None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
The individual and community cost of chronic low back pain (CLBP) is staggering. Guidelines recommend physical activity (PA) as a management for CLBP. Adults with CLBP report unique barriers to PA which need to be overcome to facilitate long term PA behaviour change. Walking, regulated by an internal sense of emotion (affect-regulated), may provide an effective approach to increase PA in people with CLBP. The primary hypothesis is that affect-regulated walking (ARW) will lead to improved disability status and increased PA levels compared with usual advice walking (UAW).
Interventions
Affect-regulated walking intervention: 8-week home-based walking intervention using affect-regulation to an intensity to feel 'fairly good' (using the Feeling Scale). The intervention dosage is aiming to achieve Australian physical activity guidelines of 30-60 minutes of walking on 5 or more days each week. Accelerometers will collect objectively measured physical activity levels during week 3, 6 and 8 of the intervention to monitor adherence, and the participants will complete a pen and paper w
Affect-regulated walking intervention: 8-week home-based walking intervention using affect-regulation to an intensity to feel 'fairly good' (using the Feeling Scale). The intervention dosage is aiming to achieve Australian physical activity guidelines of 30-60 minutes of walking on 5 or more days each week. Accelerometers will collect objectively measured physical activity levels during week 3, 6 and 8 of the intervention to monitor adherence, and the participants will complete a pen and paper walking diary as an additional adherence measure.
Sponsors
Dr Katia Ferrar
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Treatment
Masking
Blinded (masking used) (Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to 64 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
age 18-64 years to align with the Australian Physical Activity Guidelines bracket,with chronic low back pain (current symptoms persisting longer than 3 months) not achieving Australian physical activity guidelines (30-60 minutes of moderate intensity physical activity on 5 or more days each week)
Exclusion criteria
meeting or exceeding current Australian physical activity guidelines; pregnancy (or intended pregnancy for duration of intervention); any other condition deemed as a contraindication to increasing physical activity levels e.g. unstable cardiac conditions (including cardiac medications) or musculoskeletal conditions; predominantly bed-ridden; - previous spinal surgery; medico-legal involvement; unable to speak and understand English fluently; unable to attend all testing sessions
Outcome results
None listed