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Conditions
Brief summary
This project will use an online survey to profile beliefs regarding fragility of the back, its fitness for purpose and the resultant sense of threat in patients experiencing low back pain. Our primary hypothesis is that a significant number of people with LBP will harbour beliefs about their pain associated with a high degree of threat and structural fragility. We expect that the questionnaire score will correlate with fear of movement, pain catastrophisation and health anxiety. Finally, we expect the questionnaire will exhibit strong test-retest reliability.
Interventions
This project will use an online survey to profile beliefs regarding fragility of the back, its fitness for purpose and the resultant sense of threat in patients experiencing low back pain. To this end, we have developed a novel questionnaire. This project will take 3 stages.
Firstly, a qualitative component seeking feedback from a small group of people (n = 10) with LBP in order to further refine the new tool will be conducted. These participant will answer survey online and participate in a 2
This project will use an online survey to profile beliefs regarding fragility of the back, its fitness for purpose and the resultant sense of threat in patients experiencing low back pain. To this end, we have developed a novel questionnaire. This project will take 3 stages. Firstly, a qualitative component seeking feedback from a small group of people (n = 10) with LBP in order to further refine the new tool will be conducted. These participant will answer survey online and participate in a 20 minute semi-structured phone interview. Then, having reviewed and refined the new questionnaire we will distribute amongst a larger cohort (200) to be answered online. We will also ask a small subset of these participants (n= 22, no specific criteria) to repeat the online questionnaire within 24 hours to assess the test-retest reliability. Finally, convergent validity will be explored by comparing the responses to relevant questionnaires.
Sponsors
Curtin University
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to 70 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
Participants must be aged between 18-70, reside in Australia are fluent in English and experience low back pain.
Exclusion criteria
Not resident in Australia, not English speaking, under 18 and over 70 years of age. Note, participants will be screened for potential serious pathology using the MYBACK questionnaire (myback.neura.edu.au) at the end of the survey. Thus their survey data may be included in our analyses but we can still screen for the potential presence of serious / specific pathology.
Outcome results
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