Identifying factors including a secondary preventative strategies influencing attendance at work and medical costs in people with low back pain.

Identifying factors including a secondary preventative strategies influencing attendance at work and medical costs in people with low back pain. - Identifying factors including a secondary preventative strategies influencing attendance at work and medical costs in people with low back pain.

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

JPRN

Registry ID

JPRN-UMIN000037235

Enrollment

170

Registered

2019-07-31

Start date

2019-08-01

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2026-06-29

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Conditions

Low back pain

Interventions

Interventions by the credential therapists in the Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy Interventions by the diploma therapists in the Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Full time workers with primary complaint of low back pain, who undertake interventions by the Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy therapists

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Hospitalization due to unrelated reasons for the low back pain

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Attendance at work (1, 3, 6, and 12 months after the initial MDT session)	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
Medical costs (1, 3, 6, and 12 months after the initial MDT session) Clinician's level in the MDT (baseline) Intervention sessions and time (1, 3, 6, and 12 months after the initial MDT session) Exercise adherence (1, 3, 6, and 12 months after the initial MDT session) A Japanese version of the Patient Attitudes and Beliefs Scale (1, 3, 6, and 12 months after the initial MDT session) Health Education Impact Questionnaire (baseline and 1, 3, 6, and 12 months after the initial MDT session) Working Alliance Inventory-Short Form Japanese version (1, 3, 6, and 12 months after the initial MDT session) Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia (1, 3, 6, and 12 months after the initial MDT session) Japanese Version of the Pain Self-Efficacy Questionnaire (baseline and 1, 3, 6, and 12 months after the initial MDT session) Japanese version of the 12-item Orebro Musculoskeletal Screening Questionnaire and KeeleSTarT Back screening tool (baseline and 1, 3, 6, and 12 months after the initial MDT session) Oswestry Disability Index (baseline and 1, 3, 6, and 12 months after the initial MDT session) Symptom location (baseline and 1, 3, 6, and 12 months after the initial MDT session) Pain intensity: P4 (baseline and 1, 3, 6, and 12 months after the initial MDT session) Pain Catastrophizing Scale (baseline and 1, 3, 6, and 12 months after the initial MDT session) Central Sensitization Inventory (baseline and 1, 3, 6, and 12 months after the initial MDT session) Global rating recovery scale (1, 3, 6, and 12 months after the initial MDT session) Work content (baseline) Work satisfaction (baseline and 1, 3, 6, and 12 months after the initial MDT session) Previous history of low back pain (baseline) MDT classification (12 months after the initial MDT session)	—

Measure

Time frame

Medical costs (1, 3, 6, and 12 months after the initial MDT session) Clinician's level in the MDT (baseline) Intervention sessions and time (1, 3, 6, and 12 months after the initial MDT session) Exercise adherence (1, 3, 6, and 12 months after the initial MDT session) A Japanese version of the Patient Attitudes and Beliefs Scale (1, 3, 6, and 12 months after the initial MDT session) Health Education Impact Questionnaire (baseline and 1, 3, 6, and 12 months after the initial MDT session) Working Alliance Inventory-Short Form Japanese version (1, 3, 6, and 12 months after the initial MDT session) Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia (1, 3, 6, and 12 months after the initial MDT session) Japanese Version of the Pain Self-Efficacy Questionnaire (baseline and 1, 3, 6, and 12 months after the initial MDT session) Japanese version of the 12-item Orebro Musculoskeletal Screening Questionnaire and KeeleSTarT Back screening tool (baseline and 1, 3, 6, and 12 months after the initial MDT session) Oswestry Disability Index (baseline and 1, 3, 6, and 12 months after the initial MDT session) Symptom location (baseline and 1, 3, 6, and 12 months after the initial MDT session) Pain intensity: P4 (baseline and 1, 3, 6, and 12 months after the initial MDT session) Pain Catastrophizing Scale (baseline and 1, 3, 6, and 12 months after the initial MDT session) Central Sensitization Inventory (baseline and 1, 3, 6, and 12 months after the initial MDT session) Global rating recovery scale (1, 3, 6, and 12 months after the initial MDT session) Work content (baseline) Work satisfaction (baseline and 1, 3, 6, and 12 months after the initial MDT session) Previous history of low back pain (baseline) MDT classification (12 months after the initial MDT session)

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Countries

Japan

Contacts

Public ContactHiroshi Takasaki

Saitama Prefectural University Physical Therapy

takasaki-hiroshi@spu.ac.jp+81489734706

Outcome results

None listed

Source: JPRN (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Jul 3, 2026