before / after prospective study was realized. Main outcome assessment was the Quebec Questionnaire. Demographic data, personal medical sciatica pain history, graduation of the whole subject were recorded. Acceptability of the booklet was also measured.

Official Title
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Could a Simple Information Booklet Modify Low Back Pain Patients Beliefs After Lumbar Discectomy?

Conditions
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Back Pain

Intervention / Treatment
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* Behavioral: Assessment of the Your Back Operation


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria: A common monoradicular sciatica on a slipped disc with a clinical radio agreement requiring a surgical treatment, after failure of an good ambulatory treatment carried out, one duration of evolution higher than four weeks at naive subjects of any rachidian intervention Exclusion Criteria: People presenting a cruralgia, a secondary sciatica (epiduritis, osseous metastasis...) or without relationship with a slipped disc (spinal stenosis), an lesion biradicular, an horse tail syndrome, an important motor deficit (muscular testing < 3) Cognitive, auditive, major visual disorders or any subject which does not have a good comprehension of spoken French and/or writing, or having recourse to a third for reading and supplementing a document Subjects presenting a peripheral neuropathy, a severe and evolved diabetes, a cardiac insufficiency, dialysed subject People observing a treatment which included psychotropics for more than three months (other that light hypnotic) because of the disturbances of vigilance and memory

Ages Eligible for Study
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Minimum Age: 18 Years
Maximum Age: 80 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

Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: Double


Arms and Interventions

| Intervention/Treatment |
| --- |
|Behavioral: Assessment of the Your Back Operation|to translate and assess an evidence based educational booklet on low back pain patients beliefs after lumbar discectomy|

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Quebec Questionnaire |  | after lumbar discectomy | 

Secondary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FABQ Questionnaire |  | after lumbar discectomy | 
| Rachidian and radicular painful intensity |  | after lumbar discectomy | 

 Terms related to the study
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Keywords Provided by Centre Hospitalier Valida
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carried out, information booklet, low back beliefs, education, disc hernia, discectomy, A common monoradicular sciatica, on a slipped disc, with a clinical radio, agreement requiring a surgical treatment, one duration, of evolution higher, than four weeks, at naive subjects, of any rachidian interventional treatment, after failure of an good ambulatory