Return to Work Interventions for Patients With Low Back Pain
Return to Work Interventions for Patients With Low Back Pain During Inpatient Rehabilitation: a Quasi-Experimental Study
Low back pain has become a major concern to employees and employers because of its negative impact on employee health and productivity.
The objective of this study is to investigate whether a return-to-work intervention conducted during inpatient rehabilitation improves functional limitations that are related with low back pain and interfere with job performance.
Descripción general del estudio
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Descripción detallada
In recent years most industrialized nations have been confronted with a dramatic increase in cases dealing with back pain; in Germany, back pain belongs to the major individual and societal health problems with associated costs that have put a strain not only on health care systems. Besides frequent demand for medical services, loss of production (due to temporal sick leave) and disability allowances are important economic factors. In total, the estimated annual costs caused by back pain range between 16 and 22 billion Euros. Population based studies revealed high life-time prevalence with 80% report having ever experienced back pain. The point prevalence lies between 30 and 40%. Approximately one-fourth to one-third of those affected suffer from clinically significant back pain. Epidemiological evidence for the prevalence of back pain, its severity, course and associated risk factors is extensive; however, little systematic knowledge is available about treatment of back pain especially about return-to-work interventions.
This study is designed as a quasi-experimental study to evaluate benefits of return-to-work interventions during medical rehabilitation. Positive effects are expected for low back pain related functional limitations and subsequently job performance. The intervention tested is based on the biomechanical model of chronic pain that assumes a relationship between external strain, body posture, muscle activity, and intravertebral pressure. According to this model, chronic low back pain is partially caused by overexertion and poor postural habits. The intervention aims at lowering the impact of biomechanical stress by training an adequate body posture while performing activities of daily living or job-related activities. Additionally, performing job-related activities target fear-avoidance beliefs especially assumptions about the connection between pain and work activities. The experimental group training good postural habits while performing activities of daily living or job-related activities (additionally to standard rehabilitation activities such as physiotherapy or education and counselling) will be compared with participants receiving a standard rehabilitation only.
Outcome measures are assessed at baseline, post-intervention, and 6 month post-intervention.
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- No aplica
Contactos y Ubicaciones
Ubicaciones de estudio
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Bad Elster, Alemania, 08645
- Vogtlandklinik Bad Elster
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Descripción
Inclusion Criteria:
- Chronic low back pain
- Undergoing inpatient rehabilitation
- Working age
Exclusion Criteria:
- Receiving or applying for retirement pension
- Diagnostic findings that require surgery
Plan de estudios
¿Cómo está diseñado el estudio?
Detalles de diseño
- Asignación: No aleatorizado
- Modelo Intervencionista: Asignación paralela
- Enmascaramiento: Ninguno (etiqueta abierta)
Número de brazos
Armas e Intervenciones
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Experimental: 1
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Adequate postural habits in activities of daily living
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Sin intervención: 2
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¿Qué mide el estudio?
Medidas de resultado primarias
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Low Back Pain Disability: Oswestry Disability Index (ODI)
Periodo de tiempo: 6 months
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6 months
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Medidas de resultado secundarias
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Return-to-work (RTW) outcomes: Duration of time out of work, RTW-status
Periodo de tiempo: 6 months
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6 months
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Fear avoidance: Fear-Avoidance Beliefs Questionnaire (FABQ) for Patients with Back Pain
Periodo de tiempo: 6 months
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6 months
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Vitality: SF-36 vitality
Periodo de tiempo: 6 months
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6 months
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Ergonomic competence: Rating of posture and movement.
Periodo de tiempo: 3 weeks
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3 weeks
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Colaboradores e Investigadores
Patrocinador
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Investigadores
Investigadores
- Investigador principal: Martina Markes, Forschungsinstitut fuer Balneologie und Kurortwissenschaft
Publicaciones y enlaces útiles
Publicaciones Generales
- Fairbank JC, Couper J, Davies JB, O'Brien JP. The Oswestry low back pain disability questionnaire. Physiotherapy. 1980 Aug;66(8):271-3. No abstract available.
- Waddell G, Newton M, Henderson I, Somerville D, Main CJ. A Fear-Avoidance Beliefs Questionnaire (FABQ) and the role of fear-avoidance beliefs in chronic low back pain and disability. Pain. 1993 Feb;52(2):157-168. doi: 10.1016/0304-3959(93)90127-B.
- Schmidt CO, Kohlmann T. [What do we know about the symptoms of back pain? Epidemiological results on prevalence, incidence, progression and risk factors]. Z Orthop Ihre Grenzgeb. 2005 May-Jun;143(3):292-8. doi: 10.1055/s-2005-836631. German.
- Keller S, Herda C, Ridder K, Basler HD. Readiness to adopt adequate postural habits: an application of the Transtheoretical Model in the context of back pain prevention. Patient Educ Couns. 2001 Feb;42(2):175-84. doi: 10.1016/s0738-3991(00)00103-8.
- Pfingsten M, Kroner-Herwig B, Leibing E, Kronshage U, Hildebrandt J. Validation of the German version of the Fear-Avoidance Beliefs Questionnaire (FABQ). Eur J Pain. 2000;4(3):259-66. doi: 10.1053/eujp.2000.0178.
- Huppe A, Raspe H. [Efficacy of inpatient rehabilitation for chronic back pain in Germany: a systematic review 1980-2001]. Rehabilitation (Stuttg). 2003 Jun;42(3):143-54. doi: 10.1055/s-2003-40099. Erratum In: Rehabilitation (Stuttg). 2003 Oct;42(5):322. German.
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- RTW-LBP-1
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