Does targeted management of sub-acute back pain patients on a surgical clinic waiting list reduce chronic pain and disability? Phase 1: Risk screening.

Risk-screening questionnaires provided to sub-acute back pain patients on a surgical clinic waiting list: does screening itself reduce chronic pain and disability?

Status

Not yet recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ANZCTR

Registry ID

ACTRN12614000085673

Enrollment

196

Registered

2014-01-23

Start date

2014-02-05

Completion date

2014-11-05

Last updated

2020-01-13

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Conditions

None listed

Brief summary

This investigation involves the collection of data via postal questionnaires from patients with low back pain who have been placed on a waiting list for surgical opinion. The questionnaires aim to identify those at risk of developing chronic back pain and will be evaluated for their usefulness in this patient group. Additionally, this study will ask the question of whether screening itself reduces pain and disability. This investigation will lay the critical platform for an investigation of treatment aimed at reducing risk.

Interventions

Participants will be initiallly contacted by telephone and will subsequently receive 3 questionnaires via mail to complete and return. These questionnaires aim to screen for risk of developing chronic pain and disability and will be evaluated for their usefulness in this patient group. Follow-up will occur after 4 months. Two of these questionnaires have been previously validated: (i) The Orebro Musculoskeltal Pain Screening Questionnaire (short version) and (ii) The STarT Back Screening Tool

Study design

Allocation

Randomised controlled trial

Intervention model

Parallel

Primary purpose

Prevention

Masking

Open (masking not used)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

18 Years to 75 Years

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Patients with sub-acute lumbar spine disorders who have been referred to the RAH Orthopaedic Spinal Outpatients, triaged (from documented referral information) and placed on a Spinal Outpatient Clinic waiting list.

Exclusion criteria

- Unable to speack and understand English (interpreter requested in referral) - Previous lumbar spine surgery reported in referral

Outcome results