Clinical trial NCT05893290: How Does Basic Body Awareness Therapy Effect Pain Coping Strategies in Postmenopausal Women?
Official title: How Does Basic Body Awareness Therapy Effect Pain Coping Strategies in Postmenopausal Women? a Randomized Controlled Study
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Low Back Pain
Neck Pain
Menopause
Keywords: Postmenopausal women
Basic body awareness therapy
Pain coping
Lead sponsor: European University of Lefke
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2023-06-07
Enrollment: 54
Sex: FEMALE
Minimum age (years): 45
Maximum age (years): 65
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: Exercise interventions are deemed essential for the effective management of patients with pain. Various therapy methods have been shown in the literature for pain and coping with pain. However, there is no study investigating the effectiveness of Basic Body Awareness Therapy in pain and coping with pain. In this respect, our study will contribute to the literature. The aim of our study is to compare the effectiveness of Basic Body Awareness Therapy and Therapeutic Exercises on pain coping strategies of Postmenopausal women.

Detailed description: The patients will be randomly assigned into three groups: Therapeutic Exercise (TE) Group, Therapeutic Exercise+Basic Body Awareness (TE+BBAT) Group, and Control Group. Each group will be treated for 12 weeks. Individuals will be evaluated in detail at the beginning and end of the study. The follow-up assessments of the study will be done 3 months after the conclusion of the treatments. Physical and sociodemographic characteristics will be evaluated by dedicated form. The body awareness of the participants will be evaluated Body Awareness Questionnaire (BAQ) developed by Shields, Mallory \& Simon in 1989. The pain levels of the PmW will be measured with the Short Form McGill Pain Questionnaire. Pain coping strategies of PmW will be assessed with Pain Coping Inventory (PCI). The Oswestry Low Back Pain Disability Index will be used for evaluating the disability level caused by low back pain. The Neck Disability Index will be used for evaluating the disability level caused by neck pain.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria: Participants should have;

* Chronic lower back or neck pain lasting at least six months
* Gone through the menopausal transition naturally within the last year
* Not received a physiotherapy approach for pain management in the last six months
* Be able to read and write in Turkish.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Presence of significant neurological disorders
* Presence of serious mental and psychological disorder

Primary outcomes:
measure: Body Awareness Questionnaire (BAQ)
timeFrame: 3 minutes
measure: McGill-Short Form Pain Questionnaire
timeFrame: 5 minutes
measure: Pain Coping Strategies
timeFrame: 5 minutes
measure: Oswestry Low Back Pain Disability Index
timeFrame: 5 minutes
measure: Neck Disability Index
timeFrame: 5 minutes
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Girne
country: Turkey
facility: Cyprus Science University
state: Trnc
Study officials:
affiliation: European University of Lefke
name: Beliz Belgen Kaygisiz, PT, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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