Clinical trial NCT02466360: What Are the Brakes and Levers of Physical Activity Practice for Patients With Chronic Lower Back Pain?
Official title: What Are the Brakes and Levers of Physical Activity Practice for Patients With Chronic Lower Back Pain : a Qualitative Study
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Non-specific Chronic Lower Back Pain
Keywords: Non-specific chronic lower back pain
Physical activity
Self-exercises
Brakes
Levers
Adhesion
Self-care
Lead sponsor: University Hospital, Clermont-Ferrand
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Université Montpellier
First posted: 2015-06-09
Enrollment: 29
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Time perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: patients with chronic lower back pain

Brief summary: Non-specific chronic lower back pain is a common pathology which is a real public health problem. Around 84% of the population could have non-specific chronic lower back pain at least once in their lives and 8% of that non-specific lower back pain could become chronical (pain that would last at least 3 months). This proportion of patients represents 85% of the costs related to this pathology.

Physical activity practice is involved in medical care for plenty of chronical diseases and particularly for chronic lower back pain. In 2003, World Health Organization pointed out the poor adhesion of patients with chronical diseases to medical prescriptions and the after-effects it could have on illness evolution. Therefore, adhesion to physical activity practice for patients with chronic lower back pain is one of the most challenging matters for medical teams.

The aim of this study was to identify the brakes and levers of physical activity practice for these patients. Sixteen individual interviews and four focus groups have been carried out on patients with chronic lower back pain who were taken care of either by a rachis functional restoration program or by primary care.

Detailed description: Non-specific chronic lower back pain is a common pathology which is a real public health problem. Around 84% of the population could have non-specific chronic lower back pain at least once in their lives and 8% of that non-specific lower back pain could become chronical (pain that would last at least 3 months). This proportion of patients represents 85% of the costs related to this pathology.

Physical activity practice is involved in medical care for plenty of chronical diseases and particularly for chronic lower back pain. In 2003, World Health Organization pointed out the poor adhesion of patients with chronical diseases to medical prescriptions and the after-effects it could have on illness evolution. Therefore, adhesion to physical activity practice for patients with chronic lower back pain is one of the most challenging matters for medical teams.

The aim of this study was to identify the brakes and levers of physical activity practice for these patients. Sixteen individual interviews and four focus groups have been carried out on patients with chronic lower back pain who were taken care of either by a rachis functional restoration program or by primary care.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Male or female who are at least 18 years old
* Patients with non-specific chronic lower back pain

Exclusion Criteria:

* Mental or physical disabilities incompatible with focus groups/individual interviews and filling out questionnaires.
* Inability to understand or speak French properly
* Symptomatic lower back pain

Primary outcomes:
measure: Individual interviews
timeFrame: at day 1
Secondary outcomes:
measure: questions about their lower back pain and physical activity
timeFrame: at day 1
measure: Back Belief questionnaire
timeFrame: at day 1
measure: QUEBEC scale
timeFrame: at day 1
measure: Fear Avoidance Beliefs questionnaire
timeFrame: at day 1
measure: Visual Analog Scale
timeFrame: at day 1
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Clermont-Ferrand
country: France
facility: CHU de Clermont-Ferrand
Study officials:
affiliation: University Hospital, Clermont-Ferrand
name: Emmanuel COUDEYRE
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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